About Us
CIO Technologies, Inc. is a California corporation established in November 1987.
CIO originated as a consulting company devoting most of its time to a single customer, Kinko’s, Inc. CIO developed and implemented Kinko’s back office systems while Kinko’s expanded from 200 to 1,000 stores. These systems included store sales reporting, distribution, private label credit card processing and equipment leasing. CIO has maintained this relationship with Kinko’s, and is today servicing the newly renamed FedEx Office. In addition to software consulting, CIO also provides assistance to international corporations in the US, e.g. in 2000 CIO set up and initially managed the North American operations for a German Software provider, All for One Software, AG. The most recent addition to CIO’s business is CIO Direct. The product launch took place in December 2006 after extensive use by the initial customer, Parcel Corporation of America. Every day CIO Direct supports fulfillment and warehouse management for hundreds of companies through a network of Third Party Logistic providers in the United States and Canada.
Gunnar Fredlund, CIO’s President, has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He completed extensive work in the field of theoretical physics and nuclear engineering. Gunnar developed and implemented Artificial Intelligence Applications for the telecommunication company Ericson, and continued with a full research grant from the Swedish SinfDoc organization in the area of Medical Information Systems. In 1985 Gunnar was hired as vice president of the world wide IT operation for EF International headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. In 1987 he established CIO Technologies.
Hans Backman, Vice President of Operations and Security, is responsible for the core technology and internet security. Hans completed a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Computer Science at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He was the manager of Roslags Data’s Time Share Services until he was hired in 1985 as a developer for the newly established IT department at EF International in Santa Barbara, California. In 1988 Hans became a partner of CIO.
Karnig Beylikjian, Director of Marketing and Sales, has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Boston University. Karnig started as an international Crude Oil Broker for Amerex Petroleum Corporation. He has a wide experience from recruiting for high tech companies such as Remedy Corporation, Reauters, Oracle and SAP. At SAP he performed recruiting for the Palo Alto office and was later assigned to India to set up global recruiting processes at SAP’s facilities in Mumbai as well as conducting training and hands on recruiting of consultants and engineers.
Marcus Spurkel, Director of Web Development, has a background
in Mathematics of Computation and Computer Science at UCLA. Marcus joined
CIO after working as a Web Developer and System Designer at United States
Sales Corporation, Gold Graphics and Parcel Corporation of America. His
expertise is in web applications and database programming. Marcus has designed
and implemented the CIO Direct web user interface.