Chris Dykstra
Partner

Chris Dykstra has over 20 years of progressively responsible business experience, the last 10 of which have been spent in software and web development. He built an industry-leading global interactive agency for FirePond, that specialized in online selling applications. Mr. Dykstra helped General Motors, Renault, Subaru, Invesmart, SBLI USA, Ricoh, Zurich and Compaq break new frontiers in usable, branded online selling on the web. As Vice President of EPAM Systems, a CMMI Level 4 Offshore software development company, Chris built the UI, Interactive Services and information architecture practices. He led Executive Strategy, Information Architecture, UI Design, Creative Direction, Business Analysis, and CMS engagements for West Publishing, SBLI, Alloy.com, Target, Lasvegas.com and Aeromexico.com.

Mr. Dykstra has a BA in Communications from Augsburg College.

Mike Milkovich
Partner

Mike Milkovich has been developing software for 14 years and enterprise-strength web business-to-business and business-to-consumer sales, procurement and customer service applications since 1994. Mr. Milkovich was part of the early high performance application server and hybrid object-relational database research in the Silicon Valley startup community, and part of the remote systems management lab at Hewlett-Packard. He has driven product vision and success for GeneSys LLC, Connect, and Firepond.

Prior to forming Warecorp, Mr. Milkovich was responsible for Ecommerce and Ecare at Thomson-West. To resolve customer dissatisfaction and declining renewals, Mike introduced customer self-service capabilities that improved overall customer satisfaction scores over 20% and lead generation and renewal facilities that captured $50M to $75M annually. Mike has provided strategic technology guidance and thought leadership to companies like ATT Wireless, FutureShop, Blue Cross + Blue Shield of Minnesota, Cornell University, Empire Health Care, Fruit of the Loom, General Motors, IMPAC Medical Systems, Invesmart, KLH/Tencor, Medtronic, Photodisc, Time Warner, and University of Minnesota.

Mr. Milkovich has a B.S.in engineering & computer science from the University of Minnesota.

Lee Rogas
Partner

Lee Rogas has over 20 years of experience working with online marketing strategies and user experience projects. An early adopter of the internet, he had his first browser in 1994. At Digitas, Mr. Rogas consulted as an eMarketing strategist, information architect and creative director for such clients as Kraft, IBM, Dell, Disney Interactive, Fidelity Investments. At FirePond, he led an interactive team of 40 generating $15 million in bookings for clients such as Sikorsky Aircraft, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, SBLI, Freightliner and Investmart. As Marketing Manager at General Mills he provided thought leadership and customer-centric solutions to overcome time and budgetary limitations delivering bottom line results for Betty Crocker, Bisquick and Pillsbury websites.

Lee holds a MS in Communications Management with a concentration in Emerging Technologies from Simmons College in Boston.