management team

Chairman and CEO

Alfredo Sanchez has participated in the early adoption of innovative computer and telecommunications technologies and standards for 30 years. His entrepreneurial activities started in the late 70’s by introducing the earliest commercial versions of the Unix operating systems to the market. He founded his first company in 1979 focused on Unix R&D and integration and acted as President of Onyx Technologies in Silicon Valley from 1984 to 1990 (Onyx was the first 16-bit Unix microcomputer that was launched to the market in the late 70’s).

Based on his Unix background, Alfredo refocused his work on network interoperability in 1990. After founding and consolidating operations of Red Uno, a successful Internet integration company, he partnered with Telmex, the Mexican telecom operator. During the period of 1995 to 1999, he served as Chairman of the Board of Uninet (the Telmex broadband public data network in Mexico); as a Director in the Board of Telmex; as Vice Chairman of the Board of Prodigy (the first online service in the U.S. headquartered in New York); and as President of Carso Global Telecom (the controlling stockholder of Telmex and América Móvil), being responsible for national and international technology ventures during its initial stages. He actively participated in Prodigy’s acquisition from IBM and Sears, the company’s turnaround, the reengineering of its U.S. network, and the launch of its Internet services which led to a successful IPO and, finally, to its acquisition by SBC (now the new AT&T).

Alfredo co-founded QoS Labs in 1998 in Florida.  After actively participating for 10 years in the Unix industry and for 10 years in the Internet industry, he leads the company’s technology vision. His work is mainly devoted to research on knowledge representation on the Internet. He has served since 2003 as member of the IT Florida Board, an umbrella, nonprofit, membership organization that represents Florida's diverse technology community. He is President of the Florida 2.0 initiative, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting the use of new Web technologies in Florida.

President

Gerardo Sanchez majored in Computer Engineering from the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) and holds an MBA from the PanAmerican Institute for High Business Management (IPADE). He founded GRUPO ACE, his first company, in 1986, This technology consulting company provided services to computer companies, architect offices, tradeshows, attorneys and financial institutions.

Gerardo was co-founder of Red Uno, a successful Internet integration company in the early 90’s, participating in marketing, sales and customer advocacy management. He was appointed President of Red Uno in 1996, taking management responsibility over the operation of Uninet, the Telmex national data network in Mexico. He was a member of the Board of Carso Global Telecom, the controlling stockholder of Telmex, from 1996 to 1998.

Gerardo co-founded QoS Labs with his brother Alfredo, He brings to QoS Labs extensive experience in managing large collaborative marketing, sales and engineering groups involved in developing complex technology projects and services. He oversees the operation of QoS Labs in Mexico focused on complex service-oriented integration. During the last couple years his efforts have been devoted to social media, leading the Spribo business unit team to implement social software applications and interfacing with digital marketing organizations and customers to introduce an innovative Web platform that reuses QoS Labs’ knowledge representation technology. 

CTO

Hermán Camarena has thirty years of experience in the IT field. He graduated with honors in Computer Science from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). Heading towards his masters in Computer Science, he took post-graduate classes in Computer Networks and Operating Systems at Stanford University where he was introduced to Apple Computer.

Herman worked for Apple in California from 1988 to 1999. He was one of the pioneers to use Object Oriented languages to implement parts of the Mac OS and Mac OS based servers. He implemented the first interrupt driven threads packaged for the MacOS used in PowerTalk and PowerShare servers and workstations.  He was part of the teams that developed the Collaborative Platform for the Mac and invented "Drag and Drop" between two different applications. He was the architect and implementer of the Mail and Directory Servers and Toolboxes and he also designed and implemented the "Campos de Fresa" O-O storage manager used by both servers.  He is co-author of two patents related to this work. 

At Active Software and WebMethods, he was part of the CTO office and acted as Product Evangelist for Enterprise Application Integration based on advanced Java and XML technologies from 1999 to 2001.  He worked closely with partners to bring joint solutions to the market place; in particular, he was responsible for the HP ChangEngine and Savvion integrations.  He worked in projects at SuperValu, Avantel, Bax Global, MaxCom and others.  He initiated the efforts that led to the definition of the Open Management Interface (OMI) specification.

From July 2001 to April 2003, he worked for QoS Labs managing the Product Development group.  He released the initial versions of the QoS Labs enabling services which form part of the SOA reference architecture.  He instituted the processes that are still in place for software development and which have evolved to the latest QoS Labs object- and knowledge-oriented frameworks and software component libraries.

From April 2003 until May 2007 he worked in the engineering group at BEA.  During his tenure at BEA he was part of the swat team in charge of Customer Success Program for strategic BEA’s customers first in the WebLogic Integration division and later with the Telco Division.  He was involved in pre-sale, proof of concepts, architecture, design, implementation and production activities for Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, JP Morgan Investment, British Telecom, JM Family, Telecom Italy, Citigroup, Nextel, Telus and Cingular, among others.

Herman rejoined QoS Labs in the role of CTO in May of 2007. He designed the QoS Labs Phronesis Semantic Platform framework which is implemented as part of the company’s knowledge-oriented development paradigm vision.