Whoever said this first is exactly right. These are a few of the more senior strategic and technical minds that make Direct Leap a powerful creative force for our products and clients alike.

Prior to joining Direct Leap, Simon was one of the handful who managed Sprint Canada's national IP network. Aside from keeping the network running, at Sprint he made Asterisk interoperate with Lucent iMerge H323 media gateways, and wrote visualization tools to monitor thousands of devices on Sprint's network. During six months in 1999, he wrote a Web-based email client, using AJAX technology similar to Gmail. Simon is active in the Perl community, developing modules for visualization of large data sets.

Simon is a founding member of the Toronto Asterisk User's Group, and regularly organises monthly lectures and workshops, with his largest event attracting over 150 people.

Over breakfast one day, he joked that it would be cool if you could play text adventures from the 1980's over the phone, and proceeded to write a text-to-speech/speech-to-text gateway allowing Zork and other classic text-based adventure games to be played over the telephone using Asterisk PBX.

Simon has travelled to Iran and Guatemala, and is as passionate about social issues as the rest of the team. Simon studied Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and Aerospace Engineering at Ryerson University.

He's built just about everything, from arcade kiosks and automated banking machines, to virtual reality installations and interactive 3-D walkthroughs. He's built products with Linux, product testing systems for UNIX, and built low-level components and software of all kinds in Windows. We're all voracious lifelong learners, but Eyal has made a long career of using a new tool every chance he gets. His experience in object-oriented software design is reflected in a project to develop a new plug-in for Rational Rose, the leading software architecture tool.

Eyal is more than just software architecture and design, as his creative insight and boundless ideas as a technologist and product designer shine through in the rest of Eyal's life. He has a music collection with over ten thousand albums, can play half of these songs on his guitar, and everyone enjoys his good nature and sense of humour. Eyal has a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Toronto.

Anupam has been entrusted with projects of over $15 million for more than a decade. His 13-year career directing technology projects runs from from small teams to creating project organizations of 80 people. His leadership over major technology development projects have resulted in far-reaching and transformative change for his clients. He has training managers and merged technology tools of the Fortune 500 after acquisions and spinoffs. Anupam's history is rock solid in bringing specific technology projects to a successful completion.

Anupam recieved his PMP (Project Management Professional) certification from PMI almost ten years ago, and recieved his Masters degree in Mathematics in 1985 from York University. His expertise is sought after to design new management methodologies and processes for consulting firms including KPMG.