Executive Profiles

From left to right: Vern Stevenson, Marshall Hart,
Dan Starkey, Robert Parker

Marshall Hart, CEO

Hart brings over 30 years of management experience in the technology sector, and 15 years in test and measurement resale, rental, leasing and distribution. He founded MetricTest in 1992 and has managed the company's growth into a leading reseller of electronic test equipment worldwide. Prior to starting MetricTest, Hart successfully led two separate corporate turnarounds. As president of LeasaMetric, Inc., a high tech instrumentation and computer rental company, he transformed a declining U.S. business into a $60 million global enterprise and sold the domestic and Canadian operations to GE Capital and the European operations to Hewlett Packard. Hart also served as president of Mag Media, Ltd., a floppy disk manufacturer, and took the company from Chapter 11 to profitability before selling it to Polaroid. Hart previously oversaw the Europe/Africa/ Middle East division of Verbatim Corporation. Hart earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Western New England College and a master's in engineering from Penn State University.

Vern Stevenson, President & COO

Stevenson is a 20-year Silicon Valley veteran with a unique blend of venture capital, board and operational expertise. Most recently he served as interim CEO and board member for Broadstorm, a wireless broadband product company. Before Broadstorm, Stevenson served as Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for PacketVideo Corporation, a software technology and services company. Prior to joining PacketVideo, Stevenson was Vice President, Partner and one of the founding members of Mustang Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Siemens AG Information and Communications Group. Earlier in his career, Stevenson held a variety of field and corporate executive positions in sales/marketing, general management and business transformation assignments with Honeywell, ROLM, IBM and Siemens. Stevenson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics/Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and serves on the board of directors at MobiTV as well as on the advisory boards of several start-up technology companies.

Dan Starkey, Vice President

Starkey brings 10 years of marketing, product development and business development experience to MetricTest. Starkey previously led the marketing and product development efforts for Go.edu, a software provider of student information systems for K-12 schools. Prior to that, he worked in business development at AAA for the $1.7 billion insurance division. Starkey launched AAA’s first insurance-only sales offices in Northern California and Nevada. Starkey also worked as a marketing consultant for Visa’s debit card division. Starkey earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis and an MBA in marketing and international business from Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business.

Robert Parker, Vice President and CFO

Parker joined MetricTest from ABM Industries, a $1.8 billion industrial services company, where he was the chief financial officer and vice president of American Commercial Security Services, the security division of ABM Industries. Parker's background also includes working at large accounting firms. As a senior auditor at Ernst & Young, he focused on the manufacturing industry and helped U.S. Intec file for its initial public offering. Prior to that, Parker was an auditor at Arthur Andersen. Parker earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Texas State University and is a CPA in the state of Texas.