DeerTech Management

DeerTech is a customer-focused company. The 2008 round of customer interviews, conducted by an independent third-party, revealed exceptionally high satisfaction with responsive customer service.

Here are some of our management team and investors who make certain DeerTech is responsive to customer's needs.

Greg Lake, President

Greg joined DeerTech in the Summer of 2007 to help the company scale into a regional brand leader. He brings 16 years of operations and sales experience in the green industry from TruGreen-ChemLawn, a Consumer Services Division of ServiceMaster.

Greg held the position of Region Sales and Marketing Manager for the Chicago Region of TruGreen-ChemLawn, where he had responsibility for 225,000 customers in four states that generated in excess of $100 million dollars in revenue before he was recruited to DeerTech. Before this, he held the same position in the New England region and is very familiar with the deer pressure on homes in Connecticut and the Northeast.

Greg received his B.A. From The Ohio State University. When not chasing deer off properties, Greg is an outdoorsman who enjoys fishing.

Alan Seiler, Chief Executive Officer

Alan has been working in the service industry for the past seventeen years. For the past three years, he has participated as Board Member of DeerTech and currently is the CEO. Prior to DeerTech, as Managing Partner, Alan helped build and run a leading retained executive search firm focused on building venture capital funded companies. Over fourteen years, Alan personally conducted over 100 CEO searches including conducting the CEO searches for EBAY and Priceline.

Alan received a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from SUNY at Buffalo.

Alan lives in Cross River, N.Y. with his wife and three daughters. He currently sits on the Boards of Parks and Recreation and the Travel Basketball program for the Town of Lewisboro.

Jonathan D. Shapiro, Acting Chief Financial Officer

Jonathan is a Partner at Ropart Asset Management, an investor in DeerTech. He serves on the Boards of several companies and buildings. Jonathan has previously worked at UBS Investment Bank, advising corporate clients in Mergers and Acquisitions and Consumer Products & Retail in both New York and London, Franchise Mortgage Acceptance Company, evaluating corporate loans, and Lucent Technologies.

Jonathan received an MBA from Columbia Business School and an MBA from London Business School. He received an MS in Accounting from the Lubin School of Business at Pace where he attended on scholarship. Jonathan graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers College, completing a BS in Computer Science in three years.

Jonathan is a member of VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance), NYSSA (New York Society of Security Analysts), the CFA Institute, and the American Institute of CPAs.