Rod Walz
Founder

Rod is the founder of The Walz Group and has pioneered multiple award winning enterprise software solutions and services. Rod started his career in education and subsequently developed the first financial aid eligibility software in the nation. Later, Rod introduced the first software program to automate the foreclosure process for mortgage lenders and title companies in California. During this time, Rod invented and patented the first automated Certified Mail and USPS Special Service forms. Since 1985, nearly 200 million automated forms have been sold by Walz. With a client base of over 3,600 clients, Rod developed the next generation service to provide a full document process outsourced solution, Walz Certified Mail Solutions. Finally, Rod also pioneered the first software application used on receiving docks to process and track inbound accountable items such as UPS, FedEx and other shipments, which was sold in 2004. Rod holds degrees in both marketing and education from St. John's University and has pursued graduate studies at NYU and City University in New York. In his spare time, Rod enjoys the outdoors of Idaho and golfs and snowshoes when he has the opportunity. He and his wife Jeri have four children.

Jim Welch
Chairman

Jim is a founding investor of The Walz Group and has had a long and diverse career in principal investing and trading in real estate, equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, derivatives, and other asset classes. Jim began his career in real estate and served as founding partner of the development firm Odmark Welch. By the 1980's Odmark Welch was one of the 12 largest homebuilders in California with developments specializing in condominiums as well as retail and office. In addition to California, Odmark Welch had successful development projects in Arizona, Washington and Guam. More recently Jim has focused his attention on a proprietary trading firm which he founded that specializes in the trading of derivatives and other commodities. An accomplished skier, golfer, master bridge player, and outdoor enthusiast, Jim and his wife Jeanne split their time between Palm Desert, California and Ketchum, Idaho.

Mohan Tavorath
Chief Executive Officer

Mohan Tavorath is a senior management professional with over 15 years of experience in business and technology strategy, technical management, consulting, and large-scale multi-million dollar technology implementations. He has held key management positions at various Fortune 500 and premier Big 4 consulting firms.

Previously, he was Director of Business Strategy and Technology Architecture at a large Fortune 50 Financial Services firm. His experience spans financial services, insurance, investment management, sales force automation, knowledge management, financial operations, public services, engineering, and artificial intelligence. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (Dean's List), and Masters and Bachelors degrees (with Distinction) in Computer Science from the University of Poona.

Charlie McNairy
President

Prior to joining Walz, Charlie was involved in the management and operations of several service businesses. Most recently, he was involved in developing new business and strategic partnerships for a portable mini storage concept, a start-up company that had $75,000 in revenues and one location when he joined. Over an eighteen month period, he helped secure development agreements to open over 100 new franchisee locations and initiated bringing in financial investors who acquired the company. Before the portable mini storage concept, Charlie founded AwayMed, an informatics provider, which enabled physicians to track patients' recoveries remotely. During his tenure, AwayMed's Information PrescriptionSM was deployed and utilized by over 800 physicians in 12 states. Prior to AwayMed, he worked in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division where he focused on opportunistic principal investments in the United States, Asia, and South America. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a Morehead Scholar from the University of North Carolina where he was a member of two Final Four basketball teams under Coach Dean Smith. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Scott Saunders
Vice President, Sales

Prior to joining the Walz Group, Scott was instrumental in the founding of Pine Creek Partners, a private equity investment firm, where he assisted in raising the firm’s initial capital. Prior to Pine Creek, Scott spent two years making limited partnership investments in venture capital, buyout and mezzanine funds, evaluating investments in more than 45 funds representing commitments of $2.3 billion. Scott also worked for Oxford Finance Corporation (subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation) and NextCom Ventures, a telecommunications venture capital firm. During college, Scott worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Scott has an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from George Mason University, where he was a Dr. Hale Tongren Scholar and studied abroad at New College, Oxford University, where he played for the Oxford University Varsity Golf Club. Scott lives in North San Diego County with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys investing, travel, reading, tennis, cycling and spending time with his family.