Dave Miller /
Partner

Dave Miller brings more than 30 years of business experience and restaurant industry relationships to Ziosk. As founder of JTECH Communications, he created and sold the first guest paging system for the restaurant industry. Today, JTECH pagers are used in more than 60,000 locations worldwide and found in the hands of an estimated two million consumers on any given weekend.

Before founding JTECH, he was a successful restaurateur whose first restaurant was recognized by the New York Times as one of the top 10 in Florida. Well known and highly regarded in the restaurant industry, Dave is a sought‐after speaker with appearances at industry events. He has moderated at the National Restaurant Association for the past decade, where he originated and still leads the popular “Technology Tour.”

Dave graduated from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

Doug Wallace /
Chief of Operations

Doug Wallace is responsible for all operations beginning in the Ziosk supply chain, through systems deployment and monitoring, data collection and protection and contract management with customers. He was formerly at Fujitsu Transaction Solutions where he was responsible for the transaction and point of sale systems and operations. He and his team serviced 400 retail and banking clients with over 40,000 stores, many of which operated seven days a week, 24 hours per day. Doug has a BS in electronic engineering from the University of Nottingham

Jack Baum /
Chairman & Co-Founder

Jack Baum is a co‐founder and chairman of the board of Ziosk and is recognized for his business expertise within both the restaurant and technology industries.

Jack has been involved with multiple start‐up companies including Dallas private equity firm, Sagebrook Technology Partners as the founding partner. Jack was also a founder of Ingenient Technologies.

Prior to Sagebrook in 1998, Jack spent 18 years in the restaurant and food service industries, founding Landlock Seafood, Newport's, Hampton's, Nickel City Grill as well as The Canyon Cafe Restaurant Group. In 1997, Canyon Cafe was selected as one of Nation's Restaurant News’ Hot Concepts. That same year Canyon Cafe was bought by a $1 billion public company.

Kevin Mowry /
Director of Engineering

Kevin Mowry is an expert in telecommunications and embedded systems and he holds four patents for work completed at Motorola. Kevin was instrumental in developing wireless infrastructure components and leading international telecommunications standards activities.

Kevin also led product management and marketing efforts for Texas Instruments’ (TI) OMAP family of wireless application processors, working closely with Nokia, Samsung, and LG to deploy new smartphone products into the mobile marketplace. At TI he introduced the industry’s first Nokia Series 60 reference design for smartphones and led several joint development efforts with Microsoft to create compelling platforms for handset manufacturers based on the latest processors.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Northwest Nazarene University in the state of Idaho and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

John Regal /
Chief Marketing Officer

John Regal has a 20-year history of providing the visionary thinking and strategic leadership to create profitable businesses. Throughout his career, John has demonstrated he can market almost anything, from cereal to cell phones to pharmaceuticals.

Some of the brands John has launched include Prozac, Cranberry Almond Crunch Cereal, POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice and KajeetCell Phones for Kids. He’s also managed multi‐million dollar campaigns for established brands like Post Grape‐Nuts Cereal and Microsoft Windows. John’s secret to his success is identifying market trends ahead of the curve. He then develops products to fulfill these trends and brings them to market using an integrated marketing campaign with social media, PR, and experiential programs.

Raymond Howard /
Chief of Client Operations/Founder

Raymond Howard, a Ziosk co‐founder, draws upon more than a dozen years of system and sales engineering, strategic selling and sales management experience to ensure the successful adoption, deployment, and on‐going support of TTM’s technology by major restaurant chains.

Previously, Raymond managed a team of direct sales representatives, independent resellers, and public relations consultants across the southwest United States for Tyco Electronics. At Tyco, he successfully led the technical and sales capture strategies for turnkey wireless networks for government, utility, transportation, and commercial opportunities ranging from $3 million to $75 million. He was responsible for securing prominent clients including the State of Texas, Texas Utilities, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and American Electric Power.

Raymond holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

Shawn Gentry /
Chief Business Development Officer & Co-Founder

Shawn Gentry, leverages over 18 years of sales, marketing, and business development experience to lead Ziosk strategic sales and monetization strategies.

Prior to Ziosk, he was involved in two successful start-up ventures from concept to profitability in the medical surgical market. Throughout his career, Shawn has launched market-first technologies, managed dynamic teams and implemented revenue strategies to exceed revenue expectations. He also serves on several new technology and digital media panels with Digital Hollywood (Digital Out-of-Home Advertising Association), CES (consumer electronics show) and NRA (National Restaurant Association – Technology Forum).

Shawn holds a Bachelor of Science from Millsaps College and an MBA from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.

Tim Leslie /
VP of Restaurant Operations

Tim has 25 years of professional experience leading restaurants and driving innovation, execution and delivery of solutions that generate positive guest counts, sales and profits.

More than 20 years of his experience has been with Brinker International, most recently as Research and Development Director. Tim developed and implemented sustainable, scalable operations solutions for both Chili¹s and On the Border restaurant brands. Tim has a passion for innovation and guest satisfaction. He has managed budgets and processes, direct reports with cross-functional skills and diverse backgrounds and relationships with restaurant teams.

Viren Balar /
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Viren Balar is an expert in technology architecture and systems engineering with an extensive background in wireless, broadband, and digital signal processing technologies.

Prior to Ziosk’s formation, he led Texas Instruments’ 35‐person global Wireless Terminal Business Unit development team. In addition, Viren founded and ran TI’s Near Shore Design Center in Monterrey, Mexico managing 130 engineers and an R&D budget of $12 million. Consistently recognized as one of TI’s top engineers, he was a member of the elite TI Tech Ladder group, which is composed of less than 16% of the company’s engineering population. Viren acquired business and marketing experience while serving as founder and president of a data solutions company and operating a retail franchise.

Viren holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.