Executive Team

Scott Ryser
Founder and CEO

Scott Ryser is a technical guy with a head for business and an entrepreneurial spirit. Over the past 20 years he has designed, built and/or managed IT initiatives ranging from $50K pilot projects to billion-dollar enterprise overhauls using Internet technologies. A serial entrepreneur (Yakabod is his third company), Scott's corporate experience includes management positions with two national system integrators. He is the lead vocalist for the rock band milenine and a member of Business Executives for National Security. Scott earned an MSEE from The Johns Hopkins University and a BSEE from University of Akron.

Scott Williamson
Founder and CTO

Scott Williamson is a true technology pioneer. He is co-author of RWhois, the technology used for Internet domain and address registration worldwide, and under his supervision at Network Solutions (now VeriSign), the domain name registry and root server system grew from 2,000 domains to tens of millions. Over the past 30 years Scott has been involved in every aspect of Internet technology, and his ongoing work with community-specific online collaboration is at the core of the Yakabod Knowledge Network.

Chris Coleman
Executive Vice President, Marketing

Chris Coleman has launched and branded more than 200 companies worldwide. She founded and ran a technology marketing agency for 16 years, then joined the executive team that turned a dot-com bomb into one of the fastest-growing Internet security services in the world. Chris is the author of two books: The Green Banana Papers and Winning the Technology Talent War. A graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle, she is a member of the National Speakers Association and serves on the board of directors for the Georgia Justice Project.

Doug Massey
Vice President, Operations

Doug Massey specializes in creating infrastructure and financial processes for high-growth companies. Prior to joining Yakabod in 2006, Doug served as Chief Accounting Officer and CFO for a firm that tripled in size in less than nine years. At Yakabod he is responsible for all aspects of finance and operations, both day-to-day and strategic. Doug earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from The College of William and Mary and an MBA from The Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He is Yakabod's resident expert on all topics related to numbers and baseball.

Derek Anderson
Vice President, Application Factory

A proponent of the AGILE process—iterative, rapid software development—Derek Anderson leads the team that delivers Yakabod software in remarkably quick 90-day cycles. His career began 18 years ago at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, followed by positions at two privately held IT companies before joining Yakabod. Derek earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M and an MS in information systems and technology from The Johns Hopkins University.