Management Team

Mark Upson has over 20 years experience and success in global technology sales and management. Prior to joining AdmitOne, Upson was President and CEO of PureEdge where he led the company to leadership in the business process automation space before a strategic acquisition of PureEdge by IBM.

Prior to PureEdge, Upson was SVP and GM, Americas for Onyx Software where he led sales growth from $2M USD to over $119M USD over a 5 year period before and after their IPO.

Prior to Onyx Software, Mark held senior management positions at Wall Data, a publicly-traded infrastructure software firm that grew during his tenure at more than 100% per year to revenues over $100M USD. Mark also held technical and senior sales management positions with IBM Corporation over an 11 year period.

Upson holds a Masters of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Science with honors in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Matthew Shanahan brings AdmitOne nearly 25 years of experience in the technology industry, recently serving as Chief Marketing Officer of Teranode Corporation, where he helped to establish the company as the thought leader for informatics infrastructure in the life sciences industry. In addition to his tenure at Teranode, Shanahan was the original product manager at Documentum and spent 10 years in leadership roles until the company was acquired by EMC.

Prior to Documentum, Shanahan was a manager at Accenture specializing in advanced enterprise architectures for Global 500 companies.

Shanahan earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and an Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Peter Horadan has over 15 years of expertise in software product development and management. Most recently, he served as Senior Director of R&D for Concur Technologies, where he led the team that built Concur Expense Service, which has become the world's leading on-demand corporate expense management solution, and was named WSA Service Provider of the Year, to the IDC World-Wide On-Demand Top 10, and to Business Week's Hot Growth 100.

Prior to Concur Technologies, Horadan led the team that created BEA WebLogic Workshop IDE, a platform which makes it dramatically easier to create enterprise applications for the Java platform.

Prior to BEA, Horadan was the Vice President of Product Development for Corillian Corporation, and has also held several positions at Microsoft including Product Unit Manager for Microsoft Internet Finance Server Toolkit and Lead Program Manager for the company’s online banking and bill-payment strategy. In addition, he serves on the Washington Board of First Technology Credit Union and holds three US software patents.

Horadan holds of Bachelor of Science of Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Cheryl Gudorf has over 10 years experience in various accounting and finance positions. Before joining AdmitOne Security, Gudorf was working with a local CPA firm in San Diego. Gudorf had previously been the CFO for AlphaNet Telecom and assisted in their successful IPO on the Canadian stock exchange. She also worked as an auditor for Ernst & Young in both San Diego and Dayton, Ohio.

Gudorf earned a Bachelor of Science in Business at Wright State University, with dual majors in Accounting and Finance. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant.