Steve Van Leeuwen

President of Ciniva.  Steve Van Leeuwen's real-world expertise and successful Internet marketing track-record provide an added dimension to CINIVA's business consulting services.

Steve has over fifteen years of experience in executive marketing and business development. Beginning his career with Roche Diagnostics as Worldwide Director of New Product Development and Specialty Markets, Steve was responsible for sales of over $100 million dollars. Products developed from his tenure with Roche, including specialized blood glucose instruments, have enjoyed sales of over one billion dollars.   Steve has also served as shareholder and Vice President of Bainbridge Sciences, a Seattle-based biotechnology company that develops unique products for cancer detection. Following the successful sale of the company, he went on to serve as Worldwide Director of Marketing and Business Development For C.R. Bard’s (NYSE:BCR) diagnostic division. From this position he started an Internet marketing company called the Tysa Corporation.

Within three years, Tysa became the largest web-based automotive data collection enterprise on the West Coast. After selling Tysa to the Trader Publishing Company of Norfolk, Virginia, Steve founded Lifelines, a Web-based, health-services directory, which he also sold for a substantial return on investment.  He has lead the team of Ciniva to become the largest web development company in Hampton Roads and, if all goes well, Virginia.

Steve is a graduate of Indiana University's School of Business.

Jeff Stowe

Jeff served for four years as the Director of Operations for In Motion, a large Virginia and nationally base web services and hosting organization.  Prior to In Motion he served as Network Administrator for Plasser American and also help positions in technical, customer services.  Jeff has his Bachelor's degree from Ferrum College in Information Technology.

Steve Padgett

Steve has over 20 years experience in computer programming for government agencies in the Washington DC area. He began as a physicist for the Navy, but soon found a fascination for the many possibilities of computer applications in government enterprises. Notably, he worked 10 years at the National Institute of Health, contributing to many significant publications in the field of cardiovascular epidemiology, using computer analysis to discover and quantify risk factors and familial relationships in heart disease.  After NIH, Steve worked 15 years on government contracts as an analyst on database and data collection projects.

Steve holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Case Western University and certifications in JAVA, J2EE, along with Master's degree in computer science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. Steve especially enjoys working the SQL database environment and is active in developing proprietary web publication software that is finding valuable application in CINIVA's many projects.

Steve is also avid American history buff, who especially appreciates working on Ciniva's regional history-related websites, such as HistoryIsFun.org, for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

Sung Kim
 
Sung is our Senior, Search Engine Analyst. He manages operations related to both organic search engine optimization and pay-per-click search advertising. He also specializes in developing social media strategies for how they relate to internet marketing. Sung has 7 years, Internet experience in conceptualizing and bringing to development social media sites in the blog, social networking, and user-generated community worlds. He also assists in providing support in the areas of XHTML/CSS, graphic design, and information architecture.

Sung holds a BS degree in Political Science and a minor in English from Old Dominion University. 


Karen Vertigan Pope

Karen Vertigan Pope has been interested in computer science since she got her first computer, a Texas Instrument's computer, in 1978. She has torn apart and put back together many machines, and even built her own computer that she uses at home. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology with a Project Management emphasis, in 2005 from Capella University’s School of Technology, graduating Summa Cum Laud. She is currently working on her Master’s degree in Post-Secondary and Adult Education at Capella’s School of Education with the aspiration of being an online IT instructor.

Writing is natural to Karen. She is a part time free-lance writer and published author. She has written a novel that is pending publication and has two more awaiting submission. She has the 6th most-read blog on Opera.com. She wrote her first novel while still in high school and only in the past decade has turned to writing professionally. She has ghost-written several e-Books and a self-help book, written many short stories and even had some poetry published.

Karen is Ciniva’s Project Support Manager and handles the Search Engine Optimization for many of Ciniva’s clients.

Ron Greenspan

Ron formed CINIVA in 1998 initially as a Website consulting group geared toward the tourism and travel industry. CINIVA's first major project was to develop the official tourism website for Cancun, Mexico, the world's largest beach resort destination. The success of this site led to additional tourism projects in Mexico and the United States. Today CINIVA still maintains an impressive consulting portfolio in this sector, but has expanded its client base to include organizations of every type.

From 1994-1997, Ron was Director of Business Development for a division of Landmark Communications, one of the country's largest private broadcasting and publishing companies. Working in partnership with another Landmark property, The Travel Channel, Ron helped produce a special 30-minute cable TV show highlighting travel destinations around the world. The business model behind the production was a 100-person call center and website used to capture travel sales generated by the show.

In the early 90s Ron served as executive vice-president of Future Tours, which he helped launch as a wholesaling subsidiary of one of the nation's largest travel consortia. Future Tours was later acquired by Certified Vacations Group, a large-scale technology provider and private-labeler of leisure products for major airlines such as Continental, American, and Delta.

Ron holds an MBA from Virginia's Old Dominion University in marketing and IT. He lives with his family in Virginia Beach.