SSP INNOVATIONS - Key Persons


Aaron Kunstmann

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Aaron Leese

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  • Employee Image

Aaron Patterson - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • Performance Driving Instructor for the BMW Car Club
Aaron Patterson has been delivering solutions and developing products for the utility and telco industries for over 20 years. Prior to their purchase by SSP, he was President of Paleon Solutions, a company providing AMI focused solutions for Smart Grid programs. He has extensive project management experience and has led a number of large Enterprise GIS Projects for major utilities around the world. Aaron lives with his wife and two boys in Castle Pines, Colorado, and spends most of his spare time driving the boys to various sporting events. When he has some time for himself, he loves snowboarding, reading and trying not to be the worlds worst amateur photographer. Aaron Patterson is a high performance driving instructor for the BMW Car Club.

Adam Tonkin - CTO

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  • CTO
Adam Tonkin has been working with utilities on GIS, AMI, and related technology projects for almost 20 years. He has served in roles such as Project Engineer and Solution Architect on implementation programs. Despite joining SSP Innovations a few years ago, Adam has worked alongside SSP CEO Skye Perry and other SSP team members as far back as 2000 while at Convergent Group. Adam's focus is on SSP's technology offerings and ensuring alignment with Esri's solutions and customer needs. Adam Tonkin moved to the U.S. from Australia 18 years ago. Here, he met his wife, a native Coloradan, and they now have two children. Although Adam has both Australian and U.S. citizenship, he is an obsessive Denver Broncos fan, still calls everyone "mate," and uses weird phrases such as "car park" instead of "parking lot." ("It's where the cars park!")

Aidan Biedrzycki

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Christopher Ash

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  • VP, Product Strategy and Management

Corey Blakeborough

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  • Pre - Sales Architect
  • Solution Engineer at the Utility & Telecommunications GIS Consulting Company
Corey Blakeborough is a Solution Engineer at the Utility & Telecommunications GIS consulting company SSP Innovations in Centennial, Colorado. Corey has been with SSP for roughly a decade, providing a variety of GIS and work management solutions. Corey Blakeborough plays the drums in his spare time and first talked with Skye about SSP back stage at church while playing the drums.

Dane Hopkins

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  • Guest Author

Darrell Rhodes - EVP

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  • Executive Vice President
  • Business Leader and Seasoned Executive
Darrell Rhodes is a versatile business leader and seasoned executive with over three decades of progressive management and technical experience in the geospatial and information technology industries, with specific focus serving utility, telecommunication, and government organizations. He serves on the executive management team at SSP and is primarily focused on helping manage business growth and overall strategy with the initial focus on the integration of recent acquisitions. Darrell Rhodes is enjoying ENL (empty nested living) with his wife these days now that his beautiful daughter has gone to college. Darrell enjoys boating and golf, and most recently started a scooter club in Stillwater Minnesota called "Da Skuts"

Dave Coates

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  • Consultant
  • Executive

Dean Perry - VP of Sales

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  • Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Dean Perry managed client relations in several industries before diving into GIS in early 2011. He now heads up the SSP Sales and Account Management Department and manages a team responsible for all business development and customer satisfaction. Operating in the Austin, Texas area, Dean's passion is for meeting and engaging new utilities within the GIS arena while working closely with SSP's partners to deliver world class solutions.

Fun Fact

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  • Member of the Leadership Team

Geoffrey Towne

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  • Senior Consultant
  • Consultant at the GIS Consulting Company
Geoff Towne is a Consultant at the GIS consulting company SSP Innovations in Centennial, Colorado. He has over a decade of GIS experience, mostly coming from electric and gas utility transmission, feeder and distribution systems.

Ian Martin

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  • Director, Product Sales
  • Is Director of Asset
Ian Martin is Director of Asset and Work Management Sales for SSP Innovations. Ian has worked in the utility GIS industry for over 20 years in a variety of roles, and for the past 15 years has been engaged in selling software and related services. Prior to joining SSP, Ian was Director of Sales at TC Technology and served in various technology and consulting roles at Cartotech and ASI. After years in the industry, he retains a passion for designing elegant technology solutions to common utility business needs.

Jason Fox

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  • Solution Architect at the Utility
Jason Fox is a Solution Architect at the Utility, Telecommunications and Pipeline GIS consulting company SSP Innovations in Centennial, Colorado and has been working in GIS pipeline software solutions and data management for almost 10 years. Jason Fox is an enthusiastic traveler having been to over 30 countries. His drive to continue traveling is seeing new places and meeting interesting people.

Jessica Hartbauer

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  • Sales Operations Manager
Jessica Hartbauer works as a Sales Operations Manager for SSP Innovations, a Utility & Telecommunications GIS consulting company in Centennial, Colorado. Jessica has over a decade of experience in the GIS industry working with clients and partners.

Jonathan Jachimiec - CFO

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  • CFO

Josh King

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  • Senior Development Manager
  • Senior Development Manager, Lifecycle Technical Lead
Josh King works as a Senior Development Manager, Lifecycle Technical Lead and Solution Consultant, specializing in enterprise web and mobile solutions, at the GIS consulting company SSP Innovations in Centennial, Colorado. Josh has worked on a number of different Esri based solutions with his most recent experience being mobilizing a transmission site inspection team using the latest Esri mobile based technology.

Mehrdod Mohseni

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  • Executive Vice President, Consulting
Mehrdod Mohseni is an avid outdoorsman and loves to travel. He recently completed his goal of travelling to all 50 united states. Next he plans to complete his travels to the seven continents - with Africa and Antarctica left to go.

Patrick Vardeman - CEO

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  • CEO

Peter Batty

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  • CRO

Skye Perry - Chairman

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  • Chairman of the Board
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Skye Perry is a lifelong musician and almost became a high school band director instead of going into business and technology.

Susan Smith-Lee

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  • Consultant
  • Executive

Tom DeWitte

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  • Guest Author