UNAPEN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Co - Founder
David Gemma, co-founder of UNAPEN and member of the Board of Directors, serves as CEO and Chief Marketing Officer with a focus on driving corporate growth across all UNAPEN products and services.
Over the past 30 years, David has been responsible for new business development and strategic partnerships, designed and developed software, over a decade of managing application development teams, and coordinated complex implementations to meet the demands of domestic and international investment advisers.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Treasurer / Counsel Liaison / Sr. Business Analyst
Joan (Eckland) Walker is a co-founder of UNAPEN and a member of the Board of Directors. Her primary positions are Treasurer and liaison to corporate counsel.
Prior to co-founding UNAPEN, Joan served as an independent consultant for Dreyfus, a New York based mutual fund company, reviewing and documenting changes to operational workflows and system enhancements. In 1989 Joan managed the Business Analyst Team for The Shareholder Services Group (TSSG), an affiliate of American Express. The team was responsible for the conversion of three million Dreyfus mutual fund accounts from Bank of New York to TSSG. Prior to joining TSSG, Joan honed her technical skills as EDP Liaison for Colonial Mutual Funds.
Joan began her career at Bank of Boston, rising to the level of Assistant Vice President. She was responsible for coordinating the restructure of the Transfer Agency division into quality teams, following JIT methodology. Specializing in year-end coordination, she oversaw the reporting to more than two million shareholders.
Joan holds a BA in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross.
Joseph Walker is a co-founder of UNAPEN and a member of the Board of Directors. He led UNAPEN's professional services and product development team, directed all UNAPEN engagements involving business strategy, due diligence and industry best practices, and served as a senior advisor for transition management teams charged with the task of guiding post-merger companies into new organizational structures, policies and technologies.