About Kaleidico
In 2003 Bill Rice was riding high in the heyday of the mortgage refinance boom. He had come off the successful building and selling of an Internet-only bank (DeepGreen Bank) and had helped Quicken Loans automate their home equity business. He had become a software guy that had learned a lot about mortgage and marketing. Software people like to build things. They see opportunities and they want to make them easier, they see users with problems and they want to solve them, they see inefficiency and they want to code it out - this was the stirring of a new company. There were few markets that harvested opportunity more inefficiently than the mortgage industry in 2003, and Kaleidico was born.
Originally, Kaleidico set out to make loan officers and mortgage broker faster and more efficient at making loans, but somewhere along the way we became something different. Sure we accomplished the original goal. There is no mortgage CRM that can convert better or help loan officers crank out more loans than Kaleidico's Sales Manager. But, we are something bigger than that now - we are a small independent software company.
Maybe that is not a powerful statement to a venture capitalist, but it is magical in a few ways:
- Pretty impressive for a companies who's first product was mortgage CRM
- We love making cool software and we love our software engineers
- We have our priorities straight: happy people + cool projects = profits
- We don't take VC money or government bail-outs
- We have tons of fun!
Meet the People
You can read a lot more about our great software and what we believe in throughout Kaleidico.com - let's meet the people and learn why they make us a great company to work for and buy software from:
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Keith Burwell |
Keith Burwell is the Director of Product Management for Kaleidico. Prior to working at Kaleidico, Keith was the Product Manager for Online Home Equity at Quicken Loans. Previously as a Management Consultant, he provided solutions for Key Bank, Boeing, M&M/Mars, Bosch, and Foster Wheeler among others. Keith has also led various teams and groups for Fortune 500 industry leaders Graybar, Yellow Freight, and Aramark. Keith holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from The Virginia Military Institute. He earned his MBA from Liberty University. |
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Greg Cieslik Product Manager & |
Greg Cieslik is one of the primary software developers at Kaleidico, Product Manager of icoSales, and the Director of Client Services. Prior to his entry into adulthood Greg traveled the world with the Ohio Boychoir, performing at such places as the Sydney Opera House, the White House, and earned a covetted Gold Award at the International Music Festival in Munich, Germany. Greg is a creative guy which led him into the software development world, something which he considers a unique blend of science and art. Greg honed his technical skills at DeepGreen Financial, mentored by some of the best minds in the industry, before joining the Kaleidico team in 2005.
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Bill Rice |
Bill Rice is the founder and CEO of Kaleidico. Bill has nearly two decades of experience creating and leading software and marketing teams in a variety of industries from Internet security to financial services. He has lead software, marketing, and operations teams at: TASC, Iridium, DeepGreen Bank, Quicken Loans, and MortgageLoan.com. Things you might not know about Bill:
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Doug Van De Motter |
Doug Van De Motter is the Vice President of Product Development at Kaleidico. Doug has a wide breadth of experience in diverse industires ranging from producing coporate communications at Jack Eckerd Corporation to automating cargo securing manuals for the American Bureau of Shipping - Singapore, from directing distance learning broadcasts at North Arizona University to creating and producing an advertising campaign for Ohio Broach and Machine Company. Five Fun Facts:
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