PETER MAURO, Founder & President
pmauro@encore-c.com

As the founder of Encore, Pete has over 25 years of IT consulting experience with responsibilities in all facets of the consulting business, including sales, delivery, and management. His primary responsibilities throughout his career have included building new branches of consulting companies, developing new geographic and vertical market sales territories, and reorganizing and managing underperforming branches to profitability.

His extracurricular interests are skiing, clamming on Cape Cod, and mixology.

Ricky Conner, CEO

Ricky is an accomplished executive with domestic and international experience in operations, P&L oversight, revenue and profit growth and marketing involving both start-up and growth organizations. He is a results-oriented, decisive leader with proven success in new market identification and strategic market positioning for multimillion dollar organizations. He brings a track record of increasing sales and growing bottom line while spearheading operational improvements to drive productivity and reduce costs. He excels in dynamic and demanding environments while remaining pragmatic. He is strategically-focused with exceptional leadership skills and effective at building high-performance teams and leading change in competitive business environments.

His extracurricular interests are little league coaching, trekking, traveling, music, and reading

NANCY MAURO, CPA and Financial Advisor
nmauro@encore-c.com

With over 25 years accounting experience, Nancy directs all financial activities, including accounting, accounting policy and procedures, tax planning, cash-flow planning, business financial planning, corporate finance, and compliance reporting.

Her extracurricular interests are playing the piano, flower arranging, reading, and a love of the ocean.

ANGEL VARGAS, Vice President of Professional Services
avargas@encore-c.com

Mr. Angel Vargas has over 25 years of experience in IT consulting specializing in enterprise-level architecture strategies and solutions. His skills are heavily oriented towards business intelligence, service industry solutions, and ecommerce then aligning those solutions to the value map of the enterprise’s business objectives.

His extracurricular interests are traveling, running marathons, and snowboarding.

SALES

GREG VRAKATITSIS, Account Executive – Boston
gvrakatitsis@encore-c.com

Greg has lived and worked in the Greater Boston and New England for his entire career. He has held senior leadership / executive positions in leading professional services and software companies for more than 30 years. He is a sales and operational leader with strong experience in selling/relationship building, team building, management and recruiting.

Outside of work, he has served his community being elected to Municipal Budget Committee, and two terms on his local School Board.

BOB BINNEY, Account Executive - Boston
bbinney@encore-c.com

Bob is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts but has worked nationally providing services during his career. He was founder and CEO Eastmark consulting firm in Boston providing professional IT services to the financial community within the Northeast for the past 20 years.

His extracurricular interests are traveling internationally and serving as a board-of-director member to various small to mid-size companies.

RECRUITING

Dan is responsible for our recruiting on the East Coast and works out of our Boston office.  He brings over 5-years of experience as a recruiter and IT staffing specialist.  Reporting to Chris Velis, Dan complements our team of Chicago-based and offshore recruiters.

His extracurricular interests are following the New England Patriots, Bruins, Red Sox, and Celtics.

FINANCE

XIAOCHEN LIU, Comptroller
xliu@encore-c.com

With over 5 years of accounting experience, Jennifer directs the financial activities, including accounts payable, accounts receivables, cash management, payroll, and the preparation and review of financial statements.

Her extracurricular interest is playing the piano.