Tony Powell

Tony Powell has a 20-year record of success designing and implementing enterprise integration and high-volume transaction processing systems for Fortune 500 companies domestically as well as the EU, Middle East, Asia, and India. He has held many technical positions in software engineering and executive management. Tony began a career in global software consulting with an IBM business partner. He joined Life Prints Solutions LLC, a biometric startup, an experience that solidified his entrepreneurial path. After he founded GroupGauge Inc., a social data processing firm, Tony and Chris Ciesielka, Orbweaver’s CEO, partnered to develop Orbweaver’s first product for the electronics manufacturing industry, known today as Orbweaver Inform.

Tony’s unique insights have led his drive to apply technical solutions to business problems in a very efficient and unique way. He holds patents pertaining to software messaging and data integrity, and guest lectures on the entrepreneurial process in Lehigh University’s Venture Series program.

Tony holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. and an MBA with a focus in Economics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.