
John Taves
Chief Executive Officer
37 years of experience
John Taves has many years experience in leading teams as well as projects ranging from small to enterprise. John is also an expert in OCR Algorithms, having developed machine print algorithms that were used to read destination addresses on the mail pieces processed by the United States Post System. John founded the non-profit StopAtTwo, and with Mike Hayner founded Pick A Time.

Mike Hayner
Chief Technical Officer
31 years of experience
Mike Hayner is an experienced software developer and an expert in web and database design. He architected and lead development of the Sarbanes-Oxley documenation management system for Credit-Suisse. He has managed the development of several internal and external sites for Microsoft that utilize SharePoint Portal Server, SharePoint Team Services, ASP.NET, C# Web Parts, SQL Server databases, ActiveX controls, and ISAPI filters and extensions. Mike started PNWS with John Taves.

Alex Novikov
European Branch Director
25 years of experience
Alexandr Novikov currently leads several large projects as well as managing Pacific Northwest Software's European branch. Previously, Alexandr was Chief of Development at JS Bank "Radabank". Prior to that, he was the Lead Programmer for JS Bank "Zemelny Capital". In 1995, Alexandr was Chief of Automation for "Prominvestbank".