Management Team
Trent Henson, Chief Executive Officer Mr. Henson founded TriPrima in June 2009, building on more than twenty years of infrastructure, development and design experience. He specializes in designing data management systems and creating web-based data management interfaces as well as complex and highly available infrastructure. Prior to TriPrima, Mr. Henson served as Executive Vice President, Information Technology at DYONYX, a privately-held information technology outsource and consulting firm. At DYONYX, Mr. Henson was responsible for the strategy and management of all client projects. In this role, he successfully performed the business analysis, design, recommendations, and implementation for over 55 customers across multiple data centers representing over 1,000 managed servers. Prior to joining DYONYX, Mr. Henson founded and served as President of Blue Ink Technologies, a provider of Microsoft-based technologies to Fortune 1000 and emerging technologies companies. Mr. Henson successfully designed and deployed an open standards-based telemedicine system for MedVision named VisiTran that provided a conduit for the exchange of various data between multiple healthcare systems. This system provided remote diagnostic quality “reads” of medical data such as x-rays and MRIs. Mr. Henson also successfully designed, developed and managed a statewide child abuse reporting and management system for the State of Texas that was completely designed around a modular web-based interface adhering to open user interface (“UI”) standards. The application was designed to incorporate all 62 facilities using the system, unique data capture, and reporting requirements based on a national standard. This system was deployed in December 1999 within the managed data center that Mr. Henson designed and remains in use today. Mr. Henson has previously held the role of Chief Technology Officer of EdView, Chief Architect at Lupient Automotive and provided project design and consulting for Kardia Health Systems, Inc., Christus Health Care, American Express, Northwest Airlines and Hilton Hotels. Mr. Henson also served as an engineer at Bridgeworks and began his career in technology at Dove Systems in 1989. Mr. Henson has achieved SECRET and TOP SECRET clearance and attained the U.S. National Security Agency’s Information Security Assessment Methodology Certification. While these clearances are only applicable to Federal agencies with a Federal sponsor, they provide TriPrima customers with assurance of expertise in proven processes for supporting and protecting computer networks, systems, and databases against vulnerabilities, along with a prioritized and cost-effective approach for hardening information system infrastructures against intrusion. Tom Kelly, Chief Operating Officer Tom Kelly has more than 25 years of strategic and tactical business experience.  Tom serves as the COO for TriPrima responsible for Finance, HR and IT.  Tom brings his vast experience from partnering with companies to create on-demand operating environments that leverage the Cloud. He considers the linkage of strategy to key business drivers to be the best predictor of company success. His insights have been gleaned from years of working with companies striving to build on-demand environments that leverage the Cloud to ensure crisp and timely execution of a company’s strategy. He has shifted many business leaders’ perspective and assumptions about how to efficiently and effectively run a business completely in the Cloud.  Tom started his career steeped in Finance, climbing the ranks to CFO but during his career journey he has become a very competent CIO. Today he jokes that his business card reads CFO/CIO/EIEIO, but in reality he is one of the few people that get the importance of a functional Finance and IT relationship. Since 1998 Tom has been a strong believer in leveraging the Cloud to drive performance and efficiency. He would challenge the traditional CIO’s mindset that all company information and applications must be “controlled” by the company. For example, in 1998 he took the entire planning, budgeting and forecasting process to the Cloud for Deluxe Corporation, at the time a $2 billion public company. The product was called Adaytum, which has subsequently been acquired by Cognos. You can imagine the barriers he encountered at that time but his vision and ability to execute persuaded Deluxe to embrace the change. Recently Tom was able to put a company’s entire IT infrastructure in the Cloud by adopting Google Apps, NetSuite and other best of breed Cloud applications. He did this seamlessly in less than one year improving information and efficiency while driving significant savings. Tom has held senior management positions with large publicly held companies like PepsiCo and Deluxe Corporation, as well as small cap and privately held entities such as eBenX and PeopleNet Communications.  He is a CPA with a degree in Accounting from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Fordham University. Mark Cowley, Senior Systems Engineer Mr. Cowley is an accomplished IT Systems Engineer and Architect with 16 years of industry experience in designing, implementing and supporting a broad variety of technical products and solutions. Although Mr. Cowley has a broad skill set including Windows and Linux server engineering, his primary specialties are Active Directory, DNS and VMware. With his previous employer, Mr. Cowley worked on both VMware and Active Directory-based projects. At Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. Government corporation in Washington D.C., Mr. Cowley built out a VMware ESX environment and performed physical to virtual conversions on most of their servers, which consolidated three data centers into one. On a smaller scale, he did the same for Panda Ethanol Inc., a subsidiary of Panda Energy International, when the company built a new ethanol refinery in Hereford, Texas. Previously, Mr. Cowley architected a new Windows Server 2008 based Active Directory and DNS infrastructure for the Lone Star College System, the Harris County Toll Road authority and was a key member of the team that did the same for the City of Houston. Mr. Cowley has also performed IT consulting work for large clients such as American International Group, Inc., Nissan North America and BlueCross BlueShield in Nebraska. Previously, Mr. Cowley was an internal full-time employee at several large companies, including Northern Natural Gas, where he designed, built and supported a five forest, seven domain environment, and Enron Corporation, as a Senior Systems Specialist and team leader, where he managed over 1,500 Windows servers. Mr. Cowley has attended over 30 formal training courses and currently holds 16 industry certifications. He is a VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4, as well as VI3, holds nine certifications from Microsoft, including MSITP, MSTS, MCSA and MSCE, and holds four certifications from CompTIA, including Security+ and Linux+. James Richmond, Senior Systems Engineer Mr. Richmond has nearly twenty years of experience as an IT Systems Engineer and Architect. This robust experience has given him a deep understanding of enterprise environments and systems integration. Throughout his career Mr. Richmond has been responsible for many large scale projects involving systems security, various server technologies, directory services, email systems, virtualization and storage. Along with the technical skills required to perform at a high level Mr. Richmond also has demonstrated expertise with implementing policy and procedure according to various standards such as SOX, HIPAA and ITIL. Mr. Richmond possesses many advanced certifications including VMware Certified Professional vSphere 4 and fourteen Microsoft certifications including MSITP, MCTS, MCSA, MSCE and MCP. Mr. Richmond gained his experience by working both as a consultant and full time employee for notable companies such as Conagra Foods, Hewlett Packard, Loomis Armored, Shell Oil and Brown and Root. While working for these companies Mr. Richmond was the lead on many complex projects, such as a complete systems migration for Conagra Foods, a complete upgrade to the Hewlett Packard Citrix environment, and the design and implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure environment for Loomis Armored to securely mange the transfer of funds.