User:Rick77i/Rick iorillo

Rick Iorillo was born on November 8th 1953 and has been living and working in California since 1982. During the last 25 years Mr. Iorillo has been involved with a number of the latest technologies coming out of the Silicon Valley.

In the early eighty he was involved with the introduction of DOS 1.0 and the first 286 IBM Personal Computers to automate the Real Estate Industry. He then when on to network these systems and provide internet connectivity to the brokers and loan agents working within the Real Estate markets for Northern and Southern California.

In 1990 Mr. Iorillo traveled to Japan, Korea and other parts of Asia to establish the PDA markets with players from the U.S. like Palm, Ink Development, Slate, Go Corporation and a number of other leading software makers for the software applications running with the first tablet computers. Mr. Iorillo was the lead in working with companies in Japan such as NEC, Toshiba, and Sony to build the relationships that would include the hardware from Japan and the software from the U.S. The relationships went on to produce companies building successful products for the first PDAs.

In 1993 Mr. Iorillo met up with Dov Moran the CEO of M Systems and started to work in Israel as the VP of Sales in the U.S. Starting the first office for M Systems Mr. Iorillo went on to develop the PCMCIA market for M Systems in the U.S.  The first relationship was with Maxtor and then moved to the single board computer manufacturers that would develop products with the first PCMCIA slots. After a successful time with M Systems Mr. Iorillo went on to start EUROM the development center for M Systems in the U.S. and bring to market the DiskOnChip (First Solid Flash Drive) for the embedded computer industry. Receiving the Most Innovative Technology Award from EDN in 1995 Mr. Iorillo then went on to work directly for the Israeli Economic Council bring software and new emerging products from Israel to the U.S.

Mr. Iorillo has gone on to develop products and relationships throughout his years in the Silicon Valley that include Firware 1394 and the first printers from Epson using 1394. To the introduction of Zigbee and BPM (Business Process Management) software. Mr. Iorillo is married to Patricia Simmons Iorillo and live in the Southern portion of San Francisco Bay.

Mrs. Iorillo is a leading fitness instructor in the valley and is the daughter of W.R. Simmons the leader in market research during the 50s 60s 70s and 80s located in NY. NY.