Executive Team

Emmett DeMoss, President, CEO and Director

Emmett DeMoss founded Visual Network Design in 2003 and is the company's President, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. DeMoss has significant experience in identifying critical business trends and positioning selected companies to accelerate and profit from changes caused by those trends.

Mr. DeMoss's prior business experience includes a decade in corporate finance with Dean Witter and H&Q, and subsequent senior positions with a number of successful publicly held companies including EVP of Docutel, the originator of the Automatic Teller Machine, COO & CFO of Grubb & Ellis, and Founder of RealBid, a successful dot-com company, that eventually merged with Co-Star (CSGP).

Mr. DeMoss received a B.S.E. from Princeton and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Administration

Kathleen Doyle, Chief Financial Officer

Kathleen Doyle has 23 years of experience in financial & operational management in both public accounting (Deloitte & Touche) and industry. With a wide range of experience in different industries – software, e-commerce, brokerage, consumer products, hedge funds, retail, publishing and venture capital. Since leaving Deloitte & Touche, Kathleen has primarily worked with venture backed companies to assist them through rapidly changing environments - growth, mergers, sales, acquisitions.  In her capacity as CFO, Kathleen has prepared and negotiated merger agreements, drafted purchase and sale agreements and split companies into separate business units in preparation for sale.  Kathleen is a CPA and received a BS in Accounting from Guilford College.

Dom Lesme, Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Dom Lesme is a leader with 21 years experience in the creation, development, and enhancement of worldwide sales teams leading to revenue acceleration. Successful at aligning organizations and programs with sales goals; he most recently served at Voyence, Micromuse (acquired by IBM), and InfoVista covering configuration management, fault management, and performance reporting; respectively. Dom Lesme is responsible for managing the Sales, Marketing, Professional Services, Partner, and Business Development organizations.

Mr. Lesme speaks fluent French and Spanish, and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Florida Int'l University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.


Kristopher Tyra, Vice President of Research and Development.

Kristopher has a rich history of 20 years in the software development industry, most recently at Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Tyra brings experience in technology innovation, strategy and planning, and the operations processes necessary to compete in the marketplace. Prior to Microsoft, Kristopher was the CTO of HiddenMind, a company he proudly founded and grew to be purchased by a publicly traded company. HiddenMind merged with AnyDevice and was eventually acquired by Infowave.

Kristopher Tyra has also worked with and consulted for such companies as Bellcore, IBM and Nortel. He has pioneered a number of software products focused on client server applications, multi-platform development tools and mobile applications. Mr. Tyra is the author of several related patents and patents-pending.

Kristopher holds a B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.