The Decision Street Leadership Team is led by highly-accomplished entrepreneurs with proven credentials in decision-making, business development, marketing, and technology.
My mission is to help people lead better lives by helping them make better decisions.
Clint Korver, CEO
Clint Korver, Ph.D., CEO, Founder. Dr. Korver is a serial entrepreneur and expert in decision-making. Prior to DecisionStreet, Dr. Korver founded and led Outcome Software which built web-based decision tools for large enterprises. While at Outcome he worked closely with Mr. Tian and Dr. Azhar. He holds a patent in web-based decision analytics and has a number of patents pending. With Mr. Hoffberg he co-founded Decision Quality International where he trained and consulted with executives on decision making at many financial services organizations including Wells Fargo, Fidelity, Bank of America, and Fleet Bank. He co-founded and led The Decision Company, a decision software and consulting company. StarMine Inc. started as a Decision Company project, was spun out by one of other co-founders, and eventually sold to Reuters for $100 million. He also worked for Strategic Decisions Group, a leading strategy consulting firm. He taught a class in decision making and ethics as a visiting professor at Grinnell College. He sits on the Advisory Council of the Decision Education Foundation which teaches decision making skills to high school students. He works with the Decisions and Ethics Center at Stanford University and in May 2008, the Harvard Business School Press is scheduled to publish his book on ethical decision making, co-authored with Professor Ron Howard, director of the Center. He earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. from Stanford University's Engineering-Economic Systems department specializing in decision analysis. He earned a B.A. with honors in mathematics from Grinnell College, where he serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees. clint@decisionstreet.com
Kevin Hoffberg, VP Sales and Business Development, Founder. Mr. Hoffberg is an acknowledge expert in sales effectiveness, having founded and led a number of different training and consulting firms specializing in sales effectiveness, go-to-market strategy and the customer experience. During the last 25 years Mr. Hoffberg has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Wells Fargo Bank, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Bank of America, CapOne, Fidelity, Lloyds/TSB, Microsoft, Arthur Andersen, Sony, Colgate, Young & Rubicam, Washington Mutual, Ernst & Young, Fleet Bank, KPMG, Commonwealth Bank, EDS, Bristol Meyer Squibb and many others. He is also a published author, and has co-authored Firing Up The Customer : Aligning Brand, Strategy and Technology to Deliver the Extraordinary Customer Experience. He has founded or co-founded Decision Quality International, RevenueLab, Inseon, NortonHoffberg, The Hoffberg Company, Innhouse, and Lion Coffee. Mr. Hoffberg also served as CKO of Onyx Software. Mr. Hoffberg has a B.A. in political science from George Washington University. kevin@decisionstreet.com
Gordon Tian, CTO and Co-Founder is a uniquely, versatile technologist with an enviable track record for creating innovative new products, and rapidly bringing them to market in alignment with business goals. During his 15+ years in software engineering roles, he has won numerous awards while working for the likes of IBM, Northwest Airlines, Mayo Clinic, Roundtree Lab,Inc., Assia, Inc., NewScale, Inc. He has gained major application experience in financials, enterprise service (IT) management, search engine algorithms, enterprise profit management, Broadband Performance Management for IPTV, web content management, ERP/CRM/eBusiness, decision analysis, e-business, imaging and video processing algorithms. He is an expert in LAMP, Java, .Net., Ruby, Python, Laszlo and designing and implementing highly scalable web site applications.
Gordon received a Master's degree in Computer Imaging from Mayo Graduate School (Mayo Clinic) in Rochester, MN. gordon@decisonstreet.com