Coco Brown - President & Chief Operating Officer

Coco Brown joined Taos in 1997 and is the company's Chief Operating Officer. Coco has been a key contributor to the evolution of the business and the development of Taos' Professional Services offerings and staff deployment solutions. As COO, Coco is responsible for the day-to-day management of the business as a whole. She is particularly instrumental in the direction of professional services practice development, working directly with customers to innovate service applications.

Previous to Taos, Coco held the position of Corporate Manager of Training and Development for NetFRAME, a pioneer in enterprise-class multiprocessor network servers. At NetFRAME, Coco acted as a consultant to executive management, with primary focus on programs designed to ensure timely product delivery and cohesiveness between Marketing and Engineering.

Coco holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She began her career in the Silicon Valley in 1993 as a Human Resources consultant to start-up technology companies, helping them to implement scalable and effective organization structures and designing processes to effectively manage the employment relationship. Just prior to arriving in the Silicon Valley, Coco was an intern for the Chief Economic Advisor at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. She started her career as a Compensation Analyst for Wachovia Bank Card Services. Coco has lived in Malaysia, France, Pennsylvania, Switzerland, San Francisco and the Silicon Valley.

Mary Hale - EVP, Chief Financial Officer

Mary Hale is the Chief Financial Officer of Taos. Since joining Taos in 1997, Mary has played a key role in the development of the Company's administrative infrastructure and financial processes. As CFO, Mary is responsible for the financial, information technology, legal and human resource functions of the company.

Prior to her tenure at Taos, Mary held several financial management positions in the banking industry, most recently as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Silicon Valley Bank, where she participated in streamlining the growing technology bank's accounting and financial reporting practices and technical infrastructure. Prior to Silicon Valley Bank Mary was with Cupertino National Bank and Plaza Bank of Commerce.

Mary began her career as a CPA for Deloitte in San Jose. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University, majoring in Accounting with a minor in Economics. Mary has also lived in Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles.

With over 30 years of experience in IT, Jeff Lucchesi is a proven and successful technology leader. He is a valued business partner with a track record of achieving results in positions of business critical responsibility.

Jeff possesses an impressive background of holding significant IT leadership positions. Currently, Jeff is heavily involved with Taos' Managed Services offering and lends his expertise to educate Taos clients searching for optimal managed services solutions. He is also spearheading the creation of a new Taos product offering for start-up companies. When not working within Managed Services, Jeff provides management consulting services through Taos' Office of the CIO (OCIO). His specialty within the OCIO practice is to investigate and make key recommendations in regards to the people, the processes and the technology that make up an IT organization. Through these engagements, Jeff has helped IT organizations throughout the Bay Area identify their problem areas and realize solutions, resulting in IT transformation in preparation for IPO, acquisition, globalization, etc.

Prior to Taos, Jeff served as CIO at BMHC, a public holding company which provides capital, management and administrative resources to its subsidiaries. As the SVP of Global Operations at Corio, Jeff was responsible for directing an organization of 180+ staff in the U.S. and India and for supporting over 100 clients using enterprise ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and B to B apps). In this role, Jeff was accountable for both technical and functional areas of the applications, along with infrastructure components. It was at DHL, however, that Jeff first took on the role of CIO. His path was similar to that of many IT leaders in the Bay Area. Jeff was hired to DHL as the Director of Network Services, was promoted into the role of VP of Operations, was promoted into the role of VP of Applications, and, finally, was promoted to the role of CIO. During his 5 year tenure, Jeff managed everything from data centers to architecture to the development of DHL's Track and Trace system.

A former client of Taos, Jeff joined Taos in December 2009 and is currently the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Managed Services.

Trish leads Taos' Talent Management organization which includes Recruiting, Staff Management and Practice Management. She is responsible for the identification, preservation and development of the Taos consultant community. In addition, she leads the quality control around customer satisfaction, key account programs and custom solutions.

Trish joined Taos in 1999 when she relocated to the Bay Area. Starting out in an HR role, Trish moved into a variety of roles over the next few years, including Recruiting and Staff Management and was the Engagement Manager for a large desktop outsource in 2003 for one of Taos' largest clients.

Prior to joining Taos, Trish held administrative roles at Salomon Brothers and Starwood Design Group and was in the field of social work in New York City holding roles at Bellevue Hospital and Covenant House. She holds a Bachelors in Psychology from Lemoyne College in Syracuse. Trish has lived in New York as well as California.

Carrina heads up the IT Management Consulting Practices at Taos as well as Sales Operations and Marketing. She and her team are responsible for the development and execution of Taos IT Management service offerings. In addition, she leads the company's partner programs, sales operations, and marketing efforts including newsletter distribution, website development and events.

Carrina is on her second tour of duty with Taos. She started out as a University Recruiter in 1999 before taking on the role of Staff Manager in the fall of 2000. After leaving Taos in the spring of 2001, Carrina pursued a career in the education industry where she managed 17 northern California locations for Score Educational Centers. Upon her return to Taos in 2006, she held the role of Staff Manager and in 2007 joined Mark Johnson in developing Taos' Office of the CIO (OCIO) management consulting practice. She held the role of Delivery Manager for OCIO before expanding her role to include all management consulting practices.

Carrina holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Spanish from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.