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Christopher Sebes, President and Chief Executive Officer With more than three decades of involvement in the restaurant industry, Christopher Sebes brings in-depth industry knowledge to his role as Chief Executive Officer of XPIENT Solutions. Prior to XPIENT's acquisition of Progressive Software, Sebes was Progressive's President and Chief Executive Officer. Sebes joined Progressive Software as Chief Operating Officer in 2001, and was named to the chief executive role a year later. Before joining Progressive, Sebes was an investor in and Chief Operating Officer of Southern Hospitality Systems, Squirrel Systems' largest point-of-sale distributor and Progressive's first reseller. In the mid-1990s, Sebes became interested in the use of technology to more efficiently and effectively manage restaurants. As co-founder and Vice President of Twenty/20 Visual Systems, he helped design and market one of the earliest Windows-based point-of-sale systems. The award-winning POS was sold to Radiant Systems in 1997. Sebes has trained as a professional chef, and received a bachelor's degree in hotel and restaurant management at the University of Portsmouth in England. He has 20 years of experience in restaurant and hotel management spanning three continents, including managing one of the top ten restaurants in New York City and the only 5-star resort hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. Sebes' first hand knowledge of the challenges facing restaurant operators has contributed to his strong commitment to providing outstanding customer service. | 