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Don Zelezny, vice president, is responsible for maintaining and developing all strategic alliances for ERG. This includes technology companies and integrators as well as a special emphasis on assisting CPAs with their client's needs. Don has been working with the CPA community throughout his career and has promoted these, and all, relationships for mutual business benefit. Prior to this role, Don grew ERG's sales department by putting in place structure and strategy that serves as the basis for our business solutions team. Don is a self-made man with a career that has always been centered around accounting and business management system sales. During his formative professional years, Don owned a successful distributorship for Safeguard. He was consistently recognized for highest growth among his peers. During this time, Don began working with database programs and developed an order entry system. He is a self-taught programmer and developed a predecessor to today’s CRM packages in the mid-80s. One of Don's many strengths is to know where technology and its marketplace are headed and his ability to be there. Sensing the curtailment of the mainframe marketplace, he began recommending SCO UNIX networks and language compilers that converted existing mainframe applications to the easier-to-manage, more affordable SCO UNIX platform. From here, his passion for databases, capturing information and using that information to make better business decisions, became evident. Don began working with mid-market accounting products in the early 90s. In 1995, he merged his firm, Z Systems, with Greg Boyd's firm. | 