As the vice president of research, Jack Zakarian provides TradeStone with analysis and recommendations for technical, operational and financial issues to help grow the business.

Prior to joining TradeStone, Zakarian was the CTO and co-founder with Sue Welch of RockPort Trade Systems. He has extensive experience in computer technology with a primary focus on supply chain and global sourcing technologies. Zakarian has been the system architect for numerous Fortune 500 companies, SME's and application service providers.

His areas of expertise include Web applications, client/server, distributed processing and relational database systems. He graduated with a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the State University of New York (SUNY).