Jose Picazo
President & CEO

Jose is an accomplished executive with a wealth of experience in business management. Prior to establishing ICONIX, Inc., he held the position of General Manager for the Converged Communications Product Division at Intel, and was the President and Founder of Picazo Communications, as well as the Founder of Network Resources Corporation.

In addition to his managerial expertise, Jose possesses a solid engineering foundation, having worked with renowned companies such as Hughes LAN Systems, Sytek, and IBM. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from San Jose State University and has been granted 21 patents in the areas of networking systems and communications.

Bill Ames
Vice President of Sales

Bill brings his business experience as General Partner for Central Ventures, a boutique venture capital firm focusing on high technology software development firms. He was also Founder, President, and CEO of Gobosh, and President and CEO of Wyatt River Software. Bill founded Central Design Systems, Inc. and was VP of Sales at Highland Digital and Cadence Design Systems.

During his career, Bill has led or managed 18 mergers, and shares his expertise by giving presentations across the country. He has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Washington, and a MBA from Boston University.

Scott Sachtjen
Vice President of Engineering

Scott is responsible for all aspects of product development at ICONIX, and brings both technical experience as well as Vice President of Engineering experience to the company. Scott has over 20 years of experience designing and developing voice and data communication hardware and software.

Most recently, he was Vice President of Engineering at Strataverio Inc., an engineering consulting firm specializing in creative solutions for email and advanced email services. While at Strataverio, he led groups implementing email archiving; email server recovery; email server clustering; email authentication and extending popular email clients such as MS Outlook. Scott has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Bob Zager
Vice President of Business Development

Bob Zager brings a strong business development and legal background to Iconix, Inc., having previously served in business development roles at Picazo Communications, Central Design Systems, and Network Resources Corporation.

Bob has also held positions in legal and operations at NetWorth, Compaq, New Era Group, Security Pacific Bank and Boles & Company, Inc. Bob has a BA in Economics from U.C. Berkeley, a JD from the University of Santa Clara, and he studied EU law at Oriel College, Oxford University.