Our passion is unlocking the full potential of your human capital, and maximizing the capacity of your workforce.
Iternal’s team has the experience, optimism and technology skills to imagine better solutions. Our passion is building innovative breakthrough technologies that solve big problems. Together, the Iternal team of executives with strong and diverse backgrounds in technology, communications, software, law, marketing and motion picture creation are working together to build the next generation of technology that solved the problems of modern work that were previously thought to be impossible to solve.
Iternal Technologies’ Leadership Team
JOHN BYRON HANBY, IV
FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Hanby is a passionate innovator and creator of better ways to connect people, knowledge, ideas, and experiences. As the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Iternal Technologies, he has lead development of technologies to transform interactions with citizens, employees, and customers. Previously, Hanby founded and ran the top rated film production company in Austin, Texas for nearly a decade. In that time he won more than 65 international film awards from The Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences while a student at The University of Texas at Austin, SXSW Film Festival, and others. He has published three best selling books and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 3 years as the top graduate of the film department at the Moody College of Communication and holds a 3rd Degree Black Belt from the World Tukong Moosul Federation.
STEVEN WILLIAMS
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Williams is a technology leader with roots in Silicon Valley, leading teams at Cisco, Google, and Uber before joining Iternal. William’s technology leadership has been critically acclaimed, winning numerous innovation awards and acclaim from companies like Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, Intel, Amazon Web Services, and others. His focus is on developing high quality, intuitive, and beautiful products that harness advanced technology to solve difficult problems in innovative ways. Williams graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Computer Engineering.
JOHN B. HANBY, III
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER
Hanby has more than 30 years of experience in a variety of senior executive positions at Dell, Lockheed Martin, and TRW. He has led significant growth in the following business segments: Global and Large Corporate Accounts, Department of Defense, Civilian, and Intelligence Agencies. In these roles, he was responsible for the overall P&L, sales and marketing strategy, strategic partners, product and service implementation, and the overall customer experience. Hanby also led closure of the two largest deals, to this day, in Dell’s history for the U.S. Navy’s NMCI contract with a total award value of $6.7 Billion over 5 years.
ETHAN WOOD
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
Wood has 26 years of experience working for Dell Technologies, most recently as the Global VP of Marketing for Dell Technologies OEM Solutions, where he led a global marketing organization that enabled our division to 3X revenue in 6 years, from $2.6B to $8.2B, obtaining the #1 worldwide market position, amplified our competitive advantage, spurring substantial business expansion for Dell in a highly competitive and price sensitive market. Wood has deep experience working across Enterprise, Federal, and Brand marketing roles as well as technical sales.
KEVIN MARSHBURN
SVP OF CUSTOMER AND SALES OPERATIONS (LASER)
Marshburn is an expert in customer operations and enablement, coming from a 25 year career at Dell Technologies. His focus on process, operations, and distilling complexity into action makes him an exceptional leader for Iternal’s customer delivery and solutioning team, LASER (Leadership, Advocacy, Solutions, Execution, Results). Before joining Iternal, Marshburn ran a multi-billion dollar team within Dell Technologies’ Services group, responsible for ≈400 people globally, handling all of the complex custom services engagements and tens of thousands of custom SOWs per year.
MARY CATHERINE WILSON
SPECIAL EXECUTIVE ADVISOR – MARKETING AND CHANNEL PARTNERSHIPS
Experienced Marketing and Channel Executive, Mary Catherine Wilson is a leader that cares deeply about customers, growing the business, and developing teams. She held leadership positions at Accenture and Dell across management consulting, operations, and marketing. Wilson was responsible for the strategy and delivery of Dell’s PartnerDirect channel program in North America with growth of $6B. She was named in the Power 100 ‘Women of the Channel’ 10 consecutive years and sat on an Austin non-profit board giving back to the community she loves.
JOHNY GUPTA
VP of Sales
Gupta has deep expertise in sales, operations, and cutting edge technologies. He was most recently as SUSE, as the COO for North America, and also as the VP GTM solutions leading the teams in an indirect capacity. The previous 12 years at SUSE in a direct quota role, he delivered over budget every year, and was nominated as Sales Leader twice in 2021 and 2022. Previous to SUSE, he was the VP of Sales and Ibrix which was acquired by HP, and had several successful year at Dell in leadership roles. Johny has a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering, and is currently pursuing a degree in Selling and Leading Sales Transformation from the Middesex University in London.
RIC CMIEL
VP of Sales
Ric is an accomplished sales leader with over 25 years of experience originating and closing opportunities on the national stage and in the global arena. He is a big believer in a collaborative approach to selling and the power of a team. Working as a Client Director and GAM for more than 18 years at Dell, Ric brings extensive enterprise sales experience to drive customer outcomes.
CRAIG CANCIENNE
VP of Sales
Craig brings more than two decades of sales leadership experience with a proven track record accelerating revenue and scaling growth by leading sales, go-to-market, business development, and strategic partnership initiatives for F500 organizations. His domain expertise across industries including automotive, financial services, semiconductors, datacenter, software, mobile & IoT, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and gaming makes him an ideal partner to help introduce and scale AI and Automation technologies into global enterprise organizations.
Cynthia Williams
LASER Team Captain – Six Sigma
As a Six Sigma Black Belt, Williams lead teams at Lockheed Martin to achieve transformation and process improvement. Williams brings deep operational, process and continuous improvement knowledge to effectively enable large scale organizations to transform through Change Management, Operational Analysis, Six Sigma process improvements, use case development, strategy, implementation, roll-out, and ROI of the Iternal Technologies platform. As a LASER Team Captain, Williams will work with you and your teams through use case development, workshops, training and education sessions, Q&A, API Integrations, and other aspects of solution rollout.
ANDY VALENZUELA
SPECIAL EXECUTIVE ADVISOR – HR & IT
Business and technology-minded HR & IT Executive, Andy Valenzuela is a dynamic HR thought-leader who has achieved exceptional results at both Fortune 50 and mid-size global companies leveraging his business and technology background. Valenzuela is a recognized leader with a strong following and a keen eye for talent who has successfully designed and implemented global HR/business organizations at high growth companies with a focus on talent and strong culture. He also has extensive experience partnering with C-Suite/Board-level talent to deliver on business operations strategy.
WALT MEGURA
SPECIAL EXECUTIVE ADVISOR – BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Walt Megura brings a unique blend of over 25+ years corporate executive leadership and entrepreneurship with a passion for creating lasting value for customers, partners and employees. A global sales, marketing and general management business leader with a track record of building and optimizing businesses across Telecom, IT Software, SaaS and healthcare vertical markets. Walt brings strategic market /customer driven approach that links the strategy to tactical execution built upon a metrics focus linked to targeted outcomes. LASER Team™ is an acronym for Leadership, Advocacy, Solutions, Execution, and Results; all of which are critical to an outstanding customer experience.
BOB PEARSON
SPECIAL EXECUTIVE ADVISOR – MARKETING
Pearson is an industry thought leader in marketing and communications. Prior to joining Iternal, Pearson was VP of Communities and Conversations at Dell to develop the Fortune 500’s first global social media function—an industry-leading approach to the use of social media. Head of Global Corporate & Pharma Comms at Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Author and frequent speaker he has written five books, including PreCommerce, Storytizing, and Countering Hate.
KEVIN D. CRAMER
CHIEF STRATEGIC PLANNER
Cramer practiced law for nearly 30 years. As a corporate lawyer, he completed over 150 debt & equity financings, and numerous major cross-border M&A transactions, many of which exceed $1-10+ Billion. Cramer was the Managing Partner for Jones Day’s law firm branches in Sydney and Hong Kong.