Management Team
Daniel Considine
CEO & President
DanielC@sparsix.com
Daniel Considine is the President of Sparsix Corporation and a
member of the company’s board of directors.
Before joining Sparsix, Daniel was CEO of a startup media
company in Silicon Valley. He successfully modified the company’s
business strategies and grew the company into the country’s seventh
largest regional magazine. His foundation in international business
was built out at the Frankfurt office of Leo Burnett Advertising,
where he was instrumental in establishing joint ventures in Eastern
European and Central Asian markets to support multinational clients,
guiding partners to apply business practices that met Western
expectations.
Daniel earned an MBA in International Business from Pepperdine
University and a B.S. in Chemistry from St. Olaf College in
Minnesota.
Oleg Diyankov
VP Research & Development
Oleg.Diyankov@sparsix.com
Oleg Diyankov directs the company’s R&D program and is a member of the company’s board of directors.
In addition to his work for Sparsix, Oleg serves as general director of Neurok Techsoft, a Russian company that specializes in computational modeling. Before joining Neurok Techsoft, Oleg worked for more than 20 years at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics, one of Russia’s two federal nuclear centers, where he rose to Head of Laboratory.
Oleg has authored or co-authored more than 80 papers on topics such as computational fluid dynamics, computational magneto-hydrodynamics, numerical algorithms for linear systems solutions and plasma physics.
He earned his Ph.D. from the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ekaterinburg), with a specialty in Numerical Mathematics.
Vic Batson
VP Sales & Marketing
VicB@sparsix.com
Vic Batson directs the company’s partnering, sales and marketing initiatives.
With an in-depth background in sales and marketing, and broad exposure to international operations, logistics and support, Vic has repeatedly led successful efforts to create and implement joint development, sales and marketing alliances. Before joining Sparsix, Vic served as Senior VP of Business Development for an Israeli startup in the emerging field of personal robotics. As a member of the US launch team and the company’s executive committee, he had total responsibility in North America for retail channel development, sales, marketing and strategic alliances with key co-development partners.
Previously, Vic spent 15 years with Hewlett-Packard Company in a wide range of global program and alliance management roles.
Vic earned an MBA in International Business from Pepperdine University and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
Harry Kelly
General Counsel
HarryK@sparsix.com
Harry is a member of the company’s management team and serves as the company’s general counsel.
Before joining the Sparsix team, Harry was a partner at McDermott, Will & Emery, an international law firm, where he negotiated, documented and closed numerous venture capital deals, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions. He speaks Russian and his articles relating to Russian technology startups have been published by Venture Capital Journal and other publications.
Harry is also Director at EcoInvest LLC, a firm that offers pre- and post-financing support to high-technology projects, as well as M&A support, primarily between Russia and the United States. He earned his J.D. at the University of Maine School of Law, where he was an editor of the school’s law review, and earned a B.A. in Russian Studies from the University of Virginia.