Steve Kirk, President and Strategic Business Development
Steve directs business operations and has major account and defined geographical sales responsibilities for ESI. Steve started his career representing instrumentation manufacturers and then moved into the real-time computer business. In addition to his account management expertise, Steve has an in depth technical understanding of the complex challenges inherent in real-time computing applications. Before founding ESI in 1990, Steve held various positions in sales and sales management for Digital Equipment Corporation, MASSCOMP, and Concurrent Computer Corporation.

Sue Kirk, Account Manager
Sue has major account and defined geographical sales responsibilities in Central and Southern New England. Sue started her sales career at Digital Equipment Corporation selling real-time data acquisition systems. She subsequently became Major Account Manager for Carnegie Mellon University where she managed both sales and business development relationships between DEC and the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon. She also held various positions in marketing and software consulting services management for Compaq and Hewlett Packard prior to joining ESI in 2001.

Joy Dardinski, Marketing Communications and Administration
Joy manages ESI's website and field sales business development programs. ESI prides itself in being able to provide supplemental sales lead development services for our Principals. Joy creates and coordinates these programs making extensive use of our database of over 4,500 qualified engineering contacts in the Northeast and Eastern Canada. Joy is also responsible for sales administration and accounting. Joy has held various senior level positions in marketing communications, marketing operations, and sales support at leading hardware and software companies, including Open Text, Ascential Software, and Concurrent Computers.