Mark Nine Systems is led by managing partners Sylvan Clebsch and Joe MacDougald.

Sylvan is the founder of Mark Nine Systems and is the principal technical contributor responsible for system architecture, software design, and implementation. He was a Senior Software Engineer at Stanford University, where he worked on cryptography and security tools deployed at universities across the US, and was Software Engineer at Starfish Software (now owned by Motorola), where he wrote the embedded operating system for the REX handheld device. Online gamers may be familiar with Sylvan's previous entrepreneurial projects including the popular Roger Wilco™ voice-over-IP application.

Joe is responsible for business operations, program management, and Lua application development. He has worked as a Senior Software Engineer for companies including Apple Computer and ON Technology (now part of Symantec) working on a wide range of projects from operating system components, to multi-platform, mutil-user information mangers to teaching C++ to engineers. Joe received a MBA and a MA in Economics from the University of South Florida.

The talented Mark Nine Systems team includes contributors from around the world:

  • Sylvan Clebsch — Software Architect and Principal software engineer
  • Joe MacDougald — Program manager and Software engineer
  • Wade Williams — Macintosh engineer
  • Ralf Haupt — Art director
  • Nathan Mehl — Website and server management
  • Steve Daniels — Documentation and production
  • Wells Sullivan — Physics and flight modelling

In addition, we have a broad range of technical talent available to draw upon if the need to scale operations arises.