Executive Team







Daniel G.B. Kim
President and Chief Executive Officer

Daniel Kim is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Appro. Mr. Kim founded the company in May 1991 with the vision of selling rugged rackmount computers. By 1998, he grew the company into one of the largest rackmount computer systems vendors in the United States. Seeing opportunity in the High-Performance Computing market, he repositioned Appro in 2000 to design and sell high-performance and enterprise computing systems directly to customers. He led the company through considerable growth and continues to set the strategic direction of the company. In 2002, Daniel Kim expanded Appro's manufacturing, engineering and product development team in Asia and added a sales and service office in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Kim has an MBA from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and a Business Administration degree from SoGang University in Korea.
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James K. Yi
Chief Financial Officer

James K. Yi joined Appro in 1994, and is responsible for corporate finance strategy planning, operations and administration. He has served the company as Vice President of Finance & Strategic Planning and led the Finance & Strategic Planning organization at Appro. He has been instrumental in repositioning Appro from an OEM provider to a brand server vendor selling directly to end-users and sustaining growth. He has provided essential leadership in executing the strategic reposition of Appro since 2000 and establishing key financial partnerships.

James Yi graduated from the University of Missouri - Kansas City with a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with emphasis on Finance and International Business Management
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John Lee
Vice President
Advanced Technology Solutions Group

John K. Lee joined Appro in 2001, and is responsible for leading Appro’s hardware product development engineering team. In addition, Mr. Lee leads the company’s Project Management team that is responsible for deploying Appro’s complex cluster solutions. He has served as the Program Executive for some of Appro’s most important cluster projects such as 2006 Peloton Project as well as 2007 TLCC Cluster Project. Prior to his role at Appro, Mr. Lee served in both Sales and Service Management capacities at multiple storage and telecom companies.

Mr. Lee graduated from University of California, Los Angeles

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Steve Lyness
Vice President of HPC Solutions Engineering

Before joining Appro, Steve Lyness was Director of Sales Engineering for NetEffect, a provider of 10 GigE adapter technologies for HPC and Enterprise customers. Prior to NetEffect, Mr. Lyness was the Vice President of Worldwide Support for SilverStorm Technologies, a leading provider of InfiniBand hardware (switches and adapters) as well as host and management software. Mr. Lyness was responsible for the pre and post sales engineering teams providing the high speed InfiniBand interconnect and associated software for HPC clusters.

In November of 2007, Steve Lyness joined Appro as Vice President of HPC Solutions Engineering. Steve is responsible for the success of Appro’s closed-loop solution management, up-front consulting and pre-integration of Appro’s HPC solutions across a wide range of HPC applications. Steve also acts as key member of the management team for project management, planning and coordinating of Worldwide pre-sales and post-sales customer solution programs.

Steve Lyness graduated from Drexel University with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on radar and signal processing technologies.

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Anthony Kenisky
Vice President of Sales

Anthony Kenisky joined Appro in 2001, he is responsible for the overall leadership of the Global Sales organization at Appro. Under Kenisky's leadership, Global Sales will deliver a consistent, integrated and responsive customer experience through a unified sales and services organization worldwide. Prior to his role at Appro, Mr. Kenisky served as senior sales and business development management role at Dell Corporation for 10 years. He has also served as senior executive sales positions at Storage Apps Inc. and Penguin Computing.

Mr. Kenisky graduated from Southwest Texas State University.

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Maria McLaughlin
Director Of Marketing

Maria McLaughlin joined Appro in 2002 and has responsibility for all Appro's marketing, which includes branding, market analysis, perception improvement, marketing communications, and demand creation. She is also responsible for coordinating the product-definition and Go-to-Market Plan activities across Appro. Prior to her role at Appro, Mrs. McLaughlin worked at Hewlett-Packard for 13 years, where she held several marketing roles. She has also international business experience gained working at 3M Corporation in Campinas, SP, Brazil.

Mrs. McLaughlin graduated from Pontificia Catolica University in Brazil with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and English. She has also attended Berkeley Extension University in San Francisco.
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Andrew Yoon
Director Of Operations

Andrew Yoon joined Appro in 1999, and is responsible for leading Appro's Purchasing, Inventory, manufacturing, System integration testing, and shipping team. Under Andrew's leadership, Appro Operations will deliver the HPC servers and clustering products to the customers with a high quality standard. Prior to his role at Appro, Andrew served as Sr. Production Manager for 12 years at Solectron Corporation.

Andrew graduated from Kukmin University in Korea with a Bachelor's degree in Business and Administration.