Gayle S. Rose
Gayle S. Rose is the Principal owner and CEO of Electronic Vaulting Services (EVS) Corporation. Rose co-founded EVS with a vision to leverage technology to solve business problems. Under her dynamic leadership, EVS has emerged as an industry leader in Memphis. She has been responsible for the company's success in the fiercely competitive data backup market. Prior to joining EVS, Rose served as Managing Director of Heritage Capital Advisors, LLC, a private equity, corporate advisory firm with offices in Atlanta and Memphis. In 1994, Rose co-founded the Chopra Companies with Deepak Chopra, famed author and physician, and served as President and CEO from 1996-1999. She also serves as Chairman of the Rose Family Foundations private charity.
In 2005, she was named one of Tennessee’s 100 Most Powerful People by "Business Tennessee" magazine. She also received the Economic Excellence and Equity Award from Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen’s wife, Andrea Conte. Rose is most well-known for landing the NBA basketball team, the Memphis Grizzlies. As a result of her efforts, the Public Relations Society of America named her the 2001 Communicator of the Year. She is Co-founder of the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis, and was internationally recognized in 2007 as one of two women awarded the Changing Face of Philanthropy Award from the International Women’s Funding Network.
Rose received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa in business and classical music in 1977. She received her Master’s from Harvard University in management and public administration, and was named a Harvard University Distinguished Littauer Fellow in 1985.
John Gossett
John Gossett is the Chief Operating Officer for EVS Corporation. Gossett is primarily responsible for the daily operations of EVS including customer service, engineering, systems, billing, marketing and supervision of the I.T. Operations department. He serves in a highly strategic capacity in the business development of EVS, designing the operational framework for new business initiatives and partnerships. Gossett brings more than twenty-five years of entrepreneurial and managerial experience in business development, operations, call center management, custom software development and professional consulting.
Gossett is a veteran of the worker’s compensation prescription claims industry. Prior to joining EVS, Gossett served as a consultant and VP of Business Development for Working Rx, LLC, tasked with the development of a new prescription service offering. Gossett also served twelve years as the CIO and equity partner in Third Party Solutions (TPS), the nation’s largest provider of workers’ compensation prescription claims services. He served on the TPS Executive Council, the company’s executive management and strategic planning committee. Gossett was the chief architect of the company’s industry leading and highly redundant claims adjudication system processing thousands of online pharmacy transactions per day from large retail pharmacy chains including Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens.
Gossett graduated with honors from Freed-Hardeman University in 1982 earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration.
Gary Aulfinger
Gary Aulfinger is the Chief Storage Architect and Chief Technology Officer for EVS Corporation. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering (’88) from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a Master of Science (’93) from the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon. Aulfinger spent eight of eleven years at Carnegie Mellon managing undergraduate computing and consulting services, as well as research facilities for the Information Networking Institute. In this academic environment, Aulfinger developed a unique focus, blending technological innovation with an understanding of the business of managing IT.
In 1995, Aulfinger attracted the attention of FedEx and was recruited to Memphis, Tennessee. There during his twelve year tenure, he led FedEx’s distributed backup/recovery systems utilizing technologies such as split mirror backups, snapshots, replication, and backup to disk. Aulfinger oversaw a twenty-fold increase in backup data to nearly 3,000,000 GB. He was a leader in high availability clustering of Unix systems and managed the team providing standards and support for Windows Server Operating Systems, Active Directory, and centralized job scheduling.
Aulfinger’s breadth of IT experience and vision for storage technology shape the direction of EVS Corporation’s technology and business leadership. He leverages relationships with leaders in storage from EMC, Sun Microsystems, Asigra, and other storage innovators to provide EVS with a dynamic foundation for its services and a depth of understanding of the storage issues facing business today and in the future.
