Executive Team

Fred Zolla, CEO and Chairman

Mr. Zolla is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of iMedicor, formerly Vemics, Inc., a position he has held since the inception of Vemics-Delaware in July 2001.  In June of 2009, the Vemics Board of Directors voted to change its corporate name to iMedicor.

Before founding Vemics-Delaware, Mr. Zolla served as the Chief Operating Officer of Educational Video Conferencing, Inc., a publicly traded company in the technology and distance learning fields from April 1999 to June 2001.

From January 1990 to February 1999, Mr. Zolla was the President of Distance Learning Associates, the first content aggregator in the K-12 and corporate distributed learning space in the U.S. In 1996, he served on the White House Committee for technology in education that was chaired by then vice-president Al Gore.

Mr. Zolla has taught and lectured in England, France, Italy, Spain, and Korea and throughout the U.S. on the integration of distance learning resources and technology in the classroom and workplace. He served as Chairman of the Board of the New York Film Festival’s non-broadcast division from 1992 through 1995 and remains an active board member.

Mr. Zolla has been married to Michelle, the original co-founder of Vemics, since 1969. They have two daughters and four grandchildren all of whom live in Rockland County, New York.

Craig Stout, Chief COO and Interim CFO

Mr. Stout has served as Chief Operating Officer since November 2005. Mr. Stout has 20 years of operational and corporate finance experience across multiple industries. Prior to joining Vemics, Mr. Stout consulted to the international reinsurance firm, Renaissance Reinsurance in Hamilton, Bermuda working on operation projects including assisting the conversion to Sarbanes Oxley compliance. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Stout worked on a consulting basis to approximately 35 companies accelerating and managing their growth through strategic acquisitions, restructuring and refinancing. From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Stout was employed by Elders IXL in London as part of a strategic business development group where he was part of the European acquisition team that identified businesses of strategic value to Elders interests, initiated acquisitions and developed the execution plans focused on integrating these new businesses into the Elders corporate structure.

Brian Howell, Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Howell has served Chief Technology Officer since November 2005 and in the same capacity for Vemics-Delaware since 2003. He brings more than 20 years of video, voice, data and network technology experience. Prior to joining Vemics, he was Senior Manager for Video Systems and Solutions at Cetacean Networks where he worked on applying real-time routing technologies to the Internet. Mr. Howell was a member of the start-up team at PictureTel Corporation (now Polycom) where he was a key member of the team that brought about advances in the marketplace including development of the first integrated Rollabout Videoconferencing System, MCU and PC-based videophone. Mr. Howell also managed the “Living Lab” working on future technologies and is named on three patents with PictureTel and Polycom.

Sonja McDonnell, RN, BSN, Senior Vice President of Sales 

Sonja McDonnell joined iMedicor in February 2010 and serves as Senior Vice President of Sales. She has over 15 years’ experience in the clinical, medical administration, pharmaceutical, and sales and marketing arenas. Sonja is a resourceful, dynamic professional with a unique blend of professional experience.   She draws from first hand experience as a clinical practitioner, army officer, and sales executive and combines it with a  strong business acumen and firm grasp of the changing face of healthcare to successfully execute critical business initiatives from the pharmaceutical, device, medical IT and healthcare provider levels.   Sonja has a proven track record of success in creative and effective sales and marketing, she is results driven and committed to quality process and product.

Prior to joining iMedicor, Sonja served as a Senior Medical Sales Representative at Meda Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Laboratories.  She honorably served as an officer in the US Army Nurse Corps specializing in Critical Care.  She graduated with a BSN from James Madison University in 1996, and attended Louisiana State University on a full athletic scholarship.

Tom Dorsett, VP of Business Development

Mr. Dorsett joined Vemics in October of 2006 and brings 10 years of experience in the healthcare IT market. He was co-founder of NuScribe, a privately held medical software company recently acquired by Vemics, where he served as Chief Executive Officer from January 2002 to October 2006. Before NuScribe, Mr. Dorsett founded and operated Channel Management Software from 1996 to 2002, a reseller of medical voice recognition and electronic medical records applications. He served as sales manager for MD Productivity, a manufacturer of voice recognition driven healthcare documentation applications and he was Chief Executive Officer and founder of Industryworks Software, a manufacturer of management applications for the transportation and insurance industries.

Tom and his wife Katie have two daughters and they live in Austin, TX.

John Walber, Executive Producer, Director Social
Portal Services

Mr. Walber is Director of Instructional Design and since 2003 has directed iMedicor’s CME activities. As Director, Social Portal Services, he brings his considerable experience in creating on-line communities into the main stream of the Vemics business model. Prior to joining Vemics, Mr. Walber served as Chief Operating Officer of HorizonLive, Inc. where he was responsible for all aspects of the start-up e-learning portal company. Horizon Live was one of the first on-line collaborative services and one of the early developers of the community portal concept. Mr. Walber also served as Vice President Telco Sales for General Instrument Corporation where he developed and implemented marketing and sales strategies targeted at Regional Bell Operating Companies, GTE and other independent telephone companies.