Leadership

Shawn Rucks, President, Founder and CEO

Shawn has brought deverus to its current position as the leading out-sourced technology provider for the background check industry through passion, industry experience, and an unwavering vision to create the absolute best technology solutions and services available on the market. Currently, he helps define and evolve deverus‘ business model and strategy.

Prior to assuming his current position, Shawn founded e-screening.com, an employment screening company, eventually sold to APSSI and before that gave expertise and vision to three other start-ups including SDR Systems, Riosite Brazil, and AST. He holds a Bachelor‘s degree in Philosophy and Spanish with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dave Lindemann, Director of Finance

Dave Lindemann has been a CPA for twelve years. He has spent the majority of his career in the public accounting arena. He began with Coopers & Lybrand, LLP in 1995 and then worked for a small local accounting firm until he became self-employed in 2000. He switched to the private accounting world as Director of Finance for deverus where he handles the finance and accounting functions.

He has been with deverus in a consulting capacity for the last 5 1⁄2 years, but finally took the full-time plunge in early 2006. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Bachelor‘s degree in Business Administration and Master‘s in Professional Public Accounting. Dave has been a resident of Austin, TX, for his entire life.

Brent Breshers, Director of Technology

Brent Breshers joined deverus in 2000 and currently manages deverus‘ talented technology team and industry-leading technology. Brent brings an array of technology talents and has worked on all levels of deverus technology. He has been deeply involved with product development, design, scoping, planning, management, programming, security, maintenance, testing, physical infrastructure, database, integration, and application components.

Brent has built a technology team of professional, experienced, and enthusiastic members dedicated to elevating deverus technology and helping deverus clients gain a competitive edge in the market place. Brent studied Business and Information Systems at both Texas A&M University and the University of Texas (an oxymoron and a bold move in the state of Texas). When not hard at work developing industry-leading technology, he enjoys backpacking, traveling, kayaking, golf, tennis, and nature photography.

Tony Cordaro

Tony Cordaro is one of the newest members of the deverus team and serves as our Vice President of Sales. Tony brings a wealth of senior level leadership and business development experience with high tech companies, including the electronic security and access control field. Most recently, he was the Vice President IT Services for Eagle Broadband, a publicly traded company and was responsible for generating new revenue streams.

He founded Connex Services, Inc., in 2004, a business whose assets and management were acquired by Eagle Broadband in early 2007. Prior to founding Connex, he served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Atlantic Pacific Communications, Inc.

Tony received a Bachelor of Science degree in Behavioral Sciences from Immaculate Conception. He has professionally spoken in front of over a million people and has authored over two dozen articles published in internationally distributed periodicals. He has received over three dozen national and international recognition awards for civic and professional career accomplishments.