Partner Bios

Martin Fellner, CEO and cofounder
Prior to founding Proximo in 1997, Marty spent 11 years as a consultant, helping large and midsized companies define and develop integrated databases that improve business processes. For several years Marty also served as an adjunct professor of computer science at Columbia University. He taught a variety of classes related to database design and programming. Marty possesses fantastic written and spoken communicative skills, a rare quality among technologists (and one that clients appreciate). Additionally, he subscribes to the belief that it is imperative to fully understand the people behind the process in order to design a system that will benefit them. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from Brooklyn College.

David Ricciardi, President and cofounder
In addition to presiding over Proximo Consulting Services, Inc., David is the designer of Proximo’s technological framework, the foundation upon which most of its applications are built. He began his career as a software engineer at what is now J.P. Morgan Chase. This was followed by several years as a consultant in the financial industry, including as an employee of DRT Systems, the technology subsidiary of Deloitte & Touche. Prior to founding Proximo, David acquired international experience developing customer and marketing databases in the automotive industry. He holds a B.S. in computer science and a minor in mathematics from Hofstra University.