Symlabs Management Team
Antonio Navarro
Partner / Chief Executive Officer
Antonio Navarro joined Symlabs as a partner in May 2001. He now serves as president and chief executive officer. His responsibilities include setting strategic direction for the company and asserting its leadership in directory infrastructure and identity management software.
Mr. Navarro brings with him extensive experience and expertise from Sun Microsystems as well as a previous role as the Internet architect of Vizzavi, the Internet portal collaboration of Vodafone and Vivendi. In his professional service experience, Mr. Navarro was actively involved in the migration, modification and setup of network architectures for portals and Internet services for telecommunications operators, Internet service providers, insurance companies and online banking services. He designed the system architecture for an Internet portal consisting of more than 800 servers, implemented an LDAP directory, designed standard rack-based network components and automatic installation processes.
Mr. Navarro has a master's degree in telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and completed his thesis on "Automatically Deallocated Distributed Shared Memory" at the Technical University of Denmark.
Jeffrey M. Zukowski
Partner / Director of Sales & Marketing
Jeffrey M. Zukowski became a partner with Symlabs in 2004. He has a proven and successful track record as the founder and CEO of Web Design Group, a leading web development firm in Chicago with 150+ clients including American Express, Nike, Dupont, Motorola and General Electric. He successfully sold Web Design Group to a publicly-held company in 2000. He also was recognized by the Chicago Sun Times as "one of the brightest new business leaders in Chicago" and by Crain's Chicago Business Magazine as one of the "Top 30 Entrepreneurs in Chicago". His memberships include Mayor Daley's Technology Council, the Association of Internet Professionals and the Technology Council for the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Zukowski's marketing and revenue generating abilities creates significant growth opportunities for Symlabs within the identity management industry. Mr. Zukowski's responsibilities include management of all sales and marketing activity, developing strategic channel partnerships, creative direction, product marketing, campaign management and helping customers solve challenges in directory and identity management deployments.
Mr. Zukowski graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has recently been elected to the University of Wisconsin's Board of Visitors for notable alumni.