The Team

Dick has been in the incentive and promotion industry for more than 25 years. Pretty scary. He started his career at a little place called Maritz, where he was a lowly Project Head. After a few years of taking orders from others, Dick was promoted to Account Manager where he won numerous sales awards. Tired of making money for others, Dick and a partner started K Plus Incentives, in 1997. Two years later, he sold his interest back to his partner and went at it on his own and formed eIncentives. Dick built up his book of business again and in 2001, eIncentives was purchased by a much larger company that wanted to round out the technology side of their incentive offerings. This made Dick very happy! After much deliberation about what to do next with his career, Dick decided to go at it again one more time on his own and formed Motivation Technologies in September 2001. The decision couldn't have worked out better.

Dick started Motivation Technologies with one goal...to build the best technology solutions to assist its customers in surpassing their incentive, training and promotion goals. For almost ten years now, Dick and his loyal group of cohorts have been wowing clients with a wide array of cutting-edge technology.

When not overseeing the technology empire, Dick enjoys spending time with family and friends and loves to play hockey and golf.

Started programming on the first Commodore 64 systems over 25 years ago and still a hacker at heart. While still young, he is the most senior member of our development team (he was extremely saddened when all the dinosaurs around him perished). When not busy training for the next 140.2 mile race or playing guitar, he can usually be found preventing the internet from running out of disk space. And yes, "Beat" (pronounced "Bay-ot") is really his name; no spelling errors. Honestly!

Jean also started her career at the humble little place called Maritz. After 11 years at Maritz she moved on and was coerced back into the working world by Mr. Estes. He can be such a charmer. She didn’t know about the B-52's fixation at the time, but now that she does she’s been trying to hold an intervention. Thus far all attempts to rehabilitate Mr. Estes have failed.

Jean does a little bit of everything at Motivation Technologies – except programming – which she leaves to the tech-geeks who surround her.

In her free time she can be found prowling around town looking for signs with typos. They make her crazy. She is also a semi-professional shopper, so if you’re looking for something you know who to call…

Part project manager, part writer, and part 19th century pugilist, Greg began his career in non-profit communications. Though he loved the work, he departed when he realized that the industry was aptly named.

A baseball, travel, and music enthusiast, Greg hopes to one day sell the movie rights to his fictionalized memoirs, “Flirting with Breakfast.”

Jake is like to program. Jake try start with BASIC back when little. This is photo of Jake celebrating first application. Jake loves first application. Jake then try go to school. Fail english, but create mad success in computers and programming. By age of big boy, Jake graduate with computer science degree for BS. Jake then had to get job and become master of internets, or else Chuck Norris kick him in the face. After epic battle, Jake join forces with MoTech to conquer new, unforeseen challenges the world has never known.

Likes sitting in front of the computer, programming and playing video games, drinking vodka and inexpensive wine, counting calories, attempting to lose weight, making terrible jokes, and also enjoys boarding airline flights after Pakistan decided to use his last name to identify their nuclear missile. Dislikes clowns and popcorn.

This former male model traded in the runway for the code in 2008 and hasn’t looked back since. He now enjoys JQuerying with a frosty mug of brew.

Erik found his way to Motivation Technologies after deciding to give up his t-shirt Website reviewing and review reviewing businesses and concentrate on Web development. In his free time, he runs a recording studio and music venue in Belleville, IL and plays the heck out of some drums.

Mary took the long road to Motivation Technologies. After many years of working in the service industry, she decided to go back to school, where she earned a degree in math. While working towards her degree she also learned the basics of programing applications. Now, at Motivation Technologies she is expanding her knowledge from application development to web development. Her other passions in life are dancing Tango-which is not the same tango that you see on Dancing with the Stars-and debating.

Joe, a long term Java developer, finally made the ultimate switch to .NET after constantly being roasted by the other development team members. Hyper by nature, he still enjoys a good number of espresso's with the daily grind.