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Jerry Zoloto, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Jerry Zoloto has been a member of Fireaway’s Board of Directors since October 2012 and became Chief Executive Officer in April 2013.  He is the founder and president of Anova, Inc., a corporate consulting and software firm, and for the past thirty years has worked with senior management of over 200 corporations across a broad range of industries.  During that time he also served as the CEO at a variety of firms.

Jerry earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and both a Master’s and PhD degree from Wayne State University.  Besides corporate consulting he has been a faculty member at the University of St. Francis where he taught courses in Strategic Business Management and Quantitative Methods in the MBA program.

Having worked closely with Marc Gross over the years, Jerry understands the importance of producing only the highest quality products when serving the life safety market.   His keen organizational insight together with a dedicated staff of experienced professionals will ensure that Fireaway offers the best products and services possible to customers worldwide.

Marc V. Gross

President & Chief Operating Officer

Marc V. Gross serves as president and chief operating officer of Fireaway Inc., responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company, including marketing, sales, manufacturing, and product development.

Marc has spent the last 25 years in senior management positions for some of the world's leading fire protection companies, including Sensor Electronics, Wormald International and The Ansul Co. Before joining Fireaway, Gross served as president of Sensor Electronics/Fire Combat where he pioneered the acquisition and development of aerosol suppression technology. He is a founding member of NFPA 2010, Committee on Aerosol Extinguishing technology.

Over the previous 20 years he served in senior positions with The Ansul Co., which was acquired by Wormald International in 1979, and then by Tyco in 1991. He served as president and chief executive officer of Wormald Americas, president of Ansul Fire Protection, president of Wormald Fire Systems, and such international assignments as director of marketing for Wormald Europe.

Throughout his career, Marc has developed and led highly successful, action oriented management teams to achieve dramatic increases in revenue, profitability, and customer satisfaction.

Steve Janzen

Senior Vice President of Sales

Steve has over 25 years experience building and running sales and marketing organizations in the communications industry representing such companies as AT&T, Cisco and SynOptics. He has extensive experience in both direct and channel sales and distribution models with a focus on customer communications and support. Steve has spent the last 10 years focusing on early stage companies, designing, implementing and operating sales organizations. Most recently, Steve was Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Switch and Data where he built a sales and marketing team that took Switch and Data from a start up to over $100 million in annual sales and positioned the company for a highly successful IPO.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with honors from Boston University's School of Management.

George A. Ciottone

Senior Vice President of Sales ~ North America

George A. Ciottone is Vice President of Sales for Fireaway Inc., responsible for domestic and international marketing and sales.

George has over 25 years of high level experience in the fire protection industry. He has marketed fire protection systems and products in all major international markets in partnership with Fukada Kogyo Co. Ltd of Japan and KDM Development Company of the U.S. Representing several major manufacturers of fire protection systems and products, George was responsible for negotiating distributorships, license agreements and technology transfers.

As director of international marketing for Walter Kidde Inc. George was responsible for developing and managing one of the strongest sales and distribution systems in the industry and negotiated licensing agreements for Kidde products in markets where direct import was not possible or economically feasible. He has an extensive background in negotiating, closing, and implementing major international projects.

Anthony D. L. Gee

Manager, Product & Special Applications

Anthony Gee serves as the Stat-X product & special applications manager of Fireaway Inc., responsible for the engineering services and marketing & sales technical and training support for the Stat-X condensed aerosol products.

Anthony is a mechanical engineer with over 28 years of domestic and international engineering, project management, and business development experience with fire detection and suppression systems and products for various well known fire protection manufacturers.  Anthony has extensive experience in the design and supply of fire protection systems for special hazard applications and in the development of state-of-art products for the fire protection market including gaseous, water-mist, and aerosol fire suppression systems. Anthony is a member of the NFPA 2010 technical committee and of the SFPE.