Meet The Team

Todd Rognes is responsible for operational management of the company in all US and international locations. Before becoming President of Kingland in 2013, Mr. Rognes served as CFO of the company for 14 years. Mr. Rognes is a seasoned leader of private and public software and professional services businesses. Prior to joining Kingland, Mr. Rognes spent 13 years with DocuCorp International, a Texas-based, publicly traded document automation software company and its predecessor company, Image Sciences, Inc. Mr. Rognes held several managerial and executive positions at DocuCorp and was involved in the negotiation and integration of several acquisitions, including the Initial Public Offering of DocuCorp. Mr. Rognes holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Iowa State University and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Rognes serves on executive boards of several community and non-profit organizations.

Phil Birkedal is responsible for client value leadership, client operations, and Kingland best practice development. Mr. Birkedal has been with Kingland, and its predecessor company Kingland Capital, since inception and has extensive experience leading Kingland’s data and compliance focused teams, as well as serving many of the company’s international audit, brokerage, and banking clients. With a background as a Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Birkedal is known for his rigor in creating high quality solutions ranging from complex database solutions to developing, implementing, and operating transaction, commission processing and compliance systems. Prior to Kingland, Mr. Birkedal was the CFO of Kingland Capital and worked extensively with regulators including FINRA, SEC, and various state regulators. Mr. Birkedal holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the University of Northern Iowa and has held a number of SEC/FINRA registrations and licenses including General Securities, Financial and Operations Principal, and General Securities Principal.

Tony Brownlee is responsible for developing and leading Kingland's strategies for growth and industry engagement. Tony's work with Kingland began in 2003 where he helped found Kingland's 3rd generation platform that expanded the company into enterprise data management and artificial intelligence software, and has since been instrumental in growing the company across financial markets, public accounting, insurance, retail, and other industries. Tony is recognized as a creative thought leader and "data nerd", is a frequent speaker at executive level events, and works regularly with leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies on multi-year plans and strategies to advance the use of people, data, and technology. Today, Mr. Brownlee is responsible for all business development activities, supports the executive team in strategy development, and serves as a board member for the company. Prior to joining Kingland, Mr. Brownlee worked in the financial services industry providing consulting services for a top ten global bank and a leading international agri-business company. Mr. Brownlee holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Central College in Pella, Iowa; an MBA from Iowa State University and serves on advisory boards of both institutions, as well as many local, community organizations.

Alex Olson is responsible for leading and setting the strategy for our professional services and data services teams at Kingland. Alex has delivered countless complex solutions to our customers, leading cross-functional teams of business analysts, data scientists, project managers, and software engineers. Since starting with Kingland in 1998, Alex has been a leading voice in the industries we serve concerning how to use data as an asset to meet business growth, risk management, and regulatory compliance requirements. Alex has overall responsibility for information security and data protection at Kingland, leading our Information Security Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University with specializations in electronic business, economics, and finance and he has earned the Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and other industry certifications.

Jeff Jacobs is the Controller for Kingland, responsible for managing and overseeing accounting, financial reporting, forecasting, audit and control. Mr. Jacobs is also responsible for the Kingland’s human resources function. Prior to joining Kingland, Mr. Jacobs was an Audit Manager at KPMG where he was responsible for the coordination and overall management of integrated and financial statement audits of financial services organizations. He also served as the primary campus recruiter for the Des Moines, Iowa office where he led the firms recruiting initiatives at private and public institutions in Iowa. He has a strong knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, PCAOB auditing standards, US GAAP, and SEC reporting requirements. Mr. Jacobs holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Central College in Pella, IA where he graduated Manga Cum Laude and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in Iowa.

Jason Toyne is the Chief Technology Officer at Kingland, responsible for our Hub Solutions business including our Enterprise Hub MDM and Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) software solutions. Mr. Toyne is also responsible for corporate strategic technologies including information management software, compliance tooling, software development lifecycle tools and DevOps initiatives. Specializing in creating enterprise-class software that aligns user interface design with best practices in the creation of algorithms designed to facilitate change in multiple data areas, Mr. Toyne is a leading innovator in big data mining, master data management, and services-oriented architecture (SOA). Mr. Toyne has been instrumental in architecting and engineering Kingland's brokerage and financial services applications and industry-leading Compliance Solutions. He is a Sun-Certified Programmer and Developer, recognized as an innovator in software engineering, and is a featured technical speaker.

Matt Good is responsible for Kingland Platform evangelism, architecture, and strategic technologies, including enterprise data management, big data, AI, and cloud computing. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Good has gained a variety of experiences at Kingland, IBM and SPSS in architecting and engineering software solutions and leading teams focused on compliance, risk management, predictive analytics, AI-based enterprise data management automation, and brokerage web and reporting applications. Additionally, Mr. Good has provided his expertise to numerous executives within multi-national enterprises. He has also provided overall leadership within Kingland’s partnership with Iowa State University, advancing Computer Science research within key data management initiatives. Mr. Good has achieved certifications related to Java, master data management development, and IBM technologies and has been a speaker at technical conferences. Mr. Good holds degrees from Iowa State University in Computer Science and Music.

Trond Gjendem is Head of Architecture & Engineering within Kingland's Professional Services Group. Trond has overall responsibility for architecting software solutions and overseeing the engineering staff. As a member of Kingland's corporate engineering leadership group, Mr. Gjendem contributes to the strategic direction for corporate software architecture and engineering processes and standards, including CMMI. Mr. Gjendem has 25 years of experience in software engineering and information technology; the majority of those years were spent developing solutions for the auditing and regulatory compliance field. Before joining Kingland, Mr. Gjendem spent seven years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, providing technical leadership for large projects and development teams. Mr. Gjendem holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and a member of the Scrum Alliance.

Jon Loge is the Director and Engagement Leader at Kingland, directing professional services engagement teams as well as leading Kingland’s best practices and corporate standards in software Quality Control. Prior to Kingland, Mr. Loge worked for Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, leading teams serving regional and national banking institutions and was a member of their Software Quality Assurance Master Process Team. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud State University with specializations in Computer Information Systems and is a Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE). Mr. Loge serves on many local non-profit organizations and community boards.

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