Management Team

Randy Lahti, CEO

Randy’s experience spans over fifteen years with rich knowledge and skills in building high-availability network solutions with well-defined, decisive accuracy. He is a precise thinker, a competitive entrepreneur with constancy for quality. His personal strengths include an intense focus on detail, a passion for technology, compelling communication skills, and proficient project management. With first-hand technical knowledge and project experience, Randy effectively presents the "truth" for a solution instead of a "promise of what it should be." Drawing on this experiential background, he built an award winning IT consulting company, and has technically led national and international companies through extreme growth with perceptive vision toward the inevitable, ever-changing future. Randy graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a minor in business from the University of Texas.

Randy’s accomplishments include:

  • Founded and developed Bay Dweller, Inc, a referral-based IT consulting company that prided itself in achieving customer satisfaction and project-winning statistics. Responsible for business decisions, technical vision, and quality standards.
  • Built and maintained Bay Dweller/Microsoft-Solution-Provider-Partner relationship with the highest possible certification standards.
  • Served as acting CIO for the U.S. division of a global engineering compliance and test lab organization. Responsible for the design, implementation, and high-level support for the U.S. Silicon Valley, CA site through a 600% growth in less than one year to become a $30 million division.
  • Served as the lead IT consultant for a national oil and gas company located in south Texas. Provided infrastructure and support procedure design and implementation through explosive growth from $25 million to $800 million in sales over a two-year period.
  • Served two years as a founding board member for Association of Microsoft Solution Providers (AMSP), an international association with a membership of over 15,000 professionals. AMSP's mission is to leverage knowledge and business relationships in outstanding technical and business solutions throughout the Microsoft implementation channel. During this tenure, his organizational and leadership skills helped establish AMSP as the leading Microsoft support organization world-wide.

Peter Cardell, Vice President Sales & Marketing

Peter joined MNS in July, 2006 to lead the marketing and sales efforts. Peter has an extensive background in technology marketing, including senior positions at American Airlines, Sabre Holdings, Travelocity.com, and Navitaire (a division of Accenture). He was also a co-founder of TravelFest Superstores, a start-up business that grew into a $25M/year retailer in Austin, TX and Houston, TX over a 3 year period. As a long-time Sabre employee, Peter played a variety of roles helping small (travel agency) businesses evolve from non-automtated operations to full-automation based on a centrally-managed reservation and business management system. At Travelocity.com, Peter lead the Product Management group during the time that sales grew from $60M to $300M. Peter holds a BA from the University of Pittsburgh and lives with his wife and 3 children in Colleyville, TX.

David Cantliffe, Director of Sales

David has 24 years of rich experience in Sales and Sales Management with focus on providing solutions to businesses in areas of productivity and cost reduction. His diversified experience includes assisting large and small businesses to cost-effectively improve client service; to think “outside the box” to develop customized solutions for Sales and Sales Management needs. His belief that strong business growth is achieved through single-minded determination to fulfill all commitments made during the sales process has become a cornerstone of Optin Security’s Sales strategy. David graduated from North Carolina State University with an honors degree in Forestry and a minor in Business Management, and has taken MBA courses at the University of Colorado.

  • Co-founded a music distribution company and a small regional document-imaging business.
  • For 15 years was top sales representative for the document-imaging business that grew annual revenues to over $5M in five years and became part of a Fortune 500 company.
  • Ability to develop loyal client following based on principles of under-promising and over-delivering value to clients.
  • Performance consistently exceeded clients’ expectations through creative solutions for meeting the client’s needs.
  • His enviable expertise helped establish him as the best in the field and a sought-after commodity by international companies.