Management Team

Lester Waters - President and Founder

Lester Waters serves as President and interim CEO of Social Motion. Lester has 20+ years in the software industry and holds several technology patents. Most recently, he consulted as acting Chief Technology Officer to the Meridian Group of Companies. There, he oversaw the technology expansion as the company grew from 7 people to over 200 in the U.S. and Canada.

Prior to Meridian, Mr. Waters was employed by Microsoft for nearly a decade in a variety of Program Management capacities. He founded the cryptography team and was responsible for consolidating company-wide cryptography efforts and securing U.S. State Dept. export for replaceable encryption. Mr. Waters began his career as a Software Engineer in the Personal Computer group at Digital Equipment (now part of Compaq/HP). He received his Bachelors of Science with Honors in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.

Todd Stone - Vice President of Marketing & Business Development

Todd Stone serves as VP Marketing & Business Development. Most recently, Mr. Stone was a Sr. Product Manager at Microsoft where he managed strategic partnerships for Microsoft Office Live Small Business. Mr. Stone also brings extensive early stage venture experience to Social Motion. Mr. Stone served as VP, Marketing at CallVision, which was acquired by Verisign in 2006. He also played an integral role in the success of AdRelevance and its acquisition by Media Metrix in 2000. Mr. Stone began his career managing various national brands at advertising agencies Hal Riney & Partners and Foote, Cone & Belding in San Francisco. He holds a BA in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College, and a CEP from L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (“Science Po”).

Ryan Marshall - Vice President of Architecture & Development

Ryan Marshall comes to Social Motion with a wealth of software design and development experience. Ryan began his career at Microsoft in 1994 and quickly distinguished himself as a lead tools developer. In 1996 as a Program Manager for the all of Microsoft's Resource Kits, he quickly formed a team and adopted a new business model that changed the Resource Kits from a $2 million dollar afterthought into a $26 million dollar business, proving that technical tools and information could be a profitable business and not just a catch-all for the operating systems group.

Ryan also worked closely with large enterprise development groups outside Microsoft, including Oracle, Sybase, and JD Edwards, improving the overall compatibility of the top 100 enterprise and server applications from less than a 10 pass rate to over 99% in the 11 months prior to Windows 2000 Server shipping. After successfully shipping Windows Server 2003, Ryan spent the following years building and running his own thriving online business Alternative Sports.