Malin Zergiebel – web guy

It all started more than a half century ago in Richmond, VA.  After getting my early education as a southern redneck and gentleman, my family moved north to Monroe, CT when I was 12.

Starting in a new school full of “damn yankees” with my heavy southern drawl was quite an eye opener.  But I made friends quickly, played trumpet in the school band and “Sing Out Monroe”, played Little League baseball and Pop Warner football.  As the years progressed I played varsity baseball and soccer, neighborhood pond hockey (a particularly unique and vicious sport), and became chairman of the Senior Prom and class VP.

After graduating, I spent two years in Post Jr College in Waterbury, CT learning the fine arts of college soccer, baseball, ice hockey, dorm room living, doing my own laundry, and the occasional binge drinking thang. 

After graduating with my Associates degree in Management, it was off to Bryant College in Smithfield, RI to hone my drinking skills in the Phi Sigma Nu fraternity (featured in Class of ’44 movie that was the sequel to Summer of ’42).  There I was also introduced to my life’s love … computers (I know – spoken like a true geek).

After graduating from Byrant in ’75 with my Computer Sciences degree, I got my first computer programming job for $3 an hour in Westport, CT where my adult education really began. 

Two years later, puffed up with the exuberance of youth, I felt I could provide better service and a better client experience, so I and a partner started Quill-Tronic Systems.

After several years, I started The Software Gallery (TSG) which coincidentally just celebrated its 25th birthday.  Specializing in custom software applications, we had clients scattered all over New England.

Fast forward a dozen years: Married and divorced, I “temporarily” left TSG (wound up being for 14 years), to take a full time job for one of the world’s 10 largest pension consulting firms.  As head of their IS department, I learned the “other side” of the negotiation table and eventually became VP and made partner.

Having “been there and done that” in the big time corporate environment, in 2002 I came back to and reinvigorated TSG as a premier web development company called TSGWebPlus.

Along the way and scattered over a couple of decades, I had a heart attack, triple bypass surgery, a hip and knee replaced and I have been diagnosed with Stage 3 Lymes.  Not a pretty picture, but I am as vibrant and ornery as ever.  Ask anyone.

One fine day in late 2004, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Cathy Moore, then sales manager for I95 radio.  I would go on to do the I95 web site, but more importantly, I became a major fan of Cathy and her style and big ideas.

Cathy embodied all of those things harkening back to my early days of wanting to do things better and provide a better client experience.  It was a perfect and natural fit.

I bring thirty plus years of “in the trenches” experience with both small and large firms from both sides of the table.  It has already been quite the ride for me.

But Cathy enchanted me with her enthusiasm, style, honesty and humor.  I am proud and honored to be a part of that ride that Cathy has envisioned and calls Promotions in Motion.

• Favorite Food: Prime Rib and Alaskan King Crab legs
• Favorite Beverage: Boddingtons
• Favorite Color: Red – fire engine red (same as when I was 3)
• Favorite Activities: talking, listening, agreeing, disagreeing
• Favorite sport to watch: Yankees (hey Richmond, VA was their farm team) I grew up rooting for Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris)
• Personality Trait: Everything to excess (except moderation of course)
• Favorite Band/Musician: Ron Thomason of Dry Branch Fire Squad, Leroy Troy, Austin Lounge Lizards
• Community Impact:
  • Coached various softball / soccer teams over the years
  • Web support for several political campaigns
  • Charity web work for The Kennedy Center
  • Proud and frequent contributor to NPR via WSHU
  • V.P. BNI Newtown (Business Networking International)
  • Interlude 2006 Community Support Award winner
• Favorite Movies: movies? I can't sit still that long.
• Favorite Vacation Destination: The Rothvoss Farm in July (Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival)

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