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Joseph A. Young - President
Joe Young serves as the President of Plumbline Solutions. In this role, Joe has overall responsibility for working with the Senior Leaders and Team Members to ensure the mission, values and goals of Plumbline are met.

Most recently, Joe was the Chief Operating Officer of Plumbline. In this role, Joe had overall responsibility for working with the Group Leaders to ensure efficient operations and profitability goals of the Company were met. In addition, Joe also had responsibility for Plumbline's Solomon Technical Support and Administration functions. Plumbline's Solomon Technical Support Group provides technical support assistance to MBS Partners and Customers in United States, Canada and Mexico. Plumbline's administrative functions include HR, IT and accounting.

Formerly, Joe was the Business Manager for the Services Team in Microsoft Business Solutions. In this role, Joe was responsible for analyzing and reporting on the business and working with the General Manager of MBS services on execution of strategy. Additionally, Joe held the role of General Manager of the Microsoft Business Solution UK Human Resource and Payroll Group, responsible for leading the daily operations of the group, which included sales, marketing, development, support, training, and consulting. Joe has also held the roles of Director of Operations, North America Services; Senior Vice President, Solomon Services; Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Solomon; and Solomon Corporate Controller.

Prior to joining Solomon Software in 1997, Joe was a Senior Manager in the audit department for Ernst & Young, LLP, where he oversaw the planning and completion of audits and other attestation services.

Joe is a Certified Public Accountant, Inactive, in the State of Ohio and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio.

Prior to being named the COO, Ellerbrock was the Director of Contract Development for Plumbline. Before joining Plumbline when it was formed in 2004, Ruth Ann was the Group Product Manager of the Solomon product team with Microsoft. There she led the R&D team chartered to design, implement and maintain the business functionality of the Microsoft Dynamics SL product including Business Portal for Microsoft Dynamics SL.

Prior to Microsoft, Ruth Ann held the position of Vice-President of Program Management for Solomon Software where she was responsible for implementing processes across multiple development teams to ensure the development cycle came together in a high quality, unified manner for new releases, service pack releases and hot fixes. Ruth Ann previously held positions as Application Development Manager, Testing Manager, and Customization & Database Repair Manager for Solomon Software. Ruth Ann joined Solomon Software in 1985 as a Customer Support Representative.

Ruth Ann earned an Associate Degree at the University of Northwestern Ohio, Lima, Ohio in Computer Programming in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Systems Analysis at the University of Findlay in 1989.