nFocal Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Rochester New York, is a product acceleration company that helps development organizations, both large and small, deliver products to market on time and on budget. Our clients range from Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurial startups. Our projects range from a single day to entire development cycles lasting over a year.

nFocal was founded by Steve Kapp, a veteran of the embedded software development and professional services industries. The founding principle was based upon a simple formula, modeling the company on what was proven to be successful throughout his career - providing consultants that excel in both technology and people skills and combining that with a high level of customer service. This formula has allowed nFocal to rapidly become a leading professional services company.

Steve Kapp

Steve Kapp is the founder of nFocal and also acts as the President and Principal Consultant. His experience ranges over twenty years of software and systems development. Much of that experience has been with imaging systems and networking. Before founding nFocal, Mr. Kapp was the CTO for EMRT Consultants where he fulfilled a variety of roles, including project manager and member of the Board of Directors. Prior to EMRT, Mr. Kapp was a Practice Lead in the Multimedia and Imaging group at Questra Consulting and a Principal Engineer with Picker International (now Philips Medical Systems).

Mr. Kapp's main focus is development of complex systems and bringing those systems to market. He is a frequent speaker at various industry forums, such as Java One and the Embedded Systems Conferences. He is also the primary author of the Embedded Collections open source project. Mr. Kapp holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University.

Thomas E. Gauger

Tom Gauger is a Senior Consultant at nFocal. Mr. Gauger has over thirty years of software and systems development experience. Prior to joining nFocal, Mr. Gauger worked for Nortel Networks for twenty years. He was a main architect and developer of directory assistance for Nortel, which at the time was the largest and fastest database in the world. He also held positions as Team Leader, Project Manager and Development Manager at Nortel. Subsequent to working at Nortel, Mr. Gauger founded several startup companies. Mr. Gauger also worked for Sykes Datatronics and Vanteon developing embedded systems

Mr. Gauger has a long history of developing highly sophisticated and complex systems in such a way as to make them turnkey. He has a reputation of producing software systems with five 9’s reliability. He has also held volunteer supervisory roles with Family First Federal Credit Union. Mr. Gauger attended college at Rochester Institute of Technology for a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.