About nFocal

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 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 their careers - 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 eighteen years of software and systems development. Much of that experience has been with embedded 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 writing a book about Internet security protocols for embedded systems. Mr. Kapp holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University.