ColumbiaSoft Leadership

Richard A. Day
Chief Executive Officer

Richard Day is a strategic expert in the scalability and automation of corporate business processes. As founder of ColumbiaSoft, Day has leveraged his experience in manufacturing – where automation, control, and management of processes and information are essential to the delivery of superior products – to lead the development of innovative technologies that allow businesses of all types to better manage their information and documents.

Prior to founding ColumbiaSoft, Day was owner and president of PED Manufacturing, one of the nation's leading producers of orthopedic prosthetics. Like executives of so many companies, Day had sought an effective solution for employees to manage, share, and locate records. After finding other systems overly complex and costly, Day set out to solve the problem by bringing to market an innovative, low-cost, easy-to-use document management solution. This led Day to fund and launch ColumbiaSoft in 1998.

Carl Azar
Vice President of Marketing and Product Development

Carl Azar is an entrepreneur and business process expert with a professional talent for bringing new products to market that solve critical business issues. In Azar’s 30+ years of technology leadership, he’s formulated the marketing and product initiatives at leading technology firms, including Mentor Graphics, Floating Point Systems, and Merant. Azar was also a co-founder of Synergy Dataworks, where he played an instrumental role in the development of new technologies for engineering computing systems.

Azar’s system architecture, engineering, and product marketing experience are the foundation of his leadership of product solutions and marketing at ColumbiaSoft. Azar holds a B.A. in Physics, an M.S. in Computer Science, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, and has continued his education towards a Ph.D. in Systems Science.

David Pogue
Vice President of Worldwide Sales

David Pogue’s rich history in sales and technology lends him the expertise to take full advantage of the strengths of Document Locator in the marketplace. As Vice President of Worldwide Sales at ColumbiaSoft, Pogue oversees the firm’s sales and professional services departments, pursuing excellence in customer service. He is responsible for growing direct and channel revenues, as well as delivering world-class professional services.

Pogue brings more than 25 years of management experience in technology-related fields to ColumbiaSoft. Prior to joining the organization, Pogue served as a business unit manager at Intel and as a vice president of sales for SimpleAccess, a security access company. In addition, he has shared his expertise with the non profit sector, participating as a board member for the Business Information Systems Training (BIST) program with Goodwill Industries in Oregon. Pogue is a graduate of the University of Houston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Scott Zieg
Director of Engineering

Scott Zieg is the lead architect for the products and services ColumbiaSoft delivers. Zieg’s direction over Engineering, Technical Support, and Quality Assurance, combined with his direct connection to customers, gives him the perspective to formulate solutions that solve real customer challenges. His work with customers allows him to understand and translate their needs into effective capabilities in our products and solutions.  

Zieg joined ColumbiaSoft in 2000 after working for Computer Sciences Corporation in Austin, Texas as a Senior Programmer Analyst and document imaging consultant.  While at CSC, Zieg worked with Charlie Plesums, a well-known pioneer in the workflow field. Zieg is a graduate of Baylor University, with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Business Management and Management Information Systems.