The TDS Team

We are a tight-knit group with a passion for creating a great, client-driven organization – for building the best IT services firm in the business.  Learn more about our team in the bios below.

Michael E. Bullock
President and Co-Founder

After 15 years running IT operations at several Boston-area companies, Mike launched TDS (with Craig Macfarlane) in 2002.  Today, Mike leads the firm’s strategy development and overall operations, with the help of his exceptional management team.

From 2000 to 2002, Mike was vice president of technology at Student Advantage Inc., a leading marketing firm based in Boston focused on marketing a wide range of products and services to college students.   At Student Advantage, Mike was responsible for developing new systems and technology operations.   From 1998 to 2000, he was vice president of technology at iCAST, an online entertainment company created by Internet incubator CMGI.

At Renaissance Worldwide Inc. in the mid-1990s, Mike was the company’s vice president of technology.  The company, based in Newton, Mass., at the time was a $1 billion publicly traded professional services firm.  Mike was in charge of all aspects of the firm’s technology operations.   In addition, he managed the technology integration from 26 companies acquired by Renaissance over two years.

Prior to Renaissance, he was director of network services for a large Boston hospital (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), manager of network services for General Cinema Corp., and a network/software engineer at Alpine Computer Systems.
Mike has a B.A. from Providence College in math and computer science.  In his leisure time, he focuses on his family, exercise and gourmet cooking.

Craig Macfarlane
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

For more than 30 years, Craig has been a chief technology officer and/or managed large IT projects including Internet systems at a number of Boston-area companies.   Prior to co-founding TDS, Craig directed the technology strategy and execution at Student Advantage and iCAST.

Before iCAST, Craig was vice president of advanced media development at Strategic Interactive Group (now called Digitas), a Boston-based direct marketer and interactive agency firm.  He led teams that designed and built websites and content management systems for IBM, AT&T, Kraft, LL Bean and other companies.

In 1994 and 1995, he directed the growth, operations and services of a regional Internet provider and Web hosting company, The Internet Access Company.  From 1978 to 1992, he deployed and managed a variety of global computer networks at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, a Cambridge, Mass.-based technology firm.  This included networks for the U.S. government including ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet), NEARNET and TWBNet.

When Craig isn’t running marathons, he spends time with his wife and two sons.

Steve Gunderson
Principal, Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Steve joined TDS in 2005 and is in charge of initiating and fostering customer relationships for the company’s services.  He helps the company identify customer needs and create services to meet them.  He has helped lead TDS to 100% annual revenue growth since his first year.

He has more than 20 years of experience in global computer networks and commercial data centers.  Steve was a co-founder and executive manager at two commercial data center companies, Enclave Properties and CO Space, the latter of which was purchased for $244 million just two years after it was founded.

Prior to that, Steve was a senior executive at three major telecommunications firms -- MCI Communications, Williams Communications and Broadwing Communications.  He increased Broadwing’s  revenue from $20 million to $200 million in two years.

Steve has a B.S. in business administration from Texas A&M University.  Steve and his wife Robin are active in humanitarian outreach with HOPEsudbury, and at Parmenter Community Health and Hospice.

Chris Gillis
Principal, Vice President of Technical Operations

For more than 10 years, Chris Gillis has managed technical teams in data centers, networking, computer server administration, telecommunications, desktop support and application development. 

Chris has helped numerous companies manage their information technology infrastructure, including Boston Medical Center, Kayak.com, Trinity Healthcare, UBS Financial Services and Partners Healthcare.  Chris has extensive experience in helping clients manage extraordinary change, such as mergers and acquisitions, downsizing and rapid growth.

Peter Bohnert
Principal, Vice President of Applications

Peter joined TDS in 2005 and is in charge of business systems development. He has more than 20 years experience in software architecture, design and development and has held senior executive roles at a number of major software companies.

He is an expert in translating a company’s process objectives into a software application that dramatically improves that process.  He has particular expertise in Web-based and open source technology architectures, business requirements analysis, agile development, software configuration management and project management.

Before joining the firm, Peter was co-founder and chief technology officer at Obian Inc., a startup software company.  In addition to designing and helping create the company’s core product (which involved managing an offshore software development team), he led the company’s technical sales, implementation and quality assurance efforts.

Peter has also held executive leadership jobs in software engineering and product management at such software companies as Marcam, Inktomi, Adero, Swift Rivers and Legent.

Karl Robohm
Principal, Vice President of Data Center Services

Karl worked for 20 years in the design, deployment, and operations of data center facilities nationwide and globally.  Karl is an expert in building and managing the overall operations of mission critical data center facilities.

He has directed and coordinated large efforts throughout his career in the functional areas of: data center site selection, Facility Design, Build, Data Center Efficiency and Operations, Communications and Public Relations, as well as Facility Leadership and Organization.

Prior to joining TDS in 2008, Karl was directly responsible for the day to day operations and budget of 500,000+ sq/ft data center facilities nationwide at Internap Network Services as Director of Data Center Operations. He was also responsible for all data center site selections, design, efficiency (green) projects and construction of projects ranging from $1M-$40M in size.

The TDS executive team possesses the capabilities for managing a fast-growing IT services firm and maintaining exceptional quality in the services it delivers.