Our Team

Dave Mckay — Chief Executive Officer

David is a seasoned operating executive with strong financial background and extensive merger and acquisition experience.

EXPERIENCE:

Chairman & CEO – Murphy, McKay & Associates, Inc.

• IT Consulting & Outsourcing Services

Executive Director, Corporate Development  – PacTel Corporation

• Worldwide negotiation of acquisitions and joint ventures, evaluation of investment opportunities.

CEO – PacTel Premisys

• Communications equipment sales and maintenance.
• Grew company from $2 million to $65 million through 32 acquisitions in 5 years.

Executive VP, General Manager – H.S. Crocker

• $110 million printing & office supply company.
• Ran nationwide, 6 plant, $63 million printing division.
• Two major acquisitions, restructuring operations & marketing changes led to EPS turnaround from $(2.98) to $10.12.

President – Royal Supply Company

• $6 million restaurant equipment & supply distribution company.
• Took from operating loss to operating profit.
• Company sold to NYSE listed distribution company.

Manager – Arthur Andersen & Co.

• Provided business audit, tax and consulting services.
• Included 3 years in Stockholm, Sweden office serving large, multi-national clients.

EDUCATION:

• University of California, Berkeley – B.S. & M.B.A. Graduated with honors, including Phi Beta Kappa
• CPA – California (ceased practicing in 1978)
• Licensed in California for Business Brokerage

Tim Murphy — President, Founder

Tim started Murphy, McKay & Associates in 1992 with the objective of building a firm to support clients’ throughout the Bay Area.  The original focus of system repair and maintenance offerings quickly evolved into the model we support today of multi tiered Consulting Services.

Tim has spent the last 16 plus years of successfully growing MMA by drawing upon his experiences in the services industries that have made up his career. Tim has been employed be several large organizations during his career. He was an executive at Exxon, Control Data, Pacific Telesis, and Nortel Communications with a variety of jobs most of which involved direct client support or managing groups that faced the clients.

Most of the jobs he held with these firms began with startups that later became part of the larger organizations mostly due to acquisitions. It was this exposure that set the foundations for his venture into the entrepreneurial experience that is now MMA.

Mike Binder — Chief Operating Officer

Mike is currently the newest partner and Chief Operating Officer at Murphy McKay & Associates driving the technical consulting and augmented services of the company.   

Mike started his career in business consulting and Human Resources in 1984 as the employment manager for the Hilton Corporation.  From 1986-2000,  as President  of Key Resources Inc led the company to one of the fastest growing privately held companies in 1997  placing Key Resources on the Inc. 500 list.  Key Resources Inc. continued to be named in the San Francisco and East Bay Business Times for over 10 years. In 2000 Mike successfully completed the sale of Key Resources Inc. and continued with the new company in an executive capacity until 2008.  Mike has served on the executive Board of Directors of the California Staffing Professionals.  He has held the State Treasurer and Vice President roles. 

Al Silva — Vice-President Consulting Services

Al has worked in the computer industry for over a decade. He began by assisting in the support of a campus network by solving the hardware failures and software application user issues.

As an IT manager for a catalog company, his network expertise improved the company’s network stability and his database management skills provided cost savings routines in their customer information system. Also, he planned and executed a successful systems move to a different location, this included both the network and telecom services.

As Project Manager with Murphy, McKay, he has designed & implemented many NT networks. This included a global NT network that consisted of several nodes in the US (San Francisco, Portland and Boston) and Europe (Denmark, France and Germany). The client requested he go to Europe for the implementation to insure a quality installation.

As Operations Director, he is helping the team fulfill the company’s mission -- to provide our clients with elegant, technical solutions to their business problems. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Information Systems. He holds Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) certifications. He also has Cisco, Octel Voicemail and HP product certifications.

Aaron Loomis — Senior Project Manager

Aaron Loomis Aaron has worked in the computer industry and with Murphy, McKay & Associates, Inc. for over 13 years.

Aaron began as a field technician, troubleshooting and repairing PC’s and printers. He then progressed into operating system and business applications software, which gave him all of the tools necessary to provide superior desktop support.

Aaron has also performed multiple systems relocations and has supervised many of the major relocations performed by Murphy, McKay. As a Project Manager, he has designed, implemented and upgraded Windows NT/2000 networks, and has planned and implemented Windows 2000/XP Professional rollouts and migrations. He has been involved in such projects as Novell to Windows NT/2000 migrations, the migration of various mail platforms to Microsoft Exchange as well as WAN design and implementation.

Aaron is responsible for maintaining the networks of clients that do not have on-site administrators and is also a liaison to the on-site network administrators of other clients. As one of Murphy, McKay’s top engineers, Aaron provides assistance to fellow engineers on advanced technical issues and shares his growing experience as a consultant to his peers. Aaron has an A.A. degree in Computer Electronics and holds certifications from Citrix, Microsoft and Veritas.