The Radial Theory leadership team came together in 2018, when the founding partners decided to take their collective years of experience building technology solutions in the real world and create a new type of strategy and engineering consultancy that builds sound, adaptable and affordable solutions for their clients quickly and effectively.
Michael O'Neil
Michael is a senior technology professional, executive-level manager, architect and hands-on technical leader who brings the passion, learning and inspiration gained from these experiences to the Radial Theory technology consulting practice.
He has extensive tech and strategy leadership experience at the C-suite level, guiding technology architecture vision as well as providing hands-on direction to drive solutions from concept, through design, implementation and into production. He has built and run technology at startups and at global-scale companies, across a broad range of industries, including real estate development, media, finance, insurance, entertainment, urban operations, retail, hospitality, gaming, health care, education, transportation, legal and government enterprises.
Prior to forming Radial Theory with Brian Besterman, some of Michael’s recent career highlights include founding and building out the software engineering practice as a partner at Control Group, a creative design and tech consulting shop in NYC. While at Control Group, Michael collaborated with Brian on the design and implementation of groundbreaking innovations in the realm of autonomous and self-healing distributed systems. This was followed by assuming the CTO position for the Consulting and Solutions practice at Intersection, an Alphabet-funded urban technology company.
In earlier consulting and executive roles, Michael built teams, practices and technology solutions for companies that include Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Related Companies, AXA, Deutsche Bank and several Walker Digital startups.
A life-long New Yorker, Michael has a strong passion for cities and their history. He is always looking for ways to apply the lessons of the past and the promise of technology to improve the fabric of civic life.
Brian J. Besterman
Brian is a technology executive, software designer, developer and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience building complex enterprise systems in diverse areas including the gaming, medical, media and entertainment industries.
Prior to forming Radial Theory with Michael O’Neil, Brian was the Chief Technology Officer at Walker Digital Gaming and Walker Digital Table Systems, overseeing the design and development of several new and innovative products in the casino and gaming spaces. Perfect Pay, the world’s first “triple-live” baccarat table (i.e. live chips, cards and dealer) that tracks all aspects of game play using RFID (radio-frequency identification) and electronic card shoe technologies, won G2E Asia Awards’ Best Table Game Solution for 2018, and was the Gold Award Winner in Casino Journal’s Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products of 2009.
Brian is also the co-founder and Chief Information Officer of Pronia Medical Systems. With his medical school roommate, Dr. Michael Marvin, Brian created the GlucoCare™ Intensive Glycemic Control System, an FDA-approved decision support system for critical care nurses to manage patients on insulin drips. The system is in use in several hospitals, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Brian is also an accomplished musician who has played piano for many well-known Broadway shows, composed music for television, and orchestrated for film, theater and records.
Brian received an M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a B.A. in biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Vikas Jindal
Chief Solution Architect
Vikas has more than 14 years of experience as a software architect, technical lead and senior developer. He is a polyglot programmer whose work spans application development, DevOps, cloud, databases and web. He has worked for companies in many industries, including gaming/casino, data analytics, entertainment, communications and operational support. Vikas is an avid learner who enjoys keeping up-to-date on the latest technologies.
Patrick SooHoo
Strategic Consultant
Patrick is a multi-faceted creator who has worn the hats of engineer, architect, project manager, sound engineer, motion designer and business analyst at various times over his twenty-five year career. He has helped build innovative products in many industries and at many different scales, including a global financial research system for one of the world’s largest banks, a distributed computing grid, several games and educational titles, an Epcot Center exhibit, a number of embedded systems for casino gaming, a microservice-based cloud and datacenter computing infrastructure optimization system, and a number of other projects for various clients.
Patrick strives to bring creativity and fresh perspectives into every project, on every day and in every encounter. Patrick sees technology as simultaneously an extension, expression and augmentation of our humanity, and believes that the most powerful engineering tools we have are empathy, listening, observation and learning. To build things that are of use to us, we must first understand ourselves and the world around us.
When the time comes to build, Patrick prioritizes utility, stability and performance, and seeks to end each project with exclamation marks on simplicity and effectiveness. He relishes the satisfaction of finding a great solution to a real world need.
Patrick has a bachelor’s degree in Math/Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University, where he also studied Illustration, ran a weekly comic strip, and was a member of the fencing club.
