We built the platform we always needed

Chief Executive Officer

Cole Klokkevold spent his career building and leading Interstate Advanced Materials, the family-owned, Sacramento-based wholesale distributor of plastics and composite materials. He started in the warehouse and rose to CEO, growing the company into a nationwide operation with nine locations, more than 200 employees, and an ecommerce business serving aerospace, semiconductor, agriculture, and medical customers. In 2026, he guided Interstate through its acquisition by Curbell Plastics, after more than four decades of growth. At Minnirva, Cole is the operator. He has run exactly the kind of business the platform is built for, and he knows which operational, financial, and technology problems matter to the people running them.

Co-Founder

Marc North spent 22 years with WebEx and Cisco. He joined WebEx as an early employee and stayed through its growth and its acquisition by Cisco. Over those two decades he learned to lead with engineering and to judge technology by the business problem it solves. Since then, Marc has led web engineering teams and built business-critical systems for e-commerce, CRM, operations, reporting, and customer-facing applications. At KNHPG, he brings that experience to Minnirva, a platform that gives small and midsize businesses sophisticated technology without asking them to become technology companies.

Founding Engineer

Isaac Hollow Horn Bear is the founding engineer at Minnirva, where he architected the platform end to end: the multi-tenant infrastructure, Scout's AI prospecting engine, and Lens, the natural-language reporting agent. He brings seven-plus years of full-stack and DevOps experience across product teams, agencies, and independent work, most recently as a senior full-stack and DevOps engineer building LAMP-stack systems on self-managed AWS. His toolkit runs the width of the stack: Laravel, PHP, and Node.js on the backend; React and TypeScript on the frontend; MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, and LLM APIs in between; EC2, S3, and CI/CD underneath. Sicangu Lakota, born in South Dakota and raised in California, Isaac builds with patience, intention, and respect for the people on the other side of the screen.

Founding Engineer

Maiyo Pabroquez is a Founding Engineer at Minnirva, where he leads the development of production and operational systems, including Timelinea product we haven't named publicly, a platform that turns physical paperwork into structured, trackable business records. With seven-plus years of full-stack engineering experience, he has built solutions across manufacturing, warehouse management, labor and cost tracking, BOM, ERP integrations, and production workflows. Before technology, Maiyo worked as a professional chef, and he brings that discipline and operational mindset to software engineering. He works in Laravel, PHP, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, REST APIs, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, AWS, S3, CI/CD, Git, and enterprise ERP integrations.

Founding Engineer

Emma Gangl is a Founding Engineer at Minnirva, where she leads the development of an intelligent system that helps businesses create, manage, and publish digital content. As a full-stack engineer, Emma has worked across legacy modernization, cloud-based applications, e-commerce platforms, internal tools, and AI-enabled workflows. Her technical interests center on artificial intelligence and its practical uses in software engineering. She is pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science, focused on AI and machine learning. At Minnirva, Emma builds practical software with an emphasis on security and reliability.