Michael Mahfood is the Managing Partner for Group M7, and as such oversees all departments including design, technical, administrative, financial and sales.

Michael entered the arena of the Internet in 1995 with over three decades of sales and marketing experience. An accomplished designer in his own right, Mr. Mahfood has overseen or consulted on the construction and development of over 1000 websites.

He resides in Tyler with his wife of 36 years, Suzanne. Michael has five children and eight grandchildren.

Mary Lingle, Group M7 Creative Director and Partner, joined The Group in 1998. She attended college at Northeastern A&M in Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.

Mary moved to Texas in 1981, and entered the graphic arts field. She began working with computer graphics in 1986. She previously owned her own graphic design business before taking a full-time position with Group M7. Mary uses her knowledge to train our clients one-on-one in Web and graphic technologies, and has held training sessions at area businesses, non-profit organizations and colleges.

Mary lives in Tyler with her daughter Erin, a student at Tyler Junior College.

Emily Smith is a native Texan, raised in Tyler, and a graduate of TK Gorman High School and Tyler Junior College. Emily is married with two children, and she and her family are active in their church, and the community.

In 1999, Emily began a successful career as an Independent Sales Director with a nationally known Direct Sales company, and soon was leading a sales team of 40+ local Consultants and-ultimately-her performance enabled her to rise to the top 2% of distributors within the company, nationwide. In 2004, her interests turned to Real Estate. Emily was privileged to be the Exclusive REALTOR for Tyler's "Two Hour House" World Record Breaking event! Taking the sales training and client service skills learned through her direct sales and Real Estate background, Emily joined the GroupM7 team, in Sales and Marketing in 2007.

Albert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.

Albert began his association with The Group in 1998, rejoining The Group as systems administrator full-time in 2005. Albert's areas of technical expertise include DNS and email systems, Linux systems administration and support, and the perl programming language, areas which he daily brings to bare on the ever-growing concerns of security and "spam" (unsolicited commercial email or UCE) on the Internet.

Mark joined The Group in 1996. He holds a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Mark's technical area of expertise is programming/back end development using the PHP language. He's experienced in C, C++, Perl, Smalltalk and Java. As senior developer, Mark directs our technical department.

Matthew joined Group M7 last year as a first responder for Customer Service. His area of responsibility is email and Web server support.

Matthew is attending Tyler Junior College and his studies center around business management and computer science.

Chris, a student at Texas A&M, has worked with us every summer since 2006. He is a designer, production artist and tester.

He currently holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M, and will be attending the Masters of Visualization Sciences program at A&M in the fall of 2008.