Bill Joll (http://www.linkedin.com/in/billjoll) has over 20 years of executive marketing and operational experience with large and small public companies, including technology startups. Companies/business units have ranged from up to $1B in revenue. Bill is versed in a broad spectrum of areas including: M&A, Telecommunications, Video, WEB 2.0, Enterprise Applications, Wireless, IP and Optical Networking/technologies. In addition he brings a truly global perspective with experience of having lived and worked in four geographies. He was most recently the President & CEO of On2 Technologies and holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba. Prior to joining On2, he served as vice president of marketing, carrier solutions, at Real Networks. He also spent 18 years at Nortel, where he served as president of marketing for Europe, general manager of two different carrier product lines, and head of product management in Asia and Latin America.
Henry D. Barratt, Jr. is Founder and Managing Director of Blue Water Capital. Prior to the founding of Blue Water Capital, Mr. Barratt
was from October 1994 an investment banker specializing in strategic financings and sales of technology companies. From 1990 to 1994,
Mr. Barratt was a Partner with CEO Venture Fund, a Pittsburgh-based broad spectrum venture capital firm with $45 million under management.
From 1972 to 1990, Mr. Barratt was employed in the banking industry, and from 1987 to 1990 was a Group Vice President of Central Fidelity
Bank, a $9 billion financial institution where he managed a $50 million loan portfolio and served on the bank’s senior loan committee.
He has broad experience in the venture capital and private sector financing of advanced technology companies and has served on the
boards of companies in the software, industrial automation, healthcare and distribution industries. Mr. Barratt attended The George
Washington University and Stonier Graduate School of Banking. Mr. Barratt is a director of Access Point, Cigital and Number 6 Software.
Mr. Barratt is a Managing Director for Blue Water Strategic Fund I, Blue Water Venture Fund II, and Blue Water Venture Fund III.
Jeffrey Mayhook has over 17 years experience working with U.S. and Canadian communications and technology companies, including senior-level
positions with publicly-traded GST Telecommunications and tech start-up PreCash. At GST, in particular, Mr. Mayhook had direct responsibility
for the company's regulatory and transactional matters, including policy development, regulatory compliance, contract negotiations,
and litigation under the Telecom Act of 1996. As a lawyer and business consultant, Mr. Mayhook's law practice currently focuses on
developing deal structures and funding models for local governments, public-private partnerships, private developers, and rural electric
utilities interested in the deployment of "last mile" fiber, wireless technology, and "smart grid" broadband networks. His deal flow
and industry relationships extend to the design, engineering, equipping, construction, financing, and operation of IP-enabled networks.
Mr. Mayhook's recent clients and teaming arrangements have included a broad range of diverse companies and entities, including 180
Connect, PacketFront, Axia NetMedia, Franklin PUD, and the Califormia cities of Palo Alto, Ontario, and Shafter.
A graduate of the
University of Iowa College of Law (J.D. 1981), Mr. Mayhook is admitted to practice in the states of Washington (2000) and Alaska (1982),
and a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association (1998) and Energy Bar Association (2008). He holds an M. A. in English
from the State University of New York at New Paltz (1975), and a B.A. in Business Administration and English from the University of
Wisconsin at La Crosse (1972).
His entrepreneurial “teeth-cutting” came from founding Mathis Instruments Ltd. to commercialize his wife
Nancy’s Ph.D. research at the University of New Brunswick (
The entrepreneurial experience, combined with a mechanical engineering degree and UNB’s Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (TME) program, provided Chris with a broad spectrum of education and first hand experience in product development, marketing, fund raising, and product commercialization.
His corporate experience has sent him around the world as an Executive and General Manger with Nortel and
Hughes Systems including “in country” assignments in
Prior
to ShieldTech Systems, Steve was EVP of Telaxis and SVP of DSC/Alcatel leading their global sales and marketing efforts. He is a former
Army Ranger and helicopter pilot. Steve holds a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point , NY and an
MBA from Boston University.
Gerry Preville has over 20 years experience with large public companies, technology startups and consulting firms in the U.S.
and Canada. He is Managing Director of the Laurentian Consulting Group, a firm specializing in interim CFO/Controller services
and merger and acquisition support. His consulting projects include post-merger integration engagements at NASDAQ and AES Corporation,
and financial management at Sunrise Senior Living, XM Radio and the Culligan Corporation. Mr. Preville had the rare experience
of growing a $200 million business as Assistant Business Unit Manager of Newbridge Networks’ Local Area Network division. He
was also the CFO of two software startups, E-Certify Corporation and Intersect Software. Prior to that, he served for ten years
in the
Nancy J. Levy, Ph.D. Nancy Levy is the Managing Partner and founder of BioHealth Management LLC, an international biomedical
advisory firm specializing in value creation at the pivotal intersection between science, technology and business. She has been
involved in partnering pharmaceuticals in areas such as cancer and inflammation, devices in areas such as biomarkers and infectious
diseases, and in obtaining investment for many clients over her career. Dr. Levy has raised funds for her clients from venture
capitalists, angels, corporate partners and grants. Dr. Levy has managed successful pre-IND and IND applications and is the US agent
for her clients. She has completed successful Orphan Drug applications with FDA and EMEA in areas such as liver cancer and scleroderma.
Dr. Levy served for four years as President and CEO of Immunetics, a medical devices company located in Cambridge, MA where she raised
three rounds of financing, wrote multiple grants and managed the processes for the first FDA products. She has extensive international
experience and has managed multiple projects with international trade groups on economic development missions.
Dr. Levy is on the
board of Acceleration as well as a member of Newton-Wellesley Hospital Board of overseers. Other honors include: featured entrepreneur
in the Wall Street Journal, Closing the Gender Gap, and first place in Business Plan contest, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
She has been invited to speak at numerous international conferences including a recent conference in Barcelona entitled IP, Licensing
and Value Creation. Nancy has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, where she also did her fellowship. She earned her Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago.
Ashok K. Agrawala is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland where he has been on the faculty since 1971. During
the last four decades he has made numerous contributions to the field of computer science, has published over 200 papers, and
has authored 7 books. Recently he has developed unique location determination technologies which have been patented by the University.
His work on context aware applications is also pushing the state of the art at present. He also serves as the Director of the MIND
(Maryland Information and Network Dynamics) Lab at the University of Maryland which was established in 2001 for the explicit purpose
of working closely with the industry. The MIND Lab has collaborated with a number of small, medium and large companies and has been
instrumental in 5 startup companies in Maryland. Recently he established the MAXWell Lab which has been named as the WiMAX Forum Applications
Lab, the only one in the western hemisphere. This lab is dedicated to developing and evaluating next generation applications for wide
area broadband wireless technologies such as WiMAX.
Prof. Agrawala received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970 and has supervised
the Ph.D. dissertations of over 40 students. He is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS.
Donovan Dillon is President of Ad Giants, LLC - a Next Generation Marketing Services company specializing in software-based services
and creative solutions that improve sales and marketing effectiveness. Donovan oversees and directs the day-to-day operation of the
company, including strategic marketing, customer operations, development and sales. Donovan has over 20 years of marketing and technical
experience, including architecture and technology planning, product development, lifecycle management, pricing and product economics,
and strategic regulatory support. Previously, Donovan served as head of Marketing for Broadwing Communications where he was responsible
for all marketing, product management and pricing functions. Prior to Broadwing, Donovan held senior marketing and technical positions
with Level 3 Communications, Allegiance Telecom, and ATT (SBC Communications / Southern New England Telephone) where he served as
Vice President Product Marketing, Vice President Strategic Marketing, Vice President Wholesale Marketing and Director Network Architecture,
respectively. Donovan earned a Graduate Marketing Certificate from Southern Methodist University, and a Bachelor of Science degree
in Computer Engineering from the University of Bridgeport.
Alain Louvel - Detailed biography coming soon!
Steve Rogers is a partner with Redstones LLC a management consulting practice focused on improving the business results of their clients through comprehensive strategic planning and rigorous implementation and follow through. Clients range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies.
In several instances he has worked with start-ups in a key executive role to assist in raising capital from venture funds, angel investors and local government grants bodies. He is currently COO and board member at CertusNet and CTO at Genovation Cars.
Prior to Redstones Steve spent 25 years at Nortel in various capacities beginning with system engineering and progressing through marketing, product management and finally as divisional general manger. He was the GM of Nortel’s metro optical division and grew it from a $40M business to a $200M business. Later he was GM of Nortel’s wireline access division that had revenues of $1.3B.
Steve graduated from Manchester University in the UK with a BSc in Physics and Electronics.
Dr. Saxena is a highly distinguished and internationally recognized researcher and professor, who is currently the Harold and Percy
Uris Professor of Reproductive Biology at Cornell Medical College in New York City. He has numerous degrees and honors, including:
Ph.D., University of Lucknow (India); D.Sc., Friedrich Wilhelms University (Germany); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Member
of the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Committee for Physiology of Medicine; The Royal Society of Medicine in London Fellow; Campos
da Paz Award in Brazil; Career Scientist Award Recipient of Health Research Council of New York, NY,; D.Sc., (Honoris Causa), University
of Bundelkhand, India; The Council City of New York Proclamation for Outstanding Service in NYC in Science and Medicine in 2006, to
name just a few.
A key contribution by Dr Saxena was to elucidate the daily blood levels of FSH and LH and their correlation with gonadal
steroids in the regulation of the menstrual cycle. Dr. Saxena’s continuing interest in reproductive endocrinology, led to the isolation
of the lutroprin receptor, which led to the development of ovulation detection and the first early reliable pregnancy test during
1974-1976. Taken together, Dr. Saxena’s research provides the hallmark of early diagnosis and management of gonadal dysfunction, gene
mutation, pregnancy, and in-vitro fertilization.
Recently, Dr. Saxena has been able to chemically modify, betulonic acid, an anti-cancer agent, as Boc-lysinated betulonic acid, to render it soluble in aqueous biocompatible mediums, which was not heretofore possible. Boc-L-BA has shown striking ability to suppress up to 92% human prostate tumors implanted in athymic mice.
Kaushal Gundavda is President of Business Management Services Group, a practice management service organization serving medical, dental, mental health, and allied health practices. Kaushal has a strong educational background in business and health administration along with 15 years of management and consulting experience with a variety of healthcare organizations. His academic credentials include a Bachelors degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Management and Finance, a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Health Administration, and certifications in medical billing and healthcare customer service.
Mr. Gundavda has served in various operations and strategic positions as Administrator, Chief operating Officer, and Director of free standing medical centers, as well as region-wide multi-specialty groups. His many consulting projects have included new company start-ups, restructuring, reorganizing, and re-engineering departments and entire organizations. He has lead new market, service, and SBU development, financial turnaround, strategic planning, and facility planning projects, as well as served on the Advisory Board and Board of Directors of medical and mental health associations.
