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Brenda J Fox, Chief Executive Officer

Brenda's experience with early stage high tech companies reaches back more than 20 years where she was a key executive in the start up of Compucom which ultimately grew to more than $2.5 billion in sales.

She continued her entrepreneurial agility and large-scale IT experiences as an integral part of two additional high-tech management teams, which raised over $200,000,000 in venture capital. Those companies achieved aggregate sales in excess of $3 billion dollars.

Brenda has a strong matrix of interpersonal skills, management experience, computer science education, sales, team building, customer management, client services and technology expertise. She has twice built and managed national organizations.

With skills honed over 20 years in the real world of high growth technology start ups, Brenda Fox's greatest talents may be her ability to create organization out of chaos; her ability to envision the quantifiable goals and systems that will best serve the defined mission of an organization and to listen to the customer.

Brenda is a graduate of Waterloo University. Prentice Hall recently published "CIO Wisdom", which she co-authored. Brenda is a member of the Institute for the Design of Practices.

Victor V Vurpillat, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Networking Officer

Victor Vurpillat has the visionary outlook and management experience from launching and growing many successful companies, including Telerate, Novell and Compucom.

Victor has played a key role in generating more the $10,000,000,000 in stock market valuation in the technology sector. Being in the heart of Silicon Valley, he has developed and continues to maintain numerous contacts with high tech venture capital individuals and institutions. He holds a degree in Mathematics from California Polytechnic University, an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University, and a Ph.D. in Human Behavior from Newport University.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Vurpillat has developed three strong capabilities that help to bring a sustainable competitive advantage to his clients:

• The ability to match the technology to the market, and position companies for major growth.
• The ability to maximize the use of early stage funding and minimize the risk of investment loss.
• The ability to recognize new opportunities in the pursuit of the original goal, and the ability to rally the stakeholder community to the most successful outcome.

Dr. Vurpillat is the author of three books: Principals of Inertial Navigation, Conversations with the Future (later made into a Documentary), and Launching your Software Business in America, written at the request of the Government of Finland. He is also a member of Mensa and the World Future Society.