Mike's background includes a mix of engineering and biomedical research. As an early employee at Ascend, Michael was responsible for multivariate positions including International Customer Support, Special Engineering Assignment at Microsoft, Systems Engineering Supervisor, Product Manager, Carrier Sales and Business Development Director. After Lucent Technology acquired Ascend, Michael managed an international team of Technical Sales Managers responsible for bringing industry-leading, voice-over-packet technology to carriers, worldwide. In addition to crafting two startup ventures of his own, Michael is currently consulting for several "new-technology" companies and providing technical due-diligence for investors, domestic and international.

At the University of California, Davis, Michael was on a team studying transmission of HIV across the placenta in primate species. He accepted a Medical Informatics position in Medical Pathology and then managed IT at the UCDavis Cancer Center in Sacramento before joining Ascend Communications in Alameda.

He is also the Volunteer Coordinator for the Solano County Sheriff's Office Emergency Services Response Team.

Dave is an experienced Corporate Development executive and an expert in corporate planning, strategy, and driving execution of such strategies – both for entrepreneurial companies as well as Fortune 1000 firms. At Aftermind, Inc., a software company selling after-sale relationship solutions to players like General Electric and Visa, he led business development efforts and managed a business development staff as well as an external sales channel.

Previously, Dave worked at Sapient Corporation (SAPE), a $4 billion end-to-end web development firm. Prior to Sapient, Dave was a key executive with the Kalchas Group, an entrepreneurial strategy-consulting firm founded by ex-McKinsey and ex-Bain professionals based in London. There, Dave was responsible for the Kalchas ecommerce practice and initiated and implemented start-up of a new San Francisco office in 1997.

Dave holds an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School and while at Kellogg, he Co-chaired the Entrepreneur/Venture Capital Club. He holds a BA in Economics from Middlebury College, and a GC from the London School of Economics.

Arthur Vera has over 20 years of experience in the health care information technology industry, with specific expertise in business development and information technology planning. Mr. Vera is well known and respected among health care payer and provider organizations nationwide through his history with Adesso Healthcare Technology Services Inc., Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Transition Systems Inc., and HBO & Company. Mr. Vera was a recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University, where he received a Masters of Education, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

William C. Wright is currently a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he has spent the past four years in the Transaction Services group specializing in mergers and acquisitions related activities. Prior to joining PwC, Bill was a Vice President at a $215 million leveraged buyout firm focused on buying and turning around companies in financial difficulty. Bill's professional career in banking and finance spans eighteen years and includes lending, due diligence and investment positions at Bank of America, Pacific Venture Finance, Daiwa Bank, Recovery Equity Investors and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He has also served on the City of Berkeley's Loan Administration Board, focused on providing low interest economic development-related financing to small businesses, and the City of Berkeley's Citizen Budget Review Committee. Bill also was a founder of the Citywide Revolving Loan Fund. He has taught accounting and finance at Golden Gate University, earned a Masters of International Management at Thunderbird Graduate School and a B.S. in Business Administration at San Jose State University.