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John R. Grizz Deal, Co-Founder, President & CEO John R. Grizz Deal received his BS and MS in Geography, Systems and Analysis from Texas A&M University. He was the VP/COO of Smith and Associates where he was responsible for the operations and personnel of this award-winning scientific/technical publishing company. Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANL, was one of Smith and Associates' clients. He became a consultant to LANL where he helped with one group's industrial and agency collaboration program as it related to efforts in advanced software development. At LANL he assisted in product and new technology development as well as market and technology assessment. He assisted industry partners working with appropriate LANL research staff. He was the Managing Director and Founder of the New Mexico Technology Consortium, a non-profit association that provided project assistance and general management support to 250 company members. Mr. Deal is responsible for the company's resource management and strategic vision. John Brenneman, Chief Financial Officer The Director of Finance and Operations at Ostex International, Inc., a developer and marketer of diagnostic products used in the management of osteoporosis, Mr. Brenneman was responsible for the financial reporting and planning, information systems, investor relations, treasury and human resources for the company. In 1995, he was the principal financial officer for the I.P.O. and initiated the investor relations program and S.E.C. and NASDAQ compliance activities post I.P.O. Prior to Ostex, Mr. Brenneman worked at Baxter Healthcare Corporation where he held various financial reporting and planning positions at several operating divisions. He has extensive experience working with venture stage companies, including business planning, equity financing and activities consistent with a new venture. He received his BS in Accounting from California State University, Northridge and an MBA from Seattle University. Vance Faber, Chief Technology Officer Dr. Faber is the author or co-author of over 100 technical papers on diverse fields of mathematics and computer science ranging from foretelling the commercial rise of the Internet (1980) to new methods for fraud detection (1997). He is also the author of four patents in image processing and parallel computing. Dr. Faber received his BA in Physics and Mathematics from Washington University and his MA and Ph.D. in Mathematics (field of research is combinatorial group theory) from the Western Washington University. His career began as an academic at the University of Colorado at Denver. He transitioned to government positions first at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and then at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As chief scientist at LANL Dr. Faber invented software algorithms for fraud detection, image compression, intrusion detection, and data mining. He has led teams as large as 150 people and been responsible for research budgets of over $50 million. James B. Kuppe, Director of Sales A software industry veteran, J.B. Kuppe manages business development for LizardTech. His extensive experience in technical OEM sales and computer graphics is being applied to define and execute the company's sales and revenue-generating strategy. Before LizardTech, Kuppe was VP of worldwide sales and distribution for Numera Software. Prior to Numera's sale to Corel Corporation at the end of 1996, he directed its strategy for building a distribution model focused on the ultra-value CAD market segment. Prior to joining Numera in 1995, Kuppe worked at Rasna Corporation; developers of computer-aided engineering products for mechanical engineers. While at Rasna, he developed sales through indirect sales channels worldwide, consistently exceeding revenue targets. Prior to RASNA, he was a founding member of Autodesk's industry marketing group, which brought a vertical market understanding to a traditionally horizontal product company. Kuppe started his technical software career at Intergraph in a variety of sales and marketing positions. Kuppe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Jeff Segler, Co-Founder and Director of Marketing As co-founder of Smith and Associates, Atomic DoG, Paradigm Concepts and LizardTech, Mr. Segler has spent the better part of his career building successful companies. A former employee at LANL, Mr. Segler was instrumental in the introduction of the Apple Macintosh to LANL as a valid tool for publishing and scientific visualization. His background in publishing, together with extensive experience in product market development, makes him a valuable management team member for LizardTech. Segler holds a BA from University of Alabama. James White, Director of Development James White received both his BS and MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. His career began with the Northern Virginia Planning District Commission in Arlington, VA designing and implementing a land use database for the 64,000 square mile Chesapeake Bay watershed from multi-spectral satellite imagery. He then became Acting Branch Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Digital Image Processing Branch. Since 1985, Mr. White was an engineering staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory working as project leader for IRS fraud detection project, Technical Project Leader for a Medicare Fraud Detection Project for the Health Care Finance Administration and Team Leader for the Image Processing Team of the Computer Research and Applications Group where he designed image segmentation algorithms to analyze Computed Tomography (CT) imagery to identify diseased lung tissue. His interests include pattern recognition, machine learning, and segmentation as applied to multi-spectral and medical imagery. Jonathan Bradley, Senior Software Engineer Dr. Jonathan Bradley is the author of the primary patents that are the basis for MrSID technology. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah. He comes to LizardTech from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a Technical Staff Member for the Computer Research and Applications Group. Dr. Bradley is the author or co-author of numerous technical papers including "Multiresolution Seamless Image Database" in Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Conference of the American Society Michael E. Hovanes, Medical Business Development Consultant Michael E. Hovanes serves as a consultant to the Company, implementing the commercialization of the MrSID technology within selected medical applications. Mr. Hovanes has over seventeen years of experience marketing and commercializing new technology to the medical community. He has worked in both acute care and long-term care markets with diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. He has served as the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for a $135 million American Home Products divisional company: Quinton Instrument company. There he led the acquisition of imaging companies and technology. His overhaul of Quinton's cardiology products repositioned them with open architecture, Clinical Information Systems and new competitive imaging functionality. Mr. Hovanes has also held senior-level positions with Life Products, Boulder, CO and Transtracheal Systems, Denver, CO. Mr. Hovanes received a US Patent for the Transtracheal Catheter System. He earned his MBA from American Graduate School. Mr. Hovanes has served as an Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Denver, CO. Kevin Cable, Non-Core Markets Business Development Consultant Kevin Cable has eleven years of experience as an executive in start-up companies ranging in focus from scientific visualization applications to consumer packaged software products. In late 1996 he formed Jumpstart Group to focus on the investment banking needs of early stage companies. Jumpstart Group provides a bridge between the entrepreneur and the entities or people that can help their companies grow. Jumpstart's mission is to provide merger, acquisition and corporate finance services as well as technology licensing, and strategic development services to software companies. The stage of the target companies is typically seed or first round of financing. Before establishing his Jumpstart Group, Cable was President & CEO of Numera software, a Seattle based start-up which he cofounded. In this role, Cable successfully raised over $4 million in outside capital from local investors and a leading Silicon Valley venture firm. In his three-year tenure, Cable negotiated over 30 OEM contracts to embed Numera's lead product, Visual CADD, in a variety of specialty CAD/CAM systems. After achieving profitability in Q1 of 1996, the company entered a distribution agreement with Corel Corporation, which eventually purchased Numera in September of 1996. |
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