| Board of Directors Mike W. Erwin Chairman Mr. Erwin is the President and Chairman of Symbiot, Inc. and has over 15 years of experience as a visionary entrepreneur, incorporating all aspects of founding and managing a business from concept to cash-out. His ability to explore revolutionary ideas, develop the business opportunities surrounding them, test a market for disruptive products/services, and engage an effective go-to-market strategy has led to his success in multiple ventures. Prior to Symbiot, Mr. Erwin founded OuterNet Connection Strategies, where he served as OuterNet's Chief Executive Officer and chaired the company's board until 2000 when the company was merged with a NASDAQ traded public company. Mr. Erwin also founded and serves on the board of Tomorrow's Technologies, Inc., a technology venture and incubation company. Through Tomorrow's Technologies, he provides management advice and technical due diligence to investors in, and potential buyers for network and data technologies. He has authored more than a dozen books and speaks frequently on a variety of entrepreneurial and technology topics. Mr. Erwin's formal education is in finance and computer science. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Thomas P. Bishop Director Mr. Bishop is the Chief Technology Officer of BMC Software and former CTO of Tivoli and VIEO. At BMC, a provider of Business Service Management solutions, he is reinventing the distributed systems management model he helped establish at Tivoli and is changing the rules for systems management with an applications-focused, quality of service-oriented management solution. A technology innovator, Mr. Bishop has 20+ years of industry experience, a record of leading the development of industry standards and nine patents in the areas of fault tolerant computing, distributed computing, and multi-processing. Mr. Bishop also held senior positions at Bell Labs and leadership roles at 2nd Wave, UNIX International, Tandem and Locus Computing. In 2004, he was selected by InfoWorld magazine as one of the industry's 25 Most Influential CTOs. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University. whurley (William Hurley) Director Mr. Hurley has 15 years of experience in the research, development, and commercialization of groundbreaking technologies. During this time, he has earned numerous honors and awards including IBM's Master Inventor title, an IBM pervasive computing award, two 'Going for the Gold' awards for innovation from Apple Computer, and a 2004 Apple Design Award. He is responsible for authoring numerous patents on behalf of Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Tivoli Systems, and Apple Computer. Prior to joining Symbiot Mr. Hurley held executive and management positions at IBM, Apple Computer, and several Austin, Texas-based startups. He is a published author (IDG, Hayden, McMillan) and has been interviewed frequently in the media (The Associated Press, CNN, New Scientist Magazine, O'Reilly Publishing, NetCraft). Mr. Hurley speaks frequently on the topics of future software directions, software development, Internet and e-business technologies, and intellectual property, open source, and disruptive business strategies. He is also responsible for Symbiot's participation in several standards-based organizations. Mr. Hurley holds a CISSP from the ISC(2) and is a member of the HTCIA (High Technology Crime Investigation Association), and the FBI's Infragard program. |
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