Matthew K. Henry - Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board
Matt Henry is the founder of MongoNet and
the holder of three U.S. Patents 6,424,426; 7,079,275; 7,164,488 and
other U.S. and international patents pending. Matt brings 15 years of digital
imaging, printing, semiconductor, and software experience from Pacific Lithograph,
ColorGraphics, Marshall Industries and Arrow Electronics.
Matt holds a B.S. in Business Administration with emphasis
in Marketing from the University of Colorado.
Dick
Powers - Director
Dick Powers has extensive business experience
with both computer related high tech companies as well as
several facets of the health care industry. Most recently
he served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Eclipse
Surgical Technologies, Inc. and CardioGenesis Corporation,
a company he took public in 1996. In addition to his duties
as CFO, he was also President of international operations
and sales for both of these medical equipment companies.
Prior to this, Dick was on the Board of Directors and a founding
investor of Qualtos Computer Company Inc., an on line software
support company. For almost 15 years Dick was associated
with Syntex Corporation, a $2 Billion in sales Pharmaceutical
Company, as a Corporate Officer and Senior Vice President
and CFO. Roche Corporation a Swiss Pharmaceutical Company
purchased Syntex for $5.3 billion in 1994. Dick served on
the Executive Committee of Syntex and remained with Roche
after the merger as a Senior Vice President working on the
transition and sale of several former Syntex businesses.
Dick also served as Vice President of Leasing and Corporate
Controller of Itel Corporation, a computer and large equipment
leasing company. Prior to that he was Controller of the North
American Technology Group of Xerox Corporation. Dick served
on the Board of Directors of Airlease, Ltd., DNA Sciences,
Inc., the Development Board of El Camino Hospital and the
Board of Trustees of Canisius College. He has also been a
frequent guest lecturer at the Leavy Graduate School of Business
at Berkeley and the Graduate Business School at Santa Clara
University.
Dick holds an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester Business
School and a B.S. in Accounting from Canisius College.
Michael
Schwab - Director
Michael Schwab, founder and managing partner
of Big Sky Partners, is an active and engaged investment professional
with nearly a decade of experience investing in, and mentoring, early
stage companies through every stage of company growth and development.
Since founding Big Sky in 1999, Michael has remained disciplined in
his investment approach across all 28 portfolio company investments,
highlighting the firm's primary focus on people first; on sharing aligned
interests with early stage entrepreneurs and dedicated management teams.
This approach has remained steady throughout the technology boom, bust and
recent cycle of re-emergent opportunities within Silicon Valley, and has
proven invaluable time and again across a range of industry segments and
sectors.
To date, Big Sky Partners maintains a broad portfolio of high tech, real
estate, financial, alternative energy and premium service sector capital
investments, and seeks to further broaden its reach into clean technology,
real estate development and other emerging high growth startup opportunities.
Michael currently sits on the Board of Directors of MongoNet and Solaicx Inc.,
and was a founding Board Member of ProcessClaims, an insurance claims software
startup that represents his most recent liquidity event, returning a significant
multiple on invested capital for all of the company's early stage investors.
Michael's latest investment in sales software startup, InsideView, represents
his further commitment to investing at the earliest stages of company formation,
and he will soon join as venture partner and member of the investment committee
of Greenhouse Capital, a seed stage fund with a primary focus on alternative energy
and clean technology startups. In addition, Michael is an active member of
several charitable organizations and family-related foundations.
Dr. John
Warnock - Director
John Warnock is the Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and
Former CEO of Adobe Systems. John Warnock co-founded Adobe Systems in 1982
with Dr. Charles Geschke. Throughout the history of Adobe, Warnock and Geschke
developed a stream of pioneering software products in graphics, publishing, and
electronic document technology. John Warnock is the inventor of PDF (MongoNet
turns paper into PDF from any fax machine to any email address). Warnock shares
the chairmanship of the board of Adobe Systems with Geschke.
For three decades, John has been respected as an innovator in the field of
computer software. He holds six patents, has contributed many articles to both
technical journals and industry magazines, and is a frequent speaker on
critical issues in the computer and publishing industries. John's
entrepreneurial success has been chronicled by some of the country's
most influential business and computer industry publications, and he
has received numerous awards for technical and managerial achievement.
A partial list of awards includes: Entrepreneur of the Year from
Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, and Inc. Magazine; Cary Award from
Rochester Institute of Technology; Lifetime Achievement Award for
Technical Excellence from PC Magazine; University of Utah Distinguished
Alumnus Award; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Software Systems
Award; Award for Technical Excellence from the National Graphics Association;
and the first Rhode Island School of Design Distinguished Service to Art and
Design International Award. In 1998, John also received the Corporate
Outstanding Achievement Award from the Rhode Island School of Design.
John is a distinguished member of the National Academy of Engineering
and in November 1998 was inducted into the Computer Reseller News Hall of
Fame as one of the "Ten Revolutionaries of Computing." In 1999, John
was inducted as an ACM fellow and in 2000 was ranked the seventh most
influential graphics person of the last millennium by Graphic Exchange
magazine, and that same year he was inducted into the Utah Information
Technology Association.
John also sits on the board of directors of
Octavo Corporation, is past chairman of the Tech Museum of Innovation
and currently is sitting on the Board. He also serves on its
Entrepreneurial Board Advisory Committee of the American Film Institute.
Before co-founding Adobe Systems, John was principal scientist at Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Prior to joining Xerox, John held key
positions at Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation, Computer Sciences
Corporation, IBM, and the University of Utah.
John Warnock holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (computer science),
an M.S. in mathematics, a B.S. in mathematics and philosophy from the
University of Utah, and an honorary degree in science from the
University of Utah.
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