Tech+Wildcatters


 * Tech Wildcatters**. Dallas, TX
 * Name:** Tech Wildcatters, __ [] __
 * Date Founded:** 2010
 * City:** Dallas
 * Address:** 3100 Carlisle St., Suite 209, Dallas, TX, 75204
 * Twitter:** __ [] __


 * Investment & Equity:** $25,000


 * First Class:** 2010
 * Total Classes:** 1
 * Total Companies Graduated:** 5
 * Notable Graduates:** KeyRingApp (Mobestream media)
 * Founded by:** Gabriella Draney and Jon Feld
 * Next Deadline:** January 16, 2011
 * Next Class:** February 28, 2011


 * **TechWildcatters** is a mentorship-driven microseed fund and startup accelerator. Our 12-week accelerator “bootcamp” runs every spring and fall starting April 2010 in Dallas.

We’re very selective – each year we expect hundreds of companies to apply to the program and 8-10 of them will be invited to Dallas for each class. The companies get up to $25,000 in seed funding, intensive top-notch mentorship, and the opportunity to pitch to angel investors, venture capitalists and corporate development teams at our end of program “Pitch Day”.

What we look for: - Applications: Web/Enterprise 2.0, BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc. - Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. - Customers: SMB through Fortune 500 - Location: come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program - Founders: well-rounded founder teams >1 person, demonstrated understanding of entrepreneurship, relevant technical and business knowledge - Capital: needing seed capital to support living expenses while bootstrapping, can make efficient use of limited capital, would generally be planning on self/angel/customer financing as a next step coming out of the program || media type="custom" key="10227253" ||


 * Mentors (updated 19-08-2011):**


 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/jon-feld.jpg width="95" height="113" caption="jon-feld"]] ||< Jon Feld ||< Jon Feld is an accomplished entrepreneur, business builder, team leader, strategist, and consultant. He is recognized and respected by his colleagues and clients as excellent at assessing business dynamics, seeing opportunities, creating a vision for change and growth, and building and leading a team to collaborate and achieve exceptional results together. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/carlhefton-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/carl-hefton/carlhefton/"]] ||< Carl Hefton ||< Carl Hefton has 35 years of business experience, most recently as a Founding Partner of Entrust Capital Advisors in 2008. Entrust provides M&A advisory and other investment banking services focusing on companies that have enterprise value of between $2 and $50 million. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/TViegut-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/todd-viegut/tviegut/"]] ||< Todd Viegut ||< Mr. Viegut has a 20+ year track record bringing advanced technologies, products and services to market. He is a seasoned veteran with a demonstrated track record of positioning unique and innovative offerings into new and emerging markets for streamlined product growth, corporate growth and corporate level transactions. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/larry_02G65931-200x300.jpg width="101" height="112" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/larry-goldstein/larry_02g6593-2/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Larry is an experienced early-stage investor and entrepreneur with a focus on software and communications businesses. He has been an active venture investor as well as angel investor in the southwest. Larry co-founded Seed Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital partnership where he has been involved in the formation and growth of a variety of technology based businesses over the past 15 years. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Todd_Price-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/todd-price/todd_price/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< In 2010, Todd Price is assuming U.S. leadership responsibility for establishing Hitachi Consulting’s new Environmental Sustainability Solutions Practice. In this role, Todd guides new the development of new client offerings, partnership strategy and acquisition strategy in the areas of Sustainability Research, Environmental Impact Reporting, Product Lifecycle Assessment and Facilities Energy Management. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/kassanoff-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/ricky-kassanoff/kassanoff/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Ricky is the CEO of Paragon Furniture – an educational and technology focused furniture design and manufacturing company based in Arlington, Texas. Since acquiring Paragon in 2004, Ricky has lead the company through every phase of strategy and tactics required to growing a small business. In addition to business planning and raising capital, he has lead the company transformation by bringing together a group of smart people and driving new ways to develop, design, produce and sell new and existing product lines in a profitable manner. Taking calculated risks and eagerly attacking opportunities Paragon has doubled in sales and at the same time has remained highly profitable. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hubbard.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/mark-hubbard/hubbard/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Mark is the President of Paragon Furniture – a 27 year old educational and technology focused furniture design and manufacturing company based in Arlington, Texas. Since acquiring an equity stake in Paragon in 2004, Mark has lead the business through a significant restructuring of its distribution channels, as well as, rebranding and strengthening sales/marketing strategy and practices. As the Paragon partner chiefly responsible for sales activities, Mark is heavily involved in all aspects of the customer experience. Since 2004, Paragon sales have nearly doubled. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/rapoport-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/neal-rapoport/rapoport/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Neal is a seasoned entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1991, and moved to Dallas in 1993 and Plano in 2000. Neal started a popular deals & coupons site in 2004 and just sold it in 2008. Prior to that, he has been part owner in 2 consulting businesses, and worked for companies such as Microsoft & CompuCom. Currently Neal is in the process of looking at new business opportunities as either an angel investor or starting another business himself. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/boog-scott-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/john-boog-scott/boog-scott/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Neal is a seasoned entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1991, and moved to Dallas in 1993 and Plano in 2000. Neal started a popular deals & coupons site in 2004 and just sold it in 2008. Prior to that, he has been part owner in 2 consulting businesses, and worked for companies such as Microsoft & CompuCom. Currently Neal is in the process of looking at new business opportunities as either an angel investor or starting another business himself. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Gary-photo-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/gary-cohen/gary-photo/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Gary Cohen is a semi-reformed attorney and serial entrepreneur focusing on innovative web-based businesses. In 2004, he co-founded Pegasus News, an award-winning online media company, and served as the company’s Vice President and Chief Operating Officer until it was sold in 2007 to Fisher Communications, a publicly-traded media company based in Seattle. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/RMM-photo-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/michael-martin/rmm-photo/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Michael has over 20 years experience in the information technology industry in diverse business development roles. He began his career at Unisys Corporation where he succeeded in sales to the manufacturing industry. Michael then worked in the systems integration and consulting field primarily with SHL Systemhouse (now a part of HP/EDS). ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sam-f-150x150.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/sam-fischer/sam-f/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Sam Fischer has been building and executing successful Partner and Alliance programs for over 20 years. He has held Senior Leadership roles with Sun, IBM, BMC and CA. With each company, he has leveraged his extensive network of contacts and established the Partner Ecosystem as a critical sales channel. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/J-Rodakis-300x292.jpg width="95" height="95" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/john-rodakis/j-rodakis/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Doug Jarvie brings over 25 years experience and is especially seasoned managing in a high growth environment. He began his career in commercial banking and, later realizing he was more of an entrepreneur, acquired an interest in fledgling Streetball Partners, producer of the Hoop-It-Up basketball tournaments. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MG_9476-150x150.jpg width="100" height="100" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/david_gabrie/_mg_9476/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< After a successful career investing institutionally, John Rodakis now primarily invests his own money and advises early stage companies through his investment vehicle GateBridge Investments. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/10SLT087-Crosby-3130-150x150.jpg width="100" height="100" link="http://techwildcatters.com/?attachment_id=1114"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< David has been a consultant to a broad range of technology companies in the US and Europe since the mid-‘80s. After working as a senior engagement manager in strategy consulting with a focus on global M&A deal structuring and organizational-design, David transitioned to the senior retained search industry where, for over 20 years, he has helped clients build boards and senior leadership teams. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_1764-150x150.jpg width="100" height="100" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/jared-green/img_1764/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Chris' background and experience has always been at the intersection of information and technology. He has been granted two patents, and has an additional 10 pending. He has led IT teams to Number 13 on the InfoWorld 100; the 2002 The RealWare Award - Best Enterprise Content Management Application; an Honorable Mention in the 2003 CIO Magazine Enterprise Value Awards, recognizing contribution to business value and results; among other awards. ||
 * <  ||< Larry Goldstein ||< CEO, SoftLayer, Inc. Prior to SoftLayer, Mr. Crosby spent five years with The Planet as Chief Operations Officer where he managed all operations including sales, provisioning, product selection, managed services, application development, engineering, information security, business development, and legal departments. Serving in prior executive management roles at Catalog.com and Dallas Internet, he brings extensive experience in leadership and management skills coupled with extensive technical skills in software and hardware environments. ||
 * <  ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Jared Green is a seasoned strategist and business development professional. He is developing two media-based tech startups (Cartoon Customs and SpokesBox), while building his contemporary art brokerage, Fringe Galleries. Jared most recently served as Vice President of Business Development for Heritage Auction Galleries. He worked primarily on developing institutional clients and championing new ventures for the company's memorabilia and arts businesses. The auction house is the 3rd largest auction house in the world with over $700 million in annual sales of fine art, rare coins and vintage memorabilia. ||
 * <  ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Roger Chang is the co-founder and Executive Vice President of One Technologies LP. Bootstrapped in 2000 with less than $1,600 in capital, One Technologies has emerged as a leader in strategic online advertising & customer acquisition and was recently ranked #8 on the Inc 500 fastest growing companies list. ||
 * <  ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Sai Subramanian is the Director of Marketing at Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit. Prior to Cisco Sai was the VP of Marketing at Navini Networks, a venture funded start-up in the Mobile Wireless space that was acquired by Cisco in 2007. Sai launched Navini’s strategic business and product vision and helped steer the company through multiple rounds of funding and a successful acquisition by Cisco. Before Navini Sai held various management positions at Nortel Networks that spanned R&D, Strategic Marketing, and Customer Planning. Sai holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. ||
 * <  ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Ray Estep is a growth company senior leader with extensive competencies in Business Development, Strategy, Operations and Finance. He brings nearly 25 years of successfully leading and advising high growth technology focused companies and global business unit teams through early and mid life cycle stages of rapid expansion. His efforts have resulted in increased market share capture, leadership within their respective industry sector and strong returns for investors. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Tom-Montgomery.jpg width="100" height="100" link="http://techwildcatters.com/?attachment_id=1068"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Tom is Managing Partner of the accounting firm Montgomery, Coscia, Greilich, LLP. His primary disciplines include advanced tax planning, transactional services, particularly mergers, acquisitions, debt/equity financing for both public and private companies and strategic and operational planning for large and medium sized businesses. Prior to forming the firm, Tom was responsible for starting and growing Beal Capital Markets, Inc., an investment subsidiary of Beal Bank specializing in both public and private corporate finance products. ||
 * < [[image:http://techwildcatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_3620-e1300462998364-150x150.jpg width="100" height="100" link="http://techwildcatters.com/mentors/amrit-kirpalani/img_3620/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Amrit Kirpalani is co-founder and CEO of DenuoSource, a global analytics company that helps turn data into profitability for Fortune 500 firms. With offerings covering data management, business intelligence, and business/advanced analytics, DenuoSource provides expert staff and consulting services in a high-quality, low cost model to serve as extensions of our client’s internal teams. Amrit also serves as an advisor to multiple early-stage technology and internet startups in the US and India. Prior to founding DenuoSource, Amrit was a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company and Accenture. Amrit has a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Miami and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/rHayes.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/rhayes/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Bob just completed a stint as Senior Vice President and General Counsel BakBone Software, Inc., a La Jolla-based software company, where Bob was responsible for general corporate affairs and legal matters worldwide. BakBone was sold to Quest Software in January 2011. Prior to BakBone, Bob served with Skywire Software, LLC, where he served in a similar capacity. Skywire was sold to Oracle, Inc. in July 2008. Bob began his career at Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C., where he practiced law for eleven years specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and securities and regulatory law. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/tHigley.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/thigley/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Paul Ford is a serial entrepreneur, global technology evangelist, innovator, strategist and visionary currently serving as the Vice President of Community Development at SoftLayer Technologies in Dallas TX – The worlds largest and most advanced Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) company. Paul has a passion for seeing young companies succeed by helping them position their products and technologies for world domination. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/kholland.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/kholland/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< John Reed is a serial entrepreneur, investor and executive. Currently, he serves as Managing Partner of Azalea Ventures, a private equity fund dedicated to financing wind farms in the U.S. In 2001 he cofounded Blue Streak Network, which acquired the public assets of a new digital media technology company and has since raised $40MM in venture financing. The headquarters was moved to Montreal in 2006. Prior to Blue Streak, Reed founded Lifecast.com in 1999. After selling their “Gated Portal” to over 1000 country clubs, ClubCorp bought a controlling stake in 2000. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/mVanhorn.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/mvanhorn/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< As Chief Outsiders' recently appointed new Principal, Brown complements Chief Outsiders' core values and the teams' exceptional skills. Brown specializes in corporate and market strategy, branding, product and company positioning, mergers and acquisitions, and business and channel development. Throughout her career, Brown has demonstrated the ability to define strategy and achieve profitable business results while managing organizational growth and change. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/dHose.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/dhose/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Dave is a serial entrepreneur that has founded and launched three successful companies focused on exploring the semantic web. He has been at the forefront of semantic search for the past 13 years following a pioneering effort in 1995 that resulted in the first real-time news service delivered via the web. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/jHug.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/jhug/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Jeff Williams is a managing director of Covera Ventures and has more than 10 years experience investing in early and late stage companies. He also brings operational experience to Covera Ventures as a result of managing and ultimately divesting several companies in the commercial finance, property and casualty insurance and technology industries. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/bJackson.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/bjackson/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Charlie Feld is one of America’s most recognized and successful Chief Information Officers (CIO) and information-technology consultants. As founder and CEO of The Feld Group—based in Dallas, Texas—Feld built a team of information technology executives that enabled dramatic results in Fortune 500 companies through the transformation of their own IT organizations. The Feld Group was acquired by EDS in 2004, which was subsequently purchased by Hewlett-Packard in 2008. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/jKalmikoff.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/jkalmikoff/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Jim brings more than 25 years of executive leadership with extensive entrepreneurial and software technology experience. He is currently the CEO and President of Ignite Technologies, Inc. a provider of secure and scalable content delivery solutions for enterprises. Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Calpont, a privately-held company that focuses on database solutions. He also served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Austin Ventures. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CEO of MetaSolv Software (Nasdaq:MSLV), a leading global provider of operations support system solutions for communications service providers around the world. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/alexKing.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/aking/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Mubina has over 19 years of management experience in the finance and software solutions industries and 12 years of parallel experience in senior positions with non-profit organizations. She has focused the last 14 years on entrepreneurial and business transformation opportunities in the technology and education sectors and on M&A integration consulting in the oil and gas industry ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/wLea.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/wlea/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< In his twenty-five years in technology, Brad has worked for both established and start-up companies in line and executive management positions. Until 2008, Brad was an executive and original investor at Global Rail Systems, which was purchased in 2009 by Vossloh AG. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/sLevine.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/slevine/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Dennis Dayman has more than 15 years of experience combating spam, security issues, and improving email delivery through industry policy, ISP relations and technical solutions. As Eloqua’s Chief Privacy Officer, Dayman leverages his experience and key relationships with the major receivers to provide best practices to Eloqua customers and ensure the deliverability and compliance of their communications and data flows. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/hlindzon.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/hlindzon/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< And Hickl is a Dallas-based entrepreneur specializing in semantic search technologies. He serves as CEO of Language Computer Corporation (LCC), a leading natural language processing company. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/donLoeb.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/dloeb/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Combining general management, executive education, association and technology experience, Buddy is president and co-founder of RTM Networks where he and his partners are working to better connect universities and colleges with their alumni and membership organizations with their members to improve personal and professional development. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/dMandell.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/dmandell/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< David Matthews brings a wealth of relevant experience to Trailblazer Capital through his background as an entrepreneur, lead investor in emerging funds, venture capitalist, and venture philanthropist. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/eMarcoullier.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/emarcoullier/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Mr. Rex Kurzius is a serial Entrepreneur. Since the age of 23 he has developed and sold three companies: Resulte Universal, Resulte Healthcare, and Virtual Village. His most recent Entrepreneurial endeavor was Resulte Universal, a staffing services company. Rex founded Resulte in 1997 serving as its President and CEO. He launched the company with the idea that they could change the way the world acquires talent by developing innovative technology and fostering a cultural that would allow each employee to unleash their potential. Rex received a patent for his system, the R100™ (Patent No. 6,3875,620 B1), and his vision resulted in tremendous growth and recognition for the company. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/kMarks.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/kmarks/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< David Rex specializes in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and related financings, including as counsel to private equity and venture capital funds. He also specializes in assisting entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies from formation to exit, with an emphasis on venture capital and general corporate finance, strategic alliances and joint ventures, and related contract law. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/rMcintyre.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/rmcintyre/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Gabriel Goncalves has a proven track record in the technology arena for identifying market opportunities, bringing together solid management teams, and driving success. Gab is the founder and CEO of PeopleAnswers, a software company focused on developing solutions to help its customers increase employee performance and decrease employee turnover. Prior to PeopleAnswers, Gab co-founded HomeTracker, a successful asset management software company administering tens of thousands of properties in real estate portfolios. ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/jMendelson.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/jmendelson/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Michael Montonen is Gartner Consulting’s Office Lead for the Dallas Office, which includes the Southwest US and Mexico. Michael has extensive experience in consulting and as a business builder and client partner in several key growth areas in the outsourcing marketplace both in IT Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing. Michael has worked extensively in Insurance and Banking in the US and Latin America. He also has a strong background in our established business of information technology outsourcing (ITO). ||
 * < [[image:http://www.techstars.org/images/mentors/cMoody.jpg link="http://www.techstars.org/mentors/cmoody/"]] ||< Larry Goldstein ||< Gabriella Draney is Cofounder and Managing Partner of Tech Wildcatters. Most recently she was with HP Growth Partners, an early stage venture fund in Dallas. She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. ||

Jon Feld
Jon Feld is an accomplished entrepreneur, business builder, team leader, strategist, and consultant. He is recognized and respected by his colleagues and clients as excellent at assessing business dynamics, seeing opportunities, creating a vision for change and growth, and building and leading a team to collaborate and achieve exceptional results together. [| Read more]

Carl Hefton
Carl Hefton has 35 years of business experience, most recently as a Founding Partner of Entrust Capital Advisors in 2008. Entrust provides M&A advisory and other investment banking services focusing on companies that have enterprise value of between $2 and $50 million. [| Read more]

Todd Viegut
Mr. Viegut has a 20+ year track record bringing advanced technologies, products and services to market. He is a seasoned veteran with a demonstrated track record of positioning unique and innovative offerings into new and emerging markets for streamlined product growth, corporate growth and corporate level transactions. [| Read more]

Larry Goldstein
arry is an experienced early-stage investor and entrepreneur with a focus on software and communications businesses. He has been an active venture investor as well as angel investor in the southwest. Larry co-founded Seed Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital partnership where he has been involved in the formation and growth of a variety of technology based businesses over the past 15 years. [| Read more]

Todd Price
n 2010, Todd Price is assuming U.S. leadership responsibility for establishing Hitachi Consulting’s new Environmental Sustainability Solutions Practice. In this role, Todd guides new the development of new client offerings, partnership strategy and acquisition strategy in the areas of Sustainability Research, Environmental Impact Reporting, Product Lifecycle Assessment and Facilities Energy Management. [| Read more]

Ricky Kassanoff
icky is the CEO of Paragon Furniture – an educational and technology focused furniture design and manufacturing company based in Arlington, Texas. Since acquiring Paragon in 2004, Ricky has lead the company through every phase of strategy and tactics required to growing a small business. In addition to business planning and raising capital, he has lead the company transformation by bringing together a group of smart people and driving new ways to develop, design, produce and sell new and existing product lines in a profitable manner. Taking calculated risks and eagerly attacking opportunities Paragon has doubled in sales and at the same time has remained highly profitable. [| Read more]

Mark Hubbard
Mark is the President of Paragon Furniture – a 27 year old educational and technology focused furniture design and manufacturing company based in Arlington, Texas. Since acquiring an equity stake in Paragon in 2004, Mark has lead the business through a significant restructuring of its distribution channels, as well as, rebranding and strengthening sales/marketing strategy and practices. As the Paragon partner chiefly responsible for sales activities, Mark is heavily involved in all aspects of the customer experience. Since 2004, Paragon sales have nearly doubled. [| Read more]

Neal Rapoport
Neal is a seasoned entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1991, and moved to Dallas in 1993 and Plano in 2000. Neal started a popular deals & coupons site in 2004 and just sold it in 2008. Prior to that, he has been part owner in 2 consulting businesses, and worked for companies such as Microsoft & CompuCom. Currently Neal is in the process of looking at new business opportunities as either an angel investor or starting another business himself. [| Read more]

John Boog-Scott
John has over 20 years of business experience working with companies doing custom or packaged software development. He started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and left there to found Ensemble, a consulting firm focused on systems design development. He and his partners grew Ensemble from 2 to 70 employees and landed Ensemble on the Inc. 500 list. [| Read more]

Gary Cohen
Gary Cohen is a semi-reformed attorney and serial entrepreneur focusing on innovative web-based businesses. In 2004, he co-founded Pegasus News, an award-winning online media company, and served as the company’s Vice President and Chief Operating Officer until it was sold in 2007 to Fisher Communications, a publicly-traded media company based in Seattle. [| Read more]

Michael Martin
Michael has over 20 years experience in the information technology industry in diverse business development roles. He began his career at Unisys Corporation where he succeeded in sales to the manufacturing industry. Michael then worked in the systems integration and consulting field primarily with SHL Systemhouse (now a part of HP/EDS). [| Read more]

Sam Fischer
Sam Fischer has been building and executing successful Partner and Alliance programs for over 20 years. He has held Senior Leadership roles with Sun, IBM, BMC and CA. With each company, he has leveraged his extensive network of contacts and established the Partner Ecosystem as a critical sales channel. [| Read more]

Doug Jarvie
Doug Jarvie brings over 25 years experience and is especially seasoned managing in a high growth environment. He began his career in commercial banking and, later realizing he was more of an entrepreneur, acquired an interest in fledgling Streetball Partners, producer of the Hoop-It-Up basketball tournaments. [| Read more]

John Rodakis
After a successful career investing institutionally, John Rodakis now primarily invests his own money and advises early stage companies through his investment vehicle GateBridge Investments. [| Read more]

David Gabriel
David has been a consultant to a broad range of technology companies in the US and Europe since the mid-‘80s. After working as a senior engagement manager in strategy consulting with a focus on global M&A deal structuring and organizational-design, David transitioned to the senior retained search industry where, for over 20 years, he has helped clients build boards and senior leadership teams. [| Read more]

Chris Feola
Chris' background and experience has always been at the intersection of information and technology. He has been granted two patents, and has an additional 10 pending. He has led IT teams to Number 13 on the InfoWorld 100; the 2002 The RealWare Award - Best Enterprise Content Management Application; an Honorable Mention in the 2003 CIO Magazine Enterprise Value Awards, recognizing contribution to business value and results; among other awards. [| Read more]

Lance Crosby
CEO, SoftLayer, Inc. Prior to SoftLayer, Mr. Crosby spent five years with The Planet as Chief Operations Officer where he managed all operations including sales, provisioning, product selection, managed services, application development, engineering, information security, business development, and legal departments. Serving in prior executive management roles at Catalog.com and Dallas Internet, he brings extensive experience in leadership and management skills coupled with extensive technical skills in software and hardware environments. [| Read more]

Jared Green
Jared Green is a seasoned strategist and business development professional. He is developing two media-based tech startups (Cartoon Customs and SpokesBox), while building his contemporary art brokerage, Fringe Galleries. Jared most recently served as Vice President of Business Development for Heritage Auction Galleries. He worked primarily on developing institutional clients and championing new ventures for the company's memorabilia and arts businesses. The auction house is the 3rd largest auction house in the world with over $700 million in annual sales of fine art, rare coins and vintage memorabilia. [| Read more]

Roger Chang
Roger Chang is the co-founder and Executive Vice President of One Technologies LP. Bootstrapped in 2000 with less than $1,600 in capital, One Technologies has emerged as a leader in strategic online advertising & customer acquisition and was recently ranked #8 on the Inc 500 fastest growing companies list. [| Read more]

Sai Subramanian
Sai Subramanian is the Director of Marketing at Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit. Prior to Cisco Sai was the VP of Marketing at Navini Networks, a venture funded start-up in the Mobile Wireless space that was acquired by Cisco in 2007. Sai launched Navini’s strategic business and product vision and helped steer the company through multiple rounds of funding and a successful acquisition by Cisco. Before Navini Sai held various management positions at Nortel Networks that spanned R&D, Strategic Marketing, and Customer Planning. Sai holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. [| Read more]

Ray Estep
Ray Estep is a growth company senior leader with extensive competencies in Business Development, Strategy, Operations and Finance. He brings nearly 25 years of successfully leading and advising high growth technology focused companies and global business unit teams through early and mid life cycle stages of rapid expansion. His efforts have resulted in increased market share capture, leadership within their respective industry sector and strong returns for investors. [| Read more]

Tom Montgomery
Tom is Managing Partner of the accounting firm Montgomery, Coscia, Greilich, LLP. His primary disciplines include advanced tax planning, transactional services, particularly mergers, acquisitions, debt/equity financing for both public and private companies and strategic and operational planning for large and medium sized businesses. Prior to forming the firm, Tom was responsible for starting and growing Beal Capital Markets, Inc., an investment subsidiary of Beal Bank specializing in both public and private corporate finance products. [| Read more]

Amrit Kirpalani
Amrit Kirpalani is co-founder and CEO of DenuoSource, a global analytics company that helps turn data into profitability for Fortune 500 firms. With offerings covering data management, business intelligence, and business/advanced analytics, DenuoSource provides expert staff and consulting services in a high-quality, low cost model to serve as extensions of our client’s internal teams. Amrit also serves as an advisor to multiple early-stage technology and internet startups in the US and India. Prior to founding DenuoSource, Amrit was a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company and Accenture. Amrit has a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Miami and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management. [| Read more]

Bob Wright
Bob just completed a stint as Senior Vice President and General Counsel BakBone Software, Inc., a La Jolla-based software company, where Bob was responsible for general corporate affairs and legal matters worldwide. BakBone was sold to Quest Software in January 2011. Prior to BakBone, Bob served with Skywire Software, LLC, where he served in a similar capacity. Skywire was sold to Oracle, Inc. in July 2008. Bob began his career at Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C., where he practiced law for eleven years specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and securities and regulatory law. [| Read more]

Paul Ford
Paul Ford is a serial entrepreneur, global technology evangelist, innovator, strategist and visionary currently serving as the Vice President of Community Development at SoftLayer Technologies in Dallas TX – The worlds largest and most advanced Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) company. Paul has a passion for seeing young companies succeed by helping them position their products and technologies for world domination. [| Read more]

John J Reed
John Reed is a serial entrepreneur, investor and executive. Currently, he serves as Managing Partner of Azalea Ventures, a private equity fund dedicated to financing wind farms in the U.S. In 2001 he cofounded Blue Streak Network, which acquired the public assets of a new digital media technology company and has since raised $40MM in venture financing. The headquarters was moved to Montreal in 2006. Prior to Blue Streak, Reed founded Lifecast.com in 1999. After selling their “Gated Portal” to over 1000 country clubs, ClubCorp bought a controlling stake in 2000. [| Read more]

Dana Brown
As Chief Outsiders' recently appointed new Principal, Brown complements Chief Outsiders' core values and the teams' exceptional skills. Brown specializes in corporate and market strategy, branding, product and company positioning, mergers and acquisitions, and business and channel development. Throughout her career, Brown has demonstrated the ability to define strategy and achieve profitable business results while managing organizational growth and change. [| Read more]

Dave Copps
Dave is a serial entrepreneur that has founded and launched three successful companies focused on exploring the semantic web. He has been at the forefront of semantic search for the past 13 years following a pioneering effort in 1995 that resulted in the first real-time news service delivered via the web. [| Read more]

Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams is a managing director of Covera Ventures and has more than 10 years experience investing in early and late stage companies. He also brings operational experience to Covera Ventures as a result of managing and ultimately divesting several companies in the commercial finance, property and casualty insurance and technology industries. [| Read more]

Charlie Feld
Charlie Feld is one of America’s most recognized and successful Chief Information Officers (CIO) and information-technology consultants. As founder and CEO of The Feld Group—based in Dallas, Texas—Feld built a team of information technology executives that enabled dramatic results in Fortune 500 companies through the transformation of their own IT organizations. The Feld Group was acquired by EDS in 2004, which was subsequently purchased by Hewlett-Packard in 2008. [| Read more]

Jim Janicki
Jim brings more than 25 years of executive leadership with extensive entrepreneurial and software technology experience. He is currently the CEO and President of Ignite Technologies, Inc. a provider of secure and scalable content delivery solutions for enterprises. Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Calpont, a privately-held company that focuses on database solutions. He also served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Austin Ventures. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CEO of MetaSolv Software (Nasdaq:MSLV), a leading global provider of operations support system solutions for communications service providers around the world. [| Read more]

Mubina Gillani
Mubina has over 19 years of management experience in the finance and software solutions industries and 12 years of parallel experience in senior positions with non-profit organizations. She has focused the last 14 years on entrepreneurial and business transformation opportunities in the technology and education sectors and on M&A integration consulting in the oil and gas industry. [| Read more]

Brad Taylor
In his twenty-five years in technology, Brad has worked for both established and start-up companies in line and executive management positions. Until 2008, Brad was an executive and original investor at Global Rail Systems, which was purchased in 2009 by Vossloh AG. [| Read more]

Dennis Dayman
Dennis Dayman has more than 15 years of experience combating spam, security issues, and improving email delivery through industry policy, ISP relations and technical solutions. As Eloqua’s Chief Privacy Officer, Dayman leverages his experience and key relationships with the major receivers to provide best practices to Eloqua customers and ensure the deliverability and compliance of their communications and data flows. [| Read more]

Andy Hickl
And Hickl is a Dallas-based entrepreneur specializing in semantic search technologies. He serves as CEO of Language Computer Corporation (LCC), a leading natural language processing company. [| Read more]

Buddy Teaster
Combining general management, executive education, association and technology experience, Buddy is president and co-founder of RTM Networks where he and his partners are working to better connect universities and colleges with their alumni and membership organizations with their members to improve personal and professional development. [| Read more]

David Matthews
David Matthews brings a wealth of relevant experience to Trailblazer Capital through his background as an entrepreneur, lead investor in emerging funds, venture capitalist, and venture philanthropist. [| Read more]

Rex Kurzius
Mr. Rex Kurzius is a serial Entrepreneur. Since the age of 23 he has developed and sold three companies: Resulte Universal, Resulte Healthcare, and Virtual Village. His most recent Entrepreneurial endeavor was Resulte Universal, a staffing services company. Rex founded Resulte in 1997 serving as its President and CEO. He launched the company with the idea that they could change the way the world acquires talent by developing innovative technology and fostering a cultural that would allow each employee to unleash their potential. Rex received a patent for his system, the R100™ (Patent No. 6,3875,620 B1), and his vision resulted in tremendous growth and recognition for the company. [| Read more]

David Rex
David Rex specializes in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and related financings, including as counsel to private equity and venture capital funds. He also specializes in assisting entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies from formation to exit, with an emphasis on venture capital and general corporate finance, strategic alliances and joint ventures, and related contract law. [| Read more]

Gabriel Goncalves
Gabriel Goncalves has a proven track record in the technology arena for identifying market opportunities, bringing together solid management teams, and driving success. Gab is the founder and CEO of PeopleAnswers, a software company focused on developing solutions to help its customers increase employee performance and decrease employee turnover. Prior to PeopleAnswers, Gab co-founded HomeTracker, a successful asset management software company administering tens of thousands of properties in real estate portfolios. [| Read more]

Michael Montonen
Michael Montonen is Gartner Consulting’s Office Lead for the Dallas Office, which includes the Southwest US and Mexico. Michael has extensive experience in consulting and as a business builder and client partner in several key growth areas in the outsourcing marketplace both in IT Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing. Michael has worked extensively in Insurance and Banking in the US and Latin America. He also has a strong background in our established business of information technology outsourcing (ITO). [| Read more]

Gabriella Draney
Gabriella Draney is Cofounder and Managing Partner of Tech Wildcatters. Most recently she was with HP Growth Partners, an early stage venture fund in Dallas. She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. [| Read more]


 * Advisors (updated 19-08-2011):**


 * < __ [|Mitchell Ashley] __ ||< Founder, Converging Network ||
 * < __ [|Tim Connor] __ ||< Partner, Sequel Venture Partners ||
 * < __ [|Terry Gold] __ ||< Founder, CEO, and President, Gold Systems ||
 * < __ [|Ryan Hunter] __ ||< Financial Analyst & Head of Marketing, Wedge Partners ||
 * < __ [|Paul Jerde] __ ||< Director, University of Colorado Leeds School of Business and The Deming Center ||
 * < __ [|Lee Kennedy] __ ||< Founder, Bolder Search ||
 * < __ [|Rick Klau] __ ||< Google Business Product Manager, Blogger ||
 * < __ [|Sue Kunz] __ ||< Founder and CEO, Solidware Technologies ||
 * < __ [|Jim Lejeal] __ ||< Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Oxlo Systems ||
 * < __ [|Ryan Martens] __ ||< Founder and CTO, Rally Software Development ||
 * < __ [|Tim Miller] __ ||< CEO, Rally Software Development ||
 * < __ [|Frank Moyes] __ ||< Entrepreneurship Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado ||
 * < __ [|Jeff Nolan] __ ||< VP, Corporate Development at NewsGator Technologies, Inc. ||
 * < __ [|Jim Pollock] __ ||< CEO, AWhere, Inc. ||
 * < __ [|Lucy Sanders] __ ||< Founder and CEO, National Center for Women & Information Technology ||
 * < __ [|Mark Sawyer] __ ||< President and CEO, Vico Software ||
 * < __ [|Brad Schell] __ ||< Founder & Board Member, Sketchup (acquired by Google) ||
 * < __ [|Chris Scoggins] __ ||< Principal, Sequel Venture Partners ||
 * < __ [|Alan Shimel] __ ||< Chief Strategy Officer, StillSecure ||

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