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Board Members
Ronald L. Bornhuetter
Mr. Bornhuetter is a retired senior executive from the insurance
and reinsurance industries. Most recently, he spent 14 years at
NAC Re Corporation (a NYSE listed company) as its Chairman and CEO.
Under Mr. Bornhuetter’s leadership, the company’s revenues
grew from less than $50 million in 1985 to over $750 million in
1999 and total assets experienced similar growth to over $3.0 billion.
In June, 1999 NAC Re Corporation was sold to XL Capital Ltd. for
approximately $1.2 billion and Mr. Bornhuetter retired from the
company at that time. Prior to NAC Re Corporation, Mr. Bornhuetter
spent approximately 20 years at General Re Corporation, most recently
as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Bornhuetter
is a Director of Cyber$ettle (an insurance related internet company),
and the International Executive Service Corps and a Trustee for
the College of Wooster. He has served as a Director, Vice President,
and President of both the Casual Actuarial Society and the American
Academy of Actuaries and is a former Director of XL Capital Ltd.
and Carvill Ltd., and a former Vice President of the International
Actuarial Association. In 1972, he co-authored the award winning
paper, “The Actuary and IBNR,” with Ronald E. Ferguson,
Chairman and CEO of General Re Corporation. The formula developed
in this paper is still considered to be the standard model for determining
loss-reserving procedures for liability lines of insurance business.
He also was the first Chairman of the Actuarial Standards Board,
the organization that sets Actuarial Standards in the United States.
Mr. Bornhuetter is the father of Linda Bornhuetter Gridley.
David Diamond
Mr. Diamond is the President of David Diamond Associates - a New
York-based consulting practice focused on marketing and strategic
planning. David has more than 20 years of management and marketing
expertise. His clients include a prestigious roster of companies
such as Iomega, CheckPoint Systems, Oxford Management Corporation,
Wise Foods, The Museum of Modern Art and Georgia Pacific. Prior
to founding David Diamond Associates, Mr. Diamond was President
of Emerging Businesses and Chief Vision Officer for Catalina Marketing.
In this position, Mr. Diamond was responsible for the company's
new and emerging ventures, which included its fast-track internet
division, Catalina Marketing Japan. He also was responsible for
creating the company's consumer attitude and behavior research-based
businesses (Alliance Research and Shopper Direct), and adding to
the marketing services portfolio of Catalina Marketing through acquisitions,
alliances and joint ventures. Prior to joining Catalina Marketing,
Diamond was President and CEO of Lamaze Publishing Company, a $10
million publisher of magazines and video products for new and expecting
parents. In addition, Mr. Diamond served as Senior Vice President
and General Manager for ActMedia's promotion division and as Senior
Vice President for the company's new products division where he
helped to develop the Instant Coupon Machine. Mr. Diamond also was
Vice President of Strategic Planning at Oral Research Labs. He began
his marketing career at Procter & Gamble. Mr. Diamond earned
a bachelor's degree from Carleton College and received his MBA in
finance from Columbia University. He currently resides in New York
City with his wife, Karen Zukowski, and their son, Theodore.
Marcia J. Hooper
Ms. Hooper is President and Founder of HooperLewis, LLC a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology based companies. Ms. Hooper has over two decades of venture capital experience, having served as a partner at Castile Ventures, Advent International and Ampersand Ventures/Paine Webber Ventures. She began her career at IBM in marketing. She currently serves on a number of private and public companies boards, including Enterprise Vista Systems, Isis Biopolymer and Bowne & Company. She also serves on the Strategic Advisory Board of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, New Zealand Government's economic development agency. Ms. Hooper received her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and mathematics from Brown University. She also earned a Master of Arts degree in chemistry from Columbia University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business
William M. Kearns, Jr.
Mr. Kearns is Chairman and Co-CEO, Keefe Managers, LLC, a money
management firm, since 2002; Vice Chairman, Keefe Managers, Inc.,
a money management firm, 1998 to 2002; President, W. M. Kearns &
Co., Inc., a private investment company, since 1994; Director, Selective
Insurance Group, Inc., since 1975; Director, Transistor Devices,
Inc., since 1991; Director, U. S. Shipping Partners L.P., since
2002; Senior Advisor to Proudfoot Consulting, PLC, since 1996; Trustee
of EQ Advisors Trust (AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co.) since 1997;
Trustee of AXA Enterprise Funds Trust (AXA Financial); Director,
Gridley and Company LLC, since 2001; Member Advisory Board, Private
Client Resources, since 2004; Executive Committee, Greater New York
Council of Boy Scouts of America, since 1985; Member Executive Advisory
Committee, William E. Simon School of Business Administration, University
of Rochester, since 1986; Member, Oncology Philanthropic Leadership
Council of Morristown Memorial Health Foundation, since 2005.
Steve Mott
Mr. Mott is the CEO of BetterBuyDesign, a payments systems consultancy
serving clients ranging from major banks and processors to technology
startups and investment capital/equity firms. Mr. Mott’s firm’s
projects span business case forecasts and justifications; strategy
and business development; technology assessments; project management;
and due diligence evaluations. Mr. Mott is a noted speaker and author
in the payments industry, and each year serves as a member of several
conference planning committees and as a presenter in more than two
dozen banking, merchant, technology and payment conferences. An
acknowledged pioneer in eCommerce, in 1997 he was named by Interactive
Week (now eWeek) magazine one of the “Top 25 Unsung Heroes
of the Internet” and in 1998 by Business 2.0 magazine one
of the “Top 25 Most Intriguing Minds for the New Economy.”
He was a graduate of Harvard Business School and a White House Fellow
appointee, and previously held executive positions at McKinsey &
Co., McGraw-Hill, MCI Telecommunications, MasterCard International
and Priceline WebHouse Club.
Sharon M. Munger
Ms. Munger is the retired Chairman of The M/A/R/C Group and most
recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of
M/A/R/C Research, an operating division of The M/A/R/C Group. As
a subsidiary of Omnicom, The M/A/R/C Group operates two businesses:
Targetbase, a CRM and direct marketing agency and M/A/R/C Research,
a strategic marketing research firm. Ms. Munger has played a prominent
role in developing practices that have influenced the marketing
services industry and has extensive experience in providing the
full complement of marketing research and database services available
through The M/A/R/C Group. She pioneered the company's database
marketing business in the early '80's after developing the service
on behalf of a M/A/R/C client. Ms. Munger is also credited with
steering the company into innovative business and service strategies
by establishing a full line of integrated services that have expanded
the company's industry penetration and revenues. She received a
B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University and serves as the President
of the Alumni Board of Directors as well as a member of the Corporate
Council for the Owen School of Management. She also serves on the
boards of several innovative marketing services firms.
Don Peppers
Don Peppers has been recognized for over a decade as one of the
leading authorities on customer-focused relationship management
strategies for business. He is also the co-author, with Martha Rogers,
Ph.D., of a series of international best sellers that have collectively
sold over a million copies in 15 languages. Peppers and Rogers’
most innovative strategic thinking is embodied in their latest book,
Rules to Break, Laws to Follow, which is expected to be published
in the third quarter of 2007. Most recently, their 2005 publication
of Return on Customer (or ROC) advanced the concepts and
tenets of business valuation to the next evolutionary stage, documenting
the customer base as a revenue-producing asset for businesses. They
are also the authors of the most comprehensive and best-selling
graduate level text book on CRM, Managing Customer Relationships,
published by Wiley in 2004. Peppers and Rogers are frequently recognized
for their intellectual contributions to business thinking. The
Times of London cited Peppers among their “Top 50 Business
Brains,” and the United Kingdom’s premier marketing
organization, the Chartered Institute for Marketing, cited
him among their inaugural listing of the 50 “most influential
thinkers in marketing and business today.” He has been ranked
by Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change among the global
“Top 100 Business Intellectuals” for two years running,
and Business 2.0 Magazine has named him one of the “foremost
business gurus of our times”. Peppers & Rogers Group is
a division of Carlson Marketing Worldwide, the global marketing
services arm of Carlson Companies. Gridley & Company LLC served
as the advisor to the company in its 2003 sale to Carlson.
Donna M. Walsh
Ms. Walsh is one of three founding partners of Odin Capital Group,
a private equity firm with an investment focus on early to mid-stage
companies engaged in business outsourcing services, niche financial
services, healthcare software and services, and point software solutions.
Ms. Walsh combines strong operational management experience with
an exceptional strategic and financial background when investing
in and guiding emerging growth companies. Prior to founding Odin
Capital Group, Ms. Walsh served in several executive positions at
First Data Corporation, a leader in e-commerce and payment services.
Before joining the ranks the of a Fortune 100 company, Ms. Walsh
was advising such companies as a consultant with the Boston Consulting
Group and as a financial analyst with the mergers and acquisitions
group of CS First Boston. Ms. Walsh has a B.S. in Economics and
an M.B.A from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
She serves on the board of directors of Odin's portfolio company,
ISD Holdings. She is also on the board of the Midland Venture Forum,
an organization dedicated to the promotion and success of high growth
companies in the Midlands. Ms. Walsh resides in Omaha, NE with her
husband and two children.
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