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David Ian Forbes, Chairman

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David D Austin II

Glen Buco, CFP®
Glen is the President of West Financial Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sandy Spring Bank Company. West Financial has been ranked in the top 50 on Bloomberg Wealth Manager Magazine's list of the top 150 Wealth Managers nationwide. Glen is a Certified Financial Planner™ Practitioner and has served West Financial as Vice President of the Financial Planning Department since 1984. Glen has been named as one of "The Best Financial Advisers," in the nation by Worth Magazine, 1996-1998. He previously served as a member of the Board of Practice Standards of the CFP Board as well as Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Certified Financial Planners. Glen graduated from West Virginia University with a BA in Political Science.

Jeremy Coote
Jeremy Coote is currently CEO of InterComponentWare AG's North American subsidiary. The Company provides a range of eHealth integration software and a connected Personal Health Record.

Jeremy was one of the key figures at SAP responsible for the tremendous market share and performance in North America. Coote joined SAP in Switzerland and moved to the U.S. in January 1990. In his eleven years at SAP America, he served as chief financial officer, executive vice president and then president of SAP America during the period when revenues grew from $12m to $2.4b. In addition to spearheading the impressive sales and professional services organization of more than 4000 people, Coote was actively involved with many SAP customers ensuring their satisfaction and success.

Subsequently, Coote served for two years as vice president and general manager of North America Operations for Siebel Systems ranked in this time by Fortune magazine as the number one fastest growth company in America. In this role, Coote was chartered with overseeing sales and operations and driving Siebel’s explosive sales growth in North America.

Jeremy Coote was most recently president of Manugistics, Inc., a leading software and services provider of supply chain solutions.

Sharon Flank, PhD
Dr. Flank is CEO of InfraTrac, a venture-backed start-up that uses advanced technology to detect counterfeits.

Before founding InfraTrac, she ran a consulting firm, DataStrategy, providing hands-on leadership in advanced technology applications to DataStrategy’s portfolio companies. She is currently working with Contextware to establish a strong technology base to support a wide range of enterprise applications.

Sharon previously served as CTO at eMotion, Inc., now part of Corbis. She holds five patents, and has six more pending. From 1988 to 1998, Sharon was a computational linguist at SRA International, building natural language processing and information retrieval systems. She designed and developed software for PNI, now Jupiter Media’s PictureQuest, which SRA spun off in 1993. She also served as Director of Digital Library Technology, locating and developing business opportunities in the areas of information management, bioinformatics, and multimedia archiving, search and retrieval.

Sharon received her A.B. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from Harvard in linguistics. She has taught at Georgetown, Harvard and Pace University, and has authored over 30 academic papers and presentations.

Kuni Goto
Kuni is the President of Japan Link, Inc., an export-import service company located in Kawasaki, Japan dedicated to the development and maintenance of business between U.S. and Japanese companies. He has over 25 years of extensive experience representing U.S. and Japanese companies, performing strategic analysis, offering advice on positioning and promotion, identifying buyers, partners, and distributors and advising on licensing agreements and technology transfer. He has had personal experience in developing and maintaining business relations between Japanese companies and their foreign counterparts and is acquainted with many top management executives of Japanese companies.

Prior to Japan Link he was a co-owner of GOTO U.S.A., and before that he worked for the Recruit Center in Kyoto, Japan as a member of its business development team working with major Japanese companies. Kuni graduated with a degree in Japanese jurisprudence (including a stint at University College of Aberystwyth, Wales, U.K) and with a Master’s Degree in International Relations both from Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto. He has completed extensive post graduate work at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. , U.S.A.

Gregory J. Owens
Greg currently serves as President, CEO and Chairman of IronPlanet, Inc. a global online marketplace for the buying and selling of heavy equipment. Prior to joining IronPlanet, Greg served as Managing Director at Red Zone Capital a Washington, D.C. based private equity firm focused on high growth turnaround opportunities.  Prior to that role, Greg served as CEO and Chairman of Manugistics Group, Inc. (now acquired by JDA), a global provider of solutions for supply chain management. He also serves and has served on several outside boards including Serena Software, Inc., S1 Corporation and SecureWorks, Inc. Prior to Manugistics, Greg was Managing Partner for Logistics and Planning, and Global Supply Chain Management, at Andersen Consulting (Accenture). Greg holds a B.S. in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Brendan Ryan
Brendan is principal at Brendan Ryan Employee Benefits Consulting, a professional services firm specializing in employee benefits consulting, insurance placement and liaison, human resource outsourcing, employee mediation services, and benefits plan design. Before that, he was Senior Vice President and Manager of Employee Benefits and Retirement Plan Services for Sedgwick James of Virginia, where he directed the Benefits Practice in Sedgwick’s Washington, Baltimore, Richmond area office.Brendan served for five years as one of eight members of the Sedgwick National Practice Board. Brendan served as Chairman of the Board, Arlington County, Virginia Chapter, American Red Cross and Chairman of the Board, Virginia/District of Columbia State Service Council, American Red Cross. Brendan has a degree from Georgetown University and attended University of Wisconsin Law School.
 

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