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Kevin Howe, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO
Mr. Howe has been active in the technology industry since 1983 as a founder of two firms and an investor and board member of dozens more. In addition to his RLI responsibilities, Mr. Howe serves on the board of Digital Generation and six privately held technology firms. Mr. Howe served on the Board of The Sage Group, plc for 14 years. Mr. Howe is also founder and Managing Partner of Mercury Ventures, a technology investment fund with $100 million of invested capital in numerous private firms and over 60 publicly traded companies. Mr. Howe received his MBA from SMU and a BS from Northwestern State. |
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Robert C. Whitehair, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Research Officer, Board Director
Dr. Whitehair has led the development of River Logic’s technologies and services since the early 90’s. Dr. Whitehair’s research involves theoretical and mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence, knowledge-based programming languages, knowledge-based decision support systems, simulation and computational mathematics. During his 20-year career developing decision support systems and business intelligence software solutions, Dr. Whitehair has published over 30 industry accepted articles and technical reports. Dr. Whitehair also worked as a Manufacturing Consultant for Arthur Andersen and in a variety of research and development positions for IBM, GTE and General Motors. Dr. Whitehair has developed over 1000 models in industries such as forest products, chemicals, financial services, energy, healthcare, and engineering. Dr. Whitehair earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. |
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Stephen J.L. Page, Board Director and Senior Advisor
Mr. Page has extensive experience with tier-one strategy and consulting firms around the world. For 23 years, Mr. Page served as Chairman and CEO of Page-Wheatcroft, a senior level executive search firm. Mr. Page identified CEO’s, built Leadership Teams and developed growth and talent acquisition strategies for Global 1000, professional services and private equity firms. Mr. Page has considerable Technology and Financial Services industry experience with leadership positions in British Telecom, Univac FSD, RepublicBank of Texas and Central Bank of California. He obtained degrees in Mathematics and Telecommunications from London University as part of British Telecoms Executive Management Program and graduated from Harvard’s inaugural Leadership in Professional Services Firms program. |
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John D. Beletic, Board Director
Mr. Beletic is Executive Chairman of Fiber Tower (FTWR) and is a Venture Partner with Oak Investment Partners. Mr. Beletic also sits on the boards of Tessco Technologies (TESS), iPass (IPAS) and two privately-held companies. Previously, over the last 20 years, he was Chairman and CEO of Tigon, PageMart, and WebLink Wireless, and served one year as a Venture Partner with Morgan Stanley Venture Capital Partners. Mr. Beletic received a B.S./B.A. degree from Xavier University and a M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School. |
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Jeff Rich, Board Director
Mr. Rich is the founder and CEO of Rich Capital. From 1999 to 2005 Mr. Rich was CEO of ACS, a Fortune 500 provider of business process outsourcing and technology services. Mr. Rich joined ACS in 1989 as CFO. Under Mr. Rich’s leadership, ACS delivered a 25%+ compound annual return to shareholders over 11 years from the company’s IPO in 1994. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rich was Vice President of the Leverage Capital Group of Citibank. |
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Roger Winter, Board Director
Mr. Winter is Chairman of TPN (The Promotional Network), a company he founded that is now a subsidiary of Omnicom. Mr. Winter oversees the strategic direction of the agency and ensures that the TPN culture continues to flourish. Prior to founding TPN, Roger was the Director of Advertising and Merchandising for Southland Corporation (now 7-Eleven) and was the National Director of Advertising and Promotion for McDonald’s. |
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Dan Goodwin, Chief Financial Officer, Board Director
Mr. Goodwin began his career as a financial auditor and consultant with PriceWaterhouse. Subsequently, Mr. Goodwin joined Sage US, one of his PriceWaterhouse clients, as Controller, and became Chief Financial Officer the following year. During his nearly seven years with Sage, Mr. Goodwin was involved with the financial and legal aspects of U.S. based acquisitions, as well as overseeing the operations of the customer support, MIS and administrative departments. Mr. Goodwin also serves as CFO for Mercury Ventures. |
