Kirk previously founded YY Technologies, which sold a highly-accurate natural language enterprise product, and served as CEO through the Series C financing. Previous to that, Oatman was responsible for the multi-billion dollar business relationship of Hitachi Data Systems with the Japanese parent for mainframe computer products and founded operations in Europe and the Pacific Basin for Computervision, a high-end CAD vendor.

Tom Higgins has broad experience as active chair of our board. Energy: President of Edison companies & founder of energy storage company; Entrepreneur: Prosetta (anti-viral drugs), magazines; Government: Elected legislator, Associate Commissioner of Social Security, and White House Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet; Health: Sr VP Blue Cross Maryland, Chairman of SCAN HMO; Ethics leader: President, Business for Social Responsibility

Senior software engineering leader, product development consultant and CTO-to-go for companies of all sizes. Train teams in Agile and Scrum, mentor software development managers. Author of "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams". Led Charles Schwab to re-engineer its software platform. Brought engineering discipline to Stanford, Check Point, Razorfish, Fujitsu and numerous smaller companies.