was a founder and chief executive of AppliedTheory Corp, a publicly listed Internet services company. He attracted over $40 million in capital for it, led its $80 million IPO and brought gross sales to almost $80 million dollars. More recently, at XYNETICS Associates, He offered technology assessment and due diligence services to venture capitalists and investors.

has 40 years of experience in computer engineering, of which the last sixteen have been in voice technologies. He is the designer of the ejTalker platform, upon which NewInteraction's voice shopper is built. His work has focused on developing the fundamental architecture of a personal assistant that can continuously interact with the user on topics that run across multiple areas of knowledge.

has over 25 years of experience in speech technologies and she is widely known in the speech industry. She has focused on making these technologies useful by initiating practical applications in such wide-ranging areas as Air Traffic Control, retail banking, speech recognition applied to speech therapy, and in developing the standards infrastructure, which supports these applications

has more 25 years of experience in strategic planning and marketing. At Xynetics, she researched markets, determined the potential for new products and services and worked with start-up firms to develop corporate identity, strategy, mission, and market positioning. Before co-founding XYNETICS, she was VP for Marketing and Planning at AppliedTheory and at NYSERNet.

has been the Chairman and CEO of numerous public and private companies. Recently he led the turnaround of Carina Technology and earlier he was the CEO of Neutral Net. From 1989 – 2001, Schrader was CEO of PSINet Inc. a NASDAQ traded firm. Under his leadership, PSINet raised billions of dollars, employed 10,000 people, and produced $2 billion in annualized revenue.