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Paul Zaidins serves as the Chairman and CEO of DataSpan Holdings, Inc. DataSpan is a national technology solutions provider that helps our customers accomplish more with fewer resources. Mr. Zaidins is Managing Partner and Founder of Bonefish Capital. Bonefish Capital is a Merchant Banking firm focusing on advising and investing in Middle Market companies in the Technology, Route Based Services (Document Destruction, and Records Management), Amusement, Manufacturing and Distribution industries. Previous to founding Bonefish Capital, Mr. Zaidins was the interim CEO of New London Communications. He led New London through a successful restructuring. Under Mr. Zaidins leadership, New London achieved a quarter over quarter revenue increase of over twenty percent as well as improving employee morale and key vendor relationships. Prior to New London, Mr. Zaidins led American Locker through a successful turnaround which included re-branding it as the “orange key” company. While at Locker, he successfully lobbied the US Congress as part of a coalition of key business leaders that resulted in the passage of a tax provision that resulted in a seven-figure tax refund to Locker. Mr. Zaidins was instrumental in helping American Locker support FedEx in their development of the Ship&Get™ lockers. He led the negotiations that resulted in American Locker securing a contract to provide lockers as a service at Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland which included American Locker employees providing frontline support to Disney guests. Mr. Zaidins has significant middle market investment banking and independent sponsor experience as a Managing Director at Lane-Link Group and Vice-President at ECDI Capital. The principals of ECDI have subsequently rebranded the firm Valesco Industries. Mr. Zaidins started his career at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Jeffrey Thomas is a Board Member at BookRags, TRUSTEE at Greater Spokane, and Board Member at World Adventures Unlimited Inc. He has experience at Adecco and has worked as Board Member at AMBASSADORS GROUP INC, Board Member at OFF The Beaten Path LLC, and Exec VP/CFO/Secretary at AMBASSADORS GROUP INC. Jeffrey works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at Inland Northwest Council. He studied at DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

Tayloe Stansbury has more than 35 years of experience building scalable technology platforms and organizations across a number of leading companies. He currently serves as CEO of Kaleidescape, the leader in products and content that enable the finest home cinema experience. He previously served as interim CEO of Watermark Insights; and prior to that served as executive vice president and chief technology officer at Intuit, where he was responsible for all product engineering, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and information technology. Tayloe also previously served as chief information officer at VMware. Earlier, he was executive vice president of Ariba, where he led product management, engineering, hosting and customer support. Tayloe currently serves on the board of directors of Watermark Insights LLC, Kaleidescape Inc., and Trelly Group, Inc. (formerly DeShong, LLC). He previously served on the board of directors of Blue Jeans Network, Inc. and Shutterfly Inc., as well as for several nonprofit organizations, including Harvey Mudd College. Tayloe graduated with honors in applied mathematics from Harvard University.

My career has involved operational, transactional, principal investment, and advisory roles with healthcare and technology companies. I am an active investor and I get involved materially with portfolio companies pre and post investment. I currently serve as a General Partner at Hawthorne Capital Management, Inc. and am currently a Board Director & Executive Chairman at Izenda, Inc., ChartRequest, and CleanData, LLC. I'm currently an Advisor to Blueprint Health, LLC and is also the Founder & Co-Chair of the Atlanta Health 2.0 Chapter. I previously supported the Board/Management of Accelarad, Inc. (acquired by Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN)) of CardioMEMS (acquired by St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ)), Fidelis SeniorCare (acquired by Centene (NYSE: CNC), Prenova (acquired by Ecova), and Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO)). I was the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of WisePatient (acquired by Sharecare, Inc. in 2012), a SaaS-based patient access & care coordination platform connecting patients and providers online. Before founding WisePatient, I was a Senior Associate at Merrick Ventures, a healthcare and information technology focused venture capital firm led by Michael Ferro in Chicago, IL. While at Merrick Ventures, I supported the corporate development function of Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ:MRGE acquired by NASDAQ:IBM) focusing on mergers & acquisitions and post-merger integration. Prior to joining Merrick Ventures, I was an Associate at Arcapita Ventures, the growth stage venture capital arm of Arcapita, Inc., evaluating healthcare and information technology related investment opportunities. Prior to Arcapita, I worked in Accenture’s Health and Life Sciences Strategy Practice where he specialized in operational and information technology strategy for integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, and health plans.

Prior to founding BigTime Software, Inc. (formerly Edison’s Attic, Inc.) in 2002, Brian was a co-founder and CEO/CTO of DaVinci Software, Inc., a 60-person software development company that was sold in 1999 to a private equity firm. Brian was a software/new-product consultant for clients like Kraft Foods, Nicor Gas and United Airlines as well as a Board-level consultant for a number of Chicago-area venture-backed firms. Prior to founding DaVinci, he worked in professional services. He holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Tien Tzuo is a Taiwanese-born American tech entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Zuora, and prior to that was chief strategy officer of Salesforce.