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Harry Herington is the CEO of NIC. early 20 years ago, he helped transform NIC from a small start-up to a national company, as he puts it ''before the internet was cool,'' with a vision to harness technologies to improve citizen and business interactions with government. As the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Mr. Herington leads the Company as it works with more than 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies, and has developed thousands of digital government services that make government interactions more transparent, efficient, convenient, and mobile. Under his leadership, NIC has grown to become a nationally respected company, and has repeatedly ranked on Forbes' list of the ''100 Best Small Companies in America.'' His management philosophy has been featured this year in the New York Times, Forbes, and Entrepreneur magazines.

James Bidzos is president and chief executive officer of Verisign. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors and has been executive chairman since August 2009. As the founder of Verisign, Bidzos is an Internet and security industry pioneer whose accomplishments include building RSA Security into the early standard-bearer for authentication and encryption, and launching Verisign as a company in 1995 to develop the digital certificate infrastructure for Internet commerce. Before returning to the president and chief executive role in August 2011, Bidzos served as Verisign's first president and CEO and also served as Verisign's chairman of the board of directors from April 1995 until December 2001, as vice chairman from December 2001 to July 2007, and as interim CEO from July 2008 to August 2009. Bidzos served as president and CEO of RSA Security from 1986 to February 1999, and then served as RSA's vice chairman from 1999 to May 2002.

Gabe Battista formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Talk America, where he previously served as CEO. Prior to joining Talk America in January of 1999, Mr. Battista served as CEO of Network Solutions Inc. Before joining Network Solutions, Mr. Battista served as CEO, President and COO of Cable & Wireless, Inc. He also held management positions at US Sprint, GTE Telenet and The General Electric Company. He serves as a director of Capitol College, and Systems & Computer Technology Corporation (SCTC).

Mr. Gottdiener was appointed Neustar President & Chief Executive Officer of Neustar in July 2018 to drive the growth of the company's global leadership in Information Services. Mr. Gottdiener has a 30-year track record of leading information services and technology companies, driving innovation in client solutions, increasing revenue and profitability and scaling operations. Prior to joining Neustar, he was Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a Managing Director at Providence Equity Partners. As COO, Mr. Gottdiener led the firm's portfolio operations, business development, human resources and other administrative functions. He also served as an interim CEO or Board member of several Providence portfolio companies including Blackboard, SRA International, Altegrity, Survey Sampling, VRAD and Ascend Learning. Previously he spent seven years at Dun & Bradstreet where he served in a number of strategy and operating leadership roles including as President of the global risk, analytics and internet solutions business. Prior to Dun & Bradstreet, Mr. Gottdiener held several leadership positions in consulting with Boston Consulting Group, CSC Index, Ernst & Young Consulting and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Mr. Gottdiener received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College. He is a trustee of Grinnell College.

Bob Brisco is a Chief Executive Officer at WEBMD HEALTH CORP. and Founder at Classified Ventures and is based in Los Angeles, California. He has worked as President at Universal Citywalk Hollywood, President/CEO at Internet Brands, and President at Universal Studios Hollywood. Robert studied at University of Southern California between 1980 and 1984; University of California, Los Angeles between 1985 and 1987; and UCLA Anderson School of Management between 1985 and 1987.

Jim Collins is a Chief Executive Officer at Fruition and is based in Denver Metropolitan Area. He has worked as Chief Growth Officer at Fruition, General Sales Manager at DexYP, and Area Manager at Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Jim attended University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business.

Sean Allen is co-founder and the CEO of BMC Group, an international information management and professional services firm that supports the legal, financial, corporate, and medical industries. Sean built the company based on the premise that the processes supporting legal, medical and corporate industry could be streamlined through advanced technology. Project planning and state-of-the-art technology is now applied to BMC's consultative service lines of bankruptcy, class action, litigation, mergers & acquisitions, investor communications and clinical trials. Sean has served as an expert witness in accident reconstruction and product liability. He has consulted within a cross-section of industries including automotive, financial services, manufacturing, medical, pharmaceutical and telecommunications. Sean is also a professional race car driver competing in the Speed GT World Challenge in a Porsche GT3 and the on the Historic Grand Prix circuit in the McLaren M30 Formula 1.