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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.

Zach Nelson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of NetSuite, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corp.

Thai Lee (born 1958) is a Thai-born Korean American billionaire businesswoman, the co-owner, CEO and president of SHI International, reported by Forbes to be the largest woman-owned business in the US. In 2019, she was the 5th wealthiest Self-Made Woman in America, with the net worth of US$3 billion.

Jawahar Chatpar is a Chairman/President/CEO at Cyber Digital Inc. He has experience at Nortel Networks and has worked as Board Member at Cyber Digital Inc and General Manager at Bayly Engineering Ltd. Jawahar attended University of Waterloo and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT).

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.

Donald Massaro is responsible for managing Rainmaker’s overall operations and driving company strategy. A renowned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and leader, Don has a 30 year track record of successfully leading both public and privately-held cutting-edge technology-based companies, and bringing innovative products to market. Prior to Rainmaker, Massaro held the position of CEO of Sendmail, a leader in messaging infrastructure serving the world’s largest corporations. Mr. Massaro has been a founder and CEO of six Silicon Valley technology companies including Reconnex, Yotta Navigation, Silicon Gaming, Inversion Development Corp, Metaphor Computer Systems and Shugart.

Lingping Gao is a Founder, CEO & Chairman at NETBRAIN TECHNOLOGIES INC and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked as CAD Engineer at EcoAir and Network Engineer / Chief Network Architect at Thomson Reuters. Lingping attended Yale between 1993 and 1995 and Tsinghua University between 1988 and 1993.