Andy Norman served as an interface designer and senior project manager for MAYA Design's Human Sciences Group from 1999-2002. Prior to that, he was a tenured professor of philosophy at Hamilton College, where he taught logic, practical reasoning and critical thinking skills. His unique interdisciplinary research agenda led to publications dealing with knowledge systems, the logic of inquiry, learning and decision theory, and technology's impact on human perception and practices. Andy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University and has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

About Knosis (www.knosis.com): Knosis helps educators, training and development professionals and forward-thinking leaders impart the thinking and communication skills that knowledge professionals need to excel in today's information-rich environments. The Company’s unique system empowers people to combat overload, attain clarity, command attention, and communicate with power. Its flagship product is a software "thought processor" that lets you see the logic of your thinking. Argutect opens a window into the world of ideas, so you can assemble compelling lines of thought in an intuitive, drag-and-drop environment. Graphical cues and context-sensitive logic help promote clarity, critical thinking, and effective communication. Results are easily exported into presentation software or a word processor. Knosis also teaches The ArgutectTM Method: a step-by-step approach to preparing written documents that are clear, persuasive and actionable.

Roger Byford, one of the founders of the company, currently serves as chairman of the board of directors and chief technology officer of Vocollect, and has nearly 20 years of experience in the industrial application of speech technologies. As Vocollect’s CTO, Mr. Byford is involved in all aspects of the design and engineering of Vocollect’s voice-directed distribution systems. Prior to joining Vocollect, Mr. Byford served as engineering manager for Westinghouse Voice Systems, known for pioneering work in voice technology applications. He also worked for Westinghouse’s corporate Research and Development Center, where he collaborated to develop a voice-based access control system for apartment building elevators. Mr. Byford is a registered professional engineer, holds one U.K. and three U.S. patents, and earned his MA in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University.

About Vocollect (www.vocollect.com): With more than 60,000 users at hundreds of companies and locations throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and North America, Vocollect has deployed more integrated voice-directed distribution systems than any other company. Together, its market-leading Talkman® wearable computer and integrated software suite cut operating costs by eliminating errors and improving worker productivity shift after shift. The company collaborates with a premier global network of systems integrators and leading WMS providers to serve warehousing customers in a wide range of industries. Using a real-time, working dialog, warehouse staff input data into their WMS - and work "hands-free, eyes-free™." With voice-directed applications and the Talkman belt-worn, ergonomic design, workers stay focused on the job at hand - they're not reading a screen, pick list, or purchase order; keying in data; or juggling both product and an input device. Vocollect’s systems are currently at work in a variety of applications ranging from picking, receiving, replenishment and other critical distribution functions, to quality control and data collection - virtually any function where it's faster and easier for people to speak aloud, than to enter data manually.

Bill Kaigler has more than 18 years experience in product management, business development, project management, engineering, and marketing in the business to business technology and medical device manufacturing industries. During his career, he successfully launched more than a dozen new products, was awarded more than ten patents for his innovations and served as marketing manager for corporate oxygen products. Before starting medSage, Bill served as Vice President of Product Management for Moai Technologies Inc. (originally Medebiz): an Internet start-up software company specializing in e-sourcing and B2B healthcare contract management currently operating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as Director of New Ventures, Respironics Inc. (corporate venture development and research and development organization). Bill has a Master of Science Degree in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial Administration and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University.

About medSage (www.medsagetechnologies.com): Founded in 2002 by William Kaigler, Mike Sturdevant and Nancy Nunley, medSage has brought together a talented team of professionals from the home healthcare, software and medical device industries committed to solving problems for home healthcare pharmacies. medSage Technologies invented and pioneered a revolutionary Patient Management System for the home healthcare provider and respiratory pharmacy industry.

The medSage Patient Management System provides benefits critical to a business’s survival in today’s environment to: Dramatically increase call center productivity; Reduce call center costs while improving quality of care delivered; Increase provider revenues with higher reorder frequency and improved patient compliance; Increase new patient referrals and reduce program attrition; Reduce or eliminate emergency orders and Leverage outcomes data to support joint commission compliance and improve quality of care medSage provides an end to end solution designed to scale to any size pharmacy or home medical equipment provider. Our hosted solution is ideally suited for the small to medium sized provider. The online hosted solution can be accessed using Microsoft Explorer 5.0. Enterprise solutions, suited for larger organizations, can be installed behind the customer’s firewall and fully integrated with back office applications.

Jack Roseman was formerly the John R. Thorne Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University where he taught for 13 years. Prior to that, he was the founder of three companies and President of On-Line Systems, an American Stock Exchange company eventually sold to Sprint. A serial entrepreneur and award-winning educator, Jack has been described as a wise, warm, insightful and often amusing guide to the realities of owning your own business. His book, “Outrageous Optimism” prompted one reviewer to call it possibly the best business book of 2004.

Rich Lunak is an experienced entrepreneur who helped lead a three-person, local start-up, Automated Healthcare, to a $65 million acquisition by McKesson Corporation, the nation’s 16th largest company. Rich was a key executive during the company’s earliest stages, helped raise $13 million in financing, oversaw the commercialization of multiple products, managed the company through rapid growth in sales and employees, and created a smooth transition when acquired by McKesson. As Group President, McKesson Automation, Rich led five autonomous business units which created and maintained nearly 500 local engineering and manufacturing jobs and employs more than 1,600 nationally. He was responsible for acquiring new technologies and the design, development and rollout of numerous robotic, automated and software products that are installed in leading healthcare providers across the country and around the world.

A technologist as well as an entrepreneur, Rich Lunak received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and holds several U.S. patents. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, the Technology Collaborative (previously the Pittsburgh Robotics Initiative), and serves on the Carnegie Mellon School of Engineering Advisory Board.

For over ten years, Jessica Lee has advised early-stage and emerging growth businesses as an investment banker, outside general counsel and business/investment counsel, and institutional venture capital investor with an emphasis on the financial, technology and life sciences sectors. She has served as an advisor to, and as an executive/entrepreneur-in-residence with, both institutional investors and with early-stage and emerging growth businesses on matters such as strategic planning, business development, securities regulatory compliance, financing strategy, business combinations and joint ventures, corporate partnering, facilitation and mediation, and human capital.

Prior to founding her own firm, Ms. Lee had served as a partner at the financial and business law firm of Santone, Sweat & Passarello, LLP; and, prior to that position, as an associate in the Business and Finance Law Department of Titus & McConomy, LLP (formerly Cindrich & Titus). Jessica holds a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law, and a B.A. from Duke University, both in Durham, NC.; has been trained as a facilitator and mediator of management team and business matters through the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Business Mediation Training Program; is a member of the American Bar Association licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. Tax Court; and holds the following investment advisory and investment banking National Association of Securities Dealers licenses: Series 7, 24, 63, and 65.

Mona McGraw is President and Co-Founder of NuRelm, Inc. NuRelm is a profitable 4-year old Internet software and E-business solutions firm headquartered in Uniontown, PA. NuRelm is an Innovation Works portfolio company that has also received investments from the CL Fund, Endeavor Capital Management, and Fay-Penn Economic Development Council.

Mona holds an M.S. in Business Administration and two undergraduate degrees in Marketing and English. Prior to founding NuRelm, she held management and business development positions at Kaiser Permanente and IDX. Mona was recently appointed by Governor Rendell to serve on the PA Workforce Investment Board. She also serves on the Pittsburgh-based Tech Action GroupBoard of Directors, an advocacy group made up of Pittsburgh area CEOs of rapid growth technology firms.