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Board of Advisors

	Thomas Saaty »	Dr. Paul G. Stern »	Dr. Jerry Wind »
	Dr. Patrick T. Harker »	Darryl Garrett »	Bob Marshall »

Thomas Saaty

Thomas Saaty currently holds the Chair of University Professor, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. Prior to the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Saaty was professor, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale University.

Outside of academia, Dr. Saaty has been heavily involved with consulting to leading organizations worldwide. His political activities include involvement in research at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the State Department, the Pentagon, and dozens of other government agencies. Saaty has also consulted with leading Fortune 500 companies including IBM, State Farm Insurance, Ford, General Motors, Boeing and many others.

Dr. Saaty developed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). His decision theories are the most widely used processes for structured decision making by government and commercial organizations in over 50 countries. His methods have been used for allocation of tens of billions of dollars to support major strategic decisions. His processes have been shown to improve organizational decisions and optimize resources to save billions of dollars. His current research is in decision making, planning, conflict resolution and neural synthesis.

He has written more than 300 articles and 33 books on mathematics, operations research and decision making. His latest books are The Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of How It Works and Creative Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making. He has consulted for many corporations and governments.

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Dr. Patrick T. Harker

Dr. Patrick Harker is currently the Dean of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is also Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise and Professor of Operations and Information Management and Systems Engineering.

Dr. Harker received his PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1983; MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1983; MSE, University of Pennsylvania, 1981; BSE, University of Pennsylvania, 1981.

In addition to academia, Dr. Harker has held several key leadership positions including: Special Assistant to the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1991-92; Trustee, Goldman Sachs Trust and Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust, 2000-present; Member, Advisory Board, Juniper Bank, 2000-present; Chair, Advisory Board, Mobility Technologies (formerly Traffic.com, Inc.), 2001-present; Member, Board of Managers, Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Partners Registered Fund LLC, 2004-present Engineer, Louis T. Klauder and Associates, 1980-81; Product Support Analyst, Sun Information Services, Inc., 1979.

Dr. Harker's areas for research are service operations management and economics; financial institutions: performance and design; and managerial decision making. His current projects are productivity and quality in services, Customer Efficiency Management (CEM), service quality and computational equilibrium modeling.

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Dr. Paul G. Stern

Paul G. Stern is the founder of Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, DC-based, private equity banking firm with $452 million of committed capital that focuses on investments in the technology arena. He is also chairman of Claris Capital Partners, a Virginia-based investment bank. In aggregate, Dr. Stern has over 26 years of active operating experience, primarily in the Information Products and Services industries, and ten years of private equity experience. Prior to starting Arlington Capital, Paul co-founded Thayer Equity Investors III, L.P. and co-led a middle-market, private equity investment fund of $364 million. Thayer completed a total of 19 investments through ten portfolio companies.

In 1993, Paul joined Forstmann Little & Co. as a Special Limited Partner. During his two year tenure at Forstmann Little, the partnership completed both the $1.4 billion acquisition of Ziff-Davis Publishing and the $700 million Thompson-Minwax transaction. From 1989 to 1993, Paul served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Northern Telecom Limited, now known as Nortel Networks. Under his leadership, sales rose by over 55% and net earnings increased three-fold from $183 million in 1988 to $548 million in 1992. Market capitalization of the company during that time increased from $4.1 billion to over $10.7 billion. While with Northern Telecom, Paul led the formation of several joint ventures with Motorola and Matra, as well as joint ventures in China. In 1991, Paul led Northern Telecom's $2.6 billion acquisition of STC plc in the U.K. and its subsequent acquisition of Novatel Ltd in Canada.

Prior to Northern Telecom, Paul served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Unisys Corporation. Before his tenure at Unisys, Paul served as the Corporate Vice President at Rockwell International Corporation with responsibility for strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions. Prior to Rockwell, Paul served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Braun AG in Germany, and held numerous senior management positions with IBM.

Paul currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Whirlpool Corporation, the Dow Chemical Company and ManTech International Corporation. Additionally, he serves as Treasurer of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Madison Council of the Library of Congress and Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and through his career has served on over 15 corporate Boards.

Paul holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering (thermonuclear physics) and a Ph.D. in solid state physics. He is fluent in German and Spanish. He is the author of Straight to the Top published by Warner Books.

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Darryl Garrett

Darryl Garrett is Founder and Chairman of TAG, LLC, an independent consulting firm that assists companies with strategic planning and business development within the national intelligence community. He is currently acting as a senior advisor to the IT Solutions Office at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and to two offices at the CIA. He also is a Vice President and partner at Reality Mobile, LLC. He covers the intelligence community as a member of IBM's Strategic Business Relationships Team, consisting of a dozen retired senior flag officers from across the US and UK military. He serves as a Director on the Board of six technology companies in the US and Canada.

From 2001-2004 Darryl was a Senior Vice President at Photon Research Associates, which was acquired by Raytheon. From 2000-2001 he was a Technical Director for BAE SYSTEMS.

In March 2000 Mr. Garrett received the Career Intelligence Medal from the CIA for his innovative work with nontraditional industry partners. He retired early as a senior official from CIA as a SIS-05. From 1997 until his retirement he was one of ten members of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology Board of Directors. From 1996-2000 he was the Director of the Technology Office of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), comprised of 325 government and contract staff responsible for its technology and research and development programs. He also concurrently served as the Chief Technology Officer for NIMA.

Mr. Garrett is a graduate of the National Security Program at Harvard and has a Masters of Science degree in industrial engineering from New Mexico State University. He graduated summa cum laude in mathematics and minor in physics from Texas Tech University.

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Dr. Jerry Wind

Lauder Professor; Director, SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management, Academic Director, The Wharton Fellows Program, Editor, Wharton School Publishing

Professor Jerry Wind is internationally known for pioneering research on organizational buying behavior, market segmentation, conjoint analysis, and marketing strategy. He consults with major firms around the world, and has lectured in over 50 universities world wide.

Professor Wind is one of the most cited authors in marketing. He is a regular contributor to the professional marketing literature, with 22 books and more than 250 research papers, articles and monographs on marketing strategy, marketing research, new product and market development, consumer and industrial buying behavior and international marketing. His 2004 book The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business, draws on the latest research in neuroscience to explain how a person's mental models can distort perceptions, creating both limits and opportunities.

Professor Wind is the founding editor of Wharton School Publishing, a joint venture with Pearson and has published 25 books in the first 18 months. Over the years he has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marketing, the policy boards of the Journal of Consumer Research and Marketing Science, the editorial boards and guest editor of all the major marketing journals. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the three major marketing awards, The Charles Coolidge Parlin Award, the AMA/Irwin Distinguished Educator Award, and the Paul D. Converse Award.

Professor Wind teaches MBA courses in Marketing Strategy, Marketing Methods and Applications for Business Consulting, and a new course in creativity.

Professor Wind received his PhD from Stanford University and his MA and BS degrees from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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Bob Marshall

Bob Marshall co-founded AWS in 1992 and currently serves as company president and CEO. Marshall pioneered the networking of weather instrumentation and cameras using the Internet. He parlayed this capability into the single, largest network of weather stations and Internet cameras in the world. Marshall is responsible for the business strategy and operations of the company, and has led AWS to become one of the largest private weather media companies by building a series of unique and profitable business units.

Outside AWS, Marshall currently serves as chairman of the Committee on Technology Education (COTE) in the state of Maryland, under the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education (MBRT). The COTE committee is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of the "Maryland Plan for Technology in Education." Marshall also serves on the Advisory Board for The Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education, a premier educational technology research organization.

Prior to launching AWS, Marshall served as a program manager and lead engineer at BBN (formerly Bolt, Beranek and Newman, the company credited with starting the Internet) on a number of advanced military sensor, signal processing and networking programs.

Marshall is a cum laude graduate of the University Of Maryland College of Engineering.

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