Gene Barduson – Board Member
Gene Barduson is currently CEO of Alteer Corporation, a healthcare practice management company. Gene started his career with IBM, spent several years in the CAD/CAM industry, and then moved to an executive position with Shared Medical Systems, Inc. (SMS), now part of Siemens, AG. After SMS, he was recruited to the position of president and CEO of EDiX Corporation. He turned that company into the leading technology-based medical transcription company in the country. After an acquisition by IDX, Gene guided the company to over $100 million in revenues. Gene also served as CEO of Apexion Technologies Inc., a start-up technology company providing health care supply and surgical instrument tracking applications that was recently acquired by Lawson Software.
Henk Hanselaar – Board Member
Henk is a Managing Partner with Avondale Partners, LLC and has held similar positions with Trumpet Partners, a boutique investment bank in San Diego, and Hamilton Apex Technology Ventures. Between 1990 and 2003, Henk held CEO positions at three US and German broadband communications companies. Prior to that, he spent 14 years at Citibank in Europe and the United States. Henk graduated from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands, earned a BBA degree from the University of Oregon, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and attended the Harvard Business School PMD program.Marco Thompson – Board Member
Marco wears many hats simultaneously. He is a Managing Partner for Express Ventures, a firm which invests in "Pre Series A" ventures in San Diego. He is Chairman of Action and Sports Innovators, the first San Diego-based non-profit focused on the action sports and traditional sporting goods industries. And he serves as CTO of Wind River Services, the "Embedded Engineering" Services arm of Wind River. Originally, Wind River Services was Dr. Design, a firm Marco founded in his garage in 1984 and grew to $50MM before selling to Wind River in 2000. A well-known figure in venture and entrepreneurial circles, Marco serves on the board of several San Diego-based companies, and has served as Chair of the San Diego Telecom Council, a Board Member for Connect, and a Member and Mentor on the Chairman’s Roundtable.
Tyson McDowell – Board Member
Olivier Witteveen – Board Member