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Senior manager with 30 years experience defining and executing flexible, results-oriented product development processes: establishing agile processes such as continuous integration and scrum to be able to react to continuous requirement changes; maintaining rapid, high quality deliveries, while maintaining sanity for the engineering team; driving the development lifecycle, from product definition, requirements, and specification through design, development, quality assurance, release, and customer support; building, directing, motivating, and retaining teams including managers, architects, teams leads, and individual contributors; managing projects and teams in large distributed corporate environments.

Bill has 32 years experience in VP/executive global sales and marketing in numerous high technology sectors where responsibilities included developing and enabling product definition, product launch and distribution strategies with a primary focus on aggressive revenue and market share growth. The scope of these responsibilities ranged from the development of market and channel strategies for early stage companies to the major revamping of strategies for Fortune 500’s. Technology sectors spanned computer peripherals, high frequency GaAs FET components, client-server software, data communications, and test and measurement systems.
Currently Bill is Principal at WCE Consulting, a firm focused on revenue and market share growth through sales and channel strategy alignment. In addition he serves on a number of emerging company advisory boards, is am active board member at OEN and is an adjunct instructor at PSU and U of O.

Mr. Powers is the Managing Partner of Cornerstone Management Resources and has over 35 years experience in technology ventures. He has been an officer and/or director in a number of companies that have successfully gone from early formation to successful exits. He has experience on several boards of directors, is an active angel investor, and volunteer in the entrepreneurial community.

Current Positions:
Managing Partner and Founder, Cornerstone Management Resources, Oregon. Cornerstone Management Resources (CMR) is a consulting firm that for the past 5 years has focused on assisting early stage companies in areas such as team formation, development of market strategies, market research, financial projections, and funding strategies leading to a complete investor ready offering. In addition, for select companies, CMR also assists with raising the initial Seed/Series A round of capital. CMR clients have successfully raised over $8M.
Founded in 1998, CMR has provided leadership in all aspects of business development and revenue acceleration for emerging and mid-market companies. He has successfully completed numerous projects involving strategic planning, business plan creation, sales channel development, marketing programs, and extensive work in leading merger/acquisitions projects for mid-sized companies.
Professional Background:
Mr. Powers’ early career with Westinghouse Electric Corporation (5 years) and Thorson Company (7 years) as an engineer and sales executive eventually led to his first early stage company, TriQuint Semiconductor. Although not a founder, Mr Powers joined TriQuint in its early days as its first sales executive and eventually became VP of Sales and Marketing. Subsequent to a three-way merger, he held the position of VP and Business Unit Manager of the Digital ASIC product  division. After leaving TriQuint in 1992, he joined Flir Systems briefly (18 months) to help lead the development of their first handheld infrared imaging product line. During that time Mr. Powers was recruited by Tektronix to join the senior management team of Merix Corporation, a Tektronix spinout. As VP of Sales and Marketing, he was part of the Senior management team that successfully completed an IPO, completed several M&A transactions, and successfully grew Merix into an industry leader. Mr. Powers left Merix to form Cornerstone Management Resources in 1998. Mr. Powers holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Oregon State University and a master’s of science in the management of science and technology from the Oregon Graduate Institute, now part of OHSU.

Other Experience:
For 4 years, Powers was a Board member of the Oregon Science and Technology Partnership, a non-profit that was instrumental in pioneering the formation of the NW Defense Collation, a regional Biofuels conference and the emergence of wave energy technology interest in Oregon. Previously he also held a board position with Ambitech International, a California high tech manufacturing company. Currently, Mr Powers is an active board member of the Oregon Entrepreneur Network, the leading entrepreneurial organization in Oregon and the Oregon Technology Business Center, an early stage company incubator, located in Beaverton, Oregon. Mr. Powers is an active community volunteer, a past chair of the Portland Angel Network, member of the Angel Oregon investment conference steering committee, and an active Angel Investor.

Hugh is a senior manager with extensive business development, marketing and management experience in the international business community. His strengths include strategic planning, marketing, sales, partnering, international business and pricing strategies. He has a successful track record in sales of high value products and services to large corporations and has particular expertise in data visualization, telecommunications, image processing, video on demand, and business intelligence software.

Experience managing customer technical support, Applications Engineering management, program/project management, customer training management, managing partner programs, quality management, technical problem solving, cross functional team building, continuous improvement, coaching/mentoring, statistical analysis

Van worked on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs with Honeywell, concentrating in the areas of Inertial Guidance Systems, visual displays for astronauts, and hand controls for the Command Capsule and Lunar Excursion Module. Moved to Control Data in 1969 as a program manager for large computer systems. In 1977 moved to Oregon to work for Floating Point Systems, a supercomputer company, where he became Director of Engineering.
From 1991 to 1998 he ran his own consulting business working with small growing hi-tech firms. He would find expansion space, manage all tenant improvements including power, clean rooms, A/C, etc, and then move the company into its new quarters. Len retired in 1998 and immediately began volunteering for SCORE where he has helped numerous clients, especially in the area of detailed financial planning.

Proven and successful entrepreneur with deep experience in identifying opportunities, developing and implementing business plans, creating and launching consumer products, formulating marketing and promotional strategies, team building, and managing tight budgets.  Co-founder of Castor & Pollux Natural PetWorks and current Board member.  

Wm's involvement with start-up companies includes management, product development, and marketing positions. At Ithaca Software, which was acquired by Autodesk, Wm was responsible for new product development —- building new tools for distributed programming and graphics. As one of the first five employees at Cogent Research, Wm successfully built and managed the graphics group, and designed the underlying technology used in their groundbreaking operating system —- a distributed version of UNIX.
Wm was the founder, president, and CTO of Zat, Inc., whose component-based application assembly tool won Programming Tool of the Year at the Web '99 conference. Wm sold Zat to WebGain in a deal valued in the mid eight figures. After that, Wm became an angel investor and consultant, as well as taking on management and board of director positions at a variety of local companies, including DigiSlice, and eMarket Group. Wm is now involved in a new startup, Emota.net, which is building ambient social networks for health applications.

 Patrick M. Wheeler is the Managing Director at Management Contract Services and is a professional executive with an MBA and 25 years of management and consulting experience. He has worked with a large variety of companies, including service industry, wholesale industry and technology companies with sale of $1M-$15M.  He has experience as a CEO, COO, GM and contracted CFO. Contact Patrick at pwheeler@managementcontractserv.com