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Bobbi Hazard is a well known, published high performance sales and marketing executive who has both international and domestic successes with multi-million dollar contracts. She was most recently Executive Vice President of Sales at Linux Networx, a high performance cluster computing company, where she managed the business development, sales, technical teams, benchmarking and contracts for the company. In 2008 she and the executive team, sold the company to Silicon Graphics, Inc. Formerly she spent 7 years at Dell, Inc. where she was Director of DOD and Civilian Intelligence Agencies in the Federal marketplace, expanding that business to $350M. Ms. Hazard was Worldwide Vice President and General Manager of the Business Systems Division for Cray Research which was acquired by Sun Microsystems. In this capacity she managed the development of the E10000 product bringing it to market as Director of Worldwide Enterprise Computing at Sun, where the product attained sales of $1B under her leadership in one year. She has led Merger and Acquisition teams for both Sun and Cray, successfully closing several acquisitions. She has spent the last 28 years in the IT industry devoted to Enterprise Hardware and Software Solutions primarily in High Performance Computing. She has also been Worldwide Vice President of Sales for nCUBE, another massively parallel high performance computing company, privately owned by Larry Ellison. Ms Hazard has consulted for both high performance computing and storage companies, improving their market penetration and sales efficiencies. Other business acumen was gained from executive experiences with Digital Equipment Corporation, Elxsi, Data General and Evans and Sutherland. Ms. Hazard graduated with honors from Rollins College with both a Bachelors and Masters Degree. John is well known in HPC, having introduced the first commercial cluster system in 1985 and having first demonstrated 1000x, scalable parallel performance on real applications in 1988, for which he won the inaugural Gordon Bell Award. That demonstration broke the “Karp Challenge” that claimed speedup of more than 200x was a practical impossibility; it created a watershed that led to the widespread manufacture and use of of highly parallel computers. He is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s 2007 Golden Core Award, the famed re-builder of the Atanasoff-Berry computer system, and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law of parallel computing (sometimes called “weak scaling”). His parallel processing innovations have netted him three R&D 100 awards and two Inventor of the Year awards. An honors graduate of Caltech and Iowa State University, John was previously CTO of ClearSpeed Technology, and Principal Investigator at Sun Labs where he won and led Sun’s $47M DARPA HPCS contract. His commercial decisions are guided by his experience as an HPC user while a computational scientist at Ames Laboratory, a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is presently Intel's Director of Future Technology Research, Santa Clara. Gene is one the original architects of the business mainframe computer, including IBM’s System/360 line. He started the IBM-compatible market when he founded Amdahl Corporation. Gene’s work has been called brilliant and genius by his peers. The Times of London named him one of the “1,000 Makers of the 20th Century” in 1991, and Computerworld declared Gene one of the 25 people “who changed the world.” He founded four companies: Amdahl Corporation, Trilogy Systems, Andor Systems, and Commercial Data Servers. He is well known for Amdahl’s law, which predicts the speedup of using parallel processors on a problem versus using only one serial processor. Gene began his career with IBM in 1952 where he first worked on neural network simulation and character recognition, and then headed development of the IBM 704. He followed this with initial planning for the IBM 709 and STRETCH (IBM 7030). In 1955, he began work at Ramo Wooldridge and later at Aeronutronic on military data processing, before returning to IBM in 1960. He then headed the architectural and data flow planning for the IBM 360 product line. In 1964, Gene moved to California as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. In 1965, he was named an IBM Fellow and was able to pursue his own research projects. He headed the Advanced Computing Systems Laboratory in Menlo Park until 1970 when he founded Amdahl Corporation. Kevin is the inventor and architect of MPT’s core technology, including the Lambda, Cascade, Manifold and Hypermanifold products. He invented MPT’s MPI offload methodology, holographic checkpointing, network device caching, parallel processing support and debugging tools, and error detection and job recovery tools. He currently heads MPT’s ongoing R&D effort where he has been the Principal Investigator on MPT’s DARPA contracts. He is a co-author of MPT’s landmark 300-page white paper, The General Theory of Parallel Processing Communication. His 30+ year technology career includes design of large-scale computer systems for radars, submarine fire-control, tape and disk libraries, Shipboard Programmed Operational Functional Analysis, and satellite communication. His operating system extensions and device driver experience includes large scale tape systems for Exabyte Corp., an automated printing press for IBM (where he also taught device driver design), and robotic disk array systems for STK, where he won an “Outstanding Accomplishment” award. Kevin was the CTO of Augmentx Corporation, helping that company to win the WINlab product comparison award for removable tape backup systems. Scott has founded a number of successful companies in diverse markets. In the early 1990s he founded Manns Haggerskjold of North America, Ltd., pioneering the securitization of commercial mortgage pools on Wall Street. Since government guarantees that secure residential mortgage pools were unavailable for commercial pools, the latter were thought impossible to securitize without third-party credit enhancement; he worked with the rating agencies to create a structured finance model to prove otherwise. Despite Wall Street skepticism, his company secured a $1B line of credit from the investment banking firm of DLJ and successfully originated loans for the first mixed-property type commercial real estate mortgage pool in the US. Wall Street quickly adopted his structured finance model, and today over $2B of these securities are sold per year. In the mid 1990s, South Africa lacked investment grade status with Wall Street rating agencies, and he used the same approach to found Manns South Africa, a firm that provided Nelson Mandela’s Redevelopment Program its first financing. Tom enjoyed an illustrious 20+ year career at Storage Technology Corporation (STK), one of Colorado’s best-known Fortune 500 companies. Since retiring from STK in 1998, Tom has held management and consulting roles in high tech start-ups, including serving as Datavail’s CEO, subsequently folded into Creekpath. Tom was Executive VP and General Manager of STK Network Systems, where he was responsible for STK’s first entry into networking product development and support. He redirected R&D resources to a new strategic network switching platform, eliminating $50 million in annual operating losses while reducing annual personnel turnover from 23% to 6%. Prior to STK Network Systems, Tom was Executive VP of Operations at STK, where he presided over the architecture, design, manufacture and volume ramp-up of many high performance storage products. He led a three-year corporate quality improvement effort, resulting in a 75% reduction in new product failure rates, and managed $150 million in annual R&D spending and a $750 million manufacturing budget. Victor brings more than 30 years of operational and computer technology leadership to MPT. He most recently served as the CEO of Panasas Corp where he helped productize the company’s technology, leading the company to its first significant revenue and eventually to profitability. Prior to that he served as the president and CEO of Chaparral Network Storage Corp., where he implemented a new storage virtualization strategy and international distribution model before the company's successful acquisition by Dot Hill Systems. Prior to joining Chaparral, Victor served as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Storage Technology Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise information lifecycle management. During his 22-year tenure at StorageTek, he successfully managed a broad range of responsibilities in various US and international executive positions. Victor was responsible for corporate marketing and product strategy for disk, tape, tape automation, software, Storage Area Networks and related services. Most notably, he revived their mainframe disk business by establishing a groundbreaking development and distribution partnership with IBM. Victor also implemented strategic relationships and distribution pacts with Hewlett Packard, Compaq Computer and Sun Microsystems. Mr. Khan is Vice President of Strategy and Development at SGI. He has served on advisory boards of growth companies in areas ranging from data movement, compliance and risk management, web 2.0, processors, interconnects, and systems. He was previously chief marketing officer of Electronics for Imaging and Azul Systems, builder of 24-core and 48-core microprocessors, associated systems, and Java virtual machine technologies. Mr. Khan is a graduate of Cornell University, with BS and MS degrees in engineering, and he is the author of several peer-reviewed papers on parallel processing and large scale systems. His article on "kilo core" computing, published in The Register in 2005, was a provocative view of large-scale, multi-core systems. His recent areas of interest have been a deep analysis of the IT market and quantitative models to determine the impact of IT infrastructure on business productivity and sustainability, which include approaches to treating total cost of ownership (TCO), return on investment (ROI), service level agreements (SLA), customer acquisition, market segmentation, and value chains. In October, 2002 Tony retired as President and CEO of Rodel, Inc after 5 years with this upcoming semiconductor company. During his tenure, which included the two worst recessions in the history of the semiconductor industry, Rodel witnessed outstanding growth in sales and profits, propelling its valuation from $260 million to over $2 billion during his stewardship. It is valued at more than $3 billion today. Rodel is the global leader in Chemical Mechanical Planerization materials (CMP) a key process to make semiconductor chips. Rodel technology touches almost every chip made in the world today. Rodel was fully acquired by Rohm and Haas in 2002. Prior to Rodel, Tony held many positions of increasing responsibilities around the world with Rohm and Haas ($15 Billion). His assignments took him and his family for ten years overseas in England, Germany, France and Brazil. During his career he worked in the textiles, leather, paper, plastics and coatings industries. His last position at Rohm and Haas was Corporate Vice President and a member of the senior management leadership council. Before entering the corporate world, Tony was a Senior Lecturer at Widener University for two years (Chemical Engineering and Industrial Management). Tony’s background includes a BS in Biology (American University of Beirut), MS in Chemical Engineering (The Ohio State University) and MBA (Widener University). He is fluent in English, French, Arabic, Portuguese and adequate in Spanish. Since retirement from the corporate world, Tony has started and co-founded few ventures: Corey Capital (global equity investments), UrbanLogic (real estate development), MtCedar Properties (real estate management) and TradeCom (commodities trading). His community work has focused mainly on education and mentoring young entrepreneurs. Tony currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Arizona State University Foundation and Chairman of the Board of AZ Technology Enterprise. Barbara Guth is President of Sagesse Holdings, LLC, a private consulting firm that provides coaching, strategic advisory services, and access to the private capital markets for individuals and organizations that offer paradigm shifting business/social models and technologies. Following 12 years in the international healthcare and surgical industries, Barbara shifted her focus in 2000 to the finance industry to support exclusively entrepreneurial ventures. She worked for a boutique VC firm where by 2003, she had raised the funds for what led to the largest acquisition in history in the spinal industry, and the third largest acquisition in orthopaedic history. She ultimately launched her own consulting business six years ago, and under this umbrella, Barbara is a Managing Director for C2, a structured investment fund which provides VC’s with revolutionary restructuring models to better serve their shareholders needs. Barbara received her BA in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University, Masters level training in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University, and she is currently finalizing a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Transformation/International Peacemaking. Barbara is certified as a Newfield Executive Coach, IMP Transformational Coach and has additional training in Mediation and Facilitation. Having worked and lived in France for 11 years, Barbara is fluent in French. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Karuna Center, an NGO focused on peacemaking post traumatic conflict/genocide, and Youth Intermedia Foundation. Barbara was one of two civilians honored by the NYC National Guard for her work at Ground Zero post 9/11, and she is passionately dedicated to the re-empowerment of humanity through the conception of new systems and structures that serve the whole of humanity. Her deepest desire is to assist and inspire the creation and evolution of systems that reflect the true capacity of human consciousness, ultimately encouraging truly sustainable and peaceful human coexistence. Jerry brings 30+ years of experience in banking, finance and management to MPT. In 1991 he joined Scott Smith’s securitization company as Executive VP and assisted the firm in structuring the nation’s first mixed property type commercial mortgage pool, for which he oversaw all phases of loan origination and underwriting. Previously, Jerry was Treasurer of Christian Mutual Life in Concord NH, where he successfully structured four REMIC security offerings utilizing a grantor trust REMIC pass-through senior/sub model. One became the first SEC publicly registered offering of its kind, utilizing 10-K and 10-Q filings. Prior to 1987 Jerry was the Senior VP of secondary marketing and CFO for a large mortgage banking subsidiary of New Hampshire Savings, a $1.1B bank. Jerry managed all fiscal activities of the entity which closed up to $20M/week in loans, and serviced just under $1B. Jerry pioneered the FNMA, FHLMC, and GNMA pass-through (as opposed to selling whole loans), and the electronic delivery system, and was responsible for cash flow management, structuring the subsidiary’s lines of credit, and creating and managing the complex hedging strategies for a $120M portfolio of mortgage-backed securities. Before retiring in 2001, Mike was a senior member of Merrill Lynch Investment Banking Division. During his 29 years there, he completed over $250B of financing transactions. His corporate finance efforts covered a broad range of activities, including raising of debt and equity capital in the public and private capital markets, project finance, merger and acquisition advisory, corporate restructure and initial public offerings. Clients and industries have included media, natural resources, public utilities, financial institutions, basic industry, financial sponsors, healthcare, technology and domestic and foreign governments. In addition, Mike initiated and participated in the structuring, development and issuance of equity and fixed-income securities and derivatives. In the 1990s, he advised the governments of Mexico and Brazil in their efforts to create primary and secondary mortgage capital markets. In 1985, he advised the US Treasury in the creation of their STRIPS program. In 1984, Mike led the creation and issuance of certain mortgage-backed security structures developed from non-conforming and jumbo US mortgages. In 1982, he was a primary participant in the creation and issuance of the first publicly offered zero-coupon U.S. Treasury securities, TIGRs™. Dr. Hochschuler is one of America's leading spine experts.  Dr. Hochschuler's surgical practices are conducted in Plano, Texas as well as Phoenix, Arizona.  He is a Co-Founder of the Texas Back Institute and Chairman of the Board of TBI Holdings, Inc. Dr. Hochschuler has published numerous research papers in international spine journals, as well as authored "Back in Shape" (1991) and "Treat Your Back without Surgery" (1998). Dr. Hochschuler graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed an internship and surgery residency at Harvard Surgical Service, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas and Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas.  Dr. Hochschuler is a Founding Board Member of the Spine Arthroplasty Society as well as its past president and current Board member. He is an active member of other organizations such as North American Spine Society, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and AOSpine. Dr. Hochschuler also serves in an advisory capacity for several other entities. He is on the Board of Directors of Alphatec Spine, Inc. and is on the Board of Directors of SpineMark, Inc. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Pioneer Surgical Technologies and several other evolving spinal technology companies. Dr. Hochschuler serves on the Business Advisory Board of a number of companies, including Abbott Spine, Orthofix, Inc., BioAssets Development Co, Inc., LDR Spine, DePuy Spine, K2 Medical, Mazor Surgical Technologies and Facet Solutions, Inc.

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