Daniel C. Lynch
Los Altos Hills, California

co-Founder, Chairman CyberCash, Inc.

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Lynch initiated a revolution getting people and computers to communicate by founding the worldwide INTEROP Conferences and Exhibitions. Communications Week magazine named him one of the most promising industry leaders of the '90s and honored him as one of the Top 25 Visionaries in 1991. Mr. Lynch coined the term, "interoperability," which is now the driving force behind one of the high technology industry's fastest growing markets: network computing.

Terry Huffington
Houston, Texas

Huffco Group Inc.

Ms. Huffington is Chairman of the Board of Huffco Group, Inc., an international oil and gas exploration company. She has been active in oil exploration and geological studies for over 10 years. Ms. Huffington is a member of several geological and petroleum societies, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Geological Society of America, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation. Ms. Huffington is also involved in numerous civic activities, including serving on the President's Council of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Mark H. Edwards
San Francisco, California

President, iQuantic

Mr. Edwards is founder and president of iQuantic Inc., a compensation and organization consulting firm based in San Francisco. The firm's clients include Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, Advanced Micro Devices, Lam Research, and many other leading high-tech companies. Prior to founding iQuantic, Mr. Edwards was a principal with Sibson & Company. Mr. Edwards earned a master's degree in management from the Sloan School at M.I.T. and a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

J.G. "Mike" Ford, Jr.
Austin, Texas

President, Vindicator

Mr. Ford is the current president of Vindicator Inc. a privately held technology company based in Texas and is a member of a number of policy institutions ranging from the National Taxpayers Union to U.S. Term Limits. He was a co-founder of Autodesk, Inc. and served as a member of its Board of Directors and as a Vice President for sales, marketing, and support. His volunteer resume is filled with years of service to "offset the damages done to the citizens of the nation . . . by Congress" working on issues relating to individual liberty.

Peter Gruber
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

President, Globalvest Management Company, L.P.

Mr. Gruber is the Chief Investment Manager and President of Latinvest Management Company LLC and Globalvest Management Company, L.P. investing in the securities markets of Latin America. Latinvest Fund Ltd. was formed to accommodate growing investor interest in Latin American markets. Globalvest Management Company LP is a registered investment advisor and offers investment management and advisory services to qualified U.S. investors, pension funds and other institutions.

Allan C. King
Houston, Texas

Mr. King has spent virtually his entire career in the oil and gas business, during which time he drilled over 1,000 wells, principally in the Texas/Louisiana Gulf Coast area. He is currently a member of the All-American Wildcatters organization and serves on the Executive Committee of the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association. Mr. King is past Chairman of Presbyterian School Board of Trustees, a member of the Executive Committee of the Methodist Hospital Board of Directors, and a Director and former President of the Development Board of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Leo Linbeck, Jr.
Houston, Texas

Chairman & CEO, Linbeck Construction, Inc.

Mr. Linbeck is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Linbeck Construction Corporation, and Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Linbeck Corporation. He is also former chairman and director of the Federal Reserve bank of Dallas.

Leigh Marriner
San Rafael, California

President, Marriner Associates

Ms. Marriner has over ten years experience in the personal computer industry. She is the President of Marriner Associates, a software consulting firm. Previously she was the vice-president of marketing for Broderbund Software and the first product manager for WordStar. Ms. Marriner is an honors graduate of Harvard Business School and Wellesley College.

Bill Melton
Vienna, Virginia

CEO/co-Founder, CyberCash, Inc.

Bill Melton is a co-founder and the chief executive officer of CyberCash, Inc. For more than 20 years, Mr. Melton has been an entrepreneur building companies around the application of computer and telecommunications technology to solve problems in the world of financial transactions. CyberCash is his fourth entrepreneurial venture in this arena. In 1981 Melton founded VeriFone, Inc., the transaction automation company that has made credit authorization terminals ubiquitous on retail merchant counters. He stills serves on the board of directors. Mr. Melton also is a member of the board of directors of America OnLine. He holds a master's degree in Asian Studies and Chinese philosophy.

David H. Padden
Chicago, Illinois

President, Padden & Company

For fifteen years, Mr. Padden worked in heavy construction for various state, county, and municipal governments. He was president of a large contracting firm building many prominent expressways, bridges, and other structures in the Chicago area. He also serves on the boards of the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, and The Heartland Institute.

John Porter
Hayward, California

Co Chairman, Telos Corporation

Mr. Porter has major investments and is directly involved in several companies in the US and abroad including, Verifone, Saipens, Party America, Cast Alloys, and MLI Lasers. He is Co-Chairman of Telos Corporation, an information technology company. His mother is a well-known British political personality, Dame Shirley Porter, former Lord Mayor and Leader of Westminster.

Michael Rothschild
San Rafael, California

President, The Bionomics Institute

Mark A. Tebbe
Chicago, Illinois

President, Lante Corporation

Mr. Tebbe is the president of Lante Corporation, a Chicago-based computer and consulting firm. Over the last few years, Lante has focused upon client/server, groupware, and workflow-oriented applications. Mr. Tebbe has been able to share his perspective in a variety of ways, and is frequently quoted in publications such as PC Week, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes.