Founders

Dr. Douglas I. Kalish, Chairman and acting CEO With over 30 years of management experience, including three startups, Doug has recently been providing strategic business advice to the IT and Biotech industries with an emphasis on organizational design, collaboration and knowledge and content management.

From 1998 to 2001, Doug was VP and Chief Knowledge Officer at Scient, responsible for the intranet, professional services methodology and the orientation and prof development programs.

Prior to Scient, Doug was Managing Partner of the Price Waterhouse Technology Centre where he managed the development of Edgarscan (information extraction from SEC filings), TeamMate (electronic audit working papers), and Comet (automated controls evaluation).

Doug received his A.B from Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a Visiting Scholar in the Management of Technology program at the Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley.


Dr. David R. Wallace, CTO has worked in the software industry for over 25 years. He began his career at GTE labs and has been a compiler architect at Intermetrics and Alliant, where he worked directly for Craig Mundie. David spent seven years at Sun, where he introduced new supercomputer-based technology in both the compiler and hardware groups. As a result of his work, the performance of Sun’s new chip increased dramatically.

He spent two years architecting and building large-scale financial systems for such clients as Barclays, Nikko Securities and Deutsche Bank before starting CloakWorks, based on his security patent for Software Cloaking. He was a co-founder and Chief Scientist at Determina, Inc.

He has been awarded 8 patents, with three pending for Greencastle. He has a BA in Mathematics from Columbia University, an MA in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tulane.

Board of Advisors

Benjamin Wayne is currently the President & CEO of Fliqz (www.fliqz.com), a provider of online video storage and sharing solutions. Prior to Fliqz, Benjamin was the President & CEO of Collabrys, the leading provider of outsourced customer acquisition and retention solutions for Global 1000 corporations, including Bank of America, Capital One, Visa, Estee Lauder, Clorox, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Target, New York Life Insurance, and Prudential. Collabrys was acquired by E-Centives in 2004. Prior to Collabrys, Benjamin was the President & CEO of Smartshop.com, an online comparison shopping portal. Smartshop.com was acquired by CNet in 2000. Prior to Smartshop, Benjamin was President of BG&W Consulting, a South-Korean based market-entry consultancy whose clients included Coca-Cola, Disney, Benetton, Cathay Pacific Airways, Samsung, and the US Government.

Benjamin holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.


David Witherow was recently the president of ConXtech, a manufacturing and construction company that produces proprietary precision steel frames for mid-rise buildings. Dave is the former president and CEO of VentureOne Corporation, the worldwide leader in research and information on the venture capital industry. Over his six and a half year tenure at VentureOne, he grew the company from small niche database company into a diversified global information services company which produces the leading database on venture capital activity, VentureSource, as well as numerous conferences and publications on the VC industry. Dave sold the company successfully to Reuters in 1999, and then sold the company from Reuters to Wicks Business Information in late 2001. Prior to VentureOne, Dave was the president of PC Express, a leading regional personal computer clone manufacturer in Minneapolis. Before that, Dave spent seven years at Hewlett-Packard in marketing and sales positions focused on HP’s personal computers and peripherals. Dave has thorough experience in developing and marketing information-based products and services, as well as a deep operational understanding of sales, marketing, and finance functions. He has been on multiple venture-backed company boards and is an active angel investor.

Dave holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, as well as Electrical Engineering and Mathematics degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara.


John Dacey spent most of his career as a Boston based entrepreneur and CEO. John has founded a number of software and software services firms. He founded and grew Waterfield Technology Group, ultimately managing its sale to a large public company. Currently most of John’s time is spent helping non profit organizations. He is board president of the Massachusetts Humanities Foundation and serves on a number of other non-profit boards including MassBike and the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry. John continues to be involved in high technology as a board member, investor and business advisor.


Rob Lewis is currently CEO of Consolvant. He has over 25 years experience in the high tech industry, including positions in software development, systems integration, internet technologies, and mobile communications. He has extensive experience in Product Management, Project Management, Business Development, and Marketing Management. Previously Rob was at Ameranth Wireless where he created, developed, and managed five distinct product lines. Rob also managed Software Development Tools and the Internet product lines while at Silicon Graphics.

Rob earned a dual degree BA in from the University of California at San Diego, and an MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.