John McAfee, Director, Board of Directors

John McAfee is widely regarded as the father of the antivirus revolution. Mr. McAfee founded McAfee Associates in 1989, which later became Network Associates, a name it retained for seven years until it was renamed McAfee, which remains today as one of the largest anti-virus companies in the world.

Prior to McAfee Associates, Mr. McAfee held positions at Missouri Pacific Railroad as the Manager of the Applications Programming Group (TCS Project) from 1970 until December 1972. From there he went to Xerox as an Operating System architect, and later to Computer Sciences Corporation as a software consultant. Later, while employed by Lockheed in the 1980s, McAfee received a copy of the Pakistani Brain computer virus and began developing software to combat viruses. He was the first to distribute antiviral software using the shareware business model.

Mr. McAfee received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Roanoke College in 1967.

Mr. McAfee has written several books on Yoga.

Michael J. Connor, Chairman, Board of Directors

Mike Connor is the Chairman and President of the Global Wealth Initiative International, Inc., a public, non profit 501(c)(3) corporation. He has more than thirty five years of leadership and management experience. Formerly COO, Cable and Wireless America Connor was responsible for C&W’s operations and information technology in North America. Prior to this he was CIO and COO of Exodus Communications and earlier Senior Vice President for Global Integration.

Before joining Exodus, Connor was a Senior Vice President with ADP and Corporate Vice President with Apple Computer. At ADP, Connor headed product development for the Brokerage Services Group with annual revenues of over one billion dollars. Achievements included development of the first browser-based products and software development of front and back office systems processing over two million securities trades per day. At Apple, he managed worldwide reliability and quality of all Apple hardware and software products, internationalization, off shore software development and worldwide software configuration and release with more than seven billion dollars in revenue annually. He was also the senior member of Apple's Worldwide Diversity Program. Connor led the development of Apple’s first commercial Internet product in 1995.

Before entering the private sector, Mr. Connor was a colonel in the U.S. Army, holding a number of key command and staff positions globally. A highly decorated combat veteran, he was the U.S. Army's principle architect of four major automation initiatives, including the Command Tactical Information System, which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recognized for its innovation in software development and design. Mr. Connor holds a B.S. degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, an M.B.A. from Tulane University's Graduate School of Business and an Executive M.B.A from Northwestern University.

Steve Wozniak, Director, Board of Directors

Steve Wozniak, technology innovator and co-founder of Apple Computer, founded Wheels of Zeus, Inc. (wOz) in October 2001 after he became interested in GPS technology as a way to solve a variety of everyday problems. Steve and his colleagues brainstormed a range of ideas including whether GPS could be used as a substitute for electronic pet fences. GPS technology wasn't really appropriate for containment so eventually, Steve began to zero in on one of his own dilemmas - how to locate his dogs once they broke through his electronic pet fence. It turned out that this would just be one application for the technology he envisioned.

wOz is developing an innovative way to marry GPS and wireless technologies to create a new type of wireless network that will serve as the backbone for location status, control, and communications solutions. This new network, wOzNet, will fill the gap between inexpensive, low-range radio frequency (RF) systems used in RFID solutions and expensive long-range cellular and paging networks used in many GPS applications.

Alex Fielding, President/CEO, Board of Directors

Alex Fielding has spent his career innovating in the areas of advanced research and development of networking and communications products.  He served in: data center infrastructure management as CTO of TVDC,  network engineering management as the West Coast Manager of the Platinum Team at Exodus (supporting the worlds largest data network), engineering management for network drivers at Apple with prior work in Network Server Engineering and QA,  and as an engineer at Cisco, DEC, and Cadence. Alex has co-founded two companies. First  in the GPS space, he co-founded Woz.com, with Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak.  Second at Ripcord.

Alex serves on the board of directors of: Ripcord and CAWEW. He is an advisor to Network Physics and the Santa Clara County Sheriffs.

He also is a distinguished individual contributor to ARIN (American Registry of Internet Numbers), and active contributor to the IETF. Alex is currently a volunteer and donor to UNICEF and is on the technical committee for the San Jose Role Model Program. Alex is a prior member of SVASE and MENSA. Alex currently holds one patent on satellite routing and has two applications pending approval.

Ellen M. Hancock, Chair, Board of Advisors

Ellen M. Hancock is the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Exodus Communications, Inc. (Internet system and network management services). Mrs. Hancock joined Exodus in March 1998 and served as Chairman from June 2000 to September 2001, Chief Executive Officer from September 1998 to September 2001, and President from March 1998 to June 2000.

Mrs. Hancock held various staff, managerial and executive positions at International Business Machines Corporation (information-handling systems, equipment and services) from 1966 to 1995. She became a Vice President of IBM in 1985 and served as President, Communication Products Division, from 1986 to 1988, when she was named General Manager, Networking Systems.

Mrs. Hancock was elected an IBM Senior Vice President in November 1992, and in 1993 was appointed Senior Vice President and Group Executive, which position she held until February 1995. Mrs. Hancock served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of National Semiconductor Corporation (semiconductors) from September 1995 to May 1996, and served as Executive Vice President for Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer of Apple Computer, Inc. (personal computers) from July 1996 to July 1997.

Mrs. Hancock is a director of Colgate-Palmolive Company (consumer products), Electronic Data Systems Corporation (information technology services), Aetna (health care), and Watchguard Technologies, Inc. (Internet security solutions).

Beverly Bruce - Member, Board of Advisors

Beverly Bruce has logged a successful record of achievement within the technology industry for more than 30 years. Bruce's core competency has been to move companies to new innovative business models and lead the execution of these strategies. She has helped transform the marketing strategy for both large scale and emerging companies. Bruce was a senior executive at IBM within software marketing and was responsible for establishing IBM's software channel strategy in the early 1990s.

As EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Exodus Communications, in addition to being responsible for establishing the Exodus brand, Bruce developed and implemented a sophisticated strategy and marketing plan, which resulted in creating the industry's first family of managed web hosting services. As the executive in charge of acquisitions, Bruce led the business development team to close on four major acquisitions for the company.

Earlier in her career, Bruce co-led the engineering, marketing & finance teams at Ingres, a division of The ASK Group. At Praxis International Corporation, Bruce was hired to transform the company into a market leader in the multi-platform Data Warehouse business segment.
In addition to these positions, Bruce founded DataMan, Software Inc. and the Bruce Group, consulting companies providing strategy and planning services to major corporations including Hewlett Packard, BMC, Data General, as well as emerging start ups.

Beverly holds a B.S. in Chemistry/Biology from LadyCliff College and is a graduate of the Executive Program at Columbia Graduate School of Business. She serves on numerous advisory boards.

Marc Hodosh - Member, Board of Advisors

Marc Hodosh joined the X PRIZE Foundation in March 2007 to lead the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics. Most recently, he was a consultant to inventor Dean Kamen at DEKA Research & Development. Marc is also Chairman of Dean's FIRST Robotics competition in Boston, which inspires thousands of high school students to pursue careers in science & technology.

In 2002, Marc became President of ID One which specialized in facial recognition technology for the U.S. military and intelligence communities. A few years later, he sold ID One's government business to an undisclosed competitor.

Just prior, Marc was Director of Business Development at Viisage Technology (NYSE: ID), a biometric & secure ID company. In this role, he led business partnerships and strategic programs. In 1996 & 1997, he founded two companies which invented and imported consumer products from Asia, and sold via Bed Bath & Beyond, QVC Television, Toys-R-Us, and more. Marc sold one of those companies to the industry's leading corporation and these products can still be found at retailers including Costco, Target, Wal-Mart, and many others.

Marc holds a BA in Psychology/Neuroscience from Ithaca College and a Masters in Medicine from Boston University Medical School.