John Cosgriff
Gerald Finken
Sharon Miller
Mark Rheault
Jonathan Tolstedt
Alex Warner

Speaker Bios

John Cosgriff of Invest America

Mr. Cosgriff joined InvestAmerica as the Manager of the North Dakota region in 1995. Prior to joining InvestAmerica, Cosgriff worked as a Business Development Specialist, Loan Officer, and International Trade Officer with the Small Business Administration in North Dakota. John currently serves as Manager for several InvestAmerica companies. Mr. Cosgriff is responsible for new investment selection and manages InvestAmerica's North Dakota office and its investment region in addition to being an active portfolio manager of several portfolio companies at the board level.

Mr. Cosgriff received his MS in Economics and BS in Business Economics from North Dakota State University. He attended the NASBIC Venture Capital Institute.

Gerald Finken of Clinical Supplies Management

email:gfinken@csm-plus.com - http://www.clinicalsupplies.net/

Jerry has been President of CSM® since its incorporation in January 1997. Finken has extensive experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He started his career in clinical supplies with Bristol-Myers Squibb (originally E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.) where he was involved in a wide range of activities from sterile manufacturing to reconciliation, and global clinical supplies logistics. At PRACS Institute, Finken developed and ran its new site management organization division. Prior to founding CSM, he worked as an independent clinical supplies consultant, working on numerous projects for biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients.

Finken received his Bachelors of Science in Pharmacy from Rutgers College of Pharmacy and his Masters in Management Systems Analysis from Kean College of NJ, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He is an Adjunct Professor and serves on the Advisory Board of NDSU College of Pharmacy.

Robert Lindberg of Advenio Partners

Rob Lindberg is an investment manager at Advenio Partners LLC where he manages venture capital investments in seed and early stage companies.

He currently sits on the board of governors for Pond Filtration LLC after acting as an advisor to the company's restructuring restructure and acceptance of strategic investment.

Additionally, Rob consults small businesses in the Fargo-Moorhead area with business plans, financial modeling and management of the venture capital process.

Before his work at Advenio, Rob worked as an investment analyst for the
FM Angel Investment Fund where he was responsible for analyzing early-stage businesses throughout the due diligence process including evaluating financial projections, valuations and investment terms, sales and marketing plans, and management abilities.

Sharon Miller of North Dakota State University Research Park

email:sharon@ndsuresearchpark.com - www.ndsuresearchpark.com

Ms. Miller joined the NDSU Research & Technology Park in July 2007 as a talent specialist. Sharon is currently developing and implementing a new program for students to jumpstart their careers in the technology industry. It is an innovative opportunity to leverage her recruiting experience in the private sector to bridge the gap between the academic experience and "real world" productivity.

Prior to joining NDSU, Sharon served as the director of recruiting services for The Partner Channel in Fargo, N.D. Her expertise includes over nine years of recruiting experience with companies such as Great Plains Software and Microsoft Business Solutions, Fargo, N.D.; the Valley City Economic Development Corporation, Valley City, N.D.; and RDO Equipment Company, Fargo, N.D. In a volunteer capacity, she also serves on the Workforce Council of the Greater Fargo-Moorhead Economic Development Corporation, the Business & Office Education Advisory Committee of the Fargo Public Schools and the Roger Maris Benefit Golf Tournament. Miller holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and is a member of the Society of Human Resources Management.

Mark Rheault of Intelligent InSites

email:mark.rheault@intelligentinsites.com - http://www.intelligentinsites.com/

Mark brings more than 17 years of leadership, strategic vision, and proven innovation in the healthcare and technology arenas. He is directly responsible for Intelligent InSites' business growth strategies, including sales, marketing, partnership, distribution, and capital raising activities. Prior to joining Intelligent InSites, Rheault operated an executive consulting practice that catered specifically to small and medium-sized technology companies, particularly those in the healthcare and wireless technology fields. Rheault's product designs helped BeAtHome, a provider of a web-based home automation solution, win the Consumer Electronics Show "Best of Show" award in 2001 and again in 2002. He has successfully executed worldwide product launches and has forged partnerships with several Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Fuji, and GE. Prior to that, Rheault spent five years as the leader of the web application development group at MeritCare Health System, one of the largest integrated delivery networks in the U.S.

Rheault holds an MBA from North Dakota State University and a BS in Business from Southern Illinois University. He is the founder of the RFID Consortium for Healthcare, a member of the Advisory Committee for the NDSU Center of Technology Enterprise, an Alien Technology Fellow, and a certified PMI Project Management Professional.

Jonathan Tolstedt of Brainstorm Consulting LLC

email:jtoolshed@aol.com

Jonathan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science. He has been working in the embedded electronics field for the past 19 years, and is currently working at Phoenix International, the electronics division of John Deere, in Fargo, North Dakota. In the summer of 2006, Jonathan became a registered patent agent, and works with the John Deere Intellectual Property department to create new patent applications for Phoenix inventions. Jonathan is also the owner and president of Brainstorm Consulting, LLC, which provides technical documentation and patent drafting services, and is an adjunct lecturer for the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at North Dakota State University.

Alex Warner of Pedigree Technologies

http://www.pedigreetechnologies.com/

Alex provides the strategic vision and leadership for Pedigree Technologies. Alex is a wireless technology and marketing professional, M2M advocate, and online software service proponent. Prior to founding the company, he was a strategic account manager for a major vendor of Microsoft's ERP division. He helped pioneer that account into a new business division that evolved into one of the largest accounts in the Company's 36 year history.
His past experiences include a diverse background in technical operations, technical sales and consulting for data communication & networking services. He has held sales positions for Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, McCleod USA. He has also worked in technical operations roles for Minneapolis St Paul's first Internet Service Provider, Bitstream Underground (Now IP House) as well as one of the areas first managed device networking service providers, Network Guidance, (now NUVO Networks).
For the past four years he has been on the forefront in the development of systems that support wireless device technologies in RFID, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Location Aware Devices. Alex holds several Bachelor's degrees from North Dakota State University and St. Cloud State University of Minnesota in Plant Sciences, Communications, and Computer Information Systems.