Speaker Bios

MaryDilys S. Anderson, Senior Associate of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

email:manderson@wolfgreenfield.com phone: 617.646.8301

MaryDilys Anderson is a senior associate in Wolf Greenfield's Biotechnology Group and assists in patent prosecution and preparation in the areas of biotechnology, molecular biology, cell biology, gene therapy, neuroscience, biochemistry, imaging technology, and medical devices. Her work also includes diligence and opinion projects.

MaryDilys has a Ph.D. from Yale University where she worked in the field of developmental neuroscience and utilized neurophysiological, biochemical, and immunocytochemical techniques to examine neurotransmission and axon guidance. MaryDilys completed a three-year Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Division of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Her postdoctoral research focused on developing diagnostic and treatment methods for Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy. Prior to joining Wolf Greenfield, MaryDilys served as the Director of Biological Laboratories for Boston College. She also worked with biotechnology companies as a writer and technical consultant for several years.

MaryDilys has authored and co-authored publications in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neurobiology, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience, and Nature. She is a member of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations, the Boston Patent Law Association, and the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. MaryDilys also serves on the Extraordinary Health and Safety Committee in her hometown of Needham, Massachusetts.

Abigail Barrow, Director of Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center

www.MaTTCenter.org

Dr. Abigail Barrow is the Founding Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC). The MTTC is state funded and supports technology transfer activities from public and private research institutions to companies in Massachusetts. To achieve this goal, the Center works with technology transfer offices at Massachusetts research institutions; faculty, researchers, and students who have commercially promising ideas; and companies across the Commonwealth. The MTTC is based in the University of Massachusetts Presidents Office.
Prior to joining the MTTC, Dr. Barrow served as managing director of William J. von Liebig Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The von Liebig Center was created in 2001 to support the commercialization of research being performed in the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. Dr. Barrow worked in a variety of roles at UCSD CONNECT from 1990 to 2001. CONNECT's programs focused on supporting early stage high-tech and biotech companies and in particular helping them raise funding from venture capitalists and corporate partners. Dr. Barrow has also worked with other regions where the CONNECT program has been successfully replicated, including Scotland and Scandinavia.
Dr. Barrow is a Fellow of the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management, UCSD and an Xconomist for Xconomy.com. Dr. Barrow is also a board member and Chair of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment.
Dr. Barrow received her Ph.D. from the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering also from the University of Edinburgh.

Matthew Beaudet, Associate of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge

An Associate for the firm, Matthew Beaudet supports biotech companies and institutions in intellectual property matters, including patentability studies, preparing patent applications, providing patent portfolio analysis, intellectual property due diligence, freedom to operate studies, and preparing non-infringement/invalidity opinions relating to biotech patents.

Dr. Beaudet is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications
**"Maximizing the Exemption from Infringement During Product Development," speaker, 6th Annual Pharmaceutical Patent Lifecycles, London, United Kingdom, January 22, 2007.

Before joining the firm, Dr. Beaudet held joint appointments as a Research Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and as a Lefler Fellow at Harvard Medical School, conducting investigations into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. As a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, his research involved examining the role of neuropeptides in the regulation and modulation of the sympathetic division of the peripheral nervous system. His research has been presented at annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience and at international symposia on VIP, PACAP, and related peptides.

Mark Blanchard, Advisor of Technology Development & Commercialization

Mark provides free business counseling to technology-based innovative small businesses statewide for Vermont Small Business Development Center (VtSBDC). Clients range from 100+ employee firms with revenues in excess of $20 million to start-up ventures. Areas of counseling include seeking R&D funding, especially through SBIR/STTR programs, general business strategy, business planning and raising capital. Prior to consulting for small firms he was Vice President of Synergy Innovations Inc., a technology development firm which won numerous SBIR awards. He served as marketing manager for a small firm producing innovative compacting presses and also owned a restaurant. His corporate experience includes seven years as Vice President, Administration for Thermal Dynamics Corporation preceded by eight years, largely overseas, in management and strategic planning roles with Caltex Petroleum. Mark is a former U.S. Navy engineering officer. He graduated from Dartmouth College and after the Navy earned his MBA at the Amos Tuck School.

David Bradbury, President of Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET)

email:david.bradbury@uvm.edu phone: 802-253-6843 - www.VermontTechnologies.com

In June 2007, David was named President of the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) which is an independent 501 c (3) Public Benefit technology corporation in affiliation with the University of Vermont. VCET's science and technology business incubator program offers entrepreneurs across Vermont assistance in building teams, reaching commercial markets and attracting capital. VCET's website is www.VermontTechnologies.com and it operates facilities in Burlington and Colchester, Vermont.

Since 1998, David has operated Aggregate Capital Partners, LLC which provides entrepreneurs, senior executives and Boards with management consulting, strategic planning, private investment, stakeholder relations and new venture development services.
The firm's website is www.AggregateCapital.com

David is experienced with early stage venture capital investing, economic development policy, working with entrepreneurs on technology commercialization and business formation, team building, business growth strategies, and mergers and acquisitions.

From 2003 to 2005, David served as the Executive Director of the Vermont Institute on Government Effectiveness, Inc. which provided Governor Jim Douglas' administration with independent findings and support to improve state government's effectiveness for the benefit of all Vermonters.

During Governor Howard Dean's administration, David served in the Vermont Agency of Commerce as Director of Financial Services Development and for four years as the Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Economic Development from 1992-1997. Prior to that, he worked for BayBanks Capital Markets Group in Boston from 1988-1992.

David holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Vermont and earned a M.B.A. in one-year from Babson College focusing on Entrepreneurship and Venture Finance.

David serves as a current or former Board Director, Investor or Adviser to several Vermont companies and non-profit organizations including Union Street Media (Internet Services), Vermont Combustion Technologies (Alternative Energy), JSmart Technologies (Mobile Gaming and Social Networking Firm Acquired by SK Group in October 2004), OneMade (E-Commerce Platform Acquired by AOL Time Warner in May 2003), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Assembly of Overseers (2005-Present), Vermont Tech Enterprise Center (2003-Present), The Vermont Business and Education Partnership (1994-1997), UVM's Vermont Regional Alumni Board (2007 to Present), and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (2001-2005) among others.

David resides in Stowe with his wife, Emily Case Bradbury, and two sons where he enjoys snowboarding, mountain bike polo, new technology and sustainable economic development

Al Brisard of Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Vertek Corporation

Al Brisard is responsible for the marketing, business development, and strategic direction of the Vertek's suite of offerings. He has over 20 years of experience in the voice and data communications industries. Using his combination of technical and business expertise, Al has focused on bringing new technologies, product offerings, and business models to market.
Al has served in executive roles at industry-transforming companies such as Pingtel, MCK Communications, 3Com, and Compaq. He also has held senior operations, marketing and business development roles at NYNEX.
Al earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and an MBA from Boston College Carroll School of Management.

Melody Brown Burkins, University of Vermont of Associate Dean for Economic Development and Research Partnerships

Dr. Melody Brown Burkins is the Associate Dean for Economic Development and Research Partnerships in the University of Vermont's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS). Appointed to the position in October 2007, Burkins works with the Dean to advance strategic partnerships and communications in support of College priorities, including the hire of world-class faculty, the growth of innovative R&D programs, and support of a competitive, holistic approach to 21st century science and engineering education that emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, social responsibility, and entrepreneurship. Educated as an earth and ecosystems scientist at Dartmouth College (M.S. and Ph.D.) and Yale University (B.S.), Burkins became the energy and environment aide to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy after serving as the 1999-2000 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Congressional Science and Technology Fellow sponsored by the Geological Society of America and US Geological Survey. At the University of Vermont, Burkins has served in science and policy roles as Director of Federal Relations, Director of the Northeastern States Research Cooperative, and Executive Director of the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative. She has also led multi-year, interdisciplinary ecosystem research and monitoring programs and been a visiting professor in Dartmouth's Environmental Studies Program. Burkins' commitment to strategic and sustainable solutions and science-based policy decisions continues to drive her professional interests, informed by her diverse policy experience as well as time spent in teaching and research in Antarctica, central Ireland, southeast Alaska, Mexico, Switzerland, and the Bering Sea.

Frank Cioffi of President of GBIC, a conference sponsor, Vice-Chair of UVM Board of Trustees and Chair of VCET

Frank Cioffi is a native of St. Albans, Vermont. He is a graduate of Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont.

He served as Executive Director of the Franklin County Industrial Corporation 1982-1984.
He worked for many years in his family's business Cioffi Real Estate in St. Albans, Vermont.
From 1995 to 1998, Cioffi served as Commissioner of the State of Vermont Department of Economic Development under Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

Since 1998, Cioffi has been President of GBIC & Cynosure, the Regional Economic Development Corporation serving Chittenden County, Vermont. GBIC is Vermont's largest regional economic development corporation. GBIC's programs and services serve the dynamic needs of Northwestern Vermont's manufacturing, technology, and value-adding business sectors.
Cioffi participates in numerous organizations and civic activities in Vermont, and serves as a member of the following Boards of Directors and organizations:

•Vice Chairperson, University of Vermont Board of Trustees
•Member University of Vermont Alumni Council
•Chairperson, Vermont Technology Council
•Chairperson, Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies Board
•Member of the Vermont Small Business Development Center Board of Directors
•Member Governor's Council of Economic Advisors
•Vice Chairperson, Vermont Workforce Development Council
•Chairperson, Advisory Committee of Efficiency Vermont

Andrew Clapp, Partner of Brook Venture Partners

PERSONAL & EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
My hometown is Springfield, Massachusetts. I attended Clarkson University, initially majoring in Physics but graduating with a hybrid engineering/business degree after I discovered that I preferred the management of technology to engineering. I received my MBA from Amos Tuck at Dartmouth College. There we were steeped in the use of the computer, which has served me very well over the years.
EXPERIENCE
Upon graduation I joined General Electric, and within five years I had formed my own investment banking and consulting firm. However I realized that I needed more corporate level experience so in 1978 I joined Arthur D. Little, then the largest consulting firm in the world, followed by Equifax, one of the largest information companies in the country. Concurrently I launched a company that published two newsletters, a yearbook and a directory, all focusing on mergers & acquisitions. I sold the company to Securities Data (Thompson Publishing) in 1989.
In 1987 I joined Downer & Co. where I became a partner and launched their sell-side practice, focusing on the sale of U.S. companies to European buyers. They did the very first financing for Staples, a $4 million private placement. While there I became interested in private equity investing, arranged a couple of financings, and left Downer to launch Gateway Financial Group after a one-year stopover at Shields & Co. That same year, an attorney who shared my interest in private equity introduced me to Fred Morris. We teamed up and Fred and I made a number of investments, leading a group of investors we organized for that purpose. In 1998 we co-founded Brook Venture Fund which has become our primary investing vehicle.
I've led and participated in many seminars and conferences on M&A and venture capital, and currently sit on the boards of Texterity, Affordable Interior Systems, Linton Truss Company, and Universal Software

J. Tobey Clark, MSEE CCE, Director, Instrumentation and Technical Services at University of Vermont of University of Vermont

http://its.uvm.edu/TCLARK/Tobey_Clark_BME_page.htm

Tobey Clark leads the Instrumentation & Model Facility (IMF) which designs, develops, fabricates and services custom instruments for the University of Vermont community including Vermont start-up companies and area high tech firms. Tobey also directs the Technical Services Program, a 26 hospital shared service clinical engineering Program serving Vermont, upstate New York, and northern New Hampshire. He has a faculty appointment in the School of Engineering and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences where he teaches medical instrumentation courses. Tobey is involved in a number of professional activities including serving as a board member of the ACCE Healthcare Technology Foundation and as an advisor to the World Health Organization. He was the 2002 recipient of the Clinical/Biomedical Engineering Career Achievement award from the Assoc. for the Advancement of Med. Instrumentation. Tobey has a patent for Simulation of Pulse Oximetry and is currently supported by several grants.

Cairn Cross, Co-founder of FreshTracks Capital

http://www.freshtrackscap.com/

Cross is a co-founder of FreshTracks Capital and serves as a Managing Director of the Fund. From 1996 to 2000 he owned and operated Cross Vermont Financial, a strategic and financial consultancy to Vermont banks and growth businesses such as Collector Online, Otter Creek Industries, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and the Merchants Bank. Cairn served as the CFO of Otter Creek Industries to restructure its operations prior to achieving a profitable sale of the company.

From 1996 to 1998, Cairn was the Assistant General Manager of Green Mountain Capital, L.P. From 1991 to 1996 he was a Vice President and Corporate Loan Officer for the Howard Bank, preceded by five years service in various positions for Vermont National Bank including Commercial Loan Officer. Cairn co-founded a small specialty food manufacturer in Vermont and has been an investor in and a Member Manager of Snow Farm Vineyard, LLC, Vermont's first grape wine producer located on Grand Isle.

Cross serves on the boards of numerous FreshTracks portfolio companies. Cairn is currently the Chair of the Board for the Eating Well Media Group, and is a member of the Board of Directors for Trident and Vermont Teddy Bear. Cross is also an observer to the ISIS and NativeEnergy boards. Prior to the sale of M2S, Cross was an observer to the company's Board of Directors, and a member of the board's ad hoc audit committee.

Cairn earned a B.S. (1981) from Montana State University and an MBA (1987) from New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University). He lives in Ferrisburg, Vermont.

Bret Golann of VCET

Bret Golann developed and taught the technology commercialization and entrepreneurship curriculums for fourteen years at the University of Vermont and the University of Maine. He has also taught and published in the areas of marketing, quality assurance and operations management. Bret earned his Ph.D. in marketing for entrepreneurial firms at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

In addition to his academic career, Bret spent twelve years in diverse manufacturing, marketing, sales and product engineering positions - mostly in technology businesses including IBM and in small start-up companies. In addition to operations and sales management experiences, Bret was a product manager for optical instruments with responsibilities for market development and product engineering. During his academic years Bret continued to work extensively with diverse technology start-ups and growing firms. These commercialization experiences include sensor, medical and alternative energy technologies. He serves on several boards and is a director of the Maine Investment Exchange. Currently Bret is writing a book on managing the challenges of rapid growth in entrepreneurial firms.

Matt Gombrich, Founder/CEO of Viridis Diagnostics

Dr. Gombrich is founder/CEO of the early-stage, in-vitro diagnostic company Viridis Diagnostics, based in Burlington, Vermont. Viridis aims to bring ultra-sensitive medical tests, initially focused on infectious diseases, to the near-patient setting. Prior to Viridis, Dr. Gombrich served as Director of Clinical Research/Medical Director for Inverness Medical where he worked with both the FDA and clinical researchers to expand the utility of the Inverness portfolio of products. Dr. Gombrich is a graduate of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine for both his Doctorate degree and his Master's degree in Experimental Pathology. Prior to matriculating at CWRU, Dr. Gombrich was a founding member of Molecular Diagnostics, an early-stage venture exploring novel methods of cervical cancer detection.

Diane Greene, Co-founder, President and CEO of VMware

VMware is the world's leading provider of virtualization solutions for x86-based servers and desktops. Through a pioneering approach to virtualization, VMware technology works to separate the software from the underlying hardware. This allows a single computer to run multiple operating systems and applications, delivering significant improvements in efficiency, availability, flexibility and manageability.

Founded in 1998, VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices around the world. VMware's customer base consists of more than 20,000 organizations of all sizes, including 100% of Fortune 100 companies. VMware delivers technology designed to substantially lower IT costs, provide more flexibility in choosing operating systems, and offer a more automated and resilient systems infrastructure capable of responding to variable business demands.

Diane's degrees include mechanical engineering, naval architecture and computer science from the University of Vermont, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California Berkeley, respectively. Diane serves on the board of VMware and Intuit.

Paul Hale, Executive Director of Vermont Technology Council & Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development at UVM

Paul Hale is the executive director of the Vermont Technology Council and Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development at the University of Vermont. Paul joined UVM in 1999 as Special Assistant to the President for economic development initiatives, and he now supports a variety of economic outreach activities in collaboration with the Vermont Department of Economic Development, the Vermont Small Business Development Center, and other state-wide and university resources. He is secretary/treasurer for the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, the technology business incubator located on the UVM campus, and serves as a board member for a number of economic development organizations, such as the Vermont Environmental Consortium, the Vermont Information Technology Center, and the Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center. Paul previously held the position of laboratory director at Bio-Tek Instruments, a laboratory equipment manufacturer in Winooski, Vermont, and was a research scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he developed sensors for clinical and research applications. He has extensive experience with federal SBIR programs, and personally received nearly $3 million in SBIR grants during his career in the private sector. He has received the national Roland Tibbetts Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration for his work in Vermont's SBIR outreach program. Paul graduated from the University of Vermont and holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Northwestern University.

Todd Keiller, Director of Office of Technology Transfer, University of Vermont

email:todd.keiller@uvm.edu phone: 802-656-8780 - www.uvminnovations.com

Todd S. Keiller offers an extensive background in licensing, business development, and marketing. His work in the industrial sector has included ten years in the Science and Medical Products divisions of Corning Glass Works and encompassed a variety of sales, marketing, and business development roles.

Todd's academic licensing experience includes the position of Vice President for Ventures at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He has additional licensing experience in a variety of scientific fields.

Todd is the founder of six companies. The most recent are CorAutus (formerly Vascular Genetics, Inc.), a publicly-traded gene therapy company, and Tolerance Pharmaceuticals, a diagnostic and therapeutic company recently acquired by Roche and focusing on transplantation and immunosuppression.

In 1998, Todd joined the University of Vermont and assisted the College of Medicine in technology affairs. In 1999, he was appointed Director of Technology Transfer for the entire University.

Todd holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business Administration.

Evan Lovell, Partner of Virgin Green Fund

Evan joined the Virgin Green Fund after nine years with TPG Growth, a $1.5 billion private equity fund focused on growth capital, LBO and late stage venture investing in North America and Asia. At TPG he was a Principal focusing on consumer product, retail and cleantech related investments.

Prior to joining TPG Growth, Evan was a Partner with Aqua International, a TPG fund focused on the cleantech sector where he led over $200 million of equity investments in such companies as Eden Springs, Group Rotoplas, PIT and Seven Seas Water. Prior to joining Aqua in 1998, Evan was Director of International Development for Culligan Water Technologies (1994-1998) and Assistant to the Chairman for International Development at Astrum International-the holding company for Samsonite and American Tourister Luggage, Botany 500 Menswear, Culligan Water, Anvil Knitwear, and Pet Specialties.

Evan has served on the Board of Directors of Eden Springs, Grupo Rotoplas and Seven Seas Water.

Evan is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a BA in Political Science and International Affairs..

Virgin Green Fund has been established to invest in companies in the renewable energy and resource efficiency sectors in the US and Europe. We are a sector-focused, multi-stage investment firm investing primarily in expansion/growth capital opportunities with an allocation to earlier stage venture capital opportunities. We are committed to helping companies at an inflection point of substantial growth and/or disruptive innovation. Diversification is a cornerstone of our strategy, investing across stage, geography and technology in our core sectors

Lawrence Meier, Director of Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Lawrence H. Meier is a director in the law firm Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, where he chairs the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Larry is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and represents a variety of clients, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, in connection with copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret matters. He handles a wide range of intellectual property (IP) transactions, has more than 20 years of patent prosecution experience in the electrical, computer and mechanical arts, and assists clients with all aspects of trademark clearance and protection. He also represents clients in IP litigation in state and federal courts, in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in arbitration and mediation proceedings. Before joining DRM, Larry was a Senior Intellectual Property Attorney with the IBM Corporation. He holds a bachelor's degree from Miami University, and earned his law degree from Vermont Law School, where he now teaches as an adjunct professor

Greg O'Shaughnessy, Partner of Nixon Peabody

email:goshaughnessy@nixonpeabody.com phone: 617-345-1343

Practice
Private Equity
Corporate Transactions
Life Sciences
Medical Devices
Technology
Intellectual Property
Cleantech

Experience
Gregory O'Shaughnessy concentrates his practice on a wide range of corporate and business law matters. His practice includes the representation of emerging growth companies, private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, equipment finance, general corporate matters and intellectual property issues.

Education
Boston College Law School, J.D.
Yale University, B.A.

Admissions
Admitted to practice in Massachusetts.

Affiliations
Mr. O'Shaughnessy serves on the Membership Committee of the Boston Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth and on the Steering Committee of The Innovators at the Boston Museum of Science. Mr. O'Shaughnessy is also active in the alumni associations of the Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. In addition, Mr. O'Shaughnessy is a member of the American and Massachusetts bar associations

Fred Wainwright, Executive Director of Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Fred Wainwright is the Executive Director of the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at the
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Fred is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Tuck and teaches
MBA and executive education courses in private equity, finance, and entrepreneurship. He is a member
of the Board of Advisors of North Atlantic Capital, a late stage venture capital firm, and is Executive
Director of North Country Angels and Granite State Angels. Fred is an investor and board member in
growth companies. Fred has authored and co-authored numerous reports, cases, articles, and a book
on various finance, entrepreneurship, and strategy topics. He also serves on the editorial board of the
Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures. He earned his BA in Economics and BS in
Engineering from Stanford University and his MBA from the Tuck School of Business.

Burr Warne of CEO & Founder of Global Classroom

Burr Warne is the CEO of Global Classroom, Inc., the company he founded in 2006 to create a "Global Classroom" for top university professors, K12 educators and subject matter experts to make education more personal, mobile and virtual...for the net generation of students. Under his leadership, Global Classroom has developed a Teachers College to deliver accredited courses online for teacher recertification, an online TechCollege to support students pursuing careers in software development and computer science and in partnership with the University of Vermont, a Nutrition Center, to deliver health and wellness education to Global Classroom's network of school district partners.
Awards include:
The 2000 '21st Century Revolutionaries' Grand Prize; "Growing with Technology" Award, sponsored by Cisco Systems and INC magazine
Two Patents; a Technology Patent for 'Online Content Delivery Platform' and a Process Patent for 'Blended Content Development.'

Burr holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Economics and MBA from Lehigh University

Jay Ziskrout, CEO & Founder of DYMPOL

Career spans over two decades of global achievement conceiving, strategizing and/or managing businesses rooted in entertainment and both traditional and new media. Effective team leader and a resourceful problem-solver whose domain is the intersection of entertainment, marketing, media and technology. Management abilities burnished by extensive hands-on experience in operations, business affairs, product development/management, relationship/project management, production, publishing, marketing, sales and distribution, and music performance (including, as drummer, with such successful groups as Bad Religion)

Mr. Ziskrout is available to participate in the growth and development of select organizations that wish to maximize their impact at the intersection of entertainment, marketing, media, recreation and/or technology.