DAVID SYKES

• CEO

• David has a proven track record of success creating new markets and building highly profitable businesses.  Industry-wide reputation for inspiring employees to exceed corporate goals.  Recognized for outstanding technology innovation, best-in-class customer satisfaction, fiscal accountability and ethical practices. Some of David’s major accomplishments include founding and exponentially growing Andataco a privately-owned storage and computer peripherals VAD into a $100M technology firm in 8 years.  He conceived and created the web-based storage management market. Innovated and introduced the world’s first web-managed intelligent storage device.  Pioneered in 1993 one of the first worldwide, web-based virtual companies.   Andataco created a corporate Inter/Intranet, which provided real-time company and customer access to data and communications.  He acquired, integrated and refocused a software technology firm leading to break-through, web-based industry innovations.  He eventually took the company public and then negotiated the sale of all public stock to another NASDAQ based company.  David as CEO of Construction Bidboard Inc. refocused and grew the business organically and through acquisitions to being a profitable company which he then later sold to Mediagrif.  He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance, 1979, from San Diego State University

RICK LEVINE

• PRESIDENT - Founder

• For the past 10 years, Rick Levine has been active in web-based technology and business marketing integration. As a partner at xBx Channel Media, he was the principal sales contact, design architect and project manager for dozens of business internet and intranet projects for Motorola, Baxter, Tiger Electronics, General Growth Properties, Stafford Trading, Planned Parenthood and others. As a partner in UniformMarket LLC, he is assisting uniform dealers and manufacturers with their online sales, customer service and marketing. Since 1994, he has owned Halper Publishing Company, publishers of the 80 year old Made To Measure Magazine which serves the uniform industry features the advertising from companies such as 3M, Dow, Burlington Industries, Invista, Milliken, VF Corporation and others. He has BA in Theatre & Sociology, 1984, from Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota.

AL BAKER

• CTO

• Al Baker has been actively involved with software development for close to 30 years. He was a co-designer of Time Manag­er, one of the initial products released with the announcement of the original IBM PC in 1980. He designed two other management products, originally com­missioned for Tandy: Project Manager and Records Manager. He designed and programmed Report Manager, which was PC Maga­zine's Editor's Choice of the Year for 1984.  His extensive programming work in the game development category includes managing designers, musicians, and programmers at different locations. Recent games were a Harry Potter game for cell phones for Warner Brothers and Super Duper Sumos and The Cat in the Hat for the Game Boy Advanced, all through HandHeld Games. Recent work on website technical design and implementation with a focus on data flow, logical organization, and back-end database design includes XFXMedia.com and UniformMarket.com. He has consulted on hundreds of other database design projects. Recent work for Jellyvision included two projects -- the L.A.B.R.A.T. portion of their website and their employment candidate management system. He has a B. S. in Mathematics, 1970, from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.

LEE GORSKY

• COO

• Lee has been involved in computer-based training and internet applications for over 10 years. He was the Assistant Regional Health Advisor for the US Environmental Protection Agency where he co-created one of the first computer-based training Comparative Risk Assessment training applications. As a Post-doctoral Associate at Northwestern University and Senior Research Scientist at Abbott Laboratories he published over 20 articles in scientific journals and was co-author of one patent. He started Lucidum, Inc., an interactive multimedia company with clients including Motorola, Rauland-Borg Corporation, National Restaurant Association, American Institute of Steel Construction and others. As a partner at xBx Channel Media he managed internet and elearning projects for Exchange Analytics, General Growth Properties, General Learning Communications, MLP Seating Corp., Motorola, Mullin Consulting, Restonic Mattress Corporation, Signode Distributor Sales and Service Business, Tiger Electronics, Vertiflex Products, Enlight Children's Charities, Presbytery of Chicago, Safer Foundation, Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, City of Highwood, Grayslake Chamber of Commerce and others. He has a Ph.D, in Biological Chemistry, 1984, from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; an MS in Biological Chemistry,1981, from University of Michigan; and a BS in Biochemistry, 1979, from University of California Davis, California.