Kristin Bowman has served as a Director since June 2007 and as a consultant to us since June 2008. Ms. Bowman is currently the Managing Director of Phonographic Performances NZ Limited, a non-profit organization administering the rights of local and international record labels and producers in New Zealand. Ms Bowman previously served as our Managing Director of our New Zealand subsidiary, PureDepth Incorporated Limited, from August 2006 to May 2007 and then both Senior Vice President of Strategy and Senior Vice President of Customer & Business Development from June 2007 to June 2008. She also served as our Secretary from March 31, 2006, the effective date of the reverse merger, to January 2007, and as our acting Chief Financial Officer from March 2006 to June 2006. Prior to the reverse merger, Ms. Bowman served as Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of PureDepth, Inc. (the California Corporation) from April 2005 to March 2006, and as the PureDepth Incorporated Limited Vice President of Business Operations from September 2004 to April 2005. Before joining PureDepth Incorporated Limited, Ms. Bowman worked extensively in corporate and investment financing law in both New Zealand and London. From March 2002 through September 2004, Ms. Bowman was a partner in the Business and Taxation Team of Hesketh Henry, a New Zealand law firm. From July 1999 to December 2001, she served as General Counsel for Auckland International Airport Limited. Ms. Bowman received a First Class Honours degree in law from Auckland University in New Zealand, and holds a current practicing certificate as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Mark Kalow Director
Mark Kalow has served as a director since April 2006. Mr. Kalow is a Managing Director at Soquel Group, a consulting firm specializing in Intellectual Property and Business Development; he also serves on the board of directors and audit committees of Pure Depth, a display technology licensing company, PhotoWorks, an online photography company, LSF Network, an e-marketing services company, Reischling Press, Inc., a digital printing company and the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre. From Oct. 1999 to Sept. 2003, Mr. Kalow served as a Managing Director for the Venture Capital Division of Trans Cosmos USA, a Japanese IT services company and strategic investor in U.S. rich media, CRM and e-marketing companies. From September 1993 to July 1998, Mr. Kalow was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Live Picture Inc. (LPI), a digital imaging software company which he co-founded. He was CEO of LPI from November 1998 through June 1999. Mr. Kalow holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in financial management from the University of Chicago. He attended Director's College at Stanford Law School, June 2006. He has been a speaker at numerous industry events in digital imaging and venture capital. He hosted the "Financial Roundtable" at the recent 6Sight and Mobile Imaging Summit, Monterey CA, Oct. 2006.
John Blair Director
Since March 2004, John Blair has served as a principal at Helicon, a California-based consulting firm working with investors, start-up enterprises and established corporations. From October 1999 through March 2004, Mr. Blair served as co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, of Kenamea, an infrastructure software company. Prior to founding Kenamea, from February 1992 to April 1996, Mr. Blair was a partner at Regis McKenna Inc., a high-tech marketing firm in Palo Alto, and prior to that, from November 1989 to February 1992, he worked at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, where
he served as a senior advisor to major technology companies. Previously, from January 1980 to October 1987, Mr. Blair was a founder and Vice President Engineering of Hypertec Pty. Ltd., a computer product design and manufacturing firm in Australia. Prior to 1980, Mr. Blair worked at Dulmont Ltd., an Australian computer company, where he managed the engineering team that developed and brought to market the Dulmont Magnum, the world's first 16-bit laptop computer. Mr. Blair has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of New South Wales, and an MBA from Stanford University.
David Teece Director
Professor David J. Teece is an authority on matters of industrial organization, technological change, and organizational structure, particularly as it relates to competition policy and intellectual property. He is the Thomas W Tusher Chair in Global Business and professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr Teece has a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has received four honorary doctorates. Dr Teece has testified before Congress and federal and state agencies on regulatory policy and competition policy. He is the author of more than 200 books and articles, and is the co-editor of Industrial & Corporate Change (Oxford University Press). According to Science Watch (November/December 2005) he is the lead author on the most cited article in economics and business worldwide, 19952005. He is one of the top 10 cited scholars for the decade, and has been recognized by Accenture as one of the world's top 50 business intellectuals. Dr Teece has testified before judges, juries, arbitrators, and tribunals in the US and abroad, both on liability and complex valuation and damage issues. He was chairman and co-founder of LECG 1988-2007 and since 2007 he has been vice chairman. He is a director of Canterbury International Limited, and a member of the board of overseers for the faculty of arts and sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.