Kirk D. Dauksavage is Chief Executive
Officer of RiverGlass Inc., where he provides vision and leadership for
the company's efforts to bring customers a true solution to the information overload problem, especially the intelligent discovery and analysis of unstructured textual data. Before
joining the RiverGlass team in April 2004, he was Vice President of
Sales for the i-Solutions division of CheckFree Corporation, a company
that provides electronic commerce software and services to Fortune 1000
companies. Mr Dauksavage was responsible for a national services and
software group that included sales, inside sales, pre-sales and product
marketing.
Mr. Dauksavage joined CheckFree in May of 2000 after the company
bought BlueGill Technologies. At BlueGill, he was Vice President of
Sales from 1998 to 2000, where he played a key role in the company's
growth and was instrumental in its sale to CheckFree for $250 million.

Michael Welge is one of the founders of RiverGlass and its Chief
Scientist responsible for guiding the technical direction of the
company. Mr. Welge also directs the Automated Learning Group at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), co-directs the
National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research, is an adjunct faculty
member at the University of Illinois' Institute for Genomic Biology,
and a faculty member at the university's Center for Information
Technology. In these positions, Mr. Welge helps Fortune 100 companies,
government agencies and academic institutions make sense of the data
mining process and data mining frameworks, and develop data mining
applications. He has worked in data mining, mathematical modeling,
applied artificial intelligence, and stochastic simulation since 1982.
Mr. Welge has developed models and systems that use applied
technologies, including decision trees, neural networks, genetic
algorithms, self-organizing maps, association rules, and models that
use more traditional statistical methods. His work spans data mining
applications in a wide range of fields, including manufacturing,
environmental engineering, medicine, education policy, fraud detection,
customer relationship management, business intelligence,
telecommunications, risk management and crisis management. He designs
and develops algorithms for the Data to Knowledge (D2K) data mining
environment – the technology that is the basis of RiverGlass solutions.

Brian J. Buck is Chief Technology Officer at RiverGlass and leads
the company's software development efforts. Mr. Buck has more than 20
years of experience in the software industry, most recently as
Executive Vice President and CTO at Trading Technologies, a company
that develops high-performance software for brokers and other trading
professionals. Mr. Buck launched some of Trading Technologies' most
successful products and was responsible for nine patented technologies
in information visualization, user interface, trading systems
architectures and business methods.
Prior to Trading Technologies, Mr. Buck was co-founder and CTO of
Divine, Inc., where he led the company's efforts to develop, produce
and market software products for collaboration, content management and
customer interaction. Mr. Buck was also CTO for PLATINUM Technology,
Inc., a provider of information technology management software and
services, from 1991 until 1999, when it was acquired by Computer
Associates. Under his leadership, company revenues grew from $15
million to more than $1 billion.

Scott Eichenauer is the Vice President of Professional Services at
RiverGlass, where he leads the business relationship and software
implementation process to successfully deploy RiverGlass solutions at
customer sites. He has a broad range of industry knowledge with more
than 15 years of information consulting, project management and
software implementation experience. Prior to joining RiverGlass, Mr.
Eichenauer was a Senior Project Executive at Cerner Corporation where
he led the software and equipment installation process for large,
integrated hospital implementation projects. At Cerner, he managed
projects resulting in a safer healthcare experience for the patient and
enhanced information access and decision making capabilities with
improved financial results for the hospitals.
Mr. Eichenauer is intimately familiar with the dynamics of a
start-up company, as he was co-founder and Principal at Ascent
Solutions Group, an independent consultancy providing business
consulting and ERP implementation services for Fortune 1000
manufacturers and distributors. While at Ascent Solutions Group, he led
successful multi-site, multinational ERP software implementations for
several global clients. Mr. Eichenauer also was a Project Manager for
System Software Associates (SSA), leading supply chain implementation
projects for the global provider of enterprise management software
solutions. Throughout his SSA tenure, he was recognized for providing
outstanding consulting services and superior client satisfaction.

Rick McNees is Vice President of Business Development of RiverGlass
Inc., where he is responsible for development and execution of the
distribution and market strategy to drive revenue from strategic
accounts, distribution channels including resellers and OEM's, and
alliance partnerships. Before joining the RiverGlass team in December
2005, he was Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for
iTRACS Corporation, the global leader in physical layer infrastructure
management solutions.
Mr. McNees was Vice President of Business Development at Cybersafe,
and Senior Vice President of Business Development at PLATINUM
Technology. He was Co-Founder and head of Sales and Marketing at
Mercantec, supplier of a leading secure electronic commerce platform
used by over 40k SMBs. Mr. McNees also spent thirteen years at Micro
Focus as Group Vice President of Business Development and Marketing
during which time he served on the Executive Committee helping grow the
company from $3mm to over $150mm in revenue and the twentieth largest
software company in the world. He began his career at Hewlett Packard
and Johnson & Johnson.
Doug Marquis is RiverGlass' Vice President of
Engineering. He focuses on the day-to-day management of
RiverGlass development projects, process and schedules. Doug is also involved in the planning of future product releases. Doug has
fifteen years of experience, two years at startup Mobitrac in Chicago
and has worked at Interface Software (LexisNexis), ThoughtWorks,
BetFair (another startup) and Accenture. Throughout his experiences, he
led technology organizations with expertise in creating and managing
high performance teams focused on business results.
Carla Miller is Vice President of Sales for RiverGlass. Carla has a
20-year track record of success with industry leaders such as Dow
Chemical, Pitney Bowes, Ameritech and CheckFree Corporation. She is
experienced with the dynamics of a start-up software company, having
driven sales at BlueGill Technologies, an Internet software start-up
acquired by CheckFree Corporation in 2000 for $250 million. Carla holds
a B.S. in business administration from Indiana University. She is based
in the Chicago area office.
Nancy Dobrozdravic is Vice President of
Marketing and Strategy. She has proven skills in general technology
management, product innovation, marketing, research, business
development and strategic planning. Her unique blend of product
development and marketing experience, coupled with strong analytical
and creative abilities, bring great value to RiverGlass. Most
recently, Nancy was Vice President of Product Marketing at SPSS, where
she was in charge of leading the growth of the advanced analytics and
data collection technology. She also has held positions in Technology
Planning and Architecture, Business Development, Product Planning and
Market Research. Nancy is a 20-year veteran of SPSS so is well versed
in how to grow successful software companies.
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