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Robert
Baldacci offers clients
the skill and experience that
come from more than 30 years
of success in both the public
and private sectors, working
with small and large businesses,
federal, state, and local governments,
and a diverse array of community
groups.
Prior to joining Pierce Atwood
Consulting, Bob served as president
of his own firm, Baldacci Associates,
where he developed more than
$25 million in residential and
commercial real estate in Maine
and elsewhere. His many successful
projects include: the historic
mixed-use rehab of the former
Bangor High School; Mariner
Woods, an award-winning family
housing project in Searsport;
the Center for Advanced Medicine,
a joint venture with St. Joseph’s
Hospital; and vacation ownership
projects in Southwest Harbor,
Maine, and Killarney, Ireland.
Over the years, Bob has had
the opportunity to assist public
and private groups throughout
Maine with strategic planning,
setting goals, and meeting objectives.
Most recently, Bob has been
working with the University
of Maine and Central Michigan
University to develop economic
opportunities with universities,
businesses and the government
in Northern Ireland.
Bob is serving his second term
as President of the Bangor Region
Development Alliance, Member
of the Board of Visitors University
of Maine Orono, and Adjunct
Professor University of Maine
Graduate School of Public Administration.
Bob is also a member of the
Economic Development Council
of Maine, the One Maine Marketing
Committee, the International
Economic Development Council
and CoreNet Global. Bob was
recently appointed to serve
on the Board of the American
Chamber of Commerce for Canada.
Bob’s public service has
included serving as the founding
chairman of the board of the
Finance Authority of Maine (FAME),
vice president of Maine Housing
Enterprise, vice chairman of
the Maine Guarantee Authority,
Bob currently serves as a Board
member and Treasurer of Community
Housing of Maine.
Bob received his B.A. and M.P.A.
from the University of Maine
and currently serves on the
University’s Board of
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Eric
Engstrom is the founder
& CEO of Wildseed Ltd., an innovative
software company pioneering
SmartSkin™ technology that powers
the world's first interactive
accessory for wireless phones,
joins Akoura's Advisory Board of Directors
as of April 1st, 2005. Prior
to founding Wildseed Eric worked
at Microsoft for eight years.
During that time he co-invented
DirectX, the most rapidly adopted
technology in Microsoft history
and an inspiration for Microsoft's
Xbox. He subsequently became
the general manager of DirectX
Media and ChromEffects, which
was intended to be the next
generation multimedia platform,
bringing the power of DirectX
to the web by embedding broadcast
quality graphics in Internet
Explorer. Next, Mr. Engstrom
assumed the role of General
Manager for MSN Internet Access.
He energized MSN's Access business
by tripling the subscriber base
and establishing a sustainable
growth trajectory in the year
before he retired from Microsoft.
After leaving Microsoft, Mr.
Engstrom turned his focus to
the ever-growing wireless industry
believing that handheld wireless
devices were 'the next big thing'
in social application of technology.
That focus led to the founding
of Wildseed, which set out to
develop new product technologies
for wireless carriers to captivate
and sustain the loyalty of young
consumers. Wildseed has been
honored with the 2004 CES Design
and Engineering Showcase Award,
TechTV's 2003 Best of CES Finalist
for SmartSkins, Andrew Seybold's
Outlook 4Mobility 2002 Innovation
Award at Comdex, and was nominated
for TechTV's 2004 Best of CES
for its first GSM phone Identity.
Eric's passion with new technologies
shines through in each project
he conjures up and is clearly
evident by the fact that he
started three companies simultaneously
in 2000: Wildseed, Catalytic
Software, an outsourced software
services company with its own
evolving township in India,
and Xoucin, a software Intellectual
Property think tank. Mr. Engstrom
is the Chairman of each these
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John
W Kepler III is a Shareholder
of the Science and Technology
Law Group of the Business Law
Department of Polsinelli Shalton
Welte Suelthaus’ Clayton,
Missouri office.
John practices in all areas
of Intellectual Property and
Technology Protection Law, including
identification, procurement,
transfer, and protection of
inventions, brands, and original
works of authorship by means
of patents, trademarks, trade
dress protection, copyrights,
and trade secrets. He is directly
involved with patent and trademark
prosecution, transactions and
litigation in federal and state
courts, before Board of Patent
Appeals and Interferences, and
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
His Intellectual Asset Management
(“IAM”) practice
includes activities ranging
from development and implementation
of IAM strategy to preparation
of term sheets and negotiation
of agreements. John’s
litigation practice includes
working closely with litigation
attorneys during pre-trial preparation
and settlement negotiations
dealing with patent, trademark,
copyright, unfair competition,
and trade secret matters.
John’s Intellectual Property
and Technology clients include
manufacturers and distributors
of mechanical, electrical, biological,
software, and Internet Based
equipment, machinery, products
and services; financial services
institutions; and internationally
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Daniel
J McMullen serves as
chair of Calfee’s Information
Technology group. He advises
both publicly and closely-held
companies on matters of information
technology (IT) and intellectual
property law. He offers skilled
counsel in the IT arena, including
computer software development,
license and acquisition agreements,
outsourcing, hosting and Application
Service Provider transactions
and other Internet, Website
and e-commerce issues.
Dan also handles copyright and
trademark applications and represents
clients in all forms of intellectual
property and IT-related dispute
resolution. He uses intellectual
property law, contracting practices
and dispute resolution techniques
related to information technology
to help clients - whether buyers
or sellers of IT goods and services
- protect and build their businesses.
Dan was previously employed
as a systems analyst with General
Motors’ Packard Electric
Division and served as a law
clerk to Chief U.S. District
Judge Frank J. Battisti. He
was also a member of the Attorney
General’s Honors Program
and a trial attorney with the
U.S. Justice Department before
joining Jones Day. Dan served
as director of the Office of
School Monitoring and as a special
master for the U.S. District
Court. He began his tenure with
Calfee, Halter & Griswold
LLP in 1994, becoming a partner
in 1998.
Dan is active outside of his
practice. He serves as an adjunct
faculty member of Cleveland?Marshall
College of Law, where he lectures
on intellectual property and
information technology issues.
He is secretary of the Greater
Cleveland Media Development
Corporation (Cleveland’s
Film Commission), a member of
the advisory committee of the
T.I.M.E. program at the Cleveland
Institute of Art and a graduate
of Leadership Cleveland. Dan
is a member of the Ohio State,
American and Cleveland Bar Associations.
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John Puckett John Puckett is the Chief Technology
Officer of DuPont's Information
Technology division. Mr. Puckett
was formerly Vice President
of Business Development at Polaroid
Corporation a $2 billion leader
in imaging. Previous to that,
he was CIO at Internet pioneer
BBN Corporation.
Prior to joining BBN Corp.,
Mr. Puckett was the executive
manager of global business development
at Sun Networks, a division
of Sun Microsystems. Before
that he held various managerial
positions at The Foxboro Company,
ultimately directing all of
the company’s network
and systems integration.
In May of 2000, Mr. Puckett
was named one of the "Premier
100 IT Leaders" by Computerworld.
Previously he had been selected
as one of the top visionaries
in "information technology
for enterprise networking"
by Network World and also had
received an award for "open
networking excellence"
from Communications Week and
the Corporation for Open Systems
International (COSI).
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William
H Shaheen was born
and raised in Dover, New Hampshire.
Over the past twenty years,
Bill has successfully tried
many personal injury and divorce
cases on behalf of his clients.
He has received substantial
monetary awards for his personal
injury clients, as well as obtaining
favorable judgments for his
divorce clients. In conjunction
with his successful personal
injury and divorce trial work,
Bill has had significant success
in representing business and
corporate clients in strategic
planning and business formation.
Bill continues to represent
many local, regional and national
multi-million dollar businesses.
Along with a successful civil
trial and business practice,
Bill is very active in politics.
He co-chaired the successful
1976 New Hampshire Presidential
Primary Campaign for Jimmy Carter.
In 1977, President Carter appointed
him as U.S. Attorney for the
District of New Hampshire. At
that time, he was the youngest
U.S. Attorney in the country.
During Bill's tenure as U.S.
Attorney, he met and hired Steve
Gordon as Assistant U.S. Attorney.
After leaving his post as U.S.
Attorney, he and Steve started
their law practice together.
In 1981, Governor Hugh Gallen
appointed Bill as Judge of the
Durham District Court. Bill
presided over the Durham District
Court for fifteen years until
1996 when he resigned to focus
on his wife Jeanne's three successful
campaigns for Governor of New
Hampshire. In 1999 and 2000,
he served as Chairman of Vice
President Al Gore's successful
New Hampshire 2000 Presidential
Primary Campaign.
Mr. Shaheen received a Bachelor
of Arts Degree from the University
of New Hampshire in 1965 and
a Juris Doctorate with Honors
from the University of Mississippi
School of Law in 1973. After
graduation, he began his law
career in Dover, New Hampshire.
Bill is a member of the New
Hampshire and Mississippi Bars;
he is a member of the United
States Supreme Court Bar and
the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
He is also a member of the Federal
District Courts for the States
of New Hampshire and Mississippi.
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Dr.
William T Plummer has
worked at Polaroid Corporation
from 1969 till 2001 in various
capacities; Scientist, Senior
Scientist, Engineering Fellow,
Senior Manager. Dr. Plummer
achieved technical integration
across optical science, lens
design, mechanics, electronics,
and submicron precision engineering
to support Polaroid hardware
product development at the concept
and system level, enabling product
design teams to introduce new
manufacturing concepts and functional
advances to products. Dr. Plummer
also managed Optical Engineering,
Model Shops, Concept Engineering,
Laser Diode design and manufacture,
Optical Storage, and CAD System
groups. Since leaving Polaroid
on March 26, 2001, Dr. Plummer
has been an optical engineering
consultant for several clients.
Dr. Plummer holds a BS degree
in B.A. Physics and Mathematics
from Johns Hopkins University
in 1960, a Ph.D. in Physics
in 1965, and received a Certificate
from the Tuck Executive Program
at Dartmouth College in 1987.
Dr. Plummer had received 92
U.S. Patents for optical, mechanical,
and electronic inventions, unique
product designs, and effective
ways to manufacture them and
few are pending. He is a Senior
Lecturer and a faculty Search
Committee member at the Mechanical
Engineering Department at M.I.T.
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| Michel Vandenberghe
has more than 20 years experience
in information technologies and
solution design working at Amdahl,
Sun Microsystems and IBM. Michel
is involved in many innovative
projects since 1996 and has an
extensive experience as regards
technologies and emerging business
related to services platforms
and intelligent objects on many
industries. Michel is co-founder
of several companies in France
and Switzerland and brings vision
and business development skills
to these companies. He is founder
of the Networked Company and lead
design of innovative autonomous
intelligent systems for secured
applications in Defense, Health
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Naeem
Zafar is a partner
at Altair Ventures, an early
stage venture company that specializes
in working with entrepreneurs
on the seed stage of a company.
He was the president and CEO
of Silicon Design Systems, an
EDA software company in Silicon
Valley that develops software
for complex chip designs. Prior
to SDS, he was president and
CEO of Veridicom, Inc., a Lucent/Bell
Labs spin-off specializing in
silicon fingerprint sensors
and authentication software.
Previously, Zafar spent 11 years
at Quickturn Design Systems,
serving as vice president of
worldwide marketing. He played
a key role in establishing Quickturn
as the EDA market leader for
emulation and verification products,
and was involved with several
strategic acquisitions, as well
as the IPO and sale of Quickturn
to Cadence Design Systems in
1999. Zafar began his career
at Honeywell Research Labs in
Minneapolis, Minn. as a VLSI
design engineer and research
scientist, and is the founder
of two EDA companies. He holds
a Bachelor of Science degree
in electrical engineering from
Brown University (magna cum
laude), Rhode Island, and a
master's degree in electrical
engineering from the University
of Minnesota.
Zafar has extensive
experience in starting companies,
fund-raising, all aspects of
high-tech marketing, M&A
and company restructuring and
turn-around, worldwide channel
development and IPO. Zafar has
been a frequent lecturer on
Entrepreneurship and high-tech
startups.
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