David Gardner, CEO

Mr. Gardner is a serial entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in creating and building technology companies. He has been the founder or co-founded of nine successful companies including ProviderLink, Peopleclick, Report2Web, DBBasics, BuildLinks, and OnSphere Corporation. Mr. Gardner's start ups have raised over $60 million in venture capital. He has demonstrated a record for consistency across multiple industries and markets without a single startup failure or loss of an investor’s capital.

Experienced in taking IT products and Internet-service model companies to market, Mr. Gardner has served on several boards and is a popular conference speaker. He has published several forward thinking white papers and articles on technical, marketing and managerial topics. He founded and launched the first hosted “software as a service” enterprise application in North Carolina long before the SAS model was recognized as an application delivery method or best practice.

Mr. Gardner has also worked as a Vice President for Compuware, billion-plus dollar corporation, after it acquired ProviderLink, a healthcare communications exchange Gardner founded.

Besides several years of computer science and business related post graduate studies at NCSU, Mr. Gardner also holds degrees in Music, Philosophy and Divinity.

Jeff Crown, President

Jeff Crown brings over 20 years experience in business to business and business to consumer online media and technology companies, including startups and Fortune 500. His responsibilities have spanned general management, sales, marketing, venture capital, and business development for high-tech leaders—from startups to billion-dollar, global companies including McDonnell Douglas.

As one of the first 10 executives at profitable internet pioneer Lycos, Jeff guided business strategy, revenue, and partnerships, creating $5.4 billion in market value in under five years, from zero revenue through IPO through sale of company. Jeff is known for accelerating revenue growth, product innovation, top-tier business partnerships and client relationships for several private and public companies.

Jeff has served on various high tech council Boards and was co-founder of the Massachusetts Nanotechnology Exchange. Jeff’s perspective has been sought out by Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the San Jose Mercury News. He has been a requested speaker at Harvard, MIT, Babson College, Wharton, and several industry associations and technology councils.

Bob Greczyn, Director

Bob Greczyn is president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's largest health insurer. Greczyn joined the company in 1998, bringing 20 years of leadership experience in health care and a solid understanding of the North Carolina health care market. He was named president in 1999 and became CEO in April 2000.

In his role at BCBSNC, Greczyn serves on both the Board of Trustees for BCBSNC and on the board of the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. He is chairman of the board of directors for The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), which is an alliance of the nation's leading health plans working on simplifying health care transactions. In addition, Greczyn is campaign chair of Be Active North Carolina, a grassroots physical fitness campaign designed to help North Carolinians live healthy and active lifestyles. He also chairs the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, the UNC School of Public Health's “Carolina First” Campaign Committee, and has been named to the board of directors and executive committee for North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI). The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Policy Research has named Greczyn a research fellow. He serves on the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust Advisory Board, the board and executive committee of the Triangle United Way, and as vice chair of the Board of Trustees at East Carolina University. He is a director of the N.C. Institute of Medicine and past chair of the March of Dimes' Walk America, and serves on the board of the N.C. New Schools Project.

Greczyn earned a Masters of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from East Carolina University. He also completed the executive program in health care finance management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Paul Rowan, CTO

Paul Rowan is a seasoned veteran of the 3D graphics and gaming industry with over eighteen years of experience managing teams to successfully take many major titles to market. He has worked with MicroProse, Hasbro, iRock, Sinister Games and Red Storm Entertainment producing titles that include Civilization, F-117A Stealth Fighter, X-Com Interceptor, and Ghost Recon II. Mr. Rowan's experience also spans multiple platforms including the PC, Xbox, Sony Playstation, Macintosh and PS2.

Before taking the position of Chief Technology Officer at TVN, Mr. Rowan worked with Rho Inc. developing a mission critical web-based healthcare system.

Dennis Robinson, Lead Architect

Dennis Robinson has more than 20 years of experience in system architecture, client/server development, 3D graphics, and design for Windows and embedded applications. Mr. Robinson’s entrepreneurial experience includes the founded and cofounding of several successful technology companies. In 2003 Mr. Robinson lead a team of 20 engineers to create the Irth™ 3D engine and MMORPG platform completely from scratch.

Mr. Robinson’s career has spanned multiple industries and markets specializing in the design and creation of large scale distributed and performance critical applications for virtual reality, financial markets, media streams and control systems. Before becoming the Lead Architect for TVN™, Mr. Robinson worked with the Blue Capital Group designing and creating real time financial transaction systems for quoting, ordering and market data collection on stock exchanges.

In addition to continuing his studies with Harvard University, Dennis also holds degrees in both Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts.

James McDermott, CSO

Mr. McDermott has forged a career out of building and marketing revolutionary technologies. As a founding member of the Enterprise Engineering group at Red Hat, he helped define and implement the Enterprise Service strategies that shaped much of the company’s success during the tech turmoil at the turn of the millennium. McDermott’s experience as a technologist and business innovator was then applied to the then 12-person Lulu Enterprises helping the start up grow into a multinational company. McDermott’s expertise in digital content management then led to the concepts and technology that became LuLu TV, Inc. where he served as a co-founder and architect. McDermott holds a degree from Niagara University.

Jim Hettinger

Jim Hettinger is a serial entrepreneur and a recognized pioneer in the field of massive multi-player online (MMO) games and simulation graphics. In the late 1980s, Mr. Hettinger founded and was CEO of Tantalus Inc., one of the very first online game companies. Hettinger also founded and was CEO of MPG-Net, the first independent Internet game network which was contracted by Microsoft to create the first online games available on the Microsoft Network. MPG-Net went on to become the exclusive online game provider for AT&T Worldnet.

Mr. Hettinger sold MPG-Net to Interactive Magic, a publicly traded NASDAQ company where he later became CEO and was credited with the re-engineering of the company from a CD-ROM-based game company into an online game powerhouse and exclusive games provider for companies like Earthlink and Mindspring.

In 2002, Mr. Hettinger founded Icarus Studios with the ambitious vision of creating the next generation of MMO platform and 3D graphics engine technology. As CEO of Icarus Studios, Hettinger has led the company through massive multi-year R&D cycles to create what many believe to be the most powerful and flexible MMO technology platform available today.