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Joe Kozak
Joe Kozak Joseph Kozak has been Chairman of the Board since September 2007. Mr. Kozak joined ANTs software inc. in June 2005 as President and was additionally named Chief Executive Officer and appointed to the board of directors in August 2006. He brings 25 years of front-line leadership experience in sales, marketing and business development. Mr. Kozak joined ANTs from Oracle Corporation, where he was vice president of industry sales. While with Oracle he defined and executed global strategies for retail, distribution, life science, process manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods industries. He also managed Oracle's acquisition of Retek, Inc. a $630 million purchase in the retail applications space. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Kozak was CEO of Lombardi Software a manufacturer of business process management solutions. He was also an equity partner with Ernst and Young, LLP where he managed the retail distribution and consumer goods North American business unit; vice president of sales for SAP America, where he was responsible for the retail distribution and consumer goods business units for the Americas; and Mr. Kozak held numerous management positions with AT&T and IBM. Mr. Kozak holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from LaSalle University and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of New Jersey. Craig Campbell Mr. Campbell is the Chief Executive Officer of Campbell Capital Advisors, LLC, a financial services company located in Chicago, Illinois. He has been a financial executive for over 25 years. He has extensive experience as a general partner and advisor for investment and hedge funds and has served in leadership positions for numerous charitable foundations. John R. Gaulding Mr. Gaulding is a private investor and consultant in the fields of strategy and organization. He is an independent director and serves on the audit and compensation committees of Monster Worldwide, Inc. Mr. Gaulding also serves on the board of Yellow Pages Group, Inc., a publicly held company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, where he is chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Most recently, Mr. Gaulding served as a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Consulting specializing in e-Business strategy with responsibility for advising such clients as Hewlett Packard, 3Com, Bergen Brunswig, Longs Drugstores, SCE, and PG&E. From 1990-1996, Mr. Gaulding served as President and CEO of ADP's Claims Solutions Group where he was also a member of the Corporate Executive Committee. From 1983-1985 Mr. Gaulding was Corporate Vice President, Strategy and Development, also serving on the Corporate Executive Committee of Pacific Telesis, Inc. From 1985-1990 Mr. Gaulding was President and CEO of Pacific Bell Directory, the yellow pages publishing unit of Pacific Telesis, Inc.
Robert Jett Mr. Jett is co-founder of Prescient Software LLC of Vancouver, Oregon, a provider of IT services. He also serves as general counsel for eDocs-Express, a company that provides consulting and documentation services to financial institutions. A member of the Oregon State Bar and the Multnomah Bar Association, Mr. Jett has extensive law experience, serving as legal counsel for the First National Bank of Oregon, Security Bank of Oregon, Evans Products Company, CFI ProServices, Inc., and other enterprises. Mr. Jett is best known as the architect and product manager of Laser Pro™, the predominant loan documentation software system used by thousands of financial institutions across the country. Ari Kaplan Mr. Kaplan is President Emeritus of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), a 20,000+ member organization of Oracle technology professionals. Mr. Kaplan served as Executive Vice President of IOUG from 2003 to 2004, before assuming his current role in 2005. Mr. Kaplan is also a Senior Consultant for Datalink Corporation, where he leads the database practice, helping companies architect, implement and and support storage solutions for database environments. Beginning in 1999 and continuing through 2005, Mr. Kaplan served as Chief Executive Officer at Expand Beyond, a pioneering mobile business software company. Mr. Kaplan worked as a Chief Architect/Senior Consultant from 1994 to 1999, to companies including Chicago Board Options Exchange, Merck & Co., Inc., 3Com/US Robotics, Hallmark, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Department of Defense. Mr. Kaplan also worked as a Senior Consultant for Oracle Corporation from 1992 to 1994. He has co-authored five best-selling books including the first-to-market book on Windows 2000, three on Oracle, and one on baseball analytics. Mr. Kaplan received a Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 1992. He was awarded the school's prestigious "Caltech Alumni of the Decade" award for the 1990's.
Robert H. Kite Mr. Kite is currently president and COO of Kite Family Co. Inc., and the managing general partner of KFT LLLP, a family owned company. He oversees assets and operations in a variety of businesses, including commercial and industrial buildings, land holdings, stocks, bonds, commodities, MRI clinics, hotel and retail development. Mr. Kite is a director with three publicly traded companies, two privately held companies, and two charitable organizations. Public companies include: National Energy Group (NEGI) an oil and gas company based in Dallas Texas, Petrol Oil & Gas (POIG), an oil and gas exploration and development company based in Overland Park, Kansas, and Jardinier, developer of highly efficient irrigation systems, based in Santa Ana, California. He also serves on the boards of E2020, an Internet education company, and Financialz, an accounting software company. Mr. Kite’s public service work includes board membership with Child Help USA and the FBI Citizen's Academy. Mr. Kite previously worked in the construction industry in Saudi Arabia with Beck-Arabia, and in Central America in gold mining and manufacturing operations. He is a graduate of Southern Methodist University. Francis K. Ruotolo Previously, he was a Director in the consulting practice of Deloitte & Touche. He has more than 40 years of corporate, entrepreneurial and consulting experience. As a corporate executive in three multi-billion dollar organizations, he was adept at problem solving and turnaround situations. After becoming President of The Futures Group in 1993, he tripled revenues, transformed the firm from research to strategic planning and in 1998 merged with Deloitte Consulting. Prior to joining The Futures Group, Mr. Ruotolo headed his own consulting firm serving retailing, manufacturing and distribution companies. Before owning his own company, Mr. Ruotolo was Senior Vice President of Operations and a member of the California Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for Macy's Department Store. Mr. Ruotolo also served as Senior Vice President of Operations for Lord & Taylor where he held operational and expense management responsibilities and was a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors. Mr. Ruotolo has also held numerous operations, personnel and management positions for Sears Roebuck and Company, in both the retail and catalog operations. Mr. Ruotolo holds a B.A. degree in English/Journalism from Northeastern University, Boston, MA. |
