Management Team

Management Team Bios

 
K. Mason Conner - President and Chief Executive Officer , has over twenty-four years in sales and business management experience. For the last sixteen years, he has held senior positions in the data and voice communication products and services industries with companies such as TMSI, LTS Corp, Digital Network Architects, Banyan Systems, Doelz Networks, and Timeplex.

Michael A. Richard - Chief Financial Officer, has over fifteen years of diverse financial management and public corporate reporting and compliance experience, holding senior accounting positions at start-up to early-stage technology ventures including BigHub.com, PortaCom Wireless, and Extreme Technologies, functioning in either the lead or key support roles in mergers and acquisitions, NASDAQ listing, internal and external reporting, regulatory compliance, and a number of domestic and overseas equity and debt financings and registrations.

H. Jay Hill - Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Director, has served on fourteen Boards of Directors. For the last seventeen years, he has primarily focused on high technology and telecommunication turnaround situations at the executive level. Mr. Hill has held management positions with Amnet (Netlink), Harris Corporation, Paradyne, Inforex, and IBM.

J. Thomas Zender - Chairman of the Board, has over thirty-five years of management and marketing experience in the information technology industry. He has held management positions with MAI Systems, Encore Computer, MTI Technology, General Electric, Honeywell, and ITT.

Ricardo A. Salas - Director, currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liquidmetal Technologies. From January 2000 through June 2005, Mr. Salas served as Chief Executive Officer of iLIANT Corporation, an information technology and outsourcing service firm in the health care industry, and he continues to serve as Chairman of iLIANT. From 1987 through 2004, he was Vice President of J. Holdsworth Capital Ltd., a private investment firm. As an officer of J. Holdsworth Capital Ltd., Mr. Salas held positions in various investments including Medical Manager Corporation as a vice president between June 1999 and January 2000, National Medical Systems, Inc. as vice president between April 1994 and February 1997, and Uni Flange Corporation as vice president between June 1989 and June 1994. Mr. Salas received his B.A. in Economics in 1986 from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.