Board of Directors

Michael Yang
Co-founder & Chairman of the Board, Verifia Inc.
Michael Yang co-founded Verifia Inc. in 2000. He is a veteran entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in high-tech industry and has held various technical and management positions in Silicon Valley. His previous experience includes positions at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Intergraph Corp., and Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. Prior to founding Verifia, Michael was Founder, Chairman & CEO of mySimon Inc, the premier online comparison shopping service. For this venture, Michael and his team successfully raised $30M from Brentwood Venture Capital, Sprout Group, Intel Capital, and CitiCorp Venture Capital. mySimon was recognized by TIME as one of the top 20 e-Commerce services in 1999 and the company was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M in early 2000. Michael is a proven entrepreneur who is passionate about leveraging new technologies to solve real-life problems and build successful companies. He serves on the board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University, as well as several other universities and non-profit organizations. Also, Michael served as a member of the IT Advisory Council for President George W. Bush. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, a M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and a M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

SanKu Jo
Co-founder & CTO, Verifia Inc.
SanKu is an expert in Internet infrastructure and security with over 13 years of experience in telecommunications, networks and Internet technologies. Prior to co-founding Verifia, SanKu worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory as a Computer Scientist on the Next Generation Internet (NGI) and Distributed Parallel Storage System (DPSS) projects. Previously he worked for six years for the Korean Telecom Research Center as a member of their technical staff. He started the first Internet-based Bulletin Board Systems (KIDS) in Korea back in 1991 and authored an Internet Guide Book in 1995. SanKu received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, emphasizing Internet architecture and agent-assisted scalable video-conferencing, from Texas A&M University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from KwangWoon University in Korea.

Younghoon David Kim
Chairman, Daesung Group
YoungHoon is the chairman and CEO of Daesung Group which, with a history of 55 years, is a pioneer in Korea's energy industry and includes Taegu City Gas Co., Ltd., Kyoungbuk City Gas Co., Ltd., YEN Co., Ltd., Korea Cable TV Kyunggi Center Co., Ltd., R&R Remodeling Co., Ltd., Sinai Media Co., Ltd., Gloria Trading Co., Ltd., B.I.G. Co., Ltd., BiNEXT Hi-Tech Co., Ltd. While contributing to the development of domestic energy industry by exploring overseas energy resources and introducing city gas which is environment-friendly, he has been expanding the Group's scope of business to the fields of information, communications, environment and construction. He realized a "debt-free management" by improving financial structure through rational and transparent operation which led the Group to earn a nickname "IMF-free Zone" during the 1997 foreign currency crisis and be praised as having created a new advanced business model. As the Korea representative to ABAC(APEC Business Advisory Council) under APEC, YoungHoon has been demonstrating his outstanding leadership in developing international energy and environmental policies and projects. Recently he was elected chairman of Partnership for Equitable Growth which is implementing the Asia Gas Grid (AGG) project worth eight billion dollars which constructs a gas transmission pipeline from Indonesia to Shanghai, China. As Chairman of Korea City Gas Association, YoungHoon is now leading the privatization of domestic gas business which is one of the critical pending national issues. YoungHoon has a bachelor's degree in law from the Seoul National University and master's degrees in law and business administration respectively from the University of Michigan. He studied international economics as a special student at the Graduate School of Art and Science, Harvard University. He also completed a master's degree course in theology at the Harvard Divinity School.

Marty Sukle
Partner, Alps Investment Research, LLC
Marty serves as the Vice President of Finance and one of three Operating Managers for Alps Investment Research, LLC which serves as the General Partner of Alps Information Technology Fund, LP. His primary focus is on growing early stage information technology companies in the areas of optics, wireless communications and Internet infrastructure and services. Marty is directly involved in the establishment of strategic alliances and the formation of technology partnerships with the portfolio companies and ALPS. He was extensively involved in the organization and formation of ALPS' first venture capital fund. Marty is also involved in corporate strategic business development, finance and is a member of Alps North America executive committee. Prior to joining ALPS, he held various positions at Fujitsu America, Inc. and KPMG. At KPMG, he specialized in the areas of tax and accounting for information technology companies.

Bonwan Koo
Partner LG Venture Investment Inc.
Bonwan travels the world identifying and evaluating new technology trends and companies for LG Ventures. Most recently, he has dealt with companies in Europe, North America, the Mid East, and Asia-Pacific. He has deep experience in the corporate finance and venture capital arenas. His past experience includes corporate accounting management, materials trading, and the development of worldwide market entry strategies for LG International PVC division. He received his B.S. in business administration from the University of Louisville and graduated with an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from U.C. Berkeley.

Advisors

Jeremy Woan
CEO, The Bampton Group
With 20 years of experience in successfully growing companies in the US and Europe, Jeremy is a recognized expert in managing investment in and growing technology companies. He has helped build and take public two companies and is co-founder of several others.

Previously, Jeremy was chairman and CEO of Clinical Computing, which, under his leadership, grew to become the leading supplier of renal dialysis information systems. The company captured market share of more than 40% in North America, with client or strategic partner relationships with major companies in its field. In addition to directing the company's product and brand development strategies and creating direct and indirect sales channels, Jeremy assembled institutional investors and positioned the company for successful IPO and secondary offerings.

Before Clinical Computing, Jeremy was Deputy CEO of Tadpole Technology, the producer of RISC notebooks, high-performance board level systems and enterprise solutions. At Tadpole, he helped negotiate and structure a strategic partnership with, and investment from, IBM and formulated a strategic plan around the Sparcbook product line. Jeremy led and managed a highly successful IPO and created a strong investor profile for the company. He is a native of the United Kingdom and maintains homes in London and San Francisco. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge.

Lisa T. Wilhelm
Owner & Principal, Wilhelm Associates
Lisa specializes in payment risk management strategy and solution consulting for financial service companies. Her clients include Primary Payment Systems, Inc., Efunds, First Union Bank, Branch Banking & Trust, NASA Federal Credit Union, Paymybills.com, Payme.com, Global Payment Advisors, Livecapital.com, Washington Mutual FA, GE Card Services, Visa, and Jamoka (a financial services eMarket). She has 20 years of executive experience in risk management and retail banking, and a successful track record of innovating, delivering, and scaling reengineered products, services, and operations. As a Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo, she pioneered the development and delivery of deposit account behavior and credit score-driven retail decision strategies to the points of transaction, account acquisition, and product cross-sell. She also launched over 40 new central and distributed fraud detection and loss prevention programs, including predictive decision and AI technology solutions, helping to establish Wells Fargo as the leader in the deposit portfolio risk field. Lisa has appeared on NBC DateLine and CNN, and has been widely quoted in local and national news programs, magazines, and newspapers as well as industry trade journals. She is an alumnus of the CBA Graduate School of Retail Bank Management at the University of Virginia, the University of Maine, La Sorbonne in France, and the Goethe Institute in Germany.

Ken Rhie
President, Z60 Ventures
Ken brings more than 20 years of experience in general management, marketing, and product development. His technology expertise ranges from the Internet, client/server database, desktop software, and computer telephony. As founding president and CEO of ThinkFree Corp., a Silicon Valley-based software service provider, he raised over $20 million in venture financing and worked with ASP's and portals to offer a full suite of office application services. ThinkFree Office was nominated as a finalist for PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award at Comdex 2000. Prior to ThinkFree, Ken invented the world's first voice browser, building an Internet telephony company as the Founder and CEO, NetPhonic Communications, which was acquired by General Magic. The Web -On-Call Voice Browser won 7 prestigious industry awards including Best Product of the Year from Mobile Computing, and 1997 Product of the Year from Computer Telephony. Ken has a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

Glen Van Ligten
Partner, Venture Law Group
Glen specializes in working with emerging growth Internet companies, with an emphasis in venture capital financing, public offerings, corporate partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. He also has significant experience representing venture capital and investment banking firms. Clients with whom Glen has worked include: eToys, Cooking.com, JumpData, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse First Boston. Glen is co-head of VLG's Internet Practice Group and a member of VLG's Executive Committee. Prior to joining Venture Law Group in March 1996, Glen was a business and technology associate at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. Glen graduated from the University of California at Davis in 1985 with a degree in Managerial Economics. In 1990, Glen graduated with honors from U.C. Hastings College of Law, where he was a member of the Thurston Society.

Michael Geist
Law Professor - University of Ottawa & Director of E-Commerce Law - Goodmans LLP
Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa specializing in Internet and e-commerce law and Director of E-Commerce Law with the Canadian law firm of Goodmans LLP. He has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law. Michael is also a national columnist on cyberlaw issues for the Globe and Mail and is on the advisory boards of several leading Internet law publications including Electronic Commerce & Law Report (BNA), the Journal of Internet Law (Aspen) and Internet Law and Business (Computer Law Reporter). In June of 2001, Michael was publicly elected to the board of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the dot-ca administrative agency. He is regularly quoted in the national and international media on Internet law issues and has appeared before government committees on e-commerce policy. He has law degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and Columbia Law School in New York.

A. L. Narasimha Reddy
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Narasimha Reddy, an award-winning Internet infrastructure expert, is currently leading Texas A&M projects on building scalable multimedia storage server based on networked workstations. His group is also exploring various issues related to Network QOS. The professor's research areas include: Multimedia, I/O systems, Network QOS and Computer Architecture. Previously, Dr. Reddy worked at IBM where he co-architected and designed a topology-independent routing chip operating at 100 MB/sec, designed a hierarchical storage management system and participated in the design of video servers and disk arrays. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received an IBM Graduate Fellowship. He is a member of ACM SIGARCH, is a senior member of IEEE Computer Society, and received a National Science Foundation Career award in 1996.