Joe Bell
Director of the UNC Entrepreneurship Center

Mr. Bell was also the Colorado Director of the Small Business Development Centers, reporting to the Colorado Governor's Office. In this position he was responsible for operations of the CSBDC and oversight of its 21 subcenters located throughout the State of Colorado.

He has personally counseled 1000s of small businesses in the areas of market research and product introduction, strategic planning, capital structuring, fundraising and financial analysis. He directed two #1 ranked programs on a lowest cost per customer basis while maintaining exceptional customer satisfaction.

Wayne Greenberg
EnterTech Partners

Wayne Greenberg is currently a management consultant and sits on the boards of Enertech Capital Partners (ECP) and two of their portfolio companies. Enertech is the largest venture capital fund focused on power technologies with nearly $300M under management (ECP is part of Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE). His consulting activities have focused on assisting small companies with various stages of their development, including fund raising, building management teams and launching new products.

Greenberg is the former president of Financial Times Energy, a national publishing, consulting and research firm specializing in energy markets and utility industry deregulation; and a division of the Financial Times Group of London.

Prior to FT Energy, Mr. Greenberg was president of E Source, a start-up information firm serving the energy marketplace. Greenberg also served as president of Shepard's, the $100M legal publishing arm of the McGraw-Hill Companies, and he held various management positions at Lexis-Nexis, the world's largest provider of on-line professional information.

Mr. Greenberg has participated in various entrepreneurial ventures including a software development company, a contract research business, a training company and an automation consulting business. He was the founder of several of these businesses and actually made some money from a couple of them. He received a bachelor's degree in Public Communications from Boston University, and JD and MBA degrees from Tulane University, where he also served as associate dean at the law school.

Mark Weakley
Holme Roberts & Owens

Mark W. Weakley is an attorney with Holme Roberts & Owen and works with emerging technology companies, with a focus on capital structuring, venture financing, M&A, corporate matters, entity formation and strategic planning. Mr. Weakley also develops and advises clients on employee stock plans, joint ventures, technology licensing and transfers, and other commercial agreements. He is a frequent speaker at business and legal seminars on topics related to securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, business entity selection and formation and limited liability companies.

Mr. Weakley also has substantial experience advising sponsors, managers and advisers on the formation and operation of hedge funds, which are privately-held pooled investment entities. He has helped form over 40 hedge funds throughout the United States, involving such investment strategies as long/short equity and derivative investments, fund of funds, sector concentrations such as technology, telecommunications and precious medals, emerging global markets, private equity ventures, dividend yields, fixed income, and natural resources.

David Brode
Minotaur Financial

David Brode helps start-ups raise equity capital from VC, angel, and private equity investors. As a finance and strategy consultant, Mr. Brode has worked with companies backed by Mobius Venture Capital, Centennial Ventures, Telecom Partners, and Sequel Venture Capital.

Prior to working in the Colorado venture capital community, Mr. Brode consulted on telecommunications transactions and systems with Level 3 Communications, Nextel Communications, SBC Communications, Verizon Communications, Vodafone Airtouch, and numerous startups.

Kevin Johansen
Chairman of the Board
The DaVinci Institute

Kevin spent four years as founder and chief executive of 4Work.com, a leading job posting site and recruiting technology provider. While at 4Work.com, Kevin was known as one of the recruiting industry's leading innovators, formulating all of the company's financial, operating and administrative policies. In a marketplace of over 3,000 service providers, industry analysts ranked him as one of the Top 10 most influential CEO's in the market place.