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Chester M. Regen PhD, President, Portal Architect & CTO

A seasoned web application architect, technology analyst, and scientist, Chester has extensive database design and web development expertise and over 25 years of programming experience.

Based in our Oakland office, Chester designed the portal application architecture for the Applied Materials iMarketing intranet, the global extranet for Harmonic Inc., and has delivered web-based solutions for Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, McAfee Security, Seagate Technologies, and dozens of other Specific Impulse clients worldwide.

Chester was previously Senior Product Manager for Media Asset and Content Management with Informix Software. Prior to Informix, Chester served for six years as product manager, worldwide marketing manager, and product support supervisor for Bio-Rad Laboratories.

In 1986 Chester founded UMANS, a company that designed and built systems for biomedical research. Chester supported UMANS installations on three continents before selling the product to Bio-Rad in 1991. Chester holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a BA in Physics and Integrated Science from Northwestern University.

Rich Julius, Chairman, Information Architect & CEO

Rich is currently chairman of the board of sister-company iMedia Revenue Ltd., having most recently served as CTO of New Media News LLC (DNAinfo.com). Rich has held a number of executive management and senior technical positions over the past 20 years, including VP of Interactive Technology at Crimson Consulting Group, Director of Product Marketing at Netblue, Information Architect at Marketing Solutions Software (MS2), Director of Consulting Engineering at Perspecta, Director of Knowledge Systems at Informix, Director of User Assistance at Oracle, and Project Manager at PeopleSoft.

Rich has defined information architecture and localization strategies for some of the world's leading technology companies, including Applied Materials, Cisco Systems, Harmonic Inc., Seagate Technologies, and Verizon. He also sits on the board of AllEire Ltd., the Irish eBusiness community web portal whose EireBiz.com property received European Union grant funding in 2005-06 and again in 2009.

Founder of UC Berkeley Extension's Technical Communication program in 1995, Rich taught Digital Communication and Information Architecture courses for UCBE for over five years. He also served for three years as President of the Berkeley chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Rich holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, where he later served on the faculty of the Department of English teaching creative and business writing, before his career in Silicon Valley high-tech.

>> News for the News industry: read the new Blogging Writes blog by Rich Julius.

Board Advisors

Karen O'Brien

Karen is Director of Social Media at Wunderman, and was previously a Partner and Senior Strategist with Crimson Consulting Group, where her primary focus was in developing viable interactive product and service strategies, and designing the strategic, marketing and organizational requirements to achieve competitive advantage. She has over 15 years of strategy and marketing experience at the corporate and agency level. Karen’s experience includes designing global web strategies for companies such as Symantec, HP, Kodak, Cisco, Seagate, Sun, Verio/NTT and Yamaha.

For nine years, Karen has been involved in building consumer and enterprise portals. These include groundbreaking online community, The Well, in 1996, and such portals as Match.com and Ebates.com, with several million registered users. Previously, Karen was Director of e-Business Strategy Consulting for Grant Thornton. There, Karen led diverse, large interactive projects for Fortune 500 companies, rock bands, CPG as well as media and manufacturing companies.

Prior to Grant Thornton, Karen was VP of Sales and Marketing at an interactive agency where she worked on over 70 web projects and online strategy for clients as diverse as Nortel Networks, Match.com, Deutsche Bank, Woolworths and Visa International. Karen is a guest professor in the EMBA Program, Ottawa University in Hong Kong (teaching e-Business and High-Tech Entrepreneurship).

Kenneth Feldman, JD

Mr. Feldman is a seasoned intellectual property attorney and litigator with over 20 years experience. He has extensive Federal Court experience in New York, New Jersey, California, Michigan, and Colorado. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, an MA in Public Policy from Duke University, and a JD from Rutgers Law School. Mr. Feldman was in private practice in midtown Manhattan for over ten years, and presently has a varied practice on both coasts as managing attorney for Feldman Law Group.

Richard Yien

Mr. Yien is SVP and CTO at Crum & Forster and was previously President and founder of R2K Inc., a worldwide IT consulting firm headquartered in New York City. Mr. Yien has over twenty years of industry experience with particular expertise in systems architecture, data communications, computer graphics, document imaging, and workflow automation. Prior to founding R2K, Mr. Yien was Director of Software Development at Wang Software and Sigma Imaging Systems, where he led the development of its production imaging and workflow products. Previously at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Mr. Yien developed advanced network monitoring systems and services for which he has received many awards.

Mr. Yien consults today on leveraging advanced systems in the workplace with emphasis on network-based solutions. He has a dual BA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MS from Rutgers University, is an AIIM Laureate of Electronic Document Image Management, and holds two U.S. patents.