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Board of Advisors
Paul Clift Bringing entrepreneurial wisdom and extensive industry experience to PageBid, Paul is the founder and president of a ten year old nationwide document management consulting company, where he has sold solutions to over 200 law firms, corporations, and government agencies. Paul has ten years of document technologies expertise, and 25 years of overall technical consulting and management experience. Paul's prior positions include CFO of a New York wholesaler, and senior manager at Simplan Systems, a mainframe timesharing firm. Before this he was a manager at Exxon, and a Senior Associate at Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche). Paul holds a degree in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chip Young Chip Young has the proven scalable database expertise needed to take a company from startup to world class provider. Chip is a senior database architect at Voxeo, a Silicon Valley based startup that is leading the way in allowing clients to give customers access to their information, employees and web services via any telephone. He has 11 years of high-end relational database engineering and management experience, working for industry leaders such as Oracle, SQL, Informix, Sybase, and DB2. Chip also was integral in building three-tiered Web-server architectures for Viralon, FreeMe and BackFlip, three Internet startups. Chip's technical roots hail back to Tivoli Systems where he managed four development teams during the company's rapid growth years. Before Tivoli, he worked with Sterling Consulting, Tandem, and Arrowsmith Technologies. Chip is also a patent applicant, and is currently working on an open source application for code generation and a technical reference book for Oracle DBAs. His studies include Business Data Processing at the University of Texas.
Richard McKinley With both Fortune 500 and startup financial expertise, Richard was the former CFO at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a high-tech law firm in Palo Alto, California. The firm is a fast-growing leader in the technology area, with over 800 lawyers in five offices and a dozen practice areas, and over $400 million in fees collected annually. In addition to founding his own financial consulting firm, where he worked with startups to implement solid business processes in their strategic planning, Richard was the CFO for BigWords.com, which was the #3 on-line book retailer behind Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. While there he built a management team, put in place ROI as a business driver, and helped raise $30 million in funding. Richard also served for 15 years at The Gap, most recently as the Vice-President of Finance for their Old Navy division. He played an integral role in the phenomenal growth of the Old Navy division, and put in place a management team and revenue and expense metrics to ensure its continued success. Before working for The Gap, Richard was a tax manager at Touche Ross & Co. He is currently a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, holds a CPA, and received his B.A. from Occidental College.
Michael Oswald Bringing extensive startup experience, as well as legal and exit strategy expertise, to PageBid, Michael was the former General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of NowDocs, the leading provider of document printing and delivery worldwide. There he oversaw contracts management, corporate governance, facilities, finance, human resources, intellectual property, legal affairs and organization development. Previously, Michael was general counsel to Acuity Corp. in Austin, Texas. where he implemented a process for working with the company's sales force to streamline the negotiation of software license deals, and managed all of the company's legal affairs. He was also part of the management team that negotiated Acuity's acquisition by Quintus Corporation, during which time he co-led the transition team. Michael also served on Quintus' IPO team. Michael has held several management positions, including director of total quality for SEMATECH, a semiconductor industry R&D consortium. He earned a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, and a B.A. from the University of California at Riverside.
Chris
May Chris's previous experience includes work as a law clerk, programmer, and network administrator. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Texas.
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