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INNOTAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

Keith Carlson, President and CEO, Innotas

Keith Carlson joined Innotas as CEO in 2006, bringing with him a strong track record for building high-growth, high-value businesses in the technology and consulting sectors. Keith is a thought leader in IT Governance and is responsible for driving Innotas' rapid growth.

Prior to joining Innotas, Keith held executive positions at Traiana, an enterprise software company acquired by ICAP; Mercury, the global leader in business technology optimization; Kintana, an IT Governance software company acquired by Mercury; DigitalThink, an on-demand provider of e-learning solutions; and Accenture, a global management consulting firm.

At Kintana, Keith was responsible for Services, Education, Customer Support and Alliances. He engineered the company's value-driven model for IT Governance and helped drive Kintana's profitable revenue growth. As a Partner with Accenture, Keith was responsible for founding Accenture's groundbreaking alliance with Siebel and running Accenture's global Siebel implementation business which included more than 1,000 professionals worldwide.

Keith graduated Magna Cum Laude from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering.

Shinya Akamine

Shinya Akamine has served in executive positions and on boards of directors of several venture-financed technology companies including BlueRoads, Core Security Technologies, YOICS, LiveCapital and Postini, where he was a founder. Mr. Akamine began his career with McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley Office.

Mr. Akamine earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and is the inventor of ten patents. He was honored in 2004 with an Outstanding Inventor award by Stanford University and in 1994 by NTT for the best research within NTT worldwide.

Tom Bevilacqua, Managing Partner, ArrowPath Venture Partners

Tom Bevilacqua co-founded ArrowPath in 1997 and is a Managing Partner of the firm. He brings over 20 years of Silicon Valley experience as an executive, general manager, investor and advisor to technology-driven companies. In addition to Innotas, Bevilacqua currently serves on the boards of Active Reasoning, Innoprise, MetaLincs, Remend and RouteLogics. Prior investments and Board seats include Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless); Critical Path (CPTH); NetSec (acquired by MCI); Immunix (acquired by Novell); Sanera (acquired by McData); Persist (acquired by Hewlett-Packard); and Knight Trading Group (NITE).

Prior to ArrowPath, Bevilacqua served as an Executive Vice President of E*TRADE Financial where he held a number of operational roles and was instrumental in establishing E*TRADE's successful acquisition and investment strategies. Bevilacqua was previously a partner at two of Silicon Valley's leading law firms, where he served as an advisor in over 250 public and private financings.

Bevilacqua received his B.S. in Business Administration and J.D. from the University of California.

Charles Entrekin

President and CEO of investment companies Katy Creek, Inc. and Cedar Circle, LP; Founder and Director of The Entrekin Foundation; Founder and Managing Director of Hip Pocket Press, (www.hippocketpess.org) a not-for-profit publisher of emerging new voices in American Literature, of CANARY, a magazine devoted to new voices in environmental writing, and SISYPHUS, a magazine devoted to new ideas in American culture.

Charles was a founder and Chairman of the Board for Convoy Corporation, a computer software company, which was sold to New Era Of Networks (Nasdaq: NEON) in June 1999. He was one of the founders of Application Resources, Inc., a computer resources placement agency, which was sold to Worldwide Renaissance in October 1995. Charles was one of the founders of The Application Group, a computer consulting company specializing in PeopleSoft Human Resource implementations (Nasdaq: PFST), which was sold to Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP) in October 1994. Charles received his MFA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Montana; he completed two years of graduate study in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the University of Alabama; and he received his BA in English from, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama.