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Len Chermack, Co-Founder and CEO:

Len Chermack serves as CEO of Private Social Networks and brings a wealth of managerial, sales, marketing and operational experience to the PSN team. Mr. Chermack is an Enterprise, SaaS and CRM software and wireless industry veteran with over 24 years of domestic and international experience. Prior to starting PSN, Len held CEO, WW President, GM and Managing Board positions at a number of large software organizations including Baan (Now INFOR), GlobeRanger and Sage as well as startups including PenUltimate, Adapt Software, and SaaS provider MyBizHomepages. Mr. Chermack received his B.Sc in Economics from the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Mr. Chermack has served as an advisor and Board member of several start-ups and is recognized as a pioneer in CRM software.

Mike Short - Co-Founder and COO:

Mike Short serves as COO of Private Social Networks and brings over 25 years' experience in the high technology industry with over 18 years in healthcare. He has held executive positions in corporate development, strategic business development, strategic alliances/partnerships, strategy, consulting, operations, and sales management with both domestic and international responsibilities. Prior to PSN, Mike's work history has included Blue Chip company (IBM) where he was the strategy/business development executive for the world-wide health industry group, a Start-up Company (Healtheon, founded by Jim Clark which successfully executed an IPO prior to merging with WebMD) where he assisted with the development of solution strategy, closing co-development relationship with strategic customers, and building a team of business development sales executives, and a Group Purchasing Organization (VHA, Inc.) Mike received his B.Sc. in Mathematics with minors in Business Administration and Computer Science from the Pittsburg State University. He is currently on the Board of Advisors at NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center for Medical Technology).

Roy Gum, Co-Founder and CTO:

Roy Gum serves as CTO of Private Social Networks and focuses on product vision, business development and operations. Mr Gum bringings a wealth of managerial and operational experience to the PSN team, and is a Silicon Valley and software industry veteran with over 25 years of domestic and international experience. Prior to starting Private Social Networks, Mr. Gum held senior management and executive positions at a number of large software organizations including Documentum, EMC and Check Point as well as startups including PageNet, Applix, Smart Technologies and Rubric Inc. Mr Gum received his B.S in Information Technology from the University of North Texas. Mr Gum is an avid private pilot and holds his Private, Instrument and Commercial Ratings as well as numerous endorsements.

Wayne Milsap - CFO:

Wayne Millsap serves as CFO of Private Social Networks and brings over 30 years of financial, accounting and general management experience. Wayne has substantial expertise in company valuation, strategic planning, capital formation through venture capital and debt financing and corporate governance. Wayne has helped numerous entrepreneurs launch successful businesses, developed growth strategies for established businesses, and worked through reorganizations and restructurings. He has served as the CFO for companies in the software, telecom, healthcare and medical device sectors. Previous experience also includes Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in consulting and audit areas of public accounting and company valuation; and Partner in a regional accounting and consulting firm. Wayne earned BBA degrees in Finance and Accounting from Texas A&M University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Bo Sartain - Chief Legal Counsel:

Bo Sartain serves as Chief Legal Counsel of Private Social Networks and brings a wealth of legal experience to the PSN team.  Mr Sartain worked as an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Austin, Texas and at Haynes and Boone, LLP in its Richardson, Texas office.  Mr Sartain specializes in capital formation of technology startup companies and represents new technology companies, angel investors and institutional investors in early-stage, later round and private equity fundraising transactions, providing legal advice for the placement of more than $600,000,000 of capital to date. His clients have included D.E. Shaw & Co, LP, Austin Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. Mr. Sartain received his BA in German Literature and Political Science from Duke University in 1990, his M.B.A from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998, and his J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998.  

Amy L. Baxter, M.D., FAAP, FACEP, Advisor:

Dr. Amy Baxter is Chief Executive Officer of MMJ Labs and inventor of Buzzy® and
Flippits™. After graduating from Yale University and Emory Medical School, she
completed Pediatrics Residency and a Child Abuse Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s,
and Pediatric Emergency Medicine training at Children’s Hospital of The King’s
Daughters in Virginia. When she’s not thinking of new ways to use Buzzy®, Dr. Baxter is
director of Emergency Research for Pediatric Emergency Medicine Associates at
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Scottish Rite, and a Clinical Associate Professor at
Medical College of Georgia. As a founding board member of the Society for Pediatric Sedation, Dr. Baxter lectures nationally and publishes on pain and procedural sedation. Dr. Baxter is on the Pediatrics Board for Medscape; she is currently NIH funded to research immunization needle pain relief in children. She invented Buzzy after experiencing first hand the indifference of the healthcare system to children’s pain and suffering.

Craig Franklin, Advisor:

Craig Franklin is the executive vice president responsible for Healthcare Technology Services for KPMG, and provides PSN a wealth of experience exploiting technology within the healthcare industry. Before joining KPMG, Mr. Franklin served as Director of Information Technology at a number of major technology companies. He has more than 20 years of experience in business and healthcare technology fields. Mr. Franklin also serves on the Board of Children’s Medical Center of Dallas for IT and Infrastructure.

Genevieve Lowry M.ed, CCLS, Advisor:

Genevieve Lowry M.Ed, CCLS has worked as a certified child life specialist at the Children’s Hospital of NY in pediatric oncology until she started her own private practice, Practical Parenting Solutions.   As a private practitioner, she provides therapeutic and child life consultative services to individual families, hospitals, schools, and non-profit organizations creating and offering training and education both in person and on-line webinars to parents, educators, and healthcare professionals.  She is a major contributor to the National Hemophilia Foundations website Steps for Living and a consultant to PBS parents.  Currently, she is adjunct faculty at Bank Street College of Education offering courses both in-person and online to graduate level students as well as she is a published author and accomplished lecturer and an expert on the use of technology to improve the patient and family healthcare experience.

John Sughrue, Advisor:

John Sughrue is CEO of Brook Partners, a firm created in 1994 to capitalize on real estate investment opportunities in the Southwest. Sughrue lead Brook Partners into being a full-service development, investment and advisory firm recognized as a leader in specific industries. Prior to Brook Partners, Mr. Sughrue served as director of development for SCI Real Estate Development, an Italian investment and development firm affiliated with Pirelli Realty of Milan, Italy, and ROEV of Rome, Italy. Raised in Boston, Mr. Sughrue received his B.A. in Economics in 1982 from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from The Amos Tuck School of Dartmouth College in 1988.