Phil Borden, Ph.D. brings thirty years of entrepreneurial and executive leadership, plus bottom line responsibility for technology start-ups, growing businesses, and not-for-profit economic development companies; Capacity building expertise, turnaround skills, team building talent, and management savvy; Consulting in private and public sectors, in the United States and abroad; Background in university teaching and research; Extensive publishing record of nearly 100 articles and formal presentations;   Record of civic, private, and nonprofit Board memberships. Following university teaching and research at UCLA and USC, the founding of several high technology companies nationally noted for their technical and managerial innovation, and leadership of economic development nonprofit's principally serving women and minority businesses, Dr. Philip Borden has spent five years consulting on strategic planning to for- and non-profit companies and governments.  He recently returned from a business development assignment in Baghdad for the Department of State and will be returning later in the year.  Dr. Borden is widely published in academic and popular journals on technology, economic development, and financing subjects.  He holds degrees from Wayne State University and a graduate certificate from St. Johns and Exeter Colleges of Oxford University.

Kenneth Dozier is currently the Executive Director of the USC/School of Engineering, Technology Transfer Center (ETTC), which produces effective transfers of commercially viable technology from Federal labs to U.S. industry, and finally the marketplace. As principal investigator at the NASA Regional Technology Transfer Center, Dozier directs ten affiliate offices in eight western states, and manages an extensive portfolio of commercial and federal technologies.

Prior to joining the ETTC, Dozier served as Director of Research for the School of Engineering and Technology at California State University Los Angeles, where he received the University's Award for Distinguished Research. He was also President and CEO of Interactive Machines Inc., (IMI), and Vice President of Operations and Executive Technology Director of Digital Productions (DP).

Dozier is a recipient of the California Senates' 1999 Applied Competitive Technologies Excellence in Leadership Award. The ETTC is the recipient of the Justin Morrill Award, which is bestowed by the Technology Transfer Society in recognition of Excellence in Technology Transfer. The national award is presented to an organization that has an exemplary record on the transfer of technology, and also has made outstanding contributions to the theory and practices that are widely used by others.

Mr. Dozier holds a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), an Executive MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and expects to complete his Ph.D. in Information Science at Claremont Graduate University.

Tom Horan Ph.D. serves as Executive Director of the Claremont Information and Technology Institute (CITI) and Associate Professor in the School of a wide range of applied technology research projects. His own area of specialization is in the development and deployment of advanced information technologies and policies, including intelligent transportations systems, and has led a number of studies and consultations on the design and deployment of digital and sustainable communities. Dr. Horan also teaches graduate courses in the School of Information Science relating to planning and evaluation of digital networks and community design. Prior to joining Claremont Graduate University, Dr. Horan spent seven years in the Washington D.C. area. From 1992 - 94, Dr. Horan was a Senior Fellow at George Mason University and from 1988 - 92, Dr. Horan was a Senior Analyst at the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO). Dr. Horan has both his Master's and Doctorate degrees from Claremont Graduate School.

Wallace Walrod, Ph. D. is in charge of research at the Orange County Business Council. He is also the Founding President of the Center for a New Orange County, which plays a key role in shaping Orange County’s economic future by leading a targeted countywide effort to design, plan, and fund an integrated, cost effective state-of-the-art infrastructure system. Dr. Walrod has led strategic projects with organizations including Toshiba America Information Systems, Hitachi Chemical, Merrill Lynch, The Irvine Company, First American Corporation, Citizens Business Bank, Pacificare Health Systems, Pacific Life Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, Deloitte & Touche, the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, Viewpoint Learning, and Pacific Gas & Electric. Dr. Walrod graduated with a Ph.D. from UC Irvine.  His dissertation studied successful strategic management practices in high-tech firms, including advanced electronics and biotechnology.  He has published three papers co-authored with Luis Suarez-Villa in Disasters, Journal of International Biotechnology, and Urban Studies, the latter which won the 1997 Donald Robertson Memorial Prize.  He regularly lectures on the U.S. biotechnology and other high-tech industries in the U.S. and Europe to academic and corporate clients.  He is quoted frequently in the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Entrepreneur, and other publications on economic matters.

SAMIR CHATTERJEE, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Systems & Technology and Founding Director of the Network Convergence Laboratory at Claremont Graduate University, California. Prior to that, he taught at the J Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, in Atlanta. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management where he teaches in their Executive MBA program. Dr. Chatterjee is an internationally recognized expert in Telecommunications and Internet technologies. His research interests are mainly in the areas of Next-Generation Networking, Voice and Video over IP, and Network Security. Currently he is exploring fundamental challenges in designing secured IT-based systems to be used in application fields such as healthcare information systems, P2P computing, ad hoc collaboration and medical-informatics. He has published over 75 articles in respected scholarly journals and refereed conferences including IEEE Network, IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications, Journal of Information Technology & Health-care Management, Communications of the ACM, Computer Networks, Information Systems Frontiers, Computer Communication, IEEE IT Professional, ACM CCR, Communications of AIS, Journal of Internet Technology. He holds a B.E (Hons.) in Telecommunications Engineering from Jadavpur University, India and an M.S and Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida. He is a regular consultant to companies such as Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BellSouth, Bank of America, Hitachi, Cisco, Fore Systems, Wave3 Communications and others. He is on the advisory board of Time Warper Inc, a software off shoring startup company.

Darrene Hackler Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She specializes in the policy implications of technology’s effect on economic development in cities and regions, with a focus on the role of telecommunications and human capital. Her current research focuses on analyzing the spatial and economic effects of women business ownership in technology industries on regional economic development. She is the author of Cities in the Technology Economy (2006, M.E. Sharpe) which examines the effect of technology industries and infrastructures on cities and the local policy actions required for effective response to these challenges. She also has work published in Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Urban Technology, American Behavioral Scientist, and Annals of Cases on Information Technology.

Brian N. Hilton Ph.D. received a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University, School of Information Science in May 2004.  He worked in business for 18 years prior to pursuing his advanced degrees.  His current research interests lie in spatial information system development, Internet-based GIS, and the use of emerging technologies in information system development.  He holds an MS in MIS (Claremont Graduate University) and a BA in Economics (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey).  Dr. Hilton is a Research Associate at the Claremont Information and Technology Institute.

Wayne Smith is currently completing his doctoral studies in the School of Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate University. Academically, Wayne recently co-taught the MBA Knowledge Management course at UC Irvine. He has also taught Management Information Systems courses in the College of Business and Economics at CSU Northridge and Financial and Management Accounting courses at Santa Monica College. Wayne currently teaches management courses at CSU Northridge. He has published papers in the areas of strategic management, knowledge discovery in databases, and telecommunications.  Professionally, Wayne most recently was employed as a management consultant by the Center for Management and Organization at CSU Northridge. In that capacity, he was involved in the data and analysis activities related to performance management and strategic reorganization of a large California government agency based in Sacramento.