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Doug Humphrey.
Acclaimed technologist and speaker, as well as a major player during the early commercial years of the Internet, Doug Humphrey is widely recognized as
the "Father of Managed Hosting." In 1991, he founded DIGEX, an early national Internet services provider credited with creating the managed hosting
business. The company was a very early — if not the earliest — provider of hosting services, which, in time, grew to dominate the company's offerings.
DIGEX was acquired by Intermedia Communications in July 1997.
Known in local technology and business circles for his wit and tell-it-like-it-is attitude, Humphrey founded several other companies, including Cidera
Inc. (formerly SkyCache, Inc.), which WebUseNet acquired in 2003; and Coloco, which AiNET acquired in 2007. His roles in those companies ranged from
chief executive officer and chief technology officer to president and chairman of the board.
Humphrey serves as a member of several technology and investment advisory boards. A frequent speaker at Internet conferences, business and law school
seminars, and private investor forums, he seeks to provide others with the advice and wisdom of a seasoned entrepreneur.
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Gaige B. Paulsen.
A software entrepreneur and technologist for over 25 years, Paulsen began his work in the Internet
in 1985 while attending the University of Illinois and working at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA), one of five NSF-funded supercomputing centers established for research and
collaboration. His co-development of NCSA Telnet led to his role as CTO and COO of InterCon Systems
Corporation, an Internet software company that developed market-leading TCP/IP products for Macintosh
computers.
For the past 25 years, he has led and advised technology companies on software architecture, development
techniques and platforms in areas including embedded systems (Ascend Communications/Lucent),
next-generation power and Internet distribution (Neutral Net), identity management (Trufina), and
GIS (ClueTrust).
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William L. Schrader.
A chairman and CEO for more than 25 years, Schrader is perhaps best known as the "Father of the Commercial Internet." In 1989, he founded PSINet, an
early Internet service provider, which was the first of its kind to provide commercial Internet access to companies. The publicly traded company was a
major player in the commercialization of the Internet. Under his leadership, PSINet raised billions of dollars in public equity and debt, operated
fiber systems on five continents serving 30 countries, employed 10,000 people, and produced $2 billion in annualized revenue after growing at 100% per
year for a decade.
Schrader developed his skills, insights and decision-making acumen in a broad scope of endeavors ranging from bio-chemical and nuclear physics labs,
massively parallel supercomputing, global internetworking, and software development and marketing.
Schrader has led multiple organizations facing rapidly fluctuating external conditions that presented profound strategic risks to the organizations for
which he was responsible. The scale of Schrader's experience has ranged from private to public, small to very large, stable to exponential growth, one
office to 30 countries, and from economic boom to financial ruin and recovery. In both the growth and downsizing phases, Schrader has successfully led
these organizations through the analytic processes to establish strategies and engage in tactics resulting in successful exits while minimizing risks
and providing gain.
Early in his career, Schrader helped lead the creation of supercomputer centers at Syracuse University and Cornell University, and the infrastructure
for five national government networks. He co-founded and helped build NYSERNet and was administrative manager for the Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear
Studies.
In the course of his career, Schrader helped found three Internet industry associations, served as a congressional commissioner, testified before House
and Senate committees, spoke numerous times on national news programs, delivered keynote speeches at major conferences worldwide, and advised several
government agencies.
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