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Tom Douramakos, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Douramakos brings over 20 years experience in product and business development through senior level positions with AT&T, CSG, Manulife Financial, Sun Life, CIT Canada, and Silverline Technologies. While traditional Supply Chain Management companies have focused on logistics and inventory management, it was Douramakos's vision and goal to create unique market products with repeatable delivery processes that are based on a holistic approach to the challenges faced by guest services providers and their suppliers.
Brett Proud, Director
Mr. Proud brings over 20 years experience in supply chain planning and retail operations. Proud also has significant professional services experience in the information technology sector, including senior positions with Silverline Technologies, Mastech, Keane and Accenture.
Mark K. Updegrove, Director
Mark K. Updegrove is Director of National Sales for Sympatico/MSN, Canada's largest internet portal, based in Toronto. He joined Sympatico/MSN in 2007 after spending just under two years as VP, Head of Sales at Yahoo! Canada. Prior to joining the online world, Updegrove spent the bulk of his career in print media, including stints as an account representative and Los Angeles Manager of Time magazine; President of Time Canada in Toronto; Publisher of Newsweek in New York; and Publisher of Nickelodeon and MTV magazines, also in New York. He began his career in marketing at Book of the Month Club.
Updegrove is also the author of Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House, which won Foreward Magazine's silver medal for "Book of the Year" in political science in 2006. His second book, Baptism By Fire: Eight Presidents Inaugurated in a Time of Crisis, will be published by Saint Martin's Press in December. Updegrove has also written for American Heritage, The Nation, Time, and Worth magazines, and has been interviewed on ABC News, CNN, C-Span, Fox News, PBS, and National Public Radio.
A native of Philadelphia, Updegrove graduated with a B.A. in economics at the University of Maryland.
Chris Gardner, Director
Chris Gardner brings 13 years of financial market experience as a Portfolio Manager with B. Riley & Co. Prior, he was both an analyst and a money manger with Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co. and an equity analyst with Goldsmith and Harris. Gardner graduated from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario with an Honors Bachelor of Commerce degree and became a CFA charter holder in 2001.
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