Directors and Executive
James Fierro
Executive Chairman
Mr. Fierro is the Founding Partner of Venture Resources, an organization involved in the identification, development and financing of emerging growth companies.
Mr. Fierro brings over 30 years experience as the founder, cofounder or consultant to a range of start-up ventures. He has been the visionary and driving force behind industry innovators in RFID technology, Strategic Planning, Event Marketing, Internet Commerce, Electronic Trading Systems, Online Travel and Life Safety.
Mr. Fierro began his career as a planning and business strategist, consulting to leading companies in the packaged goods sector including Kraft General Foods, H.J. Heinz, Nabisco, Nestle and Campbell Soup.
In 1998, Mr. Fierro founded HomeGrocer.com, the first company to provide fully integrated Internet grocery shopping, warehouse and delivery services. HomeGrocer was subsequently sold for approximately $1.2 Billion.
In 1993, Mr. Fierro became an active member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (“YEO”),. He is a past President of the Vancouver Chapter and served on YEO’s Board of Directors for four years. He currently serves on the Board of Digital Opportunities Trust.
Mr. Fierro is the founder of Recipco Corporation and currently serves as its Executive Chairman. Recipco is involved with organizing the world’s unused and available capacity, making it more universally accessible and useful.
Michael Ainsworth
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Ainsworth has over 15 years experience leading a globally successful public company. Until recently, he was the Executive Vice-President for Ainsworth Lumber Company Ltd., the world’s fourth largest producer of Oriented Strand Board (OSB), serving markets in North America, Europe, Japan, China, South America, and South East Asia.
In 1993, Mr. Ainsworth was instrumental in taking Ainsworth Lumber from a private company to a family controlled public company. Between 1993 and 2001, Mr. Ainsworth was responsible for leading Ainsworth's marketing, transportation, and business development activities and for constructing three Greenfield OSB mills with a combined value of $500 million.
In 2004, he assumed responsibility for Ainsworth's finance and accounting, human resources, IT, and timberlands activities and led the successful acquisitions of Voyageur Forest Products (an OSB manufacturer in Ontario, Canada) for approximately $195 million, and three OSB mills located in Minnesota from Potlatch Corp. for approximately $460 million.
During his tenure at Ainsworth Lumber, Mr. Ainsworth built a team that successfully transitioned from the private to public sector, raised more than a $1.0 billion in capital, and saw revenue grow from $110 million to more than $1.2 billion annually as the company transformed from a small softwood lumber producer to the fourth largest producer of structural engineered wood products in the world.
Mr. Ainsworth holds a Bachelor's degree in Wood Science and a Master's degree in Marketing, both from the University of British Columbia. He has served as a board member on numerous industry associations and was Chairman of APA-The Engineered Wood Association.
Michael Anderer
Director
Mr. Anderer is a founder of S2 and Silicon StemCell and currently serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for both incubators. He built Silicon StemCell into a next-generation Internet incubator/accelerator with several highly successful start-ups in various stages of growth coming out of the work at Silicon StemCell. S2 is a larger and more ambitious follow-up to the incubation and acceleration work begun at Silicon StemCell.
Mr. Anderer founded his first company, a systems integration and software development firm, when he was 22. He currently serves on the board and is an investor in numerous Internet startups. He is a member of the M&A Group, a Director for OrderFusion, Medicity, NetGen, FutureVision, and BroadBand Avenue. He is also a co-founder and co-inventor of AirClic, a new print media Internet start-up.
Mr. Anderer previously served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of USConnect, an International consortium of systems integration firms. He also served several terms on the Microsoft , Novell and Citrix Reseller Advisory Boards.
A 1998 graduate of the MIT/Inc.Magazine 3 Year Birthing of Giants program , Mr. Anderer was named that year's Outstanding Young Alumnus for the University of South Carolina Engineering School. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Emilio T. Gonzalez
Director
Dr. Emilio T. Gonzalez is an international affairs specialist who has spent the majority of his professional career at the forefront of US foreign affairs and international security policy issues. Appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2005, Dr. Gonzalez served as Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an undersecretary position within the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, Dr. Gonzalez was Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council where he was as a key National Security and Foreign Policy Advisor to President Bush and Dr. Condoleezza Rice.
Dr. Gonzalez completed a distinguished, twenty-six year career in the U.S. Army during which time he occasionally acted on special assignment with the Central Intelligence Agency, taught at West Point and headed the Office of Special Assistants for the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Southern Command.
Currently, Dr. Gonzalez is the Chief Executive Officer of Indra USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Indra Sistemas S.A., a leading Spanish IT and Defense Systems Company.
Dr. Gonzalez holds a B.A. in International Studies from the University of South Florida, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University, an M.A. in Strategic Studies and National Security Affairs from the US Naval War College, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Miami.
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