Engineering Advisory Board

Mary Cronin, PhD

• President, Mobile-Mind, Inc. 2000 – Present
• Professor, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
• Consultant and Internet Strategist, Fortune 500 Corporations
• Author: Doing Business on the Internet, Global Advantage on the Internet, The Internet Strategy Handbook, Banking and Finance on the Internet, Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business, Mobile Application Development with SMS and SIM Toolkit, and Multimedia Messaging Services for Wireless Networks.
• Fields of Expertise - E-Commerce, Wireless Technologies

Richard Fair, PhD

• Professor of Electrical Engineering, Duke University 1981 – Present
• Named 2003 Recipient of the Electrochemical Society Award in Solid State Science and Technology 
• Vice President, Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), 1983 – 93
• Editor, Proceedings of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers
• Fields of Expertise - Electronic Devices, Semiconductors, Microelectronics, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Biofluidic Technology and Devices

Stephen Jackson

• Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, RadarFind Corporation, 2003 – Present
• Director, Business Development, Hatteras Networks, 2001 – 2003
• Director - University Relations, Nortel Networks, 2001
• Director – Innovations Lab, Bay Networks, 1996 – 2001
• Manager – Worldwide Sales Education, Bay Networks, 1996 – 1997
• Senior Systems Engineer Manager, SybOptics Communications, 1988 – 1996
• Fields of Expertise:  Enhanced bandwidth communication systems and elements, engaging leading University researchers and mapping their efforts back to commercial revenue opportunities

Dave Logan

• Founder/CEO, Covelight Systems, 2002 - 2004 
• Area Vice President, Acuitive, 1997 – 2002
• Co-Founder & VP of Strategy, Desana Systems (through Acuitive), 1999 – 2000
• Vice-President of Product Management, VxTel (through Acuitive), 1999 – 2000
• Advisor and Director of Switch Architecture and Product Management, Alteon Web Systems (through Acuitive), 1997 - 2000
• Product Line Manager, Bay Networks – 1992 – 1997
• Fields of Expertise: Nnetwork and applications infrastructure, content networking, voice-over-packet systems, enterprise and service provider network/systems management and distributed enterprise applications.  Also, development of emerging businesses.

Mary Whitton

• Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC - Chapel Hill, 2004 - Present
• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC - Chapel Hill, 1994-2004
• Marketing Director, Sun Microsystems 1987-1994
• Vice President and Co-Founder, Trancept Systems, Inc. 1986-87
• Director of Marketing, Graphics Terminals, Adage Inc., 1982-1985
• Vice President and Co-Founder, Ikonas Graphics Systems, Inc., 1978-1982
• Fields of Expertise - Marketing of technology-based products, computer graphics, multimedia, virtual reality

Steve Wiehe

• President and Chief Executive Officer, SciQuest, Inc. (NASDAQ:  SQST)
• Senior Director - Strategic Investments & Mergers and Acquisitions, SAS Institute
• President and Chief Executive Officer, DataFlux Corporation (acquired by SAS June 2000)
• Managing Director/Europe and Senior Executive Vice President, Sungard Treasury Systems (a division of Sungard Data Systems, Inc (NYSE: SDS))
• President and Chief Executive Officer of Multinational Computer Models, Inc. (sold to SunGard Data Systems in 1998)
• Fields of Expertise – Application Software, E-Commerce

Bill Willis, PhD

• Deputy State Chief Information Officer, North Carolina, 2004 – Present
• Vice President – Systems Strategy, Cable and Wireless Global, 2002 – 2004
• Professor of the Practice – Kenan Flagler School of Business, 2000 – 2001
• Chief Technology Officer, Interpath Communications, 1998 – 2000
• Vice Provost – Information Technology, NC State University, 1981 – 1998
• Appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to serve on the Information Resource Management Commission
• Fields of Expertise – Computing and network systems; planning, implementing and operating business technology systems