Gary E. Baker co-founded and is president of Online Technologies Corp. which
manages Michigan BizServe, Michigan's comprehensive Online Business Community.
As a value-added Internet Service Provider, BizServe provides Website hosting
and development services, as well as Internet access, email, training and
enhanced database services. BizServe staff and business partners understand
the world of business and how to use technology to do better business.
BizServe's Website members range from California to the United Kingdom,
and from small companies with part-time owners to major international corporations.
Mr. Baker is also the chair of the Information Technology Business Roundtable
for the State of Michigan, chair of the Website Committee for the Great Lakes
Interactive Marketing Association and is currently helping reorganize
The Internet Council in Ann Arbor. He serves on the Executive Committee and
chairs the Communications Committee of National Small Business United (NSBU)
in Washington DC, which is using interactive communication to serve its
65,000 small business members nationwide.
David C. Bloom
Mr. Bloom founded Fac·totem WPC, an online marketing, content development,
and project management firm, in 1995.
Fac·totem has produced and consulted on substantial content-intensive web sites,
and has integrated web publishing projects with development, marketing, and support activities.
Prior to founding Fac·totem, Mr. Bloom managed large-scale networked software
development programs at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Unisys, StorageTek,
and several small software shops.
He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Administration
from the University of Michigan,
and studied music composition at the Oberlin Conservatory.
Mr. Bloom was Certified in Systems Integration in 1991.
He is a member of the Michigan Internet Council,
the Great Lakes Interactive Marketing association,
and Measure for Measure, a Men's Choral Society.
Mr. Bloom has has written for Michigan Monthly, the Ear to the Ground,
and the Ann Arbor Observer, where he has been its Food Editor since 1993,
and its Online Editor since 1996.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Fac·totem's first self-published title, ArborFood,
which will launch in Spring, 1997.
Ed Farrell
Ed Farrell co-founded and is vice-president of business development of
CareerSite Corporation, which is the Web's fastest growing Recruitment
site. CareerSite.com has over 15,000 job seeker visitors per day and
adds 300-500 new members each day to its 65,000 registered members.
CareerSite's 400+ employer customers include such leading companies as
Ford, Fidelity Investments, HP, Perot Systems, and Arthur Andersen.
CareerSite has a staff of 18. Recently, the company began a partnering
program targeting existing employment intermediaries. Initial channel
partners include a newspaper group comprised of 100 newspapers and a
computer magazine with 600,000 subscribers. Last month, CareerSite
closed its first international licensing deal with a consortium of the
leading newspapers groups in Brazil. CareerSite's funding sources to
date have been "angel" investors. Despite an expensive, aggressive
year-long effort to attract traditional venture capital, the company has
been unsuccessful in raising VC $. The company recently shifted its
fundraising focus to pursuing strategic partners/investors and is in
discussions with a number of prospects. The company is optimistic its
efforts will finally pay off.
Ed Farrell has a MBA from Michigan State University and a BGS from the
University of Michigan. Mr. Farrell's background includes
entrepreneurial roles as a founder, manager, and a consultant where he
practiced screaming "show me the money" before the phrase became
fashionable. And in one case it resulted in $750K in venture money. As
a consultant, when not teaching others the art of advanced screaming, he
wrote numerous business plans for technology based growth companies.
Sunil Gupta, Ph.D.
Professor Gupta is a faculty member in the marketing department and director of the Hermes project at the University of Michigan Business School. Hermes conducts research on various aspects of the commercial uses of the World Wide Web. The semi-annual GVU/Hermes survey of WWW users has become a standard reference for those interested in learning about who uses the Web. The Hermes corporate panel, currently made up of over 1,400 companies around the world, provides data on why and how companies are using the Web. Currently, Professor Gupta is working on a project aimed at understanding how the Web marketplace is likely to develop and evolve in coming years.
In addition to the Internet, Professor Gupta's current research deals with issues of distribution channel design and efficiency, especially newly developing economies around the world. He is a faculty Fellow of the William Davidson Institute and lectures on distribution channel issues faced by companies in transitional economies.
Bob Peyser
After an artificially protracted art education Mr. Peyser mistakenly
believed the hype about the capability of early personal computers,
and spent enough time and money on them to have the solid
foundation for a major law suit, were he so inclined.
In 1989 Mr. Peyser moved to Seattle from Ann Arbor and
as penance spent a couple of years creating Multimedia Interactive
works.
After his return to Ann Arbor in 1994 he fell in with "Those Who
Cannot be Mentioned on Advice of Council" and helped create
hundreds of web sites.
If the popular press is to be believed, Mr. Peyser's firm is the
only one in existence that has avoided bankruptcy merely by
accepting banner advertising on their own web sites. I doubt it.
"Promethius Being Released from Bondage"
marble sculpture by Bob Peyser.
Louis Rosenfeld
Louis Rosenfeld is President of Argus Associates, a consulting and design
firm that specializes in strategy consulting and information architecture
design for complex Web sites. He has participated in the design and
development of Web sites for Borders Books & Music, Dow Chemical,
Chrysler, SIGGRAPH, UMI, Consumers Energy, the University of Michigan, and
many more organizations. Mr. Rosenfeld founded and is currently Executive
Director of the Argus Clearinghouse, a popular Internet research and
reference tool. Mr. Rosenfeld has a Master's Degree in Information and
Library Studies from the University of Michigan, where he co-taught
academia's first Internet-related courses. Recent publications include
the Internet Searcher's Handbook (Neal-Schuman, 1996) and a monthly column
called Web Architect in "Web Review," an online magazine from Songline
Studios. He is currently co-authoring a book on Web site information
architecture for O'Reilly & Associates (due summer 1997). Mr. Rosenfeld
has made numerous presentations on the topics of Web site design and
networked information retrieval in North America and Europe.
Sue Shaw
Sue Shaw is President of CyberZone, a local ISP and coming-soon Cyber-Cafe.
CyberZone, Inc. was founded in February of 1996. Our goal was, and still is, to
provide quality service, and customer satisfaction by helping your on-line marketing
campaign achieve it's greatest potential in the internet marketplace, as well as
providing high-speed connections for our dial-up accounts.
Ms. Shaw founded CyberZone last year with partner Doug Sand.
She has twenty years marketing and advertising experience,
and seven years in technical writing and management.
Ms. Shaw has a BS in Interior Design.
PJ Stafford
P.J. has been an avid user of on-line services for twelve years. P.J. received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1991 and his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1985. He is a CPA, which he earned early in his career during a stint with Arthur Andersen & Co. Prior to founding The Internet Factory in 1994 he was the VP of Sales and Marketing for Play and Learn Corporate Child Care, a company that ran on site day care centers in corporate office parks and was the plant manager of a forging operation for MascoTech, the Fortune 500 automotive supplier.
P.J. Stafford is the Founder and president of The Internet Factory, Inc. of Birmingham, Michigan. The Internet Factory, a division of Bowne & Co, specializes in helping companies realize the strategic potential of the Internet, is composed of a team of 70 electronic commerce specialists who enable companies to publish and perform secure transactions on the World Wide Web and corporate INTRAnets. A pioneer in the Michigan Internet industry, The Internet Factory counts among its clients such leaders as Buick Motor Division, Lincoln Mercury, Munder Capital Management, Roney & Co., Chrysler Financial Corporation, Chrysler Corp., Magic Line, Harris Bank, Comerica, Morgan Stanley, The Taubman Company, Wayne County and the 1997 North American International Auto Show.
In his new role as Senior VP of Bowne Business Service, PJ leads Bowne's efforts worldwide in Internet/INTRAnet and electronic commerce activities. Bowne & Co., Inc., (AMEX: BNE) established in 1775, is the world's largest financial printer with 45 offices worldwide. In addition to its core financial and commercial printing business, Bowne provides document-building solutions, Internet and print-on-demand services. Building upon its reputation for fast, reliable service and expertise in process development and execution, Bowne is expanding to provide a broad range of outsourcing solutions to meet clients' needs for document creation, document management, translation, reprographics, printing and document distribution services.
Richard Stiennon
Richard Stiennon has been an influential member of the Internet community
since launching RustNet in 1994. RustNet was his first Internet venture but
his twelfth start-up. He maintains the ISP BPlan web page which is also a
test laboratory for various on-line commerce techniques. He is an
Amazon.com associate and one of the first users of the Wave Interactive
Network for selling content on-line. Richard also writes articles on
Internet Business for several publications including TechKnowTimes, an
e-zine, and Midnight Engineering. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
from the University of Michigan, and is Director of Business Development at
Netrex, Inc. Netrex provides Internet firewalls and security solutions for
businesses and organizations.
Jon Zeeff
Jon Zeeff is President and founder of Branch Internet Services Inc, an
Ann Arbor, MI based Internet Service Provider (ISP). Branch is a
pioneer in Internet commerce and is known for some of the Internet's
first commerce applications and the Web's first mall, the Branch
Mall. Branch continues to run the Branch Mall and provides hosting
and dedicated connectivity services for numerous companies, including
Ameritech and Gateway 2000. Jon is a University of Michigan Computer
Engineering graduate and started Branch in 1984 as a software
development company.
Gary E. Baker co-founded and is president of Online Technologies Corp. which
manages Michigan BizServe, Michigan's comprehensive Online Business Community.
As a value-added Internet Service Provider, BizServe provides Website hosting
and development services, as well as Internet access, email, training and
enhanced database services. BizServe staff and business partners understand
the world of business and how to use technology to do better business.
BizServe's Website members range from California to the United Kingdom,
and from small companies with part-time owners to major international corporations.
Mr. Bloom founded Fac·totem WPC, an online marketing, content development,
and project management firm, in 1995.
Fac·totem has produced and consulted on substantial content-intensive web sites,
and has integrated web publishing projects with development, marketing, and support activities.
Ed Farrell co-founded and is vice-president of business development of
CareerSite Corporation, which is the Web's fastest growing Recruitment
site. CareerSite.com has over 15,000 job seeker visitors per day and
adds 300-500 new members each day to its 65,000 registered members.
CareerSite's 400+ employer customers include such leading companies as
Ford, Fidelity Investments, HP, Perot Systems, and Arthur Andersen.
CareerSite has a staff of 18. Recently, the company began a partnering
program targeting existing employment intermediaries. Initial channel
partners include a newspaper group comprised of 100 newspapers and a
computer magazine with 600,000 subscribers. Last month, CareerSite
closed its first international licensing deal with a consortium of the
leading newspapers groups in Brazil. CareerSite's funding sources to
date have been "angel" investors. Despite an expensive, aggressive
year-long effort to attract traditional venture capital, the company has
been unsuccessful in raising VC $. The company recently shifted its
fundraising focus to pursuing strategic partners/investors and is in
discussions with a number of prospects. The company is optimistic its
efforts will finally pay off.
Professor Gupta is a faculty member in the marketing department and director of the Hermes project at the University of Michigan Business School. Hermes conducts research on various aspects of the commercial uses of the World Wide Web. The semi-annual GVU/Hermes survey of WWW users has become a standard reference for those interested in learning about who uses the Web. The Hermes corporate panel, currently made up of over 1,400 companies around the world, provides data on why and how companies are using the Web. Currently, Professor Gupta is working on a project aimed at understanding how the Web marketplace is likely to develop and evolve in coming years.
After an artificially protracted art education Mr. Peyser mistakenly
believed the hype about the capability of early personal computers,
and spent enough time and money on them to have the solid
foundation for a major law suit, were he so inclined.
Louis Rosenfeld is President of Argus Associates, a consulting and design
firm that specializes in strategy consulting and information architecture
design for complex Web sites. He has participated in the design and
development of Web sites for Borders Books & Music, Dow Chemical,
Chrysler, SIGGRAPH, UMI, Consumers Energy, the University of Michigan, and
many more organizations. Mr. Rosenfeld founded and is currently Executive
Director of the Argus Clearinghouse, a popular Internet research and
reference tool. Mr. Rosenfeld has a Master's Degree in Information and
Library Studies from the University of Michigan, where he co-taught
academia's first Internet-related courses. Recent publications include
the Internet Searcher's Handbook (Neal-Schuman, 1996) and a monthly column
called Web Architect in "Web Review," an online magazine from Songline
Studios. He is currently co-authoring a book on Web site information
architecture for O'Reilly & Associates (due summer 1997). Mr. Rosenfeld
has made numerous presentations on the topics of Web site design and
networked information retrieval in North America and Europe.
Sue Shaw is President of CyberZone, a local ISP and coming-soon Cyber-Cafe.
P.J. has been an avid user of on-line services for twelve years. P.J. received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1991 and his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1985. He is a CPA, which he earned early in his career during a stint with Arthur Andersen & Co. Prior to founding The Internet Factory in 1994 he was the VP of Sales and Marketing for Play and Learn Corporate Child Care, a company that ran on site day care centers in corporate office parks and was the plant manager of a forging operation for MascoTech, the Fortune 500 automotive supplier.
Richard Stiennon has been an influential member of the Internet community
since launching RustNet in 1994. RustNet was his first Internet venture but
his twelfth start-up. He maintains the ISP BPlan web page which is also a
test laboratory for various on-line commerce techniques. He is an
Amazon.com associate and one of the first users of the Wave Interactive
Network for selling content on-line. Richard also writes articles on
Internet Business for several publications including TechKnowTimes, an
e-zine, and Midnight Engineering. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
from the University of Michigan, and is Director of Business Development at
Netrex, Inc. Netrex provides Internet firewalls and security solutions for
businesses and organizations.
Jon Zeeff is President and founder of Branch Internet Services Inc, an
Ann Arbor, MI based Internet Service Provider (ISP). Branch is a
pioneer in Internet commerce and is known for some of the Internet's
first commerce applications and the Web's first mall, the Branch
Mall. Branch continues to run the Branch Mall and provides hosting
and dedicated connectivity services for numerous companies, including
Ameritech and Gateway 2000. Jon is a University of Michigan Computer
Engineering graduate and started Branch in 1984 as a software
development company.