(out of date, update soon)
[brief update:A new small product is in the works which should provide funding to help launch the company below]

Gigamind: Codename for company, real name is in the works, someone has that domain.
We are working on developing what some people think [including VCs, succesful net entrepreneurs, top law firms, etc] will be the Internet's "Next Big Thing" :-), which is secret at the moment. You'll hear all about this when we launch 3 months after we receive the seed funding we are searching, $1.5 million to help build what should grow to a multi-$billion company (may settle initially for a $500k round to bring us to the point of launch). The current team is listed below, more advisers are in the works, waiting on bio for our financial adviser, and working on adding a PR expert who is also vp of marketing at a public net company. Note: VCs were interested, but for when we get further along so funding approach was shelved. The adviser with $ below had a year long stock lockin while the funding search was going on and wasn't up to risking major investment while the stock tanked.
Bryan Griffin
Founder & CEO
bwg@bwg.com

Founding Management

Bryan Griffin: Initial CEO/CTO has a track record of accurately seeing the future of computing and the Internet:

• Founded Cyberspace Development in 1993, which used the domain name marketplace.com, one of the first dot coms (planned before others existed) to provide online storefronts and the first doing true ecommerce, being the first to do real time credit card transactions over gopher & web browsers for online content sales.
• Developed a product there, TIA, which was used by hundreds of thousands of people (when only a few million were online) and labeled “Best new break-the-paradigm Internet software” of 1994 by an Internet World author. Wired magazine said “TIA is as close to magic as a graphically deprived net.user can get”, and the Internet Starter Kit books called it “a program that is seriously shaking up the Internet world… I realize this all sounds a bit like a Ginsu knife commercial (did I mention how TIA can cut beer cans, too?), but TIA works” and the FAQ written by a user said “Bryan Griffin did a wonderful job implementing TIA. But equally if not more important was his excellent support of his customers.”
• Cyberspace Development was originally founded to pursue larger projects that weren’t funded, e.g. in fall 1993 a commercial browser using Netscape’s business model (sales of server software, etc.) a year before Netscape’s first release, with the intention of a java like extension language, and including features that still don’t exist in browsers. Back in 1993 predicted viral marketing, affiliate links, child-safe filtering, books being the initial big ecommerce app, and a variety of the trends and ideas that became successful internet companies like Amazon,Mapquest.
• In 1991 developed prototype of electronic newspaper with text from a local daily, unfunded. Planned then to sell software to put newspapers online to develop an online service they’d connect to which would create a national online service in a distribute fashion the way internet providers have.
• In 1991 independently invented the notion of collaborative filtering prior to its use elsewhere such as MIT’s media lab.
• In 1983 developed a graphical user interface toolkit for developing mouse based, overlapping window interfaces on PC hardware, pre-MS Windows and pre-Macintosh, for a courseware authoring system. To implement it developed an object oriented C before C++ and designed the first commercial persistent object storage system (briefly marketed as Vfile).
• Software developer and architect since 1983 after CMU, employed or contracted with research labs at Martin Marietta, Apple, US West, and companies developing commercial products such as InfoNow. Experience in complex system design and implementation: Artificial Intelligence systems, GUI, Mac, PC, Unix, databases, clients&servers, low level systems programming.

Dave Baker: President and COO

· VP of Hospital Operations. Directing 850 employees, total costs of $100 million and revenues of $150 million. Directed six different IT projects, including fiber backbone installation, JIT systems, materials management systems, and various telephony applications.

· VP of Business Development, North American Health Alliance, marketing to hospital CEOs. Co-developed a product with projected sales increase of $250 million this year.

· An expert in human resources and cost control, he wrote and published two hospital industry newsletters on cost savings and on human resources, leading to many speaking and teaching engagements.

· Bachelors in Political Science from Washington University, St. Louis.Masters in Business from Webster University, St. Louis.

Advisory Board

Marshall Rockwell founded Softaware Networks and served as CEO & Chairman. Digital Island acquired the company for a deal valued at $450 million when announced. Softaware is a pioneering Internet service provider, founded in Dec. 1993. Softaware was a reseller of Cyberspace Development’s TIA product in 1994. It now provides a Quick-Response Global Server Network distributing content around the net for applications requiring low-latency. As Digital Island’s CEO noted “SoftAware is a pioneer in quick-response hosting that we believe has amassed a tremendous roster of customers, people and capabilities”. SoftAware was selected to help build Sega’s online gaming network, and currently serves more than 550 customers including Sega.com, Paramount Pictures, USA Today, Universal Pictures,Mattel, Global Crossing, Nestle, ValueClick, FoxKids.com, Nissan, Suzuki, Hyundai, Bugle Boy, Razor Fish, Grammy Awards, and the Hollywood Stock Exchange. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Mr. Rockwell was selected by Time Magazine as one of its Twenty Outstanding College Graduates of 1987. Prior to founding SoftAware Networks, he worked at Radius and Alpha Media where he was VP of Technology. Mr. Rockwell has patented several technological innovations including the hand-held optical scanner and flat-panel large-screen video display, and mouse related technology.

Nancy J. Whiteman is a partner in RyanWhiteman, an e-business consulting firm that works with Internet clients to identify and develop strategic sales and marketing directions and to design and implement successful advertising and e-commerce based revenue models. Clients include Alta Vista, Looksmart, CNET, AdAuction, Yesmail, Ecircles, Snap, Softbank, Get2Net, Imagine Media, When.com, Real Media, Affinia, eCircles.com, and HotLinks.com, as well as a number of real-world companies extending their brands online such as US West. She has over 16 years of senior level marketing and sales development experience. In addition to consulting with a wide range of dot-com and brick & mortar companies on sales and marketing strategy, Nancy directs the product development function at Ryan Whiteman which includes public training sessions, as well as custom and syndicated research. She co-authors a weekly column on on-line media businesses for ClickZ Network Nancy holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.