Board of Directors

John C. Taylor - Chairman. JC's roles include corporate and financial structure and oversight; in addition, he will use his 36 years of banking experience and contacts to help establish relationships with potential investors, business partners, vendors and customers. John C. has been a commercial banker since 1970, holding positions as a commercial team leader, senior lending officer, and corporate banking portfolio manager. His banking career started with Commerce Bank in Kansas City, then Bank of America for 16 years, First National Bank of Kansas and Peoples Bank of Overland Park, Kansas. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Business from the University of Missouri, graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at SMU, and received an Executive Fellows MBA from Rockhurst University.

John M. Taylor - President, CEO and company founder. John's first contribution was to come up with the idea for the concept and system architecture of IDENTIFiD; second was to assemble the management team to take the idea from concept to practice. In addition to leading with his vision for IDENTIFiD, his major strengths are system design, facilitating cooperation among cross-functional project teams to ensure performance quality, on-time delivery schedules, adherence to budget and maximization of profit potential. John has 15 years experience in a variety of information technology assignments, starting as Director of Document Imaging for Missouri Information Solutions. At Sprint, he led a team that designed a national, Internet-accessed database system. As Program Director for DXR, a medical supply co., he redesigned database systems and created a Just-In-Time purchasing ordering system. Senior Project Manager for Saratoga Systems, a provider of client relationship management software systems; consulted with staff and customers to plan, design, develop and implement installation of new and upgraded systems.

 

Advisory Directors

Ken Burns - Ken is approaching 12 years as President and Treasurer of Technology Credit Union, a $1.3 billion organization serving over 75,000 individuals living and working in the Silicon Valley. Ken started his credit union career in 1979 as an auditor and has held credit union positions of Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and President/CEO.

Ken's educational background consists of a BS degree in accounting, and designation as a Certified Credit Union Executive (CCUE) and Certified Chief Executive (CCE). He has also completed graduate courses towards a Masters in Organizational Development.

Ken has been active in credit union industry leadership roles as a past Credit Union League chapter president, and board member of Wescorp Federal Credit Union, the nation's largest corporate credit union.

Ken has also served on the board of his local municipal water district, local school board, and numerous committees including the California Department of Financial Institutions task force on Prompt Corrective Action.

Ken resides in Scotts Valley. He enjoys tennis, scuba diving, table tennis, guitar, and an occasional round of golf.

Ralph A. Palmieri - Mr. Palmieri recently retired as Staff Vice-President of the Lockheed Martin Information Services and Global Solutions business area. Mr. Palmieri was responsible for the coordination and synergies of International Clients and business affairs across all nine of the operating units of this business area of Lockheed Martin. Previously, from 2004 to 2005, as the Vice President, International for Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Mr. Palmieri successfully launched that business unit on a pioneering course focused on strategic relationships, mergers, and acquisitions of IT and BPS oriented firms based primarily outside the United States and on virtually every continent. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin Corporation, Mr. Palmieri was EVP of the SYTEX Group, Inc. (TSGI), and the Chief Operating Officer of SYTEX, Inc., the flagship company of TSGI's three operating firms: Sytex, Inc., Mac Aulay Brown, Inc., and INS, Inc. He joined Sytex as a start-up enterprise in 1989, helping to kick off the Washington, DC-based segments of the growing government technical services company. For over 16 years, he helped grow Sytex and TSGI into an internationally-recognized professional services company of nearly 3000 employees world-wide, supporting Department of Defense, Non-DoD Federal, commercial, and foreign clients in areas of Homeland Security, Counterterrorism; Command and Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence Systems; Information Warfare and Information Operations; Systems Engineering and Integration; Program Management and Business Administration; and Global Logistics and Readiness Systems Support.

Prior to joining SYTEX, Mr. Palmieri was with Analytics, Inc. for over six years. He began as a Project Engineer and ended as a Principal Analyst, and grew his division from a staff of zero to over 55 technical personnel providing services to the DoD, both domestically and internationally.

Previously, Mr. Palmieri served as an intelligence and electronic warfare officer in the US Army (1964-1984), with tours at Ft Bragg, NC, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe. Professionally qualified in German, Persian, and Spanish languages, with lesser competencies in Italian, Arabic, and Vietnamese.

Jason R. Blum - Managing Partner, Iron Capital: responsible for advisory services, capital sourcing, and business development across high technology and clean technology markets. Jason holds NASD series 7,62,63 licenses.

Prior to Iron Capital, Jason worked for Advanced Equities Inc. and was responsible for private equity placements for later stage high technology companies. He participated in capital raises for 12 companies and established relationships with 20 top tier mid-to-late stage institutional investors with an average of 20+ billion in assets under management.

Before joining Advanced Equities, Jason spent 14 years in high technology sales, marketing and business development for market leading companies Oracle, Inktomi, Bottomline Technologies, NEC, and KnowNow.

Jason earned a full scholarship in football from Oregon State University, and graduated with a B.A. in Communications in ‘93.

Dixon R. Doll, Jr. - Founded Longstreet Ventures in 2003 as a Consulting and Advisory Firm specializing in private equity. Clients include Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms and companies looking for funding, strategic alternatives and later stage fundings. He has made angel investments in over 12 private companies and has worked in the enterprise software, security, software as a service and digital media areas. His clients have included Oak Investment Partners, Carlyle Group, Francisco Partners, GTCR, Good Harbor Consulting Group and DCM. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Panjea/Aware Media and IDENTIFiD. He is also a business advisor to Signacert, Secure Elements, Fusion, UjoGo, Virtual Synaptics, Sales Edge, Cartilix, Encentuate, and Trapeze Networks.

He is the former Vice President at Recourse Technologies, a leading security technology company that was sold to Symantec in 2002 for $135M. Previously he was the Vice President of Corporate Development at New Era of Networks (NEON), a public company in the middleware space that was sold to Sybase in 2001. He built channel sales from 1998-2001 and worked on M&A and did strategic partnerships. He worked at Oracle from 1994-1998 as a business development manger in the US Alliances Organization. He qualified for Oracles Club Excellence 4 consecutive years.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University class of 1990 and The University of Michigan Graduate School of Business MBA class of 1994. He was a White House Intern in 1989, a Varsity Football Player in 1986 and the composer and producer of 3 original piano solo albums. He is a member of the Legacy Society at Georgetown University.