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The NeuralWare team is an eclectic group. Our CEO, Jack Copper, is a Nuclear Engineer from the University of Virginia who first learned about neural networks way back in 1971 in an undergraduate course titled, believe it or not, "Problems in the Philosophy of Religion." He knew then that neural networks would be important; it just took 30 years to get to where he could actually demonstrate it. In between, he has designed and implemented a wide variety of software components and systems, ranging from geographical information systems for transportation fare calculations to microprocessor-based energy management systems to robotic welding systems. He invented one of the world's first wireless pointing devices, and he holds several patents related to wireless communication for devices that are used to control computers and other equipment. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation and from NASA to develop prototype analysis systems based on neural network technology developed with NeuralWare tools. He has also taken graduate level management and computer science courses at Carnegie Mellon University, but he could never stick around long enough to complete a degree - the world was much more interesting. John Wavle, our Vice President of Sales, rejoined NeuralWare in September 2001 after a short (but too long for us) hiatus. John has over 20 years of sales and management experience across the technology sector. Before we convinced him to return to the fold, John worked with RedSiren Technologies and Cerebellum Software, serving in key sales and marketing management and leadership positions. In addition to identifying and cultivating important enterprise IT contacts, John was instrumental in creating Tele-sales and Tele-marketing infrastructures for those organizations. In his previous life at NeuralWare, over a five-year time period he rose from a Senior Account Manager to become Director of Sales. In the process, he got to know many of our North American and European customers and he very much looks forward to working with them again. Before John joined NeuralWare the first time, he held national and international sales positions at Delphi/Redshaw, Algor Inc., Telesis Computer Corporation and Unisys. John holds a BA in Business Administration from Westminster College. And, by the way, he also enjoys coaching his son's soccer team. Alex Kulik, our Chief Scientist, is by education a high-energy experimental physicist, and by nature an extremely clever guy. Alex received his MSc in Experimental Nuclear Physics from the Moscow Physical Technical Institute, and his PhD in Experimental Physics from the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, Russia (formerly USSR). Before joining NeuralWare, Alex's work in experimental high energy physics involved developing unique algorithms and heuristic procedures to identify very small numbers of data records describing important events buried in very large amounts of experimental data. He knows how to find very small needles in very large haystacks. In fact, Alex was a member of the team at Fermi Lab that confirmed the existence of the elusive tau neutrino. At NeuralWare, Alex has been exploring ways to extend some of the classic neural network unsupervised training algorithms in ways that make them even more robust and effective. Carolyn Osmond, our Director of Business Services, holds the company together and makes sure that what we do is really for customers, while guaranteeing that NeuralWare is a well organized, high quality and enjoyable place to work. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she came to NeuralWare from the Administrative Computing Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She organized and conducted university-wide training on internal systems and participated in a host of university initiatives. Bob Everly is our Manager of Customer Support. Bob has been involved with high technology software companies for over 20 years, and 10 of those years have been devoted to ensuring that NeuralWare customers are able to take full advantage of the powerful, yet sometimes daunting, capabilities of NeuralWare products. Bob has come to know, through email and at times in person, a significant number of NeuralWare customers around the world. And they in turn have come to know that Bob can answer their questions. Bob's extensive experience and wide ranging input from NeuralWare customers is an important influence on NeuralWare's new product development efforts for the future.