John Bernbach is President and COO of Not Traditional Media, a New York City based marketing and media advisory firm. John has helped to develop marketing campaigns and branding strategies for such clients as Volkswagen, Audi, Anheuser-Busch, Avis, IBM, Michelin, and Porsche. Twenty-two of his 28 years in the advertising business were spent at Doyle Dane Bernbach, the last eight as President/COO of DDB Needham Worldwide. John currently serves on Collective Intellect’s board, as well as many other boards.

Raymond D. Croghan is currently Managing Partner of Croghan Investments, LLC, an investment and consulting firm located in Longmont, Colorado. He is also a Director of Crocs, Inc. In 1980, Mr. Croghan joined a small high technology company called Applied Communications, Inc. (ACI) as a systems engineer. In 1987, he assumed the role of CEO and President of ACI. During his tenure, ACI grew to become the leading supplier of on-line Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) software to the world’s largest financial institutions. Tandem Computers acquired ACI in 1991. He then started Croghan & Associates, Inc., with the mission to transfer the EFT technology used in financial networks to the health care industry. In 1997, Croghan & Associates merged with Margolis Health Enterprises to form The TriZetto Group, a company which provides outsourced information services for the business of healthcare. The TriZetto GroupSM completed a successful Initial Public Offering in1999. From 1999 to the present Mr. Croghan has been an investor and advisor with a number of early stage companies in Colorado. Mr. Croghan received a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics in 1972 from Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. He now serves on Doane’s Board of Trustees.

Mr. Zell has an extensive, 20-year operating background in communications and data networking. Currently at Grotech Ventures, Mr. Zell focuses on investment opportunities in the communications, networking, software and outsourcing sectors. Mr. Zell has held a variety of management positions at Convergent Communications, US WEST, WilTel, LDXNet, United Technologies Communications, MCI Communications and Xerox Corporation. Mr. Zell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and is an active member of the Washington DC metro chapter of the YPO (Young Presidents Organization).

Mr. Jones is currently the CEO of datAvail which provides database management services to clients throughout the world. Prior to leading datAvail, Mr. Jones was President and Chief Executive Officer of Level 3 Communications, Inc.'s subsidiary, (i)Structure, LLC, an IT infrastructure outsourcing provider. Previously he was Group Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for Level 3. Prior to joining Level 3 in May 1998, he was Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Corporate Express, Inc. a $4 billion international corporation providing essential business products and services to large organizations. Before joining Corporate Express, Mr. Jones was the Director of Billing Systems for Sprint International and an Associate Partner with Andersen Consulting.

Mr. Parsons is a founding member of Appian and serves on its investment committee. He currently represents Appian on the boards of Oxlo Systems and Collective Intellect. He is responsible for Appian's investments in Univa and LeftHand Networks. Previously, Don served as a general partner of Centennial Ventures, a Denver-based firm specializing in telecom services and communications technologies, where he served as a board and investment team member for several IT/Communications companies, including HighGround Systems (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Raindance Communications (NASDAQ: RNDC, acquired by West Media), Ecrix (acquired by Exabyte/Tandberg), Verio (acquired by NTT) and Pluto Technologies (acquired by NASDAQ:Avid). Prior to his career in venture capital, Don was a design engineer with IBM’s Personal Computer Division in Boca Raton, Florida. Don is a founding board member of Colorado’s chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He is also a current member and the former president and chairman of the Colorado Venture Capital Association. Don is on the Board of Trustees of the Graland Country Day School. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Business School.