Ken Sheets, Founder and iM-Boot Inventor
With 18 years as an embedded design engineer and application engineering manager, Ken has driven the design and development of 5 different embedded processors and has been an invited panelist at the ARM Developers conference. Focusing on 4-32 bit embedded space, Ken's projects have ranged from high-end audio components to medical equipment. Ken's hard work has earned major design wins at some of the largest consumer electronic manufacturers.  Ken currently holds the position of North American Field Applications Engineering Manager for Oxford Semiconductor.

Jim Frederickson, Senior Financial Advisor
Jim Fredrickson has been involved in the Silicon Valley finance arena for more than 30 years.  His experience began with a variety of high technology companies while employed by the San Jose office of Arthur Andersen & Co. Progressing to an audit manager, he was involved with several clients who had public offerings and public reporting requirements.  He worked for ARGOSystems (defense electronics), in Sunnyvale for 19 years, first as the corporate controller and then as the Vice President and CFO.  During his employment, ARGOSystems became a public company and was later acquired by The Boeing Company.  In recent years, Jim has held financial leadership positions in a variety of small companies.

Jim has been a licensed CPA for 30 plus years and is a member of the AICPA and the California Society of CPAs.  He holds a BS degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University and has attended the Stanford Financial Executive Management Training program.

Kevin Epstein, Senior Marketing Advisor
Kevin Epstein is a Silicon Valley marketing executive with several technology patents in his name, founding experience at three successful small-business retail ventures, and almost two decades of subsequent experience in guerrilla marketing tactics at such software industry high-flyers as Netscape, RealNetworks, Inktomi, and VMware. Kevin also holds an undergraduate degree in high-energy nuclear physics, an MBA from Stanford (where he teaches the occasional course), authored Entrepreneur Magazine’s book “Marketing Made Easy”, and serves as an outside advisor to various venture-backed and individual entrepreneurial start-up companies.  Kevin firmly believes that one doesn’t need have to have a degree in nuclear physics to do great marketing… but it helps.

Richard Sessions, Senior Advisor
Thirty-five years of industrial and high-tech experience as an applications engineer, salesperson, marketer, mentor, $150M business unit general manager, and leader of a $400M marketing organization as well as involved with bio-tech and alternative energy start-ups. Richard is a graduate of Cornell University with a BS in Engineering and is an international lecturer and executive education/graduate school speaker on global new product development, high-tech product portfolio management, and high-intensity strategic planning and execution. Richard has been quoted in numerous articles and books on strategic processes and building the unstoppable financial powerhouse as well as has collaborating on several management books including Beyond the Financials and an internal A.T. Kearney, Inc. management publication targeted for C-level company leadership.

Michael Weseloh, Marketing Director
Michael’s seventeen years of sales, marketing, new product development and product launch experience are grounded with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.  Michael has helped numerous companies with product development and feature enhancements in the consumer, medical, industrial, wireless and networking products space.  Mike's experience with Logical Services, a contract design house specializing in manufacturing, engineering, project management and sales, mentored him on the critically of 'time to market' and the necessity of launching a ‘complete’ product.  These skills were further honed while employed at Mitsubishi Electronics, Renesas Semiconductor and Oki Semiconductor.  During his career he has held steering committee and board positions with ZigBee and UPnP respectively and has additionally participated in IEEE802. 

Chris Ewing, Senior Sales Advisor
Chris Ewing has a diverse background in technology, business development, sales, project management and consulting spanning 20 years in the IT industry.  Chris has previously worked with Silicon Valley-based technology companies and is currently with Chordiant Software where he heads up Business Development for Professional Services in North America. Prior to Chordiant, Chris founded CherryLogic, a business technology consulting firm.  He has previously held the position of Vice President, Novell Web Applications Group, and various other management positions while at Wysdom and Brooktrout Technology where he was instrumental in developing business partnerships and generating sales for early wireless Internet applications, network infrastructure and services, IP voice solutions, computer-telephone integration products and call center services.  Chris earned a B.S. in Information Systems Management, and graduated with Highest Honors from the University of San Francisco.