Jessica H. Fullmer, Founder and CEO
Jessica Fullmer founded and grew the Sustainable Business Institute, a globally recognized institution,
where she managed hundreds of people and raised five million dollars. She has also consulted for several
hundred organizations in the private sector, government, and education (including teaching at colleges
and universities). The last consulting was the merger for Lockheed Martin and their first commercial
strategic planning off-site, that led to closing a multimillion dollar client. Earlier as a Western
Field Coordinator, Jessica Fullmer managed 250 sales agents, 12 branch managers at a pharmaceutical/cosmetic
firm. Her organization had top sales, internationally, 10 years consecutively. Jessica Fullmer was one of 5
people to be advisor to Chairman of the Board for product development and strategy. She has served as a
Board Member on 14 Boards: the last being the West Coast Quality Forum (SEMATECH) responsible for supply chain
development. Jessica was mentored and trained by Dr Edward Deming and his proteges.
Eric Hamilton, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Eric has spent 30 years in the digital video, audio, and still picture industries with seven Silicon Valley
companies. Most recently he was Chief Scientist of HandHeld Entertainment where he had responsibility for
specifying and developing the company's compression and digital rights management technology. Previously,
he was CTO at Compression Science Corporation, a startup, which was developing next generation video encoding
and decoding technology. At C-Cube Microsystems Inc., Hamilton played a key role in developing the architectures
of the early JPEG and MPEG semiconductor products. Consistent with his industry status, Hamilton served for three
years as the Chairman of the International JPEG Committee, which is responsible for establishing the worldwide
standards for compression of still pictures. Hamilton holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from
San Jose State University.
John Douglas, Vice President of Technology Development
John Douglas has over thirty years experience in computer programming, systems engineering, and technical management.
Since 1976, Mr. Douglas has specialized in the field of video teleconferencing and image compression. He is listed as
inventor on eight or more patents, has patents pending in the image compression field, and has been a principal
founder, officer, and board member of several Silicon Valley companies. Mr. Douglas holds a BS in Mathematics and
an MS in Applied Mathematics.
Technical Advisory Board
The Company has formed an advisory board consisting of some of the most distinguished people in the field of audio
and video compression technology as well as business experts. The members of the Advisory Board are:
Dr. Clifford Reader was the Co-Founder of the MPEG-4 standard and first Chairman of the
International MPEG-4 Committee. He was formerly United States Head of Delegation to MPEG. Dr. Reader is an
internationally acclaimed Video coding expert. He reviewed all worldwide patents for applicability to the MPEG
standards, and is today one of the leading expert witnesses in image compression legal cases. Dr. Reader is
currently an independent expert after a long career in industry, including terms at Ford Aerospace, Samsung,
and Cypress Semiconductor. Dr. reader received his PhD from The University of Sussex, England.
Dr. Paul Germeraad, formerly, C.O.O. has served as President of Intellectual Assets, Inc.,
a professional services company focused on ensuring clients create and obtain maximum value from their intellectual
property. Paul was previously Chief Operating Officer for Aurigin Systems, Inc. where he focused on the
commercialization of the company's intellectual asset management software for the Competitive Intelligence,
Licensing and R&D communities. Prior to joining Aurigin in 1998, Paul served as Vice President, Corporate Research
for Avery Dennison where he directed its Corporate Research Center. Before joining Avery Dennison, Paul held a
variety of R&D and management positions at Raychem Corporation, and was director of James River Corporation's Flexible
Packaging Technical Center. Paul is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, with a B.A. in Chemistry.
In addition, Paul holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine and an LL.B degree from
La Salle University in Chicago. Paul is Past Chairman of the Board of the Industrial Research Institute, an
organization of approximately 300 Chief Technology Officers whose organizations account for over 70% of all U.S.
industrial R&D spending.
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