About 3DsolveManagement, board & advisors

Executive management
Richard Boyd, Chief Executive Officer
Prior to co-founding 3Dsolve, Richard Boyd served as the CEO of 3dvillage, Inc. a company he helped found that was acquired in September of 2001.

Prior to that, he was General Manager and VP of Sales for Virtus, where he worked for nearly a decade. In addition to these duties over the years, Boyd has become a highly sought-after industry speaker, logging numerous appearances at key industry conferences such as Comdex, MacWorld, Windows World-London, NCGA, Web3D and the Meckler Virtual Reality conferences. He also spearheaded the effort to use 3D visualization technologies to create virtual environments for movies such as Warner Brothers' feature Fearless, a John Hay film titled The Steal, as well as during the pre-production phase of Brian dePalma's blockbuster Mission: Impossible.

With David Smith, Boyd co-wrote an industry-leading book on VRML technologies that was widely distributed and translated into three foreign languages in 1995. He also currently serves on the Board of the 3D Industry Forum. Boyd is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Frank Boosman, Chief Operating Officer
Frank Boosman has over 17 years' experience in a variety of high technology companies. Prior to co-founding 3Dsolve, he served as VP of Product Marketing for QDesign, a leading vendor of audio compression and security technology.

Prior to joining QDesign, Boosman was VP of Marketing Communications for Be Incorporated, a vendor of software platforms for Internet appliances. During his time at Be, he also served as VP of both Business Development and Developer Relations. He was a co-founder of Red Storm Entertainment, an entertainment software firm created by noted author Tom Clancy, where he served as VP of Product Development. He has also served as VP and General Manager of Virtus Studios, a business unit focused on consumer software development for personal computers, and as Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems, where he was a founding team member of the Adobe Acrobat project.

Boosman is a member of the board of directors of Ludicorp R&D Ltd., a social networking software firm based in Vancouver, BC, and a member of the board of advisors of Lulan LLC, a for-profit social venture based in Charleston, SC.

David Smith, Chief Technology Officer
David Smith has more than 20 years' experience founding and running companies in the graphics and wireless software fields. Smith’s technologies have won multiple industry awards.

In 1998, Smith co-founded Neomar, a wireless technologies company that provided the browser for RIM's BlackBerry. In 1990, Smith founded Virtus to create real-time 3D based modeling and visualization applications for desktop computers.

Smith is well known for creating The Colony, the world's first interactive first-person 3D adventure game. With Tom Clancy, Smith also co-founded Red Storm Entertainment, a jointly-owned venture with Virtus. He was also CEO and co-founder of Timeline Computer Entertainment, a jointly-owned venture between author Michael Crichton and Virtus. Smith is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

Rett Crocker, Vice President, Research & Development
Rett Crocker has 15 years' experience in software development, with a dual focus on games and education. Prior to joining 3Dsolve, he acted as Executive VP and Director of Development for Adveractive, a leader in the burgeoning casual game and advergame markets.With Adveractive, he was instrumental in the launch of the successful game site Playtonium.com, created numerous Web games, and dozens of advergames for clients like Coca-Cola and ESPN. Some of his more notable casual games are the best selling jigsaw game Jigsaw365, the award winning Atomic Pongling, and the most-played crossword game Infinite Crosswords. Before joining Adveractive, he was a key player in several Internet startups and created many early entertainment Web destinations.

Board of Directors
David A. Smith, Chairman
Richard Boyd
Frank Boosman

Board of Advisors
Gary Baker, Colonel, USAF (Retired)
Gary Baker has over 26 years' experience in program management, program acquisition, contracted research and development, strategic planning, and new business development, predominantly in the simulation and training / modeling and simulation marketplace. He has held management positions with American Airlines Training Corporation and Boeing in their commercial airplanes, military airplanes, and aerospace businesses, retiring from Boeing as head of associate contractor integration for the International Space Station. He currently serves on the Conference Executive Committee for the Interservice/Industry Training Systems and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). Prior to his industry career, he spent 22 years in the US Air Force, commanding C-5 and C-141 squadrons and retiring as Director of Standardization and Evaluation for the Military Airlift Command. Baker was an initial cadre pilot in aerial refueling training for both the C-5 and C-141, originating simulation/training programs for each weapon system. He holds a BS in Marketing from the University of Tulsa and is a graduate of the Air War College, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Air Command and Staff College, and the US Army Management Engineering Training Agency.

Reid Hoffman, CEO, LinkedIn
Reid Hoffman is CEO of LinkedIn, an online service for professional networking. Immediately prior to founding LinkedIn, he was EVP at PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL), where he was in charge of all external relationships and payments infrastructure. Hoffman also serves on the board of directors for Grassroots Enterprise, Jumpstart Technologies, SixApart, Socialtext, Talk To The Future, TreasureGames, and Vendio, and serves on the board of advisors for EZCab and WeAttract. He is an angel investor in Ironport, Friendster, and Nanosolar. Earlier in his career, Hoffman worked at Apple Computer, Fujitsu Software Corporation, and Socialnet.com. He graduated from Stanford University with distinction with a BS in Cognitive Science and from Oxford University with a master's degree in philosophy. Hoffman won the Dinkelspiel Award and a Marshall Scholarship while at Stanford University.

Joichi Ito, Founder, Neoteny
Joichi Ito is the founder and CEO of Neoteny, an IT investment and operating company based in Tokyo. Ito is the chairman of the board of Creative Commons and the chairman of Six Apart Japan. Ito is also on the board of Technorati, Digital Garage, WITNESS, Pia Corporation, Socialtext and iCommons. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage, and Infoseek Japan. In 1997, Time magazine ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000, he was ranked among the "50 Stars of Asia" by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001, the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" for 2002. In 2003, Wired magazine named Ito one of eight "connectors," "the hypernetworked nodes who secretly run the world." In 2004, he was named to the board of ICANN and in 2005, he joined the board of the Mozilla Foundation. Ito was also a founding board member of Ex'pression College for Digital Arts as well as the Zero One Art and Technology Network.

Thomas Kelley, Founder, Shamrock Associates
Thomas Kelley is the founder of Shamrock Associates, Inc., specializing in the application of aviation to the law enforcement mission. Kelley retired as a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation following 32 years of service to the United States and is recognized nationally and internationally for his expertise in the application of aerial support to law enforcement special operations missions. From 1978, until his retirement in 1998, Kelley was involved in virtually every major FBI criminal, foreign counter-intelligence, tactical, and special event operation that utilized aircraft. Kelley retains extensive contacts with both civil and military, domestic and foreign, special operations units supporting special events and critical incident resolution.

Julian Lombardi, Assistant Director, University of Wisconsin Division of IT
Dr. Julian Lombardi is Assistant Director of the University of Wisconsin's Division of Information Technology, where he oversees a software research and development group defining and leading university-wide initiatives that seek to transform teaching and learning through the use of technology. He is also a principal of the Croquet Project, an open-source software development effort being supported by the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, Viewpoints Research Institute Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Inc. In 1999, he founded ViOS, Inc. after being awarded a patent on technologies and processes for visualizing and organizing location-based information. ViOS developed 3D architectures that supported the visualization of Internet-deliverable resources. Prior to founding ViOS, Dr. Lombardi was a biology professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

Thomas C. Reeves, Professor, University of Georgia
Professor Thomas C. Reeves is a co-founder of the Learning and Performance Support Lab at the University of Georgia, where his teaching areas include program evaluation, instructional design, and research courses. Professor Reeves is known worldwide as a leader in the theory and practice of instructional technology. Since receiving his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1979, Professor Reeves has developed and evaluated numerous interactive learning programs for education and training. In addition to more than 100 presentations and workshops in the USA, he has been an invited speaker in numerous other countries. He is a former Fulbright Lecturer, and a former editor of The Journal of Interactive Learning Research. In 2003, he was selected as the first recipient of the AACE Fellows Award from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Charles Shook, Managing Partner, Tallawa Capital Partners
Charles Shook is Managing Partner of Tallawa Capital Partners LLC, based in Raleigh, NC. He formed TCP in 2003 to focus on buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth equity investments of private companies with revenues typically between $10 million and $100 million. Prior to forming TCP, his experience includes private equity fund management as Director of Investments–Private Equity for Harbert Management Corporation, investment banking with Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., and management consulting with FMI Corporation. Shook received a BA in economics from the University of North Carolina and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Carmen M. Wagner, Founder, Strategic Compliance International
Dr. Carmen M. Wagner has over twenty-five years of experience in the health industry and is Founder and President of Strategic Compliance International, Inc (SCI). Dr. Wagner is broadly experienced in Research, Technical Operations, Quality Assurance, and Regulatory Affairs having held positions of increasing responsibility in numerous Fortune 100 companies. Her corporate management experience includes tenure at E.I. Du Pont, Johnson & Johnson, American Cyanamid/Lederle-Praxis (now Wyeth Vaccines), Serentec, Inc, and MERIX Bioscience (now Argos Pharmaceuticals), where she held the position of Vice-President of Quality & Technical Affairs.