From 1999 until joining Shelter Capital Partners, Dr. Nour-Omid was the founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of StudioXchange, Inc., a provider of production site, labor and equipment procurement services for the entertainment industry. StudioXchange was acquired by IFILM in 2000. From November 1996 to March 1999, he was Executive Vice President and a Director of Essentus, Inc., a provider of supply chain software for the apparel industry. From March 1991 through 1996, he was the founding Chief Technology Officer and a Director of Scopus Technology, Inc., a provider of front-office applications software. Scopus went public in 1995 and was sold to Siebel Systems, Inc., in 1998. From 1981 to 1990 Dr. Nour-Omid worked at the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. Dr. Nour-Omid is currently a director of Integrated Decision Systems, Inc., a provider of software products that automate business processes of investment management firms, and Roamware, Inc. a leading provider of software solutions designed to power the global wireless market. Dr. Nour-Omid earned a B.S. from the University of London's Imperial College, and an M.S. in Structural Engineering, M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Computer Simulation from the University of California, Berkeley. |