Bruce R. Smith joined the Board in September 1999. Mr. Smith is a business consultant in the professional services, technology and retail industries. Since September 2001, he has served as a founding partner of i3 Partners Consulting, which provides Board and CEO level consulting to companies and equity capital firms focusing on marketing, sales and customer relationship management. Prior thereto, he was a principal with Nextera/Sibson Consulting Group, responsible for the creation and business development of the equity capital services practice. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Smith served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Integration Alliance Corporation, a distribution, integration and marketing company that provided a high value, complex systems channel model for the Hewlett Packard UNIX, 3000 and NT environments. Prior thereto, he was President, Client Systems Company of Distribution Resources Corporation from 1991 to 1994. |