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Gary Eichhorn has been a leader in the computer and medical industries for over thirty years. He is currently a management consultant helping small and mid-size hardware, software, e-commerce, and medical companies to grow. Mr. Eichhorn serves on the Board of Directors of a number of innovative technology companies. Gary is a strategic advisor to the CEO’s of several high growth companies. In addition, Mr. Eichhorn is an advisor to Investor Growth Capital. Gary Eichhorn was previously CEO of Open Market, Inc., a leading provider of Internet commerce software, where he was responsible for the vision of the company, including strategic corporate direction and growth. Joining Open Market in 1995, he led the company to its initial public offering in May 1996. During his tenure the company grew annual revenues from $1 million to over $80 million. Open Market pioneered new technologies for managing Internet transactions, for which the company received numerous patents, and created an industry-leading suite of software products for e-commerce and content management. Previously, as Group Vice President of Hewlett Packard’s Medical Products Group, Mr. Eichhorn was responsible for more than 900 products and 5,000 employees worldwide. The Medical Products Group focused on patient monitoring systems, cardiac ultrasound systems, cardiographs and defibrillators. As Vice President of Hewlett Packard’s Workstation Systems Group, he was instrumental in the successful development and marketing of the HP family of reduced instruction set Risc workstations, and co-led a consortium of HP, SUN, and IBM to develop standards for the Unix operating system. Prior to Hewlett Packard, Mr. Eichhorn held executive positions at Digital Equipment Corporation where he managed the development of laboratory and medical hardware and software, and multiprocessor servers based on the Intel architecture. Mr. Eichhorn is a 1975 graduate of Colgate University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1988. Gary is the director of the Music and Youth Initiative (www.musicandyouth.org), a non-profit organization that funds and develops music clubhouses for inner-city youth. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Ansys, Inc.(www.ansys.com), a leading engineering software analysis company. D uring his tenure on the board, the company did a successful IPO. Gary was Chairman of the board of GeoTrust which was sold to Verisign, Inc in 2006. In 2007, PanGo Networks Inc, where Gary served as Chairman, was sold to Innerwireless, Inc. He was also previously a director of the Boston Computer Museum. | 