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James D. Baker has served on the Board of Directors of The Quantum Group, Inc., since 2000 and has many years of experience as CEO and Director of several successful startup companies. He has founded and operated several profitable computer-based high technology companies where he played a key role in their launch and success.
From 2003, until the present time, Mr. Baker has been a Director, President and CEO of Q-Net Technologies, Inc. (QNTI), a public company created to introduce consumer technology and value-added Internet services into the Chinese market.
From 2000 until 2002, Mr. Baker was the President of TargitInteractive, Inc. a leading interactive marketing services provider. The company delivers millions of e-mail messages on the Internet daily for clients such as General Motors, Mercedes, Kraft Foods, Lexus, and many other advertisers. Mr. Baker currently serves as a Director of the Company.
In 1997, Mr. Baker became the CEO of AegiSoft, Inc. and was instrumental in both raising the capital and running the company from its inception. AegiSoft was a digital rights management company that provided software and digital content publishers the technology to rent their products, such as software, music, movies and electronic books. In 2000, the Company was sold to Real Networks, Inc., which was using the technology in their Music.net initiative.
In 1995, he co-founded RAPOR, Inc., which was sold to GVI Security Solutions in December of 2004. RAPOR is a manufacturer of computer-controlled doors for the security industry. RAPOR customers include IBM, Intel and the US Army. From 1991 through 1995, he served as a founder, President and CEO of Datamed Systems, Inc., a medical device EMG provider, and rolled the company up into Quality Care Networks, Inc., a physician practice management company.
Mr. Baker was employed from 1967 to 1981 by IBM in their MIS area and was a Project Manager of Security Systems Development. He left IBM in 1981 to form his own company, Computer Application Systems, Inc. (CASI), a Florida corporation that commercialized computer-based security systems. CASI customers included IBM, General Motors, Salomon Brothers, hospitals and many Fortune 1000 firms. CASI was number 50 in the INC. 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies in the United States in 1987 and was then sold to Figgie International, Inc. in September 1987 and was subsequently sold to GE Security Systems in Boca Raton, Florida. Mr. Baker worked with Figgie as Vice President of Strategic Business Development through 1991.
Mr. Baker obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from the University of Cincinnati and pursued a master’s degree in Business Administration at the University of Michigan. | 