John Stiska Director Mr. Stiska is Chairman of Commercial Bridge Capital, LLC, a San Diego venture lending fund, and is a Managing Principal of Regent Partners, LLC, a regional merchant banking firm. In May 2002 he was elected CEO of JNI Corp. (NASDAQ:JNIC) before it was sold to AMCC. Since December 2002 he has been on the Board of Directors of Venture Holdings, parent of Peguform Europe and its subsidiaries in Germany, France, Czech Republic and Spain. In the mid 1990’s he was Qualcomm’s Corporate Senior Vice President and before that was Chairman & CEO from 1993 to 1996 of Triton Group, Ltd. (ASE:TGL). Mr. Stiska received a B.B.A. in Accounting and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. In addition to Venture Holdings, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of AF Labs, Inc., Microvision Optical, Inc., Cobalt Medical, Inc., PepperBall Technologies, Inc., Verras Medical, Inc., AVAAK, Inc. and Surge Global Energy (OTCBB:SRGG). He is also active in San Diego based non-profit and business organizations, and is currently serving as Chair of the Corporate Directors Forum. |