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Thomas J. Gill
Chairman and CEO
Thomas J. Gill brings over twenty years of experience in operations, finance, and executive leadership to the CipherOptics team. Most recently Gill served as Managing Partner of SALTT Development Co., LLC and as Managing Partner of G4 Partners, LLC, an early stage private equity fund. From 1998 to 2000, Gill served as Chief Executive Officer and President of FORE Systems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of high-speed networking equipment, after having served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer within the company, from 1993 to 1998. During his tenure, FORE Systems grew from a small start-up to a company with more than 2,000 employees and annual sales of $632 million.

Gill has also served on the board of directors of several companies, including, Voltaire Limited, FreeMarkets, and WaveSmith Networks, Inc. He served on the board of trustees of Sewickley Academy, an independent college-preparatory day school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was appointed Vice Chair in 2004. Gill holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Martin Neath
General Partner, Adams Capital Management
Martin Neath, who helped build Tivoli Systems, Inc., now part of IBM, into a multi-billion dollar software and service operation, joined Adams Capital Management in August 2001 as a General Partner focusing on enterprise software. After working at Texas Instruments in the 1980's, Martin joined Tivoli in 1990 as an application engineer and later became VP of Development. Tivoli went public in 1995 and was acquired by IBM a year later, where Martin subsequently served for three years as Executive Vice President of the Tivoli Systems business unit. In this role, he had responsibility for much of the company's day-to-day operations, including five business units, engineering, corporate marketing, customer service, training and education, office of the Chief Technology Officer, and North American sales. In 1998, he was named a member of the IBM Senior Management Group (SMG), a team of the top 300 executives from around the world charged with the overall responsibility for IBM's strategy and business execution. After retiring from IBM in 1999, Martin was a personal investor and helped build several young emerging growth technology companies in the Austin area, including NetBotz, Waveset, and Works, Inc.

In addition to his role as a member of the Board of Directors at CipherOptics, Martin is also a member of the Board at Landslide Technologies, Inc., LibreDigital, Inc., NetBotz, ProspX, Inc., and Uplogix, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Tufts University.
Scott T. Jones
Founding Managing Director, Origin Partners L.P.
Mr. Jones is the Founding Managing Director of Origin Partners, an early stage venture capital partnership with offices in the Boston, Massachusetts, New York/New Jersey, and Austin, Texas metropolitan markets. Prior to Origin, Mr. Jones had 15 years of venture capital experience working with and investing in formation stage companies in information technology, communications, and medical electronics markets. In addition to the CipherOptics board, he currently serves on the board of directors for Silicon Optix, and is responsible for Origin's investment in Watchmark (a Lucent wireless technology spin-off). From 1986 to 1998, he served as General Partner for venture capital funds of Rothschild North America, where (among other investments) he was responsible for investments in Actel (NASDAQ: ACTL), iSTAT (NASDAQ: STAT), and Transwitch (NASDAQ: TXCC). Prior to founding Origin, Mr. Jones made personal investments in and served on the Board of Directors or as an Advisor to QueryObject Systems (NASDAQ: OBJ), Genesis Microchip (NASDAQ: GNSS), and SMART Technologies (sold to i2 Technologies (NASDAQ: ITWO)). Prior to Rothschild, Mr. Jones held management and engineering positions in General Electric and Motorola, and was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Control Automation, a venture capital-funded image processing start-up.

Mr. Jones received a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
Len Tenner
Hewitt Associates, Chief Information Officer Emeritus
Len was the Chief Technology Strategist and is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Emeritus for Hewitt Associates. His last assignments before retiring in April,2004 were working with the leadership of Hewitt’s outsourcing businesses to develop opportunities in the Public Sector, i.e., State and Local Government and in Asia, particularly in China.

Len was Hewitt Associates’ Chief Information Officer for fifteen years and the CIO at Sageo, a Hewitt eBusiness, for two years. In his capacity as CIO, he was responsible for establishing information technology strategy in support of Hewitt's businesses, as well as building and managing a global technology infrastructure.

His most significant achievements at Hewitt include building a global infrastructure linking 12,000 associates; providing on-line services to 15 million employees of Fortune 1,000 companies; and building a staff of 600 professionals to support and extend Hewitt's architecture.

Prior to joining Hewitt, Len held a number of management positions in information technology at BP-Amoco.These included Operations Research,Operating Systems,Data Center Management,Applications Development for Refining,Marketing and Transportation,IT Security,IT Education,IT Strategic Planning and Worldwide IT procurement.

Currently,he is a Director of Flashline,Inc.,a Cleveland based software company and is on the advisory boards of The Harvard Group,an advisory board facilitation and sales training company and Blazent,a California based software company.

Len graduated from MIT with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering and is a graduate of The Executive Program at the University of Virginia, Darden School.