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Advisors

Russell Walker – Risk Advisor

Russell is the Assistant Director of the Zell Center for Risk Research at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His expertise is in the application of analytics in business, with specific emphasis to on marketing and risk management decisions. In the commercial sector he worked as a corporate strategist at Capital One Financial, where he was responsible for enterprise-wide analytics. Russell is a recognized international expert in risk management and use of analytics and data mining in credit risk management. As a recognized leader in this field, Russell has advised leading banks and insurance firms internationally. Russell holds an executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MS and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Bruce Barron – Business Advisor

Bruce is a principal in and co-founder of Origin Ventures. He serves on the Boards of Directors of ifbyphone, Experiencia and ClaimForce. Since 1985, Bruce has been involved in the management of several start-up medical technology companies. Bruce assisted in guiding these entrepreneurial, public companies through their early stages to their ultimate sales or mergers with larger companies. Bruce received a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977 and is a Certified Public Accountant.