Mr. Green serves as Chief Technology Officer at Powered and brings over 12 years of experience in steering technology products from initial design to widespread commercial use. He has significant industry experience in the telecommunications, biotechnology, and e-commerce technology sectors.

At Powered, Mr. Green drives the technology vision and directs all aspects of product design, architecture, and development. His expertise, gained through leadership roles in five startup companies, lies in managing the iterative process of new product development to meet market demands.

Mr. Green holds two software patents in DNA identification and has an established record of building and maintaining large, high-performance development teams.

Bringing more to his role than engineering abilities, his business operations and marketing knowledge allow him to serve as a liaison between engineering, product marketing, and strategic initiatives to anticipate and exceed customer expectations.

Prior to joining Powered, Mr. Green led engineering efforts at several well-known e-commerce companies, including Question Technologies and Living.com. At Orillion, a leader in telecommunications monitoring systems, he led development and deployment of its distributed management systems at some of the world's largest carriers, including WorldCom and KDDI. One of the first employees at Visible Genetics, he helped build it into a publicly traded company (VGIN) and leader in the emerging field of pharmacogenomics.

Ron Green has a B.A. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas, Austin and an MSC in Adaptive Systems from the University of Sussex, England

Chris Pacitti is a general partner at Austin Ventures, the lead venture capital firm for Powered. Mr. Pacitti joined Austin Ventures in 1999 and focuses on software investing. Previously, Chris was with TL Ventures, where he was a vice president. Prior to TL Ventures, Chris was a co-founder and chief operating officer of a technology start-up company that pioneered several industrial applications for a novel oxidizing chemistry.

Chris received his BA in economics from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Microsoft Venture Capital Advisory Board and the Entrepreneur's Foundation Board.

Dean Wiltse brings 30 years of knowledge and expertise in the marketing and technology industries. Mr. Wiltse spent the last four years as CEO and President of Greenfield Online. Under Wiltse's leadership, Greenfield delivered and sustained an organic growth rate of greater than 70% per year, reached $90 million run rate in 2005 revenues and $21 million in EBITDA, and completed a successful IPO in July 2004. During his tenure at Greenfield Online, Wiltse led Greenfield's strategic shift from a custom marketing research company to an online data and technology company. Under his leadership, Greenfield established the largest community of global online panels, communities, and affiliates, and was a key enabler for the custom marketing research industry to leverage the Internet for surveys and data collection. In recognition of his accomplishments, Wiltse was nominated as the Ernst & Young 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year and nominated by Research Magazine as the "Marketing Research Industry CEO of the Year" for 2005.

Prior to Dean's four years with Greenfield, he served as president of the software division at Engage, Inc. His leadership resulted in the development of online profiling and ad-serving technology — an industry first — that enabled tailoring and targeting online marketing based on individual's specific interests and online behavior. Dean also held senior level positions at Avid and Vivo Software, purchased by Real Networks in 1998.