Mark A. Nagaitis - CEO

Mark brings over 20 years experience in engineering, marketing and executive positions at global technology providers and successful startups.

Prior to co-founding 7 Billion People, Mark was Vice President of Marketing at Conformative Systems, an XML acceleration company which was acquired by Intel in 2005. Previously, as Worldwide Director of Marketing for Hewlett-Packard's Infrastructure and NAS Division, Mark helped develop and run a critical business for HP in the Storage market.

Mark has also held executive positions in Compaq's Server Division, helping start and ramp the Appliance Server business to a market leadership position. He has also held marketing and engineering positions at Sun Microsystems, Tandem Computers and, in Europe, at ICL.

Mark's key focus throughout his career has been in identifying new markets and developing and introducing ground-breaking products into those markets.

Trevor Pokorney - COO

With over 20 years experience in the technology and scientific industries, Trevor brings strong operations experience at senior roles in rapidly growing startup and Fortune 500 environments.

Prior to co-founding 7 Billion People, Trevor was Vice President of Operations at Conformative Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Intel in 2005. Previously, as SVP of Operations, he helped grow Newisys, an enterprise server company, from startup to exit in just 4 years. Newisys was acquired by Sanmina-SCI in 2003. Trevor also served in executive positions at Living.com and Semiconductor Products Manufacturing.

Trevor is a seasoned, successful entrepreneur with experience at established and startup technology companies. He is an operational expert with key skills in developing and growing companies.

Bill Minnis - Chief Scientist

With over 40 years experience in theoretical and practical psychology, Bill is responsible for defining the science used in 7 Billion People's products.

As a practicing behavioral scientist, Bill spent years observing the effects of language on people and their behaviors. In the 1980s, he specialized in the emerging science of linguistics and began to extend, refine and develop those ideas specifically around the use of language and resultant buying behaviors.

As founder of Performance Advantage, Inc. a consulting and training company, Bill provided services to Fortune 500 companies enabling them to better communicate with their customers through face-to-face sales and traditional marketing techniques. These customers saw increases in top-line revenues ranging from 10-150%.

Bill is now adapting these proven methods to Internet communication via his involvement in 7 Billion People.

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