Wing Pepper oversees Modem Media's global relationship with General Motors. In that capacity, he plays a leading role in setting the strategic direction for eGM - GM's interactive division. He has initiated interactive programs to position GM though the entire customer experience including branding, shopping, retail and ownership.

Wing recently launched MyGMLink, the first digital CRM platform to focus on managing a customer's post-purchase relationship with GM. MyGMLink is designed to become the central point of contact between GM and it's customers.

Prior to joining Modem Media, Wing was General Manger of Interactive Businesses at the Rockport division of Reebok International. In that role he created the Rockport Retail Network, a full service business to business extranet for retailers to conduct all aspects of their business with Rockport online. He also created Rockport Direct, a direct purchase site for corporate employees that will exist on internal corporate networks. He also served as Director of Marketing Programs where he created sponsorships, event marketing and promotions for Rockport worldwide.

He has also worked at NW Ayer and Avrett Free & Ginsberg advertising agencies and held positions in state government in Massachusetts and as a White House Press Advanceman for the White House Press Corps.

Wing is a 1983 graduate of Middlebury College. He and his wife Evan, Middlebury '84, have two daughters named Lucy and Ella.

Elisabeth Robert was appointed President and Chief Bear Officer of The Vermont Teddy Bear Company® in 1997, after serving two years as its CFO. Under Liz's leadership, The Vermont Teddy Bear Company (NASDAQ: BEAR) has grown to $39 million in annual revenues, up from $16.5. Driving growth is expansion of the Company's radio advertising campaign to more than 125 cities nationwide and the highly successful Website www.vermontteddybear.com, which now receives 55% of all Bear-Gram orders. In 2002, Vermont Business Magazine listed The Vermont Teddy Bear Company as one of the State's ten fastest growing companies.

The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is known for its support of the community service programs and in 2001 Liz inaugurated The Vermont Student Citizen Award to recognize exceptional volunteer efforts by students of Vermont's colleges and universities.
Liz was a New England finalist in the 1999 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program. Currently she is a member of the Vermont Business Roundtable, the New England Advisory Council to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Board of Advisors for the UVM School of Business Administration, and a recently appointed trustee of Fletcher Allen Health Care.

Prior to joining The Vermont Teddy Bear Company, Liz was a founding partner of Airmouse Remote Controls, in Williston, VT; Campaign Manager for the McCarren Lieutenant Governor campaign; and a junior executive of Vermont Gas Systems. She began her career as a loan officer trainee at First National Bank of Boston.

Liz earned her BA from Middlebury College in 1978 and her Master's Degree in Business Administration from The University of Vermont in 1984. She lives in Charlotte with her two daughters, Catie (21) and Ruthie (17).

Ann Schott has worked at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, since 1993.
At Microsoft, she has managed Web sites for Windows, Internet Explorer, and a portal site (now MSN); participated in early stage business planning and marketing for a new on-screen reading application; and researched and edited Bill Gates' book, Business at the Speed of Thought.

Anne is currently a Group Manager responsible for the strategy, planning, and implementation of business solutions information on Microsoft.com.

Rich Silton has nearly 20 years senior operating executive with a record of turnarounds, market expansions, and successful startup experience. He has concentrated on applying technology solutions to industries in transformation.

Rich has been CEO of three firms in both mature and emerging environments, with strong expertise in operations, strategy, marketing and sales in both the high-tech and healthcare arenas. He was most recently CEO of Kaon Interactive, the leading provider of 3D photorealistic product imaging technologies for the Web.

Rich graduated from Middlebury in 1980, and from Harvard Business School in 1987. He is deeply committed to Middlebury, having served as President of the Alumni Association from 1999-2000. Rich is married and has three sons, ages 15, 13, and 11.

Katie Schiller is currently Director of Marketing with Fetco Home Decor, Randolph, MA, a picture frame and home accessories company with sales of $50 million.

Previous experience includes Director of Concept Development with The First Years, a juvenile products company in Avon, MA. Prior to moving back east, Katie spent four years in Brand Management with Ore-Ida Foods, an affiliate of HJ Heinz.

Katie earned her BA from Middlebury College in 1989, and here MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business with an MBA in 1995.Katie is married with two boys, Zachary (4) and Andrew (1.5).

Jeffrey Schutz joined Centennial Ventures in 1987 and is in his 19th year of direct venture capital investing. Previously Jeffrey served as Vice President and Director of PNC Venture Capital Group, an affiliate of PNC Financial.

He also served as an advisory director to the Small Business Administration.
Jeffrey earned his BA. in economics from Middlebury College in 1974, and an MBA from Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.

Jed is a fourteen-year veteran of the high technology industry, from his career at Oracle in the late 1980's to his experience launching drugstore.com in the late 1990's.

He left Oracle to become Director of Sales at Tribe Computer Works (later Whistle Communications, a networking hardware and software company later acquired by IBM). Jed then co-founded and spent four years at Cybersmith, a retail store chain that showcased the latest advances in information technology and multimedia software.

Hen then founded drugstore.com, and served on its board of directors with John Doerr, Brook Byers, Peter Neupert, Howard Schultz and Jeff Bezos.

Jed is currently the managing partner of Catamount Ventures.

Jed has been mentioned a "Web visionary" by MSNBC, "One to Watch" by The Industry Standard, and one of the top forty "most influential people on the Internet in Boston" by the Improper Bostonian. He has advised many private companies and currently serves on the board of directors of Bocada Software, Liquid Engines, IncSapias, Inc., Siterra Corporation, Grassroots Enterprise, Inc. He is also the recipient of the Albert Einstein High Technology Award presented in Israel in October 1999.

Jed earned his BA from Middlebury College in 1988 and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jim Stuart has ten years of core information technology experience, including the design, building and day-to-day administration of a top-flight data center as well as large-scale, highly available networks, systems and mission critical applications.

As Director of IT and Infrastructure at DaybreakICS, Jim Stuart is focused on building and managing reliable, secure and scalable technological infrastructure facilities and services.
Prior to joining DaybreakICS, Mr. Stuart was the Vice President for Technology at Burlee.com, and was central to leading Burlee.com from a promising startup to a successful and leading global Web hosting company.

He has also served as the Co-Director of Computing and Network Services at Middlebury College as well as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Vermont.

Outside of the technology area, Mr. Stuart serves on the Board of Directors of the Addison County Humane Society.

Jim has a BA in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from Colby College.

Chris Wraight began his career in the field of mechanical engineering and then switched gears and moved into product management and marketing roles, which allowed him to utilize his technical skills in conjunction with his innate understanding for product marketing.

For more than twenty years, Chris has held senior strategic positions in organizations such as Lotus Development Corporation.

Chris has become known within the industry as a virus expert and has appeared on national television and radio programs as well as contributed to articles in InfoWorld, SC Magazine, and SearchSecurity. He is currently a technology consultant to SOPHOS Anti-Virus, Inc.

Chris speaks regularly at security conferences and educational security forums.

Chris holds a BSC in Management and Computer Science from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

After graduating from Harvard in 1974 with a BS in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Howard C. McCausland worked at the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where he helped write software for the Einstein Observatory-the first orbiting X-ray telescope.

Finding that his talents lay more in computing than physics, Howie became a systems programmer/analyst at the Health Sciences Computing Facility at the Harvard School of Public Health for two years, before returning to the Center for Astrophysics. He remained at the CfA as its systems manager during the transition from central mainframes to distributed networked microcomputers.

Howie left the CfA late in the 1980s to become the Network Manager for Harvard University's main campus, where he helped develop a strategic vision for Harvard's next-generation high-speed data network architecture.
Howie came to Middlebury College in 1989, with a vision to build a world-class campus network, as Assistant Director of the newly-reorganized Academic Computing department,. One of his first steps was winning an NSF grant that funded the initial cost of connecting Middlebury College to what was just beginning to be widely called "the Internet".

In the years since, we built the network, the Internet became a household word, technology became an integral part of the College's life, various college reorganizations brought us to the new Library and Information Services, and somewhere along the line Howie acquired the cumbersome title Director of Network Design and Operations.