Jeff Hunter, President & CEO

Jeff Hunter is the founder, President, and CEO of Euphorion. Prior to Euphorion, Jeff guided Business Development, Sales, and Marketing at IntelliMatch Inc., an Internet software and service company. Jeff's previous experience includes product marketing, sales, strategic development, business development, and human resources at companies such as Resumix and Conner Peripherals. Not one to believe in a typical career path, Jeff has also served as Executive Director of Winners On Wheels, a national non-profit organization for children with disabilities. As the Vice President of Strategic Planning for the New United Way of Fresno County, he led the development of radical new approaches to community building in low-income communities. Jeff helped put himself through college (where he received a BA in Philosophy) by co-founding a marketing and advertising company which he operated for 3 years. Jeff counts among his proudest accomplishments that he convinced his wife to marry him, that he works with people he really likes, trusts and respects, and that his children still seem to like him. [email protected]

Dr. Mitchell F. Wyle, Chief Science Officer

Mitch, a co-founder of Euphorion, has twenty-seven solid years of experience in diverse computing environments along with valuable know-how in people management, software engineering and software project management. He is a leading Internet expert, well-published in both academic and trade journals. Mitch is currently writing an authoritative guide to Apache, the world's most popular web server. He has creatively and effectively led all aspects of the software development life cycle, from business planning to maintenance and operations on projects of all sizes. Throughout his career he has continually attracted, motivated, and retained the best talent in Silicon Valley. Mitch helps coach T-Ball Little League and leads a Cubscouts den. [email protected]

Ranjit Padmanabhan, Chief Technology Officer

Ranjit is an expert in the development of web-enabled database applications. He has fifteen years of experience in product development and system integration at Hewlett-Packard, Synopsys, and IntelliMatch. In addition to being a regular member of various standards committees, Ranjit is the principal author of HRML, targeted at enabling EDI for HR functions. Currently, Ranjit serves on the board of Paralogic Inc., a vendor of Java-based chat and community-builder products. None of this makes up for the fact that Ranjit is an awful keyboardist, who could not play three chords in a row if his life depended on it. [email protected]

Ruthanne Crowley, Vice President of Finance and Administration

Ruthanne began her career working as an auditor for Arthur Young & Co. (now Ernst & Young) in their Chicago and San Francisco offices. She then joined Syntex where she held a variety of positions, ultimately managing all accounting and finance functions for the International Diagnostics Marketing Division. Ruthanne left Syntex to focus on raising a young family and spent 10 years combining motherhood with a home-based business, providing accounting, tax and financial support to a wide variety of small businesses in the Bay Area. At Euphorion, Ruthanne oversees all finance and administrative functions while continuing to pursue a variety of "motherhood" activities including serving on the Boards of the PTA and Education Foundation as well as acting as the family chauffeur. [email protected]

Roger Alderson, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development Development

Roger has over ten years of experience in international marketing, all of it focused within high-technology services. He joined Euphorion from The McKenna Group, where he was a senior consultant, helping large multi-nationals, and small internet start-ups, reposition their business operations for the digital economy. Prior to The McKenna Group, Roger was with IT services giant, EDS. He joined as a Systems Engineer, but transitioned to business development early in his career. Throughout his career at EDS, he held a variety of sales and marketing positions working in multiple geographic markets including Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the United States. In his last position, Roger was Executive Director of Corporate Marketing Planning, assisting EDS business units develop comprehensive strategies for business development within both existing and entirely new markets. [email protected]