Advisors

James Adams

James is the Chairman of ADRevolution and CEO of the Adams Strategy Group which provides strategic planning, direction and advice to the private sector and government agencies. He was the CEO of United Press International and the founder, Chairman and CEO of iDEFENSE a cyber-intelligence organization with clients in the intelligence community, the government and Fortune 100 companies. He is a former Managing Editor of the London Sunday Times and a former member of the National Security Agency’s Advisory Board. He is the author of 14 bestselling books on terrorism, intelligence and covert warfare.

He is married to Renee and has two daughters, Ella and Grace. He lives on a ranch in Ashland, Oregon where he keeps bees, chickens, cattle and runner ducks. He is an enthusiastic member of the Ashland Rowing Club.

Ben Bellinson

Ben Bellinson is the founder and CEO of Bellinson & Company (www.bellinson.com), a consulting and research firm with an emphasis on marketing and advertising partnerships and long-term business relationship management. The company's clients include The Walt Disney Company, ESPN Customer Marketing & Sales, NBC Universal, Liberty Media/Ascent Media Group, TransCanada and Bonneville Power Administration.

Ben works with BlueStone Partners, which is a management consulting firm focused on assisting companies accelerate growth, and MarkteShare Partners, a strategic marketing firm that leverages the most sophisticated form of market response econometrics available to objectively study and then develop dramatic improvements in resource and marketing allocation, mix and integration strategies.

Previously, Ben was director of external affairs at the J. Paul Getty Trust. At the Getty he was responsible for brand management, planning and brand research; he managed the Trust's advertising strategy and planning. Mr. Bellinson was senior vice president of product management and marketing at CareerPath.com, at the time the second most visited career Web site. He was part of a three-person team (CEO and CFO), who together with the company's board representative, successfully sold CareerPath.com to CareerBuilder.

Prior to joining CareerPath.com, Mr. Bellinson spent 12 years at The Walt Disney Company in progressively responsible roles. He was vice president of network programming at Disney TeleVentures; director of business development at The Walt Disney Company, Corporate Alliances; and director of national accounts at The Disney Channel. Earlier he worked at Lifetime Cable Television as a Marketing Manager.

Ben has a Bachelor of Arts from University of California Berkeley and was a fellow with the CORO Foundation. He is currently vice president of the Ashland Schools Foundation and vice president of Temple Emek Shalom. He lives with his wife, Linda, and their children Ryan and Hannah, in Ashland, Oregon.

Ryan Koonce

Ryan is the Founder & CEO at Westlake Products, Inc. Founder & President at Scuba Holdings, LLC, Founder & VP Products at Popular Media, Inc. Founder & President at Wow Direct, Inc. and General Manager at Jumpstart Technologies, LLC. Professional experience spans entrepreneurial endeavors in businesses that leverage technology to maximize ROI. Current focus is monetizing the relationships consumers have with each other.

Ryan enjoys scuba diving, traveling, snowboarding, angel investing, starting new companies, and working with smart entrepreneurs to change the world

Lynn Radlauer Lubell

Lynn Radlauer Lubell has extensive experience in corporate & business development, strategy, marketing and process improvement. Lynn is the Founder of Phrazorp LLC an Internet start-up focused on lead generation and building consumer relationships with valued content.

Prior to April 2008 Lynn was SVP of Corporate Development at TheUseful (a World Avenue Company), an online direct marketing company specializing in performance-based advertising solutions, where she was responsible for industry partnerships and strategic development.

Lynn began her career as a systems analyst at Procter & Gamble before joining Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm specializing in corporate strategy. Later, she was Vice President at EtchStone Incorporated a technology start-up developing wireless data capture technology and web-based information-sharing services, where she was responsible for business strategy, marketing & partnerships. As Marketing & Client Services Director for Claims Verification, a leading insurance services company, she developed systems to streamline sales, marketing and customer relationship management.

Ms. Lubell earned an SB degree from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has held and currently holds leadership and fundraising positions for various not-for-profit community and educational organizations including the MIT Education Council where she is responsible for interviewing prospective students. She is married, with two children, and resides in Boca Raton, Florida.

John Oberg

John Oberg is the CEO of Alignment Executive Coaching which helps companies develop effective management to execute strategic goals successfully. He is also a partner in MarketSense, Inc, which creates highly trained sales forces. His current clients includes Fortune 100 companies and start ups.

Before choosing to give back to the business community, John had one of the most successful careers in the sales and marketing business in America. In 11 years with VMC (a wholly owned subsidiary of ALCAS) as Division Manager, he set sales records helping the company grow from $30 Million in sales to over $300 Million. In his final 4 years he led an organization of over 1,000 people to 80% growth, a company record.

John was born and raised in Los Angeles and lives in Austin, TX. John obtained his MBA from the University of New Mexico. He has 2 children: Ellie age 5 and Van age 3, and a dog named Schatzie. In his spare time, John is a martial arts instructor, and he enjoys wake boarding, snowboarding and scuba diving.

Gail Papermaster

Gail Papermaster is the founder and Managing Director of Striata Group, LLC, an Austin, Texas based business and marketing strategy consulting firm, and also represents clients in a variety of corporate, contract and general business matters as an attorney with her own law firm. She was a partner and co-head of the Austin corporate practice of the international law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani and was previously with the Houston office of Baker & Hostetler, prior to starting her own practice and consulting business.

Throughout much of her career, she has worked primarily with entrepreneurs, closely-held start-up and early-stage technology companies, and emerging growth companies well as venture capital and private equity groups and individual angel investors in a broad variety of industries including real estate, health care, gaming and energy.

Gail has overseen legal and operational startup and growth of numerous companies, and has handled over $1 billion in combined equity and debt financing. Gail holds an M.B.A. from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and a J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

Gail is known as a behind-the-scenes connector of business and community leaders locally, statewide and nationally. She is active in a number of community and civic organizations and has volunteered with, served on the board of and/or informally advised a number of Austin area nonprofits, including the Austin Guitartown Project, Austin Music Foundation, American Youthworks, Austin Children’s Museum and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, where she is Past President and current board member. Gail is a graduate of the 2002-2003 Class of Leadership Austin

Bob Perkins

Bob is President of Consensus Research (http://consensusresearch.com/). He was President of the Chiat/Day New York advertising agency. He has held senior marketing and communication positions with the US chamber of Commerce and Calvin Klein, and served as Finance Director of the Republican National Committee.

Dave Russell

Dave is Director of Interactive and Digital media at GSD&M in Austin TX. He leads a team of 20 + Interactive Media professionals that take great pride in bringing the best digital media solutions to their clients. Dave’s team is responsible for all Interactive/Digital media planning and buying for MasterCard, NCL, BMW, AARP and the U.S. Air Force.

Dave has been in the advertising business for 15+ years and joined GSD&M from TM Advertising in Dallas. He has also worked at Euro RSCG DSW Partners and Wieden & Kennedy. Dave has spent his career working on some of the biggest brands in the world including Microsoft, Intel, Nike, American Airlines, Nationwide Insurance and many others

Dave is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Business Management.