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John A. John brings a wealth of experience in management, consulting, financial services and software development across multiple industries in both domestic and international operations. He provides advisory services to startup and evolving technology companies and advice to Presidents and Chief Executives about the business of managing Information Technology so that the company gains competitive advantage from its investments. John served as President and CEO of Cayenne Software, Incorporated and managed the sale of Cayenne to Sterling Software. He also served as President of FJA-US, a subsidiary of FJA AG. He converted the firm to a product development and sales organization - selling the "Product Machine" to MassMutual, US Healthcare and other major carriers. For 25 years, John served as the most senior Information Systems executive with Unum Corporation, MCI, Citibank, New York Stock Exchange, Reynolds Metals and the Midwest Stock Exchange. The readers of InformationWeek selected John as CIO-of-the-Year in 1990. John organized his consulting company to provide management, marketing and technology expertise to startup and emerging firms. Clients included Sun Life of Canada who reengineered its US operations based on John’s recommendations; CleverSoft, which was founded by Unum employees to exploit technology developed there to manage distributed networks. CleverSoft grew quickly in its first two years, was sold to Candle Corporation and its investors received 3-fold returns. BTC also fostered the formation of Common Census, Incorporated, which is growing, profitable and delivering employee benefit management solutions for group insurance and worksite products. John has extensive experience as a CEO. In 1999, John was recruited as President of FJA-US, Incorporated the American subsidiary of FJA AG, an actuarial consulting and software development firm based in Munich, Germany. He developed the strategy and converted the software development subsidiary into a product development firm with Java-based solutions for insurance companies. Gerald H. Gerald is a consultant, an educator, and an author. He consults with senior executives on issues of strategy, organization, operations management and controls. His field of expertise is the management of information technology. He consults with senior executives on all aspects of information technology management, always with the goal of making information technology effective and profitable for its users. His clients have included IBM Global Services, Ameritech, Journal Sentinel Company, AFLAC, Foote Cone and Belding, and other well known companies. His wide and varied background provides him with an almost unique perspective on the issues facing all organizations in the rapidly evolving information age.

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