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Chad Barden is a self-proclaimed “serial - entrepreneur” with a very diverse professional career. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Purdue University. Following his graduation, he held positions in the insurance and banking industries with Gibson Insurance Group and 1st Source Bank in Northern Indiana. During the late 1990’s, his career path followed a similar path to others in that time as he dove head first into the technology industry. As a product manager, he successfully launched a new product licensing the MasterLock brand name for Fortres Grand Corporation, a security software company in Plymouth, Indiana.
During his time at Fortres Grand, his consulting activities with other high-tech startups led him to leave Fortres and co-found Nuron, Inc. Nuron was a hardware company originally based in South Bend, Indiana, but quickly grew to have offices in New Jersey and Silicon Valley, California. Just one year after founding that company, it was sold to Intel Corporation. Mr. Barden moved to San Diego, California to work for Intel as a Business Development Manager, focusing his efforts on technology licensing, strategic supplier agreements, and mergers and acquisitions for the Network Equipment Division. The technology purchased from Nuron was spun out from Intel as another new venture known as Tarari. He ran the business development organization for Tarari and then became interim CEO of Tarari’s largest customer, National Broadband.
Upon successfully filling the permanent top executive position at National Broadband with the former CEO of High Speed Access, Inc., he assumed the role of Executive Director of Crossroads Academy in Plymouth, Indiana. Crossroads is a Lilly Foundation funded technology learning center and incubator for emerging technology oriented companies. While assisting Crossroads, he co-founded IN-Vivo Ventures, a venture group focused on harvesting new research technologies from midwestern research universities and creating commercially viable companies based on those technologies.
As part of his role with In-Vivo Ventures, Barden has assumed the full-time role of CEO of Quadraspec, an IN-Vivo portfolio company. Quadraspec is a protein-array company focused on the drug development and diagnostics market segments.
Chad has held numerous positions with not-for-profit organizations. He has served as Chairman of the American Red Cross of Marshall County, as Large Industry Chair for the Marshall County United Way, was a founding member of the Crossroads Technology Group that eventually established Crossroads Academy, and served as Chairman of the Michiana Venture Network, an organization focused on matching local entrepreneurs with local investors. He now sits on the board of the Venture Club of Indiana and on the entrepreneurial advisory committee for BioCrossroads.
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Kurt Schernekau, In the IT industry since 1983. Has been a Programmer, Manager of IT, Engineer, Trainer, Consultant and Sales Executive. Worked in the Insurance and Mortgage Banking industry. Moved into the Computer reseller world as an engineer, then became a trainer for Novell solutions. Worked as a Consultant in the Indianapolis area, then moved to Novell as a Sales Executive. Now working for an Indianapolis based Networking Consultant selling IT solutions in Identity Management, and networking solutions.
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Kathy Davis is Chief Executive Officer of Global Access Point, a company in South Bend, Indiana that helps its customers connect to the world and compete in the global marketplace through cutting edge technologies. The company operates two data centers in South Bend, which allow businesses and schools to store and send data on high-capacity fiber-optic lines.
Ms. Davis was also the first woman to hold the Indiana Lieutenant Governor's office where she was the Director of the Indiana Department of Commerce and the Chair of the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund. Ms. Davis also spent four years as Controller for the City of Indianapolis; managed the start-up of the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund; served as Secretary for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration; served as State Budget Director; served as Deputy Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Transportation; and worked for Cummins, Inc. of Columbus, Indiana, where she managed assembly and shipping operations. Ms. Davis has undergraduate degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's degree from Harvard Business School.
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