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ebrary Team   Executive Staff Board of Directors Advisory Board Executive Staff Christopher Warnock CEO and CTO   Prior to co-founding ebrary, Warnock consulted at Stanford University, where he helped develop a method in which University Presses could implement an electronic workflow solution for electronic distribution of publications. He also provided feasibility research for Octavo Corporation, which publishes and preserves rare books and manuscripts using advanced digital tools and formats. From 1991-1996, he worked at Adobe Systems as a systems engineer, project manager, and product marketing manager for Adobe Acrobat. Warnock holds a B.S. in Philosophy from the University of Utah. Kevin Sayar President Prior to co-founding ebrary, Sayar worked with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), considered the U.S. leader in high technology start-up representation, to provide legal research and analysis on corporate securities litigation, intellectual property and technology transactions. While attending law school, Sayar was an independent consultant to start-up businesses in early stage development. He specialized in strategic market penetration, business development and copyright issues on the Internet. Sayar holds a J.D. from California Western School of Law and a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. David Bass Senior VP of Sales and Marketing Bass has an 11-year history in the digital information and software industries, with an extensive background in sales, business development, and product marketing. He has been with several start-up and large public companies, and has helped raise over $20M in financing for various private and public organizations through venture capital, private equity and angel investors. Prior to joining ebrary, Bass worked with several Fortune 1000 and mid-market companies including Apple, Delta Printing, Bdellium, Broadcast Mobile, Overdrive, and LockStream, to define sales and business development plans, product marketing and strategic marketing plans, and new product and financing strategies. Bass was previously founder and CEO of Dynamic Health Concepts, a multimedia software company, where he successfully produced and marketed a number of software products into the consumer health and wellness marketplace. After the sale of Dynamic Health Concepts to Ziff Davis, Bass served in several senior management positions within business development, corporate development and strategic marketing for Thomson (IAC-GALE), FitnessAge, Reciprocal Inc. (acquired by Microsoft), and Macromedia (MACR). Mohamad Al-Baghdadi VP International Sales Al-Baghdadi is an experienced entrepreneur and the founder of the Mid-East Environmental Trading Company Ltd. (METCO). Prior to joining ebrary, he led METCO in marketing U.S. environmental technologies in the Middle East and Africa. Under his leadership, METCO grew from a one-man operation to a company with direct and affiliate offices in fourteen countries in the Middle East and Africa. Its activities ranged from importing and marketing energy efficient industrial lighting to developing and managing government funded solid waste treatment plants. After selling the business in 1998 to Al Ershadia, a Saudi Arabian holding company with subsidiaries throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia, he remained as Managing Director. In 1999 Al-Baghdadi was appointed Vice President of Business Development for Al Ershadia and CEO of its US venture arm, Zain Technology Ventures. Al-Baghdadi holds a B.S. in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management. Christopher Radcliffe VP Engineering Radcliffe leads the product development and delivery process at ebrary, balancing entrepreneurial drive with technical management method. He brings 20 years’ strength of direct experience in our key technologies: very large databases, internet delivery of complex content, and digital rights management. Prior to joining ebrary, he led technical development and engagement management for Journeyman Software, an Internet consultancy which he co-founded, specializing in web-enabled data warehousing and strategic/technical assessment. Radcliffe was formerly VP of Network Platform Engineering with iBEAM Broadcasting, a streaming content delivery network, leading development and deployment of advanced edge delivery services via satellite multicast as well as terrestrial networks. This was one of the largest, highest-throughput streaming networks ever built. He has also held senior management and software development positions with Informix, NeXT and InterTrust. He has contributed directly to development of object oriented technologies, application frameworks and Internet application platforms, and shares key patents on embedded content protection. Radcliffe holds an M.A. in Economics from The Claremont Graduate School, and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Tom Santos VP Advanced Technologies With more than 13 years of experience, Santos is an expert in the fields of dynamic web development and advanced software engineering, with a deep knowledge of key technologies and software engineering issues such as code-reuse and maintainability. Prior to joining ebrary, Santos was a key contributor to the team developing the Java Developer Kit (JDK) at Sun Microsystems. His responsibilities included developing technologies related to Java GUI toolkits as well Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology. Santos previously worked on Apple's Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ) as well as next-generation Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. He also spent several years working at Taligent, an Apple/IBM joint venture, developing a technologically advanced object-oriented operating system. Early in his career Santos worked on a diverse set of technical projects that included a commercial object-oriented toolkit for solving complex, non-linear equations using genetic algorithms. Neal Strickberger VP Operations Strickberger brings 25 years of experience in technology development, deployment, management and operations. His hands-on, results oriented leadership combines a broad spectrum of systems, software, networking and process knowledge to deliver aggressive and cost-effective solutions. Strickberger began his career as a software developer at age 6, starting with machine language on Wang systems, moving to early personal computers, then to the team creating the first network laser printers at Xerox Corp. Prior to joining ebrary, he held management positions at Xerox, TRW and Adobe Systems with responsibilities ranging from managing OEM software deployment relationships, technology transfer in Brazil, server manufacturing in Japan, and dynamic document software strategy. He also owned a security systems company in Los Angeles and has been a management consultant for several Silicon Valley technology companies. Chris Palma VP of Content Development Formerly Executive Director, Publisher Relations and Content Operations at ebrary, Palma is now responsible for all content product development, content licensing, and publisher relations. Prior to joining ebrary, he spent 15 years in University Press publishing, including over a decade at Harvard University Press, where he was Sales Director. Palma held committee-level positions in both the Association of American University Presses, and the Association of American Publishers. He also worked in sales and business development for Contentguard, Inc., an emerging eBook technology company. Palma holds a B.A. in economics from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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