About Prolifiq

Jeff Gaus is the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board member of Prolifiq Software. He is responsible for articulating and overseeing the execution of the company’s growth strategy. Under his leadership, the company continues to experience year-on-year growth and entered the Life Sciences market.

Gaus has been with the company since 2002. Prior to his current role, he led the company’s business development, marketing and sales activities having initiated relationships with Prolifiq’s largest customers and partners.

Gaus is a veteran of the telecommunications industry having served as the VP of Marketing, eCommerce, with eFusion/ITXC, the world's leading VoIP services provider and was responsible introducing a telephony SaaS model. Prior to eFusion/ITXC, Gaus was Executive Director of NEC Business Network Solutions responsible for the Healthcare, Education and Government sectors in North America. Gaus pioneered the use of computer telephony integration (CTI) in the healthcare industry and achieved double-digit market share growth.

Gaus has designed several communications protocols and has co-authored two United States patents: one for VoIP and the other for electronic message management - the core of Prolifiq's platform. Gaus completed his education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Marketing and executive leadership at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration.

As COO for Prolifiq, Jeff is responsible for all operational aspects of the company including: customer on-boarding, customer support, maintaining service level agreements, data center operations, quality assurance and internal systems operations.

Jeff has over 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry and early stage technology companies. His experience includes driving several technology company acquisitions and sales. Previously Jeff lead the customer operations and information technology teams at Clearwire, the leading provider of WiMax broadband services. Prior to Clearwire, he was responsible for Terabeam operations; including new product development, engineering, manufacturing and quality control. Prior to joining Terabeam, Jeff was with AT&T Wireless/McCaw Cellular where he was Vice President of Software Development and was responsible for development and national deployment of several industry leading applications. Jeff also served as a consultant with Accenture where he specialized in telecommunications and financial services applications in the United States and Europe. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from UC Berkeley.

As CMO for Prolifiq, Neil drives Prolifiq’s strategic marketing initiatives and manages the expansion of Prolifiq’s products and services. Neil is a seed investor in Prolifiq, and has been with the company since the "garage days" in 1999. Since that time he has been a major contributor to the company's overall success.

Earlier in his career, Neil managed the development and introduction of new products for GE, Tandem Computers, Intel, and numerous other clients during his consulting career with Accenture and The Pringle Company. Just prior to joining Prolifiq, Neil helped Rosen Products enter the mobile video entertainment system market and grow into a $100M category leader in just two years. Neil has held board positions with two companies that were developed and sold successfully. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State and an MBA from the University of Portland.

Jim joined Prolifiq in July 2001 where he led the company through its early development stage and currently oversees the operations and development of finance, accounting, human resources, investor relations and general administration.

Jim has over 30 years of broad-based executive management and operations experience in private and public technology businesses, responsible for bottom-line P&L performance. Prior to Prolifiq, Jim was Vice President/Digital Media Services with Loudeye, a leading provider of digital media solutions, where he directed all aspects of audio/video encoding and media management operations. He was instrumental in ramping production revenues over 300% in less than 2 years. Prior to Loudeye, Jim was Vice President/GM of the Assembly Products Group for Johnson Matthey Electronics, a producer of interconnect materials for semiconductor and electronic assembly. Before his most recent roles, Jim held several key operations executive and management positions over 20 years with Mitsubishi Silicon America, Intel and Xerox corporations.

He holds a B.S Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, and has previously served as a Board director for Mitsubishi Silicon America, an ultra-pure silicon wafer manufacturer, and as an advisor for Entomo, an on-demand channel management provider.

As Vice President of Life Sciences for Prolifiq, Maureen is responsible for strategic leadership and definition of our products, services, and strategy for the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotech space. She is focused on providing industry-leading SaaS applications for multimedia, mobile content messaging and mobile field inventory tracking in the increasingly complex regulatory and legal environment surrounding these medical sectors.

Maureen Shaffer brings more than 20 years of experience marketing complex medical technologies working with industry-leading medical device companies. Most recently, she was vice president of marketing at InSet Technologies, Inc., a developer of implantable pumps for targeted intraspinal drug delivery to treat chronic pain. Prior to that, Maureen was vice president of marketing at AtriCure, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed pioneer in minimally invasive cardiac ablation. At both companies, she was a Prolifiq customer. Maureen's extensive career includes launching the first angioplasty balloon with Cordis Corporation; introducing a market-changing product to replace vascular sutures at United States Surgical as director of marketing; and bringing to market more than 100 minimally invasive cardiac surgery devices at Heartport, Inc. She holds a BS in biomedical engineering from Duke University.

Kirby Dyess is currently the Principal in Austin Capital Management LLC where she evaluates, invests in, and assists early stage companies in the Pacific Northwest. Until 2003 Kirby was a corporate vice president of Intel Corporation; her latest assignment was as director of operations for Intel Capital where she was responsible for 50 acquisitions and their integration and managed a portfolio of over 400 companies worldwide. She held a variety of positions during her 23 years with Intel including Vice President and Director of Human Resources and Vice President New Business Development. She served as President of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education for 5 years and was a member of the OHSU Board. She currently chairs the Board of Prolifiq Software Corporation and serves as a director for Compli, AISI, Itron, VIA Systems, and PGE.

Mike is a former Chairman of the company and is a founder and Chairman of Albina Community Bank. Mike is the retired President of PacifiCorp Holdings, a subsidiary of PacifiCorp, which held the Company's investments in telecommunications, alternative energy, independent power generation and financial services. He also served in executive positions in many of these subsidiaries from 1991 through 1998. He was CEO of Crescent Foods from 1986 through 1991. Previously Mike led the management consulting practice in the Pacific Northwest for Deloitte Haskins & Sells during his seventeen year career in Public Accounting. He has served on many Boards during his eclectic career, including Longview Fibre, Tazo Tea and Veris Industries prior to their sale. He currently serves on the Board of North Pacific Group, a building products distributor. Mike is a founding investor in Prolifiq and has also invested in and coached management of many small high growth businesses.

Roger is a founding investor and previous Chairman of the board of directors for the company. Roger is a principal in The Pringle Company (TPC). TPC is a well-known executive search and management consulting firm, which Roger founded and serves as President. Roger also serves on the boards of directors of OraSure Technologies, Inc. and North Pacific Group, and on an Advisory Board for Tsongas Litigation Consulting. Roger previously served on the boards (fiduciary or advisory) of West One Bancorp, Bank of the Northwest, Rosen Products, Berwind Industries, Systran Financial Services, Agritope, Inc., Epitope, Inc., and Veris Industries.

Irving is the Chairman and CEO of Genesis Financial Solutions (GFS). A veteran of retail financial services, Irving founded Renaissance Holdings, Inc. and was the Chairman of Renaissance and its Orchard Bank subsidiary. He was also the founder of the country's first single-purpose credit card bank, First Consumer's National Bank. Irving previously consulted for Arthur D. Little and Company and held several management positions with Visa International. He holds a number of Board and Advisor positions with entrepreneurial companies and non-profit organizations.

Chris Gibbons is an experienced technologist having held multiple executive positions at Microsoft including CIO and headed Microsoft's global Office 2000 marketing program for enterprises. Chris was the CTO and a board member of eStara Corp until it was acquired by ATG. He also advised Texas Pacific Group on technology investments. Previously Chris was the CIO for Promus Corp and served as VP Finance for its Holiday Inn division. He serves on a variety of boards and in advisory positions for technology and private equity companies.

Jim is currently the President of Slacker, a pioneer in the new personal radio market. Previously, he has led two startups to annual revenues of more than $100 million and successfully led established publicly held companies. The majority of Jim's career has been spent in consumer electronics where Jim was President of Rio Digital Audio, a digital music industry pioneering company whose core technology has been recognized as one of the 100 Most Important Developments by the Consumer Electronics Association. While CEO at Rio, Jim grew sales from zero to over $150 million in a three year period, before selling the company to SONICblue. Prior to Rio, Jim was a group President at Diamond Multimedia, and EVP & COO at Supra Corporation. Jim's honors include a "Silver Anvil Award" from the Public Relations Society of America for best consumer products marketing campaign for Rio Digital Audio and over 150 best product awards globally during his career. Jim holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Portland State University.

Linda Ranz joined Prolifiq's Board of Directors in May of 2008 and provides strategic marketing insight to Prolifiq. Linda currently manages a $9M capital campaign for Medical Teams International. She also serves as Director for Harambe Development, a nonprofit intent on providing medical and dental services to the people of Masindi, Uganda. Prior to joining Medical Teams International, Linda held various senior level positions at Getty Images, Inc. including Senior Vice President Technology, Senior Vice President Customer Experience, Vice President Marketing, and Vice President of Business Development. Prior to joining Getty Images, Linda held various positions in both business development and carrier relations in startup companies in the wireless industry. Linda holds a Bachelor's Degree from Western Washington University and a Master's Degree from Seattle University.

Daniel Brody is the Founder and President/CEO of Health Data Services. As CEO, Mr. Brody is responsible for the development of corporate strategy, marketing, and hiring of salaried personnel. He also serves as Manager of Greenwood Partners, LLC. Recently, Mr. Brody became an adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering.

Previous to founding Health Data Services in 1988, Mr. Brody was employed by Federated Department Stores and Brody Brothers, Inc. Mr. Brody also was a member of the faculty of Indiana University(PA) where he taught marketing for seven years. Among other professional experiences, Mr. Brody consulted for Unisys Corporation; served for many years on the Board and as a member of the Executive Committee of Insmed, Inc., a publicly traded biotech company; and served as a member of the Board of the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance (Virginia Medicaid) from 1994 through 2002 and was Chairman of that Board from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Brody is also a member of the University of Virginia's 2020 Strategic Planning Committee. Mr. Brody is a 1973 graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in Economics. In 1975, Mr. Brody earned a Masters degree in Business Administration from New York University.