Management and Advisors    Basil Nikas,  Chief Executive Officer              A founding partner and CEO of iNetPurchasing, Mr. Nikas has concentrated his efforts in creating strategic alliances and fostering the growth of Electronic Commerce in the public sector arena. Mr. Nikas gathered a team of top public sector purchasing professionals and Internet/database technologists to develop end-to-end Internet based public purchasing services as the next paradigm in cross agency, co-op purchasing. The iNetPurchasing Team is the leading e-procurement service provider to the state and local market serving the states of Texas, Maine and Idaho with over 2,300 vendors and hundreds of thousands of commodity items listed in its master catalog trading partner service.              In the state and local arena, Mr. Nikas served as the ITAA (Information Technology Association of America) Delegate/Board Member on the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (NECCC) and was Chairman of the ITAA State and Local Public Enterprise Electronic Commerce Committee from 1998-2001. In December 2001, Mr. Nikas was voted a lifetime status of Ex-Officio Founding Board Member of NECCC along with Carolyn Purcell, Texas state CIO.  Mr. Nikas chaired numerous committees on the NECCC such as the NECCC eProcurement and Privacy Work Groups. Mr. Nikas also serves as Co-Chair of the NIGP (National Institute of Governmental Purchasing) Supplier Advisory Council.   Mr. Nikas has spoken extensively throughout the United States on Electronic Procurement, eGovernment, Internet Privacy and Security issues.              Mr. Nikas co-authored the NECCC "Privacy Policies: Are You Prepared" - a guidebook for state and local governments, prepared the NECCC Bulletin on "The Uniform Electronic Transaction Act (UETA) and House and Senate Bills HR 1714 and S 761", and was a task force member on the NECCC publications "Electronic Commerce: A Blueprint for States" and "E-Government Strategic Planning" and "Enterprise Electronic Government." He has written the chapter on “eProcurement in State and Local Government” for an all-encompassing “primer on technology for Public Officials” which was published and distributed to over 5,000 state and local officials in December 2002 under the title “21st Century Government” and will be translated and reprinted in Japanese in January 2003.              Prior to the Internet, Mr. Nikas had, for over 15 years, established and directed project and regional procurement and operations offices in North Africa and Egypt for the General Electric Company, Aerojet General Corporation, Union Carbide and The Bechtel Power Corporation for multi-national, multi-million dollar consortium projects. His successes were founded on his vision of utilizing cutting edge technology and logically applying it to uncharted business applications.  Robin Mattern, Senior Partner, Chief Technology Officer              Mr. Mattern is a founding partner of iNetPurchasing. He brings with him an extensive career in the creation, design, and management of database structures in both the public and private sector.              Prior experience includes; serving as a partner with Creative EDI Solutions, in this capacity, Mr. Mattern built EDI-2-FAX and FAX-2-EDI services to send and receive EDI transactions for DLA vendors. This enabled vendors to manage government contracts. Mr. Mattern also designed a Marketing Intelligence System for government Information Technology contracts.  As a contractor to the Mobile Oil Corporation, he maintained a Human Resources System that included; job tracking, payroll claims for U.S. Fleets governed by three separate unions. He also provided direction, and worked on a Management Reporting System for MARINER- a vessel dispatch and cargo tracking system for foreign fleet, involving in excess of 600 Mobil-owned and chartered tankers.  Robin also served as General Manager for Electronic Data Publishing, at Baruch Defense Marketing.  In this capacity, Mr. Mattern re-engineered and implemented a system to produce, print, duplicate disks, bill, and maintain a system for the Defense Automated Bidders Service. The system was utilized by 500-plus subscribers, processed 2,000 -3,000 government requests for quotations, and distributed information daily from a database of 6 million items. He also provided the management and technical expertise to transfer these operations from a centralized system, to a client/server system. This was achieved in a period of 6 months, and included three locations.  Mr. Mattern was also a Systems Architect for the Export-Import Bank of the United States. In this capacity he implemented a data warehouse database that provided 75 separate reports for 200 users that needed information from all areas of the international loan, guarantee, and insurance programs of the bank, on the Internet.  Wayne Savage, Chief Operating Officer  Mr. Savage has extensive business development, marketing, and project management experience in the areas of integrated information systems development, using RDBMS, CASE, and GIS technology for both the private and public sectors.  He has managed projects at the highest levels developing organizational, enterprise systems, client-server systems, and operational strategies to enable major performance enhancements.  This experience includes successful management of projects to develop information systems strategies for major organizations; design, develop, implement and evaluate automated systems; efficiently integrate State and Federal environmental data; support ocean and environmental policy evaluation; promote international trade development; and develop organizational and business plans. Mr. Savage's experience includes:  Officer-in-Charge, Development and implementation of a 5 year Departmental Information Management Plan, including hardware and software components, for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources; Deputy Program Manager of a 30-person team for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for Operation and enhancement of the Verification Information System (VIS) a case management system; Project Manger - Dayton Public Schools, Managed a comprehensive Business Process Reengineering (BPR) effort for the school system;  Managed an EPA Region IV project to develop joint EPA/State GIS/GPS policies and strategies to support the hazardous site assessment program;  Project Director for the Information Management Project of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ);  Program Manager design and implementation of a remote sensing data acquisition program for development of state-wide Georgia wetlands maps using U.S. satellite multi-spectral data, raster GIS analysis, and conversion to vector format.  Internationally, Mr. Savage managed eleven definitional missions and feasibility studies for the U.S. Trade and Development Administration in Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Philippines, Venezuela and China. Jeff Davison, Technical Advisor  Mr. Davison is a Professional Engineer, certified in electrical and electronic engineering, with 20 years of Internet software and product development.  He is the author of various software products, including the popular SNMX scripting language for network management and automation, offered by Diversified Data Resources, currently in use at more than 50,000 sites worldwide. Additionally, Mr. Davison is the author of the ACE-SNMP web based management system, also offered by Diversified Data Resources, and SNMP-NMS network management system offered by Scientific Atlanta, Inc.  As well as consulting on various commercial projects, Mr. Davison has worked on various large-scale government software systems, including contract work on military simulation and training software for Lockheed Martin, flight simulators and trainers for Ferranti International Defense Systems, and the network management system for the NASA Space Shuttle Launch Facility. Mr. Davison graduated with high honors from California State University, Los Angeles.  Luiz Valdetaro, Technical Advisor  In computer circles, Mr. Valdetaro, previous CTO of Diversified Data Resources, is best known for implementing the first PC to Mainframe in Latin America in the late 1970s, he is equally known for developing a product that is now called ACE. ACE originally TPEXPERT, an expert based system written in C and assembler using HLLAPI to automate the operations of IBM mainframes was sold to Diversified Data Resources in 1991. ACE, which supplanted IBM as a competitor, is currently being used by Fortune 100 companies such as American Express, Visa, Bank of America, Prodigy, Federal Express, Singapore Airways, Thai Airways, IOM Canada, Worldspan (the reservation system for Northwest, TWA and Delta Airlines) as well as many others.  Mr. Valdetaro, a member of Who's Who Executive Club.  Prior to being CTO of Diversified Data Resources, Mr. Valdetaro was a Senior Systems Engineer for System/One. Prior to that he was a senior systems engineer for Bank of America. Mr. Valdetaro is a graduate of Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a BS in Electronic Engineering and a MS in Systems Engineering.  Jerome Svigals, eBanking Advisor  Mr. Svigals is a consultant on long-range banking and card strategies to major international banks and card companies.  He leads top management teams in preparing five-year goals and plans for their financial services and card-related products. The American Banker (the US banking industry daily) ranked him as on of the top 25 banking industry consultants.  He has been advisor to government and industry groups on electronic and card-technology trends in banking, including the US Congress and the US Treasury.  He was the first president of the PC Memory Card International Association.  He also advised on the formation of the Smart Card Forum.  Mr. Svigals served as vice-president and strategic planning officer for Bank of America.  He is a finance industry speaker, lecturer and author of books for electronic banking from Macmillan, on future planning from McGraw Hill, Branch Banking 2010 and Smart Cards 2010 from Lafferty Publications.  He writes a monthly commentary for The American Banker. Employed by IBM for 33 years, until early retirement in 1987, Mr. Svigals played a senior management role in systems, marketing and product development.  He led the teams that developed the first magnetic striped plastic cards for the banking and self-service equipment. He ran the world's first test using magnetic striped cards.  He also led the team that announced the first IBM finance subsystem and was development manager for the first IBM Automatic Teller Machine.