Board of Directors and Mangement Team Backgrounds:

Board of Directors
Billy White- Director, Chairman
Former Netscape Director for Telecommunications Markets
David Coleman- Director, KM & GroupWare Advisor
Founder of Collaborative Strategies, GroupWare expert, author of GroupWare books.
Chris Mentzel- Director, VP, Secretary
Founder of Speedlane Inc., Privatizer, Lasec
Dean LaCoe- Director
Vice President of Marketing for Motion Analysis
Bill Atkinson -Technical Advisor (advisory board)
Principal Apple Computer Developer (Lisa & Macintosh); developer of HyperCard, Quickdraw, MacPaint; founding general partner of General Magic-MagicLink
Michael Heumann - Founder, President, Director
Founder, Videosource.com, Sonoma Video Production, and Special Interest Video; interactive education specialist.

Management Team
Michael Heumann - Founder, President, Director
Founder, Videosource.com, Sonoma Video Production, and Special Interest Video; interactive education specialist
Keith Cooley CTO, VP, Product Development
Software Developer - Founder, Coolware, Palo Alto Ca.
Bill Mitchell- CFO, Investor Relations 
VP, CFO, Hammon, Jensen, Wallen & Assoc. CFO, Wahler Assoc.
Carol Snider- UI Design, QA Testing, Alliance Liaison
Educational Software Designer, Disney, Humongous
Miles Kurland- Webmaster, Graphic Designer
Owner, Kurland Digital
Rosalind Robinson- Operations Manager

Legal Representation:
White & Lee LLP, Palo Alto  Corporate Law & Finance 
Sawyer Law Group, Palo Alto  Intellectual Property

The Company

KnowledgeFilter^tm Inc. ("the Company") was incorporated as a California C Corporation in July 1999. The Company has developed a proprietary knowledge-sharing platform that provides Internet businesses with a new set of tools for building loyal on-line communities while automatically generating valuable Website content. As the concept of self-organizing, peer to peer, knowledge-sharing communities and collaborative knowledge filtering catches on, KnowledgeFilter, Inc. expects to be a prime acquisition target for numerous high-profile Internet companies. 

Datamonitor, Inc., a New York research firm estimates that revenue from "self-organizing knowledge-sharing" sites could rise from $ 108 million this year to $ 6.77 billion by 2005. The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2000. 

The Technology (software patent pending 1999)

KnowledgeFilter, Inc.ís self-organizing user-generated content engine works like a large-scale, peer to peer "word-of-mouth" process, allowing users to compare notes with hundreds or thousands of people in order to sahre knowledge and to find out what might be "true" or effective in virtually any area of human knowledge or experience. The software can be used to collaboratively generate new knowledge in specialized fields as well as to combine, organize and access existing bodies of knowledge or opinion. The Company has developed a simple and intuitive "Knowledge Navigation Console" format that is positioned to become the de facto standard for future knowledge-sharing communities and applications. 
 

Directors, Officers and Management Team backgrounds

Michael Heumann, Founder, President , CEO
Michael Heumann has a long history of being at the forefront of pioneering technologies. His Special Interest Video was one of the first companies to use the home video medium to deliver informational content. An award-winning Producer/Director, he launched 3M into the video software market with the Sportsman's Video Collection in 1982. He has since produced dozens of instructional and documentary programs selling well over 1 million units into the home video market. He founded the state-of-the-art Sonoma Video Productions facility in 1979 and managed its eight employees until 1991 when he sold the company. Many of his award-winning travel programs have aired worldwide on the Discovery Channel. In 1994, he took his company, Global Village Stock Footage onto the Internet as videosource.com, becoming the first company to have a searchable footage database on the Internet. Global Village was among the first media companies to use computerized database technology to manage media collections. An educator by training, he has spent the last five years developing KnowledgeCenter Software. BS Science Sonoma State University, Post Secondary Teaching Certificate.

Bill Atkinson, Technical Advisor 
Bill was a principal member of the original Macintosh team at Apple Computer, where he designed much of the user interface and wrote the original QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard software before leaving to help design personal communicators at General Magic. Bill's visionary genius has been instrumental in the creation of key aspects of the computer and Internet revolution of the 80's and 90's. The development of HTML and the Web itself owes much to the hypertext linking and user-friendly programming elements pioneered in Bill's HyperCard program. The Microsoft Windows interface is based largely on the Quickdraw graphical interface technology that Bill helped develop. The computer graphics revolution itself emerged from Bill's invention of the first easy-to-use computer graphics program, MacPaint.

Chris Mentzel, Director, VP, Secretary
Chris Mentzel is currently President and CEO for Speedlane, Inc. As the founder of Speedlane, Chris Mentzel's primary duties are to lead the marketing effort and guide the group in the creation, development, and finding of new products. Speedlane is an Internet utility marketing company that has generated over $800,000 in sales, returning a profit in just over eight months of business with its first product. Speedlane is the fifth most popular downloaded Internet utility. Chris has launched a fast-track marketing company that is now independently managed, and will release a stable of similar products over the next one to two years. He is now available to devote considerable time to development of the KnowledgeCenter Software technology. Chris Mentzel achieved early success as founder and CEO of Lasec GmbH, Germanyís first CD-ROM software development company. In 1991 he sold the company for approximately $3 million. Chris earned a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Berlin Technical University.

David Coleman, Director
David Coleman is one of the world's foremost experts in the field of collaborative groupware. Founder, Principal Consultant and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies, he has been involved with groupware and collaborative technologies since 1990 as an industry analyst, author of books and magazine articles on collaborative computing, conference chairman and consultant to vendor and user organizations.

David is the author/editor of Groupware Technologies and Applications (Prentice-Hall, 1995) and Groupware: Collaborative Strategies for Corporate LANs and Intranets (Prentice Hall, 1997). He was the editor and publisher of GroupTalk, the newsletter of workgroup computing. He is the founding editor of Virtual Workgroups, ( now DVC Mmagazine), and still contributes a monthly column. Additionally, David writes monthly columns on groupware for Computer Reseller News and MainSpring (an on-line resource for Intranet and Web developers). David has written for many trade and business publications such as Network World, Datamation, Fortune, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and tradeshows worldwide.

David's entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to electronic collaboration lead him to found the GroupWare '9X conference in 1992 (held annually in San Jose, Boston, and London). David holds a bachelorsbachelorâs degree from Connecticut College and masterâs degrees from San Jose State University and Stanford University.

Director, VP Communications, Billy White
Billy White has recently retired from Netscape Communications Corporation, where he was Director of Telecommunications Markets. In his position, Billy was part of the Strategic Accounts Sales Team and oversaw Netscape's relationships with telecommunications providers worldwide. Billy was the first professional sales person hired at Netscape, and was instrumental in negotiating contracts with such telecommunications companies as: AT&T, MCI, Sprint, all of the regional Bell operating companies, GTE, Bell Canada, many European telcos, Telecom New Zealand, Telstra, and Hong Kong Telecom. Before joining Netscape in August 1994, Billy spent five years at Silicon Graphics where he was a director of OEM sales. During the previous 15 years, he held a variety of sales positions with such companies as Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, and Data General Corporation. Prior to his career in sales, Billy worked in the field of Nuclear Physics, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Emory University in Atlanta, He is currently a consultant to and/or sits on the advisory board of several start-up companies.

Technical Director, Keith Cooley , Owner, Coolware Palo Alto Ca.
6/93 - 2/95 Lead Engineer, Apple, Campbell, CA 12/87 to 4/92 Senior Research Engineer, Knowledge Systems Division, Teknowledge Inc, Palo Alto, CA Proficient programmer in Java, PERL, C++ and C. Recent experience in MySQL, mSQL, and PHP Rich experience in TCP/IP networking and telecommunications at R&D Laboratories, including Bell Labs, Bell Communications Research and IBM. Extensive experience providing strategic consulting on Internet technology adoption. Member (1995-98) of the City of Palo Alto Telecommunications Advisory Panel, providing technical consulting and advice, review city plans, which ultimately led to the implementation of city's fiber backbone. Founder of PA-ComNet (1994-98), an influential Palo Alto-based organization dedicated to promoting the use of computer networking in residential areas. Experience in the design and implementation of IP based Local and Wide Area Networks, using Frame Relay, 10 & 100baseT Work on distributed object systems, multiprocessor system software, device drivers, transport protocols, network control and management. Expert in Unix. Worked with FreeBSD, Linux Solaris, Mach and the VxWorks real-time operating system.