Jack Blount, Founder, Chairman, President & CEO
Mr. Blount has served as the CEO and founder of Alpha Bay Corporation since its inception in 2005. He has more than thirty years experience in the computer industry and over twenty years senior management experience, including the roles of Chairman, President, CEO, COO, and CTO. He has a successful track record of assembling powerful teams from his vast network of seasoned professionals and successfully leading companies to achieve rapid growth and solid profits.

 

Mr. Blount has been an executive in several public companies including Novell, Borland, Raindance Communications, TeleComputing, and JD Edwards, and began his career at IBM. He has experience in all aspects of the technology arena including enterprise software, personal productive software, Internet, telephony, data networking, wireless networking, and hardware. In addition to his technical acumen, Mr. Blount has had responsibility for sales, marketing, and operations for both international products and services, and has continually produced dramatic growth in revenues and profits. Mr. Blount has also launched new products in most parts of the world including the U.S., Europe, Canada, Japan, China, and Latin America.

 

Mr. Blount continues to share his vision and leadership as a well-known industry expert and a frequent speaker at industry conferences in the U.S. and internationally, including COMDEX, Windows World, PC Expo, NetWorld, CeBIT, CTIA Wireless Apps, and Telecom Asia.

 

Mr. Blount has launched three software startups, taken two software companies public, and worked closely with several venture capital firms. Mr. Blount has also executed four successful turn-arounds. Most recently, he led Dynix Corporation, where he achieved double-digit sales growth for three consecutive years. Mr. Blount has been on the Board of Directors of more than a dozen technology companies.

 

Mr. Blount graduated from Southern Methodist University with degrees in math and computer science with graduate MBA studies at IBM’s Watson Institute.

 

Tony LeVecchio, Board Member
Mr. LeVecchio has over 30 years of financial and administrative management experience with Xerox Corporation, Exxon Office Systems and N.V. Philips, where he served as Chief Financial Officer of Philips Information Systems. He has participated in several startup companies, growing one in excess of $60 million in sales, and has been involved in the Initial Public Offerings.

 

Since 1988, Mr. LeVecchio has been the President of his business advisory firm, The James Group, where he assists growing technology companies by developing their financial strategies and capitalization requirements. He was brought in by Mr. Blount to serve as consulting CFO for MobileWare Corporation in 1994 and has worked closely with him since that time.

 

He currently serves on the corporate boards of six companies, both public and private.

 

Mr. LeVecchio received a bachelor of economics and a master of business administration from Rollins College.

 

Scott Petty, Board Member
Scott Petty is a managing director of vSpring Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm with $260 million under management.

 

Scott knows how to add value from the outside in. As a consultant with Bain & Company for seven years, he worked with more than 16 IT and non-IT companies, re-engineering their strategies for optimum results.

 

Prior to vSpring, Scott was COO and a Board Director of Zuka Juice, a retail organization selling nutritional products. Under Scott's leadership, Zuka Juice grew from its first store to 96 retail units and over 400 employees. Zuka Juice was acquired by Jamba Juice (NASDAQ:JMBA), a venture backed competitor.

 

Scott serves on the Board of Directors of the Lassonde New Venture Development Center at the University of Utah. He also serves on the National Directors Council at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

 

Scott received a BS in economics from Brigham Young University and a MBA from the Harvard Business School. Scott has led vSpring's investments in 3point5, Alianza, AlphaBay, comScore Networks, Control4, LignUp, Zonder, and Cerberian, which was acquired by Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI).

 

John Tate, Board Member
Mr. Tate has more than 25 years experience in financial and general management of retail and consumer products companies such as Restoration Hardware, Williams-Sonoma, Zale Corporation, PepsiCo, and Dole Food Company.

 

During his tenure as Chief Operating Officer of Restoration Hardware, a large retail chain with over one hundred stores, Mr. Tate was responsible for the successful reengineering of their dysfunctional supply chain, resulting in the elimination of eight million dollars of waste. He also successfully repositioned the company and developed a plan for their future infrastructure platform.

 

Mr. Tate currently operates Human Strategy Partners (HSP), a consulting partnership of which he is the founder and CEO. HSP assists high-growth retailers that operate or intend to operate in more than one channel to identify and eliminate gaps in the key competencies necessary to achieve their growth plan.

 

Mr. Tate holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and economics from the University of Texas at Austin.<

 

Stanley R. Whitcomb, Board Member
After a distinguished career in retail technology, Mr. Whitcomb now operates his own consulting practice, Black Mountain Consulting. His core competencies include strategic planning, enterprise architecture, organization development, and project management at the enterprise level. He has served on the Board of Directors of Utah-based Catalyst Consulting Services and advised them during their sale to Xceed Inc. in November of 1999.

 

Mr. Whitcomb was Senior Vice President, Information Technology, for American Stores Company, one of the nation’s largest retail grocery and drugstore operators, with more than 1600 stores and sales in excess of $20 billion.

 

For more than ten years, Mr. Whitcomb was responsible for all aspects of the information technology and satellite communications for American Stores. He was responsible for the integration of computer systems from five different divisions into a new, company-wide set of solutions. His team led the technical efforts behind a project that covered the entire supply chain, store operations, and financial systems. At its peak, this team consisted of more than 800 professionals and 300 consultants and contractors.

 

In 1999, American Stores Company was merged into Albertson’s, Inc., where Mr. Whitcomb oversaw an annual operating budget in excess of $120 million and a capital budget of more than $135 million.

 

Prior to joining American Stores corporate group, Mr. Whitcomb held various positions with the company’s Lucky Stores division. In addition, he held positions with General Motors for more than 14 years.

 

Mr. Whitcomb holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Nebraska and an MBA from Fordham University in New York City.