Jack Blount
Founder, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Jack Blount is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Bay. Mr. Blount founded the corporation in 2005 and has served as leader of the organization since its inception.

Mr. Blount began his career with IBM more than 30 years ago. Since then, Mr. Blount has held a series of executive and leadership positions with many of Technology’s most creative and influential forces of their times, including Novell, Borland, Raindance Communications, TeleComputing, and JD Edwards. Mr. Blount’s experience is deep technically, encompassing efforts in enterprise software, personal productive software, Internet, telephony, data networking, wireless networking, and hardware. Mr. Blount’s corporate experience is cross-functional in nature, including sales, marketing, and operational responsibility for both international and domestic products and services, including strategic product launches in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Japan, China, and Latin America.

For more than 20 years, Mr. Blount has operated in senior management positions including the roles of Chairman, CEO, COO, and CTO and has built a reputation as a practiced and successful executive in coalescing talent to successfully lead teams and achieve impressive, profitable corporate growth in all economic and business situations, including four successful turnarounds of distressed organizations. Of most recent note, he led Dynix Corporation to double-digit sales growth for three consecutive years and manufactured its external purchase.

Ingrained with entrepreneurship, Mr. Blount has launched three software startups, taken two software companies public, and worked in tandem with venture capital and private equity communities during the corporate lifecycle. Furthermore, Mr. Blount has sat on the Board of Directors of more than a dozen technology companies and shares his expertise more generally as a frequent speaker at industry conferences globally, including COMDEX, Windows World, PC Expo, NetWorld, CeBIT, CTIA Wireless Apps, and Telecom Asia.

Mr. Blount is a graduate of the Southern Methodist University with degrees in math and computer science. He is also a graduate of IBM's esteemed Watson Institute in MBA studies.

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
Mr. Petty is a founding Managing Director of vSpring Capital, an early stage venture capital fund. Mr. Petty has led vSpring's investments in Alianza, Alpha Bay, Cerberian (acquired by Blue Coat Systems, NASDAQ:BCSI), comScore Networks (NASDAQ:SCOR), Control4, CrimeReports, FamilyLink, Infusionsoft, LignUp, SwarmBuilder, and Zonder.

Prior to vSpring, Mr. Petty was COO and a Board Director of Zuka Juice. Under Mr. Petty's leadership, Zuka Juice grew from its first store to over 100 retail units and over 400 employees. Zuka Juice was acquired by Jamba Juice (NASDAQ:JMBA), a venture backed competitor. Before Zuka Juice Mr. Petty was a consultant with Bain & Company for seven years. At Bain he worked with many IT and non-IT companies, re-engineering their strategies for optimum results.

Mr. Petty received a BS in Economics from Brigham Young University and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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.