Board of Directors

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Alison Davis, Director
Managing Director, Belvedere Capital Partners II LLC

Alison Davis is a Managing Director of Belvedere Capital Partners II LLC. Previously, Ms. Davis served as Chief Financial Officer at Barclays Global Investors, a leading institutional investment management firm, with over 3 trillion dollars of assets under management supported by operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

Ms. Davis has 15 years experience as a consultant working in the banking and financial services sector on issues of strategy, revenue growth, cost reduction, and credit quality.

From 1993 - 2000, she was a senior partner and Practice Leader with A.T. Kearney in the banking and financial services sector, and led the west coast practice for the firm. Ms. Davis was a member of the North American Management Committee. From 1984 - 1993, Ms. Davis was a leader of McKinsey and Company focusing on the banking and financial services sectors and working closely with clients in Europe and North America. She is a Director of LECG, Les Concierges, Presidio Bank and Belvedere SoCal.

Ms. Davis obtained a B.A. with honors and a Masters degree in Economics from Cambridge University in England, and received a combined M.B.A from Harvard Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Michael H. Forster, Director
Mr. Forster is a former managing director of the Internet Capital Group, headquartered in Wayne, PA. He has over 40 years of sales, marketing, and general management experience in the information technology industry, most recently as the CEO and Chairman of CommerceQuest, Inc., a private technology company located in Tampa, FL.

Mike began his career with IBM in 1964, rising through the ranks from sales representative to Division Vice President during his 2 decades with the company. In 1988, he became president and general manager of international operations at Prime/Computervision. He resided for 3 years in Munich, Germany, and his worldwide responsibilities included all of Europe, Asia, Canada, and South America. In April 1993, he became president and CEO of MicroDecisionware, a privately held company in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in enterprise middleware solutions. In April 1994, he completed the merger of MicroDecisionware with Sybase, Inc., remaining with Sybase as senior vice president of worldwide field operations.

In 1998, Mike joined the Internet Capital Group as a Managing Director and has served on numerous private company boards over the past 10 years.

Mike now resides in his home town of Louisville, MS, and is active in civic affairs in both his community and state. He is an avid pilot with nearly 2000 hours of time in the cockpit. He flies his own airplane and uses it extensively in both his consulting and philanthropic work.

Education: Mississippi State University, B.S., electrical engineering

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Jeffrey Hillebrand Director
Chief Operating Officer NorthShore University HealthSystem

Jeffrey Hillebrand is Chief Operating Officer at NorthShore University HealthSystem. Since joining the company in 1979 he has worked in a variety of capacities culminating in his position as COO. NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) is an integrated healthcare system that includes Evanston, Glenbrook, Highland Park, and Skokie Hospitals, NorthShore Medical Group (comprising 75 medical offices and facilities), NorthShore Home Services, NorthShore Research Institute and NorthShore Foundation. NorthShore is the only Illinois hospital named as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® 13 times. NorthShore is in the top five percent of all multi-specialty institutions that receive funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Mr. Hillebrand is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and for five years served as a Regent. He is a former member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and a current member of the World Presidents’ Organization. He was a board member of Neoforma, Inc. serving as its Compensation Committee Chairman. Mr. Hillebrand served as a Commissioner of the Certification Commission of Healthcare Information Technology, CCHIT, and on the board of the National Association of Healthcare Information Technology, NAHIT. He is currently a board member of SilkRoad technology.

Mr. Hillebrand holds an MHSA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Dartmouth College. He served as an administrative resident at Glenbrook Hospital in 1977 and completed an administrative fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.

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Brian McCarthy, Director
Mr. McCarthy brings thirty years of extensive senior leadership and advisory experience in the North American and International business markets. He recently served as Executive Chairman of 180 Connect, Inc. until it's acquisition by DirecTV in 2008, as Executive Vice President of Technology and Business Strategy at General Electric and as President, Integrated Systems Division of GE Interlogix. Before that, Mr. McCarthy served as Chief Executive Officer, Americas, at Interlogix prior to that company's acquisition by General Electric. In addition, he served in several senior executive roles with ADT Ltd. for over 15 years and was the Senior Vice President of Operations for ADT Ltd. when he left that company. Currently, Mr. McCarthy is Chairman and CEO of Trax Technologies, Inc., an SaaS provider in the International logistics space, is an adjunct professor of business at the WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, serves on several public and private boards and is President of Katali, LLB a private management consulting firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Robert Zollars, Director
Chairman and CEO, Vocera

Robert Zollars is Chairman and CEO of Vocera. He joined the company in May 2007 and has 30 years of experience leading healthcare and technology organizations. Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Wound Care Solutions, the leading operator of outsourced chronic wound care centers. For six years prior to that, Mr. Zollars was Chairman and CEO of Neoforma, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEOF), a leading healthcare technology company focused on the supply chain that serviced 1,200 hospital and 465 supplier customers. Before Neoforma, he was EVP for Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH), a $75 billion healthcare product and service company, where he was responsible for five wholly owned subsidiaries: Pyxis Corporation, Owen Healthcare, Medicine Shoppe International, Cardinal International, and Cardinal's information technology businesses. Mr. Zollars came to Cardinal from Baxter International (NYSE: BAX), where he led four different operating divisions ranging in size from $100 million in revenue to over $5 billion in revenue. He started his career at American Hospital Supply Corporation which was acquired by Baxter in 1985.

Mr. Zollars has an MBA in Finance from John F. Kennedy University and graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Marketing from Arizona State University.

He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Advisors for the Center for Services Leadership at Arizona State University. He is also a Director of VWR International, and Diamond Foods.

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Matt Roszak, Board Observer
Managing Partner, SilkRoad Equity
Matthew Roszak is co-founder and managing partner of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm. Mr. Roszak also serves as a director and chief financial officer of SilkRoad Technology, Inc.

Prior to SilkRoad, Matthew Roszak was senior vice president, corporate development, for Divine, Inc. Previously, Roszak was a principal with Advent International plc in London. Advent is one of the world's largest and most successful international private equity investment firms, managing in excess of $8 billion, with offices in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Prior to joining Advent, Mr. Roszak spent five years with Keystone Capital Partners LLC, a Chicago-based private equity firm.

Matthew Roszak has experience in executing a broad scope of transactions including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; corporate and transactional financing, including private equity, venture capital, mezzanine and conventional financings; public offerings, private placements and financial restructurings. Mr. Roszak earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Lake Forest College. Mr. Roszak serves on the board of advisors for the Chicago Software Association and the Lake Forest Entrepreneurs Club.

Matthew Roszak is a director of various companies, including: 180 Connect, Inc. (TSX: NCT.U), Business Integrated Solutions, LLC, InterAct911 Corporation, HardMetrics, Inc., MastroNet, Inc., MissionMode Solutions, Inc., onramp Branding, LLC, Pendulab, Inc., SilkRoad Realty Holdings, LLC, SilkRoad Technology, Inc., SolidSpace, LLC and TrueSystems, Inc.

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