William N. Sick, Jr.
Mr. Sick is a Director and a Co-Founder of the Company. Mr. Sick is a former Co-Managing Director of Signature Capital LLC, a venture capital firm that he co-founded. He is also Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Business Resources International, Inc., and in that role has been a Founder, Officer, or Director for 13 early-stage companies. During the 1980's, Mr. Sick was Chief Executive Officer of American National Can Company, in Chicago after its creation in an LBO transaction and in Paris following its sale to Pechiney SA. Prior to that time, he was Executive Vice President and a Director of Texas Instruments Incorporated. At Texas Instruments, Mr. Sick served in a variety of management positions, including President of the Texas Instruments Semiconductor and President of Texas Instruments Asia. Mr. Sick is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, where he is a former chairman, and of Millennium Park, Inc. and the Santa Fe Institute. From 1996-2006, he was a Trustee of Rice University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Electrical Engineering.