Paul Bohan
Mr. Bohan founded Bohan Group in 1995, after ten years in commercial and residential mortgage lending. In addition to his experience as a Director of Contract Services for a leading due diligence firm, his background includes commercial asset management, national underwriting management, and hedge trading. Mr. Bohan has written for many industry publications, appeared on television on World Business Review with Alexander Haig, spoken at numerous mortgage and asset-backed securitization conferences and has sat on the Capital Markets Committee of the MBA. Paul currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bohan Group LLC as Chairman, and as a Director for Easter Seals Northern California.
Uwe Krüeger, Ph.D.
Dr. Uwe Krüeger is the Chief Executive Officer of Oerlikon, a global leader in the field of thin film, vacuum and precision technology. Dr. Uwe Krüeger was previously Senior Vice President of the Turner Corp., Dallas, where he was primarily responsible for the international business and the company's strategic further development in the American market as well as M&A projects. Dr. Krüeger studied Physics, Mathematics and Economic Science at the University of Frankfurt and began his career as a consultant at the consulting firm A.T. Kearney. He later moved to Hochtief, where he was head of Corporate Development and the Research and Development Department, among other positions held. Dr. Krüger also brings with him a wide range of management experience in Eastern Europe, including as CEO of Hochtief Central/Eastern Europe.
Ronald J. Ramos
Mr. Ramos is currently the President and CEO of Green Housing Guild, L.L.C., developers and builders of sustainable, healthy, environmentally friendly housing projects on selected in-fill properties throughout southern California. The long-term mission of Green\Housing Guild is to transform the market by raising the standards of its developments to reflect the criteria of ecological awareness in affordable, median-priced and upscale housing. Formerly he served as Executive Vice President and COO for The At/vantage Group, Inc., a real estate development company with full service construction, escrow, consulting, mortgage and real estate brokerage. Having delivered over 4,000 homes in the last thirty five years throughout southern California and Arizona, Mr. Ramos is accomplished in the housing industry at strategic planning and opportunity assessment, as well as marketing and construction. Prior to his position at The At/vantage Group, Inc., Mr. Ramos has served as CEO for Star Development Group and Trion Capital Corporation, and as Executive Vice President for OTW Software, Inc., and ConstructionJobs.com. Mr. Ramos is a 1968 graduate of San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing.
Rajeev Sharma, Ph.D.
Dr. Sharma is Founder and CEO of VideoMining (www.videomining.com). He has spent over two decades developing new technologies and applying them to solve critical problems. Over these years he has pioneered new methods for automated behavior analysis and natural human-computer interaction using computer vision. Dr. Sharma has held faculty positions with The Pennsylvania State University and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Sharma has won numerous awards and recognition for his academic contributions as well as practical demonstration of the applications of his research. Dr. Sharma continues to lead VideoMining with a mission to develop and deliver innovative solutions to the marketplace.
Willy Wriggers, Ph.D.
Dr. Wriggers is Associate Professor at the School of Health Information Sciences, and Adjunct Faculty at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas-Houston, where he directs the Laboratories for Biocomputing and Imaging. His research interests include the determination and structure/function analysis of 3D structures of proteins and macromolecular assemblies with multi-resolution modeling methods. Using modern information processing techniques, in concert with physics-based simulation methods, Dr. Wriggers’ lab combines structural data of biological machines from a variety of biophysical sources. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Texas, he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.