Jeffrey S. Sunderman, CPA, MBA

President & Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Sunderman has over 25 years of experience in finance and operations management. For eighteen years he served as either Chief Financial Officer or Chief Operating Officer of four major corporations.

Mr. Sunderman is founder and President/CFO of Sierra Capital Resources, LLC, an Organizational Development and Financial Management Solution Provider. Here he directs a team of more than 25 consultants in providing small to medium size businesses with a wide variety of services.  These include creation of comprehensive business plans, marketing and sales strategies, sales processing, public relations, IT planning and development, graphic design and search engine optimization, human resources and financial strategies consulting and access to capital markets throughout the United States.

Sierra Capital Resources services the needs of both for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations and has worked with companies in differing industries from high-tech wireless telecommunications to international real estate developments.  The SCR team has been responsible for over 500 comprehensive proposals representing financing in excess of $900 million from a variety of capital sources.

Mr. Sunderman graduated Cum Laude from UCLA in 1970 where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics. In 1975 he received a Master's Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance from USC. In that same year he received his license as a Certified Public Accountant after working for Price Waterhouse & Co.

Mr. Sunderman is active with non-profits having served as CFO of one very large non-profit and as treasurer of another non-profit involved in international mission work including work on establishing medical dispensaries and foreign language education (English as a second language) in a foreign country. Additionally, Mr. Sunderman was honored as Northern Nevada’s “2005 Man of the Year” by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for his fundraising efforts over a nine week period – all during tax season.

In his spare time, Mr. Sunderman serves as a faculty member at the University of Phoenix, Reno Campus where he is a Professor of Finance. Mr. Sunderman was recently bestowed the honor of Faculty of the Quarter for the 4th quarter 2006. He is also an active member of the Northern Nevada Executive Council.

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Keith Averill, BS - Business & Marketing

Investor Relationship Consultant

Keith Averill has over 15 years of investment analytical & consulting experience. Through the years he has worked extensively with the research teams of many of the largest institutions, investment consulting firms, and brokerage firms in the industry. The majority of his experience and expertise is in sophisticated performance analysis of separate account & hedge fund money managers. Today, his investment research firm, Top Tier Managers, specializes in researching and identifying the most skillful money managers in the world and then blending them together to create optimal investment portfolios for clients.

Prior to founding Top Tier Managers LLC, Keith worked for two of the leading investment analytical software firms in the investment industry, Zephyr Associates http://www.styleadvisor.com and Pertrac Financial Solutions http://www.pertrac.com . At both of these firms he was responsible for training investment advisors, consultants, and plan sponsors how to conduct thorough manager searches, evaluate investment manager skill, blend managers together to create well diversified portfolios that match client objectives, and evaluate the benefits of alternative asset classes. Keith has extensive research and analytical experience working with some of the largest institutions in the country as well as every day investors.

Prior to working for these two analytical software firms, Keith worked for 6 years for the Smith Barney Consulting Group as a Sr. investment analyst in Chicago and Honolulu. Here he trained financial consultants on a broad range of investment topics such as manager search, performance evaluation, and portfolio optimization and diversification techniques. During this time he evaluated hundreds of investment managers, conducted due diligence research, and created sophisticated research reports for individuals and institutions. Keith also worked for Lipper Analytical Services in Denver where he served as a member of the Portfolio Evaluation and Research team. Here he performed a wide array of research activities for Lipper clients and departments.

Keith holds a BS degree from Biola University in La Mirada, CA. He also holds NASD series 7, 63, and 65 licenses.

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Wesley V. Kikuchi, BS - Electrical Engineering

Strategic Relationship Consultant

Mr. Kikuchi is a business consultant, investor, educator, national speaker, researcher, entrepreneur, nutraceuticals specialist, and consumer health advocate for wellness products.

Born and raised in San Jose, California, the heart of the Silicon Valley, Wesley Kikuchi is a third-generation Japanese American. He graduated from San Jose State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and worked in the mainframe computer and semiconductor industry for eleven years. All of his positions were in engineering, marketing, sales and management. In the semiconductor industry he managed over $85 million in new business along with seven domestic distributors and over one thousand companies for new product development.

Mr. Kikuchi moved into a new career path of natural therapies due to his mother’s illness with cancer and this launched him into a new area of business, health and nutrition. He is an expert in nutraceuticals and the direct sales industry where he did over $16 million in business. He is now a consultant to the industry as an advisor to new companies and products. As a business consultant for medical, health and fitness professionals, Wesley has helped businesses with innovative therapies and programs that increased revenues to the practice. Recently, he established a medical sales company called Rehaba, LLC that introduces new medical products and programs to the market place.

Wesley Kikuchi was also the host and producer of the radio and TV show called "Wellness In Practice -Natural Therapies To Self-Healing" in Northern Nevada which ran for four years.

Complementing his business interests, Wesley started Lifestyles Unlimited, LLC which is a business consulting firm to many start-up companies that require a variety of services including funding from high net worth individuals. He is currently involved in marketing, sales or investment opportunities for the following industry sectors: biotechnology, biopharmacology, pharmaceuticals, cryogenic stem cells, nanotechnology, medical diagnostics, therapeutic medical equipment, internet security, HDTV/DVD technology, hydroponics greenhouse technology, and consumer health electronics. Mr. Kikuchi recently provided funding of over $3 million from a variety of individual sources.

In addition to those activities noted above Mr. Kikuchi serves as a Strategic Relationship Consultant to Sierra Capital Resources, LLC which has been responsible for the negotiation of interim and permanent financing for over 500 proposals representing in excess of $900 million from a variety of capital sources.

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Brenda C. Lewis, BA - Chinese Studies/Economics

Direct Marketing Copywriting Consultant

Brenda Lewis writes marketing collateral for private, government and non profit organizations. As a copywriter for Brenda Lewis Copywriting LLC, Ms. Lewis helps organizations communicate sales messages to their target audience.

“Clever and cute messages don’t sell. Clarity and benefits do!” she explains. “So whether you’re selling a widget in a sales letter or sharing a vision in a speech, the words you choose must affect your audience enough for them to take action. And action can be buying your product or joining your cause. The bonus is that action is measurable so you don’t waste your resources on something that doesn’t work.”

Ms. Lewis’s professional background includes 11 successful years of direct sales for industry leaders. Together, the direct sales experience and copywriting background enables her to thoroughly understand the buying and selling process.

Ms. Lewis graduated from University of California, San Diego with a Bachelors in Chinese Studies and a minor in Economics. She completed an advanced copywriting course from American Writers and Artists Inc. and is currently studying their masters copywriting course. In addition, she’s certified in SPIN Sales Techniques (used by leading sales forces worldwide) and Situational Sales Negotiations.

Ms. Lewis serves as a board member and volunteer teacher for Junior Achievement. She’s also a leadership team member for eWomenNetwork’s Reno chapter. Brenda Lewis provides direct marketing copywriting consulting for Sierra Capital Resources, LLC.

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C. Kerry Nemovicher, Ph.D. - Information Systems

CTO/CIO Consultant

For more than 35 years, Dr. C. Kerry Nemovicher has been providing leadership and innovative solutions for the challenges of Information Technology and Security. Dr. Nemovicher is a polymath, conversant with many aspects of technology and business processes. He is a master of understanding the essentials of a challenge, paring away the unessential and formulating solutions that are simple and elegantly straightforward. He can readily analyze a new technology and determine whether it is truly what it purports to be. He understands that the most important elements of any system are the individuals who must use and work with that system. This human-oriented approach is one that, over the years, he has applied successfully in myriad environments.

Dr. Nemovicher’s expertise is well recognized, and he is an accomplished speaker at industry conferences. Some recent addresses include:

1st Annual Mobile Security Conference (2007)

Topic: Protect Your Data Not Just Your Device

Association of Financial Professionals Annual Conference (2006)

Topic: Security Technologies for Treasury Information Delivery, Now and Next Generation

FDIC/FFIEC Cyberbanking Symposium (2001)

Topic: A Discussion of Secure E-Mail Systems

Dr. Nemovicher’s experience covers the entire gamut of organizational structures, from small start-ups to multi-national enterprises. In December of 2001, Dr. Nemovicher founded Keneisys Corp, a cybersecurity company. Keneisys, whose unique technology is based upon two of Dr. Nemovicher’s patents, is the only purveyor of true autonomous file-level security. In addition, under the aegis of Keneisys Corp, Dr. Nemovicher has provided his expertise in the areas of Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, and Cyber Risk Analysis to various financial services software companies.

From August 1999 through November 2001, Dr. Nemovicher was the CEO and CTO of V. N. Hermes Inc., a corporation that developed a secure e mail product (software and service), C e Mail™. This product was based upon Dr. Nemovicher’s patent pending architecture. Under his guidance and management, C e Mail was designed and developed ahead of schedule (seventeen months instead of twenty four) and under budget ($1M instead of $1.5M).

Dr Nemovicher’s background is eclectic, having served in the military, and worked in farming, manufacturing, construction, and other various jobs prior to entering the world of high-tech in 1972. That year, he obtained a position as a computer programmer/analyst at Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). There, he quickly rose to a technology management position. In 1976, he left IAI to study at Lehigh University, (M.S. Industrial Engineering in 1978 and Ph.D. Information Systems in 1981). From 1981 to the end of 1983, Dr. Nemovicher worked at Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff, and then, in 1984 transferred to NYNEX as one of the initial core founders of the embryonic NYNEX Science and Technology Center.

In 1985, Dr. Nemovicher left NYNEX to form his own consulting company: CKN Knowledge Engineering, Inc. This small, elite group designed and developed personal computer and mini computer based business applications. Its clientele were small/mid size companies, as well as some larger firms such as AT&T Information Systems and Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), a Fortune 20 company. CKN also provided security consulting services to academic institutions, including dormitory vulnerability assessments, dormitory security design specifications and feasibility studies. Dr. Nemovicher personally supervised all aspects of the CKN business. Early in 1996, responding to a requirement from one of CKN’s principal clients, Dr. Nemovicher left CKN to become temporary CIO of ABB Turbocharger’s US subsidiary. The mission was to manage the migration from a classic mainframe environment to a PC and mini computer based system, and finally to a client server architecture. With the successful conclusion of that project in mid 1997, Dr. Nemovicher returned to the consulting world.

During the period from 1995 through 1998, Dr. Nemovicher was also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Lafayette College. His principal area of instruction was Software Engineering.

Dr. Nemovicher holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Lehigh University, and a B.A. in Classical Liberal Arts from St. John’s College (Annapolis, MD).

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Lana Prentice, BS - Business Management

Finance and Banking Consultant

Ms. Prentice has extensive experience in finance, banking, and investments. For many years she worked in the financial industry, using her expertise to effectively establish and maintain financial structures of various companies. Ms. Prentice has worked primarily on re-engineering corporate budget processes and significantly improving organizational financial performance.

Her areas of expertise include treasury management, business planning, analyses of the product development initiatives, including budget production, expenditure control, research and development appropriation proposals, report preparation, project cost analysis, return-on-investment analysis, and other financial analyses. Ms. Prentice specializes in preparation, design, and implementation of financial charts and competitive sales analyses for decision making processes. Varied experiences in many aspects of finance and banking give Ms. Prentice the ability to put a company on a path to financial success. As a financial professional, Ms. Prentice believes that the financial health of a business is the foundation for a successful business model. She is an accomplished finance professional and she has developed and managed financial relationships for many business clients.

Ms. Prentice is a member of EDAWN, Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce, Western Industrial Nevada, and eWoman Network.

Ms. Prentice graduated with honors from University of Phoenix where she received a Bachelors Degree in Business Management, and is in the process of obtaining a Masters of Science in Finance from the University of Nevada-Reno. Additionally, she is fluent in Russian and Estonian, with an international vision of business and finance.

Ms. Prentice provides financial consulting services to Sierra Capital Resources, LLC.

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Bruce L. Sanguinetti, BS - Business Administration

Executive in Residence

Mr. Sanguinetti has over 30 years of business experience, and holds degrees in business and industrial technology. Early in his career, Mr. Sanguinetti specialized in sales, marketing and operations in the industrial, electrical, and electronics markets, developing and managing teams sized ranging from a few to over one hundred. Over the last twenty years, Mr. Sanguinetti has held executive management positions in six ventures; three start-ups, two early stage and one later stage. Partnering with the founders or inventors, Mr. Sanguinetti helped develop and refine the respective business plans, develop and implement strategic plans, hire and develop the management teams, raise an aggregate $100+ Million equity and debt financing, and negotiate exits beneficial to the stakeholders.

From 2004 through 2005, Mr. Sanguinetti was CEO of the Neoreach division of Mobilepro (MOBL). Through acquisitions and strategic alliances, the division grew from a start-up to one of the largest wireless broadband operation in the United States. The division was merged with Kite Networks in early 2006.

In 2001, Mr. Sanguinetti was hired as CEO of Bermai, a startup semiconductor developer. The company grew from a single design center with a staff of twelve, to four design centers with over seventy employees. The company established a number of industry firsts, and its high-performance WiFi chipsets were designed into name brand Japanese and Taiwanese wireless products. Bermai and its technology were acquired by DSP Group in late 2004.

In 1999, Mr. Sanguinetti joined later stage Speedcom Wireless, a producer of wireless broadband products, initially as a board member and later as President. The company became public through an acquisition, launched the industry's first WiFi mesh products utilizing technology licensed from Stanford Research. Speedcom was acquired by P-Com in 2002.

In 1995, Mr. Sanguinetti co-founded Breezecom Incorporated (now known as Alvarion, Inc, NASDAQ: ALVR), serving as President, US Operations. The company grew to be the leader in the wireless broadband industry and went public on the NASDAQ in one of the largest IPOs on record for a company based in Israel. In 1994, Mr. Sanguinetti became Executive Vice President of Solectek Corporation, an early-stage innovator in wireless broadband. Mr. Sanguinetti left to join Breezecom, and the company later merged with a Korean company.

In 1987, Mr. Sanguinetti joined Vitek Distributing, an early stage supplier of computer products and services. Serving as President and COO, the company grew from a single location with annual revenue of $12MM, to a nationwide company with offices in eighteen cities, five distribution centers, and annual revenue of $250MM. The company merged with an equal size competitor, and the combined company was later acquired by a Canadian conglomerate.

Mr. Sanguinetti studied electronics engineering at San Joaquin Delta College and Oregon Institute of Technology, and in 1978 received his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis on marketing, from California State University, Sacramento.

Mr. Sanguinetti provides financial consulting services to Sierra Capital Resources, LLC.

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Keith J. Wertz, BS - Industrial Design

R&D, Product Development Consultant

Mr. Wertz has over 45 years of experience in research and development and product development. As president of his consultancy organization since 1978, he has extensive experience in a broad variety of fields and array of technologies. In addition, he has served as VP of R&D and Engineering for three high-tech medical device start-up companies. All three were successful IPO's and are currently publicly traded on NASDAQ.

Mr. Wertz began his career in 1961 in aerospace designing attitude control rocket motors for the Saturn S-IV B moon rockets, later, transferring to commercial aircraft environmental controls and interiors. He then worked as an industrial design consultant for private and corporate jet aircraft where he met several notable celebrities including Walt Disney. From that meeting, Mr. Wertz became involved with the preliminary designs of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and the original EPCOT Center.

Returning from the Army in 1967, Mr. Wertz focused his career toward the design and development of consumer goods. Working for a large leisure product corporation, he was quickly elevated to the position of assistant to the VP of R&D. There he managed a staff in excess of 40 engineers, designers and technicians responsible for all new products and cost reduction projects for 21 companies with 144 product lines.

In 1978, Mr. Wertz left his position of VP of Engineering for a medical device company and started Keith Wertz Associates (KWA). A consultancy employing a varying staff of creative designers and engineers, KWA serviced a wide spectrum of clients. Projects ranged from toys and consumer goods to sophisticated robotic and medical devices.

Mr. Wertz brings a wealth of expertise to the group in project management, technical knowledge and qualified resources. He attended Cal State Long Beach where he received a BS in Industrial Design.

Mr. Wertz provides R&D and Product Development consulting services to Sierra Capital Resources, LLC.

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Geoffrey Wilson, MBA - Finance & Operations

Chief Financial Officer Consultant

Mr. Wilson has over 25 years experience in finance and banking. He worked many years in Commercial Banking obtaining in-depth knowledge of a broad range of bank products, especially all types of commercial loans. In working with literally hundreds of companies, he developed an understanding of a very diverse set of industries and companies. Five years as the Chief Financial Officer of a mid-sized casino required the complete range of internal financial management.

Mr. Wilson’s areas of expertise include financial management, budgeting (both operating and capital), forecasting, treasury management, and financial analysis and presentation. He develops high-end financial models for strategic planning and forecasting, annual budgeting, and capital budgeting decisions. He is proficient at both Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Using these he can present complicated financial information and analysis in a readily understood format.

Mr. Wilson is Chair-elect of NevadaWorks, Treasurer of the Downtown Improvement Association, sits on the Membership Board of Renown Health Systems and is a member of the Leadership Reno/Sparks class of 2000. He serves as an Associate Faculty Member at the University of Phoenix, Reno Campus where he teaches Finance and Accounting at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Mr. Wilson earned a Masters of Business Administration, With Distinction, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Haverford College with a B.S in Physics.

Mr. Wilson runs his own consulting practice, Chaucer Consulting and also serves as a Chief Financial Officer Consultant for Sierra Capital Resources, LLC.

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Andrew Zeiser, BA - Psychology

Research and Technical Writing Consultant

Andrew Zeiser is a long-time resident of Northern Nevada who graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. He operates a consulting business to provide freelance writing and editing services, along with technical and administrative consulting. His writing services focus on grant writing, technical writing, and marketing communications. Specific services include research, copywriting, editing, formatting, design, layout, and document production. Detailed editing services focus on proofreading, content development, and structural improvement.

Mr. Zeiser’s technical consulting services include all aspects of PC-based computing, with extensive experience in complex word processing and spreadsheet development. Specialized services include software training, system configuration, and troubleshooting. Mr. Zeiser has over 20 years of computer experience, which contributes to a broad knowledge of information technology development over the past two decades. This long-term experience provides a significant background for technical research and writing.

Mr. Zeiser’s administrative consulting services include data analysis, reporting, budgeting, accounting, information processing, logistics, meeting facilitation, and workflow management. He has extensive experience in grants management and administration, developing requests for proposal (RFPs), grant application evaluation, and grant award processes. He also provides specialized consulting for human services, with a focus in five primary areas: child protective services, child abuse and neglect prevention, child death review, mental health, and health services.

Mr. Zeiser provides research and technical writing consulting services for Sierra Capital Resources, LLC.

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