Management

Tuomas Sandholm

Founder, Chairman, & Chief Scientist

Dr. Sandholm, an entrepreneur and renowned researcher in the fields of computer science and applied mathematics, and a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, founded CombineNet in 2000. He leads the company's R&D and guides its business strategy. He has 16 years of experience in designing and building next generation e-commerce systems and has consulted widely on e-commerce, both for established companies and startups, and has published over 250 peer-reviewed technical papers. He has been internationally recognized for his efforts as the recipient of several of the most selective academic awards in the field, including the prestigious Computers and Thought Award, presented by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and the Sloan Research Fellowship, presented by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has also received the National Science Foundation Career Award, and the ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.S. with distinction in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Tony Bonidy

President and Chief Executive Officer

As President & CEO of CombineNet, Mr. Bonidy is responsible for all aspects of the company's operations. Mr. Bonidy brings almost thirty years of experience in strategic sales, marketing, and product development for major corporations such as IBM, NeXT Computer Inc., and Legent Corporation. In his early career, Mr. Bonidy spent 17 years with IBM, leaving as its Application Systems Division's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. After IBM, Mr. Bonidy held several key positions at Legent Corporation and NeXT Computer where he played major roles in directing the growth and success of both companies. He also served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Revive Technologies, a database conversion and replication company, and President of Dlubak OCD, Inc., a glass manufacturing company that is both a supplier and customer to PPG Industries, one of CombineNet's largest clients. Most recently, Tony was President & CEO of Infosage, an advanced integration software company.

Dan Doran

Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing

Mr. Doran is responsible for managing CombineNet's worldwide sales and marketing organizations. With more than 30 years experience in the technology sector, he has a unique perspective and a successful track record in the sale and delivery of high value solutions to global customers. Mr. Doran has held senior-level sales and general management positions with leading technology companies, including IBM and Lotus Development, where he led many of the top sales organizations within IBM and built and managed the initial sales team for the highly successful Lotus Notes product. Prior to joining CombineNet, Mr. Doran was involved in leadership positions with supply chain solution companies, served as vice president of world-wide sales for MatrixOne, and was president of Profile Systems.

Dean F. Arnold

Vice President, North American Sales

As CombineNet's Vice President of Sales for North America, Dean Arnold brings more than 30 years of experience to the technology sector in executive leadership roles encompassing strategic sales, management, marketing, operations, and product development for major corporations including IBM and Oracle. In his early career, Mr. Arnold spent 23 years at IBM leaving as National Sales Manager, Industrial Systems, of the US Manufacturing Sector. After IBM, Mr. Arnold held several key positions at Oracle, including Vice President of Marketing, Oracle Application, before moving on to President and CEO of InfoSage. He served as Corporate Sales Director at Stargate and moved on to his most recent position at IQS as Vice President of Marketing and Channels. Mr. Arnold joined CombineNet in July of 2005 as Sales Director of the Eastern Region. He was appointed Vice President of North American Sales in August 2006.

Brian Smith

Vice President, Business Development

Brian J. Smith, Vice President of Business Development, is an industry leader in developing international business. Prior to joining CombineNet, Mr. Smith was General Manager of Global Procurement and Supply Chain for H.J. Heinz Company. Mr. Smith was instrumental in the global roll-out of Heinz's industry leading eSourcing program in addition to leading global teams through negotiations of leveraged purchasing opportunities. Mr. Smith also served in positions at H.J. Heinz as the Director of Supply Chain of Heinz Japan and General Manager Business Development and Corporate Strategy for HJ. Heinz Company. He earned his MBA at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, with an emphasis in finance - risk management/capital markets. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Far East Asian studies and Japanese, with a minor in philosophy and analytical thinking from Brigham Young University.

Rich Wilson

Chief Operating Officer

As Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Wilson is responsible for consulting, project engineering, IT operations, and service delivery to CombineNet's clients. He joined CombineNet in 2003 after 20 years in aviation and transportation management, systems development, and consulting. Dr. Wilson established the Operations Research division at US Airways where he pioneered the application of optimization technology to crew scheduling, aircraft routing, and maintenance planning. Later, he led management teams at British Airways and US Airways in developing innovations in customer service and process improvements in purchasing, flight operations, and aircraft maintenance. Dr. Wilson also led transportation consulting engagements for Sabre and Oracle. Since joining CombineNet, he has led numerous advanced sourcing projects, including the largest global air freight sourcing event ever conducted. Dr. Wilson graduated with honors from Stanford University and earned M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Yale University.

John Drozdowski

Chief Financial Officer

John Drozdowski is responsible for the financial and administrative functions of CombineNet. Mr. Drozdowski joined CombineNet, Inc. from Schoolwires, Inc., a company specializing in content management software, where he was Chief Financial Officer. Over the past 29 years, he has served in varying financial capacities including Chief Financial Officer, Vice President — Finance, and Controller for several private and publicly traded companies in various service and technology industries. Mr. Drozdowski began his career with Arthur Young and Company, where he worked for nearly six years in various audit capacities across a diverse industry group. During his career, he has raised nearly $20 million in private equity and banking transactions; overseen all facets of the accounting, treasury and finance functions; led internal control reviews and performed strategic business planning. Mr. Drozdowski received his Bachelor of Science degree (Accounting) from the Pennsylvania State University.

Jason Brown

Vice President of Product Development

As Vice President of Product Development, Dr. Brown is responsible for project engineering, product development and quality assurance. Dr. Brown received his BS in mathematics with a minor in statistics from University of California at Davis and his M.S. and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He went on to a position as Assistant Professor of the Statistics Department at University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to joining CombineNet, Dr. Brown was Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer for Employer Payment Solutions, LLC (EPS), a provider of online payroll, cash management, human resources, sales force automation and Professional Employment Organization (PEO) back-office projects where he designed an application framework that contained features normally incorporated within an enterprise system. Before EPS, as CTO of Allectis.com LLC, he was lead strategist of research, design, and development for the first ever, on-line, interactive payroll application AllectisPAY. In addition, he has held various development and statistician positions at BuildNet, Inc., Persimmon IT, Inc., Applied Mathematics Inc. and SAS Institute.

David Levine

Vice President of Research & Development

Dr. Levine leads CombineNet's research & development team. Dr. Levine was formerly the director of the Center for Distributed Object Computing (CDOC) at Washington University in St. Louis, leading a team of staff and student members developed cutting-edge software for real-time, high performance, and embedded systems; its ACE and TAO middleware products are used worldwide in demanding applications. Dr. Levine has extensive industry experience developing software for broadband telecommunication systems, high-fidelity electro-optic sensor system simulations, and both electric/hybrid and internal combustion engine vehicle applications. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine, an M.S.E.E./C.S. from George Washington University, and a B.S.M.E. from Cornell University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the District of Columbia.

Subhash Suri

Co-founder & Chief Algorithms Architect

Dr. Suri, CombineNet's Chief Algorithms Architect, is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is well-known for his research in algorithms, theory of computing, and computational geometry. Prior to joining the University of California, Dr. Suri was a research scientist at Bellcore and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He has authored more than 140 research papers in the areas of computational geometry, e-commerce, approximation algorithms, network design and optimization, and has widely lectured on his research around the world. He is an editor of the journal Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, and has been a guest editor for Discrete and Computational Geometry. He has served on numerous professional program committees and panels, both as member and chair. Dr. Suri has received one US patent and is author of several US patent applications concerning e-commerce, and his research has been supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Suri holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in electronics and communications from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. Dr. Suri is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.