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Marty Lyons, Founder, has been involved in distributed computing for three decades, in development, academia, research, finance, and consulting. Previously he co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of KineticTide, the principal technology later extended at Avvenu, which was acquired by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in 2007. He was one of the founders and Chief Technology Officer at OneMain.com (previously NASDAQ: ONEM), which in six months became one of the ten largest Internet Service Providers in the U.S. with over half a million customers and service in 28 states; OneMain was acquired by Earthlink (NASDAQ: ELNK) in 2000. From 1993-97 he served as Director of Network Operations at America Online (previously NYSE: AOL), where he led the team which built one of the largest and most complex distributed networks in the world, growing to support over eight million customers in just three years.

He has also held management and research positions at South Pole Station, Antarctica (southern-most data and communications center); Ultra Network Technologies (world's first 1Gb/s supercomputer network supporting Unix and IBM mainframe connections), Lockheed (large-scale heterogeneous compute and network facility), and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (development of the EIES computerized conferencing system, and joint research with IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center).

His consulting and advisory experience includes customers from start-ups to the Fortune 500 in computing, telecommunications, software, finance, security, and challenging environments such as the high arctic. Marty holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Maryland, a Master of Software Engineering from Seattle University, a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and has studied technology management at the MIT Sloan School. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM.