This is the third company begun by Dr. Bayne.  He founded and successfully ran Protocols Solutions, Inc (PSI) during the period 1973-1985).  PSI was a boutique systems development and integration enterprise serving a wide range of customers, all interested in distributed real-time control.  Customers included Lockheed’s Rye Canyon Research Laboratory, Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation and Sirius Systems.  PSI was sold to Combustion Engineering in 1985.  In 1990 Dr. Bayne wrote another business plan for “Level Three Systems” (L3), a business focused on integration of plant production controls (CIM Level 3) and plant process control systems (CIM Level 2).  This plan was acquired by Bailey Controls (Cleveland, OH) and became the basis for its Pulp and Paper Business Unit.  Dr. Bayne became Bailey’s VP Technology and Strategic Marketing.

Brief history:  PhD Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976; founder and principal Protocols Solutions (1973-1985); Professor of Computer Science, California Polytechnic State University (1973-1984); Executive Director Automation Technology Integration, Combustion Engineering (CE) (1986-1987), VP Technology, CE’s Process Automation Business (1987-1989), VP Systems Products Development, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB, 1989-1991), VP Engineering R&D, Elsag Bailey Process Automation (EBPA, 1991-1998), VP Technology, Johnson Controls (JCI, 1998-2002); founder and CEO of Meta Command Systems, Inc. (MCSI), formerly Echelon 4 Corporation, a professional consultancy and technology development company specializing in enterprise command and control software and systems (2002-present).  Presently, Dr. Bayne is Senior Consultant to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (OASD/NII).

Experience:  Dr. Bayne has had the privilege to architect and implement flight control systems and three generations of well-established distributed automation and control systems (e.g., Taylor Mod 300, Bailey Infi90, Hartmann & Braun Advant, ABB Symphony and the JCI Metasys Control Systems) as well as to design new control systems (e.g., Lockheed L1011 Flight Simulation System, Hewlett-Packard Unix Operating System Logic Analyzer, Vandenberg AFB MX Missile Range Safety System, PG&E Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Control System, ABB Symphony Distributed Control System).  In addition, he has served on the Executive Committees of the Corporation for Open Systems, MAP-TOP, Fieldbus Foundation, and other standards development consortia over the years working to develop open, reliable and scalable platform infrastructure to host distributed real-time controls.  He was instrumental in establishing and then led the architecture team for the current Foundation Fieldbus H2 High Speed Ethernet program.  He is a regular contributor to the DOD’s CCRP (ICCRTS), IEEE (CS, SMC), ISA and ACM where his interests include real-time object-oriented distributed systems and systems science (cybernetics).

MCSI:  Meta Command Systems, Inc. is a systems engineering and C2 software development company whose primary mission is to develop and market high performance enterprise command and control systems (EC2) that help clientele improve the operational and strategic performance of their medium to large-scale enterprises.  MCSI applies the science of cybernetics (computing, communications and automatic controls) to the design and development of effective EC2 systems.  An EC2 system is a real-time management and business process control framework, sitting above traditional corporate and plant IT infrastructure, spanning two or more policy domains, that provides executive and operational management with the benefits of increased operational transparency and agility through the use of collaborative management tools, real-time performance metrics, and visualization tools.  These features allow more effective governance of increasingly complex processes that require continuous improvements in the face of technology, product and capital market conditions.  Technology planning, divisional and business unit coordination, investment planning, capital asset utilization, resource allocation and forward planning are all processes that benefit from a unified enterprise operating system, up and down the corporate command structure.

Mr. Byrnes serves as the Chairman of the Venture Capital Investment Committee, where he works closely with the Managing Directors on investment decisions, as well as select strategy issues in the portfolio companies. Mr. Byrnes is also the Executive Managing Director of the Mason Wells Buyout Funds I & II and he is actively involved with structuring and negotiating transactions, working with portfolio company management teams and arranging for the disposition of investments. He is responsible for the overall management of the firm and serves as Chairman of the Management Committee.

Mr. Byrnes has over 25 years of experience in the private equity industry, in both venture capital and management buyout transactions. After forming the venture capital investment arm of M&I in 1982, he organized M&I Capital Markets Group in 1987 to coordinate the delivery of additional capital market services, including strategic acquisition capital, venture capital, mezzanine capital and corporate finance advisory services. Under his leadership, M&I Funds I, II, III and IV were created and invested. Under his leadership M&I invested over $180 million in approximately 60 small to mid-sized private companies. In 1998, Mr. Byrnes managed the reorganization of M&I’s private equity team into Mason Wells, as an independent fund management firm, and organized the first fund, the $175,000,000 Mason Wells Leveraged Buyout Fund I. In 2000, Mason Wells organized its first venture capital fund, the $48,000,000 Mason Wells Biomedical Fund I (with co-investment pools). In 2005, Mason Wells closed on a $270 million Buyout Fund II. During the start-up of the new funds, the Mason Wells buyout team managed the wind-down of the prior M&I portfolio of investments.

Mr. Thompson is Director of the Research Foundation at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM).  Mr. Thompson joined the UWM Foundation in 2006 to broaden the Foundation’s role in support of research and innovation at UWM.  Prior to joining the UWM Foundation, Mr. Thompson was Managing Director for TechStar, a Milwaukee-based organization that assists in launching high-tech companies.  At TechStar, he helped in the launch of six companies in such areas as biomedical imaging, medical devices and therapeutics.  He also led TechStar’s efforts to identify regional biotech strengths and organized the Biomedical Technology Alliance, an alliance among Milwaukee institutions to foster research collaboration.

Dr. Sujeet Chand is Senior Vice President for Advanced Technology and Chief Technical Officer for Rockwell Automation. His responsibilities at Rockwell Automation include the development of technology strategy for business growth, R&D portfolio management, technical innovation, and global standards and trade. He runs a distributed, global R&D organization with operations in Prague, Shanghai, Milwaukee and Cleveland. Prior to assuming his current role, Chand held the positions of Director for Information Sciences, and Manager and Principal Scientist for Control and Signal Processing at Rockwell Scientific Company. During the period 1998-2001, he also served as the Chief Operating Officer for a successful software start-up company. He represented the United States as the head of delegation to the International Manufacturing Systems (IMS) consortium from 2001 - 2004. Chand has published over 50 technical papers in research journals and conferences, and holds four patents. 

2.0      Pyxis Innovation, Inc. Biographies

2.1            Perry Peterson, CET, B.Eng., P.Eng., President/CEO

Age 44, founded company July 2003, formerly President of Archibald Peterson Limited, & board member for several other professional firms.  Perry Peterson, CET, BEng, P.Eng. is the founder and president of the PYXIS innovation inc. Perry is the inventor of the PYXIS data structure and incorporated the PYXIS innovation inc. in August 2003 to focus on its development and global adoption. 

Perry is a senior Professional Engineer and has had an active life in a wide range of design and management roles: heavy construction, land development, water resources, municipal GIS, geomatics, and intricate software developments and architectures.  He is a qualified Geodesist with the Ontario Provincial Government and has completed and consulted on many high precision and engineering surveys.  He served as a pilot in the Canadian Military.  In 1986 he worked to develop the first breakline land surveys for automating terrain models.  In 1991 he designed the first use of Digital Ortho Photos as a base to a GIS for the Canadain Department of National Defence.  Perry is sought as an expert on land based information systems and modeling.  In 1998, he was the sole private consultant to be invited to sit on the founding of Land Information Ontario where his input served as the framework for the provinces spatial data management system and the single line road network model for transportation systems in the Province.  Perry has founded several successful companies including Eastern Ontario’s largest consulting engineering firm and a multi-firm Information Technology consortium focusing on Internet applications solutions and commercialization of research projects in partnerships within Canada’s academic and research community.   Perry is also an adjunct professor lecturing on Engineering and Information Technology at St. Lawrence and Loyalist Colleges. 

Perry’s efforts in Global Gridded Data Structures began in 1985 while at Lakehead University where he commenced investigation to find a universal data structure that would provide ideal coding for spatial data analysis and modeling.  His work was recognized in 1988 by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineers.  His passions remain the completed research and understanding of dynamic Earth systems as they apply to environmental models and geodesy and the practical deployment of a new medium for information discovery and exchange known as Digital Earth.  Since 2003 his work has been supported through over $3M in Canadian Defense R&D contracts.

He believes such a system would aid evidence based decisions for improved biodiversity, conservation and human development.  He lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada with Colleen and their 5 children.

2.2            Charles Herring, PhD, Chief Research Scientist

Charles has over twenty years experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. His experience ranges from systems development, management, and research.  He did his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at the University of Mississippi where he taught introduction to laboratory practice and was a laboratory technician working in acoustic cavitation. He was commissioned an officer in the U S Army Corps of Engineers leaving with the rank of Captain. Dr Herring had a distinguished career with the US DOD where he lead numerous research projects for agencies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) in the area of command and control and distributed simulation. After leaving the government he returned to the University of Illinois where he had done a Masters in Computer Science to work at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA).  At NCSA he worked on the Digital Libraries project.  He migrated to Australia in 1997 and was a Senior Research Scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane. There he was a consultant to Defense, Queensland Government, and to industry partners on selection and deployment of emerging technologies. He was seconded to Microsoft to design a mobile and wireless data architecture for Queensland Police. Charles received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Queensland where he developed the Intelligent Control Paradigm for Adaptable and Adaptive Software Architectures. He is currently an independent software developer and consultant. Dr Herring specializes in Microsoft technology and the .NET family of systems.  He is currently Chief Cyberologist for the PYXIS Innovation Inc (Kingston, Ontario) where he contributes to the company’s strategic vision, has co-authored several successful proposals, and develops software. He is a founder and president of the Gold Coast Microsoft User Group.

2.3            Marc Lepage, Sr. Software Engineer