Tom Wilson

Founder, CIO

Tom Wilson is a co-founder and CIO of the Voter Genome Project and has over 20 years experience in public opinion polling & market research, communications & campaign management. Tom has conducted surveys and completed projects in many states and cities throughout the United States and with organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies, major research universities and state wide political campaigns to early stage technology companies, school boards and local cities and towns. Early in his career, Tom served as Aide to the Mayor of Tucson, Arizona, one of the fastest growing cities in America, as well as Research Director and Public Affairs Account Executive for the largest full service advertising agency in Arizona. Mr. Wilson has also served as an independent consultant to numerous political and public policy campaigns and issues organizations. Before returning to the Northeast, Tom was co-founder and Senior Vice President of the Greater Tucson Economic Council and also was the founding Director of Marketing at Predictive Networks. Tom graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arizona.

Marshall R. Peterson

Founder & Co-Chairman
Chairman, Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc.
CTO, National Ecological Observatory Network

Marshall is internationally recognized as one of the world's leaders in supercomputing and large-scale data management and analysis. He was one of the founders of Celera Genomics, what was to become one of the world’s most exciting, visible, and dynamic startup companies. Responsible for conceiving, designing, and building an innovative supercomputer that enabled Celera Genomics to accomplish what the majority of the scientific community claimed was impossible -- assembling the Human Genome in the datacenter rather than the laboratory. This event marked the cutting edge of biology forever moving from the laboratory and into the supercomputer. Marshall designed what Bio-IT World (in its cover story on Marshall–full article) called a “data center for the ages” for Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He also designed the first genomic application using a Netezza appliance for the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, MD.

Paul Davis

Founder & Co-Chairman
CEO of Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc.

Paul Davis is a co-founder and the CEO of Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc, which creates data warehousing software and systems solutions that increase the speed of multi-terabyte data processing and analysis by factors of 20 to 50 times. Since 2000, Paul has been a General Partner at Seed Partners, LLC, an early-stage private investment company where he has served as a director of Seed portfolio companies including Zipcar, and Predictive Networks (now part of Comcast), which he co-founded and served as COO. From 2001 to 2004, Paul served as founding CEO and later Executive Chairman, of GeneXP Biosciences (now Xceed Medical), another Seed portfolio company. Paul was Executive VP of Vanguard Automation, the leading provider of BGA interconnect systems for the semiconductor industry, and the senior company official reporting to a board led by General Electric Capital at the time of a sale to Robotic Vision Systems, Inc. that returned 100% annualized IRRs to investors. He holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a J.D. from Suffolk University. Public Service: Service as District Director under Congressman Joe Kennedy led to involvement in El Salvador where Paul assisted the Democratic Convergence led by Ruben Zamora in 1990 in preparations for the United Nations peace initiatives that fostered stability and democracy. Paul served as a senior aide to former United States Sen. Paul Tsongas in his run for President in 1992; advised and managed local political campaigns and legislative services offices after college; and has served on local boards of a hospital, community mental health agency, charitable trusts, and business associations.

Rich Zimmerman, M.Eng.

Founder & Chief Technology Officer
President and CTO of Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc.

Rich previously served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering for Predictive Media (formerly Predictive Networks); a company that supplied navigation, personalization, profiling and analytical tools to the television and Internet industries. Earlier in his career, Rich served as the Director of Controls Engineering and lead software developer for Vanguard Automation, a supplier of automated assembly systems integration solutions for the semiconductor industry. At Vanguard, Rich brought more than a dozen key products to market and supported deployment into multiple Fortune 500 companies. Rich holds a B.S. and a M.Eng. in Robotics/Computer Vision and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Joe Edelheit Ross

Founder & Advisor

Joe Ross is a 2007 graduate from Stanford Law School where he was president of the Stanford Law Review. As a Navy lieutenant, Joe Ross served as Deputy Director of Intelligence for the fleet component of the U.S. Southern Command and was responsible for initiating, planning and implementing programs in intelligence security cooperation with partner navies in Latin America. He served as a United Nations briefing officer in Korea and provided tactical intelligence to Marine Corps aircrews planning missions over Iraq. He has worked as a staff reporter at a Boston weekly newspaper, speech writer for the director of a federal agency, and senior organizer in the 1992 Presidential campaign of Senator Paul Tsongas. As a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, Ross specialized in communication strategy and change management within the public sector. He holds a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from Stanford University, and was a visiting student at Oxford University in political philosophy and economics.

Noah Richmond, PhD

Advisor & Quantitative Decision Analyst

Noah Richmond is an advisor to the Voter Genome Project, and has extensive experience applying quantitative analysis to strategic decision making. He has provided analytical support for studies conducted at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), spanning such diverse areas as acquisition reform, manpower management, and security in space and cyberspace. Noah was a consultant at Strategic Decisions Group, and also worked as a Sr. Technical associate at Rapt, Inc. In both capacities he was responsible for building financial models to inform senior management when confronted with complex, high risk decisions. He has conducted research at MIT and Stanford University covering bacterial modeling, intelligent inventory management, functional brain imaging, and aviation risk management. As a student, Noah also worked in at Los Alamos Laboratories where he developed cryptography technologies. Noah graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in Mathematics from MIT, and holds an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research and a Ph.D. in Management Science from Stanford University. He is currently pursuing a joint J.D./M.S. in bio-engineering at Stanford.

Stuart Davidson

Advisor

Stuart Davidson has been engaged in the representation of labor unions, in both the public and private sectors, for his entire career. He has served as legal counsel and, in some instances, chief negotiator for many and diverse labor organizations. He was honored, with his law partner, Deborah R. Willig, as one of the best union side labor attorneys in Philadelphia in a survey of over 4500 attorneys in the City of Philadelphia conducted by the Philadelphia Magazine.

Stuart has also established an active practice in the representation of employee benefit funds, including jointly administered employee benefit fund clients in both the public and private sectors. He also participated in the establishment of a major mutual fund limited exclusively to investments in unionized American companies. Stuart lectures, teaches and writes on issues affecting employment discrimination, labor law, drug and alcohol testing, OSHA and ERISA, fiduciary responsibility and related topics. He is an instructor at the Pennsylvania State University Union Leadership Academy, the Pennsylvania State University OSHA Institute and conferences sponsored by the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans.

Stuart is President of the American Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center and served as a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from Harvard Law School, with a JD, cum laude, and from Johns Hopkins with a BA, Phi Beta Kappa.

Robert A. Jordan

Advisor

Bob Jordan was a reporter and columnist for the Boston Globe for more than thirty years. He was also the President of the Boston Globe Employees Association for ten years and led the transition of the organization as it became the Newspaper Guild of Boston, a local affiliate of the Communications Workers of America. He was a champion of worker rights and civil rights who won numerous community and professional awards during his Globe tenure. He started his career at the Globe as a coop intern, but worked at the New Haven Register for two years before returning to the Globe. He is a graduate of Northeastern University.