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The Coaching Board

"You will NOT want to sign up for coaching. You will HATE the coaching while you are in it. As an entrepreneur, you don’t have time for coaching and you know your pitch is already pretty damn good. Believe me when I say: Coaching will be well worth your time (and a little humiliation now and then is a good balancing tactic).”
Judy MacDonald Johnston, CEO Blue Lake Children’s Publishing, Serial Entrepreneur

ZINO Society Coaching Board Members-

Duff Bryant – Stoel Rives
Duff is a principal in the Corporate practice group. His practice focuses on corporate, finance and general business matters for private companies in a wide range of industries and at various stages of growth. Duff has significant experience in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and joint ventures. He has also advised and assisted numerous clients in forming, capitalizing and maintaining corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships in the United States, the Cayman Islands, Mexico, Chile and Panama. Duff also has extensive experience in secured and unsecured financings. He has been named a “Rising Star” by Washington Law and Politics was included in Chambers’ America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2006).

Grant Cummings - Arscentia

Troy Davis – Yort Labs
Troy is Principal at Yort Labs, where he helps companies apply systems and network technologies for competitive advantage -- to stand out from the crowd. He loves seeing people realize their vision, and is an advisor and investor in companies doing just that.

Davis was previously Director of Product Development at Semaphore Corporation, a network services provider. His past experience includes Loudeye and RealNetworks, and he co-founded and led Nack.Net, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Loudeye. Davis operates the Seattle Internet Exchange, the Northwest's largest Internet peering point.

Pat Franke – Graham & Dunn
Pat chairs the firm’s Emerging Companies Team. He acts as general counsel to start up and emerging companies with a focus on the technology industry. In this role, Pat advises his clients' boards of directors and management with respect to corporate financings, corporate governance issues, business transactions, shareholder matters and employee issues. Pat also advises his clients on significant transactions including mergers and acquisitions, licensing deals, real estate transactions and other commercial matters.

Seann Hallisky – Stoel Rives
Seann practices in the firm’s Technology and Intellectual Property group and focuses on counseling regarding all aspects of intellectual property concerns with respect to emerging technology, Internet, advertising, marketing, entertainment and media companies. Seann’s experience includes drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, merger and acquisition transactions involving intellectual property, advertising law, music law, Internet and e-commerce law, online privacy, copyright law, trademark and unfair competition law, and technology transfer, protection and licensing.

In addition to his transactional practice, Seann has extensive experience in trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition litigation, as well as domain name arbitration proceedings.

Seann has twice been named a “Rising Star” by Washington Law & Politics and one of “Washington’s Most Amazing Attorneys” by Washington CEO.

Cathi Hatch – ZINO Society
Prior to founding ZINO Society, Cathi Hatch has held executive roles and consulted in the restaurant business for over twenty-five years, including her work as director of operations for Schwartz Brothers Restaurants and regional vice president for Restaurants Unlimited, Inc. She currently holds leadership positions on a number of for-profit and nonprofit boards including Zones, Inc.; Cinnaroll Bakeries Ltd.; Pacific Northwest Ballet; YMCA, PONCHO and the United Way of King County. Ms. Hatch has served as the president of HatchMatch, a consulting business that works with businesses and nonprofits to maximize the impact of philanthropy in the community, and has served as a facilitator and trainer for a variety of companies.

Alex Hillinger – Suncadia
As Suncadia’s Director of Marketing Communication, Alex is responsible for managing the resort community’s advertising, public relations, corporate sponsorship and online marketing programs. He began his career in marketing at Ride Snowboards and later served as marketing director for Groove Technology in Seattle, a pioneer in streaming video online. Alex is a graduate of Tufts University and received his MBA from the University of Melbourne Business School in Australia. In his spare time he enjoys getting lost on his mountain bike and backcountry snowboarding in the Grand Tetons. He resides in Roslyn, WA. with his wife Sierra and their cat named Frog.

Alan Housley
With a high technology background in Fortune 100 companies and venture backed startups, Alan has gained over 25 years of marketing, business/operations management, strategic planning, and international business expansion experience. Twenty combined years at Hewlett Packard and Eastman Kodak has provided Alan with world class business skills -- especially in the area of product marketing, go-to-market execution and business planning -- while delivering outstanding business results. Since arriving in the Seattle area, Alan has focused his skills on starting and growing smaller, high technology and e-commerce businesses – leading marketing, sales, product management, development and operations.

Diverse businesses managed have ranged from enterprise computing and networking, to wireless mobile software & services, factory automation/control, professional photography and imaging, consumer based digital photography and imaging, office document management, and field customer technical support. Some of the vertical markets Alan has served include health care, government, telecom, manufacturing, energy & aerospace.Alan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri – Columbia.

Jim D. Johnston, J.D., C.P.A. – Johnston Law
Jim received his J.D. from Seattle University in 1990 and his M.S.T. from Golden Gate University in 1986. From 1981 though 1990 he practices as a certified public accountant in Seattle, Washington. From 1990 through 2001 Mr. Johnston practiced as an attorney as a partner focused on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and securities law in the Seattle office of Lane Powell LLP. Since 2001 Mr. Johnston has operated his own law firm through which he served as chief financial officer, inside and outside general counsel to a variety of company’s.

Kristie Lanum – ZINO Society
Kristie has over 15 years of experience in operations and administrative management. Ms. Lanum spent ten years as Director of Operations of a manufacturing company where she was responsible for managing all aspects of the business. Ms. Lanum has a record of accomplishment that includes effectively developing and implementing forward thinking policies and procedures that focus on streamlining operations and assuring efficiency long-term. Since joining ZINO Society Ms. Lanum oversees the operations of the company, as well as manages the entrepreneur development program. She also volunteers at The Moyer Foundation.

David McGinnis - Citigroup
David McGinnis is a banker and relationship manager with the Seattle office of The Citigroup Private Bank. He works with high net worth individuals and families on a broad range of Citigroup services. Prior to Citigroup, David worked for 18 years in corporate banking with ABN AMRO Bank and Sterling Savings Bank, as well as five years in the Seattle entrepreneur community. During his corporate banking career David focused on the banking needs of large public and private companies in the Pacific Northwest, assisting with acquisition and general business finance, interest rate hedging, cash management, and other services.
Serving on the board of directors of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network, David is committed to helping entrepreneurs and angel investors succeed in our community through involvement in programs such as the Early Stage Investment Forum and Accelerate business advisory programs.
David holds a B.A. in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Washington, and is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School.

Mike Moyer – Wilson Sonsini

James Raquepau, Entrepreneur / Startup Consultant
During his 30-year career in the information technology industry, James has developed extensive expertise in the areas of IT system management and networking, with a strong background in many IT disciplines. He spent 10 years in computer/network operations at Schlumberger before moving into the networking field for Digital Equipment Corporation. After spending five years calling on major automotive vendors (generating $50M+ in revenue), he assumed the role of Technical Director for Digital’s North America Software Marketing and Sales team, supporting a $250M revenue stream. James then moved into channel development and relationship management, covering BMC Corporation for Digital, and then covering Microsoft for Compaq Computer Corporation. With responsibilities spanning nearly every major lab and customer engagement center on the Microsoft Campus, James has worked with numerous Fortune 1000 CxO level executives on high level IT solutions development.

He then assumed the role of technical strategist for Hewlett-Packard Company, and briefly managed the Microsoft relationship for NetIQ Corporation before venturing into the startup world. Co-founding a local technology firm (Azimyth) and one of its subsidiaries (Opspring), James worked in various roles, from Business Development and Partner Management to Product/Solution Development. He is now in the process of working two new non-technology startups and is working with a number of hi-tech startups in the great Seattle area.

Vin Ricci - Orrick
Vin Ricci, of counsel in Orrick's Pacific Northwest office resident in Seattle, is a member of the Corporate Group. Mr. Ricci's practice includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, public company reporting and disclosure, cross border transactions and general corporate matters, with a focus on the representation of life sciences and technology companies.

Before joining Orrick, Mr. Ricci was an associate at Preston Gates & Ellis LLP. Prior to that he was an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York for six years.

C.J. Voss – Stoel Rives
C.J. works with public and private companies on business and financing transactions. In addition to acting as principal corporate and securities counsel to several publicly held companies, C.J. advises entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies on business formation and founders’ issues, intellectual property protection, early stage and venture capital financings, and technology development and commercialization arrangements. C.J. has represented clients in the life sciences, software and information technology, consumer products, and financial services industries. He has been named a “Rising Star” and one of Washington’s “Super Lawyers” by Washington Law & Politics.

 

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