Nomad Innovations, LLC Board of Managers

December 2009

 

Greg Chapman, Chairman

Greg has been in the investment management business since 1981. He is the Founder and Manager of The Anchorage Angels. Founded in 1999, the three Anchorage funds managed by Mr. Chapman include 30 companies in various stages of development from the idea stage to exit. Prior to Anchorage Angels, Mr. Chapman was a Founder of VERO Capital Management which manages fixed income securities for international clients. Mr. Chapman was Director, New Initiatives and Product Development at AEGON Institutional Markets in Louisville, KY where he initiated and developed an offshore funding program that grew to over $15 billion in assets under management that produced over $50 million annually in spread income. While in New York, Mr. Chapman was the first employee hired at a start up financial insurance firm, Financial Security Assurance, Inc. There, he designed, negotiated and closed structured financial guaranty deals involving a wide variety of financial assets in the taxable fixed income markets. Mr. Chapman was a Portfolio Manager at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association in New York, where he analyzed and managed private placement fixed income and mezzanine securities for public and private companies. Mr. Chapman graduated with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and graduated Cum Laude from Montclair State University with a BA in Experimental Psychology. Anchorage Angels is a Nomad investor.

 

Bob Klingle, CEO

Bob currently serves as CEO of Nomad. Prior to Nomad Bob spent 25 years in television in sales, production, sales management and station management. He began his broadcast career in 1982 at the CBS owned and operated station in Chicago. CBS moved him into CBS National Spot Sales first in Chicago and then to New York. In 1987, he left CBS to join Turner Sales for CNN. Bob's first sales management position came when CBS asked him to return to New York to become Director of NY National Spot Sales. In 1992, Bob became the General Sales Manager of the CBS O & O in New York, WCBS-TV. He was later promoted to Director of Sales there where he was responsible for a department of 30 people and $180 million in sales as well as sales traffic, marketing and research. Bob spent the last 10 years of his broadcasting career in station management with the last 7 as President and GM of WHAS-TV in Louisville, KY. Bob holds an AB in History and Economics from Duke University. Klingle has served on Nomad's Board since 2008 and is an investor.

 

William Lomicka

Bill is Chairman of Coulter Ridge Capital, a private investment firm he founded in 1999. He holds a BA from the College of Wooster and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has over three decades of financial management experience with particular expertise in the area of emerging growth companies. From 1975 until 1985, he was employed at Humana, Inc, where he was promoted to the position of Sr. VP Finance. He was then employed by a venture capital firm in NYC; acted as Secretary of Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and later formed a private investment company in Louisville. He is currently one of three General Partners of the Yearling Fund; a director of one public company; and a director for a number of private companies. In Louisville, he presently serves on the Boards of NarrowCast [Chair], Simpak and Merit Health Systems. He was also actively involved in the early stages of several companies which have been sold in the past several years--MedVenture Technology [Chair] and Trilogy Health Systems. Bill is a Nomad investor.

Sean O'Leary

Sean is a cofounder of Genscape, an energy trading technology firm. He was named CEO in 2003 after being previously responsible for sales, marketing, business development and logistics. In 2003, Sean was recognized along with his business partner, Sterling Lapinski, as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the company's early success. During his tenure as CEO, Genscape has expanded into nine countries with offices in Louisville, KY., Amsterdam, Boston, New York, London, and Boulder, CO; developed products for electricity, natural gas, coal, emissions, and oil markets; and grown its staff from 30 professionals to over 150. Mr. O'Leary is a University of Michigan graduate with a BA degree in Finance and Economics and has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the University of Louisville.

Kent Oyler

Kent is a serial entrepreneur, having so far started 18 distinct business ventures. Oyler founded and serves as CEO of OPM Services, Inc. Oyler co-founded and took public High Speed Access Corp. in 1999 and co-founded Darwin Networks. He also founded and later sold OPM Flats, the nation's leading operator of heavy-duty rail cars and later co-founded bCatalyst, a technology seed fund and business accelerator. Other businesses have been in steel fabrication, consumer market research, packaging, and leasing. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Oyler received business and MBA degrees from the University of Louisville and worked as a banker and as CFO at a large privately held manufacturer. Oyler has been honored as the national Treasurer of the Year by CASHFLOW magazine, E&Y Master Entrepreneur of the Year, and Business First Small Business Leader of the Year. He currently serves on a dozen civic boards and committees, as well as several for-profit public and private company Boards. Oyler served as chairman of Nomad's board from 6/08 through 12/09 and is a Nomad invvestor.

Scott Richardson

Scott is currently CEO of 4G Ventures LLC in Portland, Oregon and Strategic Advisor to Clearwire. Previously he was Chief Strategy Officer at Clearwire and Executive Vice President of Product Development where he led the commercial side of Clearwire's merger with Sprint 4G Asset's and secured large investments from Comcast, Google, TWC, Intel and Brighthouse. He also served in numerous roles at Intel including VP & General Manager Broadband Wireless Division where he led the team that created WiMAX 4G technology and standard. Also at Intel, Scott was GM for the Communications Group and GM for Intel Enterprise Server Group where he led a team to invest in establishing the Linux Operating System as a standard for server operating systems in place of UNIX and Windows NT. Scott is recognized globally by his peers as a pioneer in fourth generation (4G) mobile broadband networks. Scott holds a BS in electrical engineering from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY.

Steve Sexton
Steve is President of the newly established Churchill Entertainment Group. He previously served as President of Churchill Downs, and Executive Vice President of Racing Operations for Churchill Downs Incorporated. Sexton formerly presided over all of Churchill Downs Incorporated's pari-mutuel operations in Kentucky, including Trackside Louisville, an off-track betting (OTB) facility and training track located five miles from Churchill Downs; the company's interests in Kentucky Off-Track Betting Inc., a collection of OTBs owned in partnership by Kentucky's Thoroughbred tracks; the company's interest in Kentucky Downs, a thoroughbred racing and simulcast facility in Franklin, Ky.; and the Company's racing operations at Calder Race Course in Florida; Arlington Park in Chicago; and Fair Grounds in New Orleans. Steve is a native of Topeka, Kansas and graduated from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., with majors in economics and psychology. Sexton has served on Nomad's board since 2008 and is an investor.