Howard, the Founder and President, Umbria, Inc., is a serial entrepreneur and data mining authority who brings 23 years of experience in starting and operating emerging growth companies. Prior to founding Umbria, Howard co-founded and or served in various executive management positions with emerging data mining companies.

Ari Newman runs Filtrbox Inc. a new web service for tracking and monitoring critical information online across blog and mainstream media sources. Ari also authors the NVA blog which covers early-stage start up best practices and companies. Prior to starting Filtrbox, Ari founded Newman Venture Advisors, a boutique strategic advisory firm for start ups, and was at CreekPath Systems, an enterprise storage management software company. Ari has over 12 years of experience in growth-phase technology companies both public and private