Tom has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry. He is currently the President & CEO vMobile Technologies, a unified visual communications services provider, located in Sacramento, California, as well as the Chairman of the Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation.
Mr. Atchison was a principal with Solé Venture Consulting, providing strategic management, technical, and business development consulting services to innovative start-up technology and life science companies. Prior to this Thomas was founder, and CEO of pulseMD Corporation, a wireless clinical order & transaction management services company for private practice physicians. He was also Vice President of Engineering and General Manager at Navitel Communications, prior to starting pulseMD, and he has previously held executive and management positions with Intergraph Corporation, and Measurex Corporation, and was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs in the early 80’s and the NASA Ames Research Center , in Mountain View, California .
Mr. Atchison has mentored and lectured on early stage venture formation, as part of the graduate entrepreneurial education programs at Stanford University ’s School of Engineering . He has also been a speaker for the Sacramento Technology Business Alliance, and provides mentoring to start-up technology firms through the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance, the University of California Davis Center for Entrepreneurship, and the School of Medicine .
Mr. Atchison holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. in Radiochemistry from San Jose State University and has completed graduate work in Business and Engineering Management at Santa Clara University .
Gilles concentrates his practice on securities compliance and corporate governance advice to public companies and the representation of high-growth companies, investors, and financial institutions in financing, technology, and merger and acquisition transactions.
Mr. Attia has advised several hundred growth companies and led many of the significant public offerings and merger and acquisition transactions in the central valley of California of the past 25 years. He has counseled most of the Sacramento region's leading rapid growth companies from startup through later rounds of financing and in liquidity transactions valued at over $6 billion, including Level One Communications, USCS International, CoreLogic, Schilling Robotics, Alamar Biosciences, Sierra Logic, and Meridian Systems.
Mr. Attia previously served as a senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., where he represented the Commission in the federal courts and counseled the Commission on proposed rulemaking and enforcement actions. During the past 25 years, he has also taught courses in Federal Securities Regulation, Corporate Finance, and Advanced Business Planning as an adjunct professor of law at University of the Pacific.
Mr. Attia has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer as the result of a joint research project conducted by Law & Politics and San Francisco magazines.
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Dr. Lynn Cominsky
Lynn is the Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Sonoma State University (SSU), where she has been on the faculty for over twenty years. She has been invited to over 95 lectures and is an author on over 60 research papers in refereed journals, and the Principal Investigator on over $6 million of NASA grants to SSU since 1986.
Prof. Cominsky is the founder and director of SSU’s Education and Public Outreach Group, which supports several different NASA high-energy astrophysics missions. The EPO group excels at K-12 teacher training, curriculum development, and the development of interactive web activities for students that teach math and science. Cominsky’s group also runs the NASA Educator Ambassador program, which selects and trains master educators to help develop, test and disseminate engaging educational materials for grades 5-12. Over 45,000 teachers have been directly trained through this program to date.
Dr. Cominskyhas served as the scientific director for the PBS NOVA television program “Monster of the Milky Way” and accompanying planetarium show “Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity.” and is also the scientific co-investigator on NASA's Swift and GLAST missions. In 1993, Prof. Cominsky was named SSU’s Outstanding Professor, and the California Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and is a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. Dr. Cominsky was awarded a Ph. D. in Physics by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 1981, and was awarded her B.A. in Physics by Brandeis University , in January 1975 (magna cum laude, with honors in chemistry)