• Dr. Suzuki is a highly respected and experienced computer scientist, who brings 25 years of experience in research, development, sales, and marketing to Zaxel.  Dr. Suzuki was a Research Staff Member at Xerox PARC. He later became Director of IBM's famed Tokyo Research Laboratory, and General Manager of Scientific and Technical Solutions ($70 million annual revenue) at IBM. He then became Vice President of Marketing at Sony Semiconductor Company ($2 billion annual revenue). His most recent position before Zaxel was Chief Technology Officer of Sony USA. Dr. Suzuki has extensive experience in computer architecture, operating systems, digital video, digital broadcasting and broadband Internet technologies. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Charles Taylor: Vice President for Sales

• Mr. Taylor brings 35 years of sales & sales management, marketing management, and engineering experience in selling broadcast and video systems to movie studios, television stations, cable networks, and government video facilities. Mr. Taylor held a number of positions with Sony Electronics over a 25-year span, most recently that of Senior Vice President (VP), Studios & Post Division. Prior positions with Sony included VP/General Manager, Central Zone; Sr. VP, Sales for all product divisions, VP, Sales and Marketing for broadcast products, and Regional Sales Mgr, Southwest Region. Before joining Sony, Mr. Taylor held a variety of engineering positions with Ampex Corporation.

Sharon Blasgen: Attorney

• Ms. Blasgen accumulated 30 years of experience in legal areas at IBM before joining Zaxel. She was the Associate General Counsel of IBM Corporation and chief counsel of the Storage Systems Division. She also held chief legal positions at the Microelectronics Division and the AS/400 Division. She has extensive experience in all aspects of legal issues in the IT industry. She is a Member of California and New York Bar Associations.

• Mr. Ishii brings over 20 years of experience in international business and high technology. He is founder and Managing Director of AZCA, Inc., a professional firm specializing in international corporate development for high technology ventures. Formerly, Mr. Ishii was a senior management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc., and prior to that he was with IBM, involved in a broad range of technical and management activities in the areas of database and data communications. Mr. Ishii holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

• Dr. Kanade is the U.A. Helen Whitaker University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and is considered the world's leader in computer vision technologies. He invented the concept of Virtualized Reality on which Zaxel's business is based. He is a previous Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kanade is also a co-founder of Quantapoint (formerly K2T). He is a recent recipient of the NEC C&C Award for lifetime contributions to the development of multimedia through the fundamental and broad advancement of robotics and computer vision. The NEC C&C Award adds to Dr. Kanade's long list of professional honors, which includes election to the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACM, Fellow of American Association of Artificial Intelligence; several awards including the Joseph Engelberger Award, Yokogawa Prize, JARA Award, Otto Franc Award, and Marr Prize Award.