Advisory Board

Lisa T. Wilhelm
Owner & Principal, Wilhelm Associates

Lisa specializes in payment risk management strategy and solution consulting for financial service companies. Her clients include Primary Payment Systems, Inc., Efunds, First Union Bank, Branch Banking & Trust, NASA Federal Credit Union, Paymybills.com, Payme.com, Global Payment Advisors, Livecapital.com, Washington Mutual FA, GE Card Services, Visa, and Jamoka (a financial services eMarket). She has 20 years of executive experience in risk management and retail banking, and a successful track record of innovating, delivering, and scaling reengineered products, services, and operations. As a Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo, she pioneered the development and delivery of deposit account behavior and credit score-driven retail decision strategies to the points of transaction, account acquisition, and product cross-sell. She also launched over 40 new central and distributed fraud detection and loss prevention programs, including predictive decision and AI technology solutions, helping to establish Wells Fargo as the leader in the deposit portfolio risk field. Lisa has appeared on NBC DateLine and CNN, and has been widely quoted in local and national news programs, magazines, and newspapers as well as industry trade journals. She is an alumnus of the CBA Graduate School of Retail Bank Management at the University of Virginia, the University of Maine, La Sorbonne in France, and the Goethe Institute in Germany.

Ken Rhie
President, Z60 Ventures

Ken brings more than 20 years of experience in general management, marketing, and product development. His technology expertise ranges from the Internet, client/server database, desktop software, and computer telephony. As founding president and CEO of ThinkFree Corp., a Silicon Valley-based software service
provider, he raised over $20 million in venture financing and worked with ASP's and portals to offer a full suite of office application services. ThinkFree Office was nominated as a finalist for PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award at Comdex 2000. Prior to ThinkFree, Ken invented the world's first voice browser, building an Internet telephony company as the Founder and CEO, NetPhonic Communications, which was acquired by General Magic. The Web-On-Call Voice Browser won 7 prestigious industry awards including Best Product of the Year from Mobile Computing, and 1997 Product of the Year from Computer Telephony. Ken has a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

Glen Van Ligten
Partner, Venture Law Group

Glen specializes in working with emerging growth Internet companies, with an emphasis in venture capital financing, public offerings, corporate partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. He also has significant experience representing venture capital and investment banking firms. Clients with whom Glen has worked include: eToys, Cooking.com, JumpData, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse First Boston. Glen is co-head of VLG's Internet Practice Group and a member of VLG's Executive Committee. Prior to joining Venture Law Group in March 1996, Glen was a business and technology associate at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. Glen graduated from the University of California at Davis in 1985 with a degree in Managerial Economics. In 1990, Glen graduated with honors from U.C. Hastings College of Law, where he was a member of the Thurston Society.

Michael Geist
Law Professor - University of Ottawa & Director of E-Commerce Law - Goodmans LLP

Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa specializing in Internet and e-commerce law and Director of E-Commerce Law with the Canadian law firm of Goodmans LLP. He has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law. Michael is also a national columnist on cyberlaw issues for the Globe and Mail and is on the advisory boards of several leading Internet law publications including Electronic Commerce & Law Report (BNA), the Journal of Internet Law (Aspen) and Internet Law and Business (Computer Law Reporter). In June of 2001, Michael was publicly elected to the board of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the dot-ca administrative agency. He is regularly quoted in the national and international media on Internet law issues and has appeared before government committees on e-commerce policy. He has law degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and Columbia Law School in New York.


A. L. Narasimha Reddy
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University

Narasimha Reddy, an award-winning Internet infrastructure expert, is currently leading Texas A&M projects on building scalable multimedia storage server based on networked workstations. His group is also exploring various issues related to Network QOS. The professor's research areas include: Multimedia, I/O systems, Network QOS and Computer Architecture. Previously, Dr. Reddy worked at IBM where he co-architected and designed a topology-independent routing chip operating at 100 MB/sec, designed a hierarchical storage management system and participated in the design of video servers and disk arrays. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received an IBM Graduate Fellowship. He is a member of ACM SIGARCH, is a senior member of IEEE Computer Society, and received a National Science Foundation Career award in 1996.