RipCode Management Team

Brendon Mills is a serial entrepreneur in the communications technology market. Prior to founding RipCode in 2005, Mills served as founder, CEO and president of GENBAND (General Bandwidth, Inc.). From its inception in 1999, Mills led the company's pioneering efforts in the packet voice equipment industry. During his five years at General Bandwidth, Mills guided the company through one of the telecommunication industry's most tumultuous times, successfully raising $180 million in private capital, developing an award winning VoIP gateway, and securing eight patents and several marquis customers in the burgeoning broadband voice industry.

Mills has also held positions at Cisco Systems and was the director of product marketing for NetSpeed, Inc, a developer of DSL broadband technology acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998.

Prior to NetSpeed, Mills also held positions at Dell Computers and Dallas-based NetWorth, Inc., an Ethernet equipment manufacturer acquired by Compaq Computers.

Mills holds a BA degree from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

Brian Alton is a seasoned CFO with more than 20 years of diverse financial and operational leadership experience in technology and entrepreneurial firms, including start-ups, high-growth and turnaround companies. Most recently, Alton was a CFO consultant for venture-backed start-ups including Ignite Technologies. Prior, Alton served as CFO of Cyneta Networks.

Prior to joining Cyneta, Alton was president of the restaurant solutions group of Ez2get.com in Dallas, Texas, where he was responsible for the development, sales and support of several software products used by the restaurant industry. He previously was president and CEO of IntegraTRAK, Inc., a specialty telemanagement software company located in Bellevue, Washington. During his tenure with that company, he achieved growth in sales and operating profits leading to the successful sale of the company.

Prior experience includes work as an associate at Smith Rede Capital, a private investment firm, where he provided portfolio companies with a variety of services such as the evaluation of new investment opportunities, capital raising, and management and financial consulting services. He also has been the CFO of a $200M manufacturing firm, the CFO, corporate secretary, and co-owner of a $14M chain of private career schools in the Pacific Northwest, and a vice president at First Interstate Bank of Oregon, where he specialized in corporate lending programs.

Alton earned a BA, Summa Cum Laude, Economics, from Washington State University.

Todd Mapes brings more than 20 years of successful executive, senior sales, management and leadership experience in emerging technologies and services, particularly helping companies launch and rapidly expand national sales organizations. Most recently, Mapes held the position of vice president of sales at Patron Systems, a developer of highly scalable mobile data software solutions. During his tenure at Patron, Mapes assembled the national sales team and grew sales by more than 400%.

Previously, Mapes was vice president of North American sales for View Tech/Wire One Incorporated, a provider of leading videoconferencing solutions, which he led to $110+ million annual revenues. Prior thereto, he launched and led the Southwest Sales Territory for VTEL Products Corporation, the market leader in PC-based multimedia video communications, developing major strategic customer relationships with SBC, Verizon, Pepsico and Compaq Computer. During his tenure, VTEL's annual revenues grew from $11 million to $35+ million. Prior to that, Mapes developed the Southwest Sales Region for PictureTel Corporation, a premier manufacturer of compressed videoconferencing products and solutions, leading PictureTel's revenue growth from $5 million to $82 million and establishing customer relationships with Texaco, Exxon, Shell, Amoco, Brown & Root, Schlumberger and Halliburton.

Mapes received his undergraduate education in Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Finance from the University of Dallas.

Cliff Hall and Brendon Mills worked together at NetSpeed, Inc. and have known one another for more than 10 years. Most recently, Hall was vice president of engineering at Conformative Systems in Austin, Texas. Conformative Systems was acquired by Intel in late 2005.

Prior, Hall was a general partner at Agave Capital and a vice president of engineering at Surgient Networks. Hall also held senior engineering positions at Cisco Systems, NetSpeed, Inc. and at Adtran in Huntsville, Alabama.

Hall holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Hardware Option from Auburn University.

Dan Walsh is responsible for RipCode operations including manufacturing, customer service, and information technology. Prior to joining RipCode, Walsh served as Vice President of Operations for Linux Networx, where he was responsible for the company's product management, manufacturing, quality, and information technology teams. Before joining Linux Networx, Walsh was Vice President of Solution Management for Advanced Data Exchange, where he led the company's product management, engineering, customer service and network operations teams. He has also served as Vice President of Operations and Professional Services at E-Stamp and held management positions at Visa International and Kraft Foods.

Walsh earned a Bachelor's degree in Operations and Information Technology from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Jack Brickey is responsible for leading the software development for RipCode's next generation Internet video applications including On-Demand and live broadcast Stream-to-Stream transcoding solutions. He brings more than 25 years of telecommunications and data communications product development and executive leadership experience to his role at RipCode as vice president of software development.

Prior to joining Ripcode, Brickey was with GENBAND where he was general manager and vice president of engineering. In this capacity, he helped GENBAND grow from a single product company with less than 100 employees to one with seven products and more than 500 employees.

Earlier in his career, Brickey served in various management positions at Pliant Systems, Broadband Technologies and Nortel Networks. Responsibilities there included developing and delivering products for a broad range of switching infrastructure products including Class 4 and 5 switches, digital loop carriers and digital video transport equipment.

Brickey received his bachelor's in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.