Benedict Van founded hereUare in 2002 and serves as the company's Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer. Ben is a technological visionary with a specialty in building and restructuring high tech companies. With over 21 years of experience in a vast spectrum of industries ranging from telecom, Internet, semiconductor, alternative energies and medical instrumentation, he specializes in designing successful start up structures and nurturing the business blueprint through its developmental stages.

Testaments of Ben's strong intuition and balanced approach to the new and changing world of business are ubiquitous. In 1996, he founded E-Capital, an investment company which stands apart in the industry for capitalizing upon new technological and information explosions without forgoing the rewards of traditional investment models. This rare ability to embrace technologies with an uncanny confidence has also been responsible for the creation of Crownland Group of Companies, an international conglomerate that engaged in venture capital investments with notable success into Biocompatible, Inc. and Cardio Genesis (formerly Eclipse Surgical Technology, Inc.). Ben received his Doctorate of Business Administration from University of the Pacific.

David Brewer is the Managing Partner of Aragon Ventures, a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm specializing in early stage, high technology companies. He serves on the boards of directors of Notify Technology Corp., Cuica Technologies, Inc., FirstStone Incubators LLC, and PriaVision, Inc. He currently serves as an officer, director or advisor to two other investment companies. David is also the Chairman of End Poverty Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the eradication of poverty through empowerment of entrepreneurs in developing countries, and a board member of the SEEP Network. Before forming Aragon Ventures in 1998, David was a co-founder and the initial President of Inktomi Corporation, an Internet infrastructure software company which was subsequently acquired by Yahoo, Inc. In his over twenty-five years in high technology start-ups, he also served as president or chief financial officer in several early stage companies, including Explore Technologies (electronic educational toys), eFax.com, formerly JetFax, (advanced fax technology products), Monogram Software (consumer financial software), Telebit (high speed modems and other data communications equipment) and Packet Technologies (two-way interactive cable television communication systems). David holds a business degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree from the University of San Francisco.

James McCargo has served as a member of our Board of Directors since November 2004. James served as President and CEO of Omega Designs, and was the principal founder of InterArt Designs. Before founding InterArt, James spent over 20 years involved in the computer and high-tech industry, including positions with Fairchild Semiconductors, Hunt Chemical, and 3M Corporation. James served as a Trustee for the University of the Pacific, and was the Vice Chairman of the Board of Regents for the University of the Pacific. James holds a Bachelor's of Arts degree in pre-law from University of the Pacific.