Nitron Advisors, LLC

Management

David Teten is CEO of Nitron Advisors. David is also the coauthor of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, the first business book about how to take full advantage of blogs, social network sites, online networks, and other "social software". He runs TheVirtualHandshake.com resource site and blog and co-writes a monthly column for FastCompany.com. David recently was named a "2005 Future HR Leader" by Human Capital magazine for Nitron Advisors' unique use of social software for recruiting. David serves on the Advisory Board of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association and of Accolo, a recruitment process outsourcer.

David is a frequent keynote speaker at finance and technology industry conferences and at such universities as Wharton, Columbia Business School, Yale, and Princeton. He formerly was CEO of an executive recruiting firm which he sold to Accolo, and CEO of GoldNames, an investment bank focusing on serving the internet domain name asset class. He has worked with Bear Stearns' Investment Banking division as a member of their technology/defense mergers and acquisitions team, and was a strategy consultant with Mars & Co. David holds a Harvard MBA and a Yale BA.

Scott Lichtman, COO, has nearly twenty years of experience in consulting, financial services, and technology companies. Among his previous positions were oversight of Messaging/Collaboration Product Management and Marketing at Communicator Inc — a provider of communications, compliance and operations-related information services for institutional investors and brokers; Senior Director of Marketing at InterWorld, the e-commerce software provider that drove the online growth of firms including Nike, Disney and GTE; Senior Director of Strategic Marketing at Oracle Corporation — where he managed pricing, e-commerce sales support and business development; and IT & Strategy consultant at Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Lichtman also ran his own online-collaboration consulting firm, Vitaltouch Consulting, and in that capacity guided operations for a firm that provided banking services to low-income individuals. Scott has written analyst reports and articles on topics ranging from pricing strategies in the technology industry to online communities. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master of Economics from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisory Board

Mark Miller is the lead member of Nitron's Advisory Board. He was formerly Group EVP for the Americas at Right Management Consultants, the world's largest career transition and organizational consulting firm.