Shenlei Winkler, CEO

Shenlei Winkler (Shenlei Flasheart in SL) is a 30-year veteran of the fashion industry. Her work spans both couture and mass market design and development for the real life apparel industry. A successful designer, her lifetime sales of her real life apparel designs have now reached more than $70 million USD, with more than 25 million-dollar styles in her portfolio. Her couture work has appeared extensively on stage and movie screen.

Winkler has also enjoyed success in Second Life©, where she has designed fashion since 2005, with three popular brands including Prim & Proper (one of the top Second Life earners in 2006), Flash & Trash, and Debutante. Her educational background includes three design degrees, including two from the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology.

She has also been instrumental in developing large-scale creative installations in OpenSim-based worlds, most notably Shengri La Spirit, previously hosted by IBM, and Shengri La Gallery, both of which will be published Summer 2009 as publicly accessible regions hosted by Intel Corporation.

Founder of the Fashion Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on helping designers achieve their dreams with dignity, integrity and respect, she is currently the CEO of the Fashion Research Institute that is focused on researching and developing virtualization technologies with particular emphasis for the apparel industry. She is an adjunct instructor at FIT and Buffalo State University. Her research areas include content licensing for virtual goods, virtualization of enterprise in immersive workspaces, OpenSim enterprise application development, and user immersion in virtual worlds.

Winkler may often be found in the Fashion Research Institute Shengri La regions in Second Life, where her seminal orientation program for immersive spaces may be experienced.

Linda E. Amuso

Linda E. Amuso is a highly recognized thought-leader and expert in the field of executive and employee compensation design in the high technology and life sciences industries, working directly with senior management and the Board of Directors. For 20 years, her practice has focused on executive and equity compensation strategies, in addition to linking performance management strategies to salary management systems, and annual/long-term incentive plan design.

In addition to direct client leadership, Linda is a well regarded business leader responsible for building Radford’s consulting business and expanding Radford’s services globally. In 1993, she co-founded iQuantic, Inc. (acquired by Buck Consultants in 2001), and was instrumental in building the organization into a national compensation consulting business. Linda also led the expansion of iQuantic's business into the life sciences industry, offering consulting and survey support. At Buck Consultants, Linda held a number of leadership positions including Western Region Compensation Practice Leader, National Leader for the Biotechnology Sector and Northern California Market Leader.

Linda earned a bachelor of science from Ithaca College and a master of arts in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University. She speaks on compensation and corporate governance issues frequently, and has been quoted in national business press, including the Wall Street Journal. Linda is based in San Francisco.

Theodore Buyniski, SVP, Radford Surveys & Consulting

Ted Buyniski has nearly 30 years of tax, legal and human resources experience. He is a leading practitioner in the areas of executive compensation, equity and corporate governance. For more than a decade, his practice has focused on serving domestic and global clients in the high technology and life science communities, particularly software, semiconductor, and medical device companies.

Prior to joining Radford Surveys + Consulting, Ted led the high technology compensation practice for Mellon Human Resources and Investor Solutions; managed the East Coast practice of iQuantic; oversaw the compensation function for AlliedSignal (now Honeywell); and practiced law as a tax attorney.

Ted earned a bachelor of science in foreign service from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a juris doctorate from Boston University School of Law. In addition, to being a member of the Massachusetts Bar, he is a certified employee benefits specialist, and served on the FASB's Equity Expensing Roundtable. Ted regularly contributes to industry and business publications and is a frequent speaker on compensation topics. He is based in Boston.

Richard Fine, Ph.D., Founder, BioPredict

Richard Fine received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago and subsequently held postdoctoral and faculty positions in biology and physics at Columbia University and at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Prior to founding BioPredict Dr. Fine served as Vice President of the Computational Drug Discovery Division of Discovery Partners International, Inc, as founder and CSO of Structural Proteomics, Inc., and as a Corporate Fellow at BioSym Technologies, Inc. Dr. Fine has over 15 years of experience in the development and application of computational methods to problems in biology and drug discovery. Dr. Fine has over 80 publications in peer reviewed journals as well as patents for computational technologies and for new chemical entities for treatment of disease.

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