Past president of the Seattle-area Harvard Business School Club and a long-term Board member of the NWVG, Jim Moore brings his expert administrative ability and his wide range of contacts to the Foundry.

Jim is networked within the "angel investor" community.

He is also well known and respected within the Seattle business community as a skilled negotiator and deal-maker.

Mike spent the bulk of his professional career at Amazon.com as it grew from a nascent start-up to an international
organization with thousands of employees and billions of dollars in revenue.

Mike was Amazon's seventh employee. He helped architect and manage major parts of the company's robust eCommerce system.

James R. Moore is the Chief Financial Officer of Venture Foundry. Mr. Moore is also Managing Director of Enterprise Capital Resources (ECR), an entrepreneurial finance and capital-sourcing firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with affiliates in San Francisco, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, New York City, Austin, Boca Raton and Denver.

He is also a contributing editor to the Private Equity Review, a bi-monthly review reporting on developmental-stage companies suitable for private equity or debt investment. He is the author of three "how to" publications: Business Angels: Finding Hard-to-Find Private Investors, The Guide to Writing An Investor-Oriented Business Plan, and Investing in Early Stage Private Equity Ventures.

He recently organized the highly successful Technology Investor Forum for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and was a moderator for the MIT Enterprise Forum program on commercializing technology. A frequent speaker on angel capital and venture investing, Mr. Moore is also an associate of the Seattle-based boutique investment bank, Chanen Painter and Company.

Jim Moore has successfully raised capital for a wide variety of domestic and international enterprises‹including injection molding, hazardous materials abatement, airline, modular display systems, gourmet foods distribution, food processing, computer accessories, direct marketing and coal-fired power plants. He has also invested his own capital in a range of ventures over the past decade. He serves as an advisory board member of CBeX.com, Pacific Management Resources, and Tufans Technology Corporation.

Previously, Mr. Moore was a founder and Vice President of Merchant Pacific Capital. From 1993 through 1997, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Direct Services, Inc., a direct marketing firm. During 1987-89 he was CFO and VP Operations of Amaray International, a $30 million injection molding firm that was acquired by an NYSE listed company. He has over 20 years of experience as a financial consultant, completing over 30 major assignments in two dozen countries.

Mr. Moore is a long-time board member of the Northwest Venture Group (NWVG), the region's largest organization dedicated to assisting entrepreneurial ventures become successful. He is also immediate past President of the Harvard Business School Club of Puget Sound. Mr. Moore has been a board member/officer of several early stage firms.

Education: Mr. Moore earned a B.A. in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard University (1966). He holds Masters Degrees in Business Administration and Regional Planning, also from Harvard (1972).

Michael Hanlon

Michael Hanlon is an accomplished software engineer and entrepreneur, with managerial experience developed at one of the leading eCommerce businesses.

Mr. Hanlon joined Amazon.com in October 1995 as the seventh employee. From 1995 through December 2000, he served in a number of managerial and technical positions. Through 1996, Mr. Hanlon managed Amazon's electronic sourcing and credit card processing programs. He also oversaw the company's facility management, negotiating multiple leases for both office and warehouse facilities. In 1997 he switched to a more technical role, and managed network and server systems that were critical to Amazon's operation as it grew by a factor of ten.

Beginning in 1998, Mr. Hanlon served as a technical lead for new product development. He developed a number of tools that were critical to evaluating customer behavior during an important phase of the company's evolution. Hanlon later went to serve as a software engineer and software engineering manager. He developed a number of systems that were critical to the company's successful operation, most notably for Amazon's finance and customer service departments.

Mr. Hanlon is active in community and civic affairs. He and his wife Molly manage a private foundation that is actively engaged in serving public education. He is an active member of the Seattle Alliance of Angels, an accredited investor forum, and "Angels with Attitude," an angel group focusing on investing in socially responsible organizations.

Education: Mr. Hanlon earned a B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Oregon State University (1994).

Renji P Panicker is the President of Aliyance Software India Private Limited. He has over 9 years experience in implementation and management of projects.

Mr. Panicker was a founder-director and the CTO of Crossover Information Systems And Technologies, a Pune, India based development center (1999 - 2000). Crossover specializes in managing a diverse range of projects for the development of low-level system software, such as graph editors and testing tools.

From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Panicker worked at Ruksun Software Technologies Pvt Ltd., located at Pune, India. Ruksun is a leading software development company, specializing in developing software for handheld devices and Internet based client server applications. Having entered the organization as a programmer, he went on to become a Development Manager responsible for business generation and project execution for the UK region.

Mr. Panicker was a senior programmer with a leading software development company in Port Louis, Mauritius from 1993 to 1994. He had successfully managed the computerization projects for a variety of clients, including a large supermarket and the automated voting system for the Miss Mauritius 1994 Competition.

He started his career in 1991 as a freelance consultant for small and medium businesses in Pune, specializing in setting up customized business systems. He was responsible for computerizing the HR dept of The Al-Hassan Group Of Companies, located at Muscat, Sultanate Of Oman.

Education: Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Poona.