| | Founder and Managing General Partner Randell Young has previously served as Chief Financial Officer for Web portals MedNets.com, Inc. and TheGospel.com, Inc. and participated actively, as an officer and/or director, in the capitalization and development of numerous other projects including Accuray Incorporated (ARAY),the world leader in stereotactic radiosurgery; Home Shopping Latino, Inc., (HSPL) developer's of America's first Spanish language shopping channel; Synodon, Inc., (SYD) developers of innovative pipeline surveillance technologies; Telephony International, Inc., a long-distance telecom reseller; Vista Consolidated, Inc., a manufacturer of utility truck covers; and The Orange County Blues Festival, Inc. Private equity partners of note have included Euro-America Partners; Jacques Vallee; Fred Adler; Al Shugart; Jay Keyworth; Copernic Technologies; ZLUH Partners; Good Samaritan Health System/Health Advantage Ventures; Pacific Republic Capital; H-Quotient; Lucent Technologies; and The Marubeni Group. A founder and former Orange County Chapter Chair of Boone Pickens' United Shareholders Association, Dr. Young has represented shareholders and, on their behalf, addressed the annual meetings of Northrup Corporation, Allergan, National Education Corporation, Community Psychiatric and Southern California Edison. He has lectured at the graduate level on contemporary issues in venture capital at The University of Phoenix and holds a doctorate in music (D.Mus.) from City University Los Angeles. His Venture Capital Primer is currently used by McGraw Hill's On Line Learning Center in support of its textbook Principles of Corporate Finance, Sixth Edition (Brealey & Myers); and has been used by Harvard University in support of KSG PED-328 Community Financial Institutions and Microfinance in Theory and Practice and other notable colleges and universities. Dr. Young has been the subject of interviews and articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register and the Orange County Metropolitan. His commentaries and essays have been published in the Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, The San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Orange County Business Journal, The Baltimore Sun and Inc. Magazine. His public equities market analyses and predictions can be found at The Motley Fool where his All-Star-rated portfolio trades under the pseudonym of PauvrePapillon. Currently, he serves on the boards of directors of Colossal Storage Corporation, developers of atomic holographic optical storage nanotechnology; Ci3d, Inc., developers of proprietary cardiovascular diagnostics; Sprague Astronautics, developers of private space vehicles; America's Hunting Network, developers of the Internet's first virtually-integrated hunting portal; and Home Shopping Latino, Inc., (HSPL).
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