Advisory Board


W. John Devine
Retail Consultant
James D. Helin
Marketing Advisor

Corley Phillips
Angel Investor &
Financial Consultant
Michael Takagawa
Management
Consultant
Russell Fradin
E-Business Consultant

W. JOHN DEVINE

Retail Consultant
  • 25 years senior management in big-box retail
  • EVP, COO, Toys R Us - 17 Years
  • Grew company from 4 to 200+ stores
  • Established $3B international division
  • Named "Geoffrey Giraffe" and created Geoffrey Dollars
  • Chairman and CEO, Child World Inc.
  • 180 Stores
  • Annual revenue $800M
  • Chairman and CEO, Auto Parts Club, Inc.
  • 17 Stores
  • Annual revenue $100M
  • Raised $16M in equity financing
  • University of Maryland, Mathematics / Computer Science

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    JAMES D. HELIN

    Marketing Advisor
  • 2001 - 2002 President, Paramount Farms (Sunkist)
  • 1999 - President, Chief Marketing Officer, Los Angeles Times
  • Former President/Management Consultant, JD Helin Management Company
  • Former CEO/Managing Director, D'Arcy Masius Benton Bowles
  • Former Executive Vice President, Dailey & Associates
  • Director, American Association of Advertising Agencies (New York)
  • Instructor, University of Southern California, Institute of Advanced Advertising Studies
  • Honors Include:
  • Leader of the Year, Western States Advertising Agencies Association
  • AdWeek's Agency of the Year
  • Alumnus of the Year, San Jose State University, College of Business
  • Honorary Member, Beta Gamma Sigma, National Business Professional Society
  • BS Marketing with Honors, San Jose State University

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    CORLEY PHILLIPS

    Angel Investor & Finance Consultant
  • General/Founding Partner, American River Ventures
  • Active seed stage investor in 28 companies since 1993
  • Board Member, Cam Commerce Solutions (NASDAQ: CADA)
  • Board Member, McClellan Technology
  • President, Manzanita Software Systems, 1990-1994
  • President, Grafpoint, 1984-1990
  • BSEE/MSEE, Washington State University, St. Louis
  • MBA, Santa Clara University

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    MICHAEL TAKAGAWA

    Management Consultant
  • Founder & President - The Corporate Edge
  • Former President/COO, Discovery Toys, Inc.
  • Former VP Sales & Marketing, Colgate Palmolive
  • Personal coach to CEOs and executives at major corporations
  • BA, University of California, Berkeley
  • MBA Stanford University

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    RUSSELL FRADIN

    E-Business Consultant
  • SVP Business Development - Wine.com
  • Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for comScore Networks (comScore Media Metrix - http://www.comscore.com), where he is responsible for defining and structuring new business channels and applications to extend the comScore Customer Knowledge Platform
  • Former VP Business Development, Engage Technologies, Inc.
  • Former Manager Business Development, Flycast Communications
  • Former staff member at ADEMCO and FBI
  • Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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