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Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc. ("IISi"), a three year old company, creates market-leading data warehouse technology and provides services that optimize best-of-breed data analytics tools. Ultimately, the company seeks to create business intelligence solutions that manage enormous amounts of data in order to deliver the right information to the right person at the right time - in application areas including consumer marketing and sales, media analytics, voter behavior, security, healthcare billing, and medical diagnostics.

Currently, IISi enables the world.s fastest data warehouse platforms to perform critical functions, including multi-polygon geospatial analysis, at "extreme speed" - 10 to 100 times the efficiency of the old market-dominating tools offered by companies like Oracle and Teradata. IISi takes a powerful new generation of "massively-parallel processing" (MPP) and "column-based" data warehouse tools and creates productive solutions that meet a customer.s business need.

Founded in late 2005, IISi initially provided consulting services. Within a few months, it established itself as the first reseller of systems offered by emerging Netezza (NYSE Arca: NZ), the market leading provider of data warehouse appliances. The first IISi-Netezza system resale utilized an IISi-designed data warehouse architecture. Two years later, IISi introduced its first products: the IISi Spatial Toolkit for Netezza and the IISi SQL Toolkit for Netezza. The products immediately established recurring cash flow for a small company. Early work included:
· Geospatial products and SQL extensions that will serve over 100 Netezza customers.
· A Company designed data warehouse for the Democratic National Committee and 45 state parties that integrated commercial data with traditional voter records and supported the historic 2006 Congressional election gains before serving as the back-end data warehouse for the 2008 Obama election effort.
· IISi preliminary cyberinfrastructure hardware and software designs for the collection, processing, curation, distribution, and archiving of ecological data for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), the NSFfunded research platform for discovering and understanding the impacts of climate change, land-use, and invasive species on ecology.
· The design and integration of the data warehouse for the largest casino in the world, with 340,000 square feet of gaming space in a complex that covers 4.7 million square feet and accommodates more than 40,000 guests each day. Phase II of that project is integrating all resort, hospitality, and retail data with the gaming information.
· Design of a data warehouse for the risk management group of the largest private, non-profit guarantor of loans for secondary education in the United States.

Products and Services

Complete Geospatial Solutions - including integration and custom services. IISi is the leading developer of geospatial utilizing Netezza systems. IISi produced "Netezza Spatial", now marketed exclusively by Netezza, an extension of the appliance that simplifies the process of bringing together location and business data in a business intelligence environment. IISi applications include geospatial analysis, geospatial data fusion, and geospatial visualization/mapping custom features.

Geospatial connectors for ETL and BI tools. IISi has produced a suite of seamless integration modules that ensure efficient operation and analysis of spatial and non-spatial data with leading ETL, GIS, and BI/visualization partners including Intergraph, MapInfo, Safe Software, and thincSoft.

Netezza product re-sales and OEM packaged solutions. The Company has led the design, build, and integration of complete data warehousing solutions for challenging applications. Customers have included the Democratic National Committee and the largest resort casino in North America. Special application areas include geospatial, retail/hospitality, gaming, voter, biomedical patterns, data integration/hygiene, social networking, insurance risk analysis, media analysis, and telecommunications.

Netezza special solutions. IISi offers full solutions that include integrated Netezza NPS systems tuned to meet specific customer challenges. The Company develops special "onstream" solutions on the Netezza system that enable advanced analytics (retail/gaming/telco), custom marketing statistics, what-if pricing scenarios, complex aggregation, risk profiling, consumer usage analysis, voter analytics, best call routes, pattern analysis and predictive analytics, URL pattern matching, and other special solutions.

Data Migration Services. Emerging enterprises like Netezza would like to rip and replace existing commercial systems in the DBMS/data warehouse world. But the migration process is not straightforward. Every system has proprietary things such as SQL extensions, integration, stored procedures, and APIs, which makes migrating complex. There are solutions in the market that help automate migrations processes. But those solutions help with 40 to 60% of the process, which leaves the remaining work to be done manually.

IISi offers services and tools that reduce the time and cost involved in data migration processes. Tables and data can be migrated and from/to popular databases. IISi supports Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, PostgresSQL and Sybase, as well as migration of data from files .Excel and CSV into databases. The Company can help migrate SQL queries specific to one database dialect to a wide range of databases such as Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server, Sybase ASE, PostgresSQL, MySQL, Informix and Netezza. Stored procedures can be migrated along with Tables (schema), Views, Indexes, and SQL statements across Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2 UDB, and Sybase ASE databases.

Team

The company founders - Rich Zimmerman, Paul Davis, and Marshall Peterson . comprise the board of directors and are the principal company officers.

IISi principals have more than a decade of experience serving Fortune 500 companies and major non-profit institutions - including Intel, HP, 3M, Motorola, AMD, Comcast, AT&T, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Fedex. Those systems have served the genomic, health, biotech, consumer intelligence, finance, and semiconductor manufacturing sectors. In the past, founders have managed venture-backed companies and delivered 100% annualized returns to investors.

Big and realistic visions. The profitably cost-effective jobs that IISi takes seem boring to the visionaries of our times. Spatial tools and commercial analytics don.t sound very exciting. But in an age when venture and hedge speculators manipulated markets and governments in order to grab great wealth - without creating much value - the IISi founders have garnered relatively modest rewards for leading significant efforts that have generated enormous benefits for society.

The Human Genome Project began in the early 1990s, sequencing one DNA base pair at a cost of $10 - which meant a genome cost too many billions. In 1998, Marshall Peterson (quietly), as the IT systems leader, helped Craig Venter (famously) begin a private genome search at Celera and complete the project at around one-tenth the cost of a competing government effort. In the early 2000s, that computer-modeled sequencing principally occurred in Marshalldesigned data centers, not in Craig.s labs. Today sequencing one base pair costs a tenth of a cent, and by 2024 the world should be able to sequence an entire human genome for $100.

When the Internet came of age in the mid-to-late 1990s, microprocessor industry leaders faced a stunning limitation relating to their crude, old surface mount technologies. The power of the high I/O computer graphics chips needed for new "Wintel" (Microsoft/Intel) platforms was being defeated by the failure of the lowest value-added component of semiconductor manufacturing - back-end chip "packaging". Paul Davis led the turnaround of Vanguard Automation by empowering a group of twenty-something engineers led by Rich Zimmerman. The team turned a failing operation around and commercialized - on-time, to spec, and on-budget - an obscure Ball Grid Array semiconductor interconnect technology that solved the critical bottleneck issue for Intel, AMD, and the Southeast Asian subcon industry.

Today, IISi has a new business vision that is as big as the Human Genome Project or the Internet. The integration, hygiene, and efficient processing of large data sets are the ultimate knowledge bottlenecks of our time. To IISi founders, the boring work that gets funded by the gaming industry or a cable TV company can advance the state of IT art in a way that will benefit medical record management and critical security and safety systems . as well as biomedical research and telecommunications issues related to both the Human Genome and the Internet.

Rich Zimmerman, President, Chief Technology Officer. Rich is the lead developer of IISi.s software products. He previously served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering for Predictive Networks (later Predictive Media), a company that supplied navigation, personalization, profiling and analytical tools to the television and Internet industries. Earlier in his career, Rich served as the Director of Controls Engineering and lead software developer for Vanguard Automation, a supplier of automated assembly systems including BGA interconnect systems for the semiconductor industry. At Vanguard, Rich brought more than a dozen key products to market and supported deployment at Fortune 500 companies. He holds a B.S. and a M.Eng. in Robotics/Computer Vision and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Paul Davis, CEO. Paul is responsible for the Company.s business development strategy, customer relationships, product marketing, and financial management. He has been a General Partner at Seed Partners, LLC, an earlystage private investment company. He has served on Seed portfolio company boards including Zipcar, GeneXP Biosciences, which he served as founding CEO, and Predictive Networks, which he co-founded. Paul was Executive VP of Vanguard Automation, the leading provider of BGA interconnect systems for the semiconductor industry, and the senior company official reporting to a board led by General Electric Capital at the time of a sale to Robotic Vision Systems, Inc. that returned 70% annualized IRRs to investors. He holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a J.D. from Suffolk University.

*Marshall Peterson, Chairman. Marshall leads major technology projects that are independent of IISi, while serving IISi part-time. Marshall is internationally recognized as one of the world.s leaders in supercomputing and large-scale data management and analysis. He was in the founding group of what was to become one of the world.s most exciting, visible, and dynamic start-up companies, Celera Genomics. Responsible for conceiving, designing, and building an innovative supercomputer that enabled Celera to accomplish what the majority of the scientific community claimed was impossible . assembling the Human Genome in the datacenter rather than the laboratory. The event marked the cutting edge of biology forever moving from the laboratory and into the supercomputer. In three decades, principally as a leader of large systems groups at Digital Equipment (DEC), Marshall has successfully led some of the most challenging systems integration and development projects in the world for Fortune 50, non-profit and government entities. He is a decorated Vietnam War veteran who earned his degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Kansas.

Joseph Pacatte, Principal Software Engineer. Joseph Pacatte has 15 years experience developing complex software solutions. He is expert in C++, algorithms, object-oriented design and data warehousing techniques . plus a talent for problem solving and solid experience with Windows and Microsoft technologies, Linux and Unix, Internet standards and conventions, Java, and database systems including SQL Server, Oracle . and now Netezza. Joseph served as Principal Software Engineer at Predictive Networks. He holds a B.S. in physics from MIT and an A.L.M. in History from Harvard.

Tim Callaghan, Senior Software Engineer. Tim Callaghan is a System Architect with over 16 years of experience developing and implementing end to end software solutions. Tim has extensive experience in database design, development and administration for both transactional and reporting systems. He also designed the technical infrastructure and systems integrations to support these solutions. His technical portfolio includes Oracle, Windows, Linux and many development languages. Tim served as Chief System Architect at CrunchTime! Information Systems, creating their enterprise-class back office solution for restaurants and cruise lines. Tim also designed CrunchTime!’s internal and hosting infrastructures, servicing clients around the world. For the 7 years prior, Tim was the primary database architect at Investors Bank & Trust, a financial services company in Boston. Tim developed IBT’s tax reporting system for complex mutual fund structures (Hub and Spoke) as well as many other Oracle systems to facilitate data distribution, compliance and reporting. Tim has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

*Ron Turiello, Director of Business Development and Legal; President Voter Genome Project affiliate. Ron negotiated the implementation terms of the Netezza distribution contracts. Until mid 2007, he ran the Intellectual Property transactional practice at the Silicon Valley office of Skadden Arps, where he served as outside technology counsel in numerous technology companies, including Yahoo!, Hyperion Solutions (including the $3.3 billion acquisition by Oracle), Sage Software, PassMark Security, Micron Technology, and Nokia. He is a graduate of Boston University and Cornell Law School (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) where he won the Boardman prize for ranking first in his class at the end of the second year and served as Editor of the Cornell Law Review and the Cornell Journal of Law and Policy.

*IISi part-time

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