Convera

Patrick Condo has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Convera Corporation since its inception in 2001, following five years as President and CEO of Excalibur Technologies (which merged with Intel’s Interactive Media Services Division to form Convera). His prior experience includes senior executive positions with Digital Equipment Corporation, Harris Semiconductor and Northrop Aircraft. Mr. Condo holds a B.S.B.A. degree in Management and Finance from Suffolk University.

Since joining Convera in 1996, Mr. Nunnerley has been instrumental in developing the company's performance-driven search and categorization technology platform, RetrievalWare™, as well as the development of Screening Room® for managing video assets. In August 2005, he became responsible for Convera's Engineering and Datacenter Operations for the new Excalibur Web Search platform. Prior to Convera, he held leadership positions at Videopress Software and Digital Equipment Corporation. At DEC, he served in various product management and engineering positions related to databases, operating systems, transaction processing, and multimedia for 15 years. Mr. Nunnerley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Greenwich, London, England.

Ronald Whittier brings over 30 years of experience to Convera. Prior to joining Convera, Mr. Whittier was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel Corporation's Interactive Media Services Group, which focused on addressing the needs of high value content owners and distributing their content over the Internet. During his 30-year career with Intel, he was the General Manager of the Memory Products Division and the Director of Corporate Marketing. Mr. Whittier also founded and managed the Intel Architecture Labs and the Content Group. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in Chemical Engineering.