Midwest Research Institute Inc.

Dr. Spigarelli has chief executive responsibility for the research and administrative activities of Midwest Research Institute. MRI, founded in 1944, is recognized internationally for its work in applied research and technology development. As President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Spigarelli guides operations in more than four dozen scientific and technical disciplines performed by a research and support staff of over 1,400 persons. From MRI's headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. Spigarelli also directs operations in Palm Bay, Florida, and Cary, North Carolina. His management responsibilities include the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. NREL is managed by MRI for the Department of Energy and is the nation's primary center for research on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Dr. Spigarelli was appointed Vice President in 1987, Senior Vice President in 1991, Executive Vice President in 1997, Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer in 1998, and President and CEO in 1999. He was instrumental in MRI's winning the most recent competition for the NREL contract. During his first 17 years at MRI, Dr. Spigarelli held line management and research appointments. His research activities focused on environmental analytical sciences with emphasis on chemical agents, their degradation products, and agent demilitarization. Before joining MRI, he served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps at Rocky Mountain Arsenal. He has coauthored numerous technical publications and papers and participated in international conferences. Dr. Spigarelli holds leadership positions in the academic, business, and scientific communities. In 1999, he led the Research and Development Task Force evaluating Kansas City's potential for becoming a leading center for life sciences research. In January 2000, he was appointed to the founding Board of Directors of the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute, Inc. Dr. Spigarelli is a trustee of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Avila College, and Rockhurst University. He is on the Board of Directors of Science City at Union Station/Kansas City Museum, KCCatalyst, Brush Creek Community Partners, and Science Pioneers. He also serves on the Greater Kansas City Community Advisory Council of the Kansas Cancer Institute. Dr. Spigarelli holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Kansas State University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He received a B.A. and M.S. in Chemistry from Kansas State College at Pittsburg, Kansas. In 2000 the Silicon Prairie Technology Association named him the Technology Leader of the Year. Other honors and awards include receiving the Meritorious Achievement Award from Pittsburg State University in 1993 and being named an Alumni Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences of Kansas State University in 1992.

Cialone, President and CEO of Edison Welding Institute, has a record of creating new business opportunities through technological innovation. Prior to joining EWI in 2005, he was an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute, where he helped develop and manage a considerable alternative energy portfolio, ultimately leading the commercial energy business and serving on the governing board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Cialone was instrumental in the creation of the FutureGen Industrial Alliance for a near-zero-emissions coal-fired power plant, the Battelle Energy Advisory Council, and a joint venture with Energetix Group leading to the formation of Energetix Genlec, a subsidiary of Energetix Group plc. He is a member of the National Coal Council and the Miami University Research Advisory Council; a Trustee of the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City; Vice Chairman of the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition; Non-Executive Director of the NanoSteel Company; and Non-Executive Director of the Energetix Group plc. Cialone received his BS degree in materials engineering from Brown University, and his MS and PhD degrees in materials science, also from Brown, where he specialized in hydrogen enhanced fracture.

Neal Patterson is chairman of the board, chief executive officer and co-founder of Cerner. Neal grew up on his family’s farm near Manchester, Oklahoma. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance and his master’s degree in business administration from Oklahoma State University in 1971 and 1972, respectively. In 1973, Neal began his professional career as an information system consultant with Arthur Andersen & Co. His entrepreneurial journey began in late 1979, when he and two Arthur Andersen colleagues, Cliff Illig and Paul Gorup, formed Cerner. As CEO, Neal has spearheaded more than a quarter century of Cerner’s growth, from its inception to its current position as the largest stand-alone healthcare information technology company. Few companies have been able to sustain internally generated growth for such a long period as Cerner. Widely respected for his vision and strategic thinking, Neal has the unique ability to articulate how information technology will transform healthcare. His commitment to this vision creates value for health systems and their communities by reducing healthcare costs, increasing efficiencies and enabling improvements in healthcare quality and patient safety. The associates of Cerner extol Neal for his passion and foresight about healthcare and information technology solutions, his ability to drive change within organizations, his entrepreneurial spirit, and his often candid, uninhibited conversation style. It was Neal’s clear vision and entrepreneurial instincts that led him to bet the future of Cerner in the 1990s on the $400 million investment needed to develop its person-centric information architecture, Cerner Millennium®. Neal speaks nationally on healthcare information systems and trends, has five times been named as one of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare,” and is in demand as a panelist and presenter for healthcare conferences and forums. He serves as a trustee of the Midwest Research Institute and is active in healthcare leadership networks and local entrepreneurial organizations. Neal is co-founder and serves on the executive board of the First Hand Foundation (www.firsthandfoundation.org), Cerner’s non-profit foundation that provides financial assistance to children with critical healthcare needs. Outside of healthcare, Neal is co-owner of the Kansas City Wizards Major League Soccer team, and he serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors for the 109-year-old American Royal.

William B. Neaves is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to joining the Institute in June 2000, he served in various positions at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, including Professor of Cell Biology, holder of the Doris and Bryan Wildenthal Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, Dean of Southwestern Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Dean of Southwestern Medical School, and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. He was born in Spur, Texas in 1943 and graduated from Spur High School in 1962. He received an A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Biology from Harvard College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Anatomy from Harvard University in December 1969. From January 1970 to December 1971, he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship while appointed as a Research Fellow in Anatomy at Harvard Medical School and serving as a Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at The University of Nairobi.