Mark Montgomery is founder and CEO of Kyield. Mark has 30 years of business experience as an entrepreneur, executive, consultant, technologist, and venture capitalist. He operated a pioneering lab and incubator for ten years which produced multiple market leaders as well as provided the seed that would eventually become Kyield. In 2002 Mark founded Initium VC; an early stage firm specializing in multi-disciplinary ventures. Among many ventures Mark has identified at the early stages have been Microsoft, Starbucks, Google, and Skype. Mark is the author of the primary patent for Kyield.
Former Advisory Board
Dr. Robert E. Neilson was the Knowledge Management Advisor to the Army’s Chief Knowledge Officer and Chief Information Officer. Formerly, he was the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO), department chair and a professor at the InformationResourcesManagementCollege, NationalDefenseUniversity. He has taught and lectured both in the U.S. and internationally including the Argentine War College, NATO Defense College, Italian Institute for Defense Studies, and in Asia and Australia. He has been a consultant with Computer Associates, DigitalNet, BAE, and federal agencies and has been a featured speaker at CIO and KM conferences domestically and internationally. Rob was named to the Federal 100 in 2010.
Franz Dill worked for the Procter & Gamble Company for 27 years where he reported to the CIO as part of an information technology research organization which scouted and vetted emergent technology use. He won global awards in the application of modeling to enterprise supply chains. He acted as a chief scientist for analytics and as a consulting emergent technologist. As part of the artificial intelligence team Franz delivered the first use of AI to interact directly with the package goods consumer and is still in use today, and another saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars. Franz founded P&G’s groundbreaking contextual innovation centers. Russell Borland (In Memoriam) worked for Microsoft for 17 years where he was on the founding teams of Word and Office, involved with Exchange, Outlook, and many others. Since retiring from Microsoft in 1997, Dr. Borland served as a partner with Mr. Montgomery in the incubator, and is a special limited partner with Initium Venture Capital. Russell received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington. He authored over a dozen books for MS Press.
Deborah McGuinness currently holds an endowed chair at RPI. She was formerly co-director and senior research scientist of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (KSL) at StanfordUniversity. She was formerly an AI researcher at Bell Labs and a consultant to General Motors, Vertical Net, Cisco, Cerebra, Sandpiper Software, and the NationalCenter for Atmospheric Research. She is the co-editor of the W3C Recommendation Ontology Markup Language (OWL) and co-author of the predecessor languages: the DARPA agent markup language (DAML+OIL), OIL, and CLASSIC. Deborah received her Ph.D. in Knowledge Representation from RutgersUniversity. She has published over 100 papers and has authored granted patents in areas related to Kyield.
Garrett Lindemann was the Life Science Analyst for Initium Venture Capital and is a consultant to pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies. Previously, Dr. Lindemann has managed and led research teams and performed technology assessment for the Chief Technology Office of Roche Diagnostics. Additionally, he was the Executive Vice President of Research and Development for a start-up Pharmaceutical Company with responsibility for molecule and drug development (pre-clinical and clinical) and patent portfolio management. Garrett received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas).
