Damon Danielson

Damon Danielson is currently a private investor and early-stage company catalyst and advisor. He is a recognized leader in the Web-Content, Enterprise Software, and Specialty Retail sectors, and has a track record of creating, funding, and managing fast growing venture capital-backed companies. Mr. Danielson has CEO experience leading troubled companies through turnarounds and into growth or successful liquidation events for investors. He has successfully raised more than $60 million in funding for technology ventures.

Mr. Danielson was most recently the CEO/President of nForceNet, co-founded with a team of senior Excite@Home executives. The company focused on the application of advanced search technologies to the problems of data-interoperability and data-sharing and collaboration in the law enforcement and public safety sectors. Previously, Mr. Danielson was the CEO/President of Moani, where he refocused product development, reorganized the trans-national management team, raised venture funding in late 2001, and traveled extensively to manage the company’s offices in Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Moani was Microsoft’s first .Net partner and focused on delivering large-scale video-streaming enterprise software to global 2000 companies.

Rowland Hanson

Rowland Hanson is currently the President of CRH & Associates a strategic consulting firm. Prior to his consulting company, Mr. Hanson served as Vice President of Corporate communications at Microsoft, where he developed and executed the company's original branding strategy (the foundation for Microsoft's current brand dominance). While at Microsoft, he is credited with the naming and the original introduction of such products as Microsoft Windows.

Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Hanson was Vice President of Marketing for Neutrogena Corporation (a leading brand in skin care) where he was a member of a team that conceived, directed the development, and introduced several new products worldwide. It was at this point that he attracted the attention of Bill Gates who personally recruited Rowland to Microsoft with the expressed mission of developing and executing an overall branding strategy for Microsoft.

Gretchen Sorensen

Gretchen Sorensen has an extensive background in public administration and private sector marketing communications. She currently runs Sorensen, a strategy consulting firm tailored to the needs of leading edge biotechnology and high technology companies.

Ms. Sorensen most recently served as Senior Director External Affairs and Development at the Institute for Systems Biology, where she led communications and fundraising with biotech pioneer Dr. Leroy Hood. Previously, she was Vice President for Corporate Affairs at OnVia, where she oversaw the company's corporate communications, media relations, regional marketing campaigns, government affairs and community activities.

Prior to OnVia, Ms. Sorensen was the Regional Administrator for the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. Small Business Administration, with a business loan portfolio in excess of $2 billion.

She spent eight years in Washington, D.C. as political director and senior policy analyst on Capitol Hill, and was the Director of Corporate Communications for Turner Broadcasting Systems (TBS), Asia-Pacific-Australia Region, based in Hong Kong and served as the chief spokesperson and liaison with CNN Bureaus in Beijing, Manila, Seoul and Tokyo.

Michael Tobiason

Mr. Tobiason runs the Emerging Companies & Entrepreneurs practice at the Seattle-based law firm of Graham & Dunn. He counsels clients in a variety of business contracts and frequently assists in the structuring and negotiation of domestic and international business transactions. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Tobiason practiced in public accounting with Price Waterhouse in Seattle, Tokyo and Sydney. He resided in Japan for two years and Australia for four years, gaining extensive experience in international business and tax planning. Mr. Tobiason has devoted much of his career, both in public accounting and his law practice, to counseling emerging technology business.

Representative transactions include representing shareholders in software and computer game companies in the sale of their interests to public company acquirer; representing a broadcaster in a strategic alliance for broadcast of encoded data over television frequencies; representing a broadcaster in a radio sports broadcast agreement; representing a broadcaster in sale of television and radio stations; representing management in the acquisition of a software division in an MBO transaction; and representing a private investor in acquiring interests in technology start-ups.

Paul Toliver

Mr. Toliver has 30 years of experience in the transportation industry. He is currently President of New Age Industries, a new and emerging technology marketing and management consulting firm. Mr. Toliver served as Director of the Department of Transportation for King County, Director of Transit for Seattle Metro and Deputy General Manager of Operations for the San Francisco Municipal Railway.

Mr. Toliver is a member and former Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies. In 1999, he received the American Public Transportation Association's Jesse L. Haugh Award, presented to the transit executive who has contributed the most to advance the urban transit industry in the United States and Canada.

Lars Krumme

An OVS Media cofounder, Lars is an entrepreneur/senior operating executive with over 15 years experience in building and managing web-based businesses. He has been involved in delivering online media solutions since 1995. As founder of MemoryHub, a company providing large-scale video transfer and image scanning services, Krumme is responsible for setting the financial, marketing and operational goals for his company as well as managing day-to-day operations. Krumme led the design of one of the first personal video aggregation and distribution platforms on the web, introducing the first web-based video editing and DVD authoring solution in 2004. The company’s online software suite, coupled with its analog video conversion service, provides the easiest way for video content owners to tap into the benefits of online video while maintaining control of their sharing and storage options. Krumme has managed video streaming solutions storing and delivering tens of thousands of hours of video comprising 200+ Terabytes of storage.

Legal Team

The nationally respected law firm of Fenwick & West adds its expertise to our team, having worked with leading Fortune 100 companies to start-ups from inception. Fenwick & West's corporate and technology group is recognized for its work with emerging companies on all significant issues, including formation, financing, operations, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and licensing. The firm provides not only outstanding legal services for Online Video Service, but also invaluable input with respect to strategic planning and venture capital.

Leadership Team