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Robert Stewart, Ph.D., Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO):
Dr. Stewart is responsible for building the initial  management team and negotiating the licensing agreement with Litton/TASC. A successful entrepreneur with significant  business development and management experience, Dr. Stewart earned a Ph.D. in International Affairs with a specialization in Chinese law at Georgetown University. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and German and has an  interest in Oriental studies and languages. 

Terry  Patten, Ph.D., Chief Technical Officer (CTO):
Dr. Patten developed the basic technology underlying TextOre and has guided it through several prototypes into its current form. As the head of the text processing research and development lab at Litton/TASC, Dr. Patten leads applied research to improve the  ability to find and extract information in large text collections. He designs  and implements systems that are used by U.S. Government analysts to process news wires, Web pages, and other open-source materials. He also  evaluates and prototypes text-processing products and methods and specializes in developing innovative yet practical techniques for difficult text processing problems. Formerly an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Ohio State  University, he is a noted expert in the area of computational linguistics,  artificial intelligence and the automatic processing of natural-language text. Dr. Patten received a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and is the author of several books and articles on computational  linguistics.

Martin Thurn, Senior Project Manager:
Mr. Thurn has over ten years of  experience in software engineering, multilingual natural language processing, and user interface design. Mr. Thurn has worked closely with Dr. Patten for five years in helping develop and implement the TextOre technology, has written much of the programming code for TextOre and is intimately familiar with its  engineering. He has also been an integral part of the development of  multi-language applications for TextOre, including those in Japanese and Thai. Mr. Thurn holds an MS in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State  University and an MS in Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon  University. He is fluent in Japanese.