Page Tucker, CEO/President and Board Member

Mr. Tucker has an extensive background in start-ups, marketing, recruiting and executive management of technology businesses. Formerly, Mr. Tucker was the founder of Impact Solutions, Inc., a Charlotte, NC based company founded in 1995 to provide state-of-the-art database solutions and GIS services to the automotive retail industry. In 1999 Mr. Tucker was the cofounder of e-autobusiness a leading provider of web based hosted data services and Impact Solution products to hundreds of dealerships throughout the United States. Page served as CEO through the critical formative years until he resigned his position in 2003 to form Guardian ProStar, Inc. Page served as the business development manager of Guardian from its inception in 2004 through mid 2005 when he was appointed to his current position as the CEO and President.

John Poulter, Capital Funding/Financial Consultant and Board Member

John is a founding partner and Chief Investment Officer of Cumberland Private Wealth Management and has 20 years investment management experience. Cumberland is a Toronto, ON Canada based boutique investment management company that focuses on high net worth families. The company has grown from 350 million under management in 1997 to over 1.5 billion in 2005 The Company also provides investment services to other investment distribution organizations. At Cumberland, Mr. Poulter oversees the development and application of the Company's quantitative investment technologies. His responsibilities include quantitative investment selection, portfolio strategy and portfolio risk management. He also develops and manages the firm’s specialized investment mandates and funds. Prior to founding Cumberland, John has worked with Connor Clark & Company and Wood Gundy. He graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 1984 and received his CFA designations in 1991.

Mark Beckner, Chief Software Architect/Engineer

Mark is a Business Integration specialist who has worked with numerous clients ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 firms to build scalable, highly available EAI and B2B systems, using a wide variety of technologies and languages. He has extensive experience in all aspects of the development life cycle, from initial client consultations and requirements gathering, through design, development, documentation, quality assurance, and support. He is responsible for Guardian ProStar's Electronic Management and Distribution System which will deliver ProStar Data Products to clients via the Application Service Provider (ASP) model.

Mark has earned a number of awards and professional certifications from Microsoft, including Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Microsoft .NET (MSCD.NET/MSCD), and was a speaker during Microsoft's BizTalk 2004 in a Service-Oriented World Conference. He is the author of Pro EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Electronic Document Interchange Solutions (APress, 2007) and co-author of BizTalk 2006 Recipes (APress, 2006).

Scott A. Jones, Senior Software Developer

Scott Jones has more than 20 years experience as a professional programmer and applications developer in both the personal computer and embedded systems environment. His specialty is redesigning obsolete or poorly designed source code and giving it new life by porting it to modern platforms and/or languages, and giving it sensible structure. He is fluent with languages including ASM, C, C++, the Microsoft .Net environment, Java, Web Services and a variety of application languages and scripting environments including Cold Fusion, ASP, PERL, SQL, PLC and LADDER. Scott is an author with credits for chapters and software contributions in Fun With Fractals, SYBEX © 1993 and, Stupid PC Tricks, Addison-Wesley © 1992. In addition, he has developed, written and marketed Recursive Realm and Miller, both mathematical modeling/education software packages. Scott holds a BA from University of Arizona.

Kenneth Palmer, CPA

For more than 14 years Ken Palmer has been serving corporations with their tax and accounting needs. For the last 8 years Ken held the position of senior managing partner and owner with Frost, Palmer & Stephens, P.C., a Flagstaff, Arizona certified public accounting firm which serves businesses in Arizona, Colorado, California, and Utah. His focus is in providing consulting services to clients in strategic tax and business planning, entity restructuring, liquidations, and buy-sell arrangements. In May, 2005, Mr. Palmer resigned his position with Frost, Palmer & Stephens, P.C. to join the Guardian ProStar, Inc. team. He holds a Masters Degree in Taxation (1993) from Arizona State University and a BS in Accounting (1992) from Northern Arizona University.

Herb McKim, P. E. and Board Member

Herb McKim is cofounder of McKim & Creed, PA, a 450 person civil engineering, surveying, and planning consultancy, headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina. Founded in 1978, the firm operates eighteen offices located in North Carolina, Virginia and Florida and today is an ENR Top 500 Design Firm and Top 200 Environmental Firm in the US. Mr. McKim's daily responsibilities include managing the Geomatics Division of McKim & Creed (surveying and mapping, SUE, and GIS) with a staff of 235. He has extensive experience with water, sanitary sewer and storm water utilities including master planning, treatment design, pipe network designs, SCADA systems, GIS systems, design surveys, as-built surveys, and GIS field verification and data collection.

Mr. McKim is a Professional Engineer. He received civil engineering degrees, BSCE and MCE, from North Carolina State University and an MBA from University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the UNC-W Cameron School of Business and his previous tenures include serving as the president of the American Council of Engineering Companies of NC.

Tom Y. Sawyer, Chief Technology Consultant and Board Member

Mr. Sawyer is a proven and seasoned professional in the technology sector. Prior to joining Guardian ProStar Mr. Sawyer provided consulting management and technology services to technology enterprises throughout Colorado. Formerly, Mr. Sawyer founded and sold an Internet data storage company, served as President of Western Regional Networks, a regional Internet Service Provider, and served as President of Mover's Suite Software, a Moving Industry Enterprise Software company, before resigning to start his own consulting services company. Tom served as Manager/Director of Information Technology for the Martin Marietta Space Launch Systems Titan IV missile program from 1987 to 1994, where he received the outstanding achievement award for Information Technology Management in his last year of service. Prior to his Aerospace career, Tom served in progressively more responsible financial management and planning positions in banking, technology services and computer manufacturing. Tom holds a BSBA degree in Finance from the University of Florida.

Daniel E. Colby, Chief GIS Consultant

Daniel Colby is the Co-founder and President of Sentinel Utility Services of America, Inc. (Sentinel USA, Inc., Newark, Ohio) the nation's leading supplier of Automated Mapping/Facilities Management systems. Mr. Colby's career spans more than 12 years in GIS, mapping and digital technologies. He has served as Project Manager for various companies including Georgia Power, Southern Bell Telephone, Crescent Electric Membership Corp., North Georgia Electrical Membership Corp. and Cullman Electric Cooperative. Mr. Colby is active in MultiSpeak and other Rural Electrification initiatives, has served on the interim board of directors for the initiative known as the Pipeline Open Standard (PODS) which has grown to become the foundation association for gas and pipeline companies using GIS. Mr. Colby continues to serve PODS Association as a member of its Board of Directors. His article, “New System Combines Mapping and GIS to Help Excavators Avoid Lines”, was published as the cover story in the January/February 2003 issue of Underground Focus magazine.

Edwin L. Hartz, Chief Intellectual Property Consultant and Advisor To The Board

Mr. Hartz provides Guardian ProStar with practical advice, thorough analysis, experienced judgment, and innovative approaches concerning the profitable exploitation of intellectual properties. Prior to joining the Guardian ProStar team, he spent 32 years with the patent law firm of Christie, Parker & Hale in Pasadena, California. There, Mr. Hartz served as both senior partner and managing partner before leaving the firm to return to Colorado. He is admitted to practice in numerous courts and jurisdictions, including US Federal Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, US Supreme Court and the Federal Court of Appeals.