Amnon Aliphas Ph.D.| CEO

VentureOnLine was founded by Dr. Amnon Aliphas in January of 2008 as a funding facilitator for new companies in the high-tech industry. As an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the industry, Dr. Aliphas realized that entrepreneurs were often at a loss on how to proceed from an idea or a prototype to funding and growing a company.

Dr. Amnon Aliphas is a visionary in the electronics industry. He saw that the Signal Processing Industry needed an event exclusive to the signal processing community. Answering that need, Dr. Aliphas founded the International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT) and DSP World Expo. In 1996, Miller-Freeman (United Business Media) acquired DSP World.

It was while organizing DSP World that Dr. Aliphas recognized the Internet as the ideal medium to help the electronics engineering community keep pace with their rapidly changing industry through on-line education and information. Dr. Aliphas founded TechOnLine in 1994 as an on-line information and educational resource and developed the "Virtual Lab" for which he holds a US Patent. The Virtual Lab is widely used by the industry. CMP (United Business Media) acquired TechOnLine in 2005. In 2003, he launched GSPx, a signal processing conference and trade show. He launched TV2Mobile an event dedicated to the mobile TV industry in 2005.

Having founded the leading online-resource for the electronics community, namely TechOnLine, Dr. Aliphas decided to facilitate the growth opportunities for new ventures by bridging the chasm between inventors and investors, thus launching VentureOnLine.

Using his extensive background and expertise in electronics engineering and his leadership ability, Dr. Aliphas builds strong, credible organizations that serve the needs of the electronics community. He has authored numerous papers on digital signal processing and related topics.

Dr. Aliphas taught at Boston University. While working at Draper Laboratory, he developed fault tolerant systems. He was Principal Signal Processing Scientist for Kurzweil Applied Intelligence and Wang Laboratories (1982-1986).

Aliphas received a Ph.D. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He earned a B.S. degree from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

J. Phillip Cooper Ph.D.| Director

Seasoned entrepreneurial leader with strengths in marketing and business development, deal structuring / negotiation, acquisition / strategic partnering, and financial engineering. In June, 2006, he retired from CRA International, where he was Vice Chairman & Executive Vice President. CRA (NASDAQ: CRAI) is a leading provider of economic and financial expertise and management consulting services.

At CRA, while leading the corporate development function, Dr. Cooper was responsible for the successful identification, negotiation, and integration of more than 10 acquisitions and group hires in cooperation with group and practice vice presidents. As a member of the Office of the CEO, he also helped consulting practice leaders meet growth and profitability targets, and evaluated investments in practices and offices. The functional heads of marketing, corporate development, legal, and human resources reported to Dr. Cooper. For almost 3 years before becoming CRA’s Vice Chairman, and while still heading the firm’s corporate development activities, he also served as its CFO. While CFO, Dr. Cooper led 2 successful, follow on public equity offerings and an innovative convertible bond offering. In his 6 years at the firm, CRA quadrupled in revenue.

Prior to joining CRA, he had leadership roles in a number of entrepreneurial and change-management business ventures, including serving as CEO of: Newstar Technologies in Toronto, Ontario; Clinical Information Advantages, Inc., in Waltham, MA; and Applied Expert Systems in Cambridge, MA. He had been particularly active in various e-commerce business segments, both domestically and internationally, as well as in information industry and proprietary data businesses, packaged software, and financial services. Previously, Dr. Cooper served as Executive Vice President of Standard & Poor’s Corporation in New York and Senior Vice President, General Manager, and a member of the Board of Interactive Data Corp., then in Waltham, MA, and owned by Chase Manhattan Bank. He has also been Assistant Professor of Business Economics at the Graduate School of Business of The University of Chicago. Dr. Cooper earned a B.Com. in Commerce & Finance at The University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Economics at M.I.T., with specializations in Finance and Econometrics.

Charles Leonard| CFO

Charles F. Leonard was formerly the CFO at DCOMX, Inc. a software development and web based trading platform for buyers and sellers of electronic components. Prior to joining DCOMX, he was the executive vice president of finance at General Electrical and Construction Group, Inc., a privately held roll-up of electrical and general contractors. He was a senior financial manager at Baytree Investors. He previously worked at NYNEX Corporation, Kidder Peabody, and Arthur Anderson. Charles holds a BA from Boston College and MBA from University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.