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Resilient Network Systems

Board of Directors

Jonathan Hare - Chairman

Jonathan Hare is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive, and has held a variety of executive roles spanning strategy, product management, software development, strategic alliances, and marketing over a twenty year career. He was founder and CEO of Consilient, Inc. an internet software firm which pioneered XML-based collaborative application technology. Earlier, he was founding CEO of Evolve Software, an enterprise software vendor which pioneered a new application market, and went public in 2000. Jonathan has held executive, management and technical positions at Teseract, Microsoft, Cornerstone Research, Strategic Planning Associates, and Impell Corporation.

Jonathan has broad expertise in Internet and enterprise software, security and privacy technology, electronic health records, healthcare policy, etc. He is a member of the Health IT Standards Panel's Security and Privacy Technical Committee, the Identity Credential Management Working Group, and the Markle Foundation Consumer Authentication Working Group. He is also a member of the Markle Foundation Personal Health Technology Council.

Jonathan is a noted expert in the application of Complex Adaptive Systems Theory to enterprise software and business processes, and a regular participant in cross-disciplinary symposia at the Santa Fe Institute and the Aspen Institute. He is the Chairman of the E.O Wilson Foundation technical advisory board.

Jonathan received his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He was a Regents and Chancellors Scholar at UC Berkeley, where he majored in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.


Kirk Loevner - CEO

Kirk has over twenty-five years of experience in the technology industry. He has been CEO of four Internet companies, including Internet Shopping Network, an early e-commerce company acquired by Home Shopping Network;  PublishOne, an online publishing company acquired by InterTrust Technologies; Screaming Media, an online media company acquired by CBS; and most recently, Epocrates, a healthcare technology company providing clinical information to healthcare professionals.  Kirk was a marketing executive at Apple for ten years where he led the introduction of many hardware and software products. He has a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.


Ethan Ayer - CFO

Ethan has been an IT, Internet and information security investor since 1998 when he joined his first venture capital firm. He joined Allegra Parntners in 2000 and was a Partner at One Equity Partners and Milestone Venture Partners before joining Resilient first as an investor and later as CFO. He has served on the Boards of CyberTrust (sold to Verizon), Telwares, Worktopia.com and now Resilient. Ethan started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. in Structured Finance.

Ethan received a Masters Degree from Cambridge University, and an A.B. from Harvard College.


Dr. Grant Bagley

Dr Bagley brings nearly 30 years of experience in the healthcare field and a deep and sophisticated understanding of healthcare policy issues and regulatory programs. Prior to joining Resilient, Dr. Bagley was a partner at Arnold & Porter for nine years, with a practice focused on healthcare regulatory and reimbursement matters for public and private agencies, payers, providers, and others. He is the former Director of the Coverage and Analysis Group in the Health Care Financing Administration's Office of Clinical Standards and Quality.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Insurance Programs, thereby providing health insurance for over 74 million Americans. While at CMS, Dr. Bagley directed the clinical and scientific determination of Medicare coverage policy and the assessment of new technology. Dr. Bagley previously held positions as a Medical Officer at CMS and was a Medical Officer in the Office of the Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Bagley served as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Utah, where he remains licensed to practice both law and medicine.

Louis R. Woodhill

Louis was the co-founder and first CEO of Mission Critical Software (IPO: 1999), and was a founder and Chairman of Configuresoft (acquired by EMC: 2009). He is also Chairman of Digibit, Inc. Louis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has written extensively on economics topics.