
Mr. Firmage spent 12 years researching and pioneering breakthrough technologies in physics as well as defining a conceptual framework of economic development that culminated in the genesis of the Academy of Science and Arts. He is the founder of Serius Corporation, a pioneer of cross-platform “desktop programming” tools via a visual object-oriented programming system. Serius was later acquired by Novell, where Mr. Firmage was named Vice President of the AppWare Developer Tools Division. A short time later, he was promoted to the position of Vice President of Strategy for Novell’s leading-edge Network Systems Group.
Mr. Firmage left Novell to co-found and serve as CEO of USWeb Corporation. USWeb, later USWeb/CKS, became the world’s largest internet consulting enterprise, with more than 2,500 experts spanning 10 countries and serving more than 50 of the Fortune 100 companies. His professional career continued to expand as he founded, co-founded, served as a managing partner, or was otherwise significantly involved in several innovative enterprises. These endeavors included Intend Change Group, which oversaw the creation of OneCosmos Network (later reorganized as ManyOne), Electron Economy (later acquired by Viewlocity), Invesmart (later acquired by Stancorp), and Infrastructure. Defense (later acquired by Verisign).

Previously, Ms. Paramore has served in many Board and Advisory roles in educational institutions, including serving as President of the Alumni Association of Brigham Young University, and as a Board Member of Airline Ambassadors. Co-Founding with its leader Edwin B. Firmage, she was instrumental in the successful effort to prevent the MX Nuclear Missile system from being deployed across Utah and Nevada and served as Executive Director of Utahns United Against the Nuclear Arms Race.

Mr. Nielson has created and populated various ManyOne portals, resulting in more than 1,000 nodes and images in ManyOne’s taxonomy. He also developed a Javascript tool to convert embedded video and widget snippets from external websites into a form that could be incorporated into the portals of the ManyOne platform.
Mr. Nielson has uniquely deep roots with ManyOne. Twenty years ago, he worked alongside ManyOne CEO Joe Firmage. As Chief Scientist and Director of Development at Serius Corp., Mr. Nielson led engineering teams in the development of the original AppBuilder object-oriented software development tool. In 1993, Novell, Inc. acquired Serius and the flagship AppBuilder product for $24 million USD, and the technology was renamed AppWare. While at Novell, Matt re-implemented and enhanced the AppWare window object layout tools and headed cross-divisional consideration of human/machine interface issues.