George Gordon relocated to Tampa Bay from Silicon Valley in 2001 to become Chairman and CEO of Enporion, a business-to-business electronic commerce company. Gordon is an active leader in the Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg start-up community, and has more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing and information services. He served on the Florida Technology, Scholarship and Research Board and the TBTF Foundation Board. He was Chairman of the Board of the Tampa Bay Innovation Center, and recently became the Chairman of the Executive Steering Committee of First Wave, a Federal EDA grant project to promote the growth of entrepreneurial and technology companies in Tampa Bay.

Eric Higgs started his career in 1988 with KPMG Peat Marwick as an information technology consultant. He later joined Citysearch in 1995 as the Chief Information Officer, leading the design, development and implementation of the operating and information infrastructure within a hyper-growth environment that culminated in their successful public offering after a merger with Ticketmaster. Shortly thereafter Higgs was named Chief Operating Officer of Cerego, LLC, a company executing a new technology paradigm for adaptive learning. Higgs is also an accomplished sculptor and has major public installations in museums and private collections around the world.