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30-Day
Money-Back Guarantee*
Try
the MusicPad Pro risk-free for 30 days and if you aren't completely
convinced that it will forever change the way you organize,
read and perform music, simply return it in the original packaging
for a full refund. No questions asked!
* Valid
only on direct purchases from FreeHand Systems. |
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Mac
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Kim
Lorz
President, CEO, Chairman
Kim
Lorz, one of the founders of FreeHand Systems, Inc., has spent
more than 25 years in the investment banking arena where he
developed a keen sense of how to assess the management and
performance potential of emerging growth companies. His understanding
of strategic and tactical business planning has been applied
to assist companies in financial restructuring to maximize
valuation. He not only provides the nurturing and support
required to develop a company from an early stage, focusing
its attention on the sound fundamentals that are required
for success, but has managed the overall operations of many
companies. He has a keen understanding of the financial controls,
procedures and structure required for a successful operation
and the ability to recognize appropriate staffing talent and
to motivate and incentivize employees.
Mr.
Lorz is a member of the Business Advisory Council to the National
Republican Congressional Committee, is the Manager of KAL
Equity Capital Fund, LLC, a venture fund providing start up
"second angel round" financing to technology, telecommunications
and Internet companies. In addition to managing the KAL Equity
Capital Fund, Mr. Lorz has mentored and managed FreeHand Systems
from inception to present. He has continued to manage the
financing and development of its various products and successfully
completed the acquisition of a leading digital catalog company.
His previous experience includes many years of association
with national and regional investment banking firms in a broad
spectrum of industries from telecommunications, gaming, film
studios, fast food franchises and technology companies. He
has managed companies from the idea stage through sale or
public offerings. Mr. Lorz has formed lasting investment banking
relationships that include an extensive national and international
Wall Street network. |
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Mike
Hamilton
Senior
Vice President of Operations & Business Development
Mr.
Hamilton, one of the founders of FreeHand Systems, Inc., led
the initial team of engineers that developed FreeHand’s
flagship product, the MusicPad Pro. He is the author of the
MusicPad patent and currently manages the Operations of the
company as well as developing strategic partnerships with
other companies and individuals. He has held a variety of
executive management and engineering positions during the
past 20 years, most recently managing the engineering effort
at Cylink Corp. and designing a variety of encryption/security
products. He has also designed a wide range of communication
products as well as precision time and frequency equipment
and held a number of upper management and executive positions
in the High Tech industry.
Mr.
Hamilton has held technical advisory positions for both ANSI
and ETSI standards committees as a subject matter expert in
the area of Time and Frequency and Digital Communications.
He received his Bachelors degree in Applied Mathematics from
San Jose State University. |
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Ted
Schroeder
Chief Technology Officer
Ted
Schroeder, one of the founder of FreeHand Systems, Inc., was
a founding engineer at Alteon Web Systems, Inc. a world leader
in content aware switching, subsequently acquired by Nortel
Networks Corporation (Symbol:NT). He is a member of the Technical
Advisory Board of NetOctave, a Raleigh, NC-based developer
of silicon-based network security solutions and has been a
regular speaker and panel member at technical conferences
around the world.
Mr.
Schroeder's 20 year business career includes software consulting
in the data and voice networking industry and engineering
and engineering management at a number of startups, primarily
in data and voice networking. He holds a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Math from Case Western Reserve University, where
he graduated magna cum laude, and a Master of Science Degree
in Computer Engineering. Mr. Schroeder is a singing member
and a Director of the Santa Clara Chorale and an accomplished
pianist. |
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Iris
Grable
Vice President
of Manufacturing
Ms.
Grable has over 25 years of General Management experience,
including Sales & Marketing, Business Development and
Operations in the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS),
Disk Drive, and VoIP Industries. With over 14 years of EMS
experience, she has contributed in all levels of the manufacturing
environment including International Manufacturing Services
(IMS), now Celestica Corporation, SCI Systems, and AVEX Corporation.
Ms Grable was a co-founder of IMS (International Manufacturing
Services) and as VP of Marketing and Business Development
she helped facilitate the start-up in the US and Asia which
later grew to revenues in excess of $300million annually.
She managed the worldwide representative base, provided business
development, helped facilitate the acquisition of Pentagon
System, contributed to taking IMS public and was responsible
for several high-end customers with product builds in Asia
and Mexico. Celestica Corporation later acquired IMS.
Most
recently Ms. Grable was VP of Worldwide Manufacturing for
Quicknet Technologies, a leading provider of VoIP products
and services where she converted all in-house procurement
to a full turnkey product saving 45-70% over 5 product lines.
In addition, she authored and implemented a variety of processes
and procedures to effectively improve the efficiency of the
Manufacturing, Production and New Product Introduction (NPI)
functions.
Ms.
Grable holds a B.S. degree in Business Management from Pepperdine
University, a CPM (Certified Purchasing Manager) from UCLA
and was an adviser and board member of Manufacturing Market
Insider (MMI) for several years. |
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Sarah
Shreve
Vice President
Sales
Ms.
Shreve has over 20 years sales experience in business communications,
voice, data, and network services businesses. As Vice President
Sales she has the overall responsibility for FreeHand’s
efforts to sell its products into retail music stores, major
accounts and other channels throughout the United States and
Internationally. Ms. Shreve has most recently been Vice President
and General Manager of Expanets where she was responsible
for a $50M business and a10% increase in margin. She serviced
as a Regional Vice President for Lucent Technologies, Inc.
from 1996 through 1999 where she had responsibility for P/L
for a $150M Business Communications Products business that
grew by 42% overall during her tenure. Her early sales experience
was with AT&T Global Business Systems from 1978 - 1996.
Ms.
Shreve is a two time recipient of the Corporate Excellence
Award at AT&T and was a five time AT&T Leaders Council
member. She has a BA degree from Stanford University in Palo
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Marlin
Eller
Chief Technical Officer
Marlin
Eller was the co-founder and CEO of Sunhawk.com Corp./Sunhawk
Digital Music LLC, acquired by FreeHand Systems, Inc. in April
2003. From 1982 to 1995, Mr. Eller held the position of Manager,
Software Development at Microsoft Corporation where he was
the development lead for GDI, the graphics subsystem of Windows
1.0; development lead for Pen Windows; and the designer of
handwriting recognition software. While at Microsoft, he was
named as the inventor of six patents, led groups involved
in video and data compression and encryption and started the
Microsoft online services.
Mr.
Eller received his Bachelor of Art, Phi Beta Kappa and magna
cum laude, in Mathematics/Physics from Whitman College in
1974 and his Master of Science in Mathematics from the University
of Washington in 1979. He co-authored the book, Barbarians
Led by Bill Gates, published by Henry Holt, Inc. in 1998,
and co-authored the article, “Multiple-Scattering Calculations
of X-Ray Absorption Spectra” published by The American
Physical Society in 1995. He was a visiting instructor in
Computer Science at Williams College for two years prior to
joining Microsoft and serves on the Board of Firefighters
National Trust, a non-profit organization supporting the families
of fallen firefighters by providing bereavement counseling,
short term financial support for families and scholarships
for their children. Mr. Eller is also an accomplished musician. |
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Clyde
Beswick
Chief Marketing Director
Clyde
Beswick provides the marketing strategies and oversees all
creative execution for the company. He has been involved in
marketing and advertising since 1972 with experience in financial
services, consumer electronics, insurance, credit card marketing,
retailing, package goods, automotive, fund raising, software
and many others. He has managed all areas of the marketing
process with key emphasis on effective, results-oriented marketing,
developing and implementing marketing plans which include
direct response marketing, Web marketing, lead generation
and collateral marketing. Working in Philadelphia, New York
City and California, clients have included Mitsubishi, General
Motors, Ford, Warner Lambert, Wells Fargo Bank, SunBank and
WebTV.
He
has held positions as Executive Vice President, Direct Marketing
Corporation of America, overseeing all divisions of the oldest
direct marketing agency in Los Angeles, started his own advertising
agency in 1986 specializing in financial services, fund raising
and consumer goods advertising, was Creative Director with
Direct Partners, a $50 million agency with clients such as
Web TV, Mitsubishi Motors and Direct TV and Direct Response
Specialists, a Los Altos, CA-based full service advertising
and direct marketing agency, founded in 1994, with special
emphasis on direct marketing and Internet based marketing
services. |
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Bruce
Donnelly
Chief
Music Officer
Bruce
Donnelly is a Composer/Arranger/Orchestrator in Southern California.
Recent projects include work for films "The Contender", "Call
Me Claus" and "Out of the Black", the HBO series "Mind of
the Married Man", recording artists Innis, Chris Duran, Thelma
Houston, and the Yes Symphonic Tour and upcoming album "Magification".
Other
compositions and arrangements include numerous contributions
to the NBC, CBS, and Network Music libraries, the PBS specials
"The Memory Of All That . . . Gershwin on Ice Starring Dorothy
Hamill," "Gung Ho", and many shows for Disney, including ABC's
"Disney Easter Parade", and "Doug Live" for Disney World.
A
graduate of the University of Southern California, Mr. Donnelly
also has composed a number of serious works, and performs
occasionally as a pianist with the San Diego Symphony and
San Diego Chamber Orchestra. He is the Chairman of the company's
Technical Advisory Board. |
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Karen
Page Kupfer
V.P.
Corporate
Development, Secretary/Treasurer
Ms.
Kupfer began her business career with a publicly-held insurance
company where she developed expertise in operations, SEC regulations
and compliance and investor/shareholder relations. She then
worked for a Citicorp subsidiary where she began to hone her
marketing skills. She continued to expand her marketing capabilities
when she joined the oldest direct marketing agency in Los
Angeles. Subsequently, she worked for one of the largest direct
mail production companies in the U.S. and at a publicly-held
direct mail manufacturer where she had responsibilities in
both operations and sales. She has spent the last 10 years
affiliated with investment banking.
Ms.
Kupfer is a member of the Board of Directors of the Santa
Clara Chorale, a member of American Association of University
Women, Who's Who in American Business and is the corporate
secretary of KAL Equity Capital Fund. Ms. Kupfer graduated
from California State University Los Angeles with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Political Science where she also completed
post-graduate work and earned an Early Childhood Teaching
Credential.
Ms.
Kupfer is an accomplished musician, having played the piano
since the age of four. |
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