David G. Arscott is a technology investor and financial executive with deep experience in supporting early-stage technology ventures. He serves as Treasurer of Compass Technology Group, where he oversees financial operations, investment strategy, and long-term fiscal stewardship.

Arscott’s career spans financial management, technology investment, and advisory roles in growing companies. His work includes evaluating emerging technologies, guiding corporate governance, and helping organizations build sustainable financial footing.

Brewster Kahle is the visionary digital archivist, engineer and entrepreneur who founded the non-profit Internet Archive in 1996 and co-founded the commercial web-crawl company Alexa Internet the same year. Under Kahle’s leadership, Internet Archive launched the iconic Wayback Machine in 2001, enabling the public to browse archived versions of websites and preserving vast tracts of the web for posterity.

Aaron Sylvan helps small-cap tech companies to overcome technical challenges, including resolving technical debt caused by AI/Vibe-Coding or simply inexperienced startup teams. Specialty in Enterprise SaaS and migration to/from Cloud. He also performs Technical Due Diligence for Angels, VCs, PE, and M&A.

Charles W. Bachman was a pioneering software engineer whose work helped establish the modern concept of the database management system. While at General Electric in the early 1960s, he led the development of the Integrated Data Store (IDS), one of the first commercial database management systems and a foundation for the CODASYL network data model. IDS introduced ideas—such as navigational access paths and layered architectures—that shaped mainframe data processing for decades.

Walter F. Bauer was a mathematician, digital computing pioneer, and one of the first entrepreneurs to build a large independent software company. In 1962 he founded Informatics General Corporation, which grew into one of the world’s largest software firms of its era.

Nolan Bushnell is a legendary entrepreneur whose work helped launch both the video game industry and the modern concept of family entertainment centers. In 1972 he founded Atari, Inc., the company that brought video games into mainstream culture with groundbreaking titles such as Pong and later Asteroids, Centipede, and the Atari 2600 home console. Under Bushnell’s leadership, Atari rapidly became one of the fastest-growing companies in American history, shaping the early direction of home computing and electronic entertainment.