Terry Frazier (LinkedIn profile) is a pioneer in the areas of dynamic publishing, personalization, and demand-driven, just-in-time manufacturing of information products for marketing, publishing, and retail distribution. His experience spans technical, operational, and executive roles at companies ranging from small printers and software developers to a venture-funded Internet start-up and a Fortune 100 company.

In 2002 Terry formed Cognovis Group, LLC as a full-time consultancy to aid companies in navigating the rapidly evolving world of personalized documents, multi-channel messaging, and enterprise content.

Since 2002 he has led or participated in numerous successful engagements that reduced cost by outsourcing non-core functions, validated efficient operations through benchmarking; Built strategic partnerships through effective and efficient RFP processes, and; Created solid transition frameworks for modernized customer communications.

Background

In 1995, while working at IBM, he developed several award-winning 1-to-1 marketing applications with clients from small advertisers to Fortune 1000 companies. In 1997 he was a member of the core team that designed, developed, and deployed the first fully demand-driven, retail paperback book production facility in the U.S., located in Nashville, TN. Later, as Director of Manufacturing at Internet-based publisher iUniverse, he was responsible for developing the book industry’s first fully outsourced, zero-inventory, demand-driven supply mechanism.

Previously, Terry was Senior Consultant for CAP Ventures/InfoTrends, a strategic consultancy in the digital print industry, where he published a number of papers on Digital Asset Management, personalization, and digital print. He is a Founding Director of the CRM Association – a nationally chartered, non-profit group formed to help companies build and sustain long-term client and partner relationships. Terry is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, and holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Tyler.

Ty Beard (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of Beard and Harris, PC, a Texas business law firm specializing in merger/acquisition law and negotiation, business structuring, succession planning, asset protection planning and corporate tax planning. In 2006, he founded ETI Investments, Ltd., a private equity group specializing in technology ventures. He’s currently on the board of directors of Tango Networks, Inc.

He earned his B.S. in History from the University of Texas at Tyler in 1988. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1996. He’s a member of the National Rifle Association, Mensa and the State Bar of Texas.

For 31 years, Ty has been a dedicated student of military history and an avid wargamer. He has designed several wargames including the A Fistful of TOWs series. A Fistful of TOWs covers tactical combined arms operations from 1915 through the near future and is even used as an informal training aid by a number of military officers. It also has the largest set of vehicle and gun data ever published in an individual rule set. And as far as we can tell, the largest set of army lists ever printed in a single volume.

Steve Dunbar (LinkedIn profile) is a business strategist and business model innovator in the fields of multi-format and digital information delivery.  He has 25 years of experience – including senior-level management positions – in marketing, business development, process engineering, technology and application development, advanced operations and product/service commercialization for companies such as 3M, iUniverse, and TextCentric.

Steve holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and is a published fiction author. His business strategies and detailed attack plans have allowed companies to slice millions from their cost structures, and enabled multi-million dollar funding for two successful startups. Steve Joined Cognovis Group in 2008. His specialties include identifying lucrative market verticals and benchmarking competitors.



Sean Murphy (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of SKMurphy, a consulting firm for market and business development in the software industry. He has 25 years of experience as a software engineer, engineering manager, project manager, business development specialist, and product marketer with companies such as Cisco Systems, 3Com, AMD, MMC Networks, and VLSI Technology.

Sean has a BS in Mathematical Sciences and an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford. He has helped clients with offerings in electronic design automation, artificial intelligence for design and construction, web-enabled collaboration, search, text analytics, and medical services quality improvement. Companies he has worked directly for include Cisco Systems, 3Com, AMD, MMC Networks, and VLSI Technology.

Sean has a remarkable gift for big-picture thinking, rigorous application of analytical models, and practical application of good ideas across industries.