Who Is (and Was) Who at Clickshare

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Click on any name to find out about (names and present or former positions):
William P. Densmore, chairman
David M. Oliver, technical director
Felix Kramer marketing director
Michael J. Callahan, software designer
John Kemp, programmer
Wayne Tvedt, programmer
Julius Rosenwald, board member
Lynn Duncan, operations manager
William J. Drummey, executive recruiter

William P. Densmore Jr., (413) 458-8001 <densmore@clickshare.com> 42, was the chairman of Clickshare's Board of Directors until 13 November 1996 and will shortly resume that role.
Densmore is also Newshare's (Clickshare parent corporation) president and managing director -- editorial, as well as co-founder. He has 20 years of editorial experience, including four with The Associated Press as an editor and reporter in Boston, Chicago, Springfield, Ill., and San Francisco. He has written for The Boston Globe, served as an associate editor of Chicago Lawyer magazine and was New York bureau chief for Business Insurance magazine, published by Crain Communications Inc. For nine years from 1983 he was a majority stockholder and president of Williamstown Advocate Inc., which owned and published two weekly newspapers in Berkshire County, Mass. During his tenure the papers' revenues and circulation more than tripled. The newspapers were sold in late 1992. He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. From mid-1993 until late 1994 he served as editorial director and special-projects editor at Turley Publications Inc., in Palmer, Mass., before leaving to found Newshare. He is a consultant to Empire Information Services Inc. of Schenectady, N.Y. Densmore and his family reside in Williamstown, Mass.

David M. Oliver, <oliver@gang.umass.edu> 40, served until 4 December, 1996 as managing director/technology of Clickshare Corp. and is a former member of its Board of Directors. Here's his current resume.
Oliver is chief architect of the Clickshare Access and Payment Service. A Newshare co-founder, until he began to focus all his efforts on Clickshare, he served as technical director of the Center for Geometry Analysis, Numerics and Graphics, an internationally recognized center for geometry research at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Oliver has over 12 years' experience in delivering very-high-performance computing environments to the scientific research community. His experience includes scientific image processing, real-time computer graphics, distributed computing and network information retrieval (NIR). Oliver is fluent in the Internet protocol suite, familiar with LAN, MAN, and WAN telecom standards, and has complete familiarity with both the client and server portions of most modern network computing applications. Oliver holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a graduate degree in landscape architecture from UMass- Amherst. From January through mid-July, 1995, Mr. Oliver was on leave from his UMass post conducting research at the Technische Universitaet Berlin in Germany. He and his family reside in Belchertown, Mass., near Amherst.

Felix Kramer, (212) 866-4864) < felixk@panix.com> 47, served as marketing director for Clickshare Corp. and was a member of its Board of Directors until 9 December 1996.
Kramer is also president of Kramer Communications, an online promotion and electronic publishing business. He was responsible for PR and marketing for MicroMind's SlipKnot, an award-winning Web browser for shell account users, and for the promotional launch of Metrobeat, the first comprehensive online guide to a city's events (later acquired by Citysearch). He helped launch the fax-broadcasting twice-weekly intelligencer, Folio: First Day, for Cowles Business Media. He's the co-author of "Desktop Publishing Success: How to Start & Run a DTP Business" (Irwin), which has sold 20,000 copies in eight reprintings since publication in 1991, and was called "the bible of the desktop publishing business" by the editor-in-chief of Publish magazine. He has written newspaper and magazine articles, lectured at on-line roundtables, conferences and trade shows, and worked as a labor journalist. He has worked as executive director of several nonprofit organizations, as legislative assistant to a Member of Congress, and created and raised funds for major public events. He is founding chair of the NY Macintosh User Group's Online Special Interest Group. A graduate of Cornell University, he and his family live in New York City.

Michael J. Callahan, <mjc@stelias.com> 26, served until mid-1996 as director of software development at Clickshare Corp. and is a former member of its Board of Directors.
Callahan is a co-developer of the Clickshare software. Co-developer of the Stelias Workgroup Server, and a former Rhodes Scholar, he is on leave from a Junior Research Fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford University, where he is pursuing a doctoral degree in pure mathematics. He is a consultant for the Stelias Workgroup and involved with the Coda distributed file system project at Carnegie-Mellon University. Callahan has 15-years experience in computing and mathematics research, with published papers in computer vision and massively parallel computing, numerical simulation of minimal and capillary surfaces, and scientific visualization. He has presented invited talks at mathematics and physics conferences in the United States, Europe and Japan. Michael graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in social theory, economics and politics. Elected to Phil Beta Kappa, from 1991 to 1994, Michael was at St John's and Balliol Colleges at Oxford University. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

John Kemp, <advgoat@berkshire.net> 28, served as a Clickshare programmer and was briefly a member of the Board of Directors.
Kemp is a freelance writer, designer, and software developer. He holds a degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, Brighton, England, and has over 10 years experience in providing mission-critical computer systems to commercial users. He is the Internet Manager of AdventureGoat Online, a web-based adventure travel information service. He has also travelled extensively, most recently from New York City to Williamstown, MA, and is a competitive triathlete and runner.

Wayne Tvedt, <wayne@clickshare.com>, has been a Clickshare programmer.

Julius Rosenwald, <jrnvt@sover.net> 49, was a member of Clickshare's Board of Directors, and served briefly as Chair before leaving the Board on 9 December, 1996.
Rosenwald is a private investor. He is a freelance writer based in Bennington, Vermont. After graduating from Williams College in 1969 he taught kindergarten through fourth grade in a one-room school house and then went on to teach at the high school level. He has been involved in local politics for many years with a particular interest in groundwater protection. He is a regular contributor to the "Berkshire Eagle" and is currently writing a book on bicycle travel in developing countries. As president of Vermont Cycle Systems, he is involved with human-powered vehicle advocacy issues.

Lynn A. Duncan, < lynn@clickshare.com> 34, served as operations consultant to Clickshare Corp. and as a member of its Board of Directors until 4 December 1996.
Duncan holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.S in Management from Antioch University. Formerly with the Massachusetts-based publishing company, Berkshire Advocate, Inc., Duncan served as Manager of Human Resources and Business Operations. She has been advising Newshare Corp. with business development, human resource and operations management, and accounting systems. She resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

William J. Drummey, 508/975-7558 < wjdrum@ultranet.com>, was Clickshare's retained executive management consultant for a CEO search.