Newshare Corp. Founders and Key Staff

William P. Densmore Jr.

William P. Densmore Jr. (Bill), 42, is a founder and president of Newshare Corp. He has 20 years of editorial experience, including four with a major wire service and three with specialty publishers, having worked in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere. 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. The newspapers were sold in late 1992. He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A consultant to Empire Information Services Inc. of Schenectady, N.Y., he left a post as editorial director of Turley Publications Inc. of Palmer, Mass., to head the Newshare Project. He is also serving as Newshare's managing director/editorial. Densmore resides in Williamstown, Mass.

email: bill@newshare.com

David M. Oliver

David M. Oliver, (Dave), 39, is a founder and director of Newshare Corporation, and serves as Newshare's Managing Director-Technology. Dave is the principal architect of the Clickshare(sm) Publishing System. Dave is also Technical Director of the Center for Geometry Analysis Numerics and Graphics, an internationally recognized center for geometry research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Oliver has over 14 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 is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and holds a graduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He resides in Belchertown, Mass.

email: dave@newshare.com

Michael J. Callahan

Michael J. Callahan, (Michael), 26, is a Junior Research Fellow of Hertford College at Oxford University, where he is pursuing a doctoral degree in pure mathematics. 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 Phi Beta Kappa, from 1991 to 1994, Michael was a Rhodes Scholar and Jowett Senior Scholar at St John's and Balliol Colleges at Oxford University. Presently Michael divides his time between England and the East Coast of the United States. He is a Clickshare(SM) technology architect.

email: michael@newshare.com

Felix Kramer

Felix Kramer, 46, Marketing Director for Clickshare, is president of Kramer Communications, a Manhattan-based online promotion and electronic publishing business. He was recently responsible for PR and marketing for MicroMind's SlipKnot, an award-winning Web browser for shell account users. 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 Internet Special Interest Group.

email: felix@newshare.com

James C. Roberts III.

James C. Roberts III, 41, is associated with Newshare Corp. as a strategic consultant. Mr. Roberts is a principal and managing director in the Los Angeles office of Pacific Strategies, an international strategic advisory firm, where he advises technology-based companies on strategic alliances, capital investments, mergers and acquisitions and international markets. Presently, Mr. Roberts is working with interactive multimedia software publishers on these matters. Previously, Mr. Roberts practiced corporate law, advising on venture capital, leveraged buyouts and technology investments. Prior to his law practice, Mr. Roberts was with SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) on foreign assignments regarding long-range planning, investment and political-risk analysis. Mr. Roberts received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, his M.A. from Stanford University and his B.S. from the University of California, Berkleley. Mr. Roberts speaks English, French and Bahasa Indonesian. He resides in Rolling Hills, Calif.

email: jim@newshare.com

Lynn A. Duncan

Lynn A. Duncan, 33, has been providing consulting services to Newshare Corp. since mid-June. Duncan previously served as human resources and accounting manager at Berkshire Advociate Inc., publisher of The Advocate newsweeklies of Williamstown, Mass., and Lenox, Mass. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in management from Antioch University. Duncan has advised Newshare Corp. with concept development, writing and production of materials for prospective shareholders, customers and business partners, plus creation of a computerized accounting system for general-ledger and operating accounts. She resides in South Williamstown.

email: lynn@newshare.com

Jonathan M. Vankin

Jonathan M. Vankin, 33, has been a journalist for 12 years -- the last two in Tokyo where he worked as a reporter and editor at the Daily Yomiuri, the English-language edition of Japan's (and the world's) largest circulation daily, the Yomiuri Shimbun. Vankin, winner of three New England Press Association awards, a "Bay Area Project Censored" award and (as editor) a National Newspaper Association award; previously served as news editor at Metro, of San Jose, Calif., the alternative weekly for Silicon Valley, managing editor of The Advocate in Williamstown, Mass., and staff writer at Worcester Magazine in Worcester, Mass. He is the author of two books, and (with John Whalen) created a web site based on his second book, 50 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time (Citadel, 1995). The site has been named to Point Communications Web Hall of Fame and was a Newsweek "Cyberscope" selection (March 6, 1995) as well as a Newsday "Web Site of the Week" (March 12, 1995). It has also been selected as a Euronet "Hot Site of the Nite" and a "Spider's Pick of the Day." Vankin now lives in Boston. He is an associated editor and web designer for Newshare.

email: jon@newshare.com

J. Alexander Brooks

J. Alexander Brooks, 36, is founding editor of the Newshare Syndicate. Brooks is owner and publisher of The Petersburgh (N.Y.) Press, a small-town weekly newspaper in eastern Rensselaer County bordering Massachusetts. He has long experience as a magazine and newspaper writer and as a teacher. He is a 1981 graduate of Harvard College (B.A., English) and taught English, Art, Geometry and American History at The Boston School in Williamstown from 1982 through 1986. A 1991 feature-length article he wrote on plans for a regional solid-waste facility for Berkshire Magazine, a glossy regional quarterly, took top reporting honors at the Regional Publishers Association convention. Brooks lives in Petersburgh and Williamstown with his family.

email: alex@newshare.com

Bernard Re Jr.

Bernard Re Jr., (Bernie), 44, is a web designer at Asbury Park Press Publications in New Jersey. Prior to that he was manager of computer graphics at Turley Publications Inc., of Palmer, Mass., a family-owned publisher of weekly and monthly periodicals and major commercial web-offset printer to New England colleges. Re has many years of marketing, design, PR and advertising-agency experience around metropolitan New York and is experienced on a variety of electronic-publishing platforms. Founder, CLIP AWAY/Standard Advertising Products Inc. Author of two books, "Direct Marketing Coupon Designs" and "Retail Advertising Designs" (both McGraw-Hill). From 1976 until 1988 he owned Re Design of Stamford, Conn. Among clients were IBM, Conrac Corp., Hipotronics Inc., Xerox Corp., and Emery Air Freight Corp. From 1991-1993, he published a regional monthly lifestyle magazine, "Around the Corner," in northwestern Connecticut. He attended New England School of Art and Massachusetts College of Art. Re resides in North Canaan, Conn. He serves on the Newshare Corp. Board of Directors.

email: bernie@newshare.com

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