Populex is made up of talented people who bring collectively over 100 years of experience to the needs of election officials and a nation of voters. This team includes:

Sanford Morganstein
President and Founder
Mr. Morganstein has more than 35 years of technology based experience in both entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 companies. For the past 20 years, he has led several new high technology corporations. His leadership includes the founding of Dytel Corporation to capitalize on his invention of the Automated Attendant. As the founder and President of Dytel, he raised the required venture capital from major investor groups, recruited a top-ranked management team, and developed Dytel into a successful corporation. In recognition of these accomplishments, the Chicago Industrial Communications Association recognized him as their 1990 Man of the Year. Shortly after the Dytel experience, Morganstein was asked to serve as Chief, Technology and Competitiveness, for the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs during Illinois Governor Jim Edgar’s administration. In this capacity, he was responsible for strategic planning and new initiatives in biotechnology, telecommunications, business modernization and commercialization of advanced university research. He also served as a member of several Governor’s task forces. Mr. Morganstein currently holds 29 US and several foreign patents for telecommunications and high technology products. He has been accepted as an expert witness in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He received his BS and MS in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, respectively.

David Patterson
Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
Mr. Patterson has been in software development and system architecture since 1967. He was most recently Vice President of Engineering and Chief Scientist for Teledesic, responsible for requirements definition, system architecture, network design and regulatory support for their global broadband satellite network. At Teledesic, a company with significant backing from Bill Gates and Craig McCaw, he developed the “Internet-in-the-Sky” system architecture: a constellation of packet-switched satellites interconnected by inter-satellite links. This design was the basis for successful fundraising (raised over $800 million) and regulatory effort (awarded domestic and international license for 1,000 GHz of satellite spectrum). Previously he led large teams developing operations support systems and other software applications for the telecommunications industry. A key attribute of many of these applications is the careful engineering of the human interface, a knowledge base Mr. Patterson has used extensively in his work with Populex. Mr. Patterson graduated from Hendrix College with a BA in Mathematics and received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and the University of California, respectively.

David Henderson
Vice President, Public Affairs
Mr. Henderson has extensive experience in all major facets of public affairs – public and media relations, government affairs, community relations and corporate communications. He has a proven record of success in solving problems, resolving conflict and building consensus. In the government affairs arena, he is a seasoned lobbyist and has effectively resolved difficult issues and obtained the support of local, state and federal officials. His corporate experience includes some 30 years in the oil industry with Unocal Corporation and The UNO-VEN Company. Reporting directly to UNO-VEN’s President and CEO, he directed all of the company’s public affairs activities. After UNO-VEN, Henderson formed Henderson Public Affairs, Inc., and serving as President, provided public affairs project support to major international oil industry and pipeline company clients, including BP, Shell Pipeline Company, Equilon Pipeline Company, Enbridge Energy Partners, MCN Energy Group, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company and Westcoast Energy. Mr. Henderson received his BA from Ohio State University and his Master of Management through the Executive Masters Program of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Robert Oliver
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Oliver's most recent position was Senior Vice President of Intrado Inc., responsible for R&D and technical support operations. Prior to Intrado, Mr. Oliver was President and CEO of Lucent Public Safety Systems (LPSS), a wholly owned venture of Lucent Technologies that was responsible for the creation and deployment of 9-1-1 services across the US. The venture was sold to Intrado in May 2001. LPSS and Intrado provide emergency 9-1-1 systems and services to the telecommunications industry and to local and state government public safety organizations responsible for 9-1-1 response. Mr. Oliver’s experience includes management relationships with governmental customers similar to Populex customers. Customers include virtually all telephone operating companies and municipalities in most states. Mr. Oliver's career with Lucent Technologies and its predecessor companies, NCR and AT&T, spans 33 years of focus on high technology products and businesses. He graduated from Northwestern University with BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and from the Kellogg Executive program.

Paul Fricke
Board Director
Mr. Fricke is Senior Portfolio Manager, Segall Bryant & Hamill Investment Counsel where he builds on an investment research and management career that started in 1965. He is a founding director and remains active in the MIT Enterprise Forum of Chicago. The MIT Enterprise Forum is an organization created to give practical business advice to emerging technology companies. Mr. Fricke has been an advisor to many successful companies and has served on several boards of directors. A Chartered Financial Analyst, Mr. Fricke received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Chemical Engineering and MBA from the University of Chicago with concentration in Finance.