John Frick, Chairman of our Board of Directors, joined Chisholm Private Capital Partners in 1996, helping to form and capitalize Chisholm (II). Mr. Frick has seventeen years of experience in private capital investing. Prior to joining Chisholm Private Capital Partners, Mr. Frick had extensive experience in managing and investing in leveraged buyouts and turnaround situations. Mr. Frick received an MBA from Stanford University Business School, a BS degree from Allegheny College and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Nicholas V. Duncan is Critical’s founder and one of its leading financial partners. Mr. Duncan founded Global Combined Technologies, Inc. (“Global”) and served as its CEO until its sale to a public company in 1998. During this time, Global’s revenues grew to $80MM annually. Mr. Duncan served as CEO of Critical until January 2002. He has over twenty years of diversified entrepreneurial and managerial experience. He has built a highly qualified and experienced team focusing on innovative solutions and outstanding customer service.

Shannon Self represents a principal investor group on Critical's Board. Mr. Self is an attorney practicing law in Oklahoma City, concentrating in the areas of Commercial Transactions Oil and Gas Real Estate Corporate Law and Venture Capital.  Mr. Self, a CPA since 1980, is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law (1984) and is an active member of the Oklahoma and American Bar Associations.

Max Hopper founded the firm Max D. Hopper Associates, Inc., in 1995 after retiring from AMR Corporation. During Mr. Hopper's 20-year tenure at AMR, he served as CIO of AMR, leading AMR’s technology direction, and as CEO of Sabre Information Systems, creating and managing the Sabre Travel Information Network and other business units utilizing AMR’s core competencies. In recognition of this service Hopper has been called the "father of automation" in the travel industry. In 1992 Hopper was recognized by Computerworld as one of the top 25 contributors in the field of information systems. In January 1997, he became the first IS executive to be inducted into the INFOMART's Information Processing Hall of Fame and was recently recognized by the editors of CIO Magazine as one of this decade's 12 most influential IS executives. In June 2000, Mr. Hopper was the recipient of the J. D. Edwards Year 2000 Innovation in Action Leadership Award.

Scott Klososky (Advisory Director), Critical's CEO from 2002 to 2004, brings diverse technology industry experience to Critical. Mr. Klososky was the founder and CEO of webcasts.com, an Internet broadcast network for interactive webcasting. Under his five-year leadership, webcasts.com established itself as the Web’s most full-service broadcast infrastructure company. Webcasts.com was acquired by iBeam for approx $115 million in March of 2000. In 1988, Mr. Klososky founded one of the first profitable Soviet/American joint ventures, ParaGraph, Inc.