Company Overview

Virtual Heroes Inc. (VHI), the “Advanced Learning Technology Company”, creates collaborative interactive learning solutions for Federal Systems, Healthcare and Corporate Training markets. Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT) leverage simulation learning and digital game-based learning paradigms to accelerate learning, increase profi ciency and reduce costs. The company was founded in January 2004 by veterans from the interactive entertainment and defense simulation communities. Virtual
Heroes’ headquarters are located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.

As a global market leader in this nascent field, VHI applications facilitate highly interactive, self-paced learning and instructor-led, distributed team training on the Virtual Heroes Advanced Learning Technology (A.L.T.) platform. Major components of this platform include the Unreal® Engine 3 by Epic Games (www.unrealtechnology.com) and Dynamic Virtual Human Technology (DVHT) created by Virtual Heroes. DVHT combines best-in-class electronic computer game technology with a digital human physiology engine, digital pharmacokinetic drug models, accurate biomechanical parameters and artifi cial intelligence subroutines for the most realistic virtual humans available anywhere. An additional hallmark of our learning platform is that we create our virtual, 3D, data-driven training applications with the most advanced performance assessment technology available, so that users and their instructors get detailed feedback on performance vs. established tasks, conditions and standards.

Management Team

Jerry Heneghan CEO, Virtual Heroes Inc.

Mr. Jerry Heneghan is the founder and CEO of Virtual Heroes Inc. Most recently, Jerry served as an Executive Producer for the America’s Army Game Project (www.americasarmy.com) focusing on the creation of training applications based on the game. Prior to starting Virtual Heroes, Jerry was a Program Manager in the Technology Assisted Learning Division of the Research Triangle Institute (RTI). While at RTI, Jerry was responsible for creating and fielding several new medical training technologies for first responders. Before his work at RTI, Jerry was a Game Producer at Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Entertainment. Prior to work in the interactive entertainment industry, Jerry served as a U.S. Army Aviator (AH-64 pilot) in assignments all over the world. Jerry holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and a BS in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy. Jerry is the President and Co-Founder of the North Carolina Advanced Learning Technology Association (ncalta.org) and a published author, most recently appearing in The Design and Use of Simulation Computer Games in Education, published by Sense Publishers (ISBN: 978-90-8790-156-1).

Randy Brown CTO, Virtual Heroes Inc.

Mr. Randy Brown is the Virtual Heroes Chief Technology Officer. Randy has an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University. Prior to joining Virtual Heroes, he developed interactive 3D graphics software at Amoco, Digital Equipment, Ex Machina, Data General, SAS Institute, Southpeak Interactive, and the Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina. Randy also directed scientific c oil exploration, graphics library, visualization, training, education, simulation, and gaming content for a wide range of commercial, government, and private organizations.

Bob Pickens, CFO, Virtual Heroes Inc.

Bob Pickens brings years of success and experience in the small, emerging growth business world. Bob has been a CEO, COO, or CFO of companies for the past 21 years, having taken them from start-up to IPO, from first venture funding to sale at premium value, from emerging growth stage to sale to Fortune 250 company. Bob has international experience from having been North American CEO of a publicly traded German company and from starting and operating international divisions of US parents. Most experience has been with companies in technology sectors which include online deliverables. He has orchestrated raising over $100 million through venture capital, debt financings, strategic partner investments, IPO’s and sale of companies. Prior to beginning his entrepreneurial pursuits Bob spent 17 years with Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation in increasingly responsible operations, marketing, and sales assignments. He has served on the Board of Directors of Red Storm Entertainment (Tom Clancy’s video games company) prior to its sale to Ubisoft, DataFlux, prior to its sale to SAS; and Interactive Magic prior to its IPO. Currently, Bob serves as part time CFO of First Research, a Raleigh-based company recently sold to Dun and Bradstreet (with his extensive involvement). He is a graduate of Davidson College with a B.A. in psychology and has done extensive MBA and MS in Applied Behavioral Science work at Johns Hopkins University, along with several other institutions.

Henry F. Schwetzke Executive Producer, Virtual Heroes Inc.

Mr. Henry Schwetzke is currently the Executive Producer for Virtual Heroes. He served as the Art Director for Virtual Heroes from its inception and successfully established production pipelines, defined standards, implemented procedures and quality assurances which continue to keep Virtual Heroes graphics at the forefront today. Prior to Virtual Heroes, Henry worked at RTI and had a lengthy career in video games working for companies such as Microprose and Hasbro Interactive. Henry has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Corporate Advisory Board

Bryan Bergeron, MD currently maintains staff positions at Mass General Hospital and the HST (Health Sciences and Technology) division of Harvard Medical School and MIT, where he teaches medicine, technology and business. Bryan is the author of 21 books and creator of 25+ software programs including his most recent publication “Developing Serious Games” (Charles River Media). He directed the development of a dozen serious games supporting the curriculum at Harvard Medical School and MIT. Bryan is the former Chief Scientist to the Medical Learning Company (1999-2003). He also served as the former Acting Chief Scientist of Kurzweil Technologies (1998-1999). He is an avid marathoner and was co-developer on four U.S. patents.
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N. Ty Smith, MD attended Harvard College and Medical School, with a subsequent internship at Boston Children’s Hospital and residency in anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After two years in the Navy, he spent nine years on the faculty of Stanford University and twenty-four at the University of California, San Diego. During the 45 years of his professional life, he spent much of his time with a computer. His work has included cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology, EEG analysis and display, closed-loop control, drug interactions, physiologic and pharmacologic mathematical modeling, simulation, noninvasive monitoring, the human pharmacology of inhaled anesthetic agents, and automated record keeping, including voice recognition. He was fortunate in that his lab developed the first microcomputer in medicine (1973). He was a founding Editor of the Journal of Clinical Monitoring, the founding President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia, and has served on and helped put together many meetings. As founding Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Electronic Media and Information Technology, he helped bring the ASA into the electronic world. His current work includes mathematical modeling and simulation of physiology and pharmacology. During his prolific career, he has authored over 400 publications.
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Scot Wingo is Co-Founder, President and CEO of ChannelAdvisor; CEO and co-founder of AuctionRover.com (acquired by GoTo.com) and CEO and co-founder of Stingray Software (acquired by RogueWave).
http://www.channeladvisor.com/

Michael Zyda is director of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s GamePipe Laboratory, located at the Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California. His research interests include computer graphics; large-scale, networked 3D virtual environments; modeling human and organizational behavior; interactive computer generated story, modeling and simulation; and interactive games. Zyda holds a lifetime appointment as a National Associate of the National Academies. He received a DSc in computer science from Washington University, St. Louis.
http://gamepipe.usc.edu

Grace W. Ueng, Founder and President of Savvy Marketing Group held executive roles at five venture backed startups that yielded investors over $1 billion. This included OpenSite Technologies which was sold to Siebel Systems where she held the role of senior director, product marketing. Her 20 years of work experience spans from consulting for global strategic management consultancy, Bain & Company, to working inside Fortune 500 brand leaders Coca-Cola, IBM, Time Warner, General Mills and Clorox, to contributing to five successful consumer and enterprise software startups that had successful exits through IPO or acquisition. Grace earned her undergraduate degree in management science from MIT and her MBA from Harvard BusinessSchool. http://www.savvymarketinggroup.com