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The Avvo Team
Management
Board of Directors Rich BartonRich Barton is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Zillow.com. He served as Chief Executive Officer from 2005, when the company was founded, until September 2010 when he passed the baton to Spencer Rascoff. Before co-founding Zillow, Rich founded Expedia.com, the world's largest online travel agency. Expedia was started within Microsoft in 1994, and then spun out in 1999 as a public company; Rich served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Director until 2003. Rich also co-founded and serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Glassdoor.com, where you can rate and review your company or job interview or see how your salary stacks up; and TravelPost, a travel review and social networking site set to re-launch later this year. Rich is also a venture partner at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park and on the boards of directors at Netflix, Avvo, RealSelf.com, and CommonSenseMedia.Org. Rich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. Brad SilverbergPrior to founding Ignition, Brad was a senior vice president at Microsoft, where he served as a member of Microsoft's nine-person executive committee. Responsible for driving all aspects of the Windows businesses, he grew Windows from a $50 million business to a more than $3 billion business. In 1995, for his leadership of Windows 95, Brad was named PC Magazine's "Person of the Year." He led the Internet turnaround at Microsoft and was responsible for Microsoft's Internet platform, including Internet Explorer. In addition, he managed Microsoft's developer and Office divisions before retiring from Microsoft in 1999. Brad holds a Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude in Computer Science from Brown University, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Lou AndreozziA veteran leader in the fields of information services and web technology, Lou is chairman of Bloomberg Law, an online legal research platform and president and CEO of IQNavigator, Inc, a services procurement and workforce software platform. Prior to IQNavigator, Lou was president and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, a division of Reed Elsevier. While managing the $1.2 billion information and technology company, Lou was the driving force behind the development and growth of some of the legal industry's most prominent online tools and services for lawyers and consumers. Before that, Lou was general counsel of LexisNexis. Lou also served as CEO of Inference Data, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of solutions for legal search and data analytics-driven assessment. Lou received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his J.D. from Seton Hall School of Law. He also sits on the Seton Hall School of Law Board of Directors. Mark Britton serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Medical Advisory Board Robert E. McAfee, M.D.Robert E. McAfee, M.D. is the former President of the American Medical Association. He is a renowned general and vascular surgeon, physician and tireless advocate for the prevention of family violence and the improvement of the healthcare, particularly for adolescents. As the 149th President of the AMA from June of 1994 to June of 1995, Dr. McAfee used his influence to educate the medical community on family violence issues and became a nationally known spokesman for these and other important health initiatives. He was appointed to the American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic Violence and served on the Advisory Committee to the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Service in the Clinton administration. He also served as Vice chair of the American Medical Association's Board of Trustees, served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board and as an American Medical Association Commissioner to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Throughout his career Dr. McAfee has earned countless awards and recognition for his work. Dr. McAfee received his B.S from Bates and a M.D. from Tufts University of Medicine. He completed his internship and surgical residency at the Maine Medical Center and later served as an attending surgeon at the Maine Medical Center for 31 years as well as Chief of Surgery and Vascular Surgery at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine. Hunter Wessells M.D.Hunter Wessells M.D. is the Professor and Chair of Urology at the University of Washington and the Chief of Urology at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Wessells is a surgeon, researcher and expert on urogenital trauma and erectile dysfunction. His clinical interests cover a wide area of subjects in urology, ranging from acute injury management to sexual complications of diabetes. Dr. Wessells currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for Urology of the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the American Board of Urology/American Urological Association Examination Committee. Dr. Wessells has also served on several national and international professional and government committees, including the WHO International Consultations on Erectile and Sexual Dsyfunction, an NIDDK working group on Urological Complications of Diabetes, and a National Institutes of Health Symposium on Diabetes. Dr. Wessells received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Georgetown University. He completed his Residency in Urology at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in Reconstructive Urology and Trauma at the University of California in San Francisco. Tina S. Alster, M.D.Tina S. Alster, MD is the founding director of the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery and Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Practicing medicine for more than 20 years, Dr. Alster is a world-recognized leader in cosmetic dermatology and laser surgery, and has published and lectured extensively in the field. She maintains leadership and board positions in several professional organizations. Dr. Alster has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including awards from the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery, Women's Dermatologic Society, and various media outlets including America's Best Doctors, Town & Country's Best Cosmetic Surgeons, America's Elite 1000 and Allure's Influencer of the Year. Dr. Alster has also served as dermatology consultant to Lancôme, assisting with new product development and industry direction. Dr. Alster received her B.S. and M.D degrees from Duke University, where she later established scholarship endowments for women pursuing careers in medicine at the school. She completed her Residency in Dermatology at Yale University and a Dermatologic Laser Surgery Fellowship at University Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Andrew I. Caster, M.D., F.A.C.S.Andrew I. Caster, M.D., F.A.C.S., is one of the few sub-specialists in the United States to dedicate his practice exclusively to Lasik laser vision correction. Located in Los Angeles, Dr. Caster has personally performed almost 30,000 vision correction procedures. A pioneer in the field, Dr. Caster was one of twenty doctors who performed Lasik treatments for the first FDA approval of Lasik (CRS/USA). To this day, Dr. Caster is continually involved in research to advance the science and art of laser vision correction. He is a frequent publisher of scientific papers and regularly lectures at national ophthalmology meetings on the subject of laser vision correction. Dr. Caster has been named by Los Angeles Magazine as the "Best Laser Eye Surgeon in Los Angeles," and has repeatedly been voted by Visx as one of the "Top 50" laser eye surgeons in the United States. For many years he has also been selected by other physicians as one of the "Best Doctors in America." Dr. Caster is the author of the most widely read book in the United States on the subject of laser vision correction: Lasik: The Eye Laser Miracle, published by Ballantine Books (a division of Random House). Dr. Caster was also one of only four ophthalmologists in the US to serve on the Clinical Advisory Board of Alcon, the world's largest eye care company. Dr. Caster received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Harvard and completed his Residency in Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine.
Legal Advisory Board Deborah RhodeThe Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Rhode is one of the nation's leading scholars in the field of professional responsibility and a staunch advocate of making the legal profession more accessible to consumers. A regular columnist for the National Law Journal and a prolific author of articles and books on the regulation and reform of the legal profession, she is the founding director of Stanford University's Center on Ethics. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1979, she was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Her recent publications include "Access to Justice" and "In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession." Deborah received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Robert HirshonDuring Hirshon's term as president of the American Bar Association from August 2001 to August 2002, he focused on making the legal profession more accessible to consumers, particularly those with lower incomes. During his presidency, Hirshon was spokesperson for the world's largest professional association and led the legal profession's response to 9/11 and its assessment of corporate governance issues. He also took part in negotiations with the SEC and Congress, including discussions relating to Sarbanes-Oxley and the USA Patriot Act. Hirshon has 30 years of experience as a practicing attorney representing individuals, corporations and associations. He is currently the Frank G. Millard Professor from Practice at University of Michigan Law School, and from 1988 to 1993 he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Maine Law School. Bob received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School. He has also received honorary degrees from Suffolk University School of Law, Willamette College of Law and the University of Denver School of Law. J. Craig WilliamsWilliams is a partner at The Williams Law Firm in Irvine, CA and serves on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Bar Association. His practice focuses in the areas of complex business litigation with emphasis on environmental, real estate, land-use and computer matters, their respective insurance coverage and related tort issues. He also handles corporate and commercial matters. The author of the popular law blog, "May it Please The Court" and recent book "How to Get Sued," Williams is also co-host of the "Lawyer to Lawyer" weekly radio program on Legal Talk Network. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa School of Law and frequent lecturer at other law schools and CLE programs. He has won numerous awards for his writing and contributions to the legal profession. Craig received his B.S. from James Madison University and his J.D. from the University of Iowa.
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