Modernsoft

 

Management

 

 Dr. William J. Clancey: President and Chief Technologist, Director, Co-Founder

 

Ph.D. Computer Science, Stanford University; B.A. Mathematical Sciences, Rice University.

Dr. Clancey is Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Computing at NASA Ames Research Center, where he is responsible for the management of projects in the area of work systems design and knowledge management.  His numerous articles and books since the 1970's have been influential in the design of expert systems and instructional programs. Clancey is the inventor of basic methods for financial analysis, automated explanation, tutorial instruction, and qualitative process modeling. He has consulted and presented this work in 20 countries. Dr. Clancey is also a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition (Pensacola).  Previously, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Learning (1987-97) at Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory (1974-1987). He was also a founder, consultant, and member of the board of directors of Teknowledge, Inc. (1981-1987). Clancey is a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the AAAI Press and a Senior Editor of Cognitive Science.

 

 John Wu: Chief Development Officer, Director

 

M.B.A., Harvard Business School; B.A., Harvard College.

Mr. Wu is Chief Executive Officer of John Wu & Company providing to clients financial planning, strategic planning, computer modeling and investment services. Before starting John Wu & Company, Mr. Wu was Manager of Strategic Planning for Crown Zellerbach Corporation where he was responsible for providing planning support to Senior Management in corporate portfolio strategies, business valuation and resource allocation. In the thirteen years prior to joining Crown Zellerbach, Mr. Wu served as Manager, Corporate Planning for Arcata National Corporation; Planning Analyst for Potlatch Corporation; Manager of Treasury Programs and Manager of Finance, Corporate Treasury for Itel Corporation, as well as Director of Finance and Administration for Itel Finance Corp.; and Financial Analyst, Europe Area Budgets and Planning for IBM World Trade Corporation.

 

 Edgar P. Canty: Director

 

M.B.A., University of Chicago Graduate Business School; Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.

Besides his prior involvement with Modernsoft as CFO and Director, Mr. Canty is an independent management consultant in business planning and financing.  Before his association with Modernsoft, Canty was General Partner and Chief Financial Officer of BayCom Partners, L.P. (1989-95), and was responsible for all financial, accounting, and administrative functions for this profitable, privately held radio broadcasting group. Prior to joining BayCom Partners, Mr. Canty was a member of the Board of Directors, and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at Teknowledge, Inc. (1983-89), a pioneer company in the commercialization of expert systems software. His executive responsibilities spanned all financial and administrative functions and he assumed a leadership role in the company's IPO and subsequent listing on the NASDAQ in 1986.  Earlier, Mr. Canty was associated for fourteen years with A.G. Becker Paribas, a Chicago based investment banking firm where he was a Senior Vice President and partner in several of its venture capital units and was involved in various financing activities for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries.