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STAFF EMERITUS
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Julia is responsible for public relations and promotion
and coordinates projects such as the E-Type and E-Description
Initiative. This Initiative is driven by a consortium of
systematics collections and museums. These
institutions will collectively submit major joint proposals to
support
the digital imaging of 50 percent of the primary type
specimens (and their accompanying original descriptions
when possible) for the Web.
Academically trained as a geologist, her professional
work experience has been concentrated in the broader field
of environmental sciences. Prior to her position at ALL, she
worked on the east coast as an environmental consultant and
concentrated primarily on integrated natural resource
management issues, NEPA and SEPA document writing, state
and federal permitting, endangered species surveys, and
fisheries. A significant component of her work centered
on wetlands delineation, monitoring, and restoration.
Email: julia@all-species.org
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January 2002 - November 2002
Ryan was one of the co-founders of the ALL Species Foundation and was instrumental in its
initial start-up phase in 2001 as a Board Member and served as CEO in 2002. She continues her
support of ALL as a Governing Board member. Ms. Phelan is a social entrepreneur and businesswoman
who has been influential in diverse fields from education and health care to software development
and the equestrian industry. She excels at starting non-profit organizations as well as for-profit businesses,
building their staff, board, and partnerships, turning concept into reality, resulting
in quality service and products.
Most recently, in 1995 she founded and was CEO for Direct Medical Knowledge (DMK), which was sold to
WebMD (http://www.webmd.com/ ) in 1999. DMK was an
extensive consumer health web site highly regarded for its unique content depth and
innovative search interface. DMK developed proprietary software that enabled users to drill down
through the most current medical literature and retrieved personalized health and medical information.
Her board affiliations has included ALL Species Foundation
(http://www.all-species.org), Groxis
(http://www.groxis.com/) a
data mining software company, Planetree a patient centered organization
that develops new models of health care (http://www.planetree.org/),
Phelan's Equestrian, and Teckrock (http://www.techrocks.org) a nonprofit
technology consulting organization.
Email: ryan@all-species.org
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September 2001 - November 2002
Hugo is responsible for the content development of the ALL Species web site and other web-related activities.
Hugo has worked in the same capacity at Charitableway.com and Rainforest Action Network.
Email Address: hugo@all-species.org
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April 2002 - November 2002
Deborah managed the daily operations of the ALL Species Foundation and served as primary
support for the ALL staff, Governing, Science and Advisory Boards.. A longtime California
resident, Deborah previously was the Office Manager for a trial litigation software,
commercial real estate sales companies and has a retail business specializing in photo specialty items.
Email: deborah94920@aol.com
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April 2002 - November 2002
Danica brought skills in strategic planning, product, business and partnership development to ALL.
She was key in the development of ALL's strategic business plan, partnership planning, operations and
fundraising. Her past roles include VP Operations (OGNC) for Organic, Inc (http://www.organic.com).,
VP Media for Knowledge Universe (http://www.knowledgeu.com/), a $3B
international education company where she
lead investments and inter and intranet strategy development, Vice President Engineering for
Inquisit, an enterprise application
for business intelligence,
VP Production for USWeb, VP Marketing and Community Development for The WELL (http://www.well.com) and
Network
Director of Global Business Network (http://www.gbn.org).
Her board affiliations includes: President, POINT Foundation - publisher of the Whole Earth
Magazine and Catalog (http://www.wholearth.com) Founding Board Director, nCircle -
Provider of
enterprise network security management (http://www.nCircle.com),
Founding Advisory Board - CleanEdge
is the clean-tech market authority - (http://www.cleanedge.com),
Advisory Board - Organic Fund @ San
Francisco Foundation - (http://www.sff.org ,
Advisory Board - Institute for Intercultural Studies -
Margaret Mead's Family Foundation - (http://www.mead2001.org)
Email: remy@well.com
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January 2002 - November 2002
Thau (he goes by his last name) has been creating Internet applications since 1993, starting
with bianca.com , the first web-based community on the Internet. Since then he's acted as
Director of Software Engineering and Senior Scientist at Wired Digital (
http://hotwired.lycos.com/), produced art exhibited at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, written numerous articles and a
thau@learningsite.com
URL: http://www.learningsite.com
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Kurt Bollacker is the digital research director of the Long Now Foundation. He is a computer scientist with a
research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, and electro-cardiographic modeling.
He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and was co-creator of the
Research Index digital library at The NEC Research Institute. He was the technical director of The Internet Archive,
and a research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center. Kurt is involved with All-Species as an informal
advisor and assistant, including involvement with the Taxonomic Database Working Group (TDWG).
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