Board of Directors
In addition to senior officers of Bluefire, the Board includes industry personalities from the Internet, telecommunications, and security markets.
Bruce Chovnick
most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of VeriSign’s Global Registry Services division where he was responsible for central management and search capability of almost 90% of the Web addresses on the Internet. Prior to VeriSign, Bruce held numerous leadership positions with GE Information Services, Inc. and IBM, spanning software product development, network services, and industrial engineering.
Gina Dubbe
is a managing partner for Walker Ventures. Prior to Walker Ventures, she held several key sales and engineering management positions with RJO Enterprises, Inc, ORACLE Corporation, PRC Corporation, Interleaf Corporation and Trusted Information Systems.
Tasha Seitz
is a partner at JK&B Capital. Prior to joining JK&B, Ms. Seitz spent four years with the Gartner Group as an information industry analyst specializing in the areas of multimedia applications development and electronic publishing. While with the Gartner Group, Ms. Seitz co-founded Gartner's Multimedia Service and led efforts to deliver research to Gartner's clients in multimedia.
Frank A. Adams
is the Managing General Partner and founder of the Grotech Capital Group, one of the oldest, largest and most successful venture capital funds in the country focusing on the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.� Under his leadership Grotech has grown from $12 million in managed assets in 1984, to over a billion dollars through 6 funds in 2006.� He has been the principal architect of the Grotech structure, investment strategy and portfolio management which has helped grow over 70 successful developing companies with market caps in excess of $15 billion.� Mr. Adams is and has been a director of several private and public companies in the Grotech portfolio.�