Management Team
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Dennis Heller Board Chairman, Shareholder Dennis Heller has over 20 years of experience helping to build and scale profitable businesses in technology and software industries. Previous to Innerlife, Dennis served as CEO of Golden Gate Technology, a provider of electronic design software to the semiconductor industry. He has held executive positions at Avant! Corporation where he managed a sales and applications engineering organization of over 350 people and was responsible for overseeing about 75% of company’s sales as annual revenue grew from $150M to $400M. As the lead marketing executive for Avant! Dennis led a direct campaign with public shareholders and analysts to increase the stock price from $16/share to $27/share within about 10 months adding $360M to the Company’s market capitalization. He served as the director of sales for Sunrise Test Systems where he initiated sales and helped the Company to a successful merger with ViewLogic Systems. Dennis is a veteran of three initial public offerings having helped Arcsys (1996), Synopsys (1992), and IKOS Systems (1990) to their initial public offerings. He holds a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Wisconsin. |
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Larry E. Beutler, Ph.D. Board Member, Shareholder Larry E. Beutler is Wm McInnes, Distinguished Professor and former Chair of the PhD Programs at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. He is also a Consulting Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Beutler is the past Editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology and the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He is the Past-President of the Society for Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of APA), a Past President of the Division of Psychotherapy (APA), and a two-term Past-President of the (International) Society for Psychotherapy Research. He is the author of approximately 350 scientific papers and chapters, and is the author, editor or co-author of twenty-two books on psychotherapy, psychopathology, depression, clinical assessment, and drug abuse. Dr. Beutler is the Editor, (with L. G. Castonguay) of "Principles of Therapeutic Change that Work" that is co-sponsored by the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12) and the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research. |
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Oliver B. Williams, Ph.D. Board Member, Shareholder Oliver B. Williams is a consultant with numerous mental health HMOs and insurance groups. He is currrently engaged in multiple research programs including applying selective treatment in group settings. Dr. Williams has written software applications for clinical patient assessment, data collection, and statistical analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been awarded two Masters Degrees: Statistics and Methodology and Counseling Psychology. His Bachelors degree was a double major in Physics and Psychology. Before changing careers, Dr. Williams was employed with the microelectronics industry for over 17 years, serving in both engineering and management roles. He was distinguished by having invented a unique optocoupled solid state relay that revolutionized high power solid state switching technology. He designed and managed several microelectronics facilities employing hundreds, the most notable being a heart pacemaker facility. While working as an engineer, Dr. Williams evolved a keen familiarity with electronic and computer technology. His goal in psychology is to apply technology to the science of helping people change. Dr. Williams is also an accomplished pilot, and holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate, Certified Flight Instructor, and is Lear Jet type rated. |
| Garrett L. Thomas, JD & LLM Shareholder Mr. Thomas has held the position of General Counsel and has served in other executive management roles in both public and privately financed companies. Mr. Thomas has over twenty-five years of experience in legal practice specializing in commercial transactions and Intellectual Property for technology-based corporations. As a General Counsel, Mr. Thomas has provided legal advice to senior management in all areas including sales, marketing, R&D, operations, HR, privacy, compliance, IP and M&A and has in numerous instances established the legal operations for a company. As a corporate attorney Mr. Thomas has worked for major IT and aerospace companies including Bendix and Pratt & Whitney and held several roles during his over 14 years at Sun Microsystems including General Counsel of the federal subsidiary and most recently as the lead attorney at Sun Canada, a $500 million a year subsidiary headquartered in Toronto. Mr. Thomas was instrumental in the establishment of the federal subsidiary of Sun Microsystems and continued to support the organization as a member of the senior management team as it grew to over a $1 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Thomas has considerable experience in business development and has worked with marketing and sales management in structuring marketing strategy and distribution channels. In addition, he has lead negotiating teams in transactions with resellers, OEM’s, end users and the US Government and in setting up strategic relationships both in the United States and internationally. Mr. Thomas received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC in 1969 and in 1975 his Master of Laws from the Government Contracts Program at George Washington Law School established by Ralph Nash and John Cibinic. |
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