Board of Directors

Gary B. Wood, Ph.D. - Board Member
Joe Rose - Board Member
Michael H. Jordan - Board Member
Stephen F. Bisbee - Board Member

Gary B. Wood – Chairman/Board Member

Gary B. Wood, Ph.D., has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of eOriginal and has served as a Director since the inception of eOriginal in April 1996. Dr. Wood was a co–founder of eOriginal and is the CEO of the International Hospital Corporation, a multi–national for–profit hospital finance and management company, and President and the majority shareholder of Concorde Capital Corporation, a private investment management and mutual funds group he founded. He has extensive experience in start–up companies as well as capital markets and serves on the boards of several private companies.

Dr. Wood currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House as a member of the Investment Committee and is a member and past–chairman of the Society of International Business Fellows. He also served on the Board of Managers and the Budget and Finance Committee for the Parkland Health and Hospital System (Dallas County Hospital District) for six years. Dr. Wood holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and an interdisciplinary Doctorate of Philosophy from Texas Tech University.

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Joe Rose – Board Member

Joe Rose has served as a member of the Board of Directors of eOriginal, Inc. since March of 2009, and currently serves as Executive Director for the parent company, Paperless Transaction Management, Inc., actively working with the eOriginal management team on strategic initiatives.

Mr. Rose has extensive board and executive management experience in the information technology and services industry. This includes more than 20 years of board member service for several public and private companies such as Kofax plc, Sourcecorp, Inc., Captiva Software, Inc., People Support, Inc., Attenex, Inc.,  Identitech, Inc. and Metajure, Inc.

Mr. Rose has held executive management positions in several successful companies including EVP and COO at Sourcecorp, Inc., President and CEO with FormMaker Software, Inc., CEO at Healthcare Payment Specialists, Inc., CEO for Metajure, Inc., EVP at National Data Corp. and SVP with Harland Corp.

Mr. Rose founded Rosetta Partners, LLC in 2004, which provides business consulting services and co-founded the Rosetta Group, LLC in 2011 to offer executive and management resources to companies on an interim and fractional basis.

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Michael H. Jordan, Deceased May 25, 2010 - Board Member

See memorial for Michael H. Jordan. Michael H. Jordan has been an investor and Director of eOriginal since its beginning. Mr Jordan currently is the Chairman Emeritus of Electronic Data Systems Corporation, a leading global computer services company based in Plano, Texas, having also served as CEO of EDS. He is also a General Partner of Global Asset Capital, LLC, a venture capital firm focused on private equity investments in the telecommunications, Internet infrastructure, data networking, and information technology sectors. He is a partner of Beta Capital Group, LLC of Dallas, Texas, a venture capital group that also offers sponsorship and the general management of numerous business ventures.

Mr. Jordan is Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council, a trustee of the Brookings Institution, a member and former Chairman of the U.S.–Japan Business Council, Board member and former Chairman of The College Fund/UNCF, Chairman of the Policy Board of the Americans for the Arts, and a member of The Business Council. He also serves on the Boards of Aetna Inc., WPP Group PLC and several smaller, privately held companies.

Mr. Jordan retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation (formerly Westinghouse Electric Corporation) in December, 1998 after having led one of the most comprehensive transformations of a major U.S. corporation. Before joining Westinghouse, Mr. Jordan was a partner with Clayton, Dubilier and Rice, a private investment firm based in New York City. Prior to that he spent 18 years with PepsiCo., his last position as Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo International. From 1964 to 1974, he was a consultant and principal with McKinsey & Company. Prior to that he served a four–year tour of duty with the U.S. Navy on the staff of Admiral Hyman Rickover. A graduate from Yale University in 1957, Jordan received his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1959.

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Stephen F. Bisbee – President & CEO

Stephen F. Bisbee is the co-inventor of the eOriginal® process and currently serves as President and CEO of the Company. Mr. Bisbee envisioned a unique solution wrapping electronic business and legal processes in security technologies to reduce the burdens and inefficiencies of paper-based transactions. He founded the Company to fulfill this vision.

For several years, Mr. Bisbee played a leadership role among the American Bar Association committees establishing the legal standards for electronic commerce. His involvement in those forums has been invaluable in the design of the eOriginal products and in gaining recognition of eOriginal, Inc., as a leader in the implementation of legal, fully electronic, business-to-business commerce.

Mr. Bisbee has 18 years of experience as a corporate attorney specializing in commercial transactions, financing and development. Prior to his corporate attorney activities, he was president of a New York manufacturer and wholesale distributor, and vice president of a New York-based restoration company. Mr. Bisbee is currently president of J.J. Burns & Co. Inc., a privately held investment company, and serves on the Advisory Council of The Trust for Public Land, a national California based land conservation organization. He is also Chairman of the Electronic Signature and Records Association, a Washington D.C. based industry educational and policy organization and a Founding Member of the Boston College Law School Business Advisory Council.

Mr. Bisbee obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Xavier University and his Juris Doctor degree from the Boston College School of Law.

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