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Helios Board of Advisors
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Our advisors have been instrumental in shaping Helios and contributing to
our business and product strengths. They have not only been our advisors but our
guides, mentors and inspirational forces. We give our thanks to them and many more who
have helped build and grow Helios.
 Steven Mednick
Steven Mednick is founder and president of Plenum Revenue Group, LLC in Newport
Beach, California. Plenum is a business development advisory firm for emerging businesses
to complex, global enterprises.
Steven currently advises Helios on business and client development as well as financial
health. His vast experience in education and technology industries is a huge support
to Helios.
Steven also teaches at the University of Southern California Marshall School of
Business. Prior to establishing Plenum in 2004, he was Director, Corporate Ventures
at Silicon Graphics, Inc., where he established SGI's corporate ventures office
and led its global mergers & acquisitions and licensing initiatives.
In addition to Steven's long history in the IT industry with companies such as IBM,
SGI and Digital Equipment Corporation, he has also served as corporate attorney
to a number of emerging companies in the IT and financial services industries.
Steven is a member of Tech Coast Angels and serves on the executive committee of
Tech Coast Venture Network. He also sits on the advisory boards of The Entrepreneurship
Institute, TriTech and the University of La Verne School of Business and Public
Management.
Steven is a frequent speaker on early stage funding, corporate venturing, business
development and the commercialization of intellectual property. His recent published
articles include:
- Mednick, S. 'Corporate Venturing For Emerging Growth Companies,' Software Council
of Orange County (March 2006), Startup.com (August 2005), eZine.com (August 2005)
- Mednick, S. 'Revenue Growth Through Alliances,' Startup.com (August 2005), eZine.com
(August 2005), Software Council of Orange County (November 2005)
- Mednick, S. 'Developing Your Growth Strategy,' The Presidents' Forum Newsletter,
The Entrepreneurship Institute (July 2005)
He holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MPA and JD
from the University of Southern California and is a member of the State Bar of California.
 Brook Cross
Brook Cross is a catalyst for entrepreneurs and companies to find their way to the
next level of success. He specializes in improving entrepreneurial and managerial
skills and has been providing Strategic Planning Retreats and Managerial Coaching
for over twenty years for a wide range of companies.
Brook has helped Helios from product launch to growing customer base. He has been
a true inspiration to our team and a great management coach.
One of the other companies that Brook advised recorded the highest scores ever achieved
on a prominent and widely validated survey of company health factors, including
growth and profit.
His work has been featured in the Forms and Printing Industry where he is a speaker
at national conferences and has written a regular column on management for a national
trade journal.
Recent areas of focus include alternative sources of start-up funding and strategic
integration of electronic and paper documents. Brook’s recent planning work with
a major Fortune 100 company resulted in the plan being fully funded by the new parent
company.
Brook is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters from the University of
California.
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