William V. Botts (69) was a director of Summit Designs from 1996 to 2000. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Summit Designs from July 1999 to April 2000 when the company merged with a larger private company and became publicly traded on NASDAQ as Innovada which he then served as its director through July 2002. Since 1993 he has been engaged as an independent consultant to business in areas related to problem solving, operations, strategic planning, mergers and/or acquisitions. He has held numerous other past and present directorship and chairmanship positions with privately held companies.