Board Of Directors

Jim Adler

CEO and Co-Founder
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Previous to founding demoxi, Jim was President of Dategrity, an e-commerce company specializing in cryptographic solutions for individual privacy protection and information control. Prior to Dategrity, Jim was the founder and CEO of VoteHere, a company that pioneered the development of technologies for private and secure electronic voting, both online and offline. Under his management, VoteHere developed groundbreaking cryptographic technology resulting in 50 issued patents, and deployed that technology in over 200 secure and private elections for 15 million voters worldwide.

Mr. Adler is widely regarded as an expert in the fields of cryptography, security, and e-voting. He has testified before state and federal legislatures on the subject of electronic voting, served on California's groundbreaking 1999 Internet Voting Task Force, and is involved in defining certification procedures for electronic voting systems around the world. Recently, he co-chaired the IEEE voter-verification standards committee, which defined national standards as part of the Help America Vote Act of 2002. In December 2003, he spoke on the e-voting machine controversy at the National Institute on Standards and Technology symposium on Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems. In July 2004, he was called to testify to a US House Government Reform Subcommittee on e-voting security. He has been interviewed and quoted by major newspapers, TV, magazines, and has published extensively.

Early in his career, Mr. Adler developed pioneering patented digital signature technology for Scientific Atlanta, and was a senior engineer in Advanced Avionics at General Dynamics Space Systems Division (now a division of Lockheed Martin). Mr. Adler received his BS in electrical engineering with High Honors from the University of Florida and his MS in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego.

Rob Monster

Chairman and Co-Founder
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Robert W. Monster leads Monster Venture Partners (MVP), an early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle, focused on Global Technology opportunities in the area of Consumer Healthcare, Market Research, and Internet Marketing.

Mr. Monster was the Founder of GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), a leading provider of technology-enabled services to the global market research industry. Mr. Monster served as Chairman and CEO from 1999-2007, during which time GMI achieved annual revenue growth of 100+% per year and served customers in more than 60 countries. GMI is backed by Technology Crossover Ventures, FT Ventures and Voyager Capital.

Prior to founding GMI, Mr. Monster was a global product development manager with Procter & Gamble. During an eight year technology management career with P&G, Mr. Monster worked and lived in Europe, Asia, and North America. He also traveled extensively in Latin America as part of his global role in leading the development and commercialization of a series of successful new product initiatives.

Mr. Monster, a Dutch-American, is fluent in English, Dutch, and German. Mr. Monster has both a BS and an MBA from Cornell University where he studied Life Sciences and Economics. Mr. Monster is a member of ESOMAR - World Association of Research Professionals. Mr. Monster is co-author of the book "Market Research in the Internet Age", published by John Wiley & Sons.

Mr. Monster is winner of the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in Technology and Software (Pacific Northwest). He serves on the boards of GMI, Healthcare.com, demoxi, Inc., and Clickable.com.

Tom Simpson

Board Member

Tom Simpson has over 22 years of experience as a venture capitalist and investment banker. Prior to forming NWVA, he was a Managing Director in Dain Bosworth’s Seattle-based investment banking group and managed public offerings, private placements and mergers and acquisitions for multiple companies in the region. Tom serves on the Board of the Technology Alliance of Washington and the Advisory Board for the University of Washington Business School. Tom has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Washington and a master's degree in business administration from The Wharton School.

Tom is a director of Confirma, MessageGate, Sababa Group, Spraycool, and Telect.