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Colonel Ronald D. Beauford, MBA

Intelligent Technology Brands: CEO and General Manager

Ronald Beauford has more than 20 years experience in the medical device market as a high-level executive in sales, leadership, strategy, contracting, training and business development. He has also spent over 20 years in the US Military in both high level staff and command positions. 

In high school, Ronald was a standout quarterback on the football team, All- State Center Fielder in Baseball, and All- State Timpani in band. Ronald is a graduate of Baylor University, BBA in 2003, where he was on the Football team, Captain of the Track and Field team, and in Air Force ROTC. He spent 4 years active-duty USAF where he was an acquisitions and finance officer, as well as part of the USAF Track Team in Europe and All- Military Baseball Team in the Cape Cod and NE Leagues. 

In the medical device market Ron has worked at and lead the Top 100 Fastest Growing Medical Device Company’s, Fortune 500, and Global Fortune 100 companies: Johnson and Johnson, Danaher, Caldera Medical, and Mindray North America in high level executive positions leading sales organizations and corporate accounts contracting in radiology, operating room, breast care, female urology, urogynecology, anesthesia, patient monitoring, and large hospital capital. Ronald has been a consistent high performer and top executive leader with over 100 million in annual sales under his leadership. 

Ronald is married to Monica Beauford and has a son Ronald Dale Beauford III “Trip” and daughter Aurora Zeo Beauford “Rory.” He loves to spend time out on his Ranch with is family and friends as well as adventure expeditions all over the world.

“Life is about the experiences we make, the understanding of cultural influences and diversity, foundational knowledge development, and leaving this world better for the next generation.” 

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Jamie Haddock

Intelligent Threads: Digital Operations Manager & Affiliates Manager

Jamie has over twenty years of operations experience in both strategic and tactical planning & execution, as well as implementation and standardization of process & procedures. Her professional background is in project management which she performed while working for Dell Technologies Inc., a Fortune 500 technology company, for over 10 years. Jamie won several awards, one of which was the company's highest-level award (Gold) for a database reporting process she created from scratch. In her career she has also managed a small business and worked in the nonprofit sector for years where she specialized in digital design and operations. Jamie’s had the opportunity to work with people from all over the world on a daily basis and travel internationally to train others. 

Jamie’s educational background has always centered around sports medicine. While in high school she was a member of Health Occupation Students of America and spent class time in the hospital setting, as well as working after school for a Houston based sport medicine and rehabilitation clinic that worked with the professional sports teams of the Rockets and the Aeros. During college, Jamie worked with the football, volleyball, cross country and track teams as a student athletic trainer and is herself a Baylor University Letterman. She graduated with a BS in Education with an emphasis in Athletic Training and was a licensed athletic trainer for 2 years after graduating before moving full-time into the technology industry. She never left behind her love of sports medicine and rehabilitation. 

Jamie has been married to her husband Jason for 20 years and they have two precious miracles from God, Adalina and Isabella. Jamie loves to spend time with her family at the coast and having weekly family date nights and adventures.

“The greatest use of life is to live it for something that will outlast it.”

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Guerry Grune, PhD, PA

Intelligent Topicals: Chief Chemist

Guerry Grune, obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University (graduation with distinction) with a double major in Chemistry. Senior research involved the use of polysaccharides to induce pseudoplastic flow for tertiary oil recovery. After working as an R&D scientist for Fiber Industries Incorporated, a subsidiary of Celanese and ICI of Great Britain (later Hoechst-Celanese) in the heavy denier polyester filament and liquid crystal high modulus organic fiber group, he returned to graduate school at the University of Massachusetts. There he obtained the M.S.ChE. (1982) from the Departments of Polymer Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering working for Professor Robert W. Lenz in the field of thermotropic liquid polyesters including modeling for injection molding leading to commercialization of Vectra for the same purpose.

Next he joined IBM in the Research Triangle Park, N.C. His major responsibilities there included development of the token ring local area network (LAN) cabling system, fiber optic cables and connectors, corrosive gas testing of metallurgical components including the initiation of the Corrosives Gas Testing Laboratory at RTP, standards and specifications for fiber data distributed interface (FDDI) systems, and ISO 9000 registration development. The IBM Cabling system was first announced as a commercial product in May, 1984 and is still recognized as the premier computer network system in use in the world today.

Later, while still an IBM employee, he completed the doctorate in Chemical Engineering under the direction of Professors Vivian T. Stannett and Harry R. Allcock, that involved the use of modified allyl amino polyphosphazenes by radiation for semiconductor microlithographic resist applications. Leaving IBM as an IBM Fellow Engineer, Guerry went to work for ABB Corporation’s newly built Transmission Technology Institute and simultaneously began teaching biochemical thermodynamics as an Adjunct Professor in the Duke University Biomedical Engineering program. As an ABB Fellow Engineer, he developed new coatings for magnet wire, process economic downsizing for drying distribution transformer production lines, developed novel adhesive systems for an optical distribution transformer requiring several new metal-to-glass connections, and worked with key investigators on novel agricultural oils as an alternate heat transfer medium. Among winning proposals submitted were; a corroded underground oil-filled high voltage power line; and the first U.S. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of power and distribution transformers.

The LCA work led to development with his wife and ePatentManager IT director, Carla O. Grune, of the LCAPIX software module (US Patent 6,490,569) combining, for the first time, Life Cycle Assessment with Activity Based Costing. This activity led to becoming the Principal Consultant for KM Limited, an environmental consulting company specializing in LCA and software development.

Next, Guerry joined Mitsubishi Chemical America’s Virginia Operations as Manager of Optical Photoreceptor Development (for electrophotography) and was later appointed the position as Director of Intellectual Property.

In 2004, Guerry began full-time activities as the Principal of ePatentManager.com, and since then has provided full Intellectual Property development for NC State University (in their Tech Transfer Office), additional Fortune 500 companies including Solvay, Praxair (now Linde), and Exponent and was appointed IP director for Cable Components Group, Ennis-Flint (formerly Flint Trading), AG Essence, and others.  In addition, US Patents 8,326,851 and 10,262,028 were granted to Dr. Grune that describe a portion of his teaching methodology on patent valuation.

Currently Guerry is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Pratt School Masters of Engineering Department at Duke University, where he lectures on Intellectual Asset Management and green, sustainable new product development.

He has authored over 50 publications and technical disclosures, and is listed as an inventor or co-inventor for over 100 patents, patent publications, and patent applications either pending or granted.

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Jonathan | Kelly | Olivia | Cheyanne | Lacey

Intelligent Threads: SRM Chief Clinician, Head Masseuse, Buying & Design, Front Office Staff Logistics, Support & Customer Care Teams

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