Justin Graves, CEO

Justin Graves has a strong development background, having cut his teeth in the gaming industry. Early in his career, Justin founded a company that developed a 3D gaming platform. Soon after, he joined an advertising agency to aid in the development of a system that would monitor conversations about certain brands within a small group of websites. The highlight of this tool was an intelligent, 3D data analysis application, developed by Justin and his team.

While at the agency, Justin envisioned starting an analytics company that provided deep insight into the growing number of online conversations rising every day. He based his ideas on ongoing research and development activities that focused on collecting mass amounts of conversations from the Web and analyzing them on demand for insight, thereby giving voices to millions on one integrated platform. With the agency’s agreement to become his first customer -- Justin launched Infegy, recently named one of the "Comapnies to Watch" by world-renowned analyst firm IDC, where he continued to evolve his concepts into what has today become Social Radar™.

Justin is fast gaining recognition as an innovator and visionary entrepreneur. The Pipeline entrepreneurial fellowship program, a national and global leader in entrepreneurial development strategies, recently included Justin in its first Regional Class of Entrepreneurs, a panel of 12 noteworthy innovators who show high growth potential.

Kelly Welch, Ph.D., CFA

Dr. Kelly Welch is the School of Business teaching fellow at the University of Kansas where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in finance, investments, futures and options as well as an advanced course in business valuation.

Kelly combines a solid foundation in academia with practical experience in the private sector including time as an investment manager with the Kauffman Foundation where he oversaw a portfolio of hedge fund and real asset strategies. He continues to consultant on issues such as valuations, derivatives and investment strategy.

Kelly received a PhD in finance and economics from the University of Chicago, a bachelor’s degree with honors in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar and bachelor’s degrees in economics and agricultural economics from Kansas State University. Kelly is also a CFA charter holder.

James Clarke, Investor and Entrepreneur

James brings a background in corporate finance, venture capital as well as start-up experience to Infegy. He is currently a partner and senior portfolio manager with Fiduciary Research & Consulting, an institutional investment management, advisory and consulting firm that acts as an outsourced chief investment officer overseeing more than $7 billion. He earned a bachelor's degree from Washburn University where he currently chairs the board of the McAtee Scholarship Fund. He received an MBA with an emphasis in finance and investments from the University of Kansas and is a member of the CFA Institute.

James spent seven years managing a portfolio of domestic and international venture capital, buyout and real asset investments for the Kauffman Foundation. He began his career as an investment banker with Nations Media Partners advising telecom and media companies on mergers and acquisitions. During this time, James engaged his entrepreneurial side co-founding a start-up which sold to AT&T. Since then he has been a founding investor in Proteon Therapeutics (optioned by Novartis), LightSpeed Genomics (acquired by Macrogen) and Orbis Biosciences. Collectively, these companies have raised nearly $100 million in venture capital.

L. Howard Wizig

L. Howard Wizig is the President and CEO of both Vivius Holdings, L.L.C., and of its primary subsidiary, Recovery Data Connect, L.L.C. Mr. Wizig is an acknowledged national leader with over 25 years of experience in healthcare financing and technologies that enable creative solutions in the rapidly changing healthcare financing environment. Vivius’ technology is used to analyze over 100 million people on behalf of health insurers. Mr. Wizig is an Advisory Board member of the Health Insurance Report for The Bureau Of National Affairs in Washington DC. Mr. Wizig was also the founding Chairman of the Consumer Driven Health Care Association. Mr. Wizig served a two-year appointment as an Entrepreneur in Residence for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, focused on both entrepreneurship and education/youth development.

In September 2000, Mr. Wizig was honored as an “Up and Comer” by Modern Healthcare Magazine. In December 2004, the Galen Institute honored Mr. Wizig by naming him one of the 17 “Heroes of Consumerism in Healthcare”.

Carlos Antequera

Carlos Antequera is CEO and Co‐founder of Netchemia. Netchemia (www.netchemia.com) is a cloud-software company transforming the way K-12 education manages its talent. As CEO, Carlos is responsible for the vision and strategy for Netchemia products and services. Netchemia’s TalentEd software platform allow school districts across the country to automate the recruiting, hiring and evaluations of teachers and staff so that administrators can focus on strategic management of their talent instead of having to shuffle through paper.

Carlos graduated Magna Cum Laude from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. He completed his MBA in International Business at the University of Kansas. He served for six years as an Executive Board Member of the Greater Kansas City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is an active member of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, and was recently accepted into the prestigious Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program. He has also been selected as a KTEC Pipeline Innovator, part of a program that fosters high-growth technology entrepreneurial talent in the state of Kansas.