Third Eye Design, Inc.

David Werner incorporated Third Eye Design, Inc in 2009. Mr. Werner is the inventor and patent holder of inView, the wireless, helmet-mounted brake and turn signal light. Werner has been working full time to bring inView to market since January 2018. Prior to his current role, Mr. Werner was a Senior Delivery Manager with Ciber, Inc. providing support and leadership to nearly 100 IT consultants and more than a dozen clients across North America’s North East Region. There, he had responsibility for client care, delivery, and growth. Mr. Werner led US best practices and was recognized for both his client and employee satisfaction. Prior to his role at Ciber, he was a Director of Professional Services at Consilium1 where he had responsibility for managing a team of help desk agents, engineers and network professionals delivering IT services to clients across the US. Before joining Consilium1, Mr. Werner was a manager at The Bonadio Group, a US top 100 accounting firm where he was the Competency Lead for the delivery of Program and Project Management services as well as profit and process improvement consulting. He has provided expert business advice to local and national clients with annual revenue ranging from $25 million to $600 million. Prior to his Consulting Manager role, Mr. Werner was an IT professional at EDS where he served as Xerox NAIM (North American Information Management) CDE (Client Delivery Manager), responsible for the delivery of PC desktop services in North America. Mr. Werner also served as a Network Operations Manager for EDS/Xerox, where he led a team of people responsible for Global Customer Satisfaction, US Operational Change Control, U.S. End-user Escalation, US Operational Anti-Virus Management, and Level of Service reporting. Mr. Werner was also responsible for designing and implementing a time and materials process through which he doubled revenue every year for the first 5 years, and stabilized at over $1,250,000 of 70% margin business annually. Before Joining EDS, Mr. Werner was a Senior Account Executive and Chief Labor Relations Negotiator at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of the Rochester Area, where he managed a $250,000,000 book of business and was responsible for all union negotiations. Mr. Werner has earned the professional designations of Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Financial Planner, Certified Health Consultant, Certified Life Underwriter, and PADI Master Diver. He has successfully raised $1,930,000 as General Partner of a private placement offering to open The Rochester Athletic Club in downtown Rochester, NY. Prior to his involvement in financial planning and venture capital, Mr. Werner was an advertising executive responsible for local and national advertising campaigns, including the successful Michael Landon Professional Photofinishing campaign for Eastman Kodak Company. Born in Rochester, NY, Mr. Werner earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint John Fisher College. He has two sons and lives with his wife in Pittsford, NY.

Wayne Palmiter co-founded Third-Eye-Design in 2009. Palmiter is a long-term and accomplished entrepreneur. While still in college, he invented a revolutionary way of custom finishing furniture and formed a company that grew from a 3 man, 1,500 square foot operation to a 25 man, 150,000 square foot operation. After the sale of Real Wood, Palmiter brought an Australian based fast-food chain (Crispy Crepes) to North America, where he managed 3 locations and later sold franchises and equipment throughout the U.S. and Canada. Palmiter’s success led to his recruitment by a group of executives forming a new business venture that would later become Snomax, a division of Genencor International Inc. During his time at Snomax, he designed and built new equipment, performed field research, and oversaw sales that grew from less than 1 million to nearly 12 million before the division was sold to York International. After the York International acquisition, Palmiter was promoted to Director of Technical Operations for a new division called York Snow Inc. There, he was responsible for global IT management, technical operations, and day-to-day operations of York Snow North America. During that time he developed and implemented a global VPN solution connecting strategic office locations in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Wayne is currently the President of Snomax International and has responsibility for the manufacturing, distribution, and sale of a bio tech ice nucleation protein that is used at ski areas and ice rinks, in cloud seeding and in medical and military research around the world.

Ms. Shanmugam is the President & CEO of SoPark Corporation, Western New York’s largest electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider. She has over 30 years of electronics manufacturing experience in the areas of Engineering, Quality and Operations. She has held the positions of Quality Support Manager at Crown International (A Harman International Company), Quality Engineer at Wabash Technologies and in various technical capacities at Western Digital, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Carsem Semiconductor in Malaysia, and Singapore. In 2016, Ms. Shanmugam was 1 of 100 women in the US who was honored by the Manufacturing Institute in Washington DC with the STEP Ahead Award (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production). She was also awarded the 2018 - February Honoree for Women in Leadership by New York State Women Inc. and WKBW Broadcasting. In 2019, she was selected to be a plenary speaker on the topic of ‘Women in Technology at the 21st Soroptimist International Convention in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ms. Shanmugam currently serves on the Board of Directors for United Way of Buffalo, New York, as well as their Women's Leadership Council Advisory Board and a member of Buffalo-Niagara Partnership Executive Committee.

Bill Dutcher, the man behind one of the most successful motorcycle events in America, began his riding career like many of us, as a teenager. Little did Mr. Dutcher know at the time that he was destined for a life-long career around motorcycles. The thrills of competitive racing, the excitement of exploring the open road on two wheels, and the natural camaraderie among riders was, and remains, a powerful attraction for Mr. Dutcher. After graduating from Harvard, he went to work for Bultaco, combining racing success with his job as director of marketing. After ten years there and a short stint at Can-Am, Mr. Dutcher landed a dream job with Harley-Davidson as their Director of Public Relations. In 1981 Mr. Dutcher hit on the idea of starting a motorcycle rally in the beautiful Lake George area where he lived. After a couple of years of preparatory work, the event became a reality in 1983. For the first three years, it was called Aspencade East, under an arrangement with the founder of the Aspencade event in Ruidoso, NM. In 1986 Dutcher’s event was renamed Americade, and the rest is history. Graduating from Harvard in 1965, Mr. Dutcher’s professional experience includes Director of Marketing, Bultaco Intl. '65 - '75; Consultant for BRP Inc., created "Can-Am U.," 1975; Director of Public Relations, AMF Harley-Davidson, 1975 - 1981; Director of Marketing Services, Kamyr Inc., 1981- 1984; Founder and President, Americade Inc., 1983 - present. Accomplishments: Board of Directors, Lake George Association, 1982 to present; past Rotarian; life member, AMA; Awards: “Citizen of the Year” from Adirondack North Country Association; the “Tourism Partner Award” from the Adirondack Regional Council. Motorcycling: former AMA professional racer; has ridden coast to coast and as far south as Tierra del Fuego and north across Trans-Labrador Highway. He has competed in road racing, dirt-tracking, TT, indoor short track, ice racing, motocross, enduros, and more.

John M. Hammond, P.E. is the President of Patent Innovations, LLC, a patent firm located in Rochester, NY. He is a licensed patent agent in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State, and an accomplished inventor with 25 issued patents. Mr.Hammond has previously held the position of Principal Engineer at Xerox Corporation and Optimation Technology, Inc., and has 25 years of work experience in research, product conception, product development, and manufacturing. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from SUNY Geneseo and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester. Mr. Hammond is also a co-founder of PatentEducation.com. He is a frequent speaker on patents, inventions, and the patenting process to audiences throughout upstate New York. He is a co-author of “The Limited Monopoly™” columns that appear in the Rochester Engineer and the IEEE Spectrum, and a frequent Contributing Author to the intellectual property website IPFrontlineTM. Mr. Hammond provides patent searching, preparation, prosecution, and reexamination services for clients in the Mechanical, Optical, Chemical/Materials, and Biomedical arts. He has specialized experience in working with automotive, consumer product, energy, manufacturing, optics, imaging, and nanotechnology inventions.

A solo practitioner, Mr. Herbrand focuses his legal practice on corporate matters, including entity formation and start-up, funding of early-stage and private companies, negotiated sales and acquisitions of businesses, government and commercial contracts, antitrust issues, employment issues, technology licensing agreements, and transactions with industrial development agencies. Also, he serves as a corporate secretary for several client companies. Before establishing his practice, Mr. Herbrand had twenty (20) years of experience as in-house counsel to small, medium, and large corporations. He is a member of the Monroe County (NY) Bar Association. Mr. Herbrand received a Juris Doctor, with Honors, from George Washington University, and a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, from Pennsylvania State University.

Ms. Pelletier is an Enrolled Agent with over thirty years in the accounting and tax industry. She has worked with various businesses in all stages of growth. She provides full tax services, accounting, bookkeeping and business consulting expertise. She has her bachelor’s in accounting from Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a member of National Association of Tax Professionals, National Association of Enrolled Agents, New York State Society of Enrolled Agents and Canalside Trailblazers Networking Group. She has run seminars for SCORE Rochester, childcare organizations, and various other business organizations for over 25 years.

With a strong portfolio of successfully managed projects, Ms Keefe brings over 15 years of project management experience to her current role. With a strong background in Information Technology, Ms Keefe combines a deep knowledge of technical projects with recent work managing non-profit projects and workflows. Ms Keefe understands the value in effective communication and how the success of a project affects the business and the customer. Ms Keefe previously worked at Cellular One, Electronic Data Systems and Citibank Corporation as a Network Operations Manager. She graduated from SUNY Brockport with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 1985.