Gary L. Thompson
Co-Founder and President, CLOUD, Inc.
gary@cloudinc.org
Gary brings twenty years of experience in business development and strategic leadership with emerging growth and leading global technology companies. His core passion and mission is “to unleash the power of people. To allow all to dream; to allow all to harness their dreams; and to collect the power of those dreams to transform lives and society.” That personal mission is the foundation behind CLOUD.
Prior to CLOUD, Gary was most recently a member of the founding team and Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Kimbia Software, Inc., a leader in online fundraising technology. Prior to Kimbia, Gary has not only advised companies through Nueva Vista Ventures, LLC on strategic growth in the areas of product innovation, market segmentation and channel development but served as Apple’s Region Manager for Education in Texas, where he led a team of higher education and K12 Account Executives to be the leading education region in the division in 2006. Prior to this responsibility, Gary held a variety of sales and marketing positions at Apple in education, channel sales and corporate accounts.
Gary has been at the center of technology change through his founding and stewardship of the independent non-profit Texas eCommerce Association in the late 1990s and his leadership of the eGovernment Task Force as an appointee of then Governor Bush. That worked led to the Texas Online Authority, a pioneer in eGovernment and winner of numerous national innovation awards.
Gary received his BA at Northwestern University in 1987, continuing with an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management in 1992 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law in 2000. During his legal studies, Gary also served as the Editor-in-Chief for the nationally recognized Texas Review of Law and Politics.
Paul J. Wilkinson
Chief Strategy Officer, CLOUD, Inc.
paul@cloudinc.org
Paul is an attorney, rancher, and technology and communications consultant in San Diego County. His professional and federal service has focused on using technology to add value to business and government.
From 2005 until 2009, he led the implementation of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, culminating in the adoption of several rules providing for a mandatory transition from unstructured document disclosure (or no disclosure) to structured data disclosure for public companies, mutual funds, and credit rating agencies. He worked to apply technology to Commission activities ranging from substantive regulation to communications to litigation.
From 2001 until 2005, Paul was Executive Director of the House of Representatives Majority Policy Committee. Previously, he was the committee’s Director of Communications. As a member of the senior leadership staff, he advised the House Leadership, including the Speaker, Majority Leader, and 45-member Policy Committee, on a variety of matters, with particular focus on economic, fiscal, tax, communications, and foreign policy. He worked with the Clinton and Bush administrations on domestic and foreign matters and participated in diplomatic and parliamentary missions to Beijing, Tokyo, and Moscow.
Paul also directed communications at the House Committee on Homeland Security and was a communications specialist at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has also been a wire service reporter, editor, and radio producer in Los Angeles.
In 1994, Paul earned his Juris Doctor from the Pepperdine University School of Law, where he was Editor in Chief of the Law Review. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1986.
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