Chris' background and experience has always been at the intersection of information and technology. He has been granted two patents, and has an additional 10 pending. He has led IT teams to Number 13 on the InfoWorld 100; the 2002 The RealWare Award - Best Enterprise Content Management Application; an Honorable Mention in the 2003 CIO Magazine Enterprise Value Awards, recognizing contribution to business value and results; among other awards. 

Feola was named one of the 50 most influential people in new media by Online Journalism Review.  He has appeared as a new media expert on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and Talk of the Nation on NPR, and been written up in Business 2.0 and The New York Times.

He was the founding director of The Media Center at American Press Institute, one of the industry’s major think tanks, and taught at the graduate level at Columbia and Indiana universities, among others. Previous positions include Vice President/Technology, Belo Interactive, and Executive Vice President/CIO of askSam Systems. Technology industry leadership positions include membership on the CIO Magazine Executive Programs Advisory Board; Editor, The Society for Information Management’s SIMNews; member, STARTech Early Ventures Industry Advisor; and chairman, Marketing Committee, SIMPosium 2006.

He has been a featured speaker at Medios Interactivos in Costa Rica; hosted the technology day for Editor & Publisher Interactive Newspapers in Seattle and Atlanta; hosted the technology panels for Connections; addressed a joint session of the World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum in Kobe, Japan; and hosted seven MediaCenter conferences. He writes about technology regularly for The Cole Papers, NewsInc, Presstime and the NAA's TechNews magazine.

He was a member of the Board of Advisors for the University of Miami, Ohio, Center for Interactive Media, and sits on the Board of Visitors for the New Media Program at IndianaUniversityPurdueUniversity at Indianapolis.  He sat on the Newspaper Association of America Technology Committee.

Feola has been a member of the adjunct faculty at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the IUPUI School of Journalism, and Miami (Ohio) journalism department, teaching new media and computer-assisted reporting. He has worked at seven papers in 18 states and five countries on a couple of continents, including a two-year stint covering Asia as a foreign correspondent for Stars & Stripes. He has more than 4,000 published articles to his credit.  He lives in Grapevine, Texas with his wife, two daughters, one son and rather more luck than he deserves.

James' background includes technology leadership roles at Belo Interactive, Compaq, EZOT, and Enron. As Director of Operations and Deputy CTO for Belo Interactive, James architected the building of a world class media web publishing infrastructure and IT organization from scratch, garnering the 2002 RealWare Award for Enterprise Content Management, Honorable mention in the 2003 CIO Magazine Enterprise Value Competition, and his team was honored at the 2002 Wharton School/InfoSys Business Transformation awards. James wrote Belo's first patents, oversaw Belo's first overseas outsourcing projects, and was a frequent presenter to the Belo Board of Directors and Belo's executive officers. Under James' leadership, Belo Interactive decreased it's annual IT expenditures by over $5 million annually, outsourced much of its support infrastructure, and built a system that supports over 1.3 billion page views a year.

In previous incarnations, James built global developer support systems for both Compaq and Enron, decreasing software release times from days or weeks to hours and minutes and founded Internet startups such as ezot.com

Jennings is a graduate of Trinity University where he was a President's Scholar and officer of three honor societies. He also attended Michigan State's graduate Geology program on a full fellowship. He has been awarded two patents, has six patents pending, and has won numerous national awards for business transforming technology projects.

Ryan has spent several years in information and data analysis, both for private and public entities. During his time at the Texas Department of Insurance, Ryan authored or collaborated on several studies of the private health insurance market that were used in presentations to the Texas Legislature and published on the Department's website.

Ryan is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in British History. He was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in 2001.

Clint Conatser is nextPression’s Vice President/Business Development. Clint has spent 12 years in public relations and corporate communications, launching and publicizing dozens of Internet and technology companies. He also operates a successful IT consulting firm, building forecasting and budgeting systems for major corporate clients like Campbell Soup Co, Mastercard and Panera Bread.

Jeffrey Berthiaume is nextPression’s iPhone/iPad application lead. He is a multimedia developer and internet architect who has designed and built award-winning websites, kiosks, and content management systems. Having grown up in Austria, Japan, Panama, and Poland, Jeffrey has lived in a number of different cultures, and has a keen grasp on multilingual and multicultural media (both from a design aesthetic, and a linguistic implementation). He has built kiosks in English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese, and designed and built content-management system driven websites (most recently for Blockbuster and Avery Dennison) in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Hebrew, and Russian.

Jeffrey has been referred to as a "technology synthesist" because of his ability to quickly grasp the implications of new technology and combine multiple available technologies into a unique interactive offering. He has developed strategies and built projects taking advantage of mobile phone/Palm Pilot technology, iPhone applications, large-scale virtual worlds, console and Flash games, gesture-based systems, and pseudo-artificial intelligence.