Accomplished, retired software executive with entrepreneurial skills and a history of transforming talented teams to drive productive growth. Served in senior VP and CRO roles at notable enterprise and on demand companies including Informix, Oracle, Informatica, Reltio and Gracenote over a 40 year career. CEO and CoFounder of Relevance Technologies, using tunable semantic nets and machine learning to understand large collections of documents.

Passionate about serving my community and have contributed via educational & community boards, economic development councils and children's charities. My wife Lynn and I are dedicated to bringing donors, patrons and awareness to great songwriters and musicians challenged by a business model that fails to reward all but the very most successful artists.

A graduate of Princeton University, Ford began his nonprofit leadership commitment running Development with a multi-year role at the Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen, California. For the Song continues to route great songwriters to the Park including John Fullbright and Sean McConnell.

A citizen of Reno since 1975, Nettie has been an IT Consultant and perennial volunteer supporter of the arts in her adopted state. A chat with an old friend in 2019 offered an opportunity to team with the visionary developer of Reno Public Market to create a local commercial retail project to infuse arts and culture into a daily-needs shopping environment. As a partner and COO with Foothill Partners, Nettiecollaborates in all the company’s projects to incorporate Culture and Commerce to build and sustain Community. Foothill Partners’ newest project, The Oddie District in Sparks, incorporates the blending of Maker arts and tech innovation, again revitalizing older community assets.  

 A graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts and former dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, Nettie served 10 years on the City of Reno Arts & Culture Commission and chaired the City’s Public Art Committee and Arts & Culture Grants Panel. She co-chairs the regional Reno Arts Consortium and serves on the boards of the Nevada Arts Council and City of Reno Redevelopment Agency Advisory. Additional activities have included the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts Board, City of Reno Technology and Innovation Consortium, the Doral Academy School Board and PBSReno Community Advisory. Nettie is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from EDAWN, the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, for her innovation and stewardship of the Arts in Nevada.

Blind since age 3, is an athlete, an entrepreneur, and a pioneer in the development of way-finding technology. The founder and CEO of the Sendero Group, which produces accessible GPS solutions for people who are blind or visually impaired, May also holds the downhill speed skiing record for a person who is totally blind, racing at 65 miles per hour.

 Mike has raised millions of dollars to develop four companies and he has changed the landscape of how blind people get around independently. A blind GPS customer in Australia said if there was a Nobel Prize for independence, Mike's name should be on it. 

To further the efforts of his causes and ventures, Mike May has generated media seen by millions of viewers.May underwent a rare stem cell transplant in 2000 and became one of a handful of documented cases of partial vision restoration. His story was recently told in the book Crashing Through, by Robert Kurson.He has met numerous celebrities including four U.S. Presidents. Mike was acknowledged at the White House by Ronald Reagan after skiing the first-ever run by a blind person in the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984. In one year alone over 40 million people saw or heard about Mike's ventures through media like ABC Wide World of Sports, NBC Dateline, CBS Sunday Morning, HBO Sports, Discover and Esquire Magazines. Over 70 million people have seen the documentary about Mike on BBC TV.

An internationally touring, seasoned musician who has performed in 16 states and 5 countries. Spike’s roots run deep in the folk-rock tradition. He is known for founding of Loud As Folk which has become a notable hub for West Coast talent.

In 2011 McGuire founded Loud As Folk, a monthly songwriters series in his hometown Reno, NV. During Covid, under McGuire’s direction the organization pivoted and began taking the music straight to listeners’ homes. From 2020-2022 LAF studios produced and recorded 24 exclusive original releases featuring a different songwriter each month on vinyl, cassette, and CD for a membership based record club. Loud As Folk has resumed its monthly showcase by partnering with Nevada Museum of Art for their long standing First Thursday event, which is both curated and hosted by McGuire.

As of 2023 Spike assumed the role of Executive Director at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City, NV. The vision of the Brewery Arts Center is to embrace and grow artists and the artistic community in Carson City, recognizing our responsibility to be a catalyst for economic and educational growth and community collaborations by developing a creative, active and engaged community.

A longtime supporter of the arts, Lynn serves on the board with a passion for singer/songwriters and creative storytelling. She previously spent four years on the Sonoma International Film Festival Board and brings a background in tech marketing to her work. Lynn is married with two adult children, and when not immersed in music or film, you can usually find her out on the golf course.

CEO of Plex, the largest independent video on demand and streaming media platform, with hundreds of live TV channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV episodes, available globally in 193 countries. Keith has nearly two decades of experience in executive and founding member positions spanning several industries. Prior to Plex, Keith was COO of Bracket Computing (acquired by VMware) where he was responsible for corporate strategy and all business operations, including finance, business development, legal, operations, human resources, and information technology. Previously Keith spent five years at Cisco in various executive positions including running strategy and operations for the $2B Security Group, where he was responsible for business acquisition planning and execution, go-to-market planning and strategy, program management, business operations, and acquisition integration. Keith was the Vice President of Corporate Development and General Counsel at IronPort Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Cisco for $830M in 2007. Keith started his technology career as an associate at Venture Law Group where he represented technology companies on venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, licensing transactions and regulatory compliance.