TOM OLIVER

Tom Oliver brings over 20 years of extensive executive level experience to the Funk Ventures advisory board. Early in his career, Mr. Oliver served as President of Artco-Bell, a Texas furniture manufacturing company, as well as Vice President of internationally-known Dole Food Company. He also held various executive management positions with companies such as Nabisco, Arnold Food Company and General Foods.

More recently, Mr. Oliver served as Vice President of wellness company PowerBar, where he successfully sold the company to Nestle SA before joining medical device company Cool Systems as Chief Executive Officer. At Cool Systems, Mr. Oliver just recently released the company's medical device, GameReady, which cuts recovery and rehabilitation time for injuries of any kind in half using a patented technology originally developed for NASA spacesuits.

Mr. Oliver is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program and received his MBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Delaware. He also holds a MS degree in Personnel, Counseling, and Guidance from Troy State University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the US Air Force Academy. Mr. Oliver was an instructor pilot in the US Air Force for nine years while flying both supersonic jets and propeller combat aircraft.