Board of Directors

Robert A. Buntz, Jr.
CEO, President and Chairman of the Board

Robert A. Buntz, Jr. has served as a director of the Company since inception in April 2007. Mr. Buntz has been an entrepreneur for more than 30 years and a real estate broker for more than 25. In 1981, Mr. Buntz began developing the award-winning Bluefin Bay on Lake Superior, Tofte, Minnesota, and operated that resort until 2007. Among other achievements, Mr. Buntz's development company donated the land, time and funding to help create the North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum, and Mr. Buntz created and developed one of the first rural affordable housing projects, Tofte Homestead. From 1984 through 2006, and while he was simultaneously operating Bluefin Bay, Mr. Buntz was the owner and operator of Tofte Land Co., Inc., a real estate holding and brokerage firm. He now has more than 25 years of hospitality experience as an owner-operator of destination properties.

Mr. Buntz has served on the board of directors of the Explore Minnesota Tourism Council and the (Minnesota) Governor's Tourism Advisory Committee for more than 15 years. Currently, Mr. Buntz is a board member and past-chair of the board of the American Museum of Asmat Art. Mr. Buntz received the (Minnesota) Governor's Entrepreneurship Award from Governor Rudy Perpich and the Outstanding Individual in Tourism Award from Governor Jesse Ventura. He is a graduate of Grinnell College.


Edward Wicker
Chief Financial Officer, Director

Edward Wicker has served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, including Webdigs, LLC, since September 2007. Mr. Wicker provides a combination of large and small company finance executive experience. Most recently, Mr. Wicker has served as CFO of several start-up companies in the Twin Cities, including Tailor Building Systems (2005-2007), Michelina’s Inc. (2002), and Wireless Ronin Technologies (2001-2002). Mr. Wicker also founded KMR Designs in 2002, a firm that was a niche supplier of ultra high performance custom winter accessories supplying people who worked and played outdoors for long periods at below zero temperatures. Prior to these positions, Mr. Wicker had a long career at personal care products maker Coty, Inc., where he served in several senior finance executive positions. His final ten years with Coty were spent in Europe, where he served as VP of Finance at Spanish and UK subsidiaries, as well as controller of Coty’s global operations division. Prior to Europe, Mr. Wicker served as finance director of Coty’s then sister company—Reckitt Benckiser US Consumer Products Division. Prior to working at Reckitt, he began his career at Ecolab, where he worked in internal audit and financial analyst positions. Mr. Wicker holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson school of management. Mr. Wicker is a CPA.


Donald Miller
Director

Donald Miller was appointed as a director of the Company on July 7, 2009. Mr. Miller worked almost forty years at Schwan's Inc, primarily as CFO. During his tenure, Schwan's grew from a small local home-delivery dairy service to a multi-billion dollar consumer packaged goods giant. Throughout his employment, he was involved in all of the acquisitions and divestitures of the company. He currently serves as chairman of the finance committee at Schwan's, as well as serving on the audit and risk committees.  He is also Chairman of the Board of Multiband Corp. In 2008, Mr. Miller was appointed to the Board of Directors of FoodShacks, Inc.


Steven Sjoblad
Director

Steven Sjoblad was appointed as a director of the Company on October 25, 2007. Steve Sjoblad has more than 35 years of corporate strategy and marketing expertise. Mr. Sjoblad spent 19 years building Fallon McElligott, one of the world's preeminent advertising agencies, where he guided global strategy and marketing programs for industry leaders and has worked in virtually every consumer and business-to-business category (1981-1999). From 2001 through 2003, Mr. Sjoblad ran Global Consumer Services for Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), originated the myFICO.com business and ran the Fair Isaac Marketing Services business, transforming it into a "precision marketing unit." Additionally, he was a member of the Fair Isaac Executive Committee and held the position of Chief Marketing Officer. From 2003 through 2006, Mr. Sjoblad worked as an independent business consultant. Since 2006, Mr. Sjoblad has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Captira Analytical, a software, data and analytics firm serving the criminal justice vertical market based in Albany, NY. Mr. Sjoblad is also Chairman of uBid.com (UBHI.OB), an online retailer, a board member of Schwan's Foods, a $3.6 billion international food concern, and a founder and board member of Fluxion, LLC, a marketing automation concern.


Joe Fox
Director

Joe Fox was appointed as a director on July 7, 2009. Back in the mid 1990s, Mr. Fox identified the internet as a tool that would level the playing field for consumers in the stock brokerage industry. He, along with brother Avi, created Web Street Securities, a highly successful on-line investment brokerage company. Web Street became a publicly traded company in 1999 before merging with E*Trade Financial Group in 2001. In 2005, Mr. Fox's desire to leverage the internet to empower consumers in their financial decision making process resulted in the forming of Iggys House Realty, Inc. (Iggys House and Buyside Realty), where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Iggy's goal was to capture the power of the internet to facilitate consumers to manage their own real estate sales and purchases, thereby saving themselves thousands of dollars on commissions on their transactions. Iggys' web-assisted real estate brokerage covered 38 states within 2 years of its startup.