David Reid serves as the Executive Director of the Baylor Angel Network (BAN). As Executive Director, he provides strategic and operational oversight for BAN.

David leverages two decades of experience as a business lawyer and corporate executive for companies across all stages of the business life cycle, from start-ups to multi-national public companies.

David has a particular passion for entrepreneurial organizations, which accelerated when he served as the first attorney dedicated to supporting the Travelocity business unit in its early days. David went on to play key legal and business roles in Travelocity’s rapid growth, international development, strategic transactions, successful public event (NASDAQ: TVLY) and subsequent going-private transaction. David has also served as an active member of numerous Boards of Directors around the world.

Robert J. Knorr is founder and principal of Cogent Inc., a boutique consulting company specializing in healthcare reimbursement strategy. Using an expansive network of regulatory, legislative, and policy experts, Mr. Knorr has helped public and private companies build novel business models supported by reliable government and commercial reimbursement. His work in this area has directly contributed to strategic acquisitions involving several private healthcare companies.

Mr. Knorr earned graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Fairleigh-Dickinson University after completing his undergraduate studies at Drexel University. He has also studied at the London Business School and the University of North Carolina.

During the 1990’s Mr. Knorr lived overseas where he created several unique enterprises that successfully introduced leading healthcare products into the developing markets of Eastern, Central, and Western Europe. Over the past decade he has worked with leaders in Congress, FDA, CMS, VA, and the AMA on policy, payment, procedural, and coding matters. His work in this area has provided access to several patient-centric technologies and improved the quality of care for individuals with chronic diabetes and cardiovascular conditions.

During his 25+ year international business career, Mr. Knorr founded five enterprises in corporate and start-up environments including one of the nation’s fastest growing private companies, Tapestry Medical Inc. Tapestry was subsequently acquired by Alere Inc., [NYSE: ALR] a market-leading healthcare company, where, as CEO of Alere Home Monitoring, Mr. Knorr led the Corporation’s fastest growing division to become one of the nation’s leading providers of remote healthcare services and related products.

In recent years, Mr. Knorr has had the opportunity to apply his experience and strategic leadership skills to the non-profit sector in organizations such as the Jim Ryun Running Camps, Barnabas Group of Silicon Valley, and Knorr Family Foundation. Mr. Knorr is also a frequent guest lecturer at healthcare conferences, trade associations, and university campuses. In his spare time he enjoys running, skiing, and rowing.

Petty has taught at Virginia Tech University, Texas Tech University, the University of Texas at Austin, and served as the dean of the business school at Abilene Christian University. At Baylor University, he has been designated as a University Master Teacher, the highest honor bestowed by the University on a faculty member. His research interests include valuation and acquisitions of privately-held companies, the financing of entrepreneurial firms, and shareholder value-based management.

He has served as the co-editor for the Journal of Financial Research and as the editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance. He has published in numerous finance journals and is the co-author of two leading corporate finance textbook, Basic Financial Management, and Foundations of Finance, and co-author of a widely used text, Small Business Management. He conducted a study sponsored by the Financial Executive International on exit strategies in privately held companies (Harvesting Investments in Private Companies). He also co-authored Value-Based Management: Corporate America’s Response to the Shareholder Revolution, (Harvard Business School Press/Oxford University Press), the original edition of the current book.

Petty has served as a subject matter expert on a best-practices study by the American Productivity and Quality Center on the topic of shareholder value based management. He also served on a research team for the Australian Department of Industry to study the feasibility of establishing a public equity market for small and medium-sized enterprises in Australia. He has also taught in an executive MBA program in Thailand and China and conducted seminars in Indonesia and Russia. Finally, he serves on the Board of Directors of a publicly-traded oil and gas firm.

Mr. J. Patrick Horner, also known as Pat, served as the Chief Executive Officer of E5 Systems, Inc. Mr. Horner served as President of Management Support Technologies, the lead consulting unit of Condor Technology Solutions from 1997 to 1998. Mr. Horner served as Senior Vice President of Intersolv Corporation from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Horner was the Founder, Sales Executive and Senior Manager of Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) in the Government Systems Group. During his tenure at EDS, Mr. Horner was the Sales and Marketing Executive responsible for the EDS’s fastest growing business unit. Mr. Horner has More than thirty years experience, executive leadership and sales management; computer, communications and information technology (IT) services industry. Mr. Horner was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Horner Group, Strategic Management Consulting Firm. Mr. Horner served as Vice President of the EDS Government Systems Group. He was the Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Perot Systems Corporation from 1988 to 1992. Mr. Horner served as President and Board Member of two Cambridge model management consulting company and focused on business strategy, information technology alignment, rapid prototype development, systems integration. Mr. Horner serves as Chairman of E5 Systems, Inc. He has been Chairman of The Horner Group since 1997. He served as a Director of Pilot Software, Inc., Management Support Technologies and Apogee Enterprises Inc. since 1999. He served as a Director of Perot Systems Corporation from 1988 to 1992. For last decade, he has been involved in a dozen public and private high growth companies in various roles including Investor, Board Member, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. He was a Pilot and Instructor Pilot in the US Air Force. He has a BBA in Quantitative Analysis and Bachelor of Administration in Business from Baylor University, MA in Administration and business from the University of Northern Colorado.