Mr. John P. Ramo
Chairman of the Board

Mr. Ramo is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Directions International, Inc. (DDI). Mr. Ramo began a pioneering career in interactive multimedia with the founding of Sonic Images Productions, Inc. in 1979. In 1994, he merged the highly profitable Sonic into Enteractive, Inc. and was listed on the NASDAQ in 1994. Enteractive developed, published, and marketed quality interactive multimedia educational products such as Jean Michel Cousteau's World Cities Under the Sea, Reel Women with Jodie Foster, and Interactive Guitar with Richie Sambora. Mr. Ramo has worked with companies and organizations ranging from The Smithsonian Institution, Philips Media, Apple Computer, The National Science Foundation, and Simon & Schuester among others.

Mr. Ramo also is the creator of the theme music for The McLaughlin Report , sits on the Advisory Board of Directors of Jazz Aspen/Snowmass, and holds the rank of Black Belt in the Japanese Martial Art of Aikido.


Mr. Martin T. Hart
Board Member


Mr. Hart is a Denver-based businessman and investor who was instrumental in the development of the Pizza Hut franchise chain and its merger with PepsiCo. He has been an investor and corporate leader in the areas of leisure resorts, restaurant chains, real estate development, high technology, and finance.

He currently serves on the boards of MassMutual Corporate Investors, Vail Banks, Inc., MassMutual Participation Investors, Pacific National Bank Financial Group, P.J. America (Pizza carryout restaurants), Schuler Homes, Inc., Stephany's Chocolates, Inc., and Digital Directions International, Inc.

Mr. Hart is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Regis University in Denver, Colorado.


Mr. James N. Morgese
Board Member


Mr. Morgese is President and General Manager of Rocky Mountain PBS, Colorado's statewide public television service. The 4-station network includes KRMA-TV (Denver), KTSC-TV (Pueblo/Colorado Springs), and KRMJ-TV (Grand Junction), with KRMA-DT (digital) currently broadcasting Rocky Mountain PBS-produced digital programming.

He is currently leading public television's transition to digital TV through his efforts at Rocky Mountain PBS. Mr. Morgese also created RMPB Online, an Internet service provider, and has increased the level of local production and educational services to Colorado.

Mr. Morgese currently sits on the Board of Digital Directions International, Inc., America's Public Television Stations, and Prime Time Today, a local media literacy group.


Mr. Michael Willis
Board Member
 

Mr. Willis is a Co-Founder and President of Digital Directions International, Inc. (DDI). He is the past President of Paragon Solutions, an on-line education and training company based in Chicago. Previously, Mr. Willis was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Digital Creators, a provider of on-line training based in Boulder, Colorado. 

Mr. Willis also served as Group Vice President for Development and Production at Jones Digital Century and Knowledge TV; and as Vice President of Production for Philips Media in Los Angeles. 

He has been an Adjunct Professor and lecturer at several universities throughout the country, teaching courses in multimedia, technology, and entertainment.


Advisory Board

Dr. Bernard J. Luskin, Ph.D.
Advisory Board Member


Dr. Luskin is President and Co-CEO of Global Learning Systems, an education, training and media communications company. He is also a visiting professor at Claremont Graduate University, and a professor of clinical psychology at the Fielding Institute. 

He was the founding president and CEO of Polygram's American Interactive Media, Philips Interactive Media, and Philips Media Education and Reference Publishing. He is also the former CEO of Jones Interactive Media, Inc.

Dr. Luskin has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community Colleges, Polygram Pictures, the California School of Professional Psychology, the Center for the Partially Sighted, the Transportation Foundation of Los Angeles, KLCS TV, and Digital Directions International, Inc. 

Gunther M. Weil Ph.D
Advisory Board Member

Gunther M. Weil Ph.D., is an organizational consultant, educator and psychologist. For the past 30 years he has provided coaching and support to executives and their companies in the areas of leadership, team building, strategic planning, conflict resolution and wellness. He has served numerous institutions and corporations in the United States and Western and Eastern Europe, in both the public and private sectors.

Weil served as a Fullbright Scholar in Europe and received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1965. His early professional mentors included Carl Rogers, the creator of Client Centered Psychotherapy and Abraham Maslow, the father of Humanistic Psychology. He was invited by Maslow to teach at Brandeis University and he also received faculty and administrative appointments at Boston College and the University of Massachusetts. In the business sector, he served for 8 years as president of Intermedia Recording Corporation and senior corporate vice president of Intermedia Systems corporation, a publicly held media production and consulting firm. His credits include the 1978 hit recording, Jet Airliner, by his music publishing company, No Thought Music, which received both gold and platinum status for sales exceeding two million, as well as an executive producer of the 2001 release of the critically acclaimed album, New Train.

Weil has also conducted seminars in leadership, creativity and Personal Energy Mastery for clients throughout the world. He is a 25 year student and teacher of Tai Chi Chuan, an internationally recognized master teacher of Qigong, and founding Chairman of the National Qigong Association (NQA).

His work in integrating these ancient oriental principles and methods of internal energy and spiritual practice with leadership-development disciplines has received wide attention in professional business and management publications in Europe. Dr. Weil is a licensed HeartMath® Trainer, certified in the Inner Quality Management® Program, a Master Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programing (NLP), and authorized facilitator and teacher of Eckhart Tolle's work of Practicing Presence.

Weil's numerous international clients have included groups and executives from Young Presidents' Organization, HCA/HealthOne Alliance, The Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, McCann-Erikson, AT&T, AmeriChoice, ARC International, Connexn, Inc., Compaq Computer, Team Training International, C.F. Curry Co., Ericsson, the Peace Corp and the Federal Aviation Agency.


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