Martin L. Abbott is a founding partner at the growth and scalability advisory firm AKF Partners. He was formerly chief operations officer at Quigo an advertising technology startup sold to AOL where he was responsible for product strategy product management technology development and client services. Marty spent nearly six years at eBay most recently as senior vice president of technology chief technology officer and member of the executive staff. Prior to his time at eBay Marty held domestic and international engineering management and executive positions at Gateway and Motorola. He has served on the boards of directors of several private and public companies. Marty has a B. S. in computer science from the United States Military Academy has an M. S. in computer engineering from the University of Florida is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program and has a Doctor of Management from Case Western Reserve University. Michael T. Fisher is a founding partner at the growth and scalability advisory firm AKF Partners. Prior to cofounding AKF Partners Michael was the chief technology officer at Quigo a startup Internet advertising company that was acquired by AOL in 2007. Before his time at Quigo Michael served as vice president engineering and architecture for PayPal Inc. an eBay company. Prior to joining PayPal he spent seven years at General Electric helping to develop the company's technology strategy and was a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Michael served six years as a Captain and pilot in the U. S. Army. He received a Ph. D. and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management an M. S. in information systems from Hawaii-Pacific University and a B. S. in computer science from the United States Military Academy (West Point). Michael is an adjunct professor in the design and innovation department at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. . Language: English