Board of Directors
John C. Bergstrom
Mr. Bergstrom has been a director of Instrumental since 1996 and currently serves as the board chair. He is a Partner in RiverPoint Investments based in St. Paul, MN. RiverPoint works on an intensive basis with selected companies, advising them on financial, organizational, strategy, compensation and governance matters. He is currently a director of The Dolan Company (NYSE: DM), Peoples Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEDH), Znomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNOM) Instrumental, Inc., JobDig, Inc., Tecmark, Inc. and Creative Publishing, Inc. John has been involved with numerous private placements, public offerings, mergers, acquisition and spin-off transactions. He is also active in community affairs and is currently a board member of Goodwill Easter Seals Minnesota and is a founder of the Entrepreneurs House project for Habitat for Humanity. John is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, B.A., and University of Minnesota, M.B.A.
Spence G. Morley
Mr. Morley has been a director of Instrumental since 1994 and currently serves as its governance committee chair. Since 1998, Mr. Morley has been Managing Partner of Taconic Partners (TaconicLLC.com), located in White Bear Lake, MN, providing strategic advisory and consulting services to start-up and early-stage companies. From 1997 to 1998 he was a Principal at Andcor Companies in Wayzata, MN. From 1990-1997 he was Managing Partner of St. Paul Growth Ventures, a private venture capital partnership investing in start-up and early-stage companies. Mr. Morley was in the Technology Corporate Banking Group at Norwest Bank N.A. (now Wells Fargo) in Minneapolis, MN for three years, and a computer design engineer at Sperry Corporation (now Unisys) in Eagan, MN for 5 years. Mr. Morley has an M.B.A. degree from Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, and a B.A. from Colgate University.
Henry Newman
See Biography in Management Section.
Bill Zwicky
See Biography in Management Section.