Mr. Smolinski is a technology visionary and accomplished computer scientist with extensive experience in both industry and research. As co-founder and chief architect at Natural Messaging, Inc., Mr. Smolinski is currently actively engaged with a leading venture and the overall technical community in the area of instant messaging applications. His industry experience includes key roles at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Vesta Inc., a leading provider of transaction processing systems. Mr. Smolinski holds a masters degree in computer science from California Polytechnic University, and was a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkley. Mr. Smolinski is also widely published in the areas of high performance computing and intelligent systems, with work being taught in graduate computer science courses around the world.