Mr. Leopard has helped dozens of growing companies build leadership and realize enterprise value. He has performed in a variety of roles—founder, operating executive (including CEO, COO, senior vice-president, and interim and ongoing CFO), strategist, investor and deal maker. In the past decade, seven companies in which Mr. Leopard served in some combination of CEO, chairman and investor produced two IPOs, two sales to public companies, one sale to a private equity group and two recapitalizations.

Mr. Leopard currently serves as virtual chairman and mentor to the CEO for four private companies, and is executive chairman of Far Above Average, LLC, a Silicon Valley based IT infrastructure management firm. He is also a board member for The Enterprise Network of Silicon Valley (TEN), a not-for-profit business incubator, support center and accelerator for hi-tech entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley.

He holds a B.A. degree in Literature from Mercer University and completed the M.B.A. program from San Diego State with emphases in finance and marketing.

Mr. Barada brings over 40 years experience in telecommunications to The Sente Group’s board of advisors. Today, as a telecommunications consultant, he assists with strategic planning for growing businesses of all sizes.

Over Mr. Barada’s 35-year career with Pacific Bell/Pacific Telesis Group, a diversified telecommunications corporation, he held a variety of leadership roles in corporate strategy, operations, legal, marketing and new business development. As vice president-corporate strategy, he brought key strategies to the CEO and the board of directors, including the spin-off of AirTouch to shareholders in 1994, the entry into PCS Services in California and the merger of Pacific Telesis and SBC in 1997.

Mr. Barada earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration-industrial relations from California State University at Long Beach, an M.S. in Management from Stanford Sloan School of Management and a J.D. from Loyola University School of Law.

Mr. Dunbar was chief operating officer for The Sente Group from 2000-2005. He joined Sente after serving for more than three decades in a variety of executive positions with General Electric.

Over the course of his accomplished career with GE, Mr. Dunbar held leadership roles in businesses that served customers in telecommunications, information technology and test and measurement. He recurrently demonstrated an ability to turn around struggling segments of GE’s operations through organizational efficiency and financial management. Immediately prior to joining The Sente Group, Mr. Dunbar was vice president of GE Capital’s Test Equipment Management Services (GE Capital TEMS), a $125 million business operating 13 service centers throughout North America. In one eleven month period, Mr. Dunbar led a turnaround effort that took GE Capital TEMS from a business that was not profitable to one with operating margins of 15%. He also implemented Six Sigma Quality culture throughout the business.

Mr. Dunbar is a graduate of a host of GE professional education programs, including the three-year Manufacturing Management Program, the four-year Advanced Manufacturing Management Program and the prestigious Management Development Course (MDC) at GE's John F. Welch Leadership Development Institute.