DisplayPoints is a privately held, eye-catching new media company. DisplayPoints brings restaurants, bars, consumers, and advertisers together at the restaurant table and bar top. Using vibrant, sharp, non-intrusive 7” touchscreen displays, DisplayPoints focuses on bringing the right message to the right audience at the right time. Whether people are looking for the best happy hour special, spiciest appetizer, or what to do after dinner, DisplayPoints brings the content they want right to the tabletop with easy ways to capture the value of the offers and promotions.

Four Austin, TX entrepreneurs founded DisplayPoints in February of 2007. Using business principles taught by the Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship (www.actonmba.org), DisplayPoints sought to bring three related groups together in a way that created accretive value for everyone. The mutual benefit for the patron, restaurant, and complimentary advertiser enhances the dining and bar experience. The restaurant wants the patron to know about their specials and new menu items. The complimentary advertiser wants the patron to know about their new beer or upcoming show times. The patron is looking for good food and drink specials and additional valuable information. Integrating interactive digital display technology to enable a large playlist of offers and promotions, DisplayPoints is growing throughout Texas and partnering with a variety of companies to continue to create value for all of our customers.

Mr. Fitzgerald is a 17 year industry veteran marketing networking, wireless, security and systems management products and services. He was most recently global vice president of marketing, channels and inside sales at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com. Prior to TippingPoint he was vice president of marketing for a growth stage startup, Traq-wireless, a leader in wireless management software and services. Before Traq, Mr. Fitzgerald was the director of worldwide marketing at BMC Software, a leading provider of enterprise management solutions. He drove BMC's ebusiness management initiative from idea to final product, creating a $45 million product line. Mr. Fitzgerald has extensive branding, advertising, positioning and product experience driving products into new markets. Mr. Fitzgerald holds a BBA in Marketing and Finance from Emory University, a MBA in Product Marketing from the University of Colorado, and a MIM in International Marketing Strategy from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management. He is currently a professor at Acton MBA in Austin, TX.

For 17 years, Mr. Bell has enjoyed a classical sales, sales management, and business development career that has included key positions with Fortune 500 companies as well as rapid growth start-up organizations. He has held National, Global, Director, and Vice President positions at such companies as Wang Labs, W.W. Grainger, webMethods, IONA Technologies, and National Bankcard Systems. He has extensive experience in identifying new market opportunities, building pertinent teams and business partners, and developing those opportunities into full-scale revenue generating entities. Mr. Bell has introduced new products and services into new territories in such geographies as South Florida, Central America, South America, Caribbean, Mexico, UK, and Germany and has done so through both direct and indirect distribution channels. He is highly skilled at visualizing, developing, and executing sales, business development, and corporate strategies. Mr. Bell holds a BA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA in International Business Management from the University of Miami.

For 21 years, Mr. Dublin has used his innovative approach to design, develop, integrate, and deliver clearly superior technology solutions. He has held technical, marketing, program management, and corporate strategy positions at leading companies such as Chevron, Sun Microsystems, Dell, and Tivoli. He has extensive experience in building and leveraging state-of-the-art networks and systems. As the founder of Network I/O Corp., he is the inventor of the NIOengine, the world's first embedded platform to completely bridge the gap between the real world and the network to natively support both wired and wireless sensor networks. His work has led to significant business or technical benefits for organizations such as NASA, Baker Hughes, Hewlett-Packard Research, US Navy Metrology Lab, Ann Taylor Stores, Pratt & Whitney, BF Goodrich Aerospace, Aramco Services, and several regional hospital systems among many others. Mr. Dublin earned his B.S. in Robotics Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University, and holds an Executive MBA from Rice University. He is also an occasional speaker and author on a number of technology topics.

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