Coach Willy Cahill began his martial arts education under his Father, Professor John Cahill, Sr. who founded Cahill's Judo Academy in Daly City, California in 1948. Professor John Cahill was one of the most highly respected instructors ever to come out of Professor Okazaki's Kodenkan System of Jujitsu in Hawaii. One of John Cahill's goals was to get one of his students to the Olympics. However, in 1962 Professor Cahill passed away at the very young age of 50. In 1963, Willy Cahill built a new Dojo (Martial Arts Gym) in San Bruno, California in his Father's honor. At the new club, Coach Willy Cahill set new standards and goals for himself and his students. Over the past 50 years of working with children, young adults, men and women of all ages, Coach Cahill has produced over 1200 National and International Medal winners. In 1988 Willy was asked and accepted the position of the US Olympic Judo Coach. In 1999 the Olympic Committee asked that Willy to accept the position of US Paralympic Judo Coach. At the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, the US Paralympic Judo Team won 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal. At the 2004 Games in Athens under the coaching leadership of Willy, the US Paralympic Judo Team won 1 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals. It is interesting to note that Gold has never been won by the sighted US Olympic Judo Team since Judo was introduced at the Olympic level in 1964. Seventy-five percent of all medals won in Judo at the Olympic / Paralympic level has been won under the coaching of Willy Cahill. Willy is a 10th Degree Black Belt in Jujitsu and a 7th Degree in Judo. Coach Cahill has dedicated his life in training individuals for the challenges of life through the sport of Judo and Martial Arts. He is known also for training US Army Green Berets, Navy Seals, US Secret Service, Homeland Security and being the Coach in Judo for Stanford University, SF State University, US Coach of the Junior Pan American Championships; US Coach Goodwill Games. He is also in the Black Belt Hall of Fame, Black Belt Coaches Hall of Fame, Jujitsu American Hall of Fame Instructor of the Year. Willy is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Blind Judo Foundation.

Bina is currently the Director of Programs and Services at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Prior to this he was
· Vice President of the Metrolina Association for the Blind in Charlotte, North Carolina;
· President of the Hadley School for the Blind---an international distance learning school which serves 10,000 students in all 50 states and in 100 other countries;
· Superintendent of the Indiana School for the Blind;

Before that he was
· Principal of the Texas School for the Blind;
· Director of Special Education in the local schools in Janesville, Wisconsin; and
· Orientation and Mobility instructor and boys and girls swimming, track and cross country coach at the Wisconsin School for the Visually Handicapped.

He received his Masters from California State University in Los Angeles and Doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado.

Bina has served as
· The International AER President;
· The Council of Schools for the Blind President;
· A United States Army Special Forces Green Beret Military Intelligence Officer; and, while in college,
· A United States Forest Service "Smokejumper," who parachuted into forest fires in remote locations in Alaska, Montana, and Idaho.

Camillus is the owner of a real estate brokerage called Chan & Associates in Millbrae, California. It's a small company with about ten people. He's been buying, selling and developing real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly twenty years now.

His interests and background are broad and diversified. He holds a J.D. (in law), an M. Ed. (in education), and a B.S. (in accounting). When he was a little younger, he worked as a dish-washer, bus driver, school counselor, part-time college instructor and an accounting manager for a major state university. He even worked briefly in a law firm. As he wasn't very good at developing any of these careers, he decided to work for himself and opened his own company. Nobody wanted to hire him since then.

His interest in Judo began thirteen years ago. He was thirty-nine of age then and he's been a total geek since birth. A geek as he defines it is a person who's somewhat interested in academics and who doesn't show much interest in sports. He figured he's not getting any younger and he needed to start exercising his body a little so that it wouldn't deteriorate faster than it might naturally. He found the "gentle way." Well, it's gentle until you hit the ground. But he liked it and stuck with it. One of his old Senseis was more impressed by his persistence with the sport than by his skills, but awarded him a black belt nonetheless. Many years later he also received a brown belt in Jujitsu. He tries to practice Judo and/or Jujitsu at least once a week with people who are seventy years old, but they don't come by too easily in a dojo. So he usually gets beat up by some fifteen-year old white belts.

His personal philosophy toward people is a simple one: try to be nice to the those around you. In other words: practice kindness. That's enough for him to do. Come September, he will have two teenage boys in high school. So he's active in the equivalent of their school's PTA. Both boys take gymnastics. So he joined the board of the booster club to help out. His younger boy is in Judo. So Camillus tries to help out there whenever he can -- he even helped teach a kids class for about a year once. About a year ago, he heard about the formation of the Blind Judo Foundation. He volunteered for the board almost right away. He hasn't done anything concrete for the foundation yet, but he's ready and willing.

Michael Glaser is a Partner in the Menlo Park office of Perkins Coie and is a key member of the firm's nationwide Emerging Companies practice group. With his foundation in finance and securities, Glaser brings a valuable quantitative perspective to transactional negotiations. He has led clients in the enterprise software, digital media, fixed and mobile communications, semiconductor, and e-commerce sectors through more than 200 venture capital financing transactions. In addition, he has an active M&A practice and has advised clients in complex mergers and strategic business combinations ranging in size from several million dollars to over $400 million dollars. Glaser graduated from New York University School of Law, in 1997 and worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati before joining Perkins Coie.

Glaser is also the Secretary of the Foundation.

Patrick McGill ( Venture Partner | Business Development )

Patrick brings to Velocity Interactive Group a highly successful track record in strategic business development, and M&A with an extensive rolodex of global industry connections. Most recently, Patrick was part of a boutique consulting firm where he was retained by NTT DoCoMo to advise them on their corporate investment strategy.
Over the years, he has built an impressive track record within the rapidly emerging mobile convergence space. At Pixo, a mobile embedded software firm, he was instrumental in closing strategic investments and contracts with Conexant, Hikari Tsushin, Kyocera, Lycos, Nokia, and Samsung. Prior to this, he was VP/General Manager at Alcatel's wireless internet business unit responsible for launching new CDMA handsets and the Internet Screenphone project.
As Vice President, Corporate Development at VeriFone, he reported directly to the Chairman and successfully initiated the corporation's equity investment in WebTV, negotiated major alliances with EDS, Netscape, Oracle and Microsoft as well as playing an intimate role in the acquisition of VeriFone by Hewlett Packard for $1.2BN. Patrick had previously joined the company through the successful merger of VeriFone with EIT (Enterprise Integration Technologies) a seminal e-commerce company, where he personally initiated and led the transaction.
Originally from the U.K., Patrick's international experience is broad with direct knowledge in business dealings across a spectrum of European and Asian countries and cultures. Patrick started his pre-high technology career as a part of an operational "troubleshooting team" for British Airways managing airports and living in Africa, Bangladesh, Finland, India and the Persian Gulf.

Velocity Interactive Group is a leading investment firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Velocity Interactive Group has a global presence in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, India and China.

Ronald C. Peck, MBA

Ron has a background in Healthcare, Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies in Senior Management on three continents. He returned to the US from living and working in Switzerland to work with his son in a company called Fearless Wealth. Ron wanted to make a difference with people, specifically in the area of their financial independence. While in Europe Ron came across a little known asset that most seniors (people over the age of 65) owned but few knew about. It was called Senior Life Settlements. Ron realized the majority of seniors in America let this asset lapse thus becoming useless and created a company called FWLife to make a difference in senior citizens life's. Ron is speaking and working with seniors helping them realize hidden money; working with nonprofits to create funding and giving meaning to new life after 65. Ron has held various positions as District Manager, Regional Manager, Vice President, COO and Managing Director. He also established an American medical software company in radiation oncology treatment planning systems in Europe. His geographical area of responsibility included all of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After returning to the US and locating to California he was appointed a Trustee in the Internet Broadcasting Association and became the Senior Vice President for the Internet Broadcasting Health Network. This lead to accepting a position as Executive Director of the Neurological Disease Foundation, a Nonprofit 501(c) (3) whose mission is to eliminate various neurodegenerative diseases starting with Alzheimer's. This position is currently held today. Mr. Peck graduated from Columbia Pacific University with a Bachelors Degree in Management and an MBA in Marketing. He is also the Co-Founder of the Blind Judo Foundation and CFO.