Business Advisory Board

The Business Advisory Board provides strategic guidance to Infobionics on marketing direction, business development and related product development plans. Advisors are industry or technology luminaries, strategic partners, and former CEOs of companies in the markets Infobionics serves.

Bruce Johnson
Clint J. Sawinski
Dr. Jaideep Srivastava
Richard Tanler
Craig Weinstock


Bruce Johnson
Bruce is an industry expert in data architecture and warehousing with over 20 years of experience across a variety of industries. He is currently the Managing Director of Data Architecture, Strategy, and Governance for Recombinant Data Corporation, focusing on analytics solutions for medical research and clinical quality. Prior to this, he led the development of the Enterprise Data Trust and Life Sciences Systems at the Mayo Clinic. Bruce is currently working with multiple clients in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, focused on analytic solutions for translational research and quality reporting. He is a nationally known speaker and a columnist for the Enterprise Information Management Institute. Bruce is also an advisor to a local consulting firm's healthcare practice.

Clint J. Sawinski
Clint has a proven history of consistent business success spanning more than two decades, delivering results through many industry and economic changes. He has also demonstrated the ability to drive success in all types of organizations, ranging from start-ups to General Electric. Clint was co-founder of Cornerstone Consulting, Inc., which grew quickly from start-up to over $22 million in annual services revenue. A leader in business intelligence, application development, and software testing for Fortune 1000 companies, Cornerstone served such clients as Cargill, Medtronic, Ecolab, Wells Fargo, GMAC, RFC, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Target. In 2005 Clint sold Cornerstone to a California IT services firm, VIP, Inc., in a transaction backed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. Clint was an investor and technology advisor in the web-based financial services company, Private Accounts, LLC which was sold to E*Trade. He was a shareholder in Rupp Industries, the leader in the temporary heating and cooling industry. He was part of the AmeriData management team which grew the company from $65 million in 1989 to over $1.5 billion by the mid 1990s and was sold to GE in 1995. Before forming Cornerstone in 1999, Clint served in a variety of roles within the technology industry, including Director of GE Capital Consulting, General Manager and Director for GE Capital ITS, and AmeriData, Inc, and Vice President of Sales for a technology manufacturing company. Clint holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Jaideep Srivastava, Infobionics Chief Scientist
Jaideep is Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and Senior Technology Advisor in the Office of Enterprise Technology for Minnesota. He has established and led a laboratory that has conducted research in databases, multimedia systems, and data mining over the past 17 years. He has supervised 23 Ph.D. dissertations and 44 Masters theses, and has authored/co-authored over 180 papers in journals and conferences. Jaideep actively collaborates with the technology industry, both for research and technology transfer, and is often invited to participate in technical and technology strategy forums. The U.S. federal government has solicited his opinion on computer science research as an expert witness. Jaideep’s industry experience includes heading data mining at Amazon.com, and data warehousing, mining, and reporting at Yodlee. He has provided technology and technology strategy advice to a number of large corporations, including Cargill, United Technologies, IBM, Honeywell, 3M, and Persistent Systems. He has served in an advisory capacity to a number of small companies, including Lancet Software. Jaideep has chaired many research conferences and is on the editorial board of a number of journals. He has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE, and has been appointed a Distinguished Visitor by the IEEE Computer Society. Jaideep received MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and previously received a Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur, India.

Richard Tanler
Richard has more than 30 years of software industry experience and is a nationally recognized expert on business intelligence, demand chain management, SCM, CRM, ERP, and data warehousing. He is the author of Intranet Data Warehouse (John Wiley & Sons, 1997). Richard is CEO of eiVia, the second company that he has founded. eiVia's core technology is an online spreadsheet, the world's largest pivot table with database write-back capabilities. He successfully launched Information Advantage in 1990 and guided it through an IPO (Nasdaq: IACO) in 1997. Information Advantage's acquisition by Sterling Software, Inc. (now Computer Associates) provided Tanler the opportunity to leverage his entrepreneurial and visionary skills in defining and developing technology solutions for new markets. Before Information Advantage, Tanler was a member of the senior staff at Metaphor Computer Systems. During his tenure, Metaphor introduced the first client/server business intelligence application suite. Before that, Tanler held marketing positions at Dial Corporation, McKesson, and PepsiCo., where he was responsible for marketing sales forecasting for the Pepsi-owned franchises. In 1999, Ernst & Young named Tanler Entrepreneur of the Year from Minnesota.

Craig Weinstock
Craig is a founder of the White Pine Consulting Group which provides high-impact marketing and business development strategy and execution services to high-growth technology companies.  He has completed work for 50+ companies, helped raise $120 billion in venture capital, and established numerous strategic joint marketing, reseller, and OEM agreements. Previously, Craig served in various marketing and business development positions for a number of firms including Plural, Apertus and First Bank System. Craig graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA from Saint Olaf College, majoring in economics & finance, and attended Cambridge University, England in the study abroad program.