Michael B. Thompson Profile - Forbes.com

Michael B. Thompson Profile - Forbes.com
Michael B. Thompson has served as a director of the Company since May 2004. Mr. Thompson is currently the VP of R&D and Information Technology for Kersh Risk Management in Plano, Texas. Kersh is a B2B Company focused on helping employees and dependents make behavioral changes to improve health which benefits the employee while driving significant health care cost savings for employers. In 2007 and 2008, Mr. Thompson was the COO of Mediaport Entertainment, Inc a digital media kiosk company that provides automated fulfillment and point of sale solutions for music, movies, eBooks, audio books, and other digital media. From 2003 to 2006 Mr. Thompson served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Setpoint Companies, an industry leader in lean automation that fully designs, assembles, tests and delivers automated assembly and test equipment. Mr. Thompson was integrally involved in Setpoint?s hub?and-spoke growth initiative starting (4) new companies while directly managing MySchedule.Net, Setpoint Spectrometers, and Rocky Mountain Testing Solutions. From 1986 to 2003, Mr. Thompson was the Vice President of the Planning and Logistics Solutions Group of Brooks? software division. Brooks Planning and Logistics Solutions Group's primary market focus is to provide simulation, scheduling and material handling automation and software controls to the semiconductor and related high technology industries. He was the President of AutoSimulations, Inc., which was acquired by Brooks in January of 2000. Mr. Thompson has been involved with automation, modeling and scheduling manufacturing systems for over 25 years. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Engineering Sciences and Technology at Brigham Young University