DDR Team

Daniel D. Ross
Managing Director

Mr. Ross, age 71, is the Managing Director of DDR Holdings, LLC, an intellectual property company. Mr. Ross holds three systems and methods patents and has filed for a fourth patent relating to syndicating commerce on the internet. This syndication technology served as the backbone for Nexchange Corporation, which he co-founded and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from October 1996 until December 2000.

In 2008 Mr. Ross led the effort to start the new city of Dunwoody, Georgia. He played an important role in gaining the approval of the legislature of the State of Georgia for a referendum that was passed by the community with an 83% approval rate and allowed the unincorporated area of Dunwoody to become a city. In September 2008 Mr. Ross was elected with 65% of the votes as the founding member-at-large of the Dunwoody City Council. Under his leadership, the city of Dunwoody became one of the first cities in the country to privatize all community services, establishing an efficient model that is being copied by municipalities across the country. The city has operated in a down economy with a significant surplus while providing the community a significant increase in the level of service. Mr. Ross serves on the Audit Committee, Budget Committee, Economic Development Committee and numerous other committees including serving as chairman of the committee that launched the Convention & Visitor Bureau of Dunwoody. Mr. Ross served as Chairman of the Ethics Committee task force where he crafted the Code of Ethics, Mission Statement, Vision Statement and Values Statement for the city of 46,000 people. Dunwoody was named as a "City of Ethics" by the Georgia Municipal Association in 2010.

Prior to launching Nexchange, Mr. Ross was a General Partner of Advanced Technology Development Fund (ATDF) from 1984 to 2001. ATDF was a family of venture capital funds, which invested in thirty-one enterprises in the telecommunication, information processing and healthcare industries. Mr. Ross was the President of White Ross Management Company that managed ATDF. He developed an extensive knowledge of computers, healthcare, finance and related industries during forty years in the venture capital, high technology, data processing and finance fields, first with IBM, then Itel, Memorex and Timex Corporations. Mr. Ross was the founder and lead investor in Syntellect Inc., a leading global provider of call center solutions, including voice response and computer telephony integration. Mr. Ross served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Syntellect from October 1995 until March 1996, during the time the company was completing a strategic acquisition. In 1985, Mr. Ross founded Per-Se Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of practice management services for hospital- based physicians and receivable management services for hospitals. Per Se Technologies was recently acquired by McKesson Corporation and is the principal component of the McKesson Provider Services. Mr. Ross was an early investor in and strategic advisor to Broadway and Seymour, a leading provider of system integration, project management, imaging technology, software services, call center technology and software products toPage 1 of 3 the finance industry.

Under Mr. Ross' direction, ATDF was an early venture investor in Fleetcall, OneCall and Transient Communications (d.b.a. Dial Page), three private companies that acquired special mobile radio spectrum in three geographic sections of the country. The Federal Communication Commission ("FCC") permitted these firms to convert this spectrum to its highest and best use: cellular/paging and dispatching. All three of these companies successfully completed an initial public offering and were later consolidated into one company under the banner of Nextel Communication. In 2004 Nextel merged with Sprint to form Sprint-Nextel.

Prior to becoming a managing partner of ATDF, Mr. Ross was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Timex Computer Corporation ("Timex") which he founded in 1982 as a subsidiary of Timex Corporation. Mr. Ross was responsible for the worldwide operations of Timex. Under his direction, Timex captured an industry leading 28% share of the home computer market and developed three computer systems and over 200 software titles. He was Executive Vice President and served on the Board of Directors of Memorex Finance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Memorex Corporation. Mr. Ross played an instrumental part in establishing the organization and financing programs for this captive finance company. At Itel, a financial service and data processing company, he rose to Vice President and General Manager for southeastern operations. During his nine years with Itel, Mr. Ross founded Itel Industry Systems Corporation ("Itel ISC"), an industry oriented online service company which provided data processing services to the distribution, retail, banking and transportation industries. Itel ISC expanded rapidly through an internal growth and industry consolidation strategy. Upon graduation from college, Mr. Ross was a System Engineer and Sales Representative in the Data Processing Division of IBM Corporation.

Mr. Ross was a member of the Board of Directors of Syntellect Inc. (1984-1997), Medaphis Corporation (Per-Se Technologies) (1985-1994), T-Bar Corporation (1983- 1988), all publicly held companies. In addition, Mr. Ross served as a director of LanTel Corporation, Nexchange Corporation, Healthfield, Omni Eye Service, Medivision, Integratec, Memorex Finance Company, RealWorld Corporation, Veritas and several other ATDF companies.

Mr. Ross is actively involved in the community. Mr. Ross has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Dunwoody Country Club and the Pastoral Board of All Saints Catholic Church where he was a founding member. Mr. Ross, together with his wife Queenie, served as Co-Presidents of the Dunwoody Preservation Trust ("DPT") from 2003 until January 2009. Under their leadership DPT has completely renovated the Dunwoody Town Hall ("Farmhouse") and has facilitated the purchase of the Donaldson- Chesnut Farm, saving this circa 1867 home. The Donaldson-Chesnut Farmhouse was placed on the National Historic Register in 2008. During Mr. & Mrs. Ross' tenure as co- presidents, DPT successfully filed for The Dunwoody Farmhouse and the Ike Roberts House to be listed on this important registry. Lemonade Days, an annual celebration of community spirit, is a major fundraising event for DPT. Under their stewardship, this festival has grown each year from a small one day event to a four day festival which attracted over 40,000 citizens from the community to Brook Run Park in 2008.

Mr. Ross and his wife of 46 years have six children and thirteen grandchildren and have lived in Dunwoody for most of the past 36 years. Mr. Ross holds a degree from Louisiana Tech in Math and Computer Science.