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reduces costs and assures complete, consistent, auditable and maintainable IoT
configurations for the industrial technology market.

SrcLight, Inc. also successfully sprung out of the LaunchPad Accelerator. SrcLight is
quickly becoming a widespread community-centric marketplace for open source
software support. Designed at LaunchPad, SrcLight brings enterprises that use open
source software together with open source developer communities. It has become a
one stop shop for enterprises that support and use open source applications.

Neither SrcLight nor Zuul IoT might have been successfully launched, and certainly not
as quickly, without the support of the LaunchPad Accelerator program. MasterPeace
LaunchPad is looking for more innovative engineers to join their cohort, and has the
goal of bringing on two to four new startup companies each year as the program
continues to grow.

About The Author
Drew Cohen is CEO and President of Masterpeace Solutions, Ltd. He is a leader,
entrepreneur, engineer, and innovator whose career spans areas directly relevant to the
multiple facets of MasterPeace's business model. He has experience in Silicon Valley
as a CEO and CTO building venture-backed technology companies and has deep
experience leading technology efforts in support of the Intelligence Community. Drew is
an engineer, by both training and desire, with deep passion for technology and
innovation. Throughout his career he has demonstrated the ability to develop teams of
'SmartCreative' engineers and align them with a vision for creating new leading edge
technology Services, Solutions, and Product businesses. Drew is also actively engaged
in community and philanthropic activities. He founded the ‘Party for a Purpose’ events
for the National Cancer Society, has held a board position at Bethesda’s Imagination
Stage, and currently serves as a Leadership Council Member for the Washington
Redskin’s Charitable Foundation. Drew can be reached through the company website at
www.masterpeaceltd.com.

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