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Steven Atneosen

Steven is passionate about leveraging information technology to improve education, health and energy use. He has served in multiple leadership roles with start-up to midcap technology companies, including operations, corporate development and general counsel over the past 17 years. He specializes in high change, high growth and in-transition organizations.

He is also Founder of Grand Chasm Ventures, a consulting and investing firm that provides M&A, implementation and change services to health care, social media and other Internet related software technology start-ups. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in finance from Drake University and Juris Doctor from Hamline University School of Law, serving as an editor of its law review.

When Steven isn't focused on growing DebateHall, he's likely debating how technology is transformative in helping people adopt healthy, sustainable habits.

Contact Steven at Steven@DebateHall.com

Patrick Murphy, Esq

A former U.S. Congressman and decorated U.S. Army veteran, Patrick has a long history of service to both public and private sector groups, and is currently a partner at Fox Rothschild in Philadelphia, PA and an advisor to DebateHall. The first Iraq war veteran elected to Congress, Patrick represented Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives after his 2006 election. In his military career, Patrick was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve upon his college graduation and eventually branched into the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps.

In 2000, Patrick went on active duty. He trained as an airborne and air assault paratrooper and later served as a prosecutor, both as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York and in North Carolina. Patrick was also an assistant professor of Constitutional Law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He has also lectured at the U.S. Air Force Academy, the International Institute for Humanitarian Rights in Sanremo, Italy, and at Widener University School of Law. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Patrick volunteered for overseas deployment, serving in Bosnia (2002) and in Baghdad during the Iraq War (2003-2004). While in Baghdad as a captain in the Army's U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, he worked to reconstruct the justice system and was awarded the Bronze Star for Service.

Stefan Bauschard

Stefan is a valued and trusted advisor who works with DebateHall to design dynamic new product features, establish important new customer relationships and ensure the educational effectiveness of every DebateHall product. He founded the Harvard Debate Council Summer Institute and coaches Harvard Debate. Additionally, he is the President and Co-Founder of Planet Debate, a project of Harvard Debate.

The recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Bronx Achievement Award, Stefan graduated from Duquesne University.

When Stefan isn't putting together great partnerships, he's running debate camps and tournaments.

Virtual Schoolhouse

DebateHall is your virtual schoolhouse for social discourse, speech and debate, and digital literacy. Create a unique teaching environment to extend your reach and improve access for students using digital (video) and social media. DebateHall employs technology to personalize the learning experience, improve end user engagement, and optimize the grading and peer review process that is accessible by users anywhere through a secure Internet portal. Now educators can effectively teach in a fraction of the time without impacting efficacy.

• Safe and secure learning community
• Accessible 24/7 from anywhere and any device
• Efficient asynchronous video and text workflows allow you to teach on your own schedule
• Engaging online social and digital media improves use
• Structured learning chronology using rubrics for grading ensures consistent lessons
• Social media offers users multiple roles of student and teacher
• Flexible topic-agnostic design enables use for multiple subjects

DebateHall has both educator and student features; each optimized to help drive the best learning outcome to teach fundamental skills for digital literacy through discourse, speech and debate. The solution engages users through active learning and skills building exercises, video, and text. It also lets you leverage the help of other students and fellow teachers wherever they are around the world.

Virtual Town Hall

Engage. Enrich. Cultivate. DebateHall is your virtual town hall for civil and engaged social discourse around your organization's mission. Significantly more engaging than threaded comment sections, create a unique environment to promote your organization to social media platforms using reader-created video. DebateHall employs technology to personalize reader experience, improve reader engagement, and optimize sharing.

• Accessible 24/7 from anywhere and any device
• Easy self-create video and text workflows (iPhone simple) allow members to engage at their own schedule
• Social media offers users multiple roles of reader, writer, expert and teacher
• Flexible topic-agnostic design enables use for multiple subjects

DebateHall will produce rich, authentic content around topics important to your community. Topics and their ranking will be self-selecting and will enable you to provide relevance to readers based upon their interests.