Donald French
President, F8 Technologies Corp.

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Don French was the creator of the original Radio Shack TRS-80 computer and the holder of a patent related to electronic medical record distribution. He is currently president of F8 Technologies Corporation. F8 specializes in Web-2.0 applications for the healthcare, real estate and restaurant industries using Ruby on Rails.

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