WAVE Board of Advisors

Bruce D. Neviaser
Continuum Investment L.P.

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Bruce Neviaser has over 25 years experience in hotel and commercial real estate management, development and acquisition. He was the co-founder and Chairman of The Great Lakes Companies, the predecessor company to Great Wolf Resorts, Inc., the largest developer and operator of indoor waterpark resorts in the U.S. Beginning in 1994, Great Lakes developed and owned real estate with a total development cost exceeding $650 million and which included 1,100 senior housing units, 14 hotels and the first 7 waterpark resorts that formed the core portfolio for Great Wolf Resorts (NASDAQ:WOLF). WOLF was spun off and became a public company in December, 2004.

Upon completion of the IPO, Bruce served as Chairman of the Board of WOLF and also founded Continuum Investment L.P., an angel investment firm specializing in early stage investments in biotech, software, and internet related businesses that focus on utilizing proprietary products and services to enhance operating efficiencies for targeted markets. Continuum’s portfolio currently consists of fourteen companies based in the Midwest and Southern California. Bruce and his partner, Patrick Genn, who are the general partners of Continuum, serve on the Boards of all of their portfolio companies and take an active role in management.

Bruce’s approach to business has been based on recognition of opportunities, creating a strategy to capitalize on those opportunities, and then developing a team of people with the necessary skills and experience to ensure successful execution of that strategy. This approach was the basis for the growth and success of Great Lakes, which grew from 2 employees to over 2,200 by the time of the public offering, and has also been utilized in the activities of Continuum.

In addition to the various corporate Boards that he sits on, Bruce serves on the Advisory Board for Weinert Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the UW-Madison School of Business, the Dean’s Advisory Board of the UW School of Business, and is Chairman of the Development Committee for the $450 million expansion of the Paul Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin. He also serves on the Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County and participates in a variety of community activities and organizations.