Question: Who was responsible for putting the band, Missing Man Formation, together after leaving an American rock band that had been formed in Palo Alto, California?
Context: Missing Man Formation was a band put together by former Grateful Dead keyboardist Vince Welnick, featuring Welnick and an ever-changing group of musicians, including Scott Mathews and Steve Kimock on guitar (eventually replaced by John Wedemeyer, Terry Haggerty and Mark Holzinger), Prairie Prince on drums (eventually replaced by Trey Sabatelli), Bobby Vega on bass (eventually replaced by Robin Sylvester) and others, most notably, Bobby Strickland (reeds and flute). Paloalto was a rock band formed in Los Angeles, California.  Their band is not named after the city Palo Alto, but rather the lead singer James Grundler's preschool.  Their debut album was released on Rick Rubin's American Recordings label and was produced by Rubin.  Their second album, "Heroes and Villains", reached #14 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart in 2003, on the strength of the song "Breathe In", which had been featured on The O.C..  The song "Try" was the theme song on the 2003 Warner Brothers show "Tarzan". Douglas "Cosmo" Clifford (born April 24, 1945 in Palo Alto, California) is an American drummer, best known as a founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival.  After the group dissolved in the early 1970s, Clifford released a solo album and later joined CCR bassist Stu Cook in the Don Harrison Band.  In 1995, Clifford and Cook formed the band Creedence Clearwater Revisited, performing live versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.  Ranging from quintet to septet, the band is known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, psychedelia, experimental music, modal jazz, country, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, and space rock, for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams, and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads".  "Their music," writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists."  These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world".  The band was ranked 57th by "Rolling Stone" magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue.  The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their May 8, 1977 performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012.  The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. LoveLikeFire is a San Francisco-based indie rock band.  The group was formed in 2006 and whilst an unsigned artist they independently released two EPs, "Bed of Gold" (2006) and "An Ocean in the Air" (2007), as well as mounted a self-organized national tour to promote the latter release.  The band then signed to Heist Or Hit Records and a full-length album was released in the UK in Autumn 2009.  This album "Tear Ourselves Away" was released in the US in early 2010.  LoveLikeFire has received significant media and critical coverage in San Francisco Bay Area publications ("San Francisco" magazine, "East Bay Express", "SFist", "SF Weekly", "Palo Alto Daily News", "San Francisco Chronicle") as well as in the national and out-of-town media ("Spin", "The A.V. Club", LimeWire Music Blog, WOXY.com, "LA Weekly"), and has stylistically been identified as exhibiting Britpop, dream pop, indie pop, and shoegazing influences. Missing Man Formation is an album by the rock band Missing Man Formation.  Their only album, it was released by Grateful Dead Records on April 28, 1998. Cooley LLP is an international law firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices throughout United States, the United Kingdom and China.  The firm's practice areas include corporate, litigation, intellectual property, fund formation, public markets, employment, life sciences, clean technology, real estate, financial services, retail, regulatory and energy.  Cooley has been recognized as a leader for its technology practice including its experience with initial public offerings (IPOs) and venture capital.  It is ranked as one of the 50 largest law firms in the world, and is one of the most prestigious and selective law firms according to American Lawyer magazine.  According to Law360, Cooley is "widely regarded as one of Silicon Valley's go-to law firms." The Donnas are an American rock band from Palo Alto, California.  They consist of Brett Anderson (lead vocals), Allison Robertson (guitar, backing vocals), Maya Ford (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Amy Cesari (drums, percussion, backing vocals).  Cesari replaced Torry Castellano, who left the band in 2009 due to tendonitis.  They draw inspiration from Ramones, The Runaways, AC/DC, Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Kiss. " Rolling Stone" has stated that "the Donnas offer a guileless take on adolescent alienation; they traffic in kicks, not catharsis, fun rather than rage".  MTV has stated that the band offers "a good old-fashioned rock & roll party".  After gathering a cult following in the punk scene since their 1997 debut, the band achieved major label commercial success in the early 2000s and afterward as their music mixed punk, metal and classic rock sounds. Jacob Joseph Chestnut (April 28, 1940 – July 24, 1998), one of the two United States Capitol Police officers killed in the line of duty on July 24, 1998, was the first African American to lie in honor in the United States Capitol.  Chestnut is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.  His funeral included a speech by President Bill Clinton and a fly-over by military jets in a missing man formation. Peter Bridgwater (7 March 1935 – 21 June 2005) was the first president of the San Jose Clash—later known as the San Jose Earthquakes—Major League Soccer franchise.  Prior to arriving in the Bay Area, Bridgwater was an executive of the Vancouver Whitecaps franchise in the North American Soccer League.  He had been involved with professional soccer in San Jose since 1984, when he was named general manager of the NASL's San Jose Earthquakes.  Bridgwater purchased the Earthquakes later, but the NASL ceased operations in 1985.  After the NASL went under, Bridgwater became a founder of the Western Soccer Alliance, which later became the USL First Division. " Soccer America" called him "one of the men most responsible for keeping professional outdoor soccer alive [in the U.S.] after the collapse of the North American Soccer League".  Bridgwater was also a venue director for the 1994 FIFA World Cup at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California.  Two years after the World Cup, the MLS was launched; Bridgwater served as the Clash's first president.  He remained the general manager through the 1998 season, and played a role in having San Jose host matches for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Answer: Vince Welnick