Leadership, Experience, and Clout

With a proven track record of accomplishments, a dynamic volunteer leadership team, and a highly experienced staff, the Council provides members with an unparalleled level of service in helping them grow and prosper in the face of a competitive and constantly changing business landscape.

Executive Officers 2005

*George Bell, Chair
General Catalyst Partners (www.generalcatalyst.com)

*Gail Goodman, Secretary
Constant Contact (www.constantcontact.com)

*James D. Daniell, Treasurer
Echelon Ventures (www.echelonventures.com)

Board of Trustees 2005

Lynda M. Applegate, Harvard Business School (www.hbs.edu)
Steffan Berelowitz, BiT Group, Inc. (www.bitgroup.com)
*Deborah M. Besemer, BrassRing LLC (www.brassring.com)
*David A. Blohm, The Blohm Group
*Daniel S. Bricklin, Software Garden, Inc. (www.softwaregarden.com)
*Richard A. Carpenter, Carpenter Associates
Maria A. Cirino, VeriSign, Inc. (www.verisign.com)
George Conrades, Akamai Technologies, Inc. (www.akamai.com)
Peter C. Conway, EMC Corporation (www.emc.com)
*John J. Cullinane, The Cullinane Group (www.cullinane-group.com)
Robert Davis, Highland Capital Partners (www.hcp.com)
Anthony DiBona, PTC (www.ptc.com)
*Paul Egerman, eScription, Inc. (www.escription.com)
Shikhar Ghosh
Rock Gnatovich, Spotfire, Inc. (www.spotfire.com)
Helen Greiner, iRobot Corporation (www.irobot.com)
Peter Gyenes, Ascential Software, Inc. (www.ascentialsoftware.com)
Brian Keane, Keane, Inc. (www.keane.com)
*Kija Kim, Harvard Design & Mapping Co. (www.hdm.com)
*Michael D. Kinkead, Acumenta Corporation (www.acumenta.com)
Raymond C. Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. (www.kurzweiltech.com)
John B. Landry, Adesso Systems, Inc. (www.adessosystems.com)
John N. Little, The MathWorks, Inc. (www.mathworks.com)
George A. McMillan, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (www.bscol.com)
Jack L. Messman, Novell, Inc. (www.novell.com)
Robert M. Metcalfe, Polaris Ventures (www.polarisventures.com)
*Leon Navickas, Centra Software, Inc. (www.centra.com)
James A. Pelusi, Axia Partners (www.axia-partners.com)
*Pamela D. A. Reeve
Eileen M. Rudden, Avaya (www.avaya.com)
Sanjay Sarma, OATSystems, Inc. (www.oatsystems.com)
Paul L. Schaut
Greg Schmergel, Nantero, Inc. (www.nantero.com)
Shirley Singleton, Edgewater Technology, Inc. (www.edgewater.com)
Jeffrey Taylor, Monster Worldwide, Inc. (www.monster.com)
*Carol Vallone, WebCT, Inc. (www.webct.com)
Scott Walters, Paytronix Systems, Inc. (www.paytronixsystems.com)
William J. Warner, Warner Research (www.warnerresearch.com)
Jack M. Wilson, University of Massachusetts (www.umassp.edu)

Trustees Emeriti

Karen E. Brothers, Inmagic, Inc. (www.inmagic.com)
James I. Cash, Jr., The Cash Concours (www.concoursgroup.com)
Randall Davis, MIT Computer Science and AI Lab (www.ai.mit.edu)
Alain J. Hanover, Navigator Technology Ventures (www.ntven.com)
John F. Keane, Sr., Keane, Inc. (www.keane.com)
Michael E. Kolowich, DigiNovations, Inc. (www.diginovations.com)
Mary E. Makela, MEM Associates
Richard Rabins, Alpha Software, Inc. (www.alphasoftware.com)
David Solomont, Candide Media Works, Inc. (www.candidemedia.com)
Eric E. Vogt, Interclass (www.interclass.com)

Staff

*Joyce L. Plotkin, President
617-437-0600 x 11
joyce@masstlc.org

Carol S. Greenfield, Vice President
617-437-0600 x 14
carol@masstlc.org

Tom Hopcroft, Vice President
617-437-0600 x 16
tom@masstlc.org

James Korandanis, Program Manager
617-437-0600 x 13
james@masstlc.org

Alice Jelin, Executive Director, Education Foundation
617-437-0600 x 28
alicej@masstlc.org

Ann Rigoli, Office Manager
617-437-0600 x 10
ann@masstlc.org


* Executive Committee

Mr. George Bell
Chair, Upromise, Inc. & Special Venture Partner, General Catalyst Partners
George Bell is a Special Venture Partner at General Catalyst Partners, a private equity firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs building technology-enabled companies. Bell is also the Chair and former CEO of Upromise (upromise.com), a Boston-based early stage company that aims to make college affordable for every family in America through a free service that brings together a unique coalition of loyalty partners (Citi, AOL, McDonalds and many others), grocery partners (Kroger, Safeway, Albertsons, Ahold, Coca Cola, Proctor and Gamble, and others) and a tax-advantaged college savings plan. The company hopes to help solve the crisis of college funding in America.

From 1996-2001, Bell was President and CEO of Excite, one of the web’s first search engines. At his arrival, the company had 22 employees and no revenue. In 1999, Bell oversaw the sale of a profitable Excite to @Home for $7B – at the time, the largest transaction in the history of the internet. He then became Chairman and CEO of Excite Home. Shortly after this merger, AT&T took majority control of Excite@Home. At its peak, the company had a market capitalization of $46B and employed 3,000 people in 18 offices around the world.

From 1991-1995, Bell was SVP, Times Mirror Magazines, acquired by AOL/TW in 2001. At various times, as Group Publisher, he held operating responsibility for Field & Stream, SKI, Skiing, Trans World SNOWboarding, Salt Water Sportsman and Yachting magazines, as well as the company's multimedia efforts. Bell was instrumental in the 1995 launch of the Outdoor Life Network, a special interest cable channel that now reaches 40 million homes.

Prior to joining Times Mirror Magazines, Bell was a producer and writer of conservation, culture and adventure documentaries for ABC, CBS, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. Altogether, Bell has produced films in over 40 countries, from Mt. Everest to Africa's Ituri rainforest. Bell has won four national Emmy Awards.

Bell received his BA from Harvard in 1980, and was an All-American squash player. He serves on the boards of Harris Interactive Inc., the Massachusetts Software Council (as Chairman), the Schepens Eye Institute, and is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Trust for Public Land. He lives in Brookline, MA with his wife and three children.

Ms. Gail Goodman
Chief Executive Officer and Director, Constant Contact
Gail Goodman, Chief Executive Officer and Director, is a seasoned software executive with senior management, marketing, product management, business development and management consulting experience with Open Market, Progress Software, Dun & Bradstreet Software and Bain & Co. As vice president, Commerce Products Group at Open Market, Goodman was instrumental in growing the company from $2.5M to more than $60M, managing a P&L representing 60% of company revenues. She holds a BA from The University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth.

Dr. James D. Daniell
General Partner, Echelon Ventures
Jim Daniell is an active entrepreneur and strong supporter of high tech start-ups in the greater Boston Area. He has served on numerous boards of both private and public companies, has raised over $100M for his own companies as well as managed M&A and investment transactions totaling over $1B. His long term business goal is to make Boston the nation’s best city to start, build, and maintain a high tech business.

Jim Daniell was recently the interim President of Integrated Fuel Cell Technologies (IFCT), a Bedford-based start-up building the world’s smallest fuel cells directly on silicon wafers. Jim helped finance IFCT through a combination of angels, VCs, and government grants. Prior to IFCT, Jim was President and CEO of Celarix, a venture backed start-up in the Supply Chain Management software market. During his tenure, Celarix grew over 300% and was selected for numerous industry awards such as the Upside Hot 100. Prior to Celarix, Jim was president and CEO of OrderTrust, a firm that specialized in distributed order management and large scale transaction processing networks. Daniell joined OrderTrust in 1997, after serving as chief operating officer of AT&T's Network Commerce Services, where he oversaw the company's Web-hosting, Web-connectivity, e-commerce, call center solutions and managed connectivity solutions divisions. While at AT&T, Jim also led the firm’s business development team that did many deals around the globe. Prior to AT&T, Daniell worked in both large and small entrepreneurial environments, including the AT&T Bell Labs corporate spin-off of UNIX System Laboratories. He got his start in technology, building networking and client/server products at Software AG of North America.

Jim is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering, and of the University of Connecticut, where he earned a joint bachelor's and master's degree in computer science and engineering. Jim’s present Board affiliations include: Trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council, Overseer of the Museum of Science, as well as CommonAngels’ companies Acumenta and TimeTrade.

Dr. Lynda M. Applegate
Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Lynda M. Applegate is the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, teaching courses in entrepreneurial management, managerial economics and business strategy and design, and serving as head of the school's Field-Based Learning program. She is co-chair of the Harvard Policy Group on Network Government Services and the newly-launched E-Government Executive Education Program. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she was on the faculty of the University of Michigan, University of Washington and University of Arizona. In addition to her academic positions, Lynda worked at Ford Motor Company in the 1960s and in the health care industry in the 1970s.

Lynda's research and recent publications focus on the impact of information technology on industries, markets and organizations. She is the author of 4 books, over 40 articles and book chapters, and 200 published cased studies on this subject. Her online course, Building E-Businesses, is the first distance learning executive course available through the school's newly-launched Harvard Business School Interactive unit and through HBS Publishing.

In 1999, Lynda was awarded Harvard Business School's prestigious Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching, and in 1992, she was awarded the School's Berol Award for research excellence. A paper on 21st century business models was selected for presentation at the "Best Papers" session at the Academy of Management annual meeting, and a second paper was selected for presentation at the keynote session of the International Conference on Information Technology and Emergent Forms of Organization. She also won two "Best Paper" awards at the International Conference on System Sciences for papers describing the impact of information technology on group processes and decisions.

Lynda is an active international consultant, is on the board of directors of both public and venture-backed companies, and is an advisor and advisory board member for senior executives leading established companies and entrepreneurial ventures. She is a member of the Advisory Council for NASDAQ, serves on the advisory board to Comptroller General of the U.S., David Walker, and is on the advisory board for the World Bank's Global Development Gateway

Mr. Steffan Berelowitz
President and Founder, BiT Group, Inc.
Steffan Berelowitz founded BiT Group, Inc. in 1995, and has grown the company rapidly over its 9-year history developing a client list of Fortune 500, mid-market and emerging businesses. In addition to his responsibilities at BiT Group, Steffan is a member of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Software Council and meets regularly with local and national policymakers in order to bring the software industry's concerns to the attention of lawmakers. Steffan also sits on the executive committee of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Computer Industry Group, the board of directors of the Center for Information Technology of Hebrew College, is a member of the Boston College Technology Council, and leads BiT Group's pro bono involvement in City Year. He is also a member of the Technology Network, a national network of senior executives from the nation's leading technology companies. Steffan served as an Internet consultant to former senator and presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley, and currently, he serves as an online expert on Web Self-Service for DCI's 80,000 member CRM Community.

A graduate of Boston College, Steffan has spent the past 11 years in online services and technology. In 1993, Steffan founded his first technology business, ArtNet AG, now a publicly-traded web portal. ArtNet.com's Online Gallery Network is the largest of its kind, with over 1,300 galleries, 36,000 works and 13,000 artists from around the globe, and is recognized as one of the leading web sites for buying and selling art online. Prior to founding BiT Group, Steffan was with Fidelity Investments where he was involved in computer automated document production.

Ms. Deborah M. Besemer
President and CEO, BrassRing LLC
Deb Besemer is President and CEO of BrassRing, a leading provider of talent management solutions. Prior to being named President and CEO of BrassRing, Ms. Besemer was President and CEO of BrassRing Systems, the recruitment software unit of BrassRing. Under her leadership, BrassRing has grown into one of the most comprehensive software/services solution providers in the human capital management market. Software revenues have grown consistently during every year of her tenure, highlighted by 400% growth between 1999 and 2000. Under Ms. Besemer's guidance, BrassRing has assumed and retained a position of leadership among talent management Application Service Providers (ASPs). Ms. Besemer brings to BrassRing more than 20 years of experience in building and growing software companies. Prior to joining BrassRing Systems, Ms. Besemer spent more than a decade at Lotus, where she managed a business unit with revenues in excess of $1.3 billion and more than 4,000 employees in 46 countries. She is a former Chairwoman of the Massachusetts Software Council and currently serves as a Trustee and the Chairperson of the Nominating Committee. She is an active member of the University of Massachusetts High Tech Executive Council. In addition, she is a former Director of Kubisoft, Inc., Eprise Corporation and the Massachusetts Software Council Fellowship Program, an initiative to retrain people for jobs in software and the Internet. Ms. Besemer holds an M.B.A. from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Cedar Crest College.

Mr. David A. Blohm
President, The Blohm Group
David Blohm’s career includes 30 years of entrepreneurship, mentoring and public service.

David Blohm was, most recently, President and CEO of SmarterKids.Com. He transitioned the company from a CD-ROM publisher of innovative children’s educational software, to an award-winning, Internet retailer of children’s educational products and services. He raised $113 million in capital and guided the company through its initial public offering in November 1999 and subsequent merger with Early Childhood, Inc.(now called Excelligence - LRNS).

Mr. Blohm co-founded MathSoft, Inc. in 1985, a firm that develops and markets mathematical calculation software sold to engineers, scientists, teachers and students. As CEO, he grew MathSoft from start-up to $30 million in sales and guided the company through its initial public offering in early 1993 (MATH) and the acquisition and integration of Statistical Sciences, Inc. Over a million copies of MathSoft’s flagship product, MathCAD, have been sold. MathSoft has since gone private.

From 1978 – 1985 Mr. Blohm was CFO and Vice President of F&A of Higher Order Software. HOS was a developer and marketer of Computer Aided Software Engineering software tools sold primarily to Fortune 1000 accounts and to the government.

Mr. Blohm serves on the Board of companies in the areas of wireless applications for education and training and intelligent character technology. His present and past non-profit and public service activities include: past Chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council, past President of the Council’s Education Foundation, Board of the Acclerated Cure Project which is dedicated to finding a cure for MS, President of Congregation B’nai Torah in Sudbury, past Trustee of the Boston Children’s Museum,
served on Massachusetts Governor Cellucci’s Economic Development Council, past overseer of the Boston Science Museum, and past member of WGBH Corporate Executive Council.

He received a BA in Economics from Boston College in 1973.

Mr. Daniel S. Bricklin
President, Software Garden, Inc.
Dan Bricklin is currently president of Software Garden, Inc., a small consulting firm and developer of software applications that he founded in 1985.

Throughout his career, Mr. Bricklin has created innovative, cutting-edge products. Bricklin is best known for codeveloping VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.

In late 1995, Dan founded Trellix Corporation, a provider of website publishing technology. In early 2003, Trellix was acquired by Interland, Inc., a supplier of web hosting solutions for small and medium sized businesses. Dan served as Interland's CTO through early 2004 when he returned to Software Garden to do software product development and consulting.

From 1985 through 1989, Mr. Bricklin served as president of Software Garden, Inc., where he developed a variety of software programs, including Dan Bricklin's Demo Program. The program, used for prototyping and simulating other pieces of software, won the 1986 and 1987 Software Publishers Association Award for Best Programming Tool. In 1990, Mr. Bricklin cofounded Slate Corporation to develop application software for pen computers.

Mr. Bricklin also founded Software Arts, where he served as chairman of the board and executive vice president from 1979 until 1985. Prior to forming Software Arts, he had been a market researcher for Prime Computer Inc., a senior systems programmer for FasFax Corporation, and a senior software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation. At Digital, he was project leader of the WPS-8 word processing software, where he helped to specify and develop one of the first standalone word processing systems.

Mr. Bricklin is a founding trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council. Mr. Bricklin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Newbury College, and was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Mr. Richard A. Carpenter
President, Carpenter Associates
Rich Carpenter is president of Carpenter Associates, a consulting firm which provides strategic planning, business development and product marketing assistance to early stage software and internet companies. He also serves as Chairmain of the Board of Corex Technologies, makers of CARDSCAN. He also co-founded Heathcourt Technologies, now a part of Softwatch.

Prior to co-founding these ventures, Carpenter had co-founded Index Systems (later known as CSC/Index) in 1969 and then co-founded Index Technology in 1983 where he served as Chairman/CEO until the merger with Sage in 1991 to form Intersolv (subsequently known as Merant).

Carpenter received the SB and SM degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE, a trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council, a founding member of the CommonAngels and a director of the Software Division of ITAA. He serves on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several software and internet companies and is also active in several non-profit organizations.

Ms. Maria A. Cirino
Senior Vice President, Managed Security Services, VeriSign, Inc.
Maria Cirino has 19 years of technology leadership experience, including executive roles in worldwide sales, marketing and business development. As the senior vice president of VeriSign’s Managed Security Services (MSS) division, Cirino is responsible for the end-to-end operation and marketing of the company’s global MSS business.

Cirino brings to VeriSign extensive management and domain expertise she gained from her previous role as CEO and co-founder of Guardent, Inc., an early entrant and leading MSS provider. In her role at Guardent, Cirino dedicated her vision, strategy and leadership to ensuring the company’s growth and success. From the beginning, Cirino set the stage for long-range value: devising a sound business model; scaling to engage Global 2000 clients and continually enhancing the company’s value proposition by fostering innovation, instilling sound disciplines and creating a values-based culture focused on passion and execution. Under Cirino’s leadership, Guardent experienced rapid growth and reached profitability. As a pioneer in a nascent technology category, Guardent subsequently emerged as the market leader in the MSS space and was acquired by VeriSign in February 2004.

Prior to founding Guardent, Cirino served as a key member of the executive teams at Shiva Corporation (now Intel Corporation) and i-Cube, Inc. (now Razorfish, Inc.). In her management roles at Shiva and i-Cube, Cirino prominently affected rapid growth and success by building new sales and distribution channels and consistently growing revenues beyond expectations. Cirino’s leadership experience extends to successful mergers, acquisitions and IPOs, having played a principal role in building these companies into successful, publicly held enterprises.

Cirino is a member of the board of directors for Keane (NYSE: KEA), the board of governors for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of New England and is a trustee at Mount Holyoke College, and the Massachusetts Software Council. Cirino holds a bachelor of arts in English from Mount Holyoke College.

Mr. George Conrades
Chairman & CEO, Akamai Technologies, Inc.
George Conrades was named chairman and chief executive officer of Akamai in April 1999, bringing a broad range of business experience in the computing, Internet, telecommunications, and media industries. Mr. Conrades will become Executive Chairman of Akamai in April 2005 and will be succeeded as CEO by Paul Sagan, Akamai's president.

Before joining Akamai, Mr. Conrades was executive vice president and president of GTE Internetworking following the firm's acquisition of BBN Corporation in 1997. At GTE, he was responsible for creating GTE Internetworking and leading GTE's rapid growth in the data and Internet business, including integrated telecommunications services.

From 1994 until GTE's acquisition of BBN, Mr. Conrades served as CEO of BBN, where he built the company into one of the industry's top-tier ISPs. BBN helped build the ARPANET, the forerunner to today's modern Internet.

Prior to BBN, Mr. Conrades was an IBM senior vice president and member of IBM's Corporate Management Board. There, he ran many of its key businesses including IBM United States, IBM Asia/Pacific, and two manufacturing and development groups.

Mr. Conrades is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with majors in physics and mathematics. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Peter C. Conway
Vice President, Open Software & Program Management, EMC Corporation
Peter Conway is Vice President of Open Software Product & Program Management at EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services. EMC provides organizations with the information infrastructure for a connected world.

Conway is responsible for EMC’s multi-platform software strategy and vision. He oversees the development, integration and release of new products for EMC’s Open Software Operations. EMC led the $5.8 billion storage management software market in 2003 with 30.7% revenue share, outpacing the market and the next three closest storage software providers. EMC also led the two of the three storage software segments, Storage Replication and Storage Resource Management. In 2003 EMC was the only SRM provider of the top nine to gain share, extending its lead eight points to 49.3% revenue share.

Conway joined EMC in 2002 from Microsoft where he spent over seven years in a variety of product management and technical marketing roles. He was most recently Senior Director of the Large Enterprise Server Group in the Windows Division. Prior to joining Microsoft, Peter spent 12 years at Data General in a variety of software engineering positions.

Conway holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Union College and an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is based at EMC’s global headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Mr. John J. Cullinane
President, The Cullinane Group, Inc.
John Cullinane is president of The Cullinane Group, Inc., and was founder of Cullinet Software, Inc., the first successful software products company. As such, it was the first to have a public offering, be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and reach a $1 billion valuation. He currently is Chairman of the Board of LiveData, Inc., and a member of the Board of Directors of Oasis Semiconductor, Inc.

Cullinane has worked extensively with the Irish software industry and has promoted peace through jobs and economic development in Northern Ireland. In October 1997, he was named Special Economic Advisor for Belfast in North America, on a pro bono basis. He then created the Friends of Belfast in North America, an informal network of people from the United States and Canada whose "social capital" could be of value in creating jobs and economic development, thus providing the key to peace in Belfast and Northern Ireland. Cullinane participated in the creation of the Conference on Technology Investment and Partnering Opportunities from Israel, Ireland and Northern Ireland sponsored in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts and the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

While at Cullinane Corporation, John developed a unique process for extracting positioning messages from groups of highly opinionated and articulate members of his staff regarding new software products. It was key to the great success of the company. In his experience, it is impossible to do this in any other way. This process has proved enormously valuable for companies, organizations and politicians to help develop their message. Recently, he has helped House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Linda Dorcena Forry, candidate for the 12th Suffolk District, LiveData Inc., CIMIT, and National University of Ireland-Maynouth. He is currently scheduled to assist The Conference Board, the Massachusetts AFL/CIO, and the Massachusetts Special Olympics with their positioning messages. Meurer-Chen Consulting has adopted this process and enhanced it to provide the Comprehensive Message Process (CMP) for political candidates.

Mr. Cullinane graduated from Northeastern University and has also received honorary degrees from Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts - Boston, University of Lowell, and Suffolk University. Most recently, John was awarded an Honorary Degree from the University of Ulster at a ceremony held at the John F. Kennedy Library, the first Honorary Degree awarded outside of Ireland by the University.

Mr. Robert Davis
Venture Partner, Highland Capital Partners
Bob is a Venture Partner at Highland focusing on information technology investments and specializing in digital media and software start-ups. He currently represents Highland on the boards of Fastclick, Navic Networks, Performix Technologies, Quigo and Turbine Entertainment and plays an active role assisting Highland portfolio companies in building successful new businesses. Bob is the best-selling author of "Speed is Life."

Prior to joining Highland, Bob served as the Chief Executive Officer of Terra Lycos and was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company. Before the combination of Terra and Lycos in October 2000, Bob was President and Chief Executive Officer of Lycos, Inc., and was the company's first employee in June of 1995. In just five years, Bob led Lycos from a company with $2 million in venture capital to a multi-billion dollar business, creating one of the Web's only large, profitable Internet companies. Under his leadership, Lycos jumped from the fastest IPO in Nasdaq history, a mere nine months from inception to offering, to an esteemed member of the Nasdaq 100. Bob serves on the boards of several public and private sector entities.

Bob received degrees from Northeastern University, B.S., Babson College, M.B.A., Bentley College, Honorary Doctorate of Commercial Sciences and Northeastern University, Honorary Doctorate

Mr. Anthony DiBona
Executive Vice President, Maintenance
Mr. DiBona has been Executive Vice President, Maintenance since April 2003. From April 2000 to April 2003, he led the PTC Global Business Partner Group. Mr. DiBona joined PTC in August 1998 as Executive Vice President, PTC Major Account Sales. Prior to joining PTC, Mr. DiBona worked at Data General Corporation for 9 years where he held various positions including the management of the U.S. sales organization.

Mr. Paul Egerman
CEO and Chairman, eScription Inc.
Mr. Egerman brings to the company extensive experience and industry leadership in electronic medical records and health care systems. Formerly, Paul was the COO of IDX, a worldwide supplier of administrative and financial solutions for health care organizations. Paul founded IDX and grew the company from a start-up to a publicly held corporation with over 2,000 employees and more than $250 million in sales. In 1991, he received Inc. Magazine's "Entrepreneur of the Year" award, and is the past chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Shikhar Ghosh
Former CEO & Chairman, Verilytics
Shikhar Ghosh recognized the Internet's business potential early in its commercial life, and understood that it would revolutionize how companies operate and people communicate. He founded Open Market, a leading Internet commerce and information publishing software firm, in 1994. In 1998, he founded iBelong and soon thereafter acquired technology from Redwood Investment Systems, a pioneer in analytical software for the financial services industry, and renamed the company Verilytics. Shikhar, who also served as CEO of Appex Corporation and as a partner with the Boston Consulting Group, regularly shares his views of the Internet's future with national and international audiences. He has appeared in hundreds of media outlets, from "The Wall Street Journal" and "Fast Company" to "Interactive Week" and CNET. "BusinessWeek" called him one of the country's "Best Entrepreneurs" in 1996 and "Forbes" named him one of the "Internet Entrepreneurs and Masters of the New Universe" in 1998. Shikhar is a board member of Open Market and CommerceNet, and serves on the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Software Council. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree from the University of Bombay, India.

Mr. Rock Gnatovich
President, Spotfire, Inc.
Before joining Spotfire, Rock spent 18 years in the software industry, the last 10 of which focused on enterprise applications. Most recently, Rock was President and CEO of Windchill Technology, an Internet start-up that was acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: PMTC) to serve as the basis for their distributed information management applications.

Ms. Helen Greiner
Chairman and CoFounder, iRobot Corporation
Helen Greiner is the Chairman and CoFounder of iRobot Corporation, a company that she co-founded in 1990. iRobot is currently the leader in the mobile robotics field, an emerging high growth industry. Aggressively pursuing both the consumer and the military market for robots, our products include the Roomba® Robotic Floorvac, an autonomous vacuum, and the PackBot™ tactical mobile robot, a military robot.

Ms Greiner attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she majored in Mechanical Engineering with concentrations in Economics and Electrical Engineering. Her Masters in Computer Science was performed in the MIT Artifical Intelligence Lab under Dr. Ken Salisbury. She worked at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a student building gripper systems for space satelites. In 1989, after graduation she founded a company commercializing JPL Technology called California Cybernetics. This company sold force controllers and performed government sponsored research in robotics.

In 1990, Ms Greiner saw this technology as the basis for a whole new class of products - ones that improve life by taking on dangerous and tedious jobs. She moved back to the East Coast to start iRobot (then called IS Robotics) with two like minded business partners, MIT classmate Colin Angle and Prof. Roney Brook (Dr. Brooks is now the director of the Computer Science Labs at MIT). iRobot is now the industry leader in robotics dedicated to creating realistic robotic solutions to real world problems. Under her leadership, iRobot has grown from a garage venture to over $50M with 4 locations in MA, DC, CA, and HK. Ms Greiner raised $28M in venture capital to support growth. Ms Greiner took the military side of the business from zero, to running DARPA contracts, to participating in the Future Combat Systems program - the largest army procurement program ever funded. In the consumer space, iRobot’s Roomba™ Robotic Floorvac is the best selling robot ever with over one million units in homes around the world.

Mr. Peter Gyenes
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ascential Software Corporation
Peter Gyenes is the chairman and chief executive officer of Ascential Software Corporation. Mr. Gyenes was formerly CEO of Informix Corporation and led the transition from Informix to Ascential. Prior to Informix's acquisition of Ardent Software, Inc., he was chairman, president and CEO of Ardent, which he joined in 1996. Before joining Ardent, he was president and CEO of Racal InterLan, Inc. Previously, Mr. Gyenes served in executive sales, marketing, and general management positions at Prime Computer Inc., Encore Computer and Data General Corporation. He serves on the boards of Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ: APLX), Axis Computer Systems, Concerto Software, Adesso, Authoria, and the Massachusetts Software Council. Mr. Gyenes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University.

Mr. Brian Keane
President and CEO, Keane, Inc
Brian Keane is president and CEO of Keane, Inc. (NYSE:KEA), a $ 1 billion business and information technology (IT) outsourcing firm with over 8,000 employees. In his tenure at Keane, Brian transformed the company from its roots as an IT programming services firm into an industry leading provider of high-value outsourcing services, renowned for the consistency and quality of its delivery. Pursuing his vision for Keane, Brian pioneered many innovative practices in the areas of managing, measuring and delivering outsourcing services, building Keane's flexible, cost effective delivery model by establishing nearshore facilities in Canada in 1996 and offshore facilities in India in 2001. Deeply committed to seeking new ways to drive measurable improvements in business performance for Keane and its customers, Brian recently led the company into the business process outsourcing market to capitalize on the synergies available by combining business processes, IT services and global delivery.

Brian joined Keane in 1987 and has served in a progression of management positions including branch manager, area manager, vice president and co-president. In these roles, he demonstrated a strong track record of attaining rapid revenue and profit growth, helping the company increase revenues over 1300% and leading to his election as president and CEO in 1999. Brian currently serves as a member of the board of directors at Mt. Holyoke College and is an overseer of the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. He began his career at Mitsui and Company, a leading Japanese trading firm.

Brian holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor degree from Harvard College. He is an accomplished competitive sailor, having won several U.S. national championships, and was a two-time All American while at Harvard.

Ms. Kija Kim
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, HDM (Harvard Design & Mapping)
Kija Kim, HDM's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, is a pioneer in geographic information systems (GIS) technology with over thirty years of professional experience. With an extensive background in strategic planning, business process analysis, marketing analysis, system integration planning and cost / benefit analyses, relating to GIS and information technology, Ms. Kim brings a valuable perspective to the issues facing business and government. Recently named one of Enterprising Women's Top Ten Women in Technology, Ms. Kim is an active participant in professional and community affairs as well as an advocate for minority and women business issues.

Mr. Michael D. Kinkead
President & CEO, Acumenta Corporation
Mike Kinkead is the President & CEO of Acumenta Corporation, a company he and the Acumenta management team founded in 2001 to help scientists and business people make more effective and efficient use of information resources on both the public Web and the invisible Web.

Mike was a founder and President & CEO of SandPoint Company, an enterprise he and Steve Taylor started in 1989. SandPoint's innovative flat fee information pricing approach changed the online business information game, and Hoover, SandPoint's software product, was selected as the most important new information product of the year at the 1994 Online Conference. In February, 1994, Ziff-Davis purchased the company. Between 1995 and 2000, Mike held executive positions at Thomson and Individual, Inc., companies in the information and software industries, and was a principal and investor in Reach Internet Incubator.

Before SandPoint, in 1974 Mike and Steve Taylor started Saddlebrook, a banking software company, and as its President & CEO, grew the business to over $28 million in revenues. Saddlebrook was on the INC. 500 and INC. 100 lists of most rapidly growing, privately held companies in the United States. Saddlebrook's clients consistently ranked number one in customer satisfaction as measured by Digital Equipment Corporation on an annual basis.

In 1986, Mike helped found the Massachusetts Software Council (MSC) where he served as Chairman and continues to serve on its Executive Committee and Board. He is also the creator and facilitator of the MSC Sales & Marketing Roundtable, running eight monthly sessions per year focused on online marketing and other critical sales & marketing issues. In 1999, Mike was one of six founders of the CommonAngels, a Boston-based angel investing group.

Creativity and business reinvention, careful attention to people and customers, teamwork, humor and a learning culture characterize the ventures where Mike has devoted his energy. Mike received an undergraduate degree in computer science from MIT and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Mr. Raymond C. Kurzweil
Founder, Chairman & CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence. All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. Ray's Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence.

Ray Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office. He received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize (view the video), the nation's largest award in invention and innovation. He also received the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He has also received scores of other national and international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University's top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received twelve honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. He has received seven national and international film awards. His book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, was named Best Computer Science Book of 1990. His best-selling book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, has been published in nine languages and achieved the #1 best selling book on Amazon.com in the categories of "Science" and "Artificial Intelligence." Ray's upcoming book, coauthored with Terry Grossman, M.D. is "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever," published by Rodale.

Mr. John B. Landry
Chairman & CTO, Adesso Systems, Inc.
With nearly 30 years of experience building world class software and software companies, John Landry currently serves as chairman and chief technology officer (CTO) of Adesso Systems. Previously, John served as Vice President - Technology Strategy at IBM, a unique position charged with discovering and evaluating new disruptive technologies emerging from "edge" companies for possible incorporation into IBM's top-level corporate strategies. John assumed this position after leading IBM's Internet Strategy task force, a position assigned to him by CEO Lou Gerstner in 1995 to define IBM's e-business strategy across the corporation.

This assignment followed IBM's acquisition of Lotus in 1995, where John had served as senior vice president, development and CTO from 1990. Prior to Lotus, John served as senior vice president and CTO at Dun & Bradstreet, Cullinet Software, Distribution Management Systems and McCormack & Dodge Corporation, the latter three all targets of successful acquisitions in the 1980's.

John is currently a director and investor in several private high technology companies. He holds a BA in Finance from Babson College where he serves as Trustee and part-time instructor.

Mr. John N. Little
President, CEO and Co-founder, The MathWorks, Inc.
Jack Little is president, CEO, and a co-founder of The MathWorks, Inc. He was a co-author and principal architect of the initial version of the company's flagship MATLAB product as well as the Signal Processing Toolbox and the Control Systems Toolbox.

Jack holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT (1978) and an M.S.E.E. degree from Stanford University (1980).

A Fellow of the IEEE and Trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council, he writes and speaks about engineering software, entrepreneurship, and software industry opportunities.

Mr. George A. McMillan
President & COO, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc.
George has served in executive capacities for more than 20 years and has spent the majority of his career leading and driving business growth in professional service firms.

George's career includes combined experience in media, direct marketing and professional services, with demonstrated excellence in both financial and business operations. He joined CMGI in July 2001 from BMG Direct, a unit of Bertelsmann AG, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer for more than 4 years. Prior to joining BMG Direct, George served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Renaissance Solutions, the technology and management consulting firm. There, he helped guide the firm from 15 members to more than 300 professionals, and through three public offerings of its shares. He also guided Renaissance through 13 consecutive quarters of rising revenue and accelerating profit and earnings per share performance. Prior to joining the Collaborative, George was Chief Execuitve Officer of CMGI, where as both Chief Execuitve Officer and Chief Financial Officer, he succcessfuly repositioned the financially distressed internet company into a billion dollar leader in supply-chain management. He left CMGI in August with his work completed and with great appreciation and thanks from their Board of Directors.

George earned his M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Business, his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and his A.B. in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University.

Mr. Jack L. Messman
Chairman and CEO, Novell, Inc.
Formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Technology Partners and Jack is responsible for setting the company's strategic direction and leading its growth as an international e-business services provider since 1999. He joined Cambridge Board of Directors in 1992.

His prior experience includes roles as Chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Resources Group Inc. (UPRG), a North American independent oil and gas exploration and production company; Jack was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Pollution Control, Inc., Union Pacific's environmental services company; as Managing Director of Mason Best Company of Houston, an investment banking firm; as Chairman and CEO of Somerset House Corporation, a publishing company owned by Mason Best; as Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for Warner Amex Cable Communications, Inc.; as Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.; as President and CEO of Novell, Inc. from 1982-1983; as President and CEO of Norcross Inc., a consumer products company; and, prior to 1973, as a partner in a Philadelphia investment banking firm.

Messman graduated from the University of Delaware with a bachelor of science in chemical engineering, and received his MBA with Distinction from the Harvard School of Business Administration.

Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe
General Partner, Polaris Ventures
Dr. Robert M. ("Bob") Metcalfe is a general partner in our Boston office. Bob joined Polaris in January of 2001. He specializes in Boston area based information technology start-ups.

Bob had three careers before becoming a venture capitalist:
While an engineer-scientist (1965-1979), Bob helped build the early Internet. In 1973, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he invented Ethernet, the local-area networking (LAN) standard on which he shares four patents. In 2003, Ethernet’s 30th year, 184 million new Ethernet connections were shipped for $12.5 billion.

While an entrepreneur-executive (1979-1990), Bob founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company where at various times he was Chairman, CEO, division general manager, and vice president of engineering, sales, and marketing.

While a publisher-pundit (1990-2000), Bob was CEO of IDG's InfoWorld Publishing Company (1992-1995). For eight years, he wrote an Internet column read weekly by over 500,000 information technologists. He spoke often; appeared on radio, television, and the web; and produced conferences including ACM97, ACM1, Agenda, Pop!Tech, and Vortex. Bob's book credits include Packet Communication (Thomson), Internet Collapses and Other InfoWorld Punditry (IDG Books), and Beyond Calculation:The Next Fifty Years of Computing (co-edited for Springer Verlag).

Bob graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 with bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and in management. He received an M.S. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1970. In 1973, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, where his doctoral dissertation was titled, "Packet Communication."

Mr. Leon Navickas
Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Centra Software, Inc.
Leon Navickas founded Centra in 1995 with a vision to help businesses shift their communication-intensive, group-oriented work to the Internet using scalable, enterprise-class, real-time applications software. Following a successful career at Lotus where he gained first-hand experience with collaboration software, he led Centra as CEO for over 8 years from a venture funded start-up, through successful IPO, and into a market leadership position. Currently, he serves as chairman of the board and CEO.

Navickas spent 3 years as general manager of research and development for Lotus Notes. Prior, he was the general manager of the company's Portable and Mobile Computing Division where he invented and then led the development of the industry's first palmtop PC with Hewlett Packard. He managed several acquisitions, including Lotus Organizer, and negotiated joint business ventures with HP and Intel. Earlier, he directed the division responsible for the development of mainframe and minicomputer versions of Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM and served as development manager for Lotus Jazz, one of the first software products for the Apple Macintosh. Very early in his career, Navickas worked at Index Systems in a management and technical consulting role, and at Data General as a software engineer developing distributed database management products.

In 2003 Navickas was recognized by the New England Business and Technology Association for executive leadership. In 2002 he was named Computerworld Honors Laureate for contributions to technology advancement. In 2001 he received the prestigious Mass High Tech All-Star award. Currently, Navickas serves on the executive board of directors for the Massachusetts Software Council. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Boston University and earned a BA from Boston College in 1977.

Mr. James A. Pelusi
General Partner, Axia Partners
Mr. Pelusi is an accomplished executive with over 22 years of business experience. Most recently Jim was SVP and General Manager of the Factory Software Division of Brooks Automation, where he personally led the acquisition and integration of six complementary product and service organizations. Under his management, the division’s revenues grew from $24 million to $130 million in two years. Jim also was a key player on the Brooks road-show team that raised over $280 million in a successful secondary equity offering. Previously, Jim was the CEO and co-founder of FASTech Integration, a developer of mission-critical manufacturing software for large semiconductor and electronics companies. At FASTech, Jim was successful in raising $6.5 million in venture financing and led the company through significant growth, increasing revenues to $24 million. FASTech was ultimately sold to Brooks Automation in 1998. Jim has a BS in Operations Research from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Jim lives in Winchester, Massachusetts with his wife, Faith, daughter, Anna, and two sons, Drew and Jake.

Ms. Pamela D. A. Reeve
Former CEO, Lightbridge
Pamela Reeve joined the founding group at Lightbridge in 1989, serving as Director and President and Chief Operating Officer. In September 1993 she was named CEO, a position she held until August, 2004. While at Lightbridge, Ms. Reeve raised several rounds of private financing, took the company public in 1996 and grew the company to $186M in revenue. Prior to joining Lightbridge, Reeve spent eleven years at the Boston Consulting Group in a variety of consulting and senior management positions. Her early work experience includes manufacturing, real estate development and finance (private companies) and a national educational program with the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Reeve is a director of NMS Communications (NASDAQ: NMSS) and American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT). She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Software Council (and was its first woman chair), Vice Chair of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Board of Trustees, member of the Board of the Mass Telecom Council, and a member of the Commonwealth Institute. Reeve also serves on the Board and Executive Committee of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Bentley College Graduate School Advisory Council and the advisory boards of Sovereign Bank and The Boston Club.

Reeve earned her MBA degree, with distinction, from the Harvard Business School in 1978, and received her undergraduate degree, with honors, from the University of Georgia. She has four children, has coached soccer for over 20 years and has been active in her community soccer clubs and the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association. She is a founder of the Winchester Community Service Foundation.

Ms. Eileen M. Rudden
Vice President & General Manager, Communications Applications Division, Avaya
Eileen Rudden is vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Communications Applications Division of Avaya. Avaya designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than 1 million businesses worldwide, and is a global leader in secure and reliable Internet Protocol (IP) telephony systems and communications software applications and services.

At Avaya, Rudden advances the company’s global leadership in IP telephony, and its strategic emphasis on software communications applications. She leads the company’s efforts in contact centers, messaging and unified communications.

Before joining Avaya, Rudden was a fourteen-year veteran of IBM’s Lotus Software unit, where she was senior vice president and general manager responsible for Lotus Notes and Domino, the leading e-mail and groupware. Under her leadership, revenue for Lotus Notes/Domino tripled to $700 million worldwide while users grew from 5 million to 50 million in four years. Before joining Lotus Development in 1986, she was a director at Wang Laboratories and a manager at The Boston Consulting Group. Rudden is also the former CEO of FairMarket, Inc., which was sold to eBay.

Eileen is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Brown University, and is very active at Brown University where she is the President of the Alumni Association and a member of the Board of Trustees. She currently lives with her family in Cambridge, Mass.

Dr. Sanjay Sarma
CTO, OAT Systems
Sanjay Sarma is CTO of OAT Systems, and an associate professor at MIT (on leave). Dr. Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. In between degrees, Sarma worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. Sarma's Masters thesis was in the area of operations research, and his PhD was in the area of manufacturing automation. Since 1996, Sarma has been an assistant and then associate professor (with tenure) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research projects are in the areas of radio frequency identification, IC packaging, manufacturing, CAD/CAM, machine design, RFID applications, device networking and smart devices. Sarma was co-founder of the Auto-ID Center, one of the principal architects of the physical networking framework proposed by the center, the Director of Research of the MIT Auto-ID Lab, and the Chairman of Research of the 6 Auto-ID Labs Worldwide until the dissolution of the Center. The research of the center resulted in a new standards body called EPC Global, of which Sarma is a board member. Sarma is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair at MIT, the Den Hartog Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Keenan Award for innovations in undergraduate education, the New England Business and Technology Award, and the MIT Global Indus Award. He was selected on 2003's Business Week ebiz 25. He has over 50 publications in computational geometry, virtual reality, manufacturing, CAD, RFID, security and embedded computing.

Mr. Paul L. Schaut
Independent Advisor
Paul Schaut brings more than 23 years of diverse and extensive technology experience to his role as independent advisor for venture backed technology companies. Paul’s portfolio of advisory services help CEO’s leverage his operational experience and network to assist in board and / or management alignment, business development expansion, M&A strategy and execution along with many other large and small challenges faced by CEO’s everyday.

During his career, Paul has served in a number of sales, marketing and executive management capacities. As President and CEO of Tira Wireless, the company had strengthened its leadership position in the mobile porting market, achieved tremendous growth, secured additional venture funding, and the Tira Jump Product Suite made its successful market debut.

Prior to joining Tira Wireless Paul served as President and CEO of Performaworks, a Goal-Driven Performance Management™ software company where he successfully ushered its growth and eventual sale to Workscape in March 2004.

Paul’s most intense base of experience occurred during the heavy growth years of the internet while serving as President and CEO of Engage, where he led the company through a dramatic growth period, including the integration of ten acquisitions, worldwide expansion, closure of private funding and a successful initial public offering.

Paul currently serves as a Board Trustee for the Massachusetts Software Council, is a Director of several private software companies and is an angel investor in several private technology companies. He graduated from San Jose State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.

Mr. Greg Schmergel
Co-founder, President & CEO, Nantero, Inc.
Greg Schmergel was most recently Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy for About, Inc., the 5th largest Web property. Previously he was President and CEO of ExpertCentral.com, Inc. Greg founded ExpertCentral in November 1998 to provide consumers and small businesses with access to thousands of experts to use as an online resource for important questions on a wide variety of topics. He also served as Chairman of the Board. ExpertCentral was acquired by About, the leading network of comprehensive vertical sites for users and marketers, in January of 2000 (now part of Primedia, NYSE: PRM). Prior to forming ExpertCentral.com, Greg served as Case Team Leader for Bain & Company where he led consultant teams working on critical strategy and implementation issues for Fortune 1000 companies. His earlier experience includes senior positions at TowerGroup, which he helped start, and the Ernst & Young Center for Information Technology & Strategy. Reuters acquired TowerGroup in November 1999. Greg also served as a Summer Associate at Booz*Allen & Hamilton, Inc. Greg stays active in supporting entrepreneurship at Harvard, MIT, and throughout Boston, including being a guest speaker at entrepreneurial classes and groups and a judge for the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Greg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Ms. Shirley Singleton
President and CEO of Edgewater Technology
As President and CEO of Edgewater Technology, Shirley Singleton has overseen periods of prosperity, success and perseverance. Under her direction, Edgewater has grown from a privately held, five-person shop into a publicly-traded, strategic consulting firm with over 200 consulting professionals.

Shirley has more than 20 years of software development, systems integration, and management consulting experience. Prior to co-founding Edgewater, she served as a Vice President at Logica.

Shirley was recently recognized as one of the Top 100 Woman-Led Businesses in Massachusetts. During 2003, she was named to Boston Magazine's Top 100 Powerful Women and was honored by the New England Business and Technology Association (NEBATA) for exceptional leadership. In 2001, Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MIMC) presented Shirley with the Leader of the Year Award.

Ms. Singleton is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts Software Council; a member of the Foundation Board for Bunker Hill Community College; serves on the Dean’s Business Advisory Council at Bentley College; and also serves on the Town of Essex’s Conservation Commission.

She is a graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Education.

Mr. Jeffrey Taylor
Founder and Chief Monster, Monster Worldwide, Inc.
In addition to his capacity as Global Director, Interactive for TMP Worldwide, Jeff Taylor is also the founder and chairman of Monster.

Since the launch of The Monster Board in 1994, the 454th commercial site on the Web, Jeff Taylor has been recognized as an innovator and a visionary in both the Internet and careers industries. As the founder of Monster, Taylor has reinvented the way in which the world looks for employment. Through Taylor’s guidance and leadership, Monster catapulted to the number one position in the online careers industry, currently serving over 24 million job seekers each month.

Today, the Monster global network consists of local content and language sites in 22 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Luxembourg, India, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland and Scotland.

Taylor has an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a certificate from the OPM Program at Harvard Business School, and also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Bentley College.

In March 2000, Taylor became the Blimp Waterskiing World Champion.

Ms. Carol Vallone
Chairman, President & CEO, WebCT, Inc.
Carol Vallone launched the company, initially named Universal Learning Technology (ULT), in 1995. Following the May 1999 merger with Vancouver-based WebCT, ULT adopted the name WebCT, Inc. to reflect both its installed base and strategic direction. As CEO, Vallone oversees all aspects of the business, and brings to WebCT more than 20 years of experience managing technology companies and bringing new software products to market. Before founding ULT, Vallone served as President of Information Mapping, Inc. (IMI), a company specializing in research-based methodologies for developing granular text and computer-based curriculum. Prior to that, she was Director of Marketing at both UCCEL Corporation and Carleton Corporation, and was a manager at Software Arts, Inc., Honeywell Information Systems, Inc., and International Data Corporation.

A member of the National School-to-Work Advisory Council, reporting to the U.S. Secretaries of Labor and Education, Vallone currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council. She is also a board member of Silicon Chalk, a company founded by WebCT founder Murray Goldberg. Vallone has also served on the Board of Directors of Tufts Associated Health Maintenance and of the Small Business Association of New England. In 2000, she was named one of the most influential women in science and technology by Women in Technology International (WITI). Vallone was twice invited to speak before the US Congress Web-based Education Commission on The Internet, Distance Learning and the Future of the Research University. In 2002, Mass High Tech named her to their annual list of "Top Ten People to Watch" and she was also honored by the Massachusetts eComm Association when they selected her as one of the year's Mass eComm 10. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Delaware.

Mr. Scott Walters
Co-founder, Paytronix Systems
Paytronix Systems, Inc. offers loyalty solutions expertly tailored to restaurant and entertainment businesses. We work with companies eager to find new ways to grow their businesses by understanding who their customers are, what they want to buy, and by improving the quality of the customers' experience. Our solutions validate that when customers have a more rewarding experience, they become more loyal – buying more, and buying more frequently.

Scott Walters was Vice President of Business Development and a Founder of TrailBreaker.com. TrailBreaker.com is an online shopping service that empowers consumers to make more educated online purchase taking them to the best and most valuable commerce sites. He acted as the e-commerce and partnership expert.

He was most recently a senior business development manager at OrderTrust, responsible for the design and management of OrderTrust’s Commerce Advantage Partner Program, targeting Interactive Agencies, Systems Integrators, ISP’s, Web Designers and large merchants. Scott is an active e-commerce evangelist speaking on numerous industry panels (Internet World, DMA and others).

Scott earned his MBA from Babson and his BA from Kenyon College. While at Babson, Scott received the Roger Babson award for outstanding achievement and the Paul Greene Telecommunications Grant.

Mr. William J. Warner
President, Future Boston, Inc.; President, Warner Research, LLC and Founder, Avid Technology, Inc.
Mr. Warner was President and Chief Executive Officer of Avid Technology, Inc. from its inception through May 1991 and September 1991, respectively. From January 1992 through June 1996, Mr. Warner was President of Wildfire Communications, Inc., a developer of personal communications products; Mr. Warner also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wildfire from January 1992 through April 2000. Since June 2000, Mr. Warner has served as President of Future Boston, Inc., a non-profit organization. In addition, since September 2001, Mr. Warner has been the President of Warner Research, LLC, a research company focused on online mapping and archiving systems.

Mr. Jack M. Wilson, Ph.D.
President of the University of Massachusetts
Formerly the founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of UMassOnline, Dr. Wilson worked with the five UMass campuses – Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell and Worcester – to provide online access to academic programs. Dr. Wilson is a tenured Professor of Management at UMass Amherst and has served the University system as VP for Academic Affairs.

A well-known entrepreneur and distance educator, Dr. Wilson was a co-founder, President, and Chairman of LearnLinc Corporation (now Mentergy), a supplier of software systems for corporate training to Fortune 1000 Corporations.

Prior to UMass, Dr. Wilson was at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he was the J. Erik Jonsson '22 Distinguished Professor of Physics, Engineering Science, Information Technology, and Management and the Co-director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship. During his 11 years at Rensselaer, Dr. Wilson served at various times as Dean of Undergraduate and Professional Education, Dean of Faculty and Provost. In these roles, Dr. Wilson led a campus-wide process of interactive learning and restructuring of the educational program. He was known for the design of the Studio Classrooms, the growth of the Distributed Learning Program, the creation of the Faculty of Information Technology, and the initiation of the student mobile computing (universal networked laptop) initiative.

Prior to Rensselaer, Dr. Wilson was a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. He served for eight years as the Executive Officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and on the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). His 31 year career as a Professor has included terms as Department Chair, four Dean's positions, director of a research center, and acting Provost.

Dr. Wilson has served as a consultant to many computing and communications firms including AT&T, Lucent and Hewlett Packard, and an International Consulting Scholar for the IBM Corporation. He has authored over 55 scholarly articles, written or edited five books, and given over 200 invited lectures. Dr. Wilson has enjoyed over $23 million in funding for his research and scholarly activities.

For more information about Jack Wilson, please visit www.JackMWilson.com.

Ms. Karen E. Brothers
Co-Founder, Inmagic, Inc.
In addition to being a former chairman of the board, Ms Brothers was a co-founder of Inmagic with Elizabeth Bole Eddison. She has also served as president and CEO as well as vice president of software development. Prior to Inmagic, Ms. Brothers was director of software development and chief architect of INMAGIC textbase management software at Warner-Eddison Associates, Inc., an information management consulting company from which Inmagic was spun off in 1983.

Prior to joining Warner-Eddison, Ms. Brothers and a colleague ran a successful software consulting business. Ms. Brothers is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's Degree in mathematics.

Mr. James I. Cash Jr., Ph.D
Former James E. Robison Professor, Harvard Business School
Dr. Cash received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Texas Christian University; a master of science in computer science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a doctor of philosophy in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management. He joined the Harvard Business School Faculty in 1976, and has taught in all the major HBS programs – MBA, Program for Management Development (PMD), Program for Global Leadership (PGL), and Advanced Management Program (AMP). Among his administrative assignments he has served as chairman of the MBA Program from 1992 to 1995, during the school’s project to redesign the MBA Program – MBA: Leadership and Learning; and as Senior Associate Dean and Chairman of HBS Publishing from 1998 to 2003.

Before his graduate education and joining the Harvard Faculty, he worked as director of Data Processing for several years, which followed jobs as a systems analyst, systems programmer and application programmer.

His research is focused on the strategic use of information technology in the service sector and, specifically, the development of a performance measurement system for large information technology organizations.

Dr. Cash joined the Microsoft Board of Directors in June 2001.

Mr. Randall Davis
Research Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Randall Davis received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in 1970, and received a PhD from Stanford in artificial intelligence in 1976.

In 1978 he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT, where from 1979-1981 he held an Esther and Harold Edgerton Endowed Chair. He later served for 5 years as Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department, and a Research Director of CSAIL, the newly-formed Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory that resulted from the merger of the AI Lab and the Lab for Computer Science. He and his research group are developing advanced tools that permit natural, sketch-based interaction with software, particularly for computer-aided design and design rationale capture.

Dr. Davis has been one of the seminal contributors to the field of knowledge-based systems, publishing some 50 articles and playing a central role in the development of several systems. He serves on several editorial boards, including Artificial Intelligence, AI in Engineering, and the MIT Press series in AI. He is the co-author of Knowledge-Based Systems in AI, and was selected in 1984 as one of America's top 100 scientists under the age of 40 by Science Digest. In 1986 he received the AI Award from the Boston Computer Society for his contributions to the field. In 1990 he was named a Founding Fellow of the American Association for AI and in 1995 was elected to a two-year term as President of the Association. In 2003 he received MIT’s Frank E. Perkins Award for graduate advising. From 1995–1998 he served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the U. S. Air Force.

Mr. Alain Hanover
Managing Director and CEO, Navigator Technology Ventures
Mr. Hanover has over 30 years of experience in venture capital, executive management, software development, and engineering. He has served as CEO for over 15 years at InCert and Viewlogic, as well as being an early stage investor or advisor in over 20 private companies. He also co-founded CommonAngels, Boston's leading Angel Investor group.

Most recently, he served as Managing Partner of Main Street Partners, a seed-stage, venture capital firm, where he helped launch five start-ups: IPVision, SemiDAQ, Bitpipe, ShieldIP and Saoirse. Previously, he co-founded InCert Software Corporation and led the company as President and CEO from 1997-2000. In 1984 Hanover co-founded and served as President, CEO, and Chairman of Viewlogic Systems, Inc., an electronic design automation software company, took it public in 1991, and grew it to $150M in sales when it was sold to Synopsys in 1997. He was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1993.

He currently serves on several corporate and non-profit boards of directors, including Actuality Systems, Inc.; FQS International, Inc.; Sionex Corporation; Tizor Systems, Inc.; Applix, Inc. of Westborough; Bitpipe, Inc. of Boston; CommonAngels of Lexington; Saoirse Corporation; the MIT Venture Mentoring Service, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative; and the Massachusetts Software Council. Hanover holds B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from MIT; an M.S. in applied math from Harvard University; and an OPM program degree from the Harvard Business School.

Mr. John F. Keane, Sr.
Chairman, Keane, Inc.
John Keane, the founder of the Company, has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since the Company's incorporation in March 1967. From 1967 to November 1999, Mr. John Keane served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. John Keane is a director of American Power Conversion Corporation, a designer, developer and manufacturer of power protection and management solutions for computer,
communications and electronic applications.

Mr. Michael Kolowich
President & Executive Producer, DigiNovations, Inc.
Michael Kolowich is a recognized pioneer and innovator in internet content, high-technology marketing, and application of digital video technology. He is currently president and executive producer of DigiNovations, Inc., a video production company which he founded in late 2001. Based in Concord, Massachusetts, the company uses digital video and multimedia technologies to make creative video productions accessible and affordable to small-to-medium-sized companies, organizations, schools, and families.

Until late 2001, Kolowich was Vice Chairman and Co-founder of NewsEdge Corporation (Burlington MA) and an early pioneer in online and Internet content. NewsEdge Corporation was formed in early 1998 by the merger of Individual, Inc. (of which Kolowich was CEO) and Desktop Data Corporation, and is the global leader in electronic news solutions for business; it was acquired in 2001 by Thomson Corporation.

During the 1990's Kolowich founded and/or led several important online content ventures, and was a visible force in the evolution of the internet as we know it today. In 1991, he founded Ziff-Davis Interactive, the first new media company born of a major publishing company. Kolowich was also founder and president of AT&T New Media Services, and was part of the team which launched the highly successful AT&T WorldNet Service. From 1988 till 1991, Kolowich was the founding publisher of PC/Computing, the Ziff-Davis magazine which in five years became the largest-circulation monthly computer magazine in America.

Prior to that, from 1995 till 1988, Kolowich was Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of Lotus Development Corporation. Later at Lotus, as VP of Graphics, Text, and Information Management Products, he was responsible for the early development of the Lotus Notes business.

Kolowich attended Harvard College, where he received a bachelor's degree in Engineering and Applied Physics in 1974. Later, he returned to receive an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He is a Trustee of Boston's Museum of Science, Trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council, and President of the Board of Directors of Revels, Inc., a national performing arts organization. He serves on the Board of Directors of Excelligence Learning Corporation, a public company in Monterey, California (NASDAQ: LRNS).

Ms. Mary E. Makela
President, MEM Associates
As president of MEM Associates, Ms. Makela provides strategic support to high level executives on business, marketing and sales issues. Assignments have included coaching and advising of executives, strategic product positioning, finding potential business partners and acting as a catalyst to "make it happen."
Ms. Makela served as chief executive officer and president of IMC Systems Group, Inc., a leading provider of integrated software and services that automated the import process of companies involved in international trade. Prior to that, Ms. Makela served as a vice president of sales and marketing at Computer Corporation of America. She was also president of Cognos Corporation, and spent 17 years with IBM Corporation in various sales, marketing and general management positions.

Mr. Richard Rabins
Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Alpha Software, Inc.
Richard Rabins co-founded Alpha Software in 1982 with his brother, Selwyn, and now serves as co-chairman. He manages the company’s sales, marketing, and daily business operations. During the late 1990s, while Alpha was owned by SoftQuad International Inc., Richard served as SoftQuad’s CEO. Previously, he was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), creator of the Express OLAP database software program now owned by Oracle. Richard was also a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc., a healthcare management consultancy. Richard is a co-founder, past president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council, the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts, representing more than 500 software companies. Richard holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and a Masters degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a Masters degree in management science from the Sloan School at MIT.

Mr. David Solomont
Chairman & CEO, Candide Media Works, Inc.
David Solomont has over 25 years experience in the information technology and software industries. He is actively involved as an investor in early stage technology companies and is the founder and organizer of the CommonAngels, Boston, Massachusetts. He also serves as Director of HNW and Board Observer of WorldWinner.

Mr. Solomont holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Tufts University and a master's degree in management from MIT's Sloan School. He is a founding Trustee and past Chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council. David is an Overseer, and has served as a member of the Information Technology Committee at the Museum of Science, Boston and as Technology Advisor to the Internet Working Group at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is an Overseer of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston and a member of the federation's Computer Industry Group Advisory Board, a Trustee and founding Member of the Board of the Center for Information Technology at Hebrew College, and a Director of the Maimonides School, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Mr. Eric E. Vogt
Chairman & President, Interclass
Eric Vogt began his career in business as a corporate strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. Subsequently he joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School where he taught International Economics in the MBA program. In 1983, Eric founded MicroMentor, Inc., an award-winning firm in the design and development of interactive multimedia learning. MicroMentor merged with Omega Performance in 1997, and subsequently, Eric became Omega's Chief Learning Officer. Earlier in his career, Lt. Vogt served as the Combat Information Officer aboard the USS Dewey (DLG-14) in the Gulf of Tonkin.

A founder and two-term president of the Massachusetts Computer Software Council, Eric Vogt is chairman of the International Corporate Learning Association, former vice chair of the Board of Bay State Skills Corporation, board member of Omega Performance, and a former overseer of the Boston Museum of Science. Eric has been a featured speaker at numerous industry forums.

Eric's publications include "A Framework for Swedish Industrial Policy," "The Nature of Work in 2010: Convergence and the Workplace" appearing in the 1995 The Aspen Institute Journal; "Learning out of Context," published in Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace; and "The Economics of Knowledge" which appeared in Smart Business: How Knowledge Communities Can Revolutionize Your Organization, in 1999.

Eric earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a BA degree in Linguistics and Applied Mathematics.