Past

Dan Allred
Senior Relationship Manager - SVB Silicon Valley Bank. In this role, Dan manages SVB's early-stage efforts in New England, including banking and lending to early-stage venture-backed start-ups, often times at pre-revenue stage. Dan also works closely with SVB's emerging technologies banking practice in New England which is comprised of over one hundred pre-funded technology start-ups. Prior to moving to Boston in May 2007, Dan led SVB's business development efforts in Research Triangle, NC, where he tripled that office's profitability and earning assets between mid-2003 and mid-2007. Dan joined SVB as an associate in the Research Triangle office in September 2002. Dan was Vice President of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) in Research Triangle Park, NC prior to joining SVB. Dan is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Johnston Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in Wellesley, MA with his wife and two daughters.

Richard Anders
Founder and Managing Director - MA Medical Angels
Founder - Launchpad Venture Group
Founder and Managing Director - Rubin/Anders Scientific, Inc.
Richard is the founder of MA2 (Mass Medical Angels), New England's only life-science focused angel group. A serial entrepreneur, he was the founder of Jurisoft, Inc. which was acquired by Mead Data Central; New Media Publications, LLC which published Boston Digital Industry, New York Digital Industry and Texas Software News; and is currently managing director of Rubin/Anders Scientific, Inc., a science consultancy. Richard is a trustee at the Boston Museum of Science, a trustee at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, a founding trustee of the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council, a member of the advisory council of the Harvard-MIT HST program, a member of the corporator's board of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute and a board member of Quosa. Richard was a former partner at Still River Fund, an early stage venture capital firm based in Waltham and the founder of the angel group Launchpad. He also created the Coolidge Corner Theater's Science on Screen series where noted scientists speak about the connection of science and film and serves on an IRB at the Dana Farber Hospital. Richard is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude in mathematics, and Harvard Law School.

John Barrett
Managing Director - Cook Associates. John has built an expertise in the technology, online media, marketing services, consumer, and business services industries. John's clients include private equity and venture-backed portfolio companies as well as the Fortune 1000, and he recruits at senior levels including CxO and functional Vice Presidents. Prior to joining Cook Associates, John served as a Managing Director with Conley & Company. Previously, John was an Executive Director with Russell Reynolds Associates, where he also led the firm's North American Financial Technology Practice and was a member of the its global Financial Services and Technology Practices. Before entering the retained executive search industry, John was Vice President of Marketing for Citi f/i (financial interactive). He has also worked for Mars & Co, a French strategy consulting firm, as a consultant serving Fortune 500 clients across multiple industries. John began his career with ICI Americas, the U.S. subsidiary of the British chemicals conglomerate. John received his BS degree magna cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Soon after graduating from Tufts, he won first place in the Old Guard competition, which is the top national prize awarded to students by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Abigail Barrow
Founding Director - Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC). Dr. Abigail Barrow is the Founding Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC). She is responsible for the overall management of the MTTC and the development of its programs. Prior to joining the MTTC, Dr. Barrow served as managing director of William J. von Liebig Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The von Liebig Center was created in 2001 to support the commercialization of research being performed in the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. She has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technologies Consortium (CCAT), which assisted in the identification and commercialization of technologies in the area of crisis and consequence management and received more than $25 million in federal funding from the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Barrow worked in a variety of roles at UCSD CONNECT from 1990 to 2001. At CONNECT, she developed and expanded many of its programs to support early-stage company formation and technology commercialization. The CONNECT program is now internationally recognized and has been successfully replicated in other regions of North America and in Europe. Dr. Barrow is on the board and is Chair of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment and is on the board of the National Collegiate Inventors and innovators Alliance. In addition, she is a Fellow of the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management at UCSD. Dr. Barrow received her PhD from the Science Studies Unit and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh.

Gene Barton
Principal - Fish & Richardson P.C. (Boston office). Mr. Barton's practice emphasizes financing and merger and acquisitions activity. He specializes in the representation of emerging companies and venture capital and other private equity funds. He also provides general corporate, business planning and financial advice to public and private companies.

Skip Besthoff
General Partner - Castille Ventures. Skip Besthoff has an investment focus in on-demand applications, technology- enabled services and Internet-based businesses. Prior to Castile, Mr. Besthoff was at Rho Ventures where he had a strong record of investing in and participating on the boards of market-transforming software and services companies including Everdream (acquired by Dell), IntraLinks (acquired by TA/Rho), Megapath, and Verified Person. Earlier in his career, Skip spent five years in Boston as a manager for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). In this position he led large-scale systems development and integration projects for Fortune 100 companies. He also participated in building new practice areas including the SAP line of business. Skip is a graduate of Hamilton College with a BA in Economics. He received his MBA with honors from Cornell University where he was awarded the distinguished Alfred Fried Fellowship for his academic achievements.

Jerry Bird
VP - Massachusetts Technology Development Corp. Jerry Bird, who joined Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation as Vice President in 2005, has over 22 years of investing and financial experience. He currently manages MTDC's investments in Clarity Imaging, Inc., BEZ Systems, Inc., and Ze-gen, Inc. Before joining MTDC, Mr. Bird was President of Boston-based Claflin Capital Management, which he joined as a general partner in 1996. While at Claflin, Mr. Bird led over a dozen investments in early-stage technology companies. He was on the boards of e-Travel, Inc., which subsequently merged with VA Linux, LinkSoft Technologies, NexCen Technologies, and Bitpipe, Inc. Prior to joining Claflin Capital Management, he spent 10 years at Bank of Boston in the energy and emerging markets investment banking divisions. Mr. Bird received both a BA and an MBA degree from Dartmouth College. He is also on the board of Massachusetts Audubon, Crossroads for Kids, and the Advisory Board of the Trust for Public Land.

Steve Bollinger
President & COO - Pervasis Therapeutics. Mr. Bollinger joined Pervasis Therapeutics in June 2005 and serves as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Pervasis, Mr. Bollinger was a founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Angiolink Corporation, which was a privately held medical device company, with responsibilities for overall operations, from 2000 to 2004, and sold the company to Medtronic Corporation in fall of 2004. From 1997 to 1999 Mr. Bollinger was the Vice President of Research, Development, and Operations for Byron Medical and held overall responsibility for corporate operations. He sold the company to Mentor Corporation in 1999. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Bollinger has held positions at Mentor Corporation, American Hydro-Surgical Instruments, and Deknatel, in a variety of roles ranging from Sales to Product Development and Marketing Management. Mr. Bollinger served as an artillery officer in the United States Army from 1987 to 1991, and during his service he led and supervised reconnaissance teams into combat during Operation Desert Storm. In 1991, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for exceptional meritorious service during combat. Also during his service, he graduated from the United States Army Airborne and Ranger Schools. Mr. Bollinger currently holds six medical patents. He received his M.B.A. from Oklahoma City University and is a graduate of the United States Military Academy West Point with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.

David Broadwin
Partner - Foley Hoag LLP. In addition to being a Partner at Foley Hoag and a member of the Firm's Executive Committee, David heads the Emerging Enterprise Center. He focuses on representation of venture financed technology companies as well as buyers and sellers of public and private companies. David counsels clients across a broad range of business transactions, including venture capital financings, public offerings, private placements, PIPE (private investment in public equity) transactions, bank financings, and a variety of start-up company issues. He has written numerous books and articles on topics in Business Law. Dave has a B.A. from NYU, an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Graham Brooks
Associate - .406 Ventures. Graham brings 7 years of technology-oriented operating, investing and start-up experience to .406 Ventures. Most recently, Graham was Business Development Manager at Bose Corporation where he led a team that identified, evaluated, and structured strategic investment and acquisition opportunities within the digital media and technology infrastructure market. Prior to Bose, Graham co-founded Accentus, a technology company that developed innovative solutions for the financial trading industry. Graham began his career as a programmer and consultant for ALK Associates, a transportation consulting and software solutions provider. Graham, 32, is a Kauffman Fellow, received his MBA from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 2002, where he was a Tuck Scholar, and his BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University, where he was an All-American Fencer.

Yumin Choi
HLM Venture Partners. Yumin Choi currently works for HLM Venture Partners, a healthcare focused Venture Capital firm. He is also working on several startups ranging from stem cell tissue reengineering to hospital incentives programs. He previously worked at Angel Healthcare Investors performing due diligence and making early stage investments in healthcare startups. He worked as an analyst at a boutique investment firm called ZweigWhite where he worked on valuations, ownership transitions, and M&A services for the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering industries. He was a co-founder and CEO of a consumer electronics consulting firm and is a Babson College graduate.

Dan Clevenger
Associate - Foley Hoag LLP. aniel Clevenger brings a diverse business and dispute resolution background to his corporate, securities and transactional work at Foley Hoag. He came to Foley Hoag after serving as co-general counsel for EOIR Technologies, Inc., a Virginia-based developer of systems, programs and training for a range of military and intelligence agencies. Prior to that he spent five years as Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Virginia Tech and his J.D. from the College of William and Mary.

Doug Cole
General Partner - Flagship Ventures. Doug joined Flagship in 2001 where he focuses on Life Science investments. He came to Flagship with significant industrial experience and a strong academic background. He obtained post-graduate training in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD and in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. In 1992, Doug was appointed Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He established a research program investigating the mechanistic basis of neuronal signaling events and plasticity in neuro-psychiatric disorders with the support of the NIH and several non-profit research foundations.
Doug holds an AB magna cum laude with High Distinction in English from Dartmouth College, where he was a Senior Fellow and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.
In 1996, Doug joined Cytotherapeutics, in Providence, RI. As Medical Director he oversaw various research and clinical activities related to the company's cell-based therapeutic technologies. In 1997, he was appointed Program Executive at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in Cambridge, MA, where he led a multidisciplinary program that conducted preclinical development through Phase II studies in tissue protection and repair, oversaw an international research collaboration, and was responsible for identifying strategic market and technology opportunities in multiple arenas.
At Flagship, Doug has led investments in CombinatoRx (NASDAQ: CRXX), Tetraphase, Alvine Pharmaceuticals, Concert Pharmaceuticals, and Quanterix. He co-founded Ensemble Discovery with Noubar Afeyan and Professor David Liu of Harvard University, and he served as CEO of the company in its initial stages. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Ensemble Discovery, Tetraphase, Concert Pharmaceuticals, Quanterix, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, and CGI Pharmaceuticals, and is an Observer on the Board of Directors of Alvine. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of CombinatoRx and Morphotek.
He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation and the Genetics Advisory Council of the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Birch Rock Camp in Waterford, ME.

Kirke Curtis
President & CEO - Pamet Systems Inc. Kirke has been an executive in the software industry for over fifteen years where he has successfully led several companies through consistent years of double-digit growth. Kirke is currently finishing a successful turnaround at Pamet Systems, a public safety software vendor. Prior to Pamet he helped raise over $20M in angel and VC capital while at MediaMap, an information service company serving the public relations market. Prior to MediaMap he founded the North American subsidiary of VideoLogic, Ltd and grew it from start-up to ~$10m. Kirke has a BA from Duke University and an MSOD from American University

Matthew Cushing
Partner - Bingham McCutchen LLP. Matt has a general corporate and securities practice with concentrations in representation of technology companies and mergers and acquisitions, including representation of both financial and strategic acquirors. He has represented public, private and emerging growth companies in a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities law compliance, venture financing, public offerings and technology licensing. Matt has also represented investment banks, private equity firms and venture capital firms in public and private equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts. He received a BA from Holy Cross and a JD, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law.

Matt Cutler
VP of Marketing and Analytics - Visible Measures. Matt Cutler serves as Visible Measures' vice president of marketing & analytics. Most recently, Matt helped to found 80108 Media (now Go2 Media), a venture-backed direct-to-consumer mobile media firm, where he served as vice president of marketing. Previously, Matt led strategic marketing at SPSS Inc., the world's leading provider of predictive analytics software and services. Matt joined SPSS as part of the acquisition of NetGenesis Corp., a company that he co-founded in 1994. NetGenesis was the world's leading provider of Web analytics software and went public [NASDAQ: NTGX] in early 2000. While at NetGenesis, Matt helped found and chair the Customer Profile Exchange standard, an XML-based standard for privacy-enabled customer data interchange, and the Webmasters Guild, the world's first professional association for webmasters. Matt plays as much soccer as he can, holds an undergraduate degree from MIT, and lives in Needham, MA.

Stephen Davis
Managing Director - CXO Advisory Group. Steve has 28 years of experience as a senior executive, including COO and CMO roles with P&L responsibility in the computer, software, consumer electronics and Internet industries. He has successfully built, managed, and restructured numerous sales and marketing organizations and introduced over 300 new products into various industries. Steve is an industry pioneer whose visionary marketing and sales strategies were instrumental in the introduction of two PC industry milestones, the ATARI home computer and Corvus' OMNINET, the industry's first true local area network. In 1989, he founded the Davis Management Group, a company whose proprietary sales management and marketing methodology promoted rapid growth in revenue and profitability for its clients. Steve is an executive, strategist and creative problem solver who conceives, plans and implements new business practices to produce measurable improvements in market position, revenues, profit and shareholder value. His clients have included The Canadian Government, Apple Computer, ATT, Lotus, Symantec, Hitachi, and Kubota. Prior to Davis Management, Steve spent 15 years in senior level positions at major corporations including Qualogy, Corvus Systems, Atari, IBM and GE. Davis is active with many groups that support entrepreneurs and served on the executive board of the WPI Venture Forum. He is a frequent speaker and prolific writer on marketing and sales topics. Davis has given speeches at some of the nation's leading business and technology forums and his articles have appeared in a variety of engineering and IT business publications. Steve holds an MBA, as well as an MS and BS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

John Dellapa
Member - Corporate Practice, Mintz Levin. Prior to joining Mintz Levin, John was Group General Counsel at Fisher Scientific International Inc., a role in which he counseled the company's Biosciences Group on matters including collaboration and development agreements, licenses, and procurement and supply agreements with life science industry partners. John was also responsible for the negotiation and conduct of acquisitions and integration efforts. In an earlier role as Vice President and General Counsel of Fisher Scientific Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Fisher Scientific International Inc., John supported businesses with a multinational presence on matters including acquisitions, structuring foreign start ups, international distribution and global supply agreements. John is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Maryland. John received his J.D., cum laude, from George Washington University. John was awarded his B.S. in Management, magna cum laude, from Boston College.

Jack Derby
Founder - Derby Management. Prior to forming Derby Management in 1990, Jack's background included positions as CEO of Mayer Electronics Corporation, President of CB Sports, President of Litton Industries Medical Systems, CEO of Datamedix Corporation and President of Becton Dickinson Medical Systems. Jack has been named to Mass High Tech's All Star Team. He is often quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and has published articles and editorials in The Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech. He is frequent speaker at numerous business organizations including the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Small Business Association of New England, the Harvard Business School, and the WPI Venture Forum. He is also a guest lecturer at MIT where he teaches classes in writing business planning for undergraduate students and for the MIT-Singapore University Program. Jack is extremely active in the New England entrepreneurial community. He is currently and has been an active board member in a number of emerging companies. He was instrumental in restructuring the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum (www.mitforum-cambridge.org) where he has held the position of Chairman of the Forum. Additionally, he has been the Vice Chair of the Smaller Business Association of New England (www.sbane.org). During 2004, Jack was the recipient of SBANE's Pro Bono Publico Award for his significant contributions to the entrepreneurial community. Jack has also been a Director of MIT's Technology Capital Network (www.tcnmit.org), and the President of the University Club of Boston (www.uclub.org). Currently, he is Chairman of the Association for Corporate Growth (www.acgboston.org), a Director of The Associated Industries of Massachusetts (www.aimnet.org), and a Director at Brainshark Corporation, Hybricon Corporation and Beacon Hospice.

Don Dodge
Director of Business Development - Emerging Business Team, Microsoft. Don is a veteran of five start-ups including Forte Software (first multiplatform object oriented development environment), AltaVista (the first web search engine), Napster (the first P2P file sharing network), Bowstreet (the first web services development environment), and Groove Networks (the first secure P2P collaboration platform). Don started his software career with Digital Equipment Corp, in the database group. Don writes a daily blog, "Don Dodge on the Next Big Thing". Don, a native New-Englander, holds an MBA from New Hampshire College and a BS in accounting from the University of Southern Maine.

Tim Evans
President - Carpenter Consulting. Tim Evans is channel sales and marketing professional with over 20 years of experience. As a channel consultant, Mr. Evans helps emerging companies develop and execute go to market strategies. Mr. Evans has technology expertise in local and wide area networking, telecommunications, wireless, interactive gaming, performance management, networking security, voice over the web and power management. His experience includes establishing sales channels domestically as well as internationally. Mr. Evans has held sales and marketing postions at start-ups as well as global public companies with over $1 billion in revenue, including: Director of Worldwide Channel Sales at Visual Networks, Director of Worldwide Partner Channels at Openwave, Director of Channel Marketing at Hasbro Interactive, and others. He is currently retained by 14 emerging companies to provide channel consulting and development. Mr. Evans is a graduate of Boston College with a BA in Communications, Cum Laude.

Bonnie Fendrock
President & CEO - Hepregen. Ms. Fendrock is co-founder, president and CEO of Hepregen. Ms. Fendrock comes to Hepregen with experience as Vice President at Genzyme Corporation, Director of Business Development, Somatix, Inc., a start-up gene therapy company, and Project Manager, Genetics Institute (now Wyeth). Ms. Fendrock also has been a business consultant for the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Biomedical Enterprise Program (a collaboration with The Sloan School at MIT) and Acusphere, Inc. Ms. Fendrock holds a B.A. degree with a major in Molecular Biology from Wellesley College,an S.M. degree from MIT in Interdisciplinary Science and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Aaron Freedman
Co-founder and VP of Business Development - Untravel Media, Inc. Aaron was the founder of RealityWave, Inc., where he sequentially filled the roles of President, VP of Business and Product Development, and CTO from its inception in 1996. RealityWave was sold in 2005. Aaron graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from MIT in 1996.

John Gargasz
VP of Strategic Planning and Business Development - DRS Codem Systems, Inc. Prior to Codem Systems acquisition by DRS Technologies Inc, (NYSE: DRS), John held various roles in General Management, Project Management and Engineering. Mr. Gargasz has experience in satellite communications, wireless systems, and radiolocation for the Defense, Telecom and Retail technology markets. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and attended the MIT Sloan School Greater Boston Executive Program.

Scott Goodwin
Member of the Firm - Wolf & Co. Scott is a Certified Public Accountant with over seventeen years of experience. Scott provides audit and advisory services to business owners, executives and boards of directors. He works with privately-held, venture-backed companies as well as those that report publicly to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Scott's audit and advisory experiences include assisting rapidly growing, entrepreneurial-driven companies and consulting on complex accounting matters such as revenue recognition, equity instruments, derivatives, business combination due diligence, internal controls and corporate governance, including SOX 404. His industry experience encompasses software developers, medical device companies, biotech, hardware manufacturers, homeland defense contractors, distributors and professional service firms. Scott is also a member of Wolf & Company's Accounting and Auditing Committee.

Chris Greendale
General Partner - Kodiak Venture Partners. Chris brings to Kodiak more than 25 years of software and technology services experience in sales, marketing, investment, and executive management that includes co-founding Cambridge Technology Partners, which had one of the most successful IPOs of the 1990s. As a General Partner, he primarily focuses on investments in the software and services segments but does reach across all of Kodiak's technology segments including communications and wireless, Internet and new media, and semiconductors and equipment. He also is on the boards of directors of the firm's portfolio companies including GlassHouse Technologies; HiWired; uLocate; and Vettro. Prior to joining Kodiak, Chris was a seed investor in many successful technology companies. Most recently he served as Managing Director at Internet Capital Group and was a Venture Partner at GrandBanks Capital. In these positions he served as a board member for start-ups, including Clarify, and publicly traded companies including Surgency, and Context Integration, Inc. (acquired by eFORCE). He also served as Chairman of the Board for Breakaway Solutions, Inc., where he oversaw the company's IPO. In 1991 Chris co-founded and ran sales and marketing for Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), a systems integration company. By 1997, CTP had reached $600M in revenue with 4500 employees in 45 offices worldwide and enjoyed a very successful IPO. Chris holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University.

Kevin Greene
Principal - Flagship Ventures. Kevin joined Flagship in 2006 from IBM's Software Group. At IBM, Kevin was responsible for establishing, retaining and growing relationships with IBM business partners. Kevin also held a variety of product marketing positions at IBM including managing the WebSphere Application Server product portfolio. Prior to IBM, Kevin worked for several years at Goldman Sachs in its New York and Hong Kong offices where he executed over $30 billion in equity, equity-linked and M&A financing transactions for technology, media and energy-related clients. Kevin earned a BS in finance and marketing from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce where he also captained the varsity swimming team, and earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School. Kevin's primary areas of interest include software services & infrastructure, on-line media, mobile & wireless and clean technology companies.

Jon Gworek
Member - Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC. Jon Gworek's practice focuses on the representation of entrepreneurs, technology start-ups and emerging companies from formation through liquidity event. In this role Jon routinely advises clients through angel and venture capital financings, and mergers and acquisitions. He also represents venture capital funds and other institutional investors in fund formation and investments in start-ups and emerging companies. Jon has a particular interest in bridging the interests of investors and founders in the venture funding process. Over the course of his 15 plus years of experience as a corporate lawyer, Jon has represented a wide array of entrepreneurs, investors and public and private companies in complex business transactions as well as ongoing needs as they arise in the areas of corporate, securities, tax, employment, compensation, intellectual property and licensing law. Jon is a graduate of Brown University (Sc.B., Applied Mathematics/Biology) and a cum laude graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law. While at law school, he was a member of the Connecticut Law Review. Jon has been an active member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge for many years, and is a member of the Forum's Executive Committee. He is also a judge in the annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Jon is a member of the state bars of MA and CA. Before practicing law, Jon was an account executive at the advertising agency of Young & Rubicam.

Stephen Hallowell
Associate - Commonwealth Capital. Stephen is interested in investments in service-based software, media distribution and advertising, mobile technology, and energy storage and conversion. He has been closely involved with the senior management of Constant Contact, Visible Assets, and Zeetoo. Prior to Commonwealth, Steve was a consultant in the strategy and innovation management practices of the Monitor Group. At Monitor, he helped Fortune 500 clients develop strategies for growth through acquisition, product innovation, and marketing excellence. Steve also spent time teaching engineering in the Philippines before joining Monitor. Steve graduated with High Honors from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in engineering sciences and a B.E. in systems engineering. At Dartmouth, he was designated a Presidential Scholar and was a recipient of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Prize. He holds a patent related to advanced technology vehicles.

Jean Hammond
Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Member - Hub Angels, Launchpad Venture Group, and GoldenSeeds. Jean is a successful serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. She is an investor and member of Hub Angels and Launchpad Venture Group. She is also the co-coordinator of the Boston chapter of Golden Seeds. She was recently the interim CEO for JAM Technologies and relinquished that role when they closed on their latest round of financing. She founded Quarry Technologies with a team from the GTE Internetworking / BBN Technologies SuperRouter project and served as startup CEO and on the Board of Directors. Jean also co-founded AXON Networks, a developer of network management applications and following 3Com's acquisition of AXON, Jean was responsible for 3Com's WAN strategy. She earned an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Alain Hanover
Managing Director - Navigator Technology Ventures, LLC. Alan 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. 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.

Paul Hartung
President & CEO - Neuroptix. Paul is a longtime life sciences executive with a proven track record in launching successful startup businesses and leading Fortune 500 organizations. He has extensive experience in the laser and medical device industries, including managing manufacturing for Summit Technology, Inc., a leading developer of the LASIK procedure and other laser eye correction procedures. Prior to Neuroptix, Paul was Vice President of Operations at Winphoria Networks, a successful mobile communications startup acquired by Motorola. Before that he was Senior Director at 3Com Corporation, where he was involved in a number of mergers and acquisitions, and directed global operations and new product introductions. At Trumpf, he developed high power automated laser systems for industrial applications. As Director of R&D at Laser Fare Ltd., he developed new laser processing techniques for the medical device industry and other applications. Paul started his career as an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer at General Electric Company. He graduated from MIT with an MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He received the FW Taylor Award of the CIRP for his research.

John Hession
Managing Partner - Cooley Godward Kronish (Boston office). John Hession is a partner in the Venture Capital Financings and Emerging Companies practice groups at Cooley Godward Kronish and a member of the Cooley Godward Kronish Business department. He is also Managing Partner of the Boston office. John represents emerging-growth companies, principally in the medical device, software, life sciences, telecommunications and electronic commerce fields, as well as angels and venture capital funds in the investment process in these sectors. He has participated in, structured and negotiated more than 200 venture and angel financings, 30 public offerings, more than 125 strategic alliances involving technology transfers, and 150+ acquisitions ranging in size from $1.0 million to $4.2 billion. John has won several awards during his twenty-five-year career in the legal profession. John was voted by Digital Industry in May 2001, as "one of Boston's best VC lawyers" and by Boston Magazine in October 2002, as "one of Boston's best start-up company lawyers", and nominated in the November 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 issues of Boston Magazine as a "Super Lawyer" and also "one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts". John was also named as one of The Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers for 2007. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 he was also acclaimed by Chambers, an international rating agency, as one of the distinguished members in his field of Venture Capital and Private Equity. He is also the co-founder of TEN, The Entrepreneurs Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated towards building technology companies and fostering job growth in the upstate New York area.

Ken Itrato
Counsel - Wilmer Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Mr. Itrato practices business and corporate law with an emphasis on representing early stage technology, life sciences, internet and software companies. Mr. Itrato's practice includes, among other things, advising companies with respect to formation issues, equity and compensation matters, debt and equity offerings, joint ventures and other partnering transactions, mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases, reorganizations and divestitures. He provides counsel with respect to intellectual property matters and agreements, including licensing, development and distribution agreements. Mr. Itrato advises venture capital funds with respect to portfolio company investments and follow-on investments, fund formation and sales of fund interests. He also advises later stage private and public companies in the areas of SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, securities and disclosure issues, contract negotiations and corporate governance matters.

Chad Jackson
General Partner - incTank Ventures. Chad is a General Partner of incTank responsible for business development and new portfolio selection. Chad has spent over 10 years working in the investment management and early-stage venture capital fields. He has worked at such firms as Bear Stearns, Intercontinental Ventures, and Softbank Technology Ventures. Most recently, Chad was Principal of Sparks Street Capital, a private investment company that has co-invested in incTank portfolio companies. He holds a BA in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College. Chad's areas of focus include computational sciences and life sciences.

Andrew Jay
Managing Partner - Medical Solutions Fund, Siemens Venture Capital. Dr. Jay was previously an analyst following the medical technology industry at Deutsche Bank-Alex Brown and Wachovia Securities. During his career, he was an II ranked analyst for his stock picking, instrumental in raising $2 billion in equity capital for a multitude of companies and published over 10,000 pages of research. Dr. Jay's prior experience includes managing several international healthcare consulting projects for Arthur D. Little and running his substantial dental practice. He currently is a Director of Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, U-Systems and Vasamed.

Oscar Jazdowski
Sr. Relationship Manager - SVB Silicon Valley Bank. Oscar Jazdowski has spent over 25 years financing technology companies at all stages of development, from young venture-backed startups to large multinational companies. Jazdowski joined Silicon Valley Bank in 2002 as a senior relationship manager focused on the Boston software industry. Having started his career with Bank of Boston in the U.K., Jazdowski was transferred to Head Office in 1983 to join the High Technology Lending Group. Over the next 13 years he held various positions and was involved in financing young emerging, middle market and large corporate, public-traded technology companies.

Meerie Joung
Partner - Bingham McCutchen LLP. Meerie M. Joung concentrates her practice on general corporate and securities matters, with a focus on structuring and financing start-up ventures, representing venture capital and private equity funds, mergers and acquisitions of private and public companies, private placements and public offerings, formation of joint ventures, and licensing and commercial transactions. She is currently a guest lecturer at MIT\'s Sloan School of Management. She received her A.B. degree from Princeton University and her J.D. degree from Northwestern University School of Law.

Josh Kanner
Co-founder & CEO - Vela Systems. Josh graduated with honors from Brown University and then pursued an MBA from the Sloan School at MIT. Upon graduation Josh was hired as the first Marketing employee at Emptoris, Inc., a web based software provider, and assumed responsibility for product management. After assisting with early sales at Motorola and elsewhere, Josh was promoted to develop and manage Emptoris' entire product strategy. During his tenure, Emptoris grew from one to twelve products, from 20 to 200 employees and from 1 to 100 customers, including Heinz, GlaxoSmithKline, and Vodafone; became the only privately-held company in its segment to be annually placed in the 'visionary' quadrant by Gartner Research; and was selected by IBM and Accenture as their global strategic sourcing platforms over industry "heavyweights" Oracle and SAP. Josh was a 2004 recipient of the prestigious Franz Edelman Award for technology innovation.

Jon Karlen
General Partner - Flybridge Flybridge Capital Partners. Jon is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience include enterprise software, consumer-focused products and online services, and energy technology. He currently represents the firm on the boards of Eka Systems, GamerDNA, Virtual Computer, Inc., and a LED company currently working in stealth mode. He also previously sat on the board of ZING Systems (acquired by Dell). Prior to joining the firm in October 2005, Jon served as the Director of Product Marketing at OATSystems, an RFID software company, where he led the company's product positioning and marketing activities. Jon joined the company following a successful Entrepreneur-in-Residence position at Greylock, where he developed the investment opportunity in OATSystems. Before Greylock, Jon was an executive at NTRU Cryptosystems, an early-stage company focused on commercializing data encryption technology for constrained devices. During his tenure at NTRU, Jon served as General Manager for the RFID and Smart Card group and Director of Product Management. Jon also spent time as an Associate with Greylock and an Equity Research Associate at Montgomery Securities. Jon holds a BA in Philosophy from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Laila Kassis
Associate - Key Venture Partners. Laila focuses on investments in communications, software and technology enabled services businesses. She serves as a board observer of Centive, OpSource, and TriActive and is actively involved with Insight Direct. Laila joined Key Venture Partners in early 2005 from Spectrum Equity Investors in Boston where she focused on late stage growth investments in software, technology enabled services and media. She was primarily responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities for the firm in these areas. Prior to joining Spectrum, Laila worked as a Financial Analyst in Bear Stearns' Technology Investment Banking Group in New York City. At Bear Stearns, she focused on M&A advisory to Fortune 500 clients in the enterprise software, IT services, aerospace-defense, and communications technology arenas. Laila has a B.A. in Economics and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.

Elliot Katzman
General Partner - Commonwealth Capital Ventures. Elliot has more than 25 years of high-technology experience and has been instrumental in building some of New England's most successful software companies. He focuses his investment activity in software, internet-related and new media companies. Prior to joining Commonwealth Elliot was a general partner at Kodiak Venture Partners where he led investments in companies such as Groove Mobile, Mindreef, Newforma, Pragmatech Software, Spaceclaim and Wis.dm. In addition, he was on the board of Watchfire. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Elliot spent more than twenty years as a senior operating executive. He founded and led Myteam.com, a direct marketing/new media company now part of the Active Network. Prior to Myteam.com, he was Senior VP and CFO at SolidWorks, where he led the merger with Dassault Systemes. As CFO of Atria Software, he led an IPO and a $1 billion merger with Pure Software, the largest software merger of its time. Earlier, Elliot served as CFO of Epoch Systems, where he had senior operational responsibilities and managed the company's merger with EMC. He was also an executive with Prime Computer during its significant growth phase in the mid-1980s.

Wade Kirshy
Associate - Fish & Richardson P.C. Wade Kirshy is an Associate in the Boston office of Fish & Richardson. His practice emphasizes patent litigation and patent prosecution. Mr. Kirshy was previously a Summer Associate with the firm (2007). Before coming to Fish, he interned at Network Engines, Inc., where he worked in manufacturing, engineering, and marketing, and he was an Engineering Intern at Netplane Systems (2001-2002). Mr. Kirshy was also a Software Quality Assurance Intern at Seranoa Networks (2003). He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Honors, magna cum laude, from Union College and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he was also the Associate Editor of The Journal of Business and Technology Law.

Bob Kispert
Director - Federal and University Programs, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC). Bob is the Director of Federal and University Programs at MTC, a quasi-public state organization focused on economic development for the Massachusetts technology sectors. Bob manages MTC's outreach activities and the Research Center Matching Fund, a $30 million fund that supports Centers of Excellence and major collaborative R&D Centers funded by the federal government.

Bill Kolb
Partner - Foley Hoag LLP. Bill is a partner in the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP, based in the Firm's Boston office. As Coordinator of the firm's Business Department and Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group, William Kolb is recognized in Chambers USA, Massachusetts SuperLawyers and The Legal 500 for his experience in transactional matters. He has represented both buyers and sellers (including a special board committee) of public and private companies, particularly those involved in the technology industry. William also works closely with technology companies on licensing matters, including complex in-bound and out-bound licenses of various intellectual property rights. William also advises companies and their underwriters in public securities offerings, including clients such as Allaire, Aware, Banc of America Securities, Charles River Associates and Credit Suisse First Boston. He also provides these and other clients with counsel on compliance with the securities laws, Sarbanes-Oxley and other governance issues. In addition, his transactional work includes representation of high-growth and emerging companies seeking venture capital and strategic investments. William has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1984.

David Kopans
CFO - EnergyClimate Solutions. David Kopans is actively engaged in the clean/sustainable energy market sector serving as both CFO of EnergyClimate Solutions and as a business strategy and policy consultant to a number of well known early-stage and publically traded companies. By way of additional background, Mr. Kopans is the former Head of Finance/CFO of two publicly traded companies and a serial entrepreneur who has started, run, and advised Software, Hardware, Biotech, and Clean Energy companies. Mr. Kopans started his career as a CPA and CMA at Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Kopans holds a dual degree BA in Economics and Public Policy from Brown University and earned his dual degree MBA with Honors in Finance and Accounting from NYU. Mr. Kopans is and has been actively involved as a mentor to teams in the MIT Ignite Clean Energy competition and currently serves as Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. He is also an inventor of two technology patents which are currently under license by a Fortune 50 company.

Toby LaVigne
Founder & CEO - HubCast, Inc. Toby LaVigne is the founder and CEO of HubCast, Inc., the first global print-on-demand service to address the challenges of distributed sales and marketing organizations and the agencies that serve them. Toby began his on demand print career in 1995 with the purchase of an Indigo press and a print on demand vision. Toby's deep experience in the commercial print industry lead him to discover the need for a more scalable solution for short run print, and HubCast was born. Toby is passionate about building exceptional teams and technology and connecting them to reach goals quickly. He is a member and officer of the Young Presidents Organization.

Bob Lentz
CEO - PermissionTV. Bob brings extensive experience to his role as CEO at PermissionTV. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Operations and CFO of OATSystems, Inc., the recognized RFID framework leader, which provides software for supply-chain management systems that utilize radio-frequency identification (RFID). Prior to joining OATSystems, Bob was Sr. Vice President, Operations and CFO at eRoom Technology, a web-based collaborative workspace that enables distributed teams to work together more efficiently. Bob was a member of the management team responsible for the turnaround at Xionics Document Technologies, which became the leading provider of digital page processing software and technology for the office market, enabling users to print, scan, copy, process and transmit documents to computer peripherals. Before that, he served as Senior Vice President CFO for Individual Inc., an Internet information services company that merged with Desktop Data to become NewsEdge Corporation, and was Sr. Vice President and General Manager of Appex Corporation, a software company serving the cellular telephone industry that was sold to Electronic Data Systems. Bob started his career as a CPA with Ernst and Young. He has an MBA from Babson College, and a BS in Business from Northeastern University.

Lucinda Linde
Partner - Walnut Venture Associates. Lucinda Linde invests in and consults to early stage information technology companies. While at First Light Capital, she invested in Nellymoser, Incipient, KESI, Strong Numbers (now part of Intuit's "It's Deductible" product) and HubX (acquired by SynXis). She was an angel investor in Visualization Technologies Inc. (acquired by GE Medical Systems), Viveca (acquired by Open Pages) and Collego (acquired by MRO Systems) and Softrax (profitable company). Lucinda co-authored an in-depth study on angel investors, VSS Project: Report on Angel Investors, for Ken Morse of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and Professor Howard Stevenson at HBS. Previously, Lucinda helped build a management consulting firm focused on the telecommunications industry, COBA Boston, now Adventis. Start-up experience includes operations and marketing positions at Molten Metal Technology and Ceramics Process Systems. Both were venture-backed companies that went public. She holds an SB and an SM in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Ham Lord
Managing Director - Launchpad Venture Group. Ham has over 20 years experience in the software industry founding and building industry leading companies. Currently, Ham is the Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group. Launchpad is a Boston-based angel group that focuses on seed stage technology companies. He manages the group's deal flow, due diligence and investing activities. Ham is an active angel investor and advisor to early stage companies. He is a board member for Building Engines and a board observer for Mok3. Ham's senior management experience was in the software industry, most recently as co-founder and Vice President of Marketing for Advanced Visual Systems (AVS). AVS develops software for scientists and engineers involved in applications such as Medical Imaging, Geographic Information Systems(GIS), Engineering Analysis and Oil&Gas Exploration. Muse Technologies acquired AVS in 2000. Prior to AVS, Ham helped launch two computational chemistry companies, MicroChem Technologies and Polygen. These two companies were pioneers in the development of software for drug discovery, and were part of an industry wide acquisition roll-up that resulted in Accelrys Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL). Ham graduated magna cum laude with a degree in computer science from Brown University.

Jim Lucchese
CEO - The Echo Nest. Jim has over twelve years of experience leading and advising digital entertainment companies. Prior to The Echo Nest, Jim practiced law at Greenberg Traurig, specializing in music and digital media transactions. Clients included digital entertainment companies, multi-platinum recording artists, music publishers, branded entertainment companies and independent artists. Prior to GT, Jim held sales and corporate strategy positions at Hughes (parent of DirecTV), where he managed market development with annual revenues exceeding $20 Million. Jim was also Chief Strategy Officer of Webnoize/DMN, a digital entertainment research and advisory company serving over 500 clients. Jim holds a B.A. from Boston College and a J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and New York.

Ed Mallen
CEO - TimeTrade Systems. Ed is CEO of TimeTrade Systems, the leading SAAS provider of self-service appointment scheduling. He has over 25 years of professional management experience in software and systems. He started his career at IBM. As vice president of US sales at Interleaf he was part of the team that built the company to $100 million in sales, an IPO and subsequent financings. As vice president of software products for Xerox Imaging Systems he led the marketing and development of TextBridge, which became the premiere OCR product in the world. He joined Xionics as an executive vice president at an early stage, and helped grow the company to $40 million in sales, building the sales, support, product management and marketing teams that positioned Xionics for a successful IPO. As president and CEO of Profile Systems he led the company's success in pursuing vertical markets and solutions, leading to acquisition by Comergent Technologies, where he became a Senior Vice President. He was most recently CEO of OzVision, a leading supplier of video services for the security industry. A graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, he is a member of the board of eCopy and MassNetComs.

Geoff Mamlet
Technology Partner - DFJNE Venture Fund. Previously, Geoff was CTO and a founder of E-Travel, Inc., acquired by Oracle in 1999. Prior to E-Travel, Geoff spent 12 yrs in networking and telecom startups. He is currently the Managing Director of Cambridge Innovation Center which provides growing companies and venture capitalists with low-risk, turn-key office space solutions and services in the Boston area. Geoff holds a B.A. from Williams College

Beth Marcus
CTO & SVP - Zeemote, Inc. Beth Marcus has served as founder, investor and advisor for nine startups. Most notable to date is her founding of Exos, Inc., which was VC backed and sold to Microsoft in 1996. Beth has also worked as a consultant providing patent strategy, litigation support and other strategic technology advice. Being an expert on the interface between the human hand and hand-held devices, she has provided support in patent litigation for several key players in the industry. In 2005, Beth founded Zeemote when she recognized the inherent problems in using a cell phone keypad to play games. Beth holds a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in biomechanics from the Imperial College London where she was a Marshall Scholar. She holds more than a dozen patents, has authored numerous publications and is a well-regarded public speaker. Beth has served on the faculty of MIT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the MIT Enterprise Forum and the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee in Mechanical Engineering. She is a member of the Council for the Arts at MIT.

Bill McCullen
Director - LaunchCapital LLC, Boston. Bill has several years experience as a private investor in companies in the networking, semiconductor, alternative energy, Internet and consumer oriented markets. Prior to LaunchCapital Bill was a sell side equity analyst for Susquehanna Financial Group in Boston covering telecommunications and networking stocks. Prior to Susquehanna, Bill worked in senior product marketing and business development roles at local start-ups WindSpeed Access Systems, Teraphase and Sycamore Networks where Bill was the first product manager and helped the company grow its transport product revenue from 0 to over $100M/quarter in less than two years. Bill began his career at Lucent Technologies where he held a variety of technical and marketing positions. Bill received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. Bill is a lifelong Bostonian who currently lives in the suburbs with his wife and 3 children. When he has time he enjoys playing basketball and cycling.

Pete McDonald
Relationship Manager - Emerging Technologies Practice, SVB Silicon Valley Bank. Pete leads SVB's efforts in New England, providing banking services to hundreds of early-stage technology and life science start-ups. A majority of his portfolio consists of companies working towards raising their first round of equity. As part of his role, he acts as a resource for these companies as they begin the fund raising process, including business idea feedback, plan/slide deck review, and insight into the current investment climate. Pete has been with SVB for over 13 years beginning as an analyst in the Bank's Boston office and relocating to Virginia as part of the founding team in the Mid-Atlantic region. Pete moved back to Boston in 2000.

Bill McPhee
Member - Boston Harbor Angels. Bill is a member of Boston Harbor Angels. Concurrently, Bill is serving as Director of Outsourced Business Development Services for Health Advances LLC, a life science strategy consulting boutique. Bill joined Health Advances with over twenty five years of experience working with companies to develop strategic visions, growth strategies, and financial structures. Prior to working with Health Advances, Bill served as managing general partner of Mi3 Venture Partners, which he founded in 1998 to invest in early-stage bioengineering companies. He also founded and served as managing director for Lucas, McPhee & Co., an international strategy firm, and worked as a consultant for Bain & Company. Bill continues to serve on the boards of several private companies. Bill holds a honors BSc with honors and an LLB (equivalent to a JD in the United States), both from McGill University.

Laura Morse
Human Capital Partner - Atlas Venture. Laura Barker Morse works closely with portfolio companies on strategic human capital issues including recruitment, development, and reward systems and acts as a firm liaison with consultants and preferred providers of recruitment, compensation, and human resources. Prior to joining Atlas Venture, Laura worked in Brussels for SWIFT, the global financial telecommunications consortium, where she reported to the CEO during a strategic reorganization and led worldwide recruiting and expatriate services. Before that, Laura spent twenty years in technology executive search with Russell Reynolds and Heidrick & Struggles. She joined Russell Reynolds in 1977 in Chicago and helped open the Boston office in 1981. As Managing Director and global Practice Leader of the Venture Capital practice, she worked with venture firms and their portfolio companies. In 1991, she joined Heidrick & Struggles as a Partner in their Technology practice, relocating to their Brussels office in 1992. Laura is a graduate of the University of Iowa where she was elected to Mortar Board. She is a frequent speaker on team building and career planning at leading business schools including Solvay (Belgium), Harvard Business School and MIT/Sloan. Laura served for ten years as a Trustee of The Computer Museum, is a member of the Lank Center Visiting Committee at Dana Farber, and is an Overseer of the Boston Museum of Science.

Larry Nannis
CPA & Partner - Levine, Katz, Nannis & Solomon, P.C. Lawrence S. Nannis, C.P.A., received a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from Boston University School of Management and a Master's Degree in Taxation from Bentley College. Larry's sub-specialty in his technology practice is understanding the financial management issues surrounding government R&D contracts - primarily the SBIR program. He is an active member in the AICPA, MSCPA and Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE), the premier trade association for New England Companies. He has served as a member of the Innovative Committee of SBANE, which was the driving force behind the passage of the Small Business Innovation Development Act. He was an elected delegate from Massachusetts to the 1995 White House Conference for Small and Emerging Business. Larry is currently the Chairman of SBANE and has served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and was a member of the National SBDC Advisory Council. He has been a speaker at national conferences on Accounting for Federal Awards, and has been a panelist on the MIT Enterprise Forum. He was named national Small Business Accountant Advocate of the Year by the Small Business Administration.