Board of Directors

Bob Davoli of Sigma Partners brings valuable experiences as both a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur. In recent years, he has appeared three times on the Forbes’ Midas list, a ranking of top venture capitalists. He also appeared on the cover of Business Week in a features story describing how VCs thrive through good and tough times. Prior to Sigma, Davoli was President & CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market. Davoli sold SQL Solutions to Sybase for stock eventually worth over $100 million. He also served as an executive officer of Sybase for over two years.

Chris Lynch was SVP of F5 Networks after its acquisition of Acopia Networks, where he was CEO. He joined Acopia Networks from Cisco Systems where he was Vice President of Worldwide Content Delivery Networking Sales. There he led Cisco to a leadership position in the content delivery market. Previously, he was Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Support at ArrowPoint Communications. He was instrumental in ArrowPoint's IPO, leading an organization that grew revenues from zero to a $250 million sales annualized run-rate over 18 months and established 60 sales and support offices worldwide. ArrowPoint was subsequently acquired by Cisco Systems for $5.7 billion in June of 2000. Prior to ArrowPoint, Lynch was Vice President of North and South American Sales for Lucent Technologies Gigabit Ethernet Products Unit, where over a seven-month period he built a sales and channels organization that generated revenue at an annualized run-rate of $40 million. He joined Lucent from Prominet Corporation after Prominet was acquired by Lucent for $200 million in January 1998. A 20-year veteran of the technology industry, Lynch has held sales leadership positions at Bay Networks, Wellfleet Communications and Digital Equipment Corporation. He earned his MBA from Bentley College and his Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Suffolk University.

B. Douglas Morriss is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Acartha Group, LLC (Acartha Group) and is a Manager in the general partner of ATP. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kinexus, a financial services technology firm, which was sold to Advent Software in 2001. Morriss is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of several private investment holding companies, as well as several family controlled private equity holding companies. He has served on the Board of Directors of Kinexus, PlusFunds, X.Eye Inc. (Ontario) and Kanbay International (NASDAQ: KBAY) and currently serves on the Boards of Multiplus Finance S.A. (Switzerland) and Cirqit (New Jersey).

Pete Perrone joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 in Silicon Valley. He focuses on technology infrastructure, including the computing, communications, storage and semiconductor sectors. Perrone currently also serves on the Board of Directors for Limelight Networks, Teneros and Woven Systems. He also led Goldman Sachs investments in and works closely with Acopia Networks, Datasynapse and Kazeon. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Perrone held positions in engineering and finance with Westinghouse Electric and with Applied Synergistics, a startup servicing the power industry. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Duke University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Eric Schnadig is an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience building both public and private companies into leaders in their target markets. Schnadig joined Tervela from Unica Corporation, a worldwide provider of enterprise software, where he served as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Business development and grew revenue from $3 million annually to over $120 million. At Unica, he was responsible for sales execution, channel and distribution strategy, and business process establishment, all of which helped lead to a successful IPO of the company in 2005. (NASDAQ: UNCA) Previously, Schnadig was a senior sales and marketing executive at Kenan Systems Corporation, a technology provider to global communications companies. While there, he helped grow revenue from $10 million annually to over $300 million, which lead to a $1.5 billion acquisition by Lucent in 1999. Schnadig is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College, is fluent in multiple languages and serves as a board member and advisor to several organizations.

An entrepreneur and innovator, Barry Thompson brings almost 20 years experience to Tervela, a company he founded in 2004 where he currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and board member. A self-taught technologist, he began his career as a consultant, designing solutions ranging from embedded robotics and imaging, to traditional enterprise systems. Some of his clients included MCI, American Mobile Satellite, The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other government and private organizations. In 1995, he moved to Wall Street, leading the adoption of new transformative technologies in the financial services industry while working for firms such as AIG, NatWest and UBS where he was Head of North American Architecture. In 2002, Thompson began to pursue his passion for emerging technologies through incubating research projects in materials manufacturing and carbon nanotube growth, virtual reality and gaming infrastructure. Thompson also joined the X-Prize Foundation where he currently serves on the board of trustees and the executive committee. He is a 2001 graduate of the International Space University SSP.