Board of Directors

Bob Davoli 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 joined F5 Networks from 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 16-year veteran of the computer 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.

Prior to joining Acartha Group, Ameet Patel spent seven years at JPMorgan Chase, most recently as Managing Executive of LabMorgan. Before that he was CTO of LabMorgan where he provided business and technology direction on its $500MM+ e-finance venture capital portfolio (Archipelago, MarketAxess, Dealertrack, IntraLinks, Tradeweb, Creditex, RiskMetrics, FxAll, Financial Engines, Kinexus, Yodlee, Tantau and Home Advisor). He previously had a distinguished eight-year career at BASF Corporation. He has a MS in Computer Engineering, a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Finance and Information Technology from Rutgers. Patel is broadly acknowledged as a technology industry leader and visionary, as demonstrated by the following recognitions: Computerworld’s Top 100 IT Leaders in 2004; InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs in 2001; CIO Magazine’s CIO-100 award for innovative business practices in 2001; and Crain’s Top 40 Under 40 Young Executives in 2000.

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.

Bob Cramer is CEO of Tervela and has more than 26 years of experience in high-growth, venture-backed businesses. Prior to his role at Tervela, Cramer was President and CEO of LiveVault, a pioneer in software-as-a-service targeting the IT Market. LiveVault was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2005. He was also CEO of FirstSense, a category-leading application performance management vendor that was acquired by Concord Communications. Before that, he was General Manager of the process manufacturing business at Marcam Corporation, a $200 million publicly traded enterprise application software company and President and CEO of SET. He has also held senior marketing and sales positions at Oracle Corporation, CenterLine Software and Ingres. Cramer started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Master's Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a private investor, board member and advisor to several organizations.

An entrepreneur and innovator, Barry Thompson brings more than 18 years experience to Tervela Inc, a company he co-founded in 2004 and 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.