Jennifer Bergantino, former Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning, Progress Software

Jennifer Bergantino is an active early-stage angel investor and advisor to many high-tech start-ups.

Bergantino joined Progress Software in 1994. While at Progress Software, Bergantino was responsible for product strategy and business development activities across the company's current and future product lines. In this role she managed the strategic planning process for the company, identified and defined markets for current and future products, and oversaw all business development activities.

Before joining Progress Software, Bergantino was VP of Marketing for Component Software Corporation. Prior to that she was director of Desktop Applications at Groupe Bull Information Systems. Before joining Groupe Bull, Bergantino was a senior analyst with International Data Corporation (IDC), conducting research and market analysis on the emerging workstation and application development tools market.

Bergantino holds a Masters in Business Administration from Babson College.
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Scott Briggs, Consultant and Investor

Scott presently serves on the Board of Directors of Red Herring Communications, Webforia, AudioTrack, and PackageNet. In addition to PocketThis, he is a member of the advisory board of Context Media, XML Global, HotVoice, Adventureseek.com, IncubAsia and Ajuba Capital among others.

Most of Scott's career was spent at Ziff Davis where he was instrumental in the creation of nearly all ZD's magazines, ZDNet and ZDTV, both in the US and abroad. He was the first Publisher of PC Magazine, the founder of PC WEEK and served as President of the media giant from 1991-1994.

In 1994, he founded the Ziff Davis Consumer Media Group, based in San Francisco, which quickly became the world's largest publisher of computer-oriented publications for the surging home market. Scott left Ziff Davis in 1997.
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Johan V. Brigham, Partner, Bingham Dana LLP

Hans Brigham is a Partner in the firm's business area, specializing in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Brigham graduated with honors from each of Yale University and University of Michigan Law School.

Examples of recent transactions include public and private securities offerings (including under Rule 144A) in which he has represented both issuers and underwriters, venture capital financings in which he has represented both issuers and investors, public and private company acquisitions and licensing and joint venture formations. Mr. Brigham serves as the regular outside corporate counsel for a number of public and private companies.
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Navin Chaddha, Chief Executive Officer, Rivio

Navin is founder and CEO of Rivio, the leading provider of online services for emerging businesses.

Prior to joining Rivio, Mr. Chaddha held several management positions during his two-and-a-half year tenure at Microsoft where he took a lead role in introducing the wireless features of MSN 2.0. In 1995 Mr. Chaddha founded VXtreme, an Internet media streaming software company - the realization of his Ph.D. work at Stanford University, where he received an IBM Graduate Fellowship and a Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship In 1997. Mr. Chaddha also co-founded iBeam Broadcasting, where he still serves on the advisory board.

Mr. Chaddha holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi and is on leave of absence from Stanford's Ph.D. Program.
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Greg Galanos, Prinicpal Managing Director, Softbank Venture Capital Partners

Gregory P. Galanos is a principal managing director for SOFTBANK Venture Capital. Prior to joining SBVC, Mr. Galanos spent 22 years in the software development industry as a developer and entrepreneur. In 1985, he founded Metrowerks, one of the world's leading software development tools providers, producers of the CodeWarrior line of programming tools. He was president and CEO of Metrowerks until 1996 and president and CTO of Metrowerks until August 1999, when it was acquired by Motorola. From September 1999 to January 2000, Mr. Galanos was mandated with the development of the sector software strategy as part of the Office of the President of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS).

Between 1978 and 1985, he assisted in the development of environmental mapping systems (GIS) for the James Bay Development Corporation and developed an extensive local area network for scientists in the Environment Department of Hydro-Quebec in Montreal. Mr. Galanos has extensive experience in managing the development, licensing and deployment of software development tools for desktop, consumer electronics and embedded Internet platforms on a variety of CISC and RISC-based microprocessor architectures. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from l'Université du Québec à Montréal.
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Victoria Hackett, Partner, Arts Alliance

Victoria joined Arts Alliance in 1997. She has led the company's strategy and investment efforts in the United States. Victoria currently serves on the boards of estyle, Mascot Network, Kibu, UBUBU and UPOC. She served on the board of Spinner.com until it was acquired by America Online in 1999. Victoria brings New Media, financial and business development experience to Arts Alliance.

Prior to joining Arts Alliance, Victoria was vice president of Strategic Alliances for Firefly, an Internet start-up company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Firefly, she negotiated deals with media and New Media companies including Launch Media Inc., America Online, CD-Now, and technology companies such as Net Gravity and Accrue. Firefly was sold to Microsoft in 1998.

Prior to Firefly, Victoria worked as a consultant to media and New Media companies including America Online and Cablevision. She began consulting America Online in 1995 and worked closely with management on efforts such as creating the original business plan and investor documents for Digital City, the company's local content offering, and negotiating joint ventures with media/content companies. Victoria has held positions as an associate in strategic planning at both PepsiCo and the Boston Consulting Group. In addition, she was a financial analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where she provided financial advisory to companies on a variety of transactions including mergers, acquisitions and corporate financing.

Victoria received her master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in political science with honors from Queen's University in Canada.
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Rich Miner, Vice President, Orange Imagineering

Miner joined Orange to build and run Orange Imagineering, their worldwide research organization. Miner is also helping to build two other groups that are tightly tied to Imagineering: Orange Ventures, a corporate venture capital arm of Orange S.A.; and Orange Accelerator. The Orange Imagineering group, led by Miner, is the focus for Orange's creative research and experimentation with its principal lab located in Cambridge, MA, USA and other labs expanding around the globe. Miner and his team work hand-in-hand with Orange Ventures in helping to guide and advise Orange Ventures' investments and Orange business development activities.

Miner joined Orange as a result of Orange's acquisition of Wildfire Communications, Inc. Miner was a founder of Wildfire, the leader in speech-based electronic assistants and a pioneer of interactive speech user interfaces. At Wildfire, Miner led the design and development of the company's initial products. Miner was also responsible for key industrial partnerships and coordinated activities to expand into new markets. This included Wildfire's entrance into Europe where Miner built and managed the European organization for two years through Wildfire's initial deployments in France, the UK and Italy.

Miner received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell where he was also Co-Director of the Interactive Media Group leading research and development projects with such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Apollo, IBM, AVID, NYNEX and Commodore. Miner has been developing high performance graphics, imaging and voice-based applications for over 20 years.

Mateusz M. Szeszkowski, Orange Ventures

Prior to joining Orange Ventures, Mati’s previous experiences include working at The Boston Consulting Group and at Goldman Sachs. Mati was also a member of the founding team of a Silicon Valley start-up called e-Finance (www.efinance.com). Mati has worked in many different locations, including London, Paris, Warsaw, Toronto, Boston, and San Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia in Canada and has also graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School where he worked with Nokia Ventures on several wireless-related projects.
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Investors

Softbank Venture Capital Partners, Palo Alto, California and Tokyo, Japan

Softbank Venture Capital Partners exists to help top flight entrepreneurs build world-class Internet companies. SBVC's investments include Yahoo!, Verisign, and US Web/CKS.
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Arts Alliance, New York, New York, and London, England

Founded in 1996, Arts Alliance is a leading trans-Atlantic venture capital firm investing in early stage Internet, new media and wireless communications companies. Arts Alliance uses a hands-on approach to provide detailed operational and strategic expertise, as well as the capital to succeed. Investments include Atom Films, eStyle, and PlanetAll.
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Orange Ventures, London, UK and Boston, Massachusetts.