Member Biographies
Our members' experience covers four decades from the beginning of the Massachusetts software industry to its recent internet boom. They have raised leading software, information technologies and internet firms and continue to serve the community as mentors to new ventures.
Software
Henry Ancona - Former President, Pegasystems
Jay Bertelli - founder, Former CEO, Mercury Computer
David Baum - Partner, Stage 1 Ventures
Paul Birch - Former Director & CEO, GEAC Computer Corp
Peter Bleyleben - Chairman & former CEO, Microfinancial, Inc
Phil Byrne - Former President, Keystone Investment Management Corp.
Joe Caruso - President, Bantam Group
Ed de Castro - co-founder, former CEO, Data General
Jack Derby - Founder, Derby Management
Raffi Festekjian - founder, PCI; CEO, Banking Analytics, Wolters Kluwer
Cynthia Fisher - Co-founder and former President Via Cell
Martin Flusberg - former President, Nexus Energy Software
Bob Frankston - Co-founder Software Arts (VisiCalc)
Eric Giler - Founder & former President, Brooktrout, Inc.
Rose Ann Giordano -Former VP worldwide sales & marketing, Customer Services, Compaq
Art Goldstein - Retired Chairman & CEO, Ionics, Inc.
Jonathan Green - Private Investor
Dan Grunberg -Co-Founder, Immedia Semiconductor
Jay Habegger - CEO, OwnerIQ, Inc.
Alain Hanover - Managing Director and CEO, Navigator Technology Ventures
Maia Heymann - Managing Director, BancBoston Ventures
Kija Kim - Co-founder & CEO, Harvard Design & Mapping Co., Inc.
Luda Kopeikina - President & CEO, Noventra
John Landry - Managing Director, Lead Dog Ventures
Stuart Lewtan - Founder & former CEO, Lewtan Technologies
Tim Litle - Founder & CEO, Litle & Co.
Don Mitchell - CTO, GSI Group
Ken Morse - Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
Stephen Pearse - Principal, Yucatan Rock Ventures
Mike Perlmutter - President, Skylight Navigation
Edward Roberts - David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, MIT
Gene Robinson - former CEO, I-Logix
Dan Ross - former CEO, DarwinSuzsoft
Howard Salwen - Chairman and Founder, Audeon Networks, Inc.
David Schechter - Managing Principal of Perspective Capital Management
Dharmesh Shah - Co-Founder & Chief Software Architect, Hubspot, Inc.
Courtney Sheets - Chairman & CEO of Tamarack Scientific Co., Inc.
Stephen K. Smith - Partner, Masthead Venture Partners
Charles R. Stuckey Jr. - Chairman Emeritus & former CEO, RSA Security, Inc.
Nina Tsao - founder, Onsett International
Daniel Weinreb -- co-founder Symbolics, Object Design
Steve Woit - Founder, Riga Ventures