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Henry Ancona

Henry has broad-based experience as an advisor, angel investor, and leader of technology-based businesses in the areas of security software, applications, and information services.  In addition to being a member of the angel investment group CommonAngels, Henry has served on the Board of Directors of a number of private and public technology companies. 

For more than 25 years, Henry has led both small companies and large global enterprises. He was most recently President at Pegasystems, a rules-based business process management software company, and Chairman & CEO of Evidian, a security and telecom management software company. Previously, as Executive Vice President at Polaroid, he led the company's Digital Imaging and Commercial Imaging businesses. Henry also held a variety of general management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation that included leading the company's office applications software business.

Henry holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and BS and MS degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Jeremy Allaire, Founder and CEO, Brightcove

Jeremy founded Brightcove in early 2004 with a vision for the transformation of television with the Internet. As President of Brightcove, Jeremy leads the company's technology, marketing and business development strategy. Prior to founding Brightcove, Jeremy worked as a technologist and entrepreneur-in-residence for Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he worked on companies and investments in broadband media, mobile content, e-commerce software and digital identity. Before General Catalyst, Jeremy was Chief Technology Officer of Macromedia, where he helped define and launch the Macromedia MX platform for Rich Internet Applications, helping to evolve Macromedia Flash into a dominant platform for rich media applications on the Internet. Jeremy joined Macromedia with its merger with Allaire Corporation, where Jeremy was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Founded in 1995, Allaire Corporation was a pioneer in using the web as an application platform, and its industry leading and award winning products power millions of websites, online services and business applications on the Internet.

Daphne Carmeli

Daphne has over 21 years executive and operational experience leading cross functional teams in high growth, category leading, entrepreneurial environments. As co-founder and CEO of Metreo, Daphne led Metreo from its inception in 2000 through 2006, overseeing the company's business, product strategy and direction. During this time, Metreo was two-time Deloitte Consulting Rising Star award winner, recognized as one of the top vendors within the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 as well awarded #1 Fastest Growing Private Company by the San Francisco Business Times in 2004. Metreo was acquired by Symphony Technology Group in February 2006.

Prior to Metreo, Daphne was the Vice President of Marketing at Netscape/America Online (AOL). While at Netscape/AOL, Daphne played a key role in repositioning and revitalizing Netscape from a browser company into an enterprise software company, driving efforts that grew the E-Commerce Application Division from $5M to over $70M in 18 months. Prior to Netscape/AOL, Daphne was Director of Marketing at Healtheon/WebMD where she pioneered the marketing and business model for first true transaction-based B2B platform. She previously held marketing management positions at Silicon Graphics (SGI) and Logica Data Architects. Daphne received her MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brandeis University with BS in Mathematics.

David Cancel, Co-founder and CTO, Lookery

David has more than 10 years of experience in information technology management. Prior to co-founding Lookery, David oversaw Compete's overall technology strategy, from the design of its patent-pending architecture, to the investigation and implementation of new technologies. Prior to co-founding Compete, Mr. Cancel was Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer at BuyerZone. Prior to BuyerZone, he was a founding member of the Lycos Advanced Product Development group (LAPD). In addition, Mr. Cancel was Chief Software Architect and a founding member of Bolt.com, a universal communications platform for teens and young adults, and is credited with having developed one of the most finely tuned sites on the internet.


David holds a BS from Queen's College.

Adam Gerber, Chief Marketing Officer, Quantcast

In his CMO role, Adam is focused on establishing Quantcast as the most reliable and trustworthy independent audience measurement solution for advertisers, content owners & distributors, and broader media industry participants.

Most recently Brightcove, Inc.'s Vice President for Advertising Products and Strategy, Gerber joins Quantcast with 15 years of traditional and digital agency media planning and buying experience. After leading traditional planning activities for clients such as P&G, Unilever, Bell Atlantic, UPS, Labatt USA, and Goldman Sachs, he was a founding partner of WPP's Digital Edge unit (now MEC Interaction). Thereafter, he led the development of emerging and digital media capabilities for Publicis' MediaVest unit. A widely recognized leader in online and emerging advertising, Gerber has served in various industry advocacy roles, including committee chair positions with the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Timothy Hanlon

Tim Hanlon is Executive Vice President/Ventures for Denuo, the futures consulting practice of advertising/marketing agency holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A.  He is chiefly responsible for the solicitation, negotiation and oversight of the unit’s strategic partnership and equity investment activity -- focused exclusively on paradigm-changing “new media” platforms and technologies.  His current role is an outgrowth of his previous work as head of Publicis Groupe Media (PGM) Ventures, and includes formal advisory positions with more than three dozen prominent digital media startups.

Prior to founding the PGM Ventures practice, Hanlon was Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts for Starcom MediaVest Group, a global media services network of Publicis Groupe Media and parent holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A. He was chiefly responsible for all US client activity and agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies, including the firm’s ground-breaking “TV 2.0” Practice, centered around evolutionary television platforms such as interactive/enhanced television, on-demand video, digital video recording, interactive program guide navigation, addressable advertising, and digital broadcasting/datacasting.

Hanlon has over 15 years of traditional and interactive agency media experience including roles as Vice President/Director, Strategy & Business Development for the Digital Marketing Group of Chicago-based marketing services agency Frankel, and Director of Interactive Media at Creative Alliance in Louisville, KY. He also served as the Advertising Media Manager for the in-house agency of credit card issuer MBNA America in Wilmington, DE, USA.

Hanlon also has wide-ranging journalism experience, including production and writing stints at CBS News, Sports Illustrated and the Voice of America.

Among numerous advertising and television industry activities, Hanlon was Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) Advanced Television Committee from 2001-05, a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Innovation in Digital Advertising (IDiA) Consortium, and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Advanced Media Committee.  In 2004, he was an inaugural recipient of Interactive Television Today’s Leadership in Interactive Television Award, and has been named as one of MEDIA Magazine’s “100 People to Know.” His insights into the future of media and advertising are regularly seen in major electronic, print and trade press outlets.

Hanlon holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and a BA from Georgetown University.

Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Doug Levin

Doug Levin founded Black Duck Software in 2002 and has been its Chief Executive Officer and President since its inception.

Before Black Duck, Doug served as the CEO of MessageMachines and X-Collaboration Software Corporation, two VC-backed companies based in Boston. From 1995 to 1999, he worked as an interim executive or consultant to CMGI Direct, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation, Oracle Software Corporation, Solbright Software, Mosaic Telecommunications, Bright Tiger Technologies, Best!Software and several other software companies. From 1987 to 1995, Doug held various senior management positions with Microsoft Corporation including heading up worldwide licensing for corporate purchases of non-OEM Microsoft software products.

Prior to Microsoft, Doug held senior management positions with two startups in California and served as an IT and financial consultant to an overseas development company.

Fumi Matsumoto, Co-founder and CTO, Allurent

Fumi Matsumoto is Co-founder and CTO of Allurent and is responsible for directing the company's product strategy and managing the product development team. Prior to co-founding Allurent, he was CTO at ATG, where he spent 11 years as a founding employee, defining ATG's product positioning, feature development, and partnership strategies throughout the life of the company and personally driving the creation of ATG's Dynamo product line. From 1989 - 1991, he was Product Manager for packet switching data communication products for Motorola. He holds an MS degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University.

Coach Wei, Chairman, Founder and CTO of Nexaweb Technologies

Coach Wei is Chairman, Founder and CTO of Nexaweb Technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company. He founded Nexaweb in 2000 and served as CEO until summer 2003. Before founding Nexaweb, Coach architected and designed enterprise software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. As a graduate researcher at MIT, Coach developed software and hardware systems for non-destructive evaluation as well as signal/image processing algorithms. Coach was a finalist in the 1999 MIT $50K entrepreneurship competition and holds several U.S. patents. An accomplished writer and speaker, Coach has published numerous articles on topics including: AJAX, J2EE and .NET, RIA development, XML, signal/image processing, composite materials and ultrasonic imaging. He is a frequent speaker at top industry events, such as JavaOne and Web Services Edge. Coach holds an MS in information technology from MIT and maintains a blog at http://www.coachwei.com