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London, England, Gb

Member of the Investment Committee of Seraphim Capital, www.seraphim.vc .Seraphim is the world’s leading specialist investor in SpaceTech. Seraphim has a unique model combining investment funds, accelerators, and an angel investor platform. Seraphim has supported more than 50 Spacetech companies, making Seraphim the most prolific Spacetech investment group globally.

The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation was created in 2004 by Best Buy founder, Dick Schulze. He wanted to give back to the community in which he and his family grew up and gave him so much in return. It is Dick's strong belief that a good education, supportive family and strong work ethic will prepare children for a successful future. To ensure families have the ability to be all they can be, the foundation focuses on the following areas: education programs, food, shelter, afterschool programs and camps.In addition, the unthinkable could happen and cause a crisis in a family, hindering their ability to a successful future. The Schulze family has been impacted by cancer and type 1 diabetes and understands the challenges families endure while battling a disease. Because of this experience, another focus of the foundation is in supporting the medical human service agencies that assist families with their initial transitional needs when dealing with a new medical challenge.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

OptiMine Software’s measurement and optimization platform helps digital advertisers maximize display and paid search financial performance. Its unique, cross-channel analytics break the cookie barrier and set a new standard in digital advertising measurement and optimization, leveraging atomic-level, predictive modeling and unique Value per Impression (VPI) methodology to measure the cross-channel value of ads—across all devices—and optimize accordingly for extraordinary in-channel and cross-channel results. With OptiMine, each individual paid search keyword bid and display ad bid is geared toward maximizing performance for the financial goal set by the advertiser. The company’s flagship paid search bid optimization consistently increases financial results by more than 20% for four out of five advertisers. The company’s audience-based approach to display measurement and optimization is driving 15 -25 percent incremental increases in results across display and paid search together. Across a range of industries and business models—from retail to financial services lead generation to travel—OptiMine Software drives bottom-line results.

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Founded in 1885, the University of St. Thomas is a private, Catholic, liberal arts university based in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. St. Thomas is one of the largest and oldest Catholic colleges or universities in the United States and is the largest private college or university in Minnesota. The university offers bachelor’s degrees in more than 90 major and 60 minor fields of study and more than 60 graduate degree programs in seven academic divisions. Its graduate programs lead to master’s, education specialist, juris doctorate and doctoral degrees

Co-founding partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, leading venture firm focused on software investing. Leading investor in enterprise software companies. Past investments include: Omniture, Hyperion, Powersoft, Wind River, Liquid Audio, NetPerceptions, Intrinsa, AdForce and Voltage Security among many others.Current Boards: Ace Metrix, Optimine, Mulesoft, Sonatype,The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and the University of St. Thomas.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Ace Metrix (acquired by iSpot.tv) is the new standard in video analytics, dedicated to delivering better, faster, and more cost-effective solutions for evaluating video advertising within competitive context. Through the Ace Metrix platform, companies can now access timely, actionable data wherever, whenever they need to, enabling real-time advertising campaign optimization. Combining leading edge machine learning technology and patent pending methodology, Ace Metrix is revolutionizing the way marketers measure themselves and their competitive landscape. At the center of the Ace Metrix portfolio is Ace Metrix LIVE™, a unique software subscription service that gives marketers, insights teams, and agencies access to the most robust and easy-to-use impact evaluation tool available. Marketers leverage detailed analytics to make better decisions about their creative, usually within 48 hours of a national ad’s debut, weeks before traditional research results arrive. Presenting thousands of data points for every ad, users can filter and sort data across any number of demographic, geographic, and ethnographic variables. Competitive context allows marketers to hold themselves and their agencies accountable to achieving both brand and category success. Data is available through the web interface, through Ace Metrix MOBILE (with full-view applications for the iPhone, Droid, and iPad), and is exportable to Excel and other programs for inclusion in pre-existing planning tools and dashboards.

Fulton, Md, Us

Sonatype (acquired by Vista Equity Partners) is the steward of the Central Repository, the creator of the Apache Maven project and the distributor of the Nexus open source repository manager, Sonatype has supported the adoption of open source by more than 10 million developers worldwide. Today, Sonatype’s Nexus repository managers are preferred 5:1 over all other brands with more than 42,000 instances worldwide. Sonatype’s Component Lifecycle Management (CLM) products have fast become the “go-to” choice for mitigating open source risk by providing continuous governance across the software supply chain.Much like a traditional “supply chain” is used to manufacture products, today’s software is built with a supply chain of components from all over the globe, most of which are open source. The challenge is knowing which components you are using, where they are used and which ones have security vulnerabilities, license or quality issues. Sonatype’s Component Lifecycle Management (CLM) products provide a new way to identify, manage and monitor every component and its dependencies throughout the software lifecycle. CLM enables organizations to realize the promise of agile, component-based software development while avoiding security, quality and licensing risks.100% of the top credit card companies, 80% of the top financial companies and 75% of the top IT manufacturers are Sonatype customers. More than 30 billion components are downloaded annually from the Central Repository.

San Francisco, California, Us

MuleSoft’s (NYSE: MULE, acquired by Salesforce: CRM ) mission is to help organizations change and innovate faster by making it easy to connect the world’s applications, data and devices. With its API-led approach to connectivity, MuleSoft’s market-leading Anypoint Platform™ is enabling over 1,000 organizations in more than 60 countries to build application networks.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Voltage Security (acquired by HP) provides data-centric encryption and stateless key management solutions to combat new security threats and address compliance by protecting structured and unstructured data as it is used across data centers; public and privateclouds and mobile devices.Voltage products combine data-centric encryption (transforming the data into a protected version that is compatible with IT systems and business processes ­ but useless to attackers) and stateless key management (provides control over how data is used in business processes and applications as well as enabling control of that data within public and private clouds) to provide unique advantages for protecting data: Voltage Security is the only company to provide solutions that address the differences between structured and unstructured data. Files, emails, documents and images are protected wherever they go while structured information and payment transactions are protected so that data is unusable by hackers at the same time as making the data available only to people, platforms and applications that need it. Voltage Security is the inventor of two of the biggest cryptographic breakthroughs in the last decade ­ with over 1 billion keys issued per year. Harnessing award-winning cryptography and key management, including Voltage Identity-Based Encryption™ (IBE) and a new breakthrough innovation: Format-Preserving Encryption™ (FPE), Voltage solutions have changed how enterprises can protect their most valuable asset - their customer data.Voltage solutions are in use at almost 1,000 enterprise customers, including some of the world's leading brand-name companies in payments, banking, retail, insurance, energy, healthcare and government such as ING, Kaiser Permanente, Kodak, Wells Fargo and Heartland Payment Systems.

Cupertino, Ca, Us

Karmasphere (acquired by FICO) delivers a fully leveraged world for Big Data Insight that is deep, unconstrained, and accessible for data driven companies seeking new sources of future business opportunity. With the advent of Hadoop, businesses can now affordably analyze massive amounts of Big Data across their web, mobile, social, sensor, video, and call center interactions without the limitations of having to use sampled data or expensive and proprietary approaches. Karmasphere customers benefit from data insights that uplift revenue, customer satisfaction and competitive advantage.The Karmasphere Collaborative Analytics Workspace provides users across the company with self-service access to Big Data Analytics on Hadoop including analytic projects, visualizations, and everyday-to-sophisticated analysis through a social, web-based interface that facilitates team collaboration. Open and based on Apache Hadoop standards, it leverages existing analytic skills and models, integrates with traditional BI and existing applications and supports key Hadoop distributions including: Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, Cloudera, HortonWorks, IBM, and MapR Technologies.

Established in 1983, SVForum is a leading Silicon Valley not-for-profit organization. SVForum provides an unbiased source of information and insight to the technology community. SVForum engages the community by creating connections and community, providing education and access to resource and linking the global business community to Silicon Valley. SVForum provides the latest insights on emerging technology trends and best business practices through events, specialized services and resources. SVForum reaches 12,000 technology professionals annually through more than 15 events each month. SVForum partners include global leaders Accenture, Citrix, Deloitte, Genentech, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia and SAP as well as leading venture capital, law and accounting firms, and global trade organizations. For further information, visit the SVForum web site at www.svforum.org .

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Star Analytics (acquired by IBM) is the leader in Financial Data Management software, offering enterprises a cost-effective way to integrate and access disparate financial and operational data for business decisions based on profitability. Fortune 1000 companies in all major industries use technology from Star Analytics to improve business analytics and reduce the burden on IT by automating the integration and management of financial processes and data.

Krillion ( acquired by Local Corp.) is how Web-savvy consumers compare and connect with local retailers. Krillion applies local search expertise and the Web’s largest aggregated database of product, location and in-stock availability information to answer the question: “where can I buy it now and pick it up today?” Krillion works with leading search engines, manufacturers, publishers and retailers to offer ready-to-buy shoppers access to Krillion's data wherever they research products online.Krillion’s technology – the patent-pending Krillion Localization Engine™; localized search results that include thousands of products in over 40,000 U.S. locations; and unique, real-time StockCheck™ tool – transforms the Web-to-store purchase process and drives in-store traffic and sales.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Marketwire is a full-service newswire and communications workflow solutions company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices throughout Canada, the United States, South America, and Asia. Marketwire was founded incorporated in the U.S in 1999. The company distributes press releases via traditional methods (Associated Press, Bloomberg, etc.) as well as new media methods and provides, multimedia (photo and video) distribution, conferencing services, media contact management and media monitoring services. The company has more than 8,000 clients worldwide and has nineteen offices.The company was founded by PR agency owner Michael Terpin and online marketer Michael Shuler in Los Angeles, CA. In 2006, Marketwire was acquired by CCNMatthews, a 25-year-old news distribution company in Canada. The company adopted the name Marketwire unilaterally. The company is now majority-owned by OMERS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of one of Canada's largest pension funds.

New York, New York, Us

The Knot Inc. (NYSE: XOXO) (www.theknot.com), is the premier media company devoted to weddings, pregnancy and everything in between, providing young women with the trusted information, products and advice they need to guide them through the most transformative events of their lives. Our family of premium brands began with the industry's #1 wedding brand, The Knot, and has grown to include WeddingChannel.com, The Nest and The Bump. Our groundbreaking community platforms and incomparable content have ignited passionate communities across the country. The Knot Inc. is recognized by the industry for being innovative in all media -- from the web to social media and mobile, to magazines and books, television and video. For our advertisers and partners, The Knot Inc., offers the consummate opportunity to connect with our devoted communities as they make the most important decisions of their lives. Founded in 1996, The Knot Inc. is made up of four major revenue categories: online sponsorship and advertising, registry services, merchandise and publishing.

Formed in 1996, Liquid Audio (Nasdaq: LQID, acquired by Anderson Media) developed a major standard, multiple software clients, and a client/server media distribution system for streaming and downloading audio on the Internet. Liquid Audio was one of the emerging online audio standards in the 1990s.The company's founders - Gerry Kearby, Robert Flynn, and Phil Wiser - focused on professional audio quality and copyright security to differentiate the offer. The company was a pioneer in enabling copyright compliant media distribution, working closely with record companies and publishing rights agencies such as ASCAP, BMI, The Harry Fox Agency, in the United States, and various other agencies around the world. Formed in 1996, Liquid Audio developed a major standard, multiple software clients, and a client/server media distribution system for streaming and downloading audio on the Internet. Along with RealNetworks' RealAudio (on the Real Player), Liquid Audio was one of the two emerging online audio standards in the 1990s.The company's founders - Gerry Kearby, Robert Flynn, and Phil Wiser - focused on professional audio quality and copyright security to differentiate the offer. The company was a pioneer in enabling copyright compliant media distribution, working closely with record companies and publishing rights agencies such as ASCAP, BMI, The Harry Fox Agency, in the United States, and various other agencies around the world.

Intrinsa Corporation (acquired by Microsoft) provided software development solutions that significantly increased the velocity of software development based on the company's patent-pending technology, Software Component Simulation (SCS). Intrinsa's initial product offering, PREfix, is a family of defect detection solutions that analyze source code and simulate its execution.PREfix provides rapid feedback directly to the developer, enabling software development organizations to increase developer productivity, shorten time-to-market and improve the quality of their software.

Net Perceptions ( Nasdaq: NETP, acquired Kanders and Co.) was a pioneer in collaborative filtering, a technology used to recommend new products based on past customers' preferences. The team of Steve Snyder, Brad Miller, John Riedl, Joe Konstan, and David Gardiner founded Net Perceptions in May 1996, and licensed the technology from the University of Minnesota in June 1996. Net Perceptions became the leading company for recommender systems during the Internet boom through the late 90's and early 2000s . Net Perceptions had many of the leading Web companies as customers, and was very visible in the Internet food chain and became a public company. In 2000, Steven Snyder, Brad Miller, and John Riedl received the World Technology Award in the Commerce category for their contributions to E-Commerce, and Net Perceptions also received the MIT Sloan School E-Commerce Award for Technology Innovation in May 1999.

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Investor and Director at Arbor. Originally funded as Arbor and IPO'd as Arbor then merged with Hyperion (Nasdaq: HYSL and acquired by Oracle). Hyperion Solutions Corporation was a business intelligence and performance management software company. Oracle Corporation announced on March 1, 2007 that it had agreed to purchase Hyperion Solutions Corporation for $3.3 billion in cash. The company's products are still actively developed and sold by Oracle.

M.A. Education, Focus Economics, Education And Economics

B.A., Math And Business