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Board of Directors
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Foster Hinshaw, President and CEO
Foster Hinshaw, often referred to as the Father of Data Warehouse Appliances, brings a wealth of creative, technical, and operational expertise in both hardware and software to Dataupia. Foster is accomplished in designing and developing large, complex systems for both enterprise and departmental applications. Prior to Dataupia, Foster founded Netezza, a market leader in enterprise-class business intelligent appliances that successfully introduced a new category of data warehouse appliance to the market.
Prior to Netezza, Foster consulted to marquee clients on large data systems and eCommerce applications. His career also includes Y2K Practice Manager at Keane, Inc., Chief Financial Officer and Director of Information Systems at VideoGuide (now part of TV Guide), and strategic positions at a number of high tech and marketing consulting firms.
Always up for the challenge of proving a technology's potential, Foster was on the team that won the world's longest electric car race with a converted 1970 Hornet, one of two vehicles that crossed the finish line.
Foster has a B.S. and Masters in Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Dave Barrett, Polaris Venture Partners
Dave joined Polaris Venture Partners after a 22-year operating career. As director, chief operating officer, senior vice president and general manager of four publicly-held software and services leaders during their periods of highest growth, he built teams which achieved dominant market share and extraordinary enterprise value. His leadership experiences included consistent successes in development of executive teams, product evolution and revenue engines, and over 20 acquisitions/mergers.
Prior to joining Polaris, through March 2000, Dave served as chief operating officer of Calico Commerce. During his tenure, the company evolved from venture-backed startup to a $45M, publicly-held corporation. His team helped to pioneer the e-business market, and with market value in excess of $3 billion, Calico was one of the top-performing IPOs of 1999 and the 6th most successful offering in the history of NASDAQ.
Before that, he served as senior vice president of worldwide operations for Pure Atria Software Corporation, a $150 million publicly-operated market leader in software development automation, continuing in that role after the company was acquired by Rational Software Corporation for $1 billion in 1997. Its products served as a cornerstone for Rational's success and its subsequent acquisition by IBM in 2003, where they continue to play an industry-leading role.
Before Rational, Dave spent twelve years with Lotus Development Corporation, a $1 billion pioneer in enterprise software. Among many executive roles, he served as vice president of field sales and services. In that position, he led the build-out of the company's global sales & services effort, which served as an industry model and helped to establish Lotus and its flagship Notes product as a market-defining standard. Prior, he had also served as general manager of worldwide federal systems, which during his tenure, was the fastest growing division in the company. Lotus was acquired by IBM in 1995 for $3.5 billion, the largest merger in software industry history up to that point in time.
Boards:
Dave represents Polaris on the boards of 170 Systems, Confluence, Dataupia, Imprivata, Integrian, LogMeIn, and mValent and is a past board member of Centra Software (NASDAQ: CTRA) and Archivas (acquired by Hitachi Data Systems). He serves on the Microsoft Venture Capital Advisory Board and on the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Leadership Council.
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Scott Frederick, Valhalla Partners
Scott has a deep understanding of the issues facing high growth companies from his experience as an investor and advisor to emerging technology companies since 1994.
Prior to founding Valhalla Partners, Scott was a partner at FBR Technology Venture Partners ("FBRTVP"). Scott joined FBRTVP in 1997 as its second employee, and in doing so played a key role in the creation and management of one of the Mid-Atlantic region's most successful venture capital funds. To date, the FBRTVP funds have produced seven IPOs, and FBRTVP has realized returns of approximately nine times invested capital.
Prior to FBRTVP, Scott was a consultant at Dean & Company where he focused on strategy and business model development in the telecommunications and technology industries. Prior to his work at Dean & Company, Scott was a corporate attorney at Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P.
Scott is on the board of Dataupia Corporation and GetWellNetwork. He also serves as a board observer for RealOps, Inc. and BDMetrics. He is a former Director of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association ("MAVA") and co-founded the Young Mid-Atlantic Venture Association ("YAVA"), serving as its first President and Chairman.
Scott received a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School (cum laude) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Duke University (magna cum laude), where he was an A.B. Duke Scholar.
Scott lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two children.
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Dr. Michael D. Zisman
Dr. Michael Zisman provides provides strategic consulting services to a number of clients, including IBM and Internet Capital Group. He also serves on the Board of Directors of a number of private companies. Mike devotes approximately 60% of his time to for-profit activities, and 40% of his time to non-profit activities.
Zisman is Chairman of the Board of Directors of ICG Commerce and is a Board member of Dataupia, InvestorForce, Metastorm and Vcommerce. Mike is under retainer to IBM and consults with IBM in a number of areas.
Zisman spent 9 years at IBM, joining IBM in 1995 when IBM acquired Lotus Development Corporation. Before retiring from IBM in 2004, he was vice president of corporate strategy and focused on IBM's On Demand strategy. Previous to this position, he was General Manager of Storage Software for the IBM Storage Systems Group. This position followed his post as Vice President of Emerging Business Development, reporting to the IBM Vice Chairman. Zisman was also in the IBM Software Group and led IBM's entry into the knowledge management market and distributed learning market. Prior to that, Zisman served as CEO of Lotus Development Corporation, shortly after Lotus was acquired by IBM. During his tenure at IBM, Zisman served on the IBM Worldwide Management Council and the IBM Corporate Technology Council.
Before joining IBM, Zisman was Senior Vice President of the Lotus Communications Products Group. He joined Lotus in 1994 after the Company's acquisition of Soft-Switch, Inc., a software firm that he founded in 1979 and headed until that acquisition. Soft-Switch, a venture backed company, was a leader in communications infrastructure software related to electronic mail. Investors included Oak Investment Partners, NEA, Greylock, Hambrecht &Quist, T. Rowe Price and Citicorp Ventures.
Prior to founding Soft-Switch, he was a member of the faculty at the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a member of the Laboratory for Computer Science. Mike first became involved with the Internet/ARPAnet, decision support systems and electronic mail systems in 1975.
Mike is a trustee of Lehigh University, where he is a member of the executive committee and the finance committee. He is a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra Board of Directors, where he is a member of the executive committee, chairs the Strategy committee the Investment committee, and an Orchestra designate to the Board of Directors of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Mike is also a member of the Main Line Health Board of Governors (member of audit committee and investment committee), an overseer of the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science, a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Lehigh University, and a former trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Zisman graduated from Lehigh University in 1970 (BS, chemical engineering), from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 (MS in systems engineering), and from the Wharton School at UPenn in 1977 (Ph.D., Decision Sciences).
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Richard S. Grinnell, Managing Director
Rick co-founded Fairhaven Capital with the former Managing Directors of TD Capital Ventures in 2007. Previously, he was a Managing Director at TD Capital Ventures, which he co-founded in 2001. He has over 15 years of engineering, marketing, and venture capital experience. Rick's areas of focus include enterprise and communications infrastructure. He serves as a Director of Bridgeport Networks, Brabeion Software, Dataupia, EqualLogic and Everypoint.
Prior to joining TD Capital Ventures, Rick held senior marketing roles at Adero, a venture-backed Internet Content Distribution Services provider. While at Adero, he was responsible for the strategy and marketing of the Content Bridge division, acquired by Inktomi. Prior to joining Adero, Rick was Director of Marketing for ClearOne, a venture-backed audio and video teleconferencing start-up acquired by Gentner Communications (renamed ClearOne Communications). Prior to ClearOne, he worked at PictureTel (acquired by Polycom), where he worked in both senior marketing and engineering roles. While at PictureTel, Rick worked within the ITU and MPEG organizations to help drive the H.320, H.323, H.263 and MPEG-4 standards. Rick career has also included roles at Fidelity Ventures and General Electric.
Rick received his MBA from Harvard Business School and earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Charter Member of TiE and holds a United States Patent. Rick is active with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay and is on the Leadership Council of Boston Medical Center.
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