SPEAKER SHORT BIOS

Habib Kairouz: Habib Kairouz is a Managing Partner at Rho Ventures, a New York-based private equity firm with approximately $2 billion under management. Rho Ventures, a division of RCP, invests in early-stage companies in the Information Technology, Telecommunication and Healthcare sectors. Prior to joining Rho in 1993, Habib had five years of investment banking and leveraged buyout experience in New York with Reich & Co. and Jesup & Lamont. He received an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a BS in engineering from Cornell University. His current and recent board seats include: AnswerSoft, Avolent, Carparts Technologies, Intralinks, iVillage, Lemur Networks, Tripod, and Yantra.

Recent Investments: Ample Communications, Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Innerwireless, Lemur Networks, Mahi Networks, Sionex, Vieo

Warren Haber, Jr.: Warren Haber, Jr. is a Partner with Mellon Ventures and heads the New York office. During his more than eight years of venture capital experience, Warren has developed an ability to capitalize on emerging trends and to inspire, mentor and connect with today's entrepreneurs. Warren focuses primarily on Financial Services, Information Services and Technology.

Warren has been involved in over 25 venture capital deals. His investments have included a number of well-known technology companies, several of which have either been acquired or completed successful initial public offerings. Prior to joining Mellon Ventures, Warren was a founding Partner and Managing Director of Grand Central Holdings, an early-stage, east coast focused venture capital firm. At Grand Central Holdings, Warren invested over $ 25 MM in twelve companies and sold three companies. Previously, he was an Assistant Vice President with GE Equity where he was responsible for evaluating early- and later-stage venture capital investments. At GE Equity, he invested $ 35 MM in seven companies, several which have been acquired or gone public. Prior to GE Equity, Warren analyzed and structured leveraged buyouts with a middle market private equity firm. Earlier in his career, Warren distinguished himself in BankBoston's management development program and spent two summers as an Investment Analyst with Allen and Company.

Warren received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business and his BA from Brown University.

Recent Investments: AccessLine Holdings, Inc., Harborside Plus, Inc., Nomadix, Inc., Spinnaker Networks, Wave7 Optics, Inc.

Edward G. Sim: Ed Sim is a founding member and Managing Director of SoundView Ventures and the Dawntreader Funds which were established in 1998. The Dawntreader Funds, which total $290mm, primarly invest in early stage information technology companies. Ed's venture capital career began in 1996 with Prospect Street Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm, where he focused on software investments. Prior to joining Prospect Street, Ed worked with J.P. Morgan's Structured Derivatives Group on the development of a real-time trading program for global asset allocation. Previous to that, Ed was with Equitable Real Estate helping manage a $3 billion real estate portfolio. Ed graduated from Harvard College with a degree in economics and holds the CFA designation.

Ed currently serves as a director of netForensics, Moreover Technologies, Metapa, Expertcity, and Atomica. Ed is a former director of LivePerson (LPSN) and Flashbase (acquired by Doubleclick). He was also responsible for the fund's investment in Tilion (merged with Viewlocity-VCLY).

Recent Investments: Covigna, Xora, Intersan, Netforensics, Proactivenet

Paul Kahn: Paul Kahn is a General Partner at Himalaya Capital Ventures. Paul joined Himalaya Capital at the beginning of 2000. Previously, he was acting CFO of Primedia's business-to-business organization, as well as a founding member of one of the organization’s startups. In this capacity, as well as in his prior role as Director of Strategy & Operations, Paul developed his operations skills by turning around one of the company’s divisions, assisting in the integration of mergers and acquisitions, and leveraging the Internet for distribution of Primedia’s content. Prior to Primedia (NYSE: PRM), a Kohlberg Kravis Roberts portfolio company, Paul was a financial and strategic analyst at EMI Music where he was instrumental in restructuring the company's North American operations.

Paul earned a B.S. in accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton's School of Management in 1991 and his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1996. He is active on the boards of numerous private companies including 7thOnline, Inc. and knovel, amongst others. He is also a founding member of Binghamton’s Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee and its Young Alumni Council.

John Delaney : John F. Delaney is a partner in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster, where he serves as Co-Chair of the office's Technology Transactions Practice Group.

Mr. Delaney has concentrated his practice on intellectual property and high-technology matters. He has advised clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to early-stage "Silicon Alley" start-ups on licensing and liability issues. Mr. Delaney has also counseled clients on copyright and other intellectual property issues in connection with corporate finance transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He has negotiated complex IT outsourcing contracts and service level agreements, Joint Ventures, Web site development and hosting relationships, software and content licenses, Internet co-branding and "private label" agreements, and many other types of technology-related contracts. In addition, Mr. Delaney has substantial experience in advising companies on issues such as privacy, contests and sweepstakes, advertising, digital signatures and electronic contracts, auctions, domain names, copyright and trademark registration, unfair competition, and trade secrets. His clients include companies such as A&E Television Networks, The Harry Fox Agency, Hertz, Miramax Films, Multex, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Yahoo! and Zomba Records.

Mr. Delaney has also represented clients in a wide range of intellectual property–related disputes. For example, he worked on the team that represented Fujitsu Ltd. in its landmark software copyright arbitration with IBM. He represented Chips and Technologies, Inc. in a series of widely publicized patent infringement and unfair competition actions and in an International Trade Commission investigation concerning memory controller chips used in personal computers. He served on the trial team that successfully defended Acuson Corporation in a patent infringement suit involving Acuson's sophisticated diagnostic ultrasound technology.

Mr. Delaney is a frequent lecturer and author on technology and intellectual property law developments, and has been quoted in publications such as Newsweek, Advertising Age and The Wall Street Journal on emerging intellectual property law and business issues. He has appeared on the cover of the American Lawyer as one of the "lawyers for the new economy" and on the cover of New York Lawyer as one of "fifteen lawyers 40 and under shaping the law for the 21st Century." Crain's New York Business recently included him in its "Technology 100," a list of individuals "likely to shape the direction and growth of New York's economy for years to come."

Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Mr. Delaney received his B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1986, graduating with honors. In 1989, he received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was an Executive Editor of the Journal of Law and the Arts. Mr. Delaney is a member of both the California Bar and the New York Bar.

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