Speakers Bio & Investments
VC-Meet IX, December 11, 2003
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Buck French

Buck French: Mr. French is the General Partner responsible for JPMorgan Partners' software venture investments. Prior to JPMorgan Partners, Mr. French was vice president and general manager for Siebel Systems’ Interactive Selling Group. Before joining Siebel, Mr. French was co-founder and CEO of OnLink Technologies, where he grew the company from two to 210 employees, secured funding of more than $37 million and won significant contracts with Fortune 2000 companies. In August of 2000 Siebel Systems acquired OnLink for $609M. Previously,

Mr. French served as a Captain in the U.S. Army where he received several citations for outstanding performance, leadership, and initiative. Mr. French earned his MBA from Harvard University and his BS degree in Economics and General Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Recent Investments: Above All Software ($3mm, 1010/02), Determine Software ($7mm, 1/31/03), Zilliant($7mm, 8/25/03)
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Josh Wolfe

Josh Wolfe : Josh Wolfe is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital focusing on the firms' venture investments in Nanotechnology. Before forming Lux Capital, he worked in Salomon Smith Barney's Investment Banking group, where his experience included a $4 billion hotel merger, and a defense against an unsolicited LBO. Josh has also worked in capital markets while at Merrill Lynch on its Financial Futures & Options/Government Strategy desk and at Prudential Securities in its Municipal Finance department.

Prior to venturing into the financial world, Josh conducted and published cutting edge AIDS/immunopathology research. He has been published in Nature Biotechnology, Cell Vision and The Journal of Leukocyte Biology, leading medical/immunology journals. Josh graduated with distinction from Cornell University with a B.S. in Economics and
Finance.

Josh is also a columnist at Forbes magazine, author of the 500 pg book "The Nanotech Report" and Editor of Forbes' fastest growing monthly investment publication, the "Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report." He has been an invited speaker on nanotechnology to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Capitol Hill, the NSF, FDA and other government labs and
officials in France, Spain, Germany, Canada, UK and Singapore. Josh serves on Merrill Lynch's TechBrains Advisory Board and is a a co-founder of and advisor to The NanoBusiness Alliance. Red Herring has called him "Mr. Nano". Steve Forbes has called Lux a "powerhouse of nanotech brainpower" and Josh Wolfe "America's Leading Authority on
Nanotechnology". Josh was honored by Crain's magazine as one of their "40 under 40" and has been profiled and quoted in Business Week, The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, CBS News, The New York Post and CNBC .

Recent Investments: xxxxx
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David Wassong

David K. Wassong: David K. Wassong, Partner-New York, has been with SPEP (Soros Private Equity Partners) since July 1998 and focuses on the media, entertainment and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining SPEP, Mr. Wassong was with Lauder Gaspar Ventures from 1997-1998, where he participated on teams which invested approximately $60 million in private equity transactions in the telecommunications industry. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Wassong was in investment banking with Wertheim Schroder.

Mr. Wassong earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business

Recent Investments: xxxxx
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David Lee

David Lee: David Lee is the Managing Director at Investor Growth Capital. David joined Investor Growth Capital's New York office in 2000 from Moore Capital Management, where he was a principal in their private equity group and focused on technology-related investments. Prior to Moore Capital, David was a principal at Eos Partners, and a consultant at McKinsey and Company.

David graduated with an M.B.A from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Harvard College. David focuses on investments in enterprise hardware/software and semiconductors. He currently serves on the Board of Gator Corp. and Invesmart, Inc. and is a Board observer to Sandburst and Ntru.

Recent Investments: Exigen Group (www.exigengroup.com); ISTA Pharmaceuticals (www.istavision.com)
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Dan Burstein

Dan Burstein: Daniel Burstein is Managing Partner of Millennium Technology Ventures Advisors. Prior to founding Millennium, Dan had been Chief Investment Officer for PS Capital Holdings and PS Capital Ventures, the predecessor funds of Millennium. From 1997 to 1999, Dan was responsible for making all the portfolio investment decisions for those funds. By July 2000, the PS Capital portfolios included investments in 15 companies that had returned to their investors approximately $250 million in publicly-traded company capital gains, representing returns on total capital invested in the funds of over 20x (PS Capital Holdings) and 7x (PS Capital Ventures).

For twelve years from 1988 to 2000, Dan was Senior Advisor at The Blackstone Group, one of Wall Street’s leading private merchant banks. Over the course of his career he has served as a consultant to the CEOs and senior executives of major global corporations including Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.

In January 2000, Dan helped found the Millennium Technology Ventures fund. The fund invested at a conservative pace in the 2000-2001 environment and currently has over $50 million in capital still available for new investments. The fund has one successful public market realization to date, through the sale of portfolio company Phobos (on whose Board of Directors Dan served) to publicly-traded SonicWALL.

Dan is the author of five books on new technology trends and global economic issues, including Road Warriors, a 1995 book about the birth of digital media and the Internet. He has also written books about the future of China, Japan, and the European Union. His 1988 book on Japanese finance (YEN!) was an international sensation, landing on best-seller lists in the U.S., Japan, Australia and 15 other countries where it was translated into foreign language editions. Dan has been a forum fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos and has been honored many times for his books and journalistic work, including awards from the Overseas Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi. He is a frequent guest expert on television programs ranging from CNBC, CNN, Fox, and Bloomberg to Charlie Rose and Oprah


Recent Investments: xxx
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Daniel De Wolf

Daniel De Wolf: Daniel I. De Wolf is the Director of Venture Capital Funds for SoundView Technology Group and a Managing Director of SoundView Ventures and the Dawntreader Funds, which were established in 1998. Mr. De Wolf is also an Adjunct Professor at the New York University Law School, where he teaches venture capital law.

Prior to joining SoundView, Mr. De Wolf was Of Counsel to the law firm of Cahmy, Karlinsky & Stein LLP ("CKS") in New York City. Mr. De Wolf established the Corporate and Securities Practice Group at CKS in 1994 and was the head of the firm's New Media and E-Law Group. Mr. De Wolf has over 20 years of corporate transactional experience and has been an advisor to many early and developmental stage companies.

Mr. De Wolf is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania as well as the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Mr. De Wolf currently serves as a Director of ActiveBuddy, Perfect Commerce, Tutor.com, and Visible World.

Recent Investments: xxxxx
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Steve Brotman

Steve Brotman : Mr. Brotman founded Silicon Alley Venture Partners in 1998. The fund's institutional investors control over $2 billion in venture capital and include TL Ventures, a Safeguard affiliate, TD Capital and the principles of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Boston Millennium.

Prior to SAVP, Mr. Brotman was the founder, CEO and chairman of AdOne Classified Network, his third startup, and the nation's leading classified ad web site and provider of turnkey solutions to daily and weekly newspapers. Under his leadership, AdOne grew to over 500 publications in 37 states. AdOne was one of Silicon Alley's first venture backed Internet companies, received over $30 million in backing, and was sold in 1998 to a consortium of leading media holding companies.

Mr. Brotman was a finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2000 sponsored by Ernst and Young, named in Crain's 2001 Tech 100 and in 1997 was selected for Crain's Top 25 Players Shaping Silicon Alley and the 1995 Top 40 under 40 among New York businessmen. Mr. Brotman was #32 in the 1997 Silicon Alley Reporter Top 100. Mr. Brotman received hisundergraduate degree in Economics from Duke University and a joint JD/MBA degree with honors from Washington University in St. Louis; he completed his final year of graduate studies at Columbia University's law and business school.

Recent Investments: Q4 2003 - Two deals Game Trust and NavTrak (undisclosed amt)
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Yag Patel

Yag Patel: Yag is a Principal of Rho Ventures, a New York based venture capital fund with over $750 million under management. He is currently on the Board of Innerwireless. Other investments where Yag is actively engaged include Vieo, ON24, Healthallies and Agora Media.

Prior to joining Rho in 2000, Yag was with Goldman Sachs for seven years, most recently in the Principal Investment Area focusing on healthcare and technology investments. Previously, he spent a year with Peregrine Capital Limited in Hong Kong. Yag received a B.S. in Finance from the Wharton School of Business

Rho has been an active venture capital investor since its inception in 1981. Rho diversifies its investments across various high growth sectors, including information technology, telecommunications, the Internet and healthcare, and invest throughout all stages of a company's development from seed to mezzanine rounds.

Recent Investments: xxxxx
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Mike Rennock

Michael J.W. Rennock: Michael J.W. Rennock is a partner in Morrison & Foerster's New York office. He is a transactional attorney whose practice focuses primarily on corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital. He also counsels corporate clients on a regular basis with respect to corporate and securities law matters. He represents issuers, investors and investment banks in a variety of financing transactions, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities. He has worked on convertible and high-yield debt financings, various financing transactions in Latin America, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, project financings, spinoffs, secured and unsecured borrowings and joint ventures.

Mr. Rennock represents public and private companies in a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications, wireless communications, electronic data transmission and fiber optic cable, retail, health care, child care, banking, energy and transportation. Mr. Rennock also advises various venture capital firms and private companies in venture capital transactions.

Mr. Rennock received his B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1981 and his J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law in 1985. He is a member of the New York Bar and of the Diversity Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is also the chairman of the Diversity Committee in the New York office and is a member of the firm's Technology Strategy Committee.

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Michael Carus

Michael Carus : Mr. Carus is a General Partner and CFO at Jerusalem Venture Partners and his Investment focus is on Enterprise Software & Networking. Prior to joining JVP, Michael amassed his operational expertise helping to grow some of today's leading technology companies. He employs this extensive experience with numerous JVP portfolio companies, directing them to focus their business models to meet the specific demands of their customers. Michael also sources new investment opportunities in the enterprise software sector and is responsible for the fund's financial activities. He is a board member with BridgeWave, Bristol, Cogent and TeleKnowledge and advisor to a number of companies in the JVP portfolio.

Prior to joining JVP, Michael served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Fundtech (Nasdaq: FNDT), a JPV I portfolio company. In addition to his various operating responsibilities, Michael managed the company's IPO, acquisitions and secondary offering raising $130 million. Through Michael's leadership, Fundtech grew from $3.5 million to approximately $50 million in sales through the company's U.S. and international offices. Previously, Michael held various senior management positions at Geotek Communications (Nasdaq: GOTK) and prior to this, he was a CPA and Manager of Business Assurance at Coopers and Lybrand.

Michael holds a degree from Ithaca College in New York.

Recent Investments: Adimos($12M round, August 2003); Bristol Technologies ($9M round , July 2003); Cyber-Ark($12M round, March 2002); Oblicore (iin contract stage)

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Jay S. Rand

Jay S. Rand : Mr. Rand is a partner in Morrison & Foerster's New York office and a member of the firm's Corporate Group. Mr. Rand's practice has been focused on the representation of emerging and growth-stage companies, private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

His clients include private equity funds (both buyout funds and venture capital funds), as well as companies in the information technology, media (old and new), telecommunications, software, hardware and life science industries. He is recognized as one of New York's leading practitioners in the area of private equity financing, and in 1999 was named by the Silicon Alley Reporter as one of Silicon Alley's "Top 50 Supporters," a list comprised of leading service providers to New York's new media and technology community. Mr. Rand also has experience in strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private and public securities offerings.

Mr. Rand graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The Johns Hopkins University in 1983, and received his J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1987, where he was an editor of the Comparative Labor Law Journal.


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