Paul was the founder and engineering director at Crosscomm where he developed the initial hardware product line that took Croscomm to IPO in 1992.  Crosscomm was a bridge/router company which sold its products to enterprises such as Walt Disney, TRW and United Stationers. He was a founder and VP of Engineering at Net2net where he led a development team which produced ATM analyzers and customer premise QoS measurement products. Net2net products were OEM�ed via HP and Network General, among others. Net2net was acquired by Visual Networks in 1998 at substantial profit to investors and employees. He was a founder, CTO and initial CEO at Seranoa Networks. Seranoa sold Internet access aggregation products to the telecom industry. Seranoa sold its intellectual property and product line at a loss to White Rock Networks in 2005.

Richard D. Gill, Ph.D. Launchpad Venture Group

www.launchpadventuregroup.com  Launchpad is a Boston-based angel investment group with over 60 active investors. They invest between $100,000 and $500,000 in early-stage companies addressing significant market opportunities where their investment can make a difference. They work with the company to proceed to the next stage.

Dr. Gill has an extensive track record in starting and building businesses, as well as facilitating company turnarounds, in both the public and private. He is an active member of Launchpad, where he has been influential in the formation of numerous biotechnology companies. He now serves as President and CEO of Pronai ProNAi Therapeutics, Inc. an emerging biopharmaceutical company leveraging its nucleic acid-based interfering technology, to advance a next generation of therapies for patients with cancer and other complex genetic diseases. Prior ProNAi, Dr. Gill was the President and CEO of Signet Laboratories. He also headed-up AnVil, Inc., ActiveCyte, Inc., and Genome Therapeutics , now Oscient Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OSCI).  He has held senior positions at BTG International, Inc., and Unilever plc in the United Kingdom. Dr. Gill received his Ph.D. in Endocrinology and a B.Sc. with honors in Physiology and Biochemistry from Reading University, UK.

Jiong Ma, Associate, 3i

www.3i.com  3i is a world leader in private equity, each year investing �1.5 billion supporting people who start, grow, change and buy businesses. For over 60 years they have worked with talented management teams to develop businesses that have potential for significant growth.

Jiong focuses on semiconductor, systems, and cleantech investments. Jiong is a director of Carbonite and is actively involved with 3i companies Konarka, Mimix Broadband, Amberwave Systems, and DAFCA. Prior to joining 3i, Jiong held several senior positions at Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs. Jiong also is one of the founding members of Onetta, a networking startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners. Earlier, Jiong also worked as a member of the technical staff for Nortel Networks. Jiong is a Kauffman Fellow, received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, and a BS in Physics/Electrical Engineering from Lanzhou University, China. Jiong has published or co-authored 15 technical papers, and is an inventor of one U.S. patent Jiong is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese.

Anton Teodorescu, Partner IBM Venture Capital Group

www.ibm.com/venturecapitalgroup  Anton has over a 20 year career with IBM. He joined IBM�s Venture Capital Group in 2001, and currently works closely with the Venture Capital community in New England, as well as the portfolio companies in which they invest.  He helps facilitate linkages between startup companies with promising solutions or technologies with the different parts of IBM that could best leverage them for the mutual benefit of their customers.

Anton began his career at IBM in 1985 as part of the Marketing team, developing solutions for the Financial, Healthcare and Education industries. He then joined the newly forming IBM Global Services as a Consultant in the Workstation and Interconnectivity areas. Taking on the Principal role within IGS, Anton led the design, implementation and support engagements for several large clients in the Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Education industries. He began to focus more on emerging technologies, making the link between IBM Global Services and the newly emerging startup companies of the developing technology boom. Anton holds a B.A. Degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Harvard College, a Master�s Diploma in Computer Science from Cambridge University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Moderator:

Lawrence C. Grumer, Managing Director, Technology Associates & Alliances (TAA)