Henry Ancona, Chairman of the Board

Henry has broad-based experience as a board member, business leader, advisor, and angel investor.  He is a member of CommonAngels, an investment group, and serves as Executive Advisor to technology companies and CEOs, with a focus on business development and leadership development. His clients include companies in on-line media, e-commerce, mobile gaming, supply chain, biosystems, middleware, health care, security, and other businesses. 

Henry has over 30 years of operational experience both large global technology enterprises and small companies in both Europe and North America. He was most recently President at Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), a rules-based business process management software company and Chairman and CEO of Evidian, a security and telecom management software company which he founded through an equity carve-out. 

Henry has served on the Board of Directors of both private and public companies. He brings his international and operational experience building global businesses, and strategic and leadership development skills to his Board service. He currently serves on the Boards of Active Endpoints, rPath, Signiant and EZPrints. Private company boards have included CommonAngels, Visible Measures, Kubi (acquired), Sentillion (acquired), Evidian and Inframetrics (acquired). Publicly traded company boards have included Pegasystems, Computervision (acquired), and OneSource Information Services (acquired).

Henry holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and BS and MS degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Dave Lemont, Lemont Consulting
Dave Lemont is the founder of Lemont Consulting, focused on helping companies achieve real business traction in the marketplace. Lemont brings broad executive experience in software development, sales and operational management and a special hands-on expertise in building winning “go-to-market” strategies. Prior to founding Lemont Consulting, he was the CEO of AppIQ, the leader in storage management software, through its acquisition by Hewlett Packard.

Richard D'Amore, North Bridge Venture Partners
Rich D'Amore is a general partner of North Bridge Venture Partners. Rich's venture investing is targeted at the software industry. He has focused his investment activity in the Northeast, since establishing Hambro's office there in 1982. All have been active projects, including structuring initial transactions and assuming board seats. Rich is a 1975 summa cum laude graduate of Northeastern University, and a 1980 graduate and Baker Scholar of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Mark Robinson, VIMAC, LLC
Mark joined VIMAC in 1994. He has nine years of venture experience, and has led and participated in over 35 rounds of venture financing. He is primarily responsible for the selection, management and exit of portfolio companies for the IT funds. Mark brings a rare combination of experiences spanning operations, finance and consulting in both mature and fledging companies that help him advise and support early-stage companies.

Jack Shields, Boston Capital Ventures
Mr. Shields brings a wealth of experience in the computer industry to BCV. At Digital Equipment Corporation he was among the first 100 employees, and held positions ranging from field engineer to senior vice president over a period of 28 years. In 1990, Mr. Shields joined Computervision where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Shields has spent the last four years personally investing in and providing advice to technology start-up companies. He is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's School of Industrial Management (WPI) and the Harvard Business School PMD program and has received an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from WPI.

Jim Ricotta, Verdasys
Jim Ricotta is President and Chief Executive Officer at Verdasys, responsible for overall leadership of the company, including development and execution of its strategy and business plan. Jim is a seasoned CEO, entrepreneur, F500 General Manager, and board member with over 25 years of experience in various IT domains including enterprise security, middleware, application-layer networking, CDNs, mobile software platforms, and digital media.

Previously, Jim has held the CEO and President positions at Azuki Systems, DataPower Technology, and SightPath, Inc. He has also been a Vice President and Business Unit General Manager at IBM and Cisco Systems.