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Vikram Aggarwal

Founder/CEO

EnergySage

@VikramAggarwal

Vikram Aggarwal is the chief executive and founder of EnergySage. Often referred to as the "Expedia of Solar," EnergySage helps homeowners, businesses and non-profits to easily and quickly request, review and compare competitive quotes for solar PV systems and financing options online. In creating EnergySage, Vikram and his team have used technology to simplify the process of researching and shopping for solar. By offering them more choices and unprecedented levels of transparency into prices and product and installer quality, EnergySage allows consumers to select the option that provide the best value for them, quickly and easily. EnergySage has received two prestigious SunShot awards from the U.S. Department of Energy. In building and launching the company, Vikram drew heavily on his prior experience working at a major global financial services leader.

Eric Apse

Partner

IBM Venture Capital Group

@eapse

Eric Apse has been a Partner with IBM's Venture Capital Group since January 2009. In this role his goal is to build strategic relationships with venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. He focuses on creating an ecosystem that fosters innovation, helps promote new technologies and develops new growth opportunities in new markets. Eric has had 25 over twenty-five years of IT experience including leadership roles in sales and marketing, finance and business development. Throughout all these rolls he has centered on emerging business opportunities. Eric has been a board member on the New York Venture Capital Association as well several non-profit community focused organizations in the Boston area.

Mirena Bagur

Founder/President

The CONTeXO Group

@mirenabagur

Mirena Bagur founded CONTeXO in 2005. During almost two decades of marketing and communications experience, Mirena has counseled a wide variety of technology-inspired companies. In addition to executing marketing programs for clients, Mirena is the Associate Course Director of the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Sciences, and Technology course HST.921 "Information Technology in the Heath Care System of the Future".

Prior to this, Mirena was a senior vice president at Weber Shandwick, a leading global communications agency. She collaborated with emerging and enterprise companies to conceive and execute strategic marketing and PR programs. Prior to Weber Shandwick, Mirena worked at T-Catalyst, a public affairs agency and Nathan Tyler Productions, a producer of business videos including “in Search of Excellence.”

Mirena holds a bachelor’s degree in international trade and marketing from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and has completed a strategic business leadership program at Columbia University.

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Mory Bahar

President & CEO

Personal Remedies

@MoryBahar

Mory is an entrepreneur and a high-tech executive with a distinguished career in the high-tech industry over the last 25 years. He is the Founder & CEO of Personal Remedies, an IBM global entrepreneur and a software start-up with over sixteen mobile apps in the market. Prior to that he was the President & CEO of a VC-backed multi-national software start-up based in Andover, Massachusetts. Prior to that he held numerous executive management positions within the software industry from start-up to $400M businesses, two of which went public. He has been a top rated speaker at various high-tech industry conferences and venture forums in North America and Europe. He is the owner of Simple Software Publishing, and holds the Personalized Nutrition Advisor patent. Mory holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. He is the author of Object Technology Made Simple, published in the U.S. and Japan.

Kent Bennett

Partner

Bessemer Venture Partners

@kentbennett, @BessemerVP

Kent Bennett, a Partner in Bessemer's Cambridge, Mass. office, joined the company in 2008. Kent focuses on investments in the "big data", data-infrastructure sectors as well as tech-enabled consumer service models. At Bessemer, Kent has been involved in investments including data-management companies Endeca (acq. by Oracle), Streambase (acq. by TIBX), Vertica (acq. by HP), Hadapt, Infinio Systems, Netuitive and Portrait Software; mobile-communications companies BroadSoft (IPO), Millennial Media (IPO) and Enforta; as well as in Blue Apron, a subscription food business and Goal.com (acq. by Perform Group) the world's largest soccer portal. Prior to joining Bessemer, Kent was a creative executive for an entertainment-production company, where he developed and sold original material including a network television pilot and a feature film.

Christa Carone

Executive Vice President

Fidelity Investments

@christacarone

Christa Carone is an executive vice president at Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries. She serves as an in-house marketing strategist for new business ventures, developing and consulting on market segmentation, brand purpose and identity, stakeholder engagement and integrated online/offline marketing communication campaigns. Christa is formerly the executive vice president of communications and corporate affairs for Fidelity, responsible for developing enterprise-wide communication strategies and leading Fidelity’s corporate affairs, media relations, internal communications, digital content, executive communications and events management. Prior to joining Fidelity in 2013, Christa spent 17 years in increasingly senior roles at Xerox Corporation, most recently serving as chief marketing officer. In 2012 and 2013, she was named among the most influential marketing and communication professionals in business by Appinions, and in 2011, was honored by The Holmes Report as one of the world’s most influential communicators.

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Joe Caruso

Common Angels

@joecaruso2020

Joe Caruso has been an advisor to CEO’s and an advocate for entrepreneurship and professional corporate governance for over twenty years.

Joe is an investor, advisor and active board member for a number companies. He is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group was previously a principal in Brookwood Ventures and a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, and eCoast angels…all investment groups for early stage companies. He has served on the board of numerous companies, private, public, and non-profit.

Joe is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School. More recently, Joe was recipient of the “Leadership in Private Corporation Governance” Award from the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter)

Lauren Celano

CEO

Propel Careers

@Propel_Careers

@LaurenACelano

Lauren Celano is the Co-founder and CEO of Propel Careers, a life science search and career development firm focused on connecting talented individuals with entrepreneurial innovative life sciences companies. Lauren is very passionate about working with individuals with strong scientific backgrounds to find exciting growth opportunities in the life sciences industry. Before Propel, she spent about 10 years in the life sciences industry working with companies to advance drug molecules through SNBL USA, Aptuit, Quintiles, and Absorption Systems. She has a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Gettysburg College and an MBA with a focus in the health sector and entrepreneurship from Boston University. Lauren is on the Board of MassBioEd, the Advisory Board of the Boston University School of Public Health Pharmaceuticals Program, and the Advisory board for Endicott College Boston. She also serves on the programming committee of the Capital Network.

Cindy Coddington

Golden Seeds

@GoldenSeeds

Cynthia Delia Coddington is the principal of Coddington Financial Partners. She specializes in serving as a “quarterback” in overseeing a client’s important financial and investment issues. Prior to founding Coddington Financial Partners, Cynthia directed the Financial Planning Group at David L. Babson & Co. She is a graduate of Bentley College with a Master of Science in Taxation (MST), a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and has earned the designations of Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Personal Financial Specialist (PFS). She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Barry Coffman

Launchpad Venture Group

@LaunchpadVG

Barry Coffman is a member of Launchpad Venture Group, a Boston based angel investment group. He mentors, advises and serves as a board member for a number of local startup companies. He has been an active angel investor for almost 20 years and is still a shareholder in his first two investments, Boston Duck Tours and Constant Contact. Currently, Barry is a board member of Pixability, ProCamps and an advisory board member of Smart Lunches. Prior to joining Launchpad, Barry was the Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager of Boldwater Capital Management, a hedge fund investment firm, and prior to Boldwater, Barry was a portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments for over 15 years. Barry is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and received his MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

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Phil Cooper

Boston Harbor Angels

@one2get2no

Phil Cooper is a seasoned entrepreneurial leader with strengths in marketing and business development, deal structuring / negotiation, acquisition / strategic partnering, and financial engineering.

At Charles River Associates (Nasdaq: CRAI), from which he retired in mid‐2006, Dr. Cooper was EVP and Vice Chairman. He was responsible for the recruitment and successful integration of more than 10 acquisitions and consulting groups. As CFO, Dr. Cooper led 2 successful, follow‐on equity offerings and an innovative convertible bond offering. In his 6 years at the firm, CRA quadrupled in revenue. Prior to joining CRA, he had leadership roles in a number of entrepreneurial and change-management business ventures, including serving as a turnaround CEO of 3 of them.

Saleh Daher

Walnut Venture Associates

@SalehDaher

Saleh Daher, CFA is an active angel investor and a member of Walnut Venture Associates and MIT Angels. Sal is presently invested in over thirty startups in biotechnology, advertising technology, education technology and software. As a partner at EarlyStageHub, he helps founders and CEOs of startups to raise money from angel investors.

Ken Deckinger

Co-Founder

Jess, Meet Ken

@KenDeckinger, @JessMeetKen

Ken Deckinger is a serial entrepreneur with close to ten years experience in the online dating space. He previously co-founded, and was CEO of HurryDate pioneering the global speed dating concept in 45 cities throughout the US, UK, and Canada. Eventually expanding the idea to include an online dating site, HurryDate was acquired by Spark Networks (parent company of JDate.com & ChristianMingle.com). Ken has appeared in media around the world including Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, CNN, BBC, and Dateline NBC. He is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he was honored with the University’s Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year Under 40 award and sits on the Board of Directors for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and has an MBA from Boston College. He’s a Mentor at TechStars Boston, actively advises entrepreneurs nationwide and is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.

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Martin Flusberg

CEO

PowerHouse Dynamics

@eMonitorSystem

@CommonAngels

Martin has been a technology entrepreneur and executive for more than 30 years, with the past 20 focused on energy and clean tech. He currently is the CEO of Powerhouse Dynamics, a pioneering, CommonAngels-funded company in the energy management space. Prior to that, he was co-founder and President of Nexus Energy Software, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for the utility industry, addressing smart grid and energy efficiency. Nexus was successfully sold in 2005 and integrated with its sister companies into Aclara Technologies. Martin previously served as Director of Commercial Systems for TASC, with responsibility for the firm's Lodestar® product line for the utility industry (later spun out as LODESTAR Corporation and sold to Oracle in 2007).

Don Freeman

Respiratory Motion

Donald C. Freeman, Jr., PhD, was President/CEO of HydroCision, Inc., a fluidjet- based medical device company, from 1996 to 2002, when he retired. From 1996 until 2000, he was also Chairman/CEO/Director of RadioMed Corporation, which was acquired by IBA in 2000. Previously, Dr. Freeman was a Principal of Grayson & Associates, an investment banking firm specializing in the healthcare field. Earlier, he was President/CEO of Intra-Sonix, Xenotech Laboratories, and was President of Davol, Inc, which was acquired by C. R. Bard, after which he served as a Group Vice President of Bard. He holds an ScB Degree from Brown and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Maryland, and did post-doctoral research in physics at Duke. He is inventor or co-inventor on 22 US patents, plus foreign counterparts. Dr. Freeman is also a board member and advisor at the North Shore InnoVentures Business Incubator.

Mike Gordon

Launchpad Venture Group

@LaunchpadVG

Michael Gordon founded seven companies: The Center for Competitive Success, a consulting and training company in the areas of leadership, transformative strategies, innovation, sustainable growth and corporate culture; The VenturePreneurs Network, a face-to-face business network to connect entrepreneurs with capital providers; AngelDeals.com, a virtual “connection engine” for the global business community of entrepreneurs seeking funding and growth; Plastic Systems, a precision injection molding company; Quantum Ventures, a partnership to get companies funded, Executive Innovation Conferences for the Life Sciences, and a static control company for the micro-electronics industry, whose products prevent damage to chips and boards. During his career, he developed five US patents and authored many case studies, technical articles and trade publications, and is currently writing a book on investing. Gordon is an active angel investor in private companies, and is active in the public markets.

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Gail Greenwald

Launchpad Venture Group

Clean Energy Venture Group

@gailgreenwald

Gail Greenwald is an active seed-level investor and an experienced executive with more than 25 years’ experience in technology-intensive companies. She has been an angel investor since 2010 and is a member of the Clean Energy Venture Group and the Launchpad Venture Group. She serves on Launchpad’s board of directors and oversees the diligence process for the organization. She is also a board member or observer for two portfolio companies, EnergySage and WeSpire, an advisory board member of The Capital Network, an investment advisory group member at Mass CEC, and a judge for Mass CEC and the Cleantech Open. Formerly, Gail was executive vice president of Foliage, where she was responsible for corporate-wide P&L management and relationship management for major accounts. Gail holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from MIT and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Joshua Herzig-Marx

Google

@herzigma

Josh is the founder of a retail marketing technology company called Incentive Targeting, which sold to Google in 2012. He now works in product, project, and large-client management in the marketing, computer software, international development and non-profit industries, with particular expertise with retail, CPG, health care and financial services customers at Google. He develops merchant partnerships for a range of new and emerging products as part of Google's Commerce team.

He received his MBA from Babson in 2006, and received his BA in Environmental Studies and Economics from Middlebury College.

Gail Hoffman

Golden Seeds

@GoldenSeeds

Gail Hoffman is the Managing Director of Golden Seeds’ Boston Office, whose involvement includes deal flow, membership, education, and operations. She is an active early-stage investor, mentor to entrepreneurs, and board member. Prior to Golden Seeds, Gail spent many years in private equity at Boston Ventures Management, where she focused on the communications, media, and entertainment industries. Gail earned an MBA with high distinction in Finance from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Brad Kayton

Launchpad Venture Group

@LaunchpadVG

@bradkayton

Brad is a serial entrepreneur turned parallel, and an angel investor. He is working towards building a boutique and cutting edge equity capital fund, part angel part hedge fund, along with some colleagues. He is also spending heavy time with some of my portfolio companies, in particular one of them, as an advisor, Board member, and/or time-sliced executive. Specialties: Starting and growing companies, making a market, P&L management, product category creation, product management & marketing, strategic planning and forecasting, running PR programs, identifying and developing business partnerships, recruiting talent, team leading

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Deb Kemper

Golden Seeds

@Deb_Kemper

Deb Kemper is an experienced advisor with cross-cultural leadership experience; she

has lived and worked on three continents. Deb has provided leadership support to

organizations in China and the United States. Deb recently directed the launch of

Stone Soup Global Leadership, a YGL task force incubated within JUCCCE. Stone Soup

is focused on inspiring and enabling leaders who catalyze change. JUCCCE's mission

is to accelerate the greening of China. Previously, Deb was a consultant with

McKinsey & Company. She has consulted to clients in a variety of industries including

energy, utilities, electronics, and healthcare. Her functional experience includes

operations, strategy development, recruiting, professional development, and

leadership coaching. She has served on non-profit Boards of Directors in the United

States, Peru and China.

David Kessler

Walnut Ventures

David is a management consultant, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, digital artist and photographer. You can see some of his art and learn more about him on his web site: http://DavidKessler.biz. David worked in the software industry for more than 35 years. During that time, he founded or co-founded a number of for-profit companies and one nonprofit. He started and ran VieAbility for 14 years during which time he created and brought to market a number of products including FAST! and CD Speedway. VieAbility also provided software consulting services and he worked on some prominent products including Quicken and Lotus 1-2-3.

Janet Kosloff

Cofounder/ CEO

InCrowd, Inc.

@janetkos

Janet is the Cofounder and CEO of InCrowd, Inc. InCrowd has developed an integrated market research system, designed to remove the friction between research professionals and targeted respondents (MD’s, RN’s patients hospital exec’s etc.). In the past, she has led operations and product development teams at several fortune 500 companies and more recently has headed sales and marketing efforts, for a boutique market research firm. She has been a key player for several successful start-ups in the Boston area. She brings a long-standing entrepreneurial spirit combined with over 20 years of experience in growing and developing early stage businesses.

Ben Littauer

Boston Harbor Angels and Walnut Ventures

@littweb

Mr. Littauer is a business and technology management consultant with expertise in Internet and communications technologies, as well as healthcare IT. In addition he is an active angel investor, member of Boston Harbor Angels. Mr. Littauer was Technology Strategist for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he defined the architecture for PatientSite, a system that allows patients to communicate securely with their healthcare team and view their own medical records. He also was a consultant to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium on healthcare data security projects. Mr. Littauer was co-founder, President, and CTO of Baranof Software, the leading vendor of service-level management software for messaging and Internet applications. Baranof was sold to Tally Systems in 1997.

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Michael McCarthy

Founder

Budi Products LLC

@BudiBar

Michael founded MMR McCarthy Market Research on Wall Street and was the #1 Stock Market Timer in the U.S. from 1994-2004. Michael retired at the age of 36. He currently invents food products now with his partner and CEO Steve Schneider at Budi Foods, Inc., a firm they co-founded. Their latest product, Volt Chocolate will be released in Q2, 2015 and is being advised by Nutter, Mclennen & Fish.

Jess McLear

Launchpad Venture Group

@launchpadVG

Jess is an angel investor and member of Launchpad Venture Group. Her family has been investing in and mentoring startup companies for over 20 years in both Canada and the US. Her portfolio companies fall into many sectors, including manufacturing, IT, medical devices, and consumer goods. She is an observer or serves on the board for various non-profits as well as portfolio companies. She has served as an investor and mentor for several companies throughout the New England area. Jess earned a BA from Williams College and MEd from Harvard University

Christopher Mirabile

Managing Director

Launchpad Venture Group

@cmirabile

Christopher Mirabile is the Chairman-elect of the Angel Capital Association and the co-founder of portfolio management tool Seraf-investor.com. He is also co-Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group, a venture investment group focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology-oriented companies. He was named one of the "Top Angel Investors in New England" by Xconomy. Christopher is a columnist for Inc.com, an adjunct lecturer in the MBA program at Babson's Olin School of Business, a regular advisor and mentor to start-ups, and a frequent panelist and speaker. He is a member of the Board of Directors or Board of Advisors of numerous start-up companies and non-profits. Christopher has served as a public company CFO and General Counsel with IONA Technologies PLC, a corporate and securities lawyer with Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault and as a management consultant with Price Waterhouse's Strategic Consulting Group.

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Vinit Nijhawan

Boston University

@vinit44

Vinit Nijhawan has over 25 years experience building five startups: as CEO of three, four were acquired, and the fifth has grown to over 300 people. Recently, Vinit was Venture Partner at Key Venture Partners and over two years sourced over 200 deals and made one investment which was acquired for $430M. Vinit is an advisor and board member to several technology startups and was a Mass High Tech All-Star in 2005. Vinit has participated in over 120 panel discussions and paper presentations, and is a Board of Trustee of TiE Global, a non-profit that fosters entrepreneurship globally. Vinit is Managing Director, Office of Technology Development, and Director of Enterprise Programs at ITEC (Institute of Technology, Entrepreneurship & Commercialization) at Boston University. Vinit also teaches an MBA course on Entrepreneurship at BU. Vinit earned a B.A.Sc in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Jeff Sabados

Resilience Therapeutics

@jrsabados

Jeff Sabados is an experienced entrepreneur and leader having started two successful companies that are commercializing disruptive technologies. As coFounder and CEO of N12 Technologies, he led an advanced materials company that received recognition by the Boston Business Journal as a top ten most disruptive tech startups in Boston. Prior to N12 Technologies, Jeff was coFounder of C3Nano, a company out of Stanford University that is currently commercializing next-generation transparent electrodes. In the military, Jeff completed six deployments over eight years both as a Surface Warfare Officer and U.S. Navy SEAL. Jeff graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was awarded the Patrick J. McGovern Entrepreneur Award and the Martin Trust Fellow Award.

Steve Saunders

Launchpad Venture Group

@xsaunders @LaunchpadVG

Steven is a partner, executive committee member, and the Vice Chair of the Patent Practice Group at the Boston IP law firm Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP. Steven also is an angel investor and active participant in the angel investor community. He has delivered numerous lectures on intellectual property and its impact on business at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern University. Steven also has served as an advisory board member for a number of innovative start-up companies, refining their business and management strategy, and helping them raise money from angel investors and venture capitalists.

Katie Schuller Bleakie

Golden Seeds

@GoldenSeeds

Prior to receiving her MBA from Simmons Graduate School of Management, Boston, Massachusetts, Katie graduated from University of Texas at Austin, with a Bachelor of Journalism degree. She owned and operated an Advertising Agency in Austin, Texas before moving to Boston Massachusetts where she ran multiple non-profit events and served on non-profit boards. For twenty years she was a co-manager of Fish Investments, LLC, Houston, Texas, where she managed a multi million dollar stock portfolio and oversaw, oil and gas projects, real estate partnerships, and other investment interests. Simultaneously, she worked for several privately owned Fashion companies, recruiting, and building sales forces, overseeing operations and manufacturing. She is currently, Managing Director of Golden Seeds, which promotes & provides Angel Investment funding for women owned start-up companies. She is also an Advisory Board Member of Mariwear and Haverhill. Katie is a Trustee of Simmons College, where she serves on the Audit Committee & the Advancement Committee.

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Sheryl Schultz

CabinetM1, Golden Seeds

@SherylSchultz,

@GoldenSeeds @CabinetM1

As the president of SRS Associates, Sheryl Schultz has participated in the launch of some of the most successful start-up companies in the networking industry including Acme Packet, ArrowPoint Communications, Sonus Networks and Wellfleet Communications. During her career, Sheryl has helped create companies and markets, providing sound and innovative communication frameworks that have shaped how networking companies develop and deliver product and services messaging. Working with senior level entrepreneurs, Sheryl helps articulate company, product and technology value at each stage of a company's lifecycle. She holds a degree in English and Communications from the University at Albany.

Jean-Marie Vallet

Launchpad Venture Group

@LaunchpadVG

Jean-Marie Vallet is a curious, technology enamored, data driven, transaction oriented French-American Life Sciences Executive with 30 years of experience in various roles, including R&D, sales & marketing, administration, corporate development and licensing. He worked many years at large companies (Warner Lambert, Bristol Myers Squibb, Pierre Fabre) before joining the more entrepreneurial world of the biotech industry in 2002, starting with Guilford Pharmaceuticals. He arrived in the US in 1994 after starting his career in France, Switzerland and Germany. Jean-Marie retired in 2011 from EnVivo Pharmaceuticals, a fully owned Boston-based CNS company owned by Fidelity Investments to found Cyrma Ventures

Richard van den Bosch

Rednote

@SendARednote

Richard is CEO & Founder of Rednote, a B2b music platform that lets end uses share 5-20 second clips of popular music and audio into text and social conversations. Think “Audio Emoji.” Richard is a strategic marketing professional with experience developing successful marketing and sales programs for brands with sales ranging from $5-500 million. Richard’s agency experience includes: NWAyer, Tracy-Locke/BBDO, HBM/Creamer, and Woold Associates. He has worked on large and diverse brands that give him a unique marketing perspective: Coca-Cola, Borden, Titelist, AT&T and Kraft.

David Verill

Hub Investment Group

@HubAngels

David’s professional career began as a research scientist at the Center for Blood Research in Boston focusing on the MHC of genetically engineered mice. After receiving his master's degree from Sloan in 1987, he spent a decade at MIT raising capital from industry and facilitating technology transfer. David still holds a partial appointment at MIT’s new Initiative on the Digital Economy. In 1996 he joined Xerox as Manager of International Sales and Business Development for the Adaptive Products Division before it was sold. In 2000 Winchester helped found the Hub Angels, a series of early stage investment funds in Boston. David sits on several startup Boards, and is Chairman of the Angel Capital Association. David was educated at Bowdoin College and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Jill Wittels

Launchpad Venture Group

@LaunchpadVG

Dr. Jill Wittels is CEO of Sostenuto Strategic Advisors and a Founding Partner and Chief Technology Officer of Terra Prima Partners LLC. She serves as Fiduciary or Advisory Director or Strategic Advisor to technology companies in a wide range of markets. Since launching SSA in July of 2011, Dr. Wittels has also done consulting work for several of the top rank Aerospace and Defense enterprises.

In July 2011 she retired as Corporate VP of Business and Technology Strategy at L-3 Communications, which she had joined in February 2001 to report to the CEO, Frank Lanza. During her tenure at L-3, Dr. Wittels had oversight responsibility for the Corporation’s $400M+ investment budget. She served for 10 years as a L-3’s Director of Innovative Microtechnologies Inc, a CA based MEMS company, as well as for 15 years as a Director on the Board of Overseers of DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL.

Jim Woodward

Serial Entrepreneur

James L. Woodward has over 30 years of high tech management experience. He has been a founder or the first CFO of eight successful companies including Iris Graphics (sold to Scitex for $31 million), Computer Access (Lotus), Exos (Microsoft), and ActualSoft (Palm). Jim has raised over $25 million in VC and has been CFO or Director of several public companies. He was involved in the MIT Enterprise Forum from 1980 until recently in a variety of roles including Chair. He has been a judge and mentor at MassChallenge since its inception and has mentored a money winner there in each of the five years. He is Chair of the Audit Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and a member of the Advisory Board of TCN.