Board of Directors
Peter Dougherty - CEO & Founder
Certeon
Peter Dougherty is President and CEO at Certeon. Before co-founding
Certeon, Mr. Dougherty led the product development and marketing of
streaming solutions at EMC, following that company's acquisition of
Digital Bitcasting. Mr. Dougherty was also the CEO and co-founder
of Bitcasting, a pioneering software compression company which
expanded into streaming media products. He built his
entrepreneurial success on a prior record of achievement and
leadership in broadcast management. Mr. Dougherty is also Chairman
of the Cranwell Fund which is building public-private funded
schools for at risk high school students in the Rhode Island
area, www.cranwellfund.org
Jack Blaeser - Former CEO Concord
Communications
Jack Blaeser is a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist and
proven networking company manager. Blaeser most recently served as
chairman, president and CEO of Concord Communications Inc., a
global network management company which was sold to Computer
Associates in 2005. Prior to joining Concord Communications,
Blaeser spent a decade as a venture capitalist at EG&G Venture
Management. His leadership and technology experience include
positions as executive vice president of Gould Inc. and president
and COO of Modicon Corp. Blaeser's board experience includes
technology companies such as Net2Net, RasCom and Network
Engines.
Robert E. Davoli - Managing Director Sigma
Partners
Bob joined Sigma Partners in 1995 and has 25 years of experience in
the high technology industry. His ability to identify and motivate
innovative founding teams has been an essential ingredient of his
investment success. Bob regularly leverages his deep operational
experience and technology intellect to support the firm's portfolio
companies.
Most recently Bob was President & CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market. Bob sold SQL Solutions to Sybase for stock eventually worth over $100 million. Bob served as an executive officer of Sybase for over two years.
In recent years, Bob has appeared three times on the Forbes' Midas list, a ranking of top venture capitalists. He also appeared on the cover of Business Week in a features story describing how VCs thrive through good and tough times.
Will Porteous - General Partner RRE
Ventures
Mr. Porteous is a General Partner with RRE Ventures. Before joining
the venture capital industry, Mr. Porteous held senior management
positions in marketing and product management with SupplyWorks and
NetMarket, the e-commerce pioneer now owned by Cendant Corp. Mr.
Porteous is a Director of BuzzFeed, Data Robotics, Electric Cloud,
Hot Potato, Liquid Machines, Peek, Skyhook Wireless and Xobni and a
former Director of Frictionless Commerce (acquired by SAP) and
Tacit Networks (acquired by PKTR). He also serves as an Adjunct
Associate Professor at Columbia Business School and as Chairman of
the Dockery Farms Foundation which he founded.
Mr. Porteous holds an MBA from Harvard University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA with Honors from Stanford University where he served as Captain of the Varsity Crew.
Ullas Naik - Managing Director, Globespan Capital
Partners
Ullas is a Managing Director with Globespan and works out of the
firm's Palo Alto office. He serves on the boards of BladeLogic,
Certeon, Copan Systems, GlassHouse Technologies, Millennial Net,
Nantero, and Revivio. and was formerly on the board of Pirus
Networks (acquired by Sun Microsystems). Ullas is also actively
involved with Globespan's investments in Incipient, m-Qube, and
Virtusa.
Prior to Globespan, Ullas was a Managing Director in JAFCO Venture's Boston office, where he was responsible for several of the firm's software and infrastructure investments. Prior to JAFCO Ventures, Ullas was a Senior Vice President in the Technology Research Group at FAC-Equities/First Albany. At FAC-Equities, he led the public financings of companies including IDT Corp. (IDTC), Critical Path (CPTH), Forrester Research (FORR), Mainspring (MSPR - acquired by IBM), NaviSite (NAVI), and USWeb (USWB - acquired by MarchFirst). During his tenure at FAC-Equities, Ullas was rated by Fortune magazine as a Wall Street "All Star" and by The Wall Street Journal as one the top technology analysts in the country.
While at FAC-Equities, Ullas was an active angel investor in leading technology companies including Arbinet (ARBX), Critical Path (CPTH), Ecora, InterTrust (ITRU), iRobot and others. He began his career as the founder and operator of a specialty chemicals trading company in India. Ullas received an MBA from Bentley College and a BS in Chemistry from Bombay University.
Jonathan Seelig - Board Observer Globespan Capital
Partners
Jonathan is a Managing Director in Globespan's Boston office. He is
focusing on communications and Internet infrastructure and will
apply his deep entrepreneurial experience in assisting Globespan's
portfolio companies.
Jonathan was co-founder of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading, global Internet content and application delivery services company. During his tenure at Akamai, he managed fast growing parts of the business, including global infrastructure development and deployment and international expansion and business development. Prior to founding Akamai, Jonathan worked at ECI Telecom in Israel where his roles included product marketing and new product development and working with customers in 35 countries around the world.
Jonathan is a frequent panelist and keynote speaker at technology and venture capital industry conferences. Immediately prior to joining Globespan, Jonathan was an Executive-in-Residence at Polaris Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Boston and Seattle.
Jonathan received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from Stanford University where he studied Physics. He also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology prior to founding Akamai.





