Board of Directors

Ted Werth, Chairman & CEO - Founder - Ted founded PlumChoice, the first remote services offering for the consumer and small business markets, in 2001 after spending years trying to help his dad long-distance with everyday computer issues. With the fast-growing adoption of broadband Internet, Ted realized that the online, desktop sharing methods used in the enterprise were exactly the kind of quick, convenient and effective services the home and small office markets needed.

Born and raised outside the nation's capital in Chevy Chase, Md., Ted showed an early penchant for engineering and technology. Ted went on to study at Lehigh University, earning his B.S.E.E. in 1982, and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Ted Werth has settled on his life's passion -- helping people of all ages and skill level use technology safely, securely and effectively so that it may be a source of help and enjoyment in their lives, not a hindrance. Ted is forever challenging the status quo in technology services, raising the bar before others have recognized the need and refusing to compromise. Frequently quoted in the media, Ted remains the foremost expert in the exploding technology services market.

Michael Balmuth - Michael Balmuth, General Partner, directs Edison Venture Fund's New England regional team based in the Boston area. Michael has 20 years of technology industry experience as a venture capitalist, investment banker and software executive. Before joining Edison, he was a General Partner at Summit Partners, where he led the east coast office for the Summit Accelerator Fund as a founding partner. Michael has served as a director of numerous public and private companies. He managed investments in Infor, Unica (NASDAQ: UNCA), OPNET (NASDAQ: OPNT), MCK Communications (NASDAQ: MCKC; acquired by Verso Technologies), Future Three (acquired by Infor), InstallShield (acquired by Macrovision), Microbank (acquired by SunGard Data), PowerSmart (acquired by Microchip Technology), Staples.com (acquired by Staples) and TrelliSoft (acquired by IBM). Previously, Michael worked in technology investment banking with Broadview International and in sales, marketing, corporate development and systems engineering at IBM Corporation. He earned an AB degree in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Bruce Cohen - Mr. Cohen was a founder and Senior VP, Field Operations at Chipcom for a decade, during which time the company grew from 8 to 1,100 people, achieved 28 record, profitable quarters in a row and was ultimately acquired by 3Com. Following Chipcom, he was the president, CEO & Board Member at NovaSoft and Top Layer Networks. Prior to Chipcom, he served as a senior sales, marketing and product management executive at IBM (12 years), Datapoint (3 years) and Digital Research, Inc. (3 years). He now sits on the Board of two start-up companies and does executive-level consulting as Principal in Bruce L. Cohen & Associates.

Joseph G. Hadzima, Jr. - Joe Hadzima is a Managing Director of Main Street Partners, a venture development and technology commercialization firm located at MIT Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Joe is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he has taught entrepreneurship and law since 1984. He has been a judge of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition since its founding. He is Chairman of the Global M.I.T. Enterprise Forum, a organization which fosters entrepreneurship through its 24 chapters around the world. Joe is also on the Board of Directors of the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Joe graduated from MIT in 1973 and received his Masters of Science in Management from MIT's Sloan School of Management in 1977 and his law degree cum laude from Harvard in 1977. Until 1996 he was a partner in Sullivan & Worcester LLP, a major Boston law firm, where he founded and directed the High Tech/New Ventures Group.

James Kester - Jim is the head of private equity at Zurich Alternative Asset Management, LLC (ZAAM), a multi-alternative asset class manager, which is wholly-owned by Zurich Financial Services, one of the world's leading insurance companies. ZAAM manages over $5bn of private equity, hedge funds and U.S. real estate assets on behalf of ZFS Group companies. He is a member of the ZAAM Investment Committee. Previously, Jim was a founder and co-CEO of Allianz Private Equity Partners GmbH (APEP) and Chairman of Allianz Private Equity Partners, Inc. (US subsidiary). APEP is a global private equity fund-of-funds manger with c. €4.5b of assets under management and 40 employees in Munich and New York, at that time. He was a member of the Management Board as well as Investment Committee of the firm. Jim has over twenty years of experience in private equity investing, business development, mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance for such firms as Aurora Ventures, Barents Group, General Motors and General Electric. He holds a BS degree from Cornell University and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rick Pontin - Rick is CEO of AirClic, a leading provider of mobile supply chain and logistics software to the Global 5000. He is also a member of the Tangoe Board of Directors, where he previously served as Executive Chairman. Tangoe provides Communications Lifecycle Management (CLM) software and services to enterprise clients. Prior to joining Tangoe, Rick was CEO of its predecessor company TRAQ Wireless, a provider of enterprise mobility logistics software and services. He also served as President and COO of Broadwing Communications (now part of Level 3) and as President and COO of Cincinnati Bell. Earlier in his career, he held several executive positions at AT&T, MCI (now Verizon) and Sprint Nextel.

Thomas A. Proulx - As co-founder of Intuit and author of Quicken, Thomas Proulx is a true pioneer in the consumer software industry. Mr. Proulx has served as a director on the boards of numerous venture-backed technology startup companies. He currently serves as a director on the boards of iControl and Plumchoice, and is chairman of the boards of WorkingPoint and Netpulse. Mr. Proulx is a 1992 recipient of the Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the University of Southern California's 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mr. Proulx holds a degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from Stanford University.

Robert Schechter - Schechter served from 1995 to 2008 as Chairman and CEO of publicly traded NMS Communications (now LiveWire Mobile), a provider of telecomm technologies and managed personalization services for mobile operators. Schechter's 30 years of broad-based technology and telecommunications experience also includes eight years with Lotus Development Corporation, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President International Business Group. He previously was a Coopers & Lybrand partner responsible for that firm's high tech practice in the Northeast region. Schechter also has held various corporate director positions at both public and private companies. He currently serves on the boards of Parametric Technologies, Unica Corporation, and EXA Corporation. Prior board assignments include Soapstone Networks (formerly Avici Networks), Moldflow (acquired by Autodesk), Mapinfo (acquired by Pitney Bowes), Raptor Systems (acquired by Axent Technologies), Infinium Software (acquired by SSA Global Technologies), Circles Associates (acquired by Sodexo), and NuMega Technologies (acquired by Compuware and several other closely held businesses).

Ameeta Soni - Ameeta is Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at VFA, a provider of facilities capital planning software and services. She has more than 20 years of marketing and business development experience, and has been instrumental in the success of many new technology ventures. She was founder of Aanza AutoID Group - an RFID services firm, Aanza - a provider of PLM software and services, and Altek Consulting - a management consulting firm. She also served as VP of Product Marketing and VP of Marketing at ChannelWave Software and held senior marketing positions at Computer Identics, The BOC Group, Genus and Varian Associates.

 

Advisors

Steve Moore - Steve Moore currently serves as president and chief operating officer (COO) at Enterprise Mobile, Inc., where he is responsible for overseeing all day-to-day aspect s of operations, sales and marketing, business development, account management and other functions. In this capacity, Moore draws upon his 25 years of executive management experience in spearheading change within organization by combining an innovative and a common sense management approach, resulting in profitable business growth. Most recently, Moore served as a member of the senior management team at Independent Mobile (IMO), a multi-carrier mobile retailer dedicated to providing an innovative mobile retail experience. Mr. Moore also served as chairman and chief executive officer at Stream International, a provider of technical support and customer service outsourcing. While at Stream, Moore managed all aspects of Stream’s business from hiring and developing a global executive management team to establishing an innovative approach linking knowledge management practices and e-learning technology for employees, all of which enabled a scalable business model resulting in profitable growth. While chairman and CEO, Stream grew from 1,000 employees in 1997 to more than 11,000 employees in 2001. Prior to joining Stream, Moore served as president of Corporate Software Inc. and held executive management roles at software distributors International Software Products and Merisel, Inc. Mr. Moore holds a Higher National Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Northampton Institute of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom.

Steve Willis - Steven Willis began his career as a software engineer at BTU Engineering designing microprocessor based furnace controllers for the semiconductor industry. In 1982, he joined Interlan and developed software and operating systems internals for Ethernet based controllers for early Internet applications. In 1986, he co-founded Wellfleet Communications, a pioneering Internet router company, and became the director of software development. In 1989 he started Wellfleet’s Advanced Engineering Group which developed Internet and ATM standards and technology, such as the silicon based forwarding engine, for the next generation of Wellfleet technology. In 1997 he co-founded Argon Networks, a maker of Internet core switch/routers. He led the architecture effort to build a large, hardware based IP router and ATM switch supporting OC48c interfaces. In 1999, Argon was purchased by Siemens. In early 2001 he joined Datapower as the VP of Advanced Technology and drove the development of a hardware based XML processor. Datapower develops high performance XML processing and transformation engines for web based services. Mr Willis has a BS in BDIC/Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and sits on the Advisory Board of the UMass College of Natural Science and Mathematics. He is a member of the MIT Venture Mentoring Service and sits on an advisory board within Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds five patents in the field of computer networking.