Board of Directors

Ted Werth, Chairman, Founder and Chief Strategy and Products Officer – A true pioneer in the technology care sector, Ted brings years of expertise in networking, engineering and entrepreneurship to his role leading the development of customer-centric, best-of-breed products and services for PlumChoice. He is focused on developing new Service 2.0 support capabilities that change the industry and drive significant new revenue streams for the company and its customers while achieving unmatched levels of customer satisfaction.

As founder and former CEO of PlumChoice, Ted is uniquely qualified to drive strategy and execution of the company's technology platform, and product and service solutions. Prior to PlumChoice, Ted held management and operating roles with data networking companies such as Chipcom and 3-Com. He also led the creation and delivery of an online collaboration service and marketing portal for small businesses after starting his career as an engineer for Westinghouse.

Frequently quoted in the media and the author of several patents, Ted remains the foremost expert in the technology services market. He has a B.S.E.E. from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Robert P. Badavas, President and CEO – Bob brings to PlumChoice the power of experience and expertise derived from more than two decades leading and growing software and services businesses to market leadership positions. Bob's well rounded background encompasses roles as CEO, President, COO and CFO of public and private technology and services firms including: TAC Worldwide, a technical staffing, workforce management and business services company; Atlas Venture, an international venture capital firm; and Cerulean Technology, a computer software company.

Over the course of his career, Bob has architected growth strategies resulting in significant increases in shareholder value. He serves on the Board of Directors not only for PlumChoice, but also: Hercules Technology Growth Capital (NASDAQ:HTGC), which provides venture debt and equity to venture capital and private equity backed technology and life science companies; Constant Contact, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTCT), a provider of on-demand email marketing, event marketing and online survey solutions; and The Learning Center for the Deaf in Framingham, MA for whom he previously served as Chairman of the Board. Bob is also a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of Hellenic College/Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, MA.

Demonstrating his constant exploration of possibility, Bob recently completed a Harvard Business School program focused on strategies to make corporate boards more effective. A Certified Public Accountant, Bob earned a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from Bentley University and is a member of the University's Board of Trustees.

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.

Gillis Cashman – Gillis Cashman is a General Partner at M/C Venture Partners, a Boston based venture capital firm focused exclusively on the communications, media, and information technology sectors. Gillis leads the broadband infrastructure and services portion of the firm's portfolio. He currently serves as the Chairman of Baja Broadband, and is on the Board of Directors of Zayo Group, Corelink Data Centers, CSDVRS, and GTS Central Europe. Previous board seats include ICG Holdings (sold to Level 3), City Signal Communications (sold to Cavalier Telephone), Elantic Networks (merged with Cavalier Telephone), FDN Networks (merged with NuVox Communications), and Cavalier Telephone (sold to Paetec). He also previously held a Board of Director observer seat at NuVox Communications (sold to Windstream) and Telution (sold to CSG). Prior to joining M/C, Gillis was with Salomon's Telecommunications Corporate Finance Group, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions. Gillis graduated cum laude from Duke University and received an AB in economics with distinction.

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.

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).

 

Advisors

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.

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.