Jim Hogan
Mr. Jim Hogan has worked in the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry for more than 35 years gaining experience as a senior executive in electronic design automation, semiconductor intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, and fabrication companies.
Mr. Hogan currently is the Managing Partner of Vista Ventures LLC and is an active strategic consultant to public and private technology companies. Prior to Vista, Jim was a general partner at Telos Venture Partners and senior vice president of business development at Artisan Components Inc., now part of ARM Holdings PLC. He held senior engineering, marketing and operational management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., National Semiconductor Corporation and Phillips Semiconductor. At Cadence, he was an Executive Fellow, President of Cadence Japan, Corporate Vice President of Marketing, and Corporate Vice President for Field Operations. At National Semiconductor and Philips, he established device physics laboratories globally. He was also Chief Operating Officer of Smart Machines, Inc., a semiconductor equipment automation company.
Mr. Hogan holds a B.A degree in mathematics, a B.S. degree in computer science and an M.B.A all from San Jose State University. He serves on the Board of Advisors at San Jose State's School of Engineering, and on the board of directors of several technology startups.
Mike D’Amour
Mike is COO at DRC Computer Corp. He was co-founder, founding CEO, Chairman, and Exec. VP of Quickturn Design Systems, the industry’s largest and most successful reconfigurable EDA emulator company and led the company to a successful IPO and later an acquisition by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Mike was on the founding team and VP of R&D of Daisy Systems Corporation, the first EDA company. He was also CEO of Veridicom, a spinout of Bell Labs.
Jim Daniell
Mr. Daniell is a leading entrepreneur and angel investor in the Boston area. He is the CEO of EdNets which he joined in 2007 to help the company expand rapidly. His business background includes multiple CEO and executive roles in the high tech industry with an emphasis on scalable, internet businesses ranging from AT&T E-Commerce, OrderTrust (order processing and credit card loyalty systems), and clean energy. He has served on numerous boards of both private and public companies, has raised over $100M for his own companies, as well as managed M&A and investment transactions totaling over $1B. Jim serves as a board member of EdNets, GateRocket, and as a Trustee of both the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and the Museum of Science. He is also a co-founder and member of CommonAngels. Jim is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and of the University of Connecticut, where he earned a joint Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science and Engineering.
Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein is a Managing Director at Sempre Management, focusing on building value in small public information technology companies. Previously, Michael was a General Partner at Venrock Associates in Cambridge, MA. While at Venrock, Michael was a Director of Kenet, Ciclon Semiconductor, CircleLending, and Boston-Power. Prior to joining Venrock, Michael was a General Partner at Atlas Venture and led their US Communications investment team. In this capacity, he is a past director of WaveSmith Networks, Quantum Bridge Communications, Sandbridge Technology, and Ellacoya Networks. Previously, Michael was Vice President of Market Development for Nortel Networks. He joined Nortel as part of New Oak Communications, where he was Vice President of Product Marketing. Michael previously served as Vice President of Product Management for Shiva, where he also held several engineering and sales executive positions. Prior to Shiva, he held marketing, sales, and engineering executive positions at Cayman Systems and GCC Technologies.
Brad Hafer
Brad is Managing Director at Minuteman Advisory Partners, LLC, a strategy consulting firm focused on high-tech corporate development. Brad was most recently VP of Corporate Development at Matrix One, a PLM software vendor that was acquired in 2006 by Dassault Systems and previously VP of Marketing & Business Development for semiconductor design data management vendor Synchronicity that was acquired by MatrixOne in 2004.
John MacPhee
John is CFO of eDialog and has more than 20 years of financial management and accounting experience. John has had an extensive career of successfully guiding emergent high-technology companies through early stage development, rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. John previously worked at Avidyne, Inc., a leading provider of innovative avionics display systems, where he served as vice president of finance, CFO and treasurer. Previously, John held senior financial leadership positions at Factpoint, Inc., Peritus Software and Bachman Information systems.
Stacy Swider
Stacy is an entrepreneur and consultant to high technology companies in the Boston area. As a co-founder of GateRocket, Stacy provided business leadership from inception to the acquisition of financing, and now plays an important advisory role to the company.