This directory contains the bios of all the mentors attending the TCN Fast Track mentor lunch on March 10, 2015 at Nutter McClennen & Fish.

1. 1
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.

2. 2
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.

3. 3
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.

4. 4
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.

5. 5
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.

6. 6
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

7. 7
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.

8. 8
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.

9. 9
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.

10. 10
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.

11. 11
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.