Patrick Harr | Chief Executive Officer

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Charles Curran | Valhalla Partners

Charles has experience as a venture capital investor and an investment banker. He has invested in and advised a number of high quality technology and telecommunications companies.

Before joining Valhalla, Charles was a partner of Saturn Venture Partners in New York, NY. Saturn was formed in partnership with Telecom Italia and Ramius Capital Group. Structured as a $280 million early stage venture firm focused on communications infrastructure and software, Saturn is no longer investing in new companies. Charles led Saturn's enterprise technology investing efforts, including application software, infrastructure software, e-security, and storage.

Charles also worked as an associate with New Enterprise Associates in Reston, Virginia, working closely with Art Marks. Prior to NEA, Mr. Curran worked as a telecommunications and technology investment banker for Lazard Frères & Co. and DLJ Securities Corporation, advising clients on over $35 billion announced M&A and capital markets transactions.

Charles received a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Distinction from Stanford University.

At Valhalla, Charles led the firm's investment in JumpTap and serves as a board observer to the company. He also works closely with LeftHand Networks, Scentric, Inc., and SEPATON, Inc. Charles invests across the IT and telecom spectrum with particular focus on data storage, wireless and online advertising. Charles is on the investment committee of the State of Virginia CIT GAP Fund, the advisory committee of the Horn Group and works with several committees of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and Mid-Atlantic Venture Association.

Dave Ryan | Mission Ventures

Dave Ryan has been a founding Mission Ventures Managing Partner since 1996. He has 23 years of venture capital experience focusing on early-stage information technology and service companies.

Prior to Mission Ventures, beginning in 1983, he served as General Partner of Copley Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in information technology, business services and healthcare. Prior to Copley, Dave held positions in strategic planning, business development and plant modernization with Medusa Corp, a Midwest-based manufacturer of industrial materials.

Dave holds a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a Director of 3E Company, BMS Reimbursement Management, Kalon Semiconductor, LogicalApps, DevZuz and WorkWell Systems.

David Titus | Windward Ventures

David Titus is co-founder and Managing Director of Windward Ventures. In addition to directing the overall development of the firm, he is responsible for a number of investments in the software field. Mr. Titus has been a director of over 25 companies, including two public companies. He is currently a director of several private companies, including Akonix Systems, Streamload and Syntricity. He is also a member of the Executive Committee for the CONNECT program in San Diego and a member of the Venture Capital Advisory Board of the San Diego Venture Group. Mr. Titus was formerly an officer of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.

Prior to founding Windward Ventures, Mr. Titus was a General Partner and Managing Director of Corporate Finance for Technology Funding, a $250 million venture capital firm, where he was responsible for directing all new investment activity from 1988 through 1992. Mr. Titus was also a co-founder and Senior Vice President of Silicon Valley Bank, a highly successful bank with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Mr. Titus has a BA from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Michael V. Wall

Mike Wall is an independent business consultant with extensive experience in developing and managing high technology businesses. From 2002 through 2007, he was the general manager of Intel Corporation's Storage Group, based in Chandler, Arizona, where he was responsible for managing the P&L and all aspects of product and business development for Intel's $500M storage business. He was a founding member of the management team that started this business for Intel in the late 90's. As a leading supplier of storage technology to the computer industry, Mike worked closely with the large multi-national OEMs that manufacture and distribute servers, workstations, and storage solutions. His group enabled the integration of standard microprocessors into storage hardware platforms. This resulted in explosive growth in the number of systems shipped, as well as the creation of new product categories for small business and the home.

From 1994 through 1996, Mike was the general manager of Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division. His division led the introduction of Intel's x86 architecture into the high performance computing market with massively parallel systems. In partnership with the U.S. Government, the team developed and shipped the world's fastest computer to Sandia National Lab in 1997 (the first TeraFLOPS system). Prior to joining the Intel Corporation in 1992, Mike was an area general manager at Cray Research, responsible for North American Operations. He also held several marketing management positions at IBM in New York City.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Sports Foundation. Mike earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed his Masters of Management Sciences, Harriman College for Urban and Policy Sciences, at SUNY Stony Brook.