Douglas Burns
Court Square Ventures
Principal & CFO
Doug Burns joined the Court Square team in 2002. In addition to serving on Mintera’s board, Doug is also on the board of Labrador Mobile and is a board observer at a number of Court Square portfolio companies including GreatCall, Imagine Communications, Seakeeper, and Continuum 700. In addition to his work with portfolio companies, Doug is responsible for administrating Court Square’s funds and relations with limited partners. In the Charlottesville community, he serves on the board of the Building Goodness in April Foundation and serves on the Martha Jefferson Hospital Family Advisory Council.
Doug has worked in a variety of roles with early stage technology companies since 1995, initially in Arthur Andersen's Enterprise Group (Washington, DC) as a Senior Auditor focused on the financing needs of high-growth early stage technology companies in the region. His clients included dozens of technology companies in the software and telecommunications sectors across the Mid-Atlantic and in California. He earned his B.S. in Accounting and Business Administration from Washington and Lee University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and graduated with academic honors.
Dr. Gerald J. Fine - Chairman
Dr. Fine , who serves as Chairman of the Board, is a professor in Boston University's College of Engineering where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses mainly relating to the management of various aspects of high technology businesses.
Prior to joining Boston University in 2004, Dr. Fine was Executive Vice President of Photonic Technologies at Corning Inc., where he had full P&L responsibility for global activities developing and producing a wide range of photonic components and modules for telecommunications (including optical amplifiers, lasers, receivers, transceivers, specialty fibers etc.).
Under Dr. Fine's leadership, annual revenues of Corning Photonic Technologies grew to $1 Billion and the number of key customers increased five-fold. Dr. Fine supervised the formation of joint ventures, the acquisition of a number of companies and rapid growth in manufacturing capacity and workforce. Dr. Fine also led the down-sizing of the activities during the telecom downturn of 2001 and managed the successful divestiture of the business in 2004.
Prior to taking responsibility for Photonic Technologies, Dr. Fine worked in various other businesses of Corning including senior management roles in Advanced Display Products and Corning Asahi Video Products.
Dr. Fine holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.
James B. Murray, Jr.
Court Square Ventures
Zero Court Square
Charlottesville , Virginia 22902
USA
Jim Murray is the Founder and Managing Director of Court Square Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in telecommunications, information technology and media technology investments. Court Square Ventures, Fund II, its current fund, manages some $120M on behalf of major institutional investors. He was a founder and former Chairman of Columbia Capital, a venture capital firm that now manages some $2 billion in private equity. He has been a principal in firms specializing in investment banking and venture capital since 1982.
He is a former Director of Saville Systems Inc. (merged with ADC Corp. -- NASDAQ "ADCT"). He is Founder/Director of Merrick Tower Corporation and Community Wireless Structures LLC. He is also a Director of Mintera, Corp., Labrador Communications and the Mustique Company, inter alia.
He is the author of Wireless Nation , The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution in America (Perseus Books, 2001 and 2002), selected by Booklist as one of the "top ten" business books of 2001.
He serves as Vice Chairman of the Virginia Business Higher Education Council and serves as Chairman of the Virginia Governor's Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. He has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School , the Darden Graduate Business School and the McIntyre School of Commerce at the University of Virginia .
He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia , his J.D. from Marshall-Wythe School of Law at The College of William and Mary and an honorary Doctor of Laws from The College of William and Mary. From 1991 through 1996, by appointment of the Governor of Virginia, Mr. Murray served on the Board of Visitors of The College of William and Mary and was elected Rector (Chairman) of that Board.
Dr. Terry F. Unter
Dr. Terry F. Unter is President and CEO of Mintera Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors.
From 1998 to 2002, he was Chief Operating Officer at Corvis Corporation, where he played a key role in transitioning the company from the R&D stage to a successful supplier of long haul optical communications systems, achieving over $150 Million in revenue in the first year of full operations. He was instrumental in growing the company from 100 to 1,500 employees and integrating three acquired companies during a short period of time.
Before joining Corvis, Dr. Unter was Vice President of Global Optoelectronics at AMP Inc., where he managed a $100 Million business. Prior to AMP, from 1991 to 1997, he led the creation of Alcatel's Optronics subsidiary, developing the vision and business plan as well as leading the execution of the plan with a multinational organization headquartered in France. The business grew to over $50 Million of sales during his tenure. In 1996 he was promoted to Corporate Vice President of Alcatel.
During 1988 to 1991, Dr. Unter lived in Shanghai, People¹s Republic of China, where he had the lead role in establishing a joint venture between a number of partners including Alcatel Bell and the Ministry of Electronics, in China. The JV produced complex VLSI components for telecom applications. In 1992 the company was voted one of the top ten joint ventures in China.
From 1980 to 1988 Dr. Unter held various engineering, management and operations positions with Northern Telecom Electronics, Alcatel Mietec and Sprague Electric.
Dr. Unter holds B.Sc. (honors) and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University in the United Kingdom.
Dr. Lawrence G. Walker
Dr. Walker co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of C-Port Corporation, a pioneer in the network processor industry, which was acquired by Motorola in 2000. Following the acquisition, Dr. Walker served as Vice President of Strategy for Motorola's Network and Computing Systems Group and then as Vice President and General Manager of the Network and Computing Systems Group until 2002.
From August 1996 to May 1997, Dr. Walker served as Chief Executive Officer of CertCo, a digital certification supplier. Dr. Walker served as Vice President and General Manager, Network Products Business Unit, of Digital Equipment Corporation from January 1994 to July 1996. From 1981 to 1994, he held a variety of other management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation.
Dr. Walker currently serves as a director of McDATA Corporation, an expert provider of multi-capable storage networking solutions, as a director of Silicon Laboratories, a leading designer of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits, and as a director of Autocell Networks.
Dr. Walker holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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