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.
Robin Hacke
Robin Hacke is the founder and Managing Partner of Portview Communications Partners, a specialized international venture capital firm investing in early stage communications technology companies. Ms. Hacke has been active in high technology since 1986 as a director, manager, investor and advisor to numerous companies. An American executive with a broad international perspective, Ms. Hacke brings to Portview a unique combination of entrepreneurial, operating and financial experience.
Ms. Hacke is well-known in Israel as the founder of HK Catalyst Strategy & Finance, an advisory firm that completed 220 strategy assignments for leading communications, software and electronics companies and investors between 1990-99. Before founding HK Catalyst, Ms. Hacke served for more than four years as Marketing Manager, VP Marketing and CFO of an Israeli start-up.
Ms. Hacke presently serves as a director or observer on the boards of Alvarion Ltd. (Nasdaq: ALVR), BitBand, Mintera Corporation, and Aternity Inc. She is chairman of the Audit Committee of Alvarion. Ms. Hacke was a longstanding board member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA).
A former investment banker at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York , Ms. Hacke holds a Bachelors degree magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Richard McGinn
Richard A. McGinn is a General Partner at RRE Ventures and brings a 30-year career in the global communication systems, networking and technology industries to the firm. He is a member of the Business Council, and Director of the American Express Company and the Mountain Top Foundation. He is the former Chairman and Chief Executive of Lucent Technologies. While at Lucent, Mr. McGinn oversaw and directed engineering, research and investments of more than $4 billion annually at Bell Labs, Lucent's research and development arm.
At Lucent, Mr. McGinn was involved in the acquisition of, or investment in, over 30 technology companies. He conceived of and led the investment by AT&T in Sun Microsystems in 1987 and continued to build and acquire technology companies, including the acquisition of Ascend Communications. In addition, he devised and guided the creation of Agere Systems, a leading supplier of semiconductors and optoelectronic components for the communications industry, which went public in 2001.
Previously, while President and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T's Network Systems Group and President of AT&T Computer Systems, he was responsible for the strategy to accelerate growth and globalization of AT&T Network Systems, as well as responsible for R&D and systems engineering. He also served as president of AT&T's Data Systems Group with responsibility for strategy and business development.
Mr. McGinn holds a BA from Grinnell College.
Dr. Robert M. ("Bob") Metcalfe
Dr. Robert M. ("Bob") Metcalfe is a general partner in the Polaris East Coast office. Bob joined Polaris in January of 2001. He specializes in Boston area based information technology start-ups.
Experience:
Bob had three careers before becoming a venture capitalist:
While an engineer-scientist (1965-1979), Bob helped build the early Internet. In 1973, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he invented Ethernet, the local-area networking (LAN) standard on which he shares four patents. In 2003, Ethernet's 30th year, 184 million new Ethernet connections were shipped for $12.5 billion.
While an entrepreneur-executive (1979-1990), Bob founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company where at various times he was Chairman, CEO, division general manager, and vice president of engineering, sales, and marketing.
While a publisher-pundit (1990-2000), Bob was CEO of IDG's InfoWorld Publishing Company (1992-1995). For eight years, he wrote an Internet column read weekly by over 500,000 information technologists. He spoke often; appeared on radio, television, and the web; and produced conferences including ACM97, ACM1, Agenda, Pop!Tech, and Vortex.
Bob's book credits include Packet Communication (Thomson), Internet Collapses and Other InfoWorld Punditry (IDG Books), and Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (co-edited for Springer Verlag).
Boards:
Bob serves on the boards of Polaris portfolio companies Ember , Narad , Paratek and SiCortex . He is chairman of Paratek. He is also a director of Avistar, IDC, IDG, MIT, Pop!Tech, St. Mark's School, and MIT's Technology Review Magazine .
Education:
Bob graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 with bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and in management. He received an M.S. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1970. In 1973, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, where his doctoral dissertation was titled, "Packet Communication."
Awards:
Among numerous awards, Bob received the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1980. In 1988, he received the Alexander Graham Bell Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 1995, Bob was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he received the IEEE's Medal of Honor. In 1997, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 1999, he was elected to the International Engineering Consortium. In 2003, Bob won the Marconi International Fellowship and was inducted into the prestigious Bay Shore High School Hall of Fame. He also has been awarded three honorary doctorates.
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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