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Board of Directors

Ram Gupta
currently serves as a director on the boards of public companies like Progress software (PRGS), S1 Corporation (SONE) and private companies like Yodlee Inc. and Platform Computing. He also serves on the board of Child Associates of Silicon Valley, a charitable organization also known as CASA. He has also served as director on the boards of CastIron Systems, Persistent Systems (India), Accruent Inc and Knova Software. CastIron Systems, Accruent and Knova were acquired and Persistent went IPO in India. Ram has over 25 years strategy and execution expertise at fast-paced global technology companies, including CastIron Systems, PeopleSoft, WebMD, Silicon Graphics, IBM and Tata Consultancy Services. He has well rounded experience in the breadth of the software industry ranging from enterprise to consumer, license to subscription and proprietary to open source software. He holds several patents in the U.S. and was awarded the Smithsonian Computer World "Search for the Heroes" Award for the year 2000. Ram holds an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and he graduated with Honors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India in 1985.
Mark Geene
is the CEO of Channelinsight. Prior to assuming the CEO role in January 2006, he was Executive Vice President, Field and Client Operations for two years. He joined Channelinsight in 2003. He brings more than 20 years of sales, business development and operations experience to Channelinsight. In the course of his career, he has held management positions at IBM and Oracle, and senior executive positions at Tenfold Corporation and Dorado Software. At Oracle, Mark served as area vice president for the Midwest region, which contributed $200 million in annual sales. As vice president of sales for Tenfold, Mark and his team grew revenues from $4.5 million to $92 million in two years, and Mark was significantly involved in that company's successful IPO. Most recently, while senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations at Dorado, Mark and his team delivered significant revenue growth, established key distribution agreements and expanded sales operations to Asia and Europe. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Paul Bartlett
is a partner of Rho Ventures. Paul joined Rho in 2007 and focuses on investments in software and new media. Prior to Rho, he was an executive-in-residence at New Enterprise Associates and managing director at One Equity Partners, the private equity arm of JP Morgan Bank. He has also worked with Sprout Venture Capital Group, where he spent seven years and left as a general partner. Previously, he spent eight years in operating positions as either CEO or COO for three public companies (Critical Path, Hall Kinion and Quintus), one of which he took public. Paul's interests include Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business models, traditional IT data and security products, online marketing and ad-driven businesses as well as other emerging new media opportunities. He received an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University. He has an ongoing interest in supporting educational organizations and has served for the last 10 years as a trustee to the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Tim Connor
joined InfoNow's board of directors in October 2007. He has been a partner at Sequel Venture Partners, a leading technology and healthcare venture capitalist company, since 2000. Prior to Sequel Venture Partners, he was the CFO at Access Health from 1996 to 2000, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers from 1985 - 1996 and a Sales Representative at DataPoint Corporation from 1980 to 1983. He is currently on the board of directors for Aztek Networks, Inc., Datalogix, Inc., and Quova, Inc. Tim holds an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from Washington College.
Michael Patterson
Before joining Vedanta, Michael was a Principal with Invesco Private Capital ("IPC") from 2001 until 2006 where he was responsible for the analysis and selection of direct investments in information technology. While at Invesco, Michael led the investments in Arcot, Centrify and Consentry. Michael joined AMVESCAP, IPC's parent company, as a Corporate Associate in 2000. He completed several rotational assignments with different business units throughout Invesco including assignments with teams managing the Invesco Technology Fund and the Invesco European Small Cap Fund. Prior to attending Columbia Business School, Michael was an Executive Recruiter with Russell Reynolds, where he focused on the Financial Services industry. Michael graduated from Columbia Business School in 2000 with an MBA in Finance, and from Wesleyan University, with High Honors, with a BA in Latin American Studies in 1995.
Al Schuele
a high-tech industry veteran of over 30 years, joined Sevin Rosen Funds in 2000 and now heads up the firm's ventures in Austin's dynamic entrepreneurial community. He has held executive and sales positions in several semiconductor companies including Benchmarq, Crystal, Cypress, and Mostek. Al has played key roles in major mergers and acquisitions and has worked extensively in Asian markets. Before joining SRF, Al was CEO of Benchmarq Microelectronics, managing the company through the turbulent Asian financial crisis before negotiating a merger with Unitrode Corporation, where he then served as president and COO.