Company: Board of Directors

Dave Fachetti
Michael Hirshland
Sonja L. Hoel
George Long
Shaun McConnon
 
Dave Fachetti
Managing Director, Globespan Capital Partners
Dave Fachetti is part of the founding team at Globespan Capital Partners, and has more than 20 years of experience working in or with early-stage, high-growth companies.

Prior to Globespan, he was a Principal in JAFCO Venture's Boston office, where he focused on enterprise software investments. Previously, Fachetti was at Family Education Network, where he was senior vice president and general manager of FEN's distributed content management software business. Earlier, Fachetti was at Trans National Group where he ran and then successfully sold the company's Canadian credit card business to Bank of Montreal. He began his career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Fachetti received an MBA, with honors, from Boston University, a BBA, with honors, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a CPA.

Michael Hirshland
General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Mike Hirshland joined Polaris from Intel's corporate business development group. Prior to becoming a technology investor, he served as counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, where he conceived and supervised the Senate's hearings on "Competition, Innovation, and Public Policy in the Digital Age." In this capacity, Hirshland spent more than a year working closely with a significant number of prominent high-tech CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and technology visionaries.

Previously, he practiced with the law firm Williams & Connolly, and clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy at the U.S. Supreme Court and The Hon. J. Michael Luttig on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to his legal career, Hirshland was a strategy consultant with Bain & Company.

Hirshland received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, and earned his AB in history from Harvard College, where he played defensive end on the Crimson's 1987 Ivy League Champion varsity football squad.

Sonja L. Hoel
Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
Prior to joining Menlo Ventures in 1994, Sonja Hoel was part of Symantec Corporation's business development organization, and earlier she was an investment analyst for TA Associates.

Hoel focuses primarily on early-stage software, communications, and Internet investments. Her recent investments and board seats include: Acme Packet, Mail Frontier, nCircle Network Security, and iS3.

Hoel received a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia, and an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. She currently serves as a director on the Foundation Board of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

George Long
New Brunswick Investment Management Corp.
George Long leads NBIMC's direct private equity investment activities and manages external fund investments in the United States and Europe.

Prior to joining NBIMC in 2002, Long was an investment manager at an early-stage venture capital fund focused on the information technology and the life sciences sectors. Previously, he spent a number of years as a commercial banker with a major Canadian bank.

Long has obtained a B.Sc., B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees.

Shaun McConnon
CEO, Q1 Labs, Inc.
Industry veteran Shaun McConnon is CEO of Q1 Labs, where he brings extensive senior management experience in operations, sales, and marketing to the growing network security management company.

Prior to joining Q1 Labs in November 2003, McConnon served as CEO of Okena, a next-generation security company, which he led from its inception to its acquisition by Cisco Systems. Previously, McConnon was CEO of Raptor Systems, where he steered that firewall security company through a successful IPO and then its subsequent sale to Axent Technologies (later acquired by Symantec). Earlier, McConnon held various executive positions with Sun Microsystems, most recently as managing director of Australian and New Zealand operations.

McConnon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Roanoke College.