Chip Drapeau

Chip Drapeau is the former President and CEO of MRO Software, an enterprise asset management company (acquired by IBM).  He joined MRO Software in 1982 and held a variety of management and executive positions in sales, support, and the research & development functions of the company before being appointed the company’s CEO in 1998. As CEO, he led a highly profitable organization and set the company’s strategic and product direction. Chip earned a B.S. in Economics from Tufts University.

James A. Goldstein
General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Jamie Goldstein joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 1998. Prior to joining North Bridge, Jamie co-founded PureSpeech, a venture-backed speech recognition software and applications company targeting service providers and enterprise call centers. Jamie served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, driving revenue through OEM relationships with leading PC manufacturers and voice services platform providers. PureSpeech was acquired by Voice Control Systems (NASDAQ: VCSI) and subsequently sold to Scansoft (NASDAQ: SSFT). Before PureSpeech Jamie was an early employee with Symmetrix, a provider of manufacturing execution software that helped old-line manufacturing companies streamline their operations. Symmetrix grew to nearly 200 employees before its acquisition by SAIC.

Jamie’s investment interests are diverse – software, storage, wireless, semiconductor and materials companies. He is a graduate of MIT, 1989 and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1994. He is actively involved in the MIT Deshpande Center for Innovation, is a Trustee of the MATCH School (a Boston-area Charter school) and serves on the Board of the New England Venture Capital Association.

Dave Lemont
CEO, Currensee

Dave Lemont has broad executive experience in software development, sales and operations management and a special hands-on expertise in building winning go-to-market strategies for early-stage companies. Throughout his distinguished career, Dave has successfully launched, grown, and guided software companies from inception through initial public offering and successful exits to some of the largest system and software companies in the world.

Most recently, Dave was the CEO of AppIQ, the leader in Storage Management Software. Prior to joining AppIQ, Dave was CEO of Revit Technology, where he led the company through its successful 2002 acquisition by Autodesk. Earlier Dave was Chief Operating Officer at Concentra Corporation, the leading provider of CRM solutions for product configuration.

Dave began his executive career successfully selling and deploying enterprise solutions in a number of executive sales management positions at the Unigraphics division of EDS Corporation and at Computervision Corporation, where he was head of North American Operations. In each of these companies Dave became an expert in building direct sales and VAR channels using system integrators to support the implementation of his team's solutions.

Dave is a graduate of Bucknell University where he majored in Education and English.

Arun Oberoi
President and CEO

Arun is a technology industry veteran who has led and repeatedly built rapidly scaling businesses across the spectrum of start-ups, mid size companies and multi billion dollar global organizations. Most recently he was CEO of Aveksa, a leading Access Governance and Management Software start-up, where he led the company to more than 500% growth in their last two fiscal years. Prior to that he was EVP of Worldwide Sales and Services at Micromuse, a market leading provider of high end network management and service assurance solutions. Micromuse was acquired by IBM where Arun led the integration and its continued fast growth and field expansion as Vice President within IBM Tivoli. Prior to Micromuse Arun had an accomplished career at Hewlett-Packard where he held various Executive roles, including VP & GM of Worldwide Top 100 Corporate Accounts and Industries as well as VP & GM of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for HP's Software Business. In HP's software business he led the development of a dedicated worldwide sales and marketing organization for the portfolio, which included the Openview product, Security and Middleware and led the sales growth from initial stages to 1Billion in revenues.

His passion is working with high performance teams to deliver compelling customer value.

He received his BA (Honors) at Delhi University and a double Masters in Business Administration with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Chris Rocca 
Vice President Engineering & Co-Founder

Chris Rocca is an accomplished software professional with 20 years of technical leadership experience. He most recently served as vice president of engineering at Revivio Inc. which he joined in 2003 to lead the development of the company's continuous data protection software and later worked to integrate the company's CDP technology into solutions delivered by leading storage vendors. Prior to joining Revivio, Chris was a senior engineering manager at Motorola, where he led an ASIC development organization. He joined Motorola through the acquisition of C-Port Corporation, a successful semi-conductor startup credited with creating the Network Processor market in the late 1990s. As one of the initial technologists at C-Port, Chris held a number of technical and management positions. Chris started his career as an engineer at Digital Equipment Corp., working in the artificial intelligence, storage and networking systems groups. He went on to work for Intermetics, Inc., building software development tools for the automotive and defense industries. Later at NuThena Systems, he developed advanced system simulation and performance modeling tools. Chris holds a B.A. in computer science from Clark University.