John has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was the President & CEO of Vermeer Technologies, Inc., the developers of FrontPage, the leading Web authoring tool. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft, providing Sigma and the other venture investors a very successful return. Previously, he was an early principal at SQL Solutions, where he created and led an engineering organization chartered to build heterogeneous database tools. Following an acquisition of SQL Solutions by Sybase, he took responsibility for the new Systems Management Product unit, which he grew to $55 million in sales in 30 months. Prior to SQL Solutions he was a member of the Advanced Engineering program at Honeywell where he worked in communications, operating systems and co-processor design. He is a graduate of Tufts (BSE in Engineering Science) and Worcester Polytechnic State University (MS in Computer Science). He has been responsible for Sigma's investments in Datasage, DotClick, EasyAsk, Novera Software, Oberon Software, Onexchange.com, OneRelease and OpenPages.

Stephen J. Ricci
Managing Director, Flagship Ventures

Steve Ricci has over 25 years of experience in the venture capital industry, and is a founding General Partner of Flagship Ventures. Prior to Flagship, Steve was a General Partner at Palmer Partners (which he joined in 1974). His early career includes a number of years in manufacturing engineering with Dupont and Cambridge Tool. Steve has an engineering degree from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a past president of the New England Venture Capital Association, and was a founding advisor to Gilde Ventures, a major European venture capital firm.

Steve's investment focus is information technology, including enterprise software, Internet infrastructure, data communications, and related services. He has an extraordinarily deep and broad understanding of business and business models in these sectors. Steve has been involved in the financing of more than 100 companies, including Banyan Systems (Nasdaq: EPRE), Charter Systems (purchased by Bisys, Nasdaq: BSYS), Cintas (Nasdaq: CTAS), Gensym Corp. (Nasdaq: GNSM), Indus River Networks (purchased by Cabletron, NYSE: CS), Stratus Computer (NYSE: SRA, purchased by Ascend, Nasdaq: ASND) and Summa Four (Nasdaq: SUMA, purchased by Cisco, Nasdaq: CSCO). His early venture career was directed toward product and services innovations in the industrial sector.

Doug Percy
President and CEO, Blue Agave Software
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Mark Wick
Founder, Senior Vice President, Blue Agave Software
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