Company: Board of Directors

Dave Fachetti
Michael Hirshland
Sonja L. Hoel
George Long
Shaun McConnon
 
Dave Fachetti
Managing Director, Globespan Capital Partners
Dave is part of the founding team at Globespan Capital Partners and has over 20 years of experience working in or with early-stage high growth companies. Prior to Globespan, Dave was a Principal in JAFCO Venture's Boston office, where he focused on enterprise software investments. Prior to JAFCO, Dave was at Family Education Network where he was the SVP and GM of FEN's distributed content management software business. FEN was acquired in 2000 by Pearson PLC (NYSE:PSO). Before FEN, Dave was at Trans National Group where he ran and then successfully sold the company’s Canadian credit card business to Bank of Montreal (NYSE:BMO). He was also part of the founding team that developed TNG's businesses in the UK, France and Germany. In addition to his operating responsibilities, Dave contributed to TNG's venture investments group.

Dave began his career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Dave received an MBA, with honors, from Boston University, a BBA, with honors, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a CPA. In addition to Q1 Labs, Dave represents Globespan in its investments in Avokia, Applied Identity, Cloakware, Ingrian, Instill, Luidia, Nano Network Engines and Openpages..

Michael Hirshland
General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Mike came to Polaris from Intel's Corporate Business Development Group. Before becoming a technology investor, Mike 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, Mike spent over a year working closely with a significant number of prominent hi-tech CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and technology visionaries. Before joining the committee, Mike 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, Mike was a strategy consultant with Bain & Company. Mike is Chairman of Ucentric Systems, and represents Polaris as a Director at Avaki, and Frictionless Commerce. He also is actively involved with Narad Networks and is on the Board of Directors of the New England Venture Capital Association.

Mike received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. He 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
Sonja joined Menlo Ventures in 1994. Prior to Menlo Ventures, she was in business development for Symantec Corporation and was an investment analyst for TA Associates. Sonja 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. Her prior investments and board seats include: AssureNet Pathways, acquired by Symantec (SYMC); Eloquent (ELOQ); F5 Networks (FFIV); Priority Call, acquired by LHS Group; Recourse Technologies, acquired by Symantec (SYMC); and Vermeer Technologies, acquired by Microsoft (MFST).

Sonja is a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.S. in Commerce) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (M.B.A.). 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 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, George was an investment manager at an early-stage venture capital fund focused on the information technology and the life sciences sectors. Before that, he spent a number of years as commercial banker with a major Canadian bank. George has obtained a B.Sc., B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees.

Shaun McConnon
CEO, Q1 Labs Inc.
Shaun McConnon has guided high technology start-up companies through successful IPOs. He has orchestrated multiple mergers and acquisitions, and he has held senior management positions in sales, marketing, and operations. Shaun served as CEO of Okena Inc., a next-generation network security company. He led Okena from inception to its successful acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2003. Also, as CEO of Raptor Systems, he guided that firewall security company through a successful IPO and then its sale to Axent Technologies. Prior to joining Raptor, Shaun held various executive positions with Sun Microsystems, most recently as managing director of Australian and New Zealand operations. Shaun holds a bachelor of science in biology from Roanoke College.