Robert Crowley

Mr. Crowley has been associated with Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation (MTDC) since its inception in 1978, and was elected President of MTDC in November, 2002. Prior to that, he was its Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer.

Mr. Crowley is a former Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum, which is the leading university/business partnership designed to nurture entrepreneurship among technologists. He is also a former Chairman of the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE).

Andrew D. Clapp

Andy Clapp is a General Partner Brook Venture Funds which he co-founded in 1998.

Brook Venture's mission is to invest capital in high growth companies, within a focused set of industries, with the objective of realizing venture level returns for all stakeholders.

E. Jack Stewart

Jack Stewart is a Managing Partner at Venture Capital Fund of New England and has been involved in early stage New England venture capital for over 25 years, first as a partner of Corning Venture Management for over 19 years, followed by his forming Kestrel Venture Management in 1995, and currently as a founding partner of VCFNE IV.

Individually, Mr. Stewart has had an active and successful career with numerous New England-based companies. In addition to his full-time capacity with VCFNE IV, he currently sits on numerous company boards, and is also an active advisor to three other venture capital groups in the Boston area. He serves as treasurer of Thompson Island Outward Bound, also in Boston.

John Federman

John Federman is CEO of eStara, a firm that improves sales conversion rates and ROI for marketers by connecting buyers and sellers.

John's career has included leadership roles as a publishing executive and several CEO positions at successful companies in the advertising industry.

John previously held the position of Publisher at PC Week as a part of his 12-year career at Ziff Davis. During this period, John held several marketing and sales roles, such as the Associate Publisher and cAdvertising Director of PC Week and the East Coast Advertising Director of Corporate Computing.

John Zahner

John Zahner is Chief Operating Officer of PermissionTV.com. He has a broad range of experience in information services, online media, and software services. In 1999 he joined eLogic, a Web development and hosting ASP which was acquired by Reed-Elsevier in 2000.

Prior to eLogic, John was a founder of Individual, Inc. (IPO '96), which merged with Desktop Data in '98 to form NewsEdge, now part of Thomson Corporation. There he pioneered award-winning customized news services First! and HeadsUp plus private label services for Netscape’s NetCenter and Microsoft’s MSN. Prior to Individual, John owned a special-interest magazine publishing firm which was sold to Rodale Press and before that was a publisher with Ziff-Davis.