BOARD OF ADVISORS

Richard Buckingham

Dick is a seasoned financial executive with more than 20 years of financial, operations, treasury, and administrative management experience gained in the high-technology, Internet, services, manufacturing and consumer products industries. He has spent his professional career as a change manager, working in high growth or turnaround situations.

Recently he formed Durham Street Partners to assist emerging growth companies in the areas of strategic and market assessment, business plan development, operational reviews, partnering negotiations, and financing and financial advisory services.

Engagements have included serving as part-time CFO for a secure testing e-learning company; Boston-based CFO and Board member for a fixed wireless telecom start-up in Panama; Advisory Board member for a consulting company targeting venture businesses; financial consultant for a contract manufacturer; and financial and operations advisor for an Internet-based training company.

Dick has also served as CFO of Family Education Network (FEN), the Internet's largest and most robust family of websites serving the K-12 education market (parents, educators and students). At FEN, he was instrumental in the sale of the business for $175 million to Pearson plc. Prior to joining FEN, Dick spent nearly 10 years at Wang, where he served as Vice President of Financial Services and Treasurer and was the third outside professional hired by Wang in 1990 to develop and execute the turnaround plan for the business. Dick has also held management positions at Manufacturers Services, Prime Computer, Computervision, Wheelabrator Frye and General Mills.

Dick received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an A.B. in Economics from Wabash College.

Marc Dupré

Marc is a partner with Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP. His practice is focused on serving start-up, emerging growth and public companies engaged in a wide range of technology sectors, such as software systems and applications products, biotechnology, mobile communications, medical devices, electronics, semiconductors and networking equipment and systems.

Marc also represents venture capital funds, institutional investors and investment banks in their investment and underwriting activities. He has experience in a wide range of corporate and securities law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, commercial transactions and strategic partnerships and joint ventures.

Marc received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to attending law school, he was a Business Fellow at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He received an A.B., summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Peter Morrissey

Peter founded Morrissey & Company in February 1999 with a mission to create a firm that anticipates clients' needs and helps them to use public relations as a strategic business advantage. Peter brings 25 years of experience to his third start-up and understands the issues and needs facing early stage companies. His objective when launching Morrissey & Company was to build a new type of company with low bureaucracy and access to hands-on senior counsel.

Peter has served as counsel to many CEOs and highly visible corporate executives, boards of directors of major organizations and Fortune 500 companies, including IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Miller Brewing Company. He provided counsel and crisis services to Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Pharmaceutical during the Tylenol capsule poisoning episode, which has come to be recognized as the model for successful crisis communications.

Peter serves on the Executive Committee of Pinnacle Worldwide, the international consortium of independent public relations agencies. He has worked on behalf of hundreds of different clients in a variety of fields, and has extensive marketing communications and reputation management experience regionally, nationally and internationally.

Peter is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America. Active in the business community, he serves on the board of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and is a board member of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries in Boston, in addition to his role with Venture Advisors.

He received his bachelor's degree in communications/public relations from the Boston University College of Communication. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program.

Michael Ward

Michael joined Bain Capital in January 2003 as Executive Vice President responsible for the Burger King and Houghton Mifflin accounts in the Portfolio Group.

Previously, Michael was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Digitas, responsible for the day-to-day management of the business, and was involved with various client relationships. Prior to that he was Chief Operating Officer of Bronner Slosberg Humphrey. Before joining the company, Michael was with Bain & Company from 1994 to 1997 and with PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1985 to 1994. Between 1992 and 1994 Michael held the position of Senior Manager, Strategic Planning in the Chairman's office at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Michael earned his Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering and B.S. in Accounting and Finance from The University of Pennsylvania. He received his MBA from The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. He serves on the Technology Advisory Board at the Boston Public Library, and was previously a Director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and of Takira.com.