Will Herman was most recently CEO of Innoveda, Inc, a supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software tools and services which was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2002. Innoveda, a public company, was created through the mergers of Viewlogic Systems and Summit Design, another EDA provider. Mr. Herman co-founded Viewlogic Systems in 1984 and left the company in 1992 after the company's IPO. He rejoined the company in 1995 initally as President, then as CEO. Viewlogic Systems was acquired by Synopsys in 1997. One year later, most of the assets acquired by Synopsys were re-purchased by Mr. Herman and his team via a MBO reforming Viewlogic as a private company.
During his hiatus from Viewlogic, he was the first President of Scopus Technology, Inc. a supplier of software automation tools in the customer information systems marketplace. He later joined startup Silerity, Inc., a developer of high-performance logic and physical synthesis tools where he was President and CEO. Silerity was purchased by Viewlogic in 1995.
Mr. Herman has also held management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and was involved in two other software startup operations, Dataware Logic, which he founded, and Health Care Computer Systems. He is currently a director of four private companies; AccuRev, Carbon Design, StillSecure and TrustPlus. Previously, he served as a director of several other public and private companies including, Template Graphics Software, Hall Kinion, Rebar, Lexra, Quintus, Viewlogic Systems, Innoveda, Silerity, ChannelWave and Bionaut Pharmaceuticals.
John Henry Clippinger III, Advisor
John Clippinger is a Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at The Harvard Law School. There he directs The Open Identity Meta-system, project for the development of Higgins, an open source, inter-operable identity framework that gives people control over their personal information. Dr. Clippinger co-founded the Social Physics project to conduct multi-disciplinary research and workshops in cooperation with the Gruter Institute and the Aspen Institute on the impact of trust, reciprocity, reputation, and social signaling on the formation of digital institutions.
Clippinger founded several software companies, including Brattle Research Corporation, Context Media, Lingo Motors, and more recently, Parity Communications, where he is Chairman. He has consulted to the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks, Information and Integration) on the role of trust and distributed control for networked organizations. He has also consulted with numerous other government agencies, including the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration, Federal Communications Commission, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, United States Agency for International Development, and the Office of Technology Assessment.
Dr. Clippinger is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Matthew J. Cutler, Advisor
Matt Cutler is currently the Vice President of Marketing & Analytics at Visible Measures, which provides objective third-party audience measurements of Internet video. Previously, he co-founded 80108 Media (now go2 Media), and was their first Vice President of Marketing. 80108 pioneered new mechanisms for hyper-local mobile content. Mr. Cutler began his technology career as a co-founder of Internet measurement pioneer NetGenesis, which was acquired by SPSS, where he served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing.
Mr. Cutler received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Architecture from MIT. He was the founder of the Webmasters Guild and co-chair of CPExchange, an open standard that facilitates the exchange of privacy-enabled customer information across applications.
Jonathan "Jothy" Rosenberg, Advisor
Jothy Rosenberg is a serial entrepreneur. He has founded five companies in the last twenty years, two of which have had nine-figure exits. Dr. Rosenberg co-founded GeoTrust, the world's second largest certificate authority prior to its acquisition by Verisign. In addition, he founded Service Integrity, NovaSoft, and, among others, Webspective, now part of Yahoo!. Prior to his entrepreneurial life, Dr. Rosenberg held management positions at Borland and MasPar.
He is currently the Director of US IT Ventures for ANGLE Technology, which provides seed and pre-seed funding for nascent technology companies.
Dr. Rosenberg earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University, where he served as an assistant professor of computer science for five years post-Ph.D. He is the author of the successful technical books How Debuggers Work (Wiley, 1996) and Securing Web Services with WS-Security (Sams, 2004). Dr. Rosenberg is also the founder of the Boston Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Forum.
Giorgos Zacharia, Advisor
Giorgos Zacharia is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at MIT and a member of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research focuses on multitask learning, and learning algorithms for ranking and conjoint analysis problems. He holds an S.M. from the Software Agents group of the MIT Media Laboratory, where he did research in reputation mechanisms for online communities, dynamic pricing, and information retrieval. His research interests in Human Computer Interaction include e-learning and quantitative methods for evaluating interactions of networked communities.
Zacharia was the Founder and Chief Scientist of Open Ratings (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet) where he led research and development, to develop risk management solutions using predictive data mining.
