Richard A. D'Amore
Rich D'Amore has been with North Bridge Venture Partners since inception. From 1982 until starting North Bridge, Mr. D'Amore has been in the venture business. Prior to 1982 he worked as a consultant at Bain and Company and as a certified public accountant with Arthur Young and Company. D'Amore's venture investing is targeted at the software industry. He has focused his investment activity in the Northeast since establishing Hambro's office there in 1982. His investments have been split between early-stage projects and special situations. All have been active projects, including structuring initial transactions and assuming board seats. D'Amore is a graduate of Northeastern University (summa cum laude), 1975, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (Baker Scholar), 1980.
Fred L. Cohen
Fred L. Cohen is a financial risk management veteran and hedging specialist with a career spanning over 30 years as a Principal in two of the Big 4 firms and as a Vice President for major financial institutions. Building on his financial and enterprise risk management career, his current efforts as Managing Director at Perception Advisors are focused on assisting corporations to increase revenue and reduce costs and risks in response to climate change and other sustainability challenges. In his capacity as PricewaterhouseCoopers Global and US Advisory Leader for the Energy, Utility and Mining industry sectors, he advised US utilities on business strategy, financial and enterprise risk management and financial and management reporting. Prior to PwC, he built KPMG’s treasury consulting practice, integrating advisory, assurance and tax practices. He also worked as a Vice President at Chemical Bank and at First Pennsylvania Bank. Mr. Cohen is a frequent speaker and writer on issues important in his areas of expertise. He holds a BA in Political Science from Rutgers College, an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Drexel University and participated in the Executive Education, International Program at Wharton School.
Jonathan Feigelson
Mr. Feigelson is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Head of Corporate Governance of TIAA-CREF, a national financial services group of companies and the leading provider of retirement saving products and services in the academic, medical, cultural and research fields. Mr. Feigelson’s 18 years in financial services, derivatives and securities law also includes roles as Managing Director and General Counsel for ABN AMRO’s North American Investment Bank, a variety of positions culminating in Global Director of Equity Derivatives Compliance at Goldman Sachs, and Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Frauds Bureau specializing in securities and bank fraud cases. Mr. Feigelson received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and was a member of the Columbia Law Review. He received his Master’s degree with highest honors from the London School of Economics and Political Science, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College, and was a nominee for Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. Mr. Feigelson also sits on the Board of the Foreign Policy Association.
Dr. Steven W. Kohlhagen
Dr. Steven W. Kohlhagen has been involved in the derivatives markets for over 30 years as an academic, a practitioner, and a Board member. He is well known in the markets as the co-creator of the widely used Garman Kohlhagen pricing model, the formula for estimating the value of a European call option on foreign exchange. Dr. Kohlhagen was also honored as an inaugural member of Risk Magazine's first "Derivatives Hall of Fame" in 2002. Dr. Kohlhagen's career in the field of derivatives began in academia as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. As a practitioner, he built sales teams and derivatives businesses at Lehman Brothers, Bankers Trust, and First Union/Wachovia. At Bankers Trust, he was founder of the Market Transaction Group (Derivatives Options Products) and Managing Director, Money Market Sales and Trading, Origination and Distribution. His career at First Union began as co-founder of all derivative products business and later Managing Director for the Fixed Income Division. Additionally, Kohlhagen's contributions to the world of finance have been widely published in a number of economics and business publications and journals. In addition to Reval's Board, Dr. Kohlhagen sits on the Board of Directors of Ametek, Inc. a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices.
Jiro Okochi
Jiro Okochi is CEO of Reval, a company he co-founded in 1999 to bring an Internet technology solution to the underserved market of corporate derivative end-users. Under his leadership, Reval introduced a true Software-as-a-Service solution, which has since evolved from a best-of-breed financial risk management offering to a next generation, all-in-one SaaS for enterprise treasury and risk management. Bringing 25 years of experience to bear on vision to transform the way companies manage treasury and risk, Mr. Okochi led Reval through two market-changing acquisitions. While Reval’s SaaS has been recognized with several industry awards, Mr. Okochi himself was a 2010 Ernst & Young Metro New York Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance by Treasury & Risk magazine for a fourth time since 2003. His well-rounded perspective of corporate needs comes from his days serving the end-user community at major global banks, such as West LB, Deutsche Bank, DKB Financial Products (now part of Mizuho), and Security Pacific Bank (now part of Bank of America). Today, he continues to help companies solve complex business issues, as a technology innovator, an advocating member on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets Advisory Committee, and as an international author and speaker. His thought leadership extends across treasury management to derivative reform and accounting regulations under both FASB and IASB. In 2009 he testified on behalf of corporate derivative users before the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, and regularly participates in conferences for the Association of Financial Professionals, Association of Corporate Treasurers, International Association of Corporate Treasurers (China), Association of Corporate Treasurers (Singapore) and Acumen, among others, and at events with Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Extending his advocacy beyond the corporate environment to the communities they serve, Mr. Okochi leads his company’s corporate responsibility program, Reval Cares, and sits on the boards of the non-profit organizations, Little Kids Rock and Be The Match®, a National Marrow Donor Program®. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkley, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Genetics.
Justin Perreault
Justin Perreault is a General Partner of Commonwealth Capital Ventures. Perreault has more than 15 years of venture capital and operating experience in information technology industries. He has particular interest in and experience with enterprise application, infrastructure software, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business models. Prior to joining Commonwealth, Perreault was COO and later CEO of Object Design, a publicly held software company. There he was part of the senior team that helped to grow the company to become the leader in its market segment and take the company public on NASDAQ. Earlier, he was a vice president at Harvard Management Company, responsible for information technology venture investments, and a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Perreault received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, summa cum laude, and a Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.
Brad Waugh
Brad Waugh is the President and Chief Executive Officer of NaviNet, a leader in unified patient information management (UPIM). Waugh has over 25 years of experience in building and leading entrepreneurial ventures. Before NaviNet, he was the U.S. President and CEO of Wincor-Nixdorf, a $2.6 billion firm that is focused on the ATM and POS marketplace. Prior to Wincor-Nixdorf, in 1998 Waugh successfully sold his first company, C.W. Costello & Associates, Inc. (a Y2K solutions firm) to Covansys (now CSC). In 2000, Waugh founded Watch Hill Partners, Inc., a company focused on CRM optimization and mobility of Fortune 1000 companies. Watch Hill Partners was sold to MasterCard International in May 2004, as part of a new consulting unit, MasterCard Advisors and the Customer Experience Group. Waugh was awarded the 2004 Technology Award for Entrepreneurship from the Entrepreneurship Forum of New England. He has also served on the boards of the RI Convention Center Authority, the Narragansett Bay Commission, ArcStream Solutions (sold to Keane) and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. At Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Waugh served a short time as the acting CIO. Waugh is the founder and past President of the RI Technology Council and a past board member of Boston University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Management.
Rodger Weismann
Rodger Weismann has been a leader in the software and services industries for the past forty years serving in a variety of financial and operational leadership roles. Most recently, he served as SVP & CFO for Phase Forward, a public provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety and recently acquired by Oracle. Prior to Phase Forward, Weismann was CFO for four northern California-based software companies including Inxight Software, a private text search engine company, Kabira Technologies a private communications software company, NONSTOP Solutions, a private inventory management software company and Forte Software, a public application development tools company, where he led the IPO in 1996. Previously, in Massachusetts, in roles as CFO, COO, and EVP, Corporate Development over seven years for Banyan Systems, Weismann was instrumental in its growth from $3 million to $130 million and its IPO in 1992. Prior to Banyan, Weismann was CFO at McCormack & Dodge, a private business application software company, The Forum Corporation, a private management and sales training company, Interactive Data Corporation, a private computer time-sharing company offering services primarily to the securities industry and The Ealing Corporation, a public provider of optical services and science teaching equipment. Weismann began his career with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell (now KPMG) in both audit and consulting groups and was licensed as a CPA in Massachusetts. Weismann is a graduate of Cornell University, where he earned a BS in Economics and Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, where he earned a MBA, with a concentration in Management Controls.