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.
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, as well as other leading financial institutions. 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 and he is an independent director of the IQ Mutual Funds, a family of Merrill Lynch registered, closed-end investment companies.
Jiro Okochi
Reval CEO and Co-founder Jiro Okochi is dedicated to helping companies better manage their use of derivatives. He started Reval in 1999 after holding senior positions in derivative sales at major global banks, including WestLB, Deutsche Bank, DKB Financial Products (now part of Mizuho), and Security Pacific Bank (now part of Bank of America). His vision was to provide corporate end-users with a technology solution to effectively assess, measure, document and account for derivatives. Under his leadership, Reval delivered the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for derivative risk management and hedge accounting. With 23 years experience in finance and technology, Mr. Okochi continues to serve the industry as a thought leader. In 2009, he testified on behalf of corporate end-users for the fair reform of OTC derivatives before the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee. He is a member of the Global Markets Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance by Treasury & Risk magazine in 2003 and 2009. He is a published writer and a frequent speaker at domestic and international industry 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. Mr. Okochi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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.
Steve Rosenberg
Steve Rosenberg is Senior Vice President of Phase Forward, one of the leading providers of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety. At Phase Forward, Rosenberg oversees product development, product management, the North American services organization and the company's worldwide production hosting operation. Mr. Rosenberg has over 27 years experience in the software industry. Prior to Phase Forward, he served as the Senior Vice President of Development and Client Services at W3 Health, where he led the development and implementation of the company's flagship healthcare analytics ASP environment and participated in venture capital activities and sales campaigns. Rosenberg's extensive career has included prior leadership roles at McKessonHBOC (formerly HPR, Inc.), Sales Technologies (a division of Dun & Bradstreet) and TRINZIC (formerly AICorp).
Brad Waugh
Brad Waugh is the President and Chief Executive Officer of NaviNet, a leader in unifying electronic communications between healthcare providers and their business partners. 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.
