Keith Atkinson	James Joyce
Frank A. Caine	Seth Kircher
Robert Cawly	Joseph Malone
Marty Glavin	Thomas P. Ramunno
Bill Henke	Donald Ratajczak
Bill Hughes	Don Ronchi

Keith Atkinson, Partner

Frank serves as an independent advisor to private equity and venture investors in the areas of project management, financing strategy, business & operational analysis, cost reduction, working capital management and M&A advisory. Business interests & experience – Industrial Components Manufacturing (mid-cap), Medical Devices (start-up), MEMS Fuel Cells (start-up), B2B & Supply Chain Infrastructure, IPO advisory (small-cap), Enterprise Software (small-cap), Renal Systems (start-up), U.S. Intelligence.

Frank was the CFO for the Raytheon Company with world-wide responsibility for the financial reporting, investment management and accounting operations. In this role, Frank achieved $7.1 billion of debt reduction through $3.3 billion of divestitures, $2.2 billion of financial restructuring, $1.6 billion of other initiatives (restructuring customer financing loans, claims resolution and tax planning). He led working capital initiatives that doubled working capital turnover and yielded a $1.5 billion cash flow benefit. In addition, Frank has served as CFO for Wang Global, an IT product and services company, and as VP-Treasurer of United Technologies.

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Robert Cawly, Partner

Bob has been instrumental in assisting clients improve their overall innovation, entrepreneurial and Lab to Market capabilities. Among his clients are a nationally recognized research laboratory, a major aerospace defense contractor, a world-class health care research institution, and numerous start-up companies. He is the author of EVP’s Lab to Market Methodology TM and its primary innovator in its continued improvement and application. Bob worked at Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. as an entrepreneur in residence. At Safeguard, he conducted a review of the assets developed by Bell Labs for Lucent Technologies to guide development of commercialization strategies in working with entrepreneurs and venture funds. Of note, he founded The Value Sourcing Group to assist client’s increase the value sourced from information, process and technology investments using The Value Sourcing Methodology that he authored. This company remains the most successful start-up in Safeguard’s history. As CEO, he led the acquisition of The Sentry Group, where he served as President and CEO culminating in its acquisition by The META Group in 1998. At META, he served as the practice lead for META Group’s Value Consulting Practice and developed a methodology for managing IT as a Business Discipline. Covering all major industries, in excess of 2000 organizations employ this, and other methodologies that Bob has developed. By 1998, over $2.5 billion in incremental value had been realized by clients in value programs that employ these methodologies and tools.From 1992 to 1994 Bob served as the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of the Business Technology Group of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. From January 1977 to 1985, he was a practice consultant at Price Waterhouse. At admission to the partnership in 1986, he was Managing Partner and Founder of Price Waterhouse’s Applied Technology Center, an innovation lab that grew to $250 million in industry and IT consulting revenue in 4 years. In April of 1990 to April 1992, Bob served as a Deputy Vice-Chairman of the firm overseeing the consulting services for the US practice. Bob has a BS in Accounting from Strayer University, conducted his Masters work in Behavioral Science at Central Michigan University, is a Certified Public Accountant, and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

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Marty Glavin, Partner

Mr. Glavin has over 22 years of management consulting experience in the areas of strategy, operations improvement, financial management (including M&A), information technology, and change management working extensively in start-up, middle market and Fortune 50 client environments. Prior to Executive Venture Partners, Mr. Glavin worked with PriceWaterhouse, KPMG Consulting, and co-founded SiGMA Consulting which he eventually sold to Nextera Enterprises. In addition to Executive Venture Partners, Mr. Glavin is Managing Director of Navint Consulting, a management consulting firm specializing in the areas of business performance and information technology.

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Bill Henke, Partner

William D. Henke is an entrepreneur and the firm’s lead technology analyst providing advice and guidance on the viability and application of IP based technology assets. Given the ever emerging role of information in basic and applied research, information technology strategies become ever more critical to fully capture the information content related to such research projects in life sciences, bioinformatics, and genome sequencing. Bill has played an instrumental role in developing a set of research centric process and information tools to support research investigators, technology transfer personnel and portfolio managers better deal with the problem of where in the research process is an asset created. These collaboration tools permit the disclosure process to be much more productive and beneficial, rather than the time consuming, intrusive and burdensome process that exists in most institutions. The Ingenuity Engine is the primary application and toolkit that support these asset and opportunity definition activities.

In addition assessing the technical merits of IP assets, Bill reviews technology strategies and plans for start-up companies to establish the essential technology applications and infrastructure to support the early stages of launching business operations. In this capacity, over 25 new business start-ups have relied on his expertise and skills to successfully manage both customer facing and back office information technology requirements.

Moreover, Bill is the lead architect and developer of the Lab to Market application toolkit and process configurator. The configurator is a dynamic content management application that permits those involved in research innovation and commercialization to readily package and distribute Lab to Market tools, methods and workbooks. This collaboration platform becomes the focal point to readily integrate EVP’s tools and methods with those of our clients. This has the desired effect of building on our client’s knowledge base and increasing its effectiveness by minimizing the learning curve. As an example, Bill has developed tools that automatically stage patent content from public sources into client environments thereby creating an automated patent database in an extremely expedited and cost effective fashion.

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Bill Hughes, Partner

Mr. Hughes has 35 years of experience managing all aspects of telecommunications companies. In addition to his current responsibilities as President and CEO of HPA Consulting Group, a firm specializing in communications services, he led Frontier Corporation’s acquisition team in building and managing 37 subsidiary telephone companies. As Divisional President, Mr. Hughes was responsible for the assimilation and change management process as well as the process improvements required to deliver high quality service at competitive prices. During the 1980’s, Mr. Hughes ran Frontier’s competitive businesses and succeeded in growing these companies three-fold. Mr. Hughes led his management team in the preparation, sales, implementation and maintenance of telecommunications voice and data networks for Fortune 500 business customers and utilities. Mr. Hughes was honored by Frontier with its President’s Award for Quality Leadership. He also served on the Aspen Institute’s Committee on Bringing the Information Network to Rural America.

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James Joyce, Managing Partner

Jim has led a number of initiatives to both unlock value from “sunk” research and development investment at Fortune 500 Companies in the Aerospace and Health Care industries and to insure that future research and development is optimally targeted and funded. In addition, Jim is active in the Venture Capital Community in helping evaluate potential investments and in helping manage existing portfolio companies. Jim has worked in conjunction with a number of private equity companies. Jim has deep experience in the area of Intellectual Property Strategy and Commercialization.

He has designed and implemented groupware based intellectual property management and commercialization tools, created intellectual property strategies and actively licensed and sold Intellectual Property. Jim is also active as a principal investor in a number of early stage technology based companies. In this role, he has taken a number of assignments as temporary management positions in startups as diverse as Overstock (a recently IPO online liquidator) to Ice Engineering LLC (A Dartmouth based snow and ice friction modification company). Jim has a legal, business and technology background that has allowed him to quickly create value solutions in the Intellectual Property arena. Jim’s management experience includes his work with early stage companies and various practice leadership positions in consulting (to include profit and loss responsibility and building new practice areas).

He also bought, turned around and sold Pierce Manufacturing Company, an international designer, builder and service provider of irrigationequipment and other engineered products. Jim is a classically trained business and strategy consultant having worked at Bain and Company, Deloitte and Touche, and Nextera over a fifteen-year career in consulting. Representative innovation projects include doing a market based product reconfiguration to create a highly successful automobile, launching an entirely new medical technology and helping build an organization to support millions in sales and new product creation process improvement and portfolio management.

He is credited with leading teams that created billions of dollars of value for clients. Jim has also done significant work in the area of new technologies – to include extensive work on the market and economic impact of new technologies for organizations including Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions and financial investors. Jim has been a guest lecturer at the Dartmouth Business School and is an Advisor to the M.I.T. Advanced Manufacturing and Systems Design Programs. He has worked extensively with Alvin Toffler’s think tank, Toffler Associates. Jim has a Bachelor and Masters Degrees of Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the Dartmouth Business School. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

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Seth Kircher, Partner

Mr. Kircher has a strong background in market research and business intelligence. His expertise includes R&D portfolio valuation, technology assessment, business opportunity evaluation and competitive intelligence formulation. While focusing on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and managed care industries, he has also assisted clients in the consumer products, higher education and publishing industries. Prior to joining Executive Venture Partners, Mr. Kircher served as a Research Analyst at SRI Consulting and as a Consultant for Nextera. Mr. Kircher holds an undergraduate degree from Babson College.

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Joseph Malone, Partner

In 1991, Joe Malone became the first Republican sworn into the office of Massachusetts State Treasurer in forty-one years. He was re-elected with almost 70% of the vote four years later. During his eight-year tenure, Joe followed through on his promise of making government more efficient and effective by re-structuring the Treasury and modernizing its departments, cutting operating costs by 62%. As head of the Massachusetts State Lottery, Malone reduced Lottery expenses as a percentage of gross sales from 4.4% to 2.2%, the lowest of any lottery in the nation. Under Malone’s leadership, the performance of the Commonwealth’s pension funds went from worst to best as compared to other states.

In 1996 the Legislature adopted Malone’s proposal to merge the state’s two pension funds, thereby saving $100 million over the next five years and the savings continue today. Since leaving government in 1999, Malone has helped to build two successful start-up companies, one specializing in business development and the other in the enterprise software field. He earned his AB from Harvard University in 1978 and is active in a number of charitable endeavors. Joe will be Chairman of the Investment Committee, providing oversight on all investment decisions. In addition, he will be a key resource for high level access to national venture capital and buyout firms to provide follow-on financing or acquisition of portfolio companies.

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Thomas P. Ramunno

Mr. Ramunno is an experienced executive with 25+ total years of relevant experience. His skills and expertise have been developed through: Strong P/L management; Extensive start-up management; Professional business and information technology consulting; Extensive product development, application and management; Business development at the “CxO” level; Extensive strategic partnership and channel development management; and, Development and delivery of complex, large-scale business consulting and technology solution projects.

Mr. Ramunno also has experience and expertise in supporting the commercialization of intellectual property, especially software and related assets, within both academic institutions and the private sector.

Over the past 25 years Mr. Ramunno has held positions as Managing Director at Scient, Inc.; Partner at KPMG; Principal at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells; Vice President at META Group; and, President/CEO at ASG/Frontline, among other firms, has successfully built and managed business and technology consulting companies and practices delivering professional services to Global 2000 firms; and to information and technology firms that market within the Global 2000 firms, within a wide range of vertical markets including Financial Services, Insurance, Asset Management, Energy, Technology/related software and hardware, Academic, Retail and Distribution .

The methodologies developed by Mr. Ramunno in Performance Management, Strategic Business Risk Management and Enterprise Strategies are in use by over 550 client organizations world-wide. Over the past 6 years, Mr. Ramunno has developed extensive business at: Target, JC Penney Financial, the Associates, American Airlines/Sabre, Nicor Energy, Aquila Energy, Ford Motor Company, Tellabs, Argonne National Labs, Simon Properties, Nationwide Financial, Mutual of Omaha, AgriBank, North American/Allied Van Lines, IBM, ChannelPoint, PWC, Sears, BP/Amoco and ABN Amro/LaSalle, among other firms.

Mr. Ramunno has an MBA from the University of Georgia and has done post graduate work at Tufts University in Business Policy, Strategy and International Business.

Donald Ratajczak

Dr. Donald Ratajczak is the Regent’s Professor of Economics Emeritus, having retired from Georgia State University at the end of June 2000. For twenty-seven years, Don has been Director of the Economic Forecasting Center in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Prior to founding the Center in 1973, Don was Director of Research for the UCLA Business Forecasting Project. Under his direction, the GSU Economic Forecasting Center became recognized as a leader in inflation analysis, a source of the south for economic development in that region, and one of the most accurate forecasting centers in the country. Don’s practice area in working is community and economic development issues that contribute to successful in-state investment, venture development and economic benefits. Don has assisted clients at a large aerospace defense contractor, Universities and several state economic development agencies. Of note is a comprehensive survey done of successful venture practices structured to obtain best practices of more than 50 Corporations, Venture Capital sources, and Research Institutions.Business Week cited Dr. Ratajczak for his accuracy in predicting national trends. The Wall Street Journal acknowledged Don as one of the twenty most quoted economists in the world. In 1994, Don won the Blue Chip award for forecasting accuracy during the previous four years. Don regularly comments on inflationary trends for CNBC and on Federal Reserve policy and other economic issues for CNN. He also has been on the “Today Show” and on national news programs for all the major TV networks as well as public television and NPR radio.

Don presents his views on economic conditions for many professional and industrial groups and also has been asked to provide testimony before the U.S. Congress on many different economic issues. He has been an inflation advisor to the Council of Economic Advisors and Congressional Budget Office. He remains a weekly columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution and a news source for all the major media outlets. Don received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his PhD. from MIT.

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Don Ronchi

Don is Adjunct Professor of Organizations and Markets at The University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and a consultant in private practice. From 1998 through 2005, Don was a corporate officer at Raytheon Company serving as Chief Learning Officer, Vice President of Six Sigma, Supply Chain and President of Raytheon Professional Services, LLC, a supplier of blended learning solutions to commercial and government customers in over 50 countries. Don also was on the Board of Exostar, the supply chain exchange for the aerospace and defense industry. Prior to joining Raytheon, Don was an organizational psychologist in private practice specializing in helping organizations gain competitive advantage through alignment of strategy, structure, and operating systems.

He was on the core consulting team for GE’s ground-breaking culture change process known as WorkOutTM. Prior to starting his consulting practice, Don was one of the founding faculty members and graduate director of the Labor and Human Resources Department in the School of Business at the Ohio State University, where he directed the research program in productivity and quality of work life. Don has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and La Universidad de Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela.

Don holds a BA in psychology from Marist College, an MA in psychology from Cornell University, and a PhD in social psychology from The University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and Sigma Xi, the honor society of science and engineering. Don currently serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Applied Research, Sentia Group, and Sonic Foundry.

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