Capobianco, a serial entrepreneur and veteran executive at Reuters and Tibco, founded the first Italian Web company, Internet Graffiti. He also founded Stigma Online, developer of an information portal product with customers that included Kraft, Novartis, Italian Broadcasting Television and the Italian Stock Exchange. A finance executive at Tibco when the division was acquired by Reuters, Capobianco subsequently led the worldwide pre-sales, deployment and support of Reuters Mercury, a leading software solution for online trading. In addition to his monthly column for Wireless Magazine, Capobianco has taught courses on wireless and mBusiness strategies at the University of Pavia in Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pavia in Italy.
Mary joined Walden International in 2002. Prior to joining WI, she was CEO of Rightworks, an e-procurement and trading exchange software firm, which was acquired by I2 Technologies. She joined Rightworks from Internet Capital Group, where she had been a Managing Director focusing on investments in enterprise software and internet infrastructure including companies such as Rightworks. Prior to Internet Capital Group, Mary was the CEO of the Baan Company, a leading European ERP software firm. She attained this position after selling Aurum Software, a customer relationship management software firm, where she was the CEO, to the Baan Company, after taking Aurum Software public on NASDAQ. Earlier in her career Mary served as a Vice President of Marketing in several high technology firms. Mary studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Robert Currie has over 15 years experience with Silicon Valley early stage tech companies. Before Dash, Robert was CEO of Strangeberry, an internet consumer electronics software startup acquired by TiVo. Prior to Strangeberry Robert co-founded Airgomo, a wireless mobile software startup. Previous to Airgomo Robert was VP of Engineering at Marimba, an Internet infrastructure company that was acquired by BMC. Robert began his career at Digidesign/Avid where he served as VP of Software Engineering. Robert received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and his MBA from the University of Chicago. Robert is a member of the board of the Stanford Jazz Workshop which he has been involved with for over 20 years.
Fred focuses primarily on enterprise software and IT services investments. Prior to joining H.I.G., he was a Vice President in the technology investment banking group of Hambrecht & Quist, and was a founding team member of H&Q’s Atlanta office. At H&Q, he was responsible for the firm’s East Coast software practice, advising clients on a variety of M&A and capital raising transactions and sponsoring several principal investments through H&Q’s $500 million venture capital fund. Previously, he was with the investment banking groups of both Alex Brown & Sons and Robinson-Humphrey. Fred began his career with Accenture, where he managed software development and operations strategy initiatives for large multinational clients, primarily in the high-tech and telecommunications industries.
Michel Wendell has 25 years of experience in launching and managing international Infocom companies. By advising successful start-ups and billion-dollar market leaders in Finland, Sweden, France and the United States, Mr. Wendell has gained a thorough understanding of the changing dynamics of globalizing markets and rapidly developing technologies. His extensive network of contacts in Silicon Valley, where he resides, is a significant resource to Nexit's portfolio companies. Before co-founding Nexit Ventures, Mr. Wendell served as Vice President of Business Development at Cadence Design Systems. He founded EuroVAR, a European-wide network of Windows based EDA solution distributors, and was VP Europe for OrCAD, Inc., a leading PC based design tool vendor.
