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Board of Directors
Foster Aborn
Mr. Aborn has spent his career in the financial services industry, recently retiring as vice-chairman and chief investment officer of John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. where he oversaw an $80 billion portfolio. He has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, having served on the trustee and overseer boards of numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Bay Cove Human Services, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Huntington Theatre Company, among others.
Mr. Aborn received his undergraduate BA degree from Dartmouth College and his graduate MBA degree from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.
Les Charm
Professor Charm teaches at Babson College and has been a partner in the firm of Youngman & Charm since 1972. The firm specializes in directorship functions for firms owned and operated by entrepreneurs and in assisting companies that are experiencing operating and/or financial problems. Youngman & Charm has operated in a variety of industries, channels of distribution, and has been involved in numerous successful financings and acquisitions and mergers.
From 1977 through 1990, Professor Charm was chairman and president of a major distributor and specialty retail chain with several hundred retail outlets. He has been active in other specialty marketing companies, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Franchise Association from 1983 to 1988. He is currently director of the National Association of Corporate Directors-New England, as well as director of several public and privately-held firms.
Professor Charm has taught throughout the world on a variety of topics regarding entrepreneurship. He is on the President's Council at Babson, and is the recipient of the Appel Award for Entrepreneurship. He is a graduate of Babson College and the Harvard Business School.
Rick Faulk
With more than 20 years of experience in executive management, sales, and marketing for some of the most successful companies in the high-tech industry, Rick Faulk is a nationally recognized high technology executive. Immediately prior to Mzinga, Rick was Chief Marketing Officer of WebEx Communications and President of WebEx Small Business, where he was responsible for the company's worldwide go-to-market and customer acquisition strategies.
Previously, Rick served as president and CEO of Intranets.com, which was acquired by WebEx in 2005. Under his leadership, Intranets.com secured more than 300,000 users and was named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing technology companies for two consecutive years.
Before joining Intranets.com, Rick was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at PictureTel, where he was responsible for all aspects of corporate marketing.
Prior to joining PictureTel, Rick was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Shiva Corporation. He was instrumental in growing Shiva's worldwide revenues by more than 50 percent, expanding distribution channels and effectively positioning Shiva as the market leader in the remote networking market.
Rick also spent four years as Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Lotus Development Corporation, where he was responsible for all marketing communication functions, VAR development, database marketing, channel marketing, and OEM marketing.
Before that, Rick founded First Software, a software distribution company, which grew to more than $175 million in revenue in less than four years. In 1985, First Software was ranked second in Inc. Magazine's list of fastest-growing companies.
Rick holds a BS in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University.
Stephen Green
Steve has been a Partner with Canaan Partners since November 1991. He has a broad background in financing companies involved in manufacturing, retailing, radio, television, and cable broadcasting as well as financial services. Steve began his career with GE in 1973 and held a variety of financial positions. From 1983 to 1991, he was with GE Venture Capital and GE Capital's Corporate Finance Group, providing debt and equity financing for start-up companies and leveraged buyouts.
Steve is a graduate of Amherst College and, in addition to serving on cMarket's Board of Directors, serves on the Board of Directors of The Active Network, Dean Foods and Verance.
Anthony P. Morris
Tony Morris has been involved in the information technology (IT) industry since 1979 as entrepreneur, investor, independent Director, and consultant on both sides of the Atlantic. Since 1988 he has provided business strategy and venture development counsel to IT companies and investors, ranging from the largest computer industry companies to high potential startups.
In 2000, Tony relocated to London from Boston to work with promising UK and European IT companies and their investors both on venture development in local markets and on US market entry strategy. He has made two dozen direct investments in private IT companies and is a limited partner in several widely recognized venture capital firms in the US and the UK.
In 1980 Tony founded Morris Decision Systems, an early "value added" PC reseller and network systems integrator in New York, ranking #9 in the Inc. 500 when it was sold. He is a Director of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:PTEC), Nexagent Ltd. (UK), and Datanomic Ltd. (UK). He has been profiled as a successful angel investor in Winning Angels by Harvard Business School's Howard Stevenson and David Amis (Financial Times/Prentice Hall – 2001). He holds an AB from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford University.
Tony is a member of the Board of Global Advisors at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He lives in the Kensington section of London with his wife and two daughters.
Stephanie Monaghan O'Brien, Esq.
Ms. O'Brien represents the Morningside Technology Ventures. Morningside has a long history of investing in successful early stage companies such as Paypal, Family Education Network, Sohu.com, and many others.
She has extensive experience with start-up companies and currently serves on a number of private company boards. Ms. O'Brien received her A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College in 1980 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1985. She has worked with nonprofits and recently served on the board of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association.
