Antenna Board Members

The Antenna Board of Directors is an exceptional group with significant industry knowledge, business acumen, and hands-on operating capability. These notable individuals have helped, advised, and established many of the premier organizations in the technology industry.

  • Richard D'Amore
    General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

    Rich D'Amore has been with North Bridge since inception and has been in the venture business since 1982. Prior to 1982 he worked as a consultant at Bain and Company and as a certified public accountant with Arthur Young and Company. Mr. D'Amore's venture investing is targeted at the software industry with his investments being split between early-stage projects and special situations. Virtually all have been active projects, including structuring initial transactions and assuming a board seat. He has focused his investment activity in the Northeast.

    Rich is a graduate of Northeastern University (summa cum laude), 1975, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (Baker Scholar), 1980.

  • John Gannon
    General Partner, Polaris Ventures

    Prior to Polaris, John was chief financial officer of Firefly Network Inc., which was sold to Microsoft in 1998. Before Firefly Network, John held a number of positions at Powersoft Corporation, including chief financial officer and treasurer. During his tenure at Powersoft, from 1992 to 1995, the company grew annual sales from $21 million to over $200 million. John was instrumental in the company's successful initial public offering in 1993 as well as in several mergers and acquisitions during that period. John came to Powersoft from Trinzic Corporation, where he was chief financial officer, and Cullinet Software, Inc. where he held the positions of vice president of administration and treasurer. Prior to Cullinet, he was a certified public accountant for Coopers & Lybrand.

    John received his BA in accounting from Northeastern University. He is a member of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

  • James Hemmer
    President & Chief Executive Officer

    James Hemmer has more than 25 years of experience in the hi-tech and communications industries, and has been a senior executive at companies in all stages of development from early stage to Fortune 500.

    For the past 8 years, Jim has been President and CEO of Antenna. Under his direction, Antenna has evolved from very early stage to the leader of the enterprise mobility market. He has achieved this by consistently executing on a clear vision for how the market would develop and a having a keen understanding of enterprise customers’ needs. A dynamic company in a dynamic market, Antenna has continued to experience steady organic growth, which has been accelerated by 4 strategic acquisitions of competitors and related technology companies. Today, Antenna is the trusted mobility partner of the world’s leading companies.

    Prior to joining Antenna, Jim was senior vice president and general manager for ADC Corporation's [NASDAQ: ADCT] Software Services Division. Jim accepted the position in February 2001 following ADC's acquisition of CommTech Corporation, an enterprise software company focused on the telecommunications service provider market, where he was president and chief operating officer.

    Prior to CommTech, Jim was senior vice president of operations at Cap Gemini Telecommunications, a division of Cap Gemini Group. He was responsible for operations and sales in the telecommunications sector, the fastest-growing segment of Cap Gemini's North American organization.

    Jim also played a key role as a member of the senior leadership team at Computer Sciences Corporation [NYSE: CSC], establishing a substantial global communications business for the company. During his nine years at CSC, Jim ran the company's Asia-Pacific communications business unit, managed a global customer care and billing product-line organization, and developed the company's European communications business unit in London.

    Jim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Martin Levion
    Former Director and Head of Derivatives and
    Financial Products Group, Societe Generale

    Martin Levion oversaw the Group's activities including Fixed Income Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Municipal Finance and Derivatives, Structured Credit Products, credit arbitrage, emerging markets arbitrage, principal finance, and structured tax-based products. Mr. Levion joined SG in 1990 when he founded the DFP Group. Previously he was a member of the Interest Rate Swap Group and then the Fixed Income Arbitrage Group at Salomon Brothers in New York and London. Before joining Salomon, he was a trader in the Municipal Bond department at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Levion has been an active early round investor in many private equity funded technology and service companies and has served on the boards of Conley Corp (subsequently sold to EMC), PFS Trader Tools, and Antenna.

    Mr. Levion graduated in 1982 from Cornell University with a B.A. in Economics.

  • Justin J. Perreault
    General Partner, Commonwealth Capital

    Justin has 16 years of venture capital and operating experience in information technology industries. At Commonwealth Capital he focuses on enterprise software and communications infrastructure companies. Prior to joining Commonwealth, Justin was CEO of Object Design, a publicly held software company. Earlier, he was a vice president at Harvard Management Company, responsible for information technology venture investments, and a consultant with McKinsey &Co., Inc.

    Justin received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

  • Peter Semmelhack
    Founder

    Peter is Antenna's founder and is currently the founder and CEO of Bug Labs. Peter is a frequent speaker at IT and Field Service conferences and tradeshows and has written numerous articles for industry publications.

    Prior to founding Antenna, Peter founded the digital media production company, Antenna Tool & Die Co., where he led large-scale design and programming projects including Web sites, television commercials and CD-ROMs for ABC Television, Time Warner, IBM, MCI, and General Mills. Most notably, Peter created and designed Microsoft's fall 1996 television ad campaign "Where do you want to go today?" in conjunction with Wieden & Kennedy. Peter has a BA in economics from Brown University.

  • Brad Waugh
    President & CEO, NaviNet, Inc.

    Brad successfully sold his first company in 1998, c.w. Costello & Associates, Inc. (a Y2K services firm), after growing the firm from $15M to $78M in three years. The firm was sold to Covansys, a publicly traded company based in Farmington Hills, MI. His most recent company, Watch Hill Partners, Inc. (started December 2000), was founded to focus on Fortune 1000 company's that had existing CRM implementations that needed to be optimized for a greater ROI through change management and mobile technology. Watch Hill Partners was sold to Mastercard International in May of 2004, forming a new consulting unit, Mastercard Advisors, and the Customer Experience Group. Brad recently won the 2004 Technology Award for Entrepreneurship, from EFNE (Entrepreneurship Forum of New England. Brad is the founder and past president of the RI Technology Council, and a past board member of Boston University, where he earned his BS/BA degree from the School of Management. Brad has also served as the Commissioner of the RI Convention Center Authority and the Narragansett Bay Commission.

  • Graham Albutt
    Former President Reuters America LLC and CEO Tokage Inc.

    Graham Albutt is an accomplished business leader with a record of delivering financial and operational results in complex, global business environments. Mr. Albutt was a member of the Executive Committee of Reuters Group PLC, where he held a variety of executive management positions. Prior to joining Reuters, Mr. Albutt was a management consultant at Deloitte Haskins and Sells in London and held a management position at Scicon, a London-based software firm. From 2002 until 2007, Mr. Albutt was a non-executive director of Datamonitor PLC, where he served on the audit and remuneration committees. He has a deep knowledge of the software marketplace, especially with regard to the complex needs of the financial services industry.

    He is a graduate with honors from the City University of London and served as an officer in the Royal Navy.

  • Gary Haroian
    Corporate Director

    Gary Haroian has over 30 years experience as a manager, executive and director of rapidly growing technology companies. During the past 7 years, he has been a director and audit committee chairman for 10 public or privately held companies. In addition to Antenna Software, Mr. Haroian is currently a director and audit committee chairman for Aspen Technology, Network Engines, and A123Systems. Previously, Mr. Haroian has served as chief financial officer for Bowstreet Software, Concord Communications, and Straus Computer. Early in his career, he worked as a certified public accountant and audit manager for Arthur Andersen and Company.

    He graduated Magna Cum Laude, with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a member of the UMass Boston Board of Entrepreneur Advisors and Mentors, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and Corporate Directors Group.

  • Noah Walley
    Managing Director, Investor Growth Capital

    Noah Walley leads IGC's Information Technology investing activities in North America. He joined Investor Growth Capital in 2003 as a Managing Director having previously spent five years as a General Partner with Morgan Stanley Venture Partners in New York and has been working as a venture capitalist since 1994. Prior to that he spent four years with McKinsey & Company and began his career in investment banking with N M Rothschild & Sons in London. Noah works out of ICG's New York office and focuses on software and technology-based services investments.

    Noah has served on over 20 private company Boards in the course of his career. He currently serves as a Director on the Boards of ContextWeb, Foresee Results, Greenway Medical Technologies, Mindjet, ReCellular, Retail Solutions, Tangoe (NASDAQ: TNGO) and Venda. He previously served as a Director on the Boards of Constant Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT), Freightquote.com, Tallan (Acquired by CMGi), Visiprise (acquired by SAP) and Siperian (acquired by Informatica). Noah has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and earned M.A. and B.A. degrees (first class) from Oxford University.

  • Tom Bogan
    Chairman, Citrix Systems

    Tom Bogan is Chairman, Citrix Systems (CTXS) as well as a Board member at Parametric Technology (PTMS) and private companies Apptio (Bellevue, WA), Rally Software (Boulder), Troux Systems (Austin, TX). Previously Bogan was a partner at Greylock Partners and was President at Rational Software (RATL) until its acquisition by IBM in 2003. He was also CEO at early stage companies Avatar Technologies and Pacific Data Products as well as holding finance positions private and public companies and public accounting

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