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Program Moderator:Ted Alexander: Managing Partner-Mission Ventures www.missionventures.comTed Alexander is a Managing Partner of Mission Ventures III and has been with the firm since its founding. Prior to joining Mission Ventures, Ted worked closely with a successful Mission Ventures portfolio company investment, Sandpiper Networks. Previously, Ted was a Platoon Commander in the US Navy SEALs, and a Division Officer aboard a US Navy destroyer. Ted received an MBA from Duke University, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Ted's investment focus has been predominantly in the areas of communications and infrastructure, and is currently serving as a Director for MaxLinear, ID Analytics, Networks in Motion, Ortiva Wireless, Rocketalk, Verimatrix, LeisureLink and Carbon Micro Battery and Rotohog.
Panelists:Doug Antone: Sr. VP, Navigation and Telematics GroupAs Senior Vice President of TeleCommunications Systems' Navigation and Telematics Group, Antone oversees the direction and development activities for the wireless carrier and car navigation applications and services. Antone has held managerial and executive positions in a number of large and small companies during his 20-plus years in the information technology business. Antone was president and CEO of Networks In Motion which was acquired by TCS in 2009. Earlier in his career he was CEO of DispenseSource, Inc., an Orange County-based startup backed by Mission Ventures and Innocal Venture Capital Partners, and he previously served as president and CEO of Ethentica, a biometrics and ASP authentication services company. During Antone's tenure, the company raised $25 million in equity funding and launched a family of biometric products into the marketplace. Antone was the first employee of Ingram Alliance, serving as founding president of this new division of Ingram Micro. Through his leadership, Ingram Alliance grew from zero to more than $3 billion in annual sales. Before Ingram Micro, Antone was senior vice president, worldwide sales, service and corporate marketing for Borland International.
Gregg Marston: VP Finance of TCSGregg is VP Finance of Telecommunications Systems for wireless carrier and car navigation applications and services. As CFO of Networks in Motion (NIM), Gregg Marston played a key roll in the company's growth from pre-product/pre-customer in 2005 to becoming one of the two largest wireless navigation companies with 2009 revenues in excess of $70m. In December 2009, NIM was purchased by Telecommunication Systems for $180m, the largest Southern California acquisition of a Venture Funded IT company in 2009. Prior to joining Networks in Motion, Gregg spent three decades working with three successful startups that have earned substantial returns for their investors. He was CFO of Foundstone, a computer security company that was sold to McAfee in late 2004 for $87 million. During the 1990s he was CFO of Intek Global, a narrow-band wireless data company that went public through a reverse merger and increased the price of its stock 6x in less than a year. During the 1980s he was controller of Triconex, a fault-tolerant computer company that had an IPO and was subsequently acquired.
William Simpson: Corporate Partner-Paul HastingsBill specializes in private equity, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital. He regularly represents owners and management groups in private equity transactions and he currently represents over 30 private equity backed companies and 10 private equity and other investment groups. He has handled approximately 250 mergers and acquisitions, including the sale of Linksys to Cisco and the sale of Pacific Scientific to Danaher. He is listed in Chambers (USA) - "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" (one of only two Orange County corporate lawyers listed). He is also listed in "The Best Lawyers in America", The Los Angeles Times "Southern California's Best Lawyers," and has been repeatedly named as a Top 50 Orange County "Super Lawyer" by Law and Politics Magazine. Mr. Simpson has been active in the Firm's management, including serving as Chair of the Firm's Orange County Office and Chair of the Firm's Private Equity Practice Group. He is also a former chair of the Business and Corporate Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association.
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