Dan Acquafredda

Dan is currently Vice President, Business Development at Vidyo, Inc. Dan brings extensive experience in working with early stage companies to develop and build partnerships and trusting customer relationships. Dan also has deep industry knowledge with over twenty years of technical and sales expertise in the telecom industry.

Rob Adler

Rob is a seasoned, hands-on entrepreneurial leader with a track record of success. Most recently he was the President and CEO of WordStream. In 2006 he co-founded go2 Media where he served as the company's CEO from its start until August 2008. go2 is a leading mobile media company that provides users valuable and compelling information fine tuned for their mobile device. Previously, Rob co-founded CCBN and served as its President from the company's inception in 1997 until its sale to Thomson Financial in March 2004. CCBN was a pioneer in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. Rob's first entrepreneurial venture, DigiTrace Care Services, Inc., (today known as SleepMed) is the leading provider of outpatient EEG and sleep disorder monitoring services in the country. The company today treats tens of thousands of patients annually and its patented technology is a standard in the medical community. Rob graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University, where he earned the distinction of being a Baker Scholar. Rob is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College.

George Cooney

George is currently a Venture Partner at Summerhill Venture Partners. Prior to Summerhill, George was the co-founder of InfoClarus, a venture backed enterprise mobile platform company. Previously, he held several senior executive positions at Nortel Networks spanning a 20 year career with multi-disciplinary roles in business strategy, channel development, product marketing, new business development, operations and finance. In his most recent position at Nortel, he served as Senior Vice President responsible for Nortel’s Corporate Development and Ventures group from 1997 to 2001, where he oversaw Nortel’s direct investments and acquisition strategies with emerging technology companies and strategic partnerships with venture capital funds. In a prior role George led Nortel’s strategic international development, acquisition and alliance activities based in the UK, during a period of rapid global expansion into new markets that saw the realization of Nortel’s international revenues grow from $300 million to $5 billion. George began his career at Telenet (acquired by GTE), the pioneer in packet switching networks.
Throughout his 30 year career, George established a record for entrepreneurial initiatives realizing growth opportunities through strategic vision and hands-on business building experience
George holds a B.S. in Economics and Political Science from The American University.

Chuck Digate

Chuck is currently the General Partner of Neptune Wind LLC. Chuck has deep expertise in enterprise software. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of pubic and private, venture-backed technology companies such as Skitster, Convoq, MathSoft, and Beyond, Inc. Chuck has also served as an investor and Board member for a number of successful venture-backed technology start-ups including Covergence and Insightful. Chuck was a Fellow at the Netw England Clean Energy Council and is a graduate of MIT and the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Enzo Villani

Enzo is the Former Chief Strategy Officer and founding member of DF King Worldwide, and Managing Director of Products and Strategy at NASDAQ OMX. Enzo was also the Co-Founder of NASDAQ OMX Corporate Services. He has completed over $350 million of transactions in the Financial Services industry since 2006 as is well-known as a Serial entrepreneur in Internet, Marketing and New Media industryies. Currently, the Founder of Villani & Associates, Enzo received an MBA from Cornell, and a B.A. from Iona College.