Michael Walker is the Group Research and Development Director for the Vodafone Group of companies, with the responsibility for the Group’s research activities, intellectual property and technology standards worldwide.  Mr. Walker also leads technology innovation and manages engagement with start-up companies.  Mr. Walker is a member of the Board of Vodafone Ventures, the venture capital arm of the company.  As a part-time professor, Michael holds the Vodafone Chair in Telecommunications at Royal Holloway, University of London; he is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey, and he is Vice Chairman of the Mobile VCE – a group of universities and industries researching mobile communications. Mr. Walker sits on scientific advisory boards for the Universities of Warwick and Surrey, the London Development Agency, the UK Government and some start-up companies.  Mr. Walker has held a number of positions with standards bodies, including chairmanship of the body responsible for the security aspects of UMTS.  Before joining Vodafone, Michael was Head of Mathematics at Racal Research and prior to that an academic at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. Michael is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Jim Glover
Jim Glover is an Investment Director at BDC Capital responsible for telecommunications investments. Prior to BDC, Mr. Glover had over 18 years experience in bringing new products to market, having previously held senior positions in product management, engineering, finance and marketing with Nortel Networks. Mr. Glover represents BDC as a director on numerous boards and is also on the advisory board for the University of Toronto’s Masters of Engineering in Telecommunications Program. Mr. Glover holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Waterloo, an MBA from McMaster University and is a Professional Engineer in Ontario.

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Claude Vachet, eng., M.B.A
Mr. Vachet has recently joined Multiple Capital as a Partner where he manages a portfolio of IT and Telecommunication companies. Multiple Capital inc. is the management company hired by Coller Capital (London based fund) to manage the former Innovatech Portfolio.

Mr. Vachet has 15 years of experience in the field of high technologies including last 8 years as venture capital investors. He has been involved over the years in numerous financial transactions where both his business experience, engineering background and financial expertise has helped to contribute to the success of these high-tech ventures. He holds an MBA with Finance major from HEC (Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal) and an Engineering Degree from École Polytechnique de Montreal. Mr. Vachet sits on the board of many companies adding value to the portfolio companies he manages through his very broad network of industry contacts.

Mr. Vachet has also been involved in the venture capital industry, as he has chaired the prestigious Go North events held in Montreal in 2002 and 2003. He is also involved in the organization of the Toronto Venture Fair 2004 as the Vice Chairman of their selection committee.

Dr. Edward (Ed) Frank recently retired as Corporate Vice President Research and Development at Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), where he was responsible for Broadcom’s overall engineering execution and played a key role in corporate business and IP strategy. Prior to becoming Corporate VP of R&D, Dr. Frank co-founded and led the engineering group for Broadcom’s Wireless LAN business, which is now one of Broadcom’s largest business units. Dr Frank joined Broadcom in May 1999 following its acquisition of Epigram, Inc., where he was the founding CEO and Executive Vice President. From 1993 to 1996, he was a co-founder and Vice President of Engineering of NeTpower Inc., a computer workstation manufacturer. From 1988 to 1993, Dr. Frank was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he co-architected several generations of Sun’s SPARCstations and was a principal member of Sun's Green Project, which developed the precursor to the Java™ cross-platform web programming language. Dr. Frank received a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Frank is a Life Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and a member of its Board’s Executive Committee. Dr. Frank also holds over 40 issued patents.

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Richard Martin
Richard Martin has extensive experience in the development and marketing of networking systems and semiconductors in Enterprise and Service Provider markets. Richard is currently serving a Director of Marketing at Vitesse Semiconductor. Previously he held senior marketing positions with Broadcom Corp., Cisco Systems, Apple Computer Inc. and Nortel Networks.