Bob Davoli

Bob Davoli, Managing Director at Sigma Partners, joined the firm in 1995 and has 25 years of experience in the high technology industry. His ability to identify and motivate innovative founding teams has been an essential ingredient of his investment success. Bob regularly leverages his deep operational experience and technology intellect to support the firm’s portfolio companies.

Prior to Sigma Partners, Bob was President & CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market. Bob sold SQL Solutions to Sybase for stock eventually worth over $100 million. Bob served as an executive officer of Sybase for over two years.

In recent years, Bob has appeared three times on the Forbes’ Midas list, a ranking of top venture capitalists. He also appeared on the cover of Business Week in a features story describing how VCs thrive through good and tough times.

Rich Erickson

Rich Erickson, a Venture Partner at Updata Partners, brings over 20 years of experience in public and private application development and systems integration companies.

Rich started his career in the early 1980's with one of the TCP/IP Internet network pioneers, Excelan, where he participated in the company's growth, IPO and ultimate sale to Novell. From 1987 until 1997, he was one of two principals of Digital Network Associates (DNA), a private network and systems integrator. Under Mr. Erickson's guidance, DNA grew from start-up to almost $20M in revenues when it was sold to United States Office Products in 1997. At USOP he subsequently played a key role in the acquisition, divestiture, and integration of numerous technology services businesses.

In late 1999 he joined iXL, an Internet application consulting firm, where he became Senior Vice President of US Operations. During his tenure at iXL, Mr. Erickson headed the restructuring of a 2000+ employee organization, the public to public company merger integration of iXL with Scient in 2001, and the divestiture and sale of several operating business units.

Most recently Mr. Erickson was President and CEO of AlphaNet Solutions Inc., a publicly-held IT outsourcing company that was also an Updata Partners portfolio company. In less than two years he drove the turn around, restructuring and ultimate sale to Ciber (CBR-NYSE) in June of 2003.

Jack Freker

Jack is president and chief operating officer of Zenta. He is responsible for worldwide operations and business development. Zenta is a leading provider of knowledge and business process outsourcing and related services.

Mr. Freker brings more than 25 years of business leadership experience in a variety of industries. He spent the first portion of his career in the consumer goods industry, working with companies such as Procter & Gamble, Welch's, and Bristol Myers Squibb. In 1992, Freker joined Convergys, a major outsourcing, consulting, and software solutions provider, where he served in a variety of roles including senior vice president of marketing/sales, group president, executive vice president and as president of the Customer Management Group, the firm's largest operating unit, with over 60,000 employees and more than $1.6 billion in revenue. After driving record global expansion, including significant growth in India and the Philippines, Freker left Convergys in 2005 to become CEO of Boston-based Oblicore, Inc., a global enterprise software company, where he increased global bookings more than 60% and generated a four-fold improvement in U.S. revenues.

He also serves as a board member of several private and public firms including Vercuity, a leader in telecom expense management, Interactions, an early stage automated self service solution and with Nuance (NUAN:Nasdaq), a publicly traded global leader in speech recognition.

Mr. Freker is a graduate of Princeton University and The Executive Management program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Princeton University Schools Committee and has chaired the Princeton University Annual Giving Campaign.

Shamez Kanji

Shamez is a General Partner at North Hill Ventures. He has over 20 years of experience working with early stage companies as a founder, executive, board member, advisor, and investor.

Before joining North Hill, in 2000, Shamez was co-founder and Managing Director of The Clearview Group, an incubator that formed commerce and technology companies. Clearview incubations and investments included Medassets (MDAS), Greenlight.com (INET), Viveca Software (sold to Open Pages), and Bizland.com (Endurance International). Prior to Clearview, Shamez was co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Strategy at a venture-backed medical services company. Shamez began his career as a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group and at Bain and Company.

Shamez received his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University, and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.