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Bryan’s remarkable track record includes successful service as President and CEO of six venture-funded startups, where he was often called upon to perform dramatic turnarounds. At ChiliSoft, Bryan repositioned the company to provide one of the first cross-platform development environments for Linux and eventually sold the company to Cobalt Networks (now part of Sun) for $110 million. At Gemstone Systems, Bryan led the company’s strategic shift towards providing one of the industry’s first Java application servers, increasing sales from $3 million to $30 million in five years and to the sale of the company to Brokat for $287 million. At Digital Sound, Bryan restructured the sales channel, rebalanced the organization, and refocused engineering. Within three years, Bryan had achieved profitability and led the company through an IPO with a $180 million market cap. At ITT PowerSystems, Bryan led the $70 million manufacturer of industrial electronic components through a turnaround during which he returned the company to profitability in less than a year and doubled sales and return-on-assets over four years.

Bryan received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and was working on his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Chicago when he was recruited by Enrico Fermi Labs to be Chief Experimental Engineer for a high-energy particle physics project, thus beginning his successful career in the for-profit sector. After leaving Fermi Labs, Bryan served at Zenith Corporation, where he rapidly rose from manager to Corporate Director of Operations with P&L responsibility for $110 million of business and oversaw the development of one of the industry’s first financially successful line of personal computers and peripherals, the Z100. His previous experience also includes CEO/President roles at venture-backed startups Micro Office Systems (an early pioneer in laptops) and Aptec (a super-minicomputer supplier to military and commercial markets).

Neal East is a 25-year veteran of high technology sales, product development, and executive management and has worked on the successful development and eventual sale of 3 high tech startups prior to joining Xtime. As CEO of Xtime, Neal has been instrumental in the company’s rapid growth and success in the automotive service sector. During his tenure as CEO, the company has grown at a sustained rate of over 100% per year and is now the recognized leader of online service scheduling and CRM solutions for the automotive service market with nearly 10% off all US dealerships under contract. Prior to Xtime, Neal was a founding executive at Dorado Inc., the leading provider of web-based solutions for the trillion dollar U.S. mortgage industry which is now 25% owned by First American. Neal also was President of Enterprise Engines, Inc., a pioneer in Web ERP, which was purchased by QAD in 1999, as well as Senior Vice President of Sales for GemStone Systems, a pioneer in Java Application Servers, which was purchased by Brokat in 1997. Neal began his career at IBM, where he held a variety of sales and management positions. Neal has lived and worked in both Asia and Europe and holds a BA degree in Political Science and Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

"You'd be hard-pressed to find a more influential group of investors than those selected by our reader survey. Selected as number 1: Steve Jurvetson."

- Optimize Magazine, Power Issue cover story, October 2004

Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras, acquired for $8 billion. Previously, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research (TEM atomic imaging of GaAs), and computer design at HP's PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software. As a Consultant with Bain & Company, Steve developed executive marketing, sales, engineering and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the software, networking and semiconductor industries. At Stanford University, he finished his BS in Electrical Engineering in 2.5 years and graduated #1 in his class, as the Henry Ford Scholar. Steve also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He received his MBA from the Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also serves on the STVP Advisory Boards and is Co-Chair of the NanoBusiness Alliance. He was honored as "The Valley's Sharpest VC" on the cover of Business 2.0 and chosen by the SF Chronicle and SF Examiner as one of "the ten people expected to have the greatest impact on the Bay Area in the early part of the 21st Century." He was profiled in the New York Times Magazine and featured on the covers Worth, Red Herring, and Fortune Magazine. Steve was chosen by Forbes as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors", by the VC Journal as one of the "Ten Most Influential VCs", and by Fortune as part of their "Brain Trust of Top Ten Minds." He was also honored with the "Advocate of the Year Award" by Small Times and chosen as one of "Nanotech's Power Elite" by the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report. In 2005, Steve was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and a Distinguished Alumnus by St. Mark's. Steve has written several columns on nanotech and other developing technologies.

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John Lee founded Xtime in 1999. Under his leadership, the company survived the dotcom downturn and successfully pioneered its leadership position in Automotive ServiceCRM. John's high-tech startup experience spans 17 years in Silicon Valley. Prior to founding Xtime, John Lee was the first executive hire at Interwoven (Nasdaq: IWOV), the industry leader in enterprise content management solutions, with customers such as Ebay, Charles Schwab, Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Systems, and General Electric. In three years as head of Business Development, John helped grow Interwoven from five to over 125 employees, raised Interowoven’s Series B round of financing, sold to critical early reference accounts such as FedEx, Ford, Geocities, and Grainger, and forged strategic alliances with Microsoft, ATG, IBM, and Netscape. John’s first startup experience was at Precision Navigation, where as Engineering and Manufacturing Manager he successfully delivered a U.S. Army SBIR contract, launched the company’s consumer and OEM component product lines, and authorized a patent. John has also held engineering, consulting, and marketing positions at SGI, McKinsey, Hughes Aircraft, and Microsoft. John has an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and also graduated with distinction from Stanford with a BS and MS in electrical engineering.

Mr. Quinlivan previously worked as the Senior Vice President Finance at Insweb, a publicly traded online insurance marketplace. Prior to InsWeb, David was an investment banker focusing on mergers and acquisitions at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in New York, NY and Palo Alto, CA. At CSFB, David advised on domestic and international transactions totaling over $10 billion in the technology, consumer products, chemicals and paper products and manufacturing industries for clients such as Lycos, Bay Networks (now Nortel Networks), CompUSA, JCPenney, Bayer AG, and International Paper. Previously he worked at the LEK/Alcar Consulting Group, an international management consulting firm, providing strategic advice in the technology, media, healthcare and transportation industries for such clients as Universal Music, Honeywell, Disney, Siemens AG, Tektronix, Amoco Technology, Pacificare Health Systems and Continental Airlines.

Mr. Quinlivan received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Harvard University and his Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University. Mr. Quinlivan also received a Masters of Science in the Physics doctoral program from the University of California, Los Angeles during which time he published research on the electrical properties of high temperature superconductors.

Marc Weiser is the founder and a managing director of RPM Ventures. At RPM, he is involved with the boards of AutoTradeCenter, Oxlo Systems and Xtime, all in the automotive sector. Additionally, he is on the board of RiverGlass; and he led the fund's investments in Mobius Microsystems, both spin-outs from Midwest universities.

Marc previously was involved with the board of Entegrity Solutions, a provider of complete, integrated access-management and application-security solutions that enable secure eBusiness, and R4 Global Services, a company specializing in the delivery of RFID-enabled solutions to clients in the retail, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and healthcare industries.

Prior to forming RPM, Marc was a founder of QuantumShift, a provider of Web-based business-to-business technology and services that fill corporate telecommunications needs. At QuantumShift, he was the executive in charge of early technology and e-commerce systems development. He was involved with the QuantumShift board and raising part of the $140 million the company raised from inception.

Marc was one of the first employees at MessageMedia, where he was a member of the road-show team for its initial public offering. While at MessageMedia, he pioneered some of the original methods for online e-commerce transactions and assisted in the launching of the first Internet merchants.

Marc also has worked in business development for Dell Computer Corporation, where he developed consumer aftermarket peripheral and digital music strategies. He was also an associate at Arbor Partners, an early-stage e-commerce venture capital fund based in Ann Arbor.

Marc serves on the board of McKinley Associates, a $1.5 billion real estate company, and is an active member on the board of two public non-profit foundations: the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation and the McKinley Foundation.

Additionally, Marc is an investor and advisor to a number of non-technology companies, including restaurants, real estate, and small retail businesses. Marc graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan with a bachelor of science in aerospace engineering and a master of business administration with highest honors.

David Vallone brings over 25 years of dealership and corporate automotive experience, including recent service as AutoNation’s VP of Fixed Operations. David currently works as an advisor with other leading automotive service companies such as Mobile Productivity Incorporated, an Automotive Service Process and Productivity Company and BG Products, the leading provider of specialty automotive products and services. David has also worked as a consultant with major automotive manufacturers on various operational and CSI related projects.

Earlier in his career, David created and marketed an industry training program focused on the development of Automotive Service Advisors. During the first 15 years of his career, David held various sales, service and parts positions in dealership operations, including over 9 years of hands-on retail fixed operations management.