Message-ID: <32763911.1075851636095.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 06:05:59 -0700 (PDT) From: people@venturewire.com To: jdasovic@enron.com Subject: VentureWire People, Tuesday, September 04, 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: VentureWire People X-To: jdasovic@ENRON.COM X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Dasovich, Jeff (Non-Privileged)\Dasovich, Jeff\Inbox X-Origin: DASOVICH-J X-FileName: Dasovich, Jeff (Non-Privileged).pst VentureWire People
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TopicalNet of Woburn, Mass.
By Giselle Greenwood
After inking a European distribution deal with Bertelsmann and acquiring Internet Profiles (I/Pro), TopicalNet, a provider of automated content classification technology for B2B applications, is looking to add senior sales people, including a senior vice president of sales and and a SVP for its applications group.

CEO Ray Kingman says the company's technology was significantly expanded after the acquisition of I/Pro, a provider of Web site measurement, advanced customer analytics, and online audit services, even though the company hasn't commercially launched its products yet.>>

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TOP MANAGEMENT
• AccessLan Names Ofer Doitel President and CEO
• Aviva Biosciences Names Peter Wilding President and CEO

VC PERSONNEL
• Bush to Nominate Founder of Trident Capital as Envoy to EU
• PwC Venture Partners Adds Michael Jonovski to Team

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• Racemi Names RF Solutions CEO Steve Richeson as Mrktg. VP

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• Peace Software Names Derek Van Keuren as HR Vice President

TOP MANAGEMENT

• AccessLan Names Ofer Doitel President and CEOtop   mail 
SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- AccessLan Communications, which provides IP-enabled access provisioning, announced its appointment of founder and chairman, Ofer Doital, as president and CEO.

Mr. Doital, who also continues as chairman, replaces Michael Pisterzi, who has stepped down from the company.

The company's board members are Peter Cross, business and engineering advisor to AccessLan and formerly senior vice president of engineering at Bay Networks; Sean Dalton, general partner at Highland Capital; Bob Hower, partner at BancBoston Ventures; and Andrew Ludwick, business adviser to AccessLan, co-founder of SynOptics, and formerly president and CEO of Bay Networks/SynOptics.

AccessLan has raised over $90 million in financing from Accel Partners, Advanced Fibre Communications, AV Labs, BancBoston Ventures, Berkeley International Capital, Highland Capital, The Ignite Group, Intel Capital, NIF Ventures, Peery Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Tudor Private Equity Fund.
http://www.accesslan.com

• Aviva Biosciences Names Peter Wilding President and CEOtop   mail 
SAN DIEGO -- Aviva Biosciences, a developer of active biochips with an emphasis on on-chip bioanalyte manipulation and screening, said it has appointed board member Peter Wilding as president and CEO. Mr. Wilding previously served as co-founder of ChemCore, a biochip company that was acquired by Caliper Technologies.

Mr. Wilding replaces co-founder Julian Yuan as president and CEO. Mr. Yuan, who invested in the company's Series A round, assumes the post of vice chairman.

Aviva Biosciences existing board members are Jing Cheng, co-founder of AVIVA Bioscience, professor at the Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences & Engineering, and research director at the Beijing National Biochip Research and Engineering Center; Charles H. Sie, chairman and former vice president of the corporate engineering center's West coast site at Xerox; Mr. Yuan; and John Yu, first vice president and general manager of the technology department at China Development Industrial Bank.

Founded in 1999, Aviva Biosciences raised $5 million in Series A funding from China Development Industrial Bank, WI Harper, private equity firm Zimmerman, and Mr. Yuan.
http://www.avivabio.com

VC PERSONNEL

• Bush to Nominate Founder of Trident Capital as Envoy to EUtop   mail 
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is expected to nominate Rockwell Schnabel, founder and managing director of Trident Capital, as the U.S. envoy to the European Union (EU), according to Mr. Schnabel.

Mr. Schnabel said that, if his nomination was approved, he would expect to be away from Trident Capital until the end of the Bush administration, though he would remain a special limited partner. He said he was not sure whether he would return to the venture capital firm afterward.

Mr. Schnabel's four board seats at portfolio companies have been distributed to other partners in the firm over the last six months.

Prior to founding Trident Capital, Mr. Schnabel served as acting secretary of commerce and the deputy secretary of commerce during the Bush administration, and as the U.S. ambassador to Finland during the Reagan administration.

Trident Capital manages more than $1.4 billion.
http://www.tridentcap.com

• PwC Venture Partners Adds Michael Jonovski to Teamtop   mail 
LONDON -- PricewaterhouseCoopers Venture Partners (PwCVP), a seed- to early-stage venture capital firm that invests in business-to-business and life sciences companies, said it appointed Michael Jonovski, former assistant director in corporate finance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, as an investment director in its U.K. division. He is the ninth PwCVP venture partner.

PwCVP is led by CEO Jonathan Wackett and Gerry Devlin, managing director and founder. Formerly called Pricewaterhouse Incubator, the firm has made five investments since March 2000, and its portfolio includes Cataloga, First Professional, F-Exchange, and Speedclear.
http://www.pwcglobal.com

MARKETING & SALES

• Racemi Names RF Solutions CEO Steve Richeson as Mrktg. VPtop   mail 
ATLANTA -- Racemi, a provider of server architecture for enterprise and service provider data centers, said it named Steve Richeson as vice president of marketing. Mr. Richeson previously served as CEO of RF Solutions. Racemi has received seed funds from 5 Paces Ventures.
http://www.racemi.com

OPERATIONS

• Peace Software Names Derek Van Keuren as HR Vice Presidenttop   mail 
MIAMI -- Peace Software, a provider of customer management technology for utilities and retail energy companies, said it named Derek Van Keuren as vice president of human resources. Mr. Van Keuren previously served as vice president of human resources at Forums Communications. Peace Software's investors include Insight Capital Partners and Kinetic Ventures.
http://www.peace.com



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Managing General Partner--Venture Capital--Bay Area or NYC-BOS corridor

New Fund in formation seeks a Managing General Partner (MGP) with at least 10 years experience as a venture capitalist. The MGP will lead a small team already in place. The goal of the Fund is to capitalize on the outsourcing trend, initially through making investments in attractive early to mid stage U.S. based technology companies whose growth might be enhanced by the Fund's Indian technology services partners. A candidate must have a demonstrably successful track record in venture capital/private equity investments and should currently be a general partner in a VC fund.

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Vice President Customer Engineering (Professional Services)--Software--S. San Francisco

The Vice President of Customer Engineering will be responsible for providing the leadership and management of the company's services efforts. The Vice President of Customer Engineering and Services will directly manage and lead an experienced, technically strong staff of which includes Professional Services, Technical Support and Educational Services.

Please see website for complete description.

Requirements:

* Minimum of ten years managing Professional Services, particularly focused on the Enterprise, working with major Global 2000 businesses.
* Experience building and leading Professional Services, Technical Support and Training Organizations
* Experience in managing at least 10 concurrent projects.
* 5 years of experience managing teams in excess of at least 65 people.
* Exceptional executive leadership manifested through organizing and motivating teams toward their respective goals by employing hands on management.
* Responsibilities including recruiting, budgeting, and reporting.


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