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EXECUTIVE CHANGES FOR Monday, September 17, 2001
WHO'S HIRING
Compete of Boston
By Giselle Greenwood
Compete, a provider of analysis technology for online user behavior, plans to take a new approach to its marketing and sales strategy. Part of that strategy includes bringing on Stephen DiMarco as vice president of marketing and Ted Pardee as vice president of sales, and increasing its sales, marketing, and consulting team.

Mr. DiMarco says the company is undergoing a sales and marketing facelift, and expects to increase its 35 member staff to 50 by the end of the year. To find its employees, the company has been going through traditional means of recruiting as well as using its industry ! contacts to find candidates.>>

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TOP MANAGEMENT
• Name2Sell Adds Founder, CEO of Blendow Marketing as CEO

VC PERSONNEL
• idealab! Boston Pres. A. Bruce Johnston Rejoins TA Assoc.
• Schroder Ventures Life Sciences Expands Investment Teams
• Tucson Community Ventures Names Managing Director

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
• Terraspring Adds Michael Kiyosaki as Bus. Dev. VP
• EasyAsk Adds Barry Horowitz as VP, Promotes Richard Wood
• Sure Power Opens Offices, Adds Jeff Cerny and Dustin Smith

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• PowerMarket Expands Management Team with VP Additions
• Ex-AT&T Exec Greg Jones Joins BeVocal as VP of Sales
• Ex-Mosaid Technologies Exec Joins IceFyre as Marketing VP

TECHNOLOGY
• Bravanta Adds Sher Barber as Engineering VP

TOP MANAGEMENT

• Name2Sell Adds Founder, CEO of Blendow Marketing as CEOtop   mail 
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -- Name2Sell, which registers and sells domain names, said it appointed Thomas Blendow as CEO. Mr. Blendow previously served as founder and CEO of Blendow Marketing and Blend of Websolutions. Mr. Blendow will focus on developing new services. Name2Sell is backed by IDG and ITbuilder Europe.
http://www.name2sell.com

VC PERSONNEL

• idealab! Boston Pres. A. Bruce Johnston Rejoins TA Assoc. top   mail 
BOSTON -- TA Associates, a buyout and private equity firm, said A. Bruce Johnston is rejoining the company as a managing director. Mr. Johnston, who most recently served as president of idealab! Boston, worked at TA for seven years before joining idealab! as managing director in September 1999 and assuming his current position early last year.

Mr. Johnston said he had originally joined idealab! to do more late-stage and M&A work, but the present market conditions have made that difficult, leading to his decision to leave. He said said he will remain a board member of idealab! Boston until the end of 2002 and that he will also continue in his role as a board director for three idealab! Boston companies until a suitable replacement is found.

Mr. Johnston will focus on leverage recapitalizations and buy-out transactions for computer-technology companies at TA.

An idealab! spokesperson said idealab! was disappointed that Mr. Johnston was leaving but said his later-stage financing skills had been underutilized since idealab! had begun to focus strictly on creating new companies. The spokesperson said Mr. Johnston's responsibilities were being taken over by Hugh Shytle, COO of idealab! Boston, and Lars Perkins, a managing director at idealab! Boston.

TA Associates now has 12 managing directors in its Boston office and manages over $5 billion in capital.
http://www.ta.com

• Schroder Ventures Life Sciences Expands Investment Teamstop   mail 
LONDON -- Schroder Ventures Life Sciences, a London-based venture capital firm focused on life sciences, said it added three investment professionals to its London and Boston offices. Graham Boulnois will join the London investment staff, and John Borzileri and Jeffrey Vender will join the Boston office.

Mr. Boulnois joins from Aventis Pharmaceuticals where he was senior vice president of drug innovation and approval. Mr. Borzilleri most recently served as senior vice president of equity research at State Street Research and Management, while Dr. Venter is a practicing anaesthitist and critical care physician. According to Schroder Ventures, the new appointments will enable the firm to take better advantage of investment opportunities on both sides of the Atlantic.

Schroder Ventures has been investing in life sciences companies since 1981, but established the dedicated life sciences fund, Schroder Ventures Life Sciences, in 1994. The Schroder Ventures life sciences group manages more than $500 million and has invested in at least 100 companies.
http://www.svlifesciences.com

• Tucson Community Ventures Names Managing Directortop   mail 
TUCSON, ARIZ. -- Tucson Community Ventures (TCV), a venture capital fund focused on southern Arizona, announced it has added James M. Thornton as co-managing director of the fund. Mr. Thornton co-founded Guide Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital fund based that focuses on information technology, wireless applications, and bioinformatics. He is also a long-time angel investor and adviser to Capital Stream, Syncronex, and TechTracker.

TCV, which launched earlier this year, has so far raised over $10 million in capital. The company said it expects to close the fund by early 2002 and intends to make its first investment during the fourth quarter of this year.
http://www.tucsoncommunityventures.com

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Terraspring Adds Michael Kiyosaki as Bus. Dev. VPtop   mail 
FREMONT, CALIF. -- Terraspring, an infrastructure software company, said it appointed Michael P. Kiyosaki as vice president of business development. Mr. Kiyosaki previously served as senior vice president of sales and marketing at e2Communications. Terraspring is backed by Accel Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, EMC, and Hewlett-Packard.
http://www.terraspring.com

• EasyAsk Adds Barry Horowitz as VP, Promotes Richard Wood top   mail 
LITTLETON, MASS. -- EasyAsk, a provider of search technology for e-commerce sites, enterprise information portals, and wireless applications, said it named Barry Horowitz as vice president of business planning and strategy. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Horowitz was co-founder and chief operating officer at Sprockets.com. The company also announced the promotion of Richard Wood to vice president of product development. Mr. Wood joined the company in April 2000. EasyAsk is backed by OneLiberty Ventures and Sigma Ventures.
http://www.easyask.com

• Sure Power Opens Offices, Adds Jeff Cerny and Dustin Smithtop   mail 
DANBURY, CONN. -- Sure Power, a provider of onsite electricity generation systems, said it opened offices in Newport Beach, Calif. and Denver and named the heads of those offices. To head the Newport Beach office, Jeff Cerny was appointed director of business development. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Cerny was an electrical engineer and sales coordinator at Fluor. Dustin Smith was named project development manager to head the Denver office. Mr. Smith previously served as senior project manager at the Denver facilities division of Carter & Burgess. Sure Power is backed by Connecticut Innovations.
http://www.surepowersystem.com

MARKETING & SALES

• PowerMarket Expands Management Team with VP Additionstop   mail 
BELMONT, CALIF. -- PowerMarket, a provider of supply chain management technology, said it added several executives. David Bouchard was named vice president of sales, most recently with RightWorks, an i2 Technologies company that provides collaborative e-procurement technology. Sankalp Saxena was named vice president of supply chain. Mr. Saxena previously served as vice president of product strategy and marketing at RightWorks. Bill Phelps was named vice president of professional services, formerly serving the same role at Kana Communications. PowerMarket is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, and RSA Ventures.
http://www.powermarket.com

• Ex-AT&T Exec Greg Jones Joins BeVocal as VP of Salestop   mail 
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- BeVocal, a provider of carrier-grade voice platforms and applications software, said it has appointed Greg Jones as its new vice president of sales. Mr. Jones, who will lead BeVocal's effort to sign up the major telecommunications carriers to deploy BeVocal's voice platforms and applications, was most recently AT&T's general manager of the southern region global services division. Before that, he was General Manager of AT&T's Asia Pacific multinationals unit. BeVocal has raised $46 million in two rounds from Mayfield, Technology Crossover Ventures, Trans Cosmos USA, and U.S. Venture Partners.
http://www.bevocal.com

• Ex-Mosaid Technologies Exec Joins IceFyre as Marketing VPtop   mail 
OTTAWA -- IceFyre Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor
company developing system-on-a-chip technologies,
announced that Mark Roberts has joined as vice president
of marketing. Mr. Roberts was most recently vice president of marketing at Mosaid Technologies' semiconductor division. IceFyre has raised a total of $13.25 million funding from Prism Venture Partners, VenGrowth Capital, and Kodiak Venture Partners.
http://www.icefyre.com

TECHNOLOGY

• Bravanta Adds Sher Barber as Engineering VPtop   mail 
SAN FRANCISCO -- Bravanta, a provider of business performance technology, said it named Sher Barber as vice president of engineering. Ms. Barber previously served as vice president at Netmosphere. Bravanta is backed by Doll Capital Management, Menlo Ventures, St. Paul Venture Capital, and the Sprout Group.
http://www.bravanta.com



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Director, Business Development--Enterprise Software--Any Major Metro Area in Northeast

Performaworks, a Pequot Ventures funded company, provides enterprise application software which gives executives visibility into the organization, enabling greater corporate agility to course-correct in real time to dynamic markets. Fortune 500 clients are using Performaworks eWorkbench, a suite of software modules to enable their corporations to connect their enterprise strategy and execution resources more effectively enabling achievement of enterprise goals and objectives.

The Director of Business Development will manage and develop key relationships with other companies to expand Performaworks' indirect sales channel and drive revenue for the firm.

Requires:
*Minimum 3-5 years building and managing strategic alliances and/or partnerships.
*Professional large-scale enterprise software experience (ERP, CRM, HRIS), selling to "C" level executives in targeted markets.
*In-depth experience in managing large indirect sales channels to sell enterprise-wide technology solutions.
*Verifiable experience, exceeding quotas of $4 Million plus.
*Knowledge of strategic partnering and leveraging marketing opportunities.
*Solid technology understanding of solutions such as CRM, ERP, SFA.
*Ability to structure and negotiate deals to the company's advantage.
*Strong interpersonal, persuasive and communicative skills.
*M & A experience a plus.
*Proficiency in MS Office products.
*BA/BS in Business, Marketing, Management or similar field. MBA, a plus.
*Ability to travel approximately 30% of the time.


e-mail: hr@performaworks.com
company: Performaworks, Inc.
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Vice President, Marketing--Telecommunication/Wireless--Fremont, CA

CoWave Networks (www.cowave.com) is creating a unique, revolutionary wireless network infrastructure that will offer dramatic improvements over existing solutions. The company is a venture-backed equipment manufacturer focused on wireless residential broadband access. In this key position you will develop and implement strategies to position us as a leader in this space.

Responsibilities include:
Establish global programs to enhance our visibility with potential customers, partners, industry analysts, public relations firms, the trade press, and the investment community;

Build and manage a highly qualified marketing organization comprised of product marketing, product management, marketing communications, and business development; Generate and oversee competitive analyses, product branding, and pricing; Determine overall strategic positioning and assist in guiding the company appropriately.

Qualifications include:
Direct experience in a technology-driven product environment; Experience in launching new products into worldwide markets; Eight or more years of experience in a top tier telecom, datacom or networking related organization.

The ideal candidate will have significant commercial experience with a carrier class telecommunications
equipment and/or consumer or mass-market communications product(s). The highest priority will be given to the candidate who has worked on both sides of the product; i.e. service provider 'head end' and consumer CPE.


e-mail: stephanie@cowave.com
company: CoWave Networks
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