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Edge Dynamics Board of Directors

Success comes from strong leadership. The Edge Dynamics board of directors includes some of the most respected business and technology experts in Silicon Valley.

Henry Olson — Edge Dynamics, President and Chief Executive Officer
Bruce Cleveland — Interwest Partners, Partner
Russ Harris — Echelon Corporation, Senior Vice President, Operations
Paul Holland — Foundation Capital, General Partner
Bryan Stolle — Agile Software, Chairman and Founder
David Strohm — Greylock Partners, Partner

Henry Olson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Henry Olson is President and Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Edge Dynamics. Previously, Mr. Olson served as Chief Products Officer. Prior to Edge Dynamics, he was Chief Architect at RedKlay, an enterprise software and services firm delivering e-business applications to manufacturing companies. Prior to RedKlay, Mr. Olson was Director of Product Development at Applicast, an application service provider delivering comprehensive enterprise application outsourcing to manufacturing companies. Before joining Applicast, Mr. Olson was lead architect on several large and innovative data warehousing, transaction management, and customer management applications in the financial services and insurance industries, at such firms as First Union (now Wachovia), Wells Fargo, Fidelity, and Mass Mutual. In addition these engagements, Mr. Olson was Director of Product Development at Summit Data Group, an enterprise software and services firm delivering business applications to financial services and manufacturing companies.

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Bruce Cleveland
Partner—InterWest Partners
Bruce Cleveland recently joined InterWest Partners, a 26 year old diversified venture capital firm focused on high tech and life sciences. Prior to InterWest, Mr. Cleveland served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Products at Siebel Systems, the leading provider of customer-facing solutions for customer relationship management, business intelligence, and customer data integration. Mr. Cleveland is a 25-year veteran of the technology industry and one of the founding executives of Siebel. At Siebel, he held numerous executive positions, including SVP and GM of Siebel CRM OnDemand and SMB, SVP of Marketing, and VP of Alliances, in which capacity he is widely credited with creating the most effective alliance organization in the enterprise software industry. Prior to Siebel, Mr. Cleveland held executive positions in product development and engineering at Apple Computer and Oracle Corporation, and prior to Oracle he held engineering and management positions at AT&T.

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Russ Harris
Echelon Corporation, Senior Vice President, Operations
Russ Harris is Senior Vice President of Operations at Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), the leading provider of networking technology for automation systems. Previously Mr. Harris was a founding executive and VP of Operations at NetDynamics, an early leader in Internet infrastructure software, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Prior to NetDynamics, Mr. Harris was Director of Operations at Silicon Graphics Inc. He also held management and engineering positions at Convergent Technologies and Unisys Corporation.

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Paul Holland
Foundation Capital, General Partner
Paul Holland is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, a premier venture capital investment firm with a primary focus on enterprise software. Previously, Mr. Holland was Senior VP of Worldwide Sales at Kana Communications, a leading vendor of software for automated customer support, where his sales organization acquired over 900 customers in three years and was one of the top 10 IPOs of 1999. Prior to Kana, Mr. Holland was VP of Sales and General Manager at Pure Software, which was one of the top private companies and top IPOs of the early 1990’s, eventually acquired by Rational Software.

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Bryan Stolle
Agile Software, Chairman and Founder
Bryan Stolle is Chairman and co-founder of Agile Software. He previously served as CEO and board member since founding Agile Software's in March 1995. Mr. Stolle also serves on the Advisory Board of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, and the Advisory Council of the Austin McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. Prior to founding Agile, he served in various marketing roles at Sherpa Corporation, a developer of enterprise product data management software, and EDS, a leading global technology services company, where he started his career. Mr. Stolle received a B.A. in Business Administration and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

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David Strohm
Greylock Partners, Partner
David Strohm joined Greylock in 1980 and opened its west coast office in 1983. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School. Dave is on the board of AccelChip, AtHoc, CoWare, DoubleClick, EMC Corporation, Internet Security Systems, SuccessFactors, Tabula and Wily Technology. Dave also led Greylock's historic involvement with companies such as Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Legato Systems (acquired by EMC), Decru (acquired by Network Appliance), Mentor Graphics, Mobile Automation (acquired by iPass), Net Effect Systems (acquired by Ask Jeeves) and Octane Software (acquired by Epiphany).

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