During Mr. Repetti's 25 years in the technology industry he has helped develop and implement technology strategies for companies ranging from publicly traded firms to start-ups, and everything in between. He is the author of numerous award-winning products.

Prior to co-founding Fifth Generation Systems, Mr. McNiel was a partner with technology-centric venture capital firm Pequot Ventures. During his seven years at Pequot, Mr. McNiel sat on the boards of Netegrity, NetGear, and OutlookSoft as well as a number of other private and public companies. He was also a co-founder and executive vice president of corporate development for Cheyenne Software... [more]

Stephen M. Winningham is Managing Director and Global Head, Financial Institutions, at Lloyds TSB. In his prior position, he was Managing Director and Head of the Global Internet Investment Banking practice for Citigroup. Before that, Stephen was stationed in Asia for 4 years as Head of Citi’s M&A, Industrials, Energy, Power, Telecom and Media Groups covering 10 countries in Asia. Before transferring to Asia, he served as Co-Head of Salomon Smith Barney’s Telecom Investment Banking in the U.S.

Stephen has over 30 years of experience in finance and investment banking. Some of the transactions that he handled include M&A, equity and debt transactions for China Netcom, China Telecom, China Steel, Ayala Corporation, Genting Berhad, Malaysia International Shipping Corp., PTT Thailand, Sprint, AT&T Wireless, McCaw Cellular, Metromedia and many others.

Before joining Citigroup in 1996, Stephen was a Managing Director with PaineWebber (1993-1996), a Partner of Ashwood Capital (1992-1993), a Managing Director with Kidder Peabody (1990-1992), and a Managing Director with Drexel Burnham Lambert (1981-1990). At each of these firms, he ran the Telecom or Telecom/Media practices. He also worked at Citibank from 1976 – 1981.

He holds an MBA degree from Columbia University School of Business and a BA from Colgate University. He also did additional graduate study in economics at the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Daniel G. Bergstein
Partner, NY Office, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker

Daniel G. Bergstein chairs Hastings, Janofsky & Walker’s International Telecommunications and Media Practice Group. Daniel has practiced for more than 25 years as a corporate attorney focusing his practice in financial transactions, including private and public corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions.

Daniel represents issuers, investors and investment banks in the sector. He is and has been outside merger and acquisition counsel to large domestic and international telecommunications companies such as AT&T, Inc., Fairpoint Communications, Inc., and Charter Communications, Inc. as well as to a number of Internet and e-commerce companies. In the last several years, he has represented issuers, investors and investment banks in transactions having aggregate values in excess of $50 billion.

Daniel is a founder and serves on the Board of Directors of Fairpoint Communications, the 8th largest independent telephone company in the U.S., MxEnergy, the largest private natural gas company and Cequel III/Suddenlink, the 6th largest cable company in the U.S. He also is an investor and serves on the Board of Directors of other privately held Internet and e-commerce companies. He has been a National Trustee and on the Board of Directors of the Foundation Fighting Blindness for the last 12 years.

A graduate of Queens College, City University of New York Daniel holds his J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School and previously clerked for the Honorable Edward Jordan Dimock in the Southern District of New York.

Warren Thaler
President, Gund Investment Corporation

Warren Thaler leads the investment activities of Gund Investment Corporation and Gordon Gund. Typical investments include: direct equity investments in early stage companies, real estate investments, fund investments and public equities. Warren serves on the boards of Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq – ALGN), Ophthonix, Inc., and Gund Business Enterprises. Prior to the sale of the Cleveland Cavaliers in March of 2005, Warren was on the Board of Directors of Cavaliers/Gund Arena Company and represented the Cavaliers as its alternate governor on the National Basketball Association’s Board of Governors.

Other privately-held Gund corporations Warren has had operational and board of director-level responsibilities with include: Nationwide Advertising Services (a recruitment advertising agency), JobOptions (an Internet job board) and Gus Hotel Management Corporation (operator of Sheraton hotels). Additionally, Warren is an adviser to the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Prior to joining Gund in 1990, Warren worked in the corporate finance department of Drexel Burnham Lambert where he structured and marketed debt and equity securities for corporate issuers. Warren is a graduate of Harvard Business School, Princeton University and Groton School.

Dan Bricklin
President of Software Garden, Inc.

Mr. Bricklin is best known for co-developing VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry. Until early 2004, Mr. Bricklin served as CTO of Interland, Inc., after it acquired his previous company, Trellix Corporation, in 2003. Prior to founding Trellix in 1995, he served as president of Software Garden, Inc., where he developed a variety of software programs, including Dan Bricklin's Demo Program. Mr. Bricklin also cofounded Slate Corporation, a developer of application software for pen computers, as well as Software Arts, the developer of VisiCalc. Prior to forming Software Arts, he had been a market researcher for Prime Computer Inc., a senior systems programmer for FasFax Corporation, and a senior software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation.

Mr. Bricklin is a founding trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council and has served on the boards of the Software Publishers Association and the Boston Computer Society. Mr. Bricklin has received many honors for his contributions to the computer industry from the ACM, IEEE, MIT, PC Magazine, the Western Society of Engineers, and numerous others. Mr. Bricklin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Newbury College, and was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Barry Rubenstein
General Partner and co-founder of Wheatley Partners

Barry has been a founder and/or founding investor in several technology companies, including Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc. (Founding Chairman and CEO, 1969), Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (1980), Novell, Inc. (1983), Cheyenne Software, Inc. (CEO, 1985) and FalconStor, Inc. (Founding Chairman and initial CEO, 2000).

Barry has been investing in technology companies since 1976. He co-founded Woodland Venture Fund in 1976 and Seneca Ventures in 1979. Together, these partnerships have invested in over 200 private and small capitalization public technology companies. Barry was also a General Partner of 21st Century Partners, a private equity partnership invested in companies at the intersection of media and technology.

From 1985 to 1987, he served as Chairman and CEO of Cheyenne Software, a public company and industry leader in providing back-up and archival solutions for networked computers. Cheyenne was sold to Computer Associates in 1996.

Barry also served on the Boards of Cornerstone Internet Solutions, Picazo Communications (acquired by Intel), Callwave and US Web. Barry currently serves on the Boards of CosmoCom, FatWire and Certpoint Systems. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from City College of New York and an M.S. in Computer Sciences from New York University.

Barry is also Vice Chairman of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, a $4 billion 15 hospital network -- the third-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system in the United States. North Shore-LIJ is the largest employer on Long Island and the ninth largest in New York City.