Christian Heidelberger

Chris Heidelberger, CEO of Web 2.0 and IT modernization company Nexaweb, brings more than 20 years of general management experience in enterprise software. As CEO and president of ChannelWave Software, Chris led the company from its inception, guiding it through $63M of venture capital funding and several acquisitions before a sale to Click Commerce in February 2005. Prior to ChannelWave, Chris served as vice president and general manager of Software House, a subsidiary of security company Sensormatic Electronics Corp. (TYCO), where he led the growth of the company from $15 million to $40 million in annual revenue in four years. Most recently, Chris was an executive coach and consultant to several local startup companies. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Chris serves on a number of tech advisory boards. He is a frequent speaker and panelist on subjects ranging from leadership in high-growth companies to building sales and marketing channels for scale.

Jeffrey Vogel

Jeffrey Vogel is an entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience in operating and financing high-tech software companies.  Jeff was co-founder and president of Velocity Equity Partners, a venture capital firm. Before founding Velocity, Jeff served as chief technology officer and vice president of research and development at eBusiness Technologies, a leader in XML content management systems. In 1989, Jeff co-founded Electronic Book Technologies (EBT), a pioneer in SGML and XML information systems. At EBT, Jeff led R&D until 1996, when he helped sell the company to Inso, a publicly traded company. From 1996 to 1998, Jeff was vice president of engineering at Inso's Electronic Publishing Solutions business unit and was also very active in the company's corporate development activities, where he helped acquire and integrate more than half a dozen acquisitions.  Jeff has served as a board member at a number of technology companies throughout New England including AccuRev, BEZ, WebDialogs, and Nexaweb.

James S. Gladney

Jim Gladney currently serves as the Managing Partner of Liberty Capital Partners, which he founded in 1994 to make private investments in real estate, private equity, and venture capital, and to provide advisory services to the owners of those assets.From 2003-2004, Jim was the Managing Partner of Park Avenue Equity Partners, a NYC based private equity firm specializing in acquiring middle market companies.From 1997-2003, Jim was Chairman and CEO of Boston based All Seasons Services, Inc., a leading provider of vending, dining and office refreshment services with over 2000 employees. In 1997, Jim led a management group that acquired All Seasons. Jim and his management team then acquired 36 additional companies in the industry, grew the business from $80 million in revenue to over $200 million and sold the company to a private equity firm.  Merrill Lynch and Ernst & Young named Jim a nominee for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1990, 2000 and 2001. In both 1992 and 1993, Inc. magazine named his real estate development company to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the country. In 1998, Mr. Gladney was selected by the Boston Business Journal for its inaugural "40 Under 40" designation which recognizes the accomplishments of the best and brightest business people under the age of 40.  Jim has served as an investor and board member of numerous successful companies conducting business domestically and internationally including Heartlab, Windward Petroleum, GCA Services Group, Global Asset Alternatives, Impact Products, All Seasons Services, Liberty Tire Services and MRI WorldWide.

Pascal Van Hentenryck

Pascal Van Hentenryck is a world-renowned leader in optimization technology. A professor of computer science at Brown University and the director of its optimization laboratory, Pascal is also a software engineer with a successful history of commercialization.  Before joining Brown in 1990, Pascal spent four years at the European Computer-Industry Research Center (ECRC), where he was the main designer and implementer of the CHIP programming system, the foundation of all modern constraint programming systems. Over the last 15 years, he developed a number of influential systems, including the Numerica system for global optimization; the optimization programming language OPL; and the programming language Comet, which supports both constraint-based local search and constraint programming.  Pascal is the recipient of the 1993 NSF National Young Investigator (NYI) award; the 2002 INFORMS ICS award for research excellence at the interface between computer science and operations research; the 2006 ACP for Research Excellence in Constraint Programming; the best paper awards at CP'03, CP'04, and IJCAI'07; and an IBM Faculty Award in 2004. He is the author of five books (all published by the MIT Press), and of more than 170 scientific papers. Pascal has an H-number of at least 40 in Google Scholar; his first MIT Press book has more than 1,300 citations.