Jim graduated from Middlebury College in 1984. While at Midd, he majored in Political Science and was captain of the men's rugby team.

He now lives in Middlebury, VT and is married to Elizabeth H. Robinson '84. She is the Director of Alumni and Parent Programs at Middlebury College. They have three daughters: Haley, Katherine, and Emily.

He is an Investment Analyst at Independent Research Associates (also the owner!), located in Middlebury, VT.

He retains an active participation at Middlebury college: attends several Midd events each year; volunteers as Career Services Office (CSO) Industry Expert/Main Contact, Specific and General Advisor; served as his 15th reunion co-chair. On 11/16/94, he spoke to the Midd Student Investment Committee on investment research techniques and strategies.

In 1988, he was one of three selected for the Wyoming Centennial Everest Expedition (a.k.a. "Cowboys on Everest") to climb Mt. Everest (in general, Jim is a huge outdoors enthusiast).

Shawn Miele brings operational, merchant banking and merger and acquisition experience to Updata Capital. Before joining Updata in 1995, Shawn was President of Northeast Telecommunications, Inc., a paging company serving northern New England. At the time Shawn became President, Northeast was generating significant operating losses and substantial negative cash flow. Shawn implemented a restructuring program that tripled Northeast's customer base and decreased fixed costs by 18%, restoring the company to profitability and positive operating cash flow in less than 12 months.

From 1988 to 1993, Shawn worked in Bankers Trust Company's Merchant Bank in both New York and Hong Kong. At Bankers Trust, Shawn was responsible for executing mergers and evaluating investment opportunities for the firm's portfolio. He worked on transactions ranging from $100 million to $1 billion in value. In 1990, he was promoted and joined the team that founded Bankers Trust's Hong Kong Merchant Bank, whose operation he helped grow from start-up to significant revenue during his tenure.

Shawn received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, with honors, from Middlebury College and a Master of Business Administration, beta gamma sigma, from Columbia Business School. He serves on the Boards of several private companies. In March 2000, Shawn was selected by Business News New Jersey to be included in a feature on 40 business people under the age of 40 .

Keeper of L90's strategic vision, Bohan spearheads and manages all of the company's business ventures. Thanks to his business acumen and knowledge of the advertising industry, L90 recently completed a successful Initial Public Offering that raised more than $110 million.

Throughout his career, Bohan has demonstrated a keen knowledge and understanding of persuasive and effective advertising solutions. Prior to co-founding L90, Bohan served as executive vice president of Interactive Connection, an Internet startup specializing in advertising sales representation, Web site development and content syndication.

Bohan also has an extensive background in broadcast television, an expertise that he acquired as the top-performing sales account executive for both The Weather Channel and The Travel Channel in New York and Los Angeles. Early in his career, Bohan served as assistant vice president for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank in New York City.

Bohan earned his bachelor of arts degree in economics from Middlebury College.

Spencer Newman founded Adventurous Traveler Bookstore in 1994. Focusing on outdoor travel information, the bookstore sold via a retail location, the internet, and a mail order catalogue, and was soon recognized as a leader in this specialty market.

In 1999, the company closed its retail operation and changed its name to AdventurousTraveler.com. It was also at this time that Spencer entered the world of venture capital fundraising. He engineered a successful round of funding led by Green Mountain Capital, and was closing a second round of funding led by Fresh Tracks Capital when AdventurousTraveler.com merged with Away.com, a premiere online travel site. Along with raising an additional $16.5 million in capital from Gannett, Softbank, New World Ventures, and Village Ventures, the combined company is now poised to lead the specialty "extraordinary travel" market on the web.

Prior to founding Adventurous Traveler, Spencer ran the Northwest Sales and Book Purchasing division of Peregrine Outfitters, a Burlington area outdoor products distributor.

Spencer graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts in 1990, and enjoys travel just about anywhere as long as he can be outside.

Bringing 30 years experience to the table, Bob's marketing passions are product launches and repositionings. Bob stepped into the world of advertising at Young and Rubicam in NYC with his newly earned BA from Wesleyan University in hand in the late 60s and founded Evergreen in 1982 after tiring of the corporate game.

Located in Vermont for lifestyle reasons, Evergreen has always attracted a national client base including LLBean, Disney, Fingerhut, various BCBS plans, The Equitable, Wesleyan University, CitiGroup/Travelers, The Hartford, NYL and MetLife. Bob is a hands-on executive, and plays an instrumental role in developing strategies and concepts - he has also been known to copywrite! -- for Evergreen clients. To balance the frenetic world of direct response marketing,

Bob has been known to play rugby, tennis, ski and hike.

John Molinari is CEO of Media 100 Inc. - the pioneer of Streaming Media Production Tools for streaming video and audio over the Internet. Since 1993, the company's National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy award winning Media 100 ® and Finish™ digital video systems for Macintosh and Windows 2000 have redefined the digital video industry by making content creation easier, more productive and more affordable for traditional video customers. Under Molinari's leadership, Media 100 has recently completed a number of strategic initiatives to take advantage of the burgeoning Internet streaming media marketplace and has repositioned itself as an Internet innovator and streaming media leader.

Prior to Media 100 Inc., Molinari served as vice president of sales and marketing of Data Translation, Inc. - the company that initially funded the development and distribution of the original Media 100 product line. In more than a decade at Data Translation, he led the company's entry into image processing and in 1989 established the Multimedia Group that developed Media 100. In 1996, the Multimedia Group separated from Data Translation, becoming a separate, public company.

Mr. Molinari is a graduate of Middlebury College

Before launching Fresh Tracks Capital in the spring of 2000, Charlie Kireker co-founded in 1993 Green Mountain Capital, L.P., a mezzanine SBIC that has invested in over 25 companies since inception. He is an experienced angel investor and consultant to emerging growth companies in Vermont, including VEMAS, AdventurousTraveler.com, Autumn Harp, and Mobilia.Com.

Active with numerous Boards, he serves on both the Governor's Councils of both Economic and Environmental Advisors in Vermont, and formerly chaired the Board of the Vermont Land Trust. During the mid-80's, Mr. Kireker was CEO of the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency in Boston.

Mr. Kireker graduated from Princeton (1972) and Harvard (MPP, 1981). He is an avid skier and basketball coach with his twin sons, and also a recreational cyclist.

Mr. Edmundson began his legal career in 1971 clerking for Chief Judge Jacob Mishler in the Federal District Court (EDNY). He then joined the international law firm of Shearman & Sterling, where he served as the one-man office in Algeria and in the Paris office in a variety of positions between 1973 and 1978.

Mr. Edmundson then joined the law firm of Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green, P.C. where he was a corporate partner for 20 years, specializing in the representation of German- and French-speaking clients doing business in the US.

He served President of Avis Investment Holding Corporation, a startup financial services firm for three years, where he wrote the business plans, helped raise the financing, co- founded the company and was responsible with CEO for financing and relations with shareholders and investors. He was in charge of acquisitions and legal structuring, and made many successful presentations to potential investors and partners.

At HomeView, a private Internet media company, he is the Chief Legal Officer and a principal shareholder, has a primary role in acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances and financing, and is in charge of French-speaking countries.

Throughout his career, Mr. Edmundson has been involved in many acquisitions, joint ventures, financings and commercial contracts for a number of domestic and international projects, often serving as project head for international investment projects.

Mr. Edmundson received an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Purdue in 1967, has studied in Germany and France, and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. He speaks fluent French and German. He has been married for 29 years to Lorna Duphiney Edmundson, Ed.D., Columbia Teachers College; President of the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges. He has two daughters, Laurel, a first-year medical student at SUNY Downstate, and Katherine, a sophomore at Haverford College.

He was an early convert to telecommuting: he started working at home one day a week16 years ago, in order to diminish the grind of commuting into New York City and to have more time with his family, and has been working from a home office Friday-Monday for the last eight years.

Matt Harris believes that venture capital investing is a local business. As co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Village Ventures, he has created an operating company dedicated to managing locally focused, early-stage venture capital investment on a national scale.

Harris, 27, began his career as a consultant at Bain & Company, Boston, in 1994. While there, he worked in the technology, consumer products, financial services and telecommunications industries, and in 1995 he signed on as an associate with Bain Capital. At Bain Capital, Harris’ most notable transactions included the $1.1 billion purchase and subsequent sale of a credit-reporting agency, and the $90 million purchase of a medical products distributor.

Harris left Bain Capital in 1997 to become the founding managing director of The Berkshires Capital Investors, a venture capital fund chartered to invest in companies in Berkshire County. Under Harris’ leadership, BCI’s first fund of $5 million has generated returns to investors in excess of 100% per year. BCI invested in Tripod, Inc. (sold to Lycos in 1998 for $58 million); Employease, Inc (named to Red Herring magazine’s 100 “Most Important Companies in the World” list for 2000); Berkshire Wireless, Inc. and Streetmail.com. BCI, now a Village Ventures affiliate, recently raised $16 million and anticipates investing that fund by mid-2001.

At BCI, Harris developed his belief in the local venture capital model that is one of the planks in the Village Ventures platform. Many markets boast the attributes of Berkshire County, namely access to intellectual capital, a high quality of life and a low cost of doing business. Village Ventures was created to bring venture capital and services to these markets, which are traditionally underserved by venture capitalists.

Harris graduated from Williams College in 1994, and now lives in Williamstown, MA. He is active in the business community of Williamstown and Berkshire County, and is involved in many civic organizations. He is a member of the advisory committee of BankBoston Development Company, and sits on the board of Skillview Technologies, Inc.; Berkshire Wireless, Inc.; PRG, Inc. and Streetmail.com.

Shel Sax is the Director of Instructional Technology at Middlebury College and has worked for the college for many years in the technology field. Prior to that, Shel was a member of the College's economic department. Each year, he team teaches a technologically intensive, senior economics seminar with Michael Claudon. His main interest is working with faculty to introduce and incorporate appropriate technology into the curriculum. He is currently on leave from Middlebury and is spending the next six months in Denver, Colorado as the Donald & Susan Sturm Visiting Fellow at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Denver University. Shel is a member of the Board of Trustees of NERCOMP (The North East Regional Computing Program).