Along with our CEO, Mark Cattini, our Board of Directors include:
Jeffrey R. Beir
For more than two decades, Jeffrey has built world-class product teams, created market-leading products and leveraged technology transitions to create market value. Jeffrey was most recently EVP of Products for Documentum, a division of EMC, where he was responsible for the planning, engineering and delivery of their enterprise content management, collaboration and compliance solutions.
Jeffrey was the co-founder and CEO of eRoom Technology which was acquired by Documentum/EMC in December 2002. The acquisition was the largest private software transaction in 2002 with a deal value in excess of $200M. At eRoom, Jeffrey spearheaded the design, development, marketing and sales of the company's award-winning, extended enterprise collaboration solutions and grew the company from a PowerPoint presentation into a market leader in the collaboration category with more than 1,000 customers. In 2003, Jeffrey was recognized by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year in New England for Information Technology for his efforts at eRoom. Prior to eRoom, Jeffrey was Senior Vice President of Applications at Lotus Development Corporation, where he led the desktop applications organization and held several other executive management and marketing positions. Prior to Lotus, Jeffrey held engineering positions at IBM and Xerox. Jeffrey received his MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Syracuse University and a BSEE from Northwestern University. Jeffrey serves on the Board of Overseers for the Museum of Science in Boston.
Ron Nordin
Ron Nordin is an advisor and board member to a number of early stage technology companies. A leading entrepreneur in the software industry, Ron has held a number of executive roles, including CEO and venture capital investor.
Most recently Ron was a Senior Partner at Atlas Venture in Boston. He invested in a number of early stage software and internet companies, including eRoom Technologies, which was acquired by Documentum in 2000 in one of the largest private software transactions of the year. Prior to Atlas, he was President and CEO of SQA Inc, a venture backed, enterprise software company. He led SQA from a start up to become a dominant player in the software quality assurance sector and a successful IPO in 1995. Under his leadership, SQA became a highly valued public company which was later merged with Rational Software.
Ron established his early career at Cognos, where he a was Senior Vice President serving on the executive team that developed the company from a start up, through an IPO in 1986 to become one of the major players in the software industry.
Michael J. Skok
Michael Skok joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2002. Prior to this, Michael had been an entrepreneur and CEO in the software industry for more than 20 years. Michael founded, led and raised more than $100M in private equity for his companies in the CAD/CAM, Document Management, Workflow, Imaging, Collaboration, Security and Analytics markets—spanning the Mini Computer, Workstation, PC, Client Server and Internet eras.
Six of these companies were successfully acquired by Siebel, Platinum, Filenet, Banyan and IBM and two went Public, including Symantec for which he built Symantec UK into its most profitable international business. Most recently Michael founded AlphaBlox where he envisioned and defined the market for Analytical Applications, now a multi-billion dollar market segment. IBM acquired Alphablox and markets the product as DB2 Alphablox and integrates it into its Websphere and Rational product lines.
Michael has served on many private and public company boards as well as supported various software industry groups such as the Software Publishers Association where he was Chairman for a number of years in Europe. He is currently active on the boards of all his recent investments in North Bridge Venture Partners portfolio companies.
Michael is a graduate of Nottingham University in the United Kingdom (awarded joint honors in Management Sciences and Engineering).
Dayna B. Grayson
Dayna Balcome Grayson joined North Bridge Venture Partners as a Principal in 2006. Prior to North Bridge, Dayna led new product development efforts at Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the leading global provider of software to nonprofit organizations. Dayna managed products throughout their life cycle as the company grew to over $130 Million in revenue and completed a successful public offering.
Prior to joining Blackbaud, Dayna was a consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young were she led business analysis efforts for the largest custom development projects the firm had undertaken to date. These projects pioneered the development of large scale applications on web-based platforms. She started her career as an early employee at Eye Response Technologies, which developed breakthrough gaze-tracking technology.
Dayna has a B.S. from the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.




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