Vincent Deschamps, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Echopass

Vincent Deschamps provides overall direction and operational leadership for the company. Deschamps is a proven manager with rich sales and marketing experience, and has excelled at several of America’s leading telecommunications and hosted services companies over his career.

Prior to Echopass, Deschamps was vice president of sales for AccessLine, where he led that company’s successful efforts in the hosted mobility services market, most notably developing a key relationship with Hewlett-Packard. Previously he served as general manager/vice president for Avaya’s worldwide Unified Communications line of business where he developed the business strategy, go-to-market plan, and sales efforts for Avaya’s market-leading Unified Messaging product line. Deschamps holds a B.A. in marketing and economics from CW Post College.

Ronald K. Kase, General Partner, NEA

Ronald joined New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1991 and became a general partner in 1995. NEA provides venture capital to companies, concentrating on early stage companies in the areas of information technology and medical and life sciences. His investment activities are focused on software, principally infrastructure and business applications targeting the enterprise, as well as IT-based service opportunities.

He currently serves on the boards of Echopass, LENDX, Perfect Commerce, PolyServe, Scheduling.com, Sierra Atlantic and Stratum8 Software. Before joining NEA, Ronald was with Berkeley International, focusing on information technology venture financings.

Previously, he was with Advanced Micro Devices and Eastman Kodak. Ronald received an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

John Balen, General Partner, Canaan Partners

John V. Balen is currently a general partner at Canaan Partners. Canaan currently manages roughly $2.0B in investment capital. The company advises companies on tactical operational issues and positions companies strategically to help exciting companies grow quickly, substantially, and intelligently.

Prior to joining Canaan Partners in 1995, John served as a Managing Director of Horsley Bridge Partners, a multi-billion dollar private equity investment firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. During his nine-year tenure at Horsley Bridge Partners, he was responsible for a wide spectrum of investment in venture capital partnerships, buyout partnerships and high technology companies.

Earlier in his career, he was an engineer at Codenoll Technology Corporation, fiber communications start-up, and Digital Equipment Corporation. John received a BS in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell University. He currently serves on the boards of Command Audio, Commerce One, Critical Arc, Echopass, Everdream, Iteration Software, and Voiceweb.

Bruce Pollock, CEO Financial Executive Solutions

For over 15 years, Bruce was Chief Financial Officer for high technology companies, including Avanex Corporation (AVNX), WaveSplitter Technologies, Walker Interactive Systems Inc. (WALK), Reel.com (now part of Hollywood Video) and VMX, Inc. (originally VMXI, now part of Avaya). Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer for a large telecommunications distributor.

His management responsibilities as CFO have spanned finance, accounting, legal, business planning, investor relations, corporate governance, IT, risk management, human resources and facilities. He has helped to raise in excess of $100 million in private equity capital and has been through the IPO process. Bruce has negotiated and closed many M&A transactions, both as a buyer and a seller, as well as countless other complex commercial transactions. As Chief Financial Officer, Bruce has been an integral part of several senior management teams and has worked extensively with company boards of directors, investment bankers, venture capitalists, commercial bankers, big four accountants and senior legal counsel for his companies.

Bruce earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington. He also has an MBA degree from the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), a JD degree from Boalt Law School (UC Berkeley) and is a member of the California Bar.