RAISING MONEY
from ANGELS & VENTURE CAPITALISTS

Angel: George Emmanuel, Managing Director of Hub Angels Investment Group, LLP (www.HubAngels.com)

Hub angels Investment Group is a 25-person organization. and a practicing entrepreneur. George actively participates in management, and assumes roles as a CxO or VPx, focusing on strategy, business development and finance. He has worked with several Boston area start-ups and investment groups including CEO of Fast Engines, CFO of RealLink Systems, EVP of Government Communications Group and Senior Financial Advisor to Consortio. Investment Groups include Pioneer Capital, Knowledge Cube, Main Street Partners, YankeeTec, and Investment Management of America.

From 1991 to 1994 he was General Manager of Process Design Sciences, a software development and consulting firm that was sold under George�s initiative. Previous experience includes co-founder and treasurer of the Indoor Golf Club, a pioneer in �edutainment� using virtual reality, which was sold after two years of successful operation. Earlier career activities included Coopers & Lybrand (both Audit group and Business Investigation Services) and General Manager of Croesus Industries, a small publicly held company. He earned an MS from MIT as a Sloan Fellow, and a BS from Bentley College.

VC: Bill Frezza joined Adams Capital Management (www.ACM.com) in 1997 as General partner.

He is responsible for identifying, leading and managing investments in his area of domain expertise: Broadband Communications, Local Access Networks, Semiconductors & Applied Materials, and Wireless Communications. Prior to his work at Adams Capital, Bill was Founder and President of Wireless Computing Associates, providing technology strategy and consulting services to major vendors in the telecommunications industry.

Bill served as the Director of Marketing and Business Development for Ericsson's wireless data division, and has extensive engineering and product management experience from General Instrument and Bell Laboratories. He has also been involved in several start-up ventures, holds seven patents, and was a columnist for Internet Week. He currently sits on the boards of AmberWave Systems Corporation, Gemicer, Inc., and VBrick Systems, Inc. Bill earned an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering, and BS in Biology, all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

CEO: Greg Schmergel, Co-founder, President & CEO, of Nantero, Inc. (www.Nantero.com)

Nantero is developing NRAM�, a high-density nonvolatile random access memory chip, using nanotechnology. The company's objective is to replace all existing forms of memory, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory, with NRAM serving as universal memory. Greg was most recently Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy for About, Inc., the 5th largest Web property. Previously, he was President and CEO of ExpertCentral.com, Inc. that was later acquired by About in January of 2000, and is now part of Primedia, NYSE: PRM.

Prior to forming ExpertCentral.com, Greg served as Case Team Leader for Bain & Company where he led consultant teams working on critical strategy and implementation issues for Fortune 1000 companies. His earlier experience includes senior positions at TowerGroup, that he helped start, and the Ernst & Young Center for Information Technology & Strategy. Reuters acquired TowerGroup in November 1999. Greg stays active in supporting entrepreneurship at Harvard, MIT, and throughout Boston, including being a guest speaker at entrepreneurial classes and groups and a judge for the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Greg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Les Brown is a private investor, and CEO & President of Brown & Burstein

Lexington-based management advisors to VC firms, Boards of Directors, CEOs and senior executives of technology-based companies. Les is an interim CEO for startups and turnarounds, and rapidly resolves business and technology issues in company performance, markets, management, and technology implementation. He founded three firms and was instrumental in starting and mentoring many other companies.

Les has over 25 years of multidisciplinary experience, and has commercialized $250 million of successful products and services. He earned advanced degrees in engineering and business, and has been an invited speaker and moderator at many conferences, seminars, and universities. Les was a founder and for five years Chair of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs' Network now in its fourteenth year, and was past Chair of the 11,000 member IEEE Boston Section (www.ieeeBoston.org).