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James H. Hunt
James Hunt is Managing Partner at the Mita Group, a public affairs and business strategy
consultancy based in Washington, DC.
Jim has served in an executive capacity as the past President of Cap Gemini Technologies, LLC
and as Founder, President and CEO of Ernst & Young Technologies. Additionally, Mr. Hunt
served as Managing Director, System Integration at Price Waterhouse, Founder, CEO, and
President of BDS, Incorporated and as a consultant providing businesses with insights and
strategies related to development of their federal government business. Mr. Hunt currently
serves on the boards of six technology companies: iMove, Sensics, videoNEXT, SpotterRF,
Unveillance, and Interfolio.
At Ernst & Young Technologies, Jim oversaw a staff of over 300 professionals and drove the company to revenues of
over $90M in the third year after formation placing 3rd on the INC 500 listing of US fast growing private companies.
Hunt orchestrated and optimized the successful sale of EYT by packaging the company into two pieces and selling each
piece to public companies.
Jim was only at Price Waterhouse for two years at which point he was recruited away by Ernst & Young along with 17
of his Price Waterhouse team. Jim founded the System Integration practice of PW and grew it to over $50M of backlog
in the first 18 months. The SI piece of Price Waterhouse was approximately $400M by the time it was sold to IBM some
years later.
As founder, chairman and CEO of BDS, Hunt grew revenues to $80M in the year BDS merged with BTG in 1992.
Twice during the ten year lifespan of BDS, the company was ranked on the INC 500 listing. After the merger, Hunt
spent a year working with the CEO of BTG to position the company for a public offering. In the first year after the IPO,
the stock rose from $12 at the offering to over $26/share. Hunt exited his equity position with BTG during that first
year.
Jim has extensive experience in building technology companies and angel investing. He has invested in and assisted
with the start up of over two dozen companies over the past twenty years.
Hunts angel investments are mostly technology oriented and most are products and or services that have a market into
the federal government markets.
Jim has historically invested as a singleton angel but has also been a founding member of three angel groups where he
invests collectively with other angels. The three angel groups are: the Irish Angels (Notre Dame Alumni), the Active
Angels (group of Washington area angels), the DArchAngels (angels focused on investments in the defense and
intelligence market space) and Blu Venture Investors
Additionally, Hunt is an advisor to two venture funds Edison Ventures, an early and mid stage Venture Capital Fund
headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey and the Seriphim Fund, a joint US-UK venture fund focused on investments in
start-up companies in the United Kingdom.
In his capacity as an advisory to both small and large companies, Jim has worked on strategic and tactical planning
ranging from market penetration and expansion to cost reduction and restructuring. Hunt has been retained by a number
of larger companies who have asked for strategic guidance regarding potential acquisition targets and integration
planning.
Jim also served as the Chairman of the Computing Technology Industry Association (ComTIA) and has been actively
involved in industry panels and forums for the past twenty five years.
Mr. Hunt has BS in Photographic Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a BA in Marketing, University of
Notre Dame and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University.

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Naveed Khan
Since 2003 Mr. Khan has operated World Tech Partners, a consulting firm that advises companies in
venture investing and strategic business development. In that role, he has had major consulting
assignments with several global firms:
Tsunami Network Partners (TNP) a Yokohama, Japan based venture
investment group
Weyerhaeuser, a USA based forest management and products company
Waste Management, an alternative energy and re-cycling corporation
Deere & Co. a leader in farm and construction machinery
Google, the global leader in organizing and managing information.
Samsung, A global conglomerate in Electronics and Financial services
Naveed Khans consulting practice is focused on commercialization of innovative technologies in collaboration with global
corporations. He consults with technology companies in building strategic alliances, forming joint ventures and in obtaining
investment from venture capital and corporate venture capital entities.
From 1999-2003 Mr. Khan headed Siemens Venture Capital USA, which is regarded as one of the best functioning
corporate venture capital funds in the industry. At Siemens, he led a team of investment professionals that invested in 32
start-up companies and 27 venture funds. Mr. Khan has also served on Boards of several startup companies in the Silicon
Valley, and has overseen the growth of other high technology companies as an advisor and a board member. Currently Mr.
Khan serves on the Board of two Wireless and Information Technology firms, advises an early stage venture fund in India
and as Executive President of Strategic Venture Association (strategicventureassociation.com), a trade group of Corporate
Venture Capital (CVC) organizations in the US. Prior to joining Siemens Venture Capital, Mr. Khan headed the Business
Development and Investments group at Infineon technology. Based on his recommendations, Infineon acquired 2 companies
and made investments in 6 other startups. Prior to that role, he served in Infineons Embedded Software Group, where he
was responsible for managing a large software development team creating software for customers in the wireless, industrial
and automotive sectors.
Prior to his tenure with Infineon, Mr. Khan served 11 years at National Semiconductor, where he held various management
positions in Engineering and Marketing. In 1994 as Head of Nationals Embedded Software group, he successfully launched
a major product for the consumer appliance market in Japan and Europe.
Mr. Khan holds an MBA from State University of NY at Buffalo, and a BSEE from University of Engineering and
Technology, Lahore Pakistan. He has been trained in Executive development and Venture Capital Investment programs at
Harvard Business School and University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Scott Hartley
Scott Hartley is an early stage technology investor at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Sand Hill Road
venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. MDV was founded in 1983, and has $2 billion
invested across companies in the web/mobile, clean-tech, and healthcare sectors.
Hartley is passionate about innovation as a driver of economic growth, and is a strong proponent of
global entrepreneurship. He is a frequent panelist and speaker on entrepreneurship, and writes a
column for Forbes on international technology and venture capital trends. Prior to venture capital
Hartley worked for Google, Facebook, and Harvard Universitys Berkman Center for Internet and
Society. At Google he spent a year in India launching two operations teams, and lectured on
entrepreneurship for Google.org in Africa. Hartley has experience at the U.S. State Department,
where he worked for the Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, at the U.N. Development
Program, and at the White House, where he worked with the National Economic Council on issues of U.S. economic policy.
Hartley holds his B.A. from Stanford University, his M.A. in International Affairs and his M.B.A. in Economics and
Finance from Columbia University. Hartley is a traveler and athlete, having been to 60 countries and competed in an
Ironman 70.3 triathlon. He is a Young Leader at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and has been a
contributor to publications such as Foreign Policy, Boston Review, Forbes, and Policy Innovations.

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