Board

Paul Flanagan is a managing director with Sigma Partners. He came to Sigma in 2006, after serving as Executive VP and CFO at VistaPrint, an online graphic design and print company, which he led through significant revenue growth and its initial public offering in 2005. Prior to VistaPrint, Paul was President and CEO of the storage software and services company StorageNetworks. Before becoming CEO, Paul served as COO and CFO. During his tenure, the company grew from a startup to a publicly traded company. Prior to StorageNetworks, he was VP of Finance for Lasertron, a fiber optics manufacturer. Paul began his career with nine years at Ernst & Young in entrepreneurial services, audit services, and mergers and acquisitions. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Bentley College.

Chip is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience broadly span across companies and technologies in the information technology sector. He currently represents the firm on the boards of 10gen, First Best Systems, Goby, Infobright, Jingle Networks, Nasuni, Placemark and Sciformix.  Previously he was a director at Bowstreet (acquired by IBM), mValent (acquired by Oracle), Reveal Imaging (acquired by SAIC) and SupplyScape (acquired by TraceLink).

Before joining Flybridge, Chip was a General Partner with Greylock Partners, where he led or participated in numerous successful investments in the enterprise information technology field including Narrative Communications (acquired by @Home), Idiom Technologies (acquired by SDL), iPhrase Technologies (acquired by IBM), IBA (acquired by ServiceSoft/Kana), Storage Networks (IPO), Totality (acquired by MCI) and the Vincam Group (IPO in 1996, acquired by ADP). Prior to Greylock, he was with Company Assistance Limited, an investment and consulting firm in Warsaw Poland, and Bain and Company, an international management consulting firm. Chip received a BA with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and a Ford Scholar.

Chip’s blog, Hazard Lights, can be found at www.hazardlights.net.

Jeff McCarthy joined North Bridge Venture Partners in December 1998. Jeff supported Nasuni co-founder Andres Rodriguez in his previous venture, Archivas, which was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems in 2006. Jeff’s other recent successes include the 2009 initial public offering of A123, an advanced battery maker. Prior to becoming an investor, Jeff had a distinguished career in sales and operations. As President and CEO of New Oak Communications, a leading provider of extranet access switches, he oversaw all operations and shepherded the company through its acquisition by Bay Networks. Jeff stayed on after the acquisition as VP and General Manager of the Access Division. Before New Oak, Jeff was VP of Sales and Business Development at Cadia Networks, a developer of ATM concentrator products for the service provider marketplace. Jeff also held various senior management positions earlier in his career, including VP of Carrier Operations at Wellfleet Communications/Bay Networks. A magna cum laude graduate of Northeastern University, School of Management, Jeff received his master’s in business administration (also magna cum laude) from Bentley College.

John McCarthy is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience leading successful organizations, with a particular focus in the technology sectors, including both hardware and software organizations. His areas of expertise encompass operational management; organizational efficiencies; and shaping and managing sales forces that comprise direct, indirect, and OEM channels. McCarthy has helped drive innovation in the various technology companies, as a consultant, advisor and/or board member.

In April 2009, McCarthy joined Mainline Information Systems as their COO and EVP and is responsible for sales, marketing and operations. Mainline is a reseller and integrator of technology solutions with offices throughout the United States.