Paddy Holahan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NewBay Software
Paddy Holahan is Founder and CEO of NewBay Software. Previously, he was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for Baltimore Technologies (London:BLM). Having joined Baltimore Technologies in 1996, he was a key member of the executive management team that rapidly grew the company from a small private company to a public company valued at over $10bn. During his tenure, Baltimore Technologies made 5 acquisitions worth in excess of $500m, completed its NASDAQ public listing, employed over 1400 employees and had annual revenues of over $100m. He left Baltimore Technologies in May 2001.

Prior to his role at Baltimore Technologies, Paddy was co-founder and CEO of East Coast Software, a private software company specializing in PC utility software. He is a frequent speaker on technology, e-commerce, e-business and the software industry in general and has written numerous articles for national and international publications. Paddy has testified to the Irish Parliament on e-commerce policy and issues and has also testified to a US congressional sub-committee regarding encryption policies. Paddy is also a non-executive director of Propylon Ltd, Web Reservations International Ltd (hostelworld.com) and Cicero Networks.

Paddy received a first-class honours degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Before Esat Digifone, Barry spent two years at Xerox Corporation in Palo Alto, California, where as Vice President first of Business Development and then of Channel Operations, he was instrumental in revolutionizing the Xerox approach to global marketing. Before this Barry enjoyed a pan-European career at Digital Equipment as European Pricing Manager, Director of Software Business Europe and Vice President of the Component and Peripheral Business Unit Europe. Barry continues his involvement with O2 Ireland in the role of non-executive Chairman.

Board Seats: Alphyra, Globoforce, Newbay, Nexagent, O2 Ireland, Openet Telecom
Education: Economics Degree from University College, Dublin, 1980.

Simon represents Fidelity Ventures as a committee member for the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Associate (BVCA), the industry body for the UK private equity and venture capital industry.

Simon holds an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Wadham College Oxford.

Mark Opzoomer holds an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, and earned a Bachelor of Commerce, Honors, from Queen's University, Ontario, Canada. Mark Opzoomer also completed in 1995 the London and Wharton Business Schools Directors Forum, a program for public company directors. Mark Opzoomer qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC (Coopers & Lybrand) in 1981, where he spent seven years in audit and then business investigation services.

Paul Mc Keon is Chief Executive Officer of Propylon Ltd. Paul is responsible for Propylon's strategic leadership and for handling consultancy work relating to the specialist eGovernment field. He has acted as a senior consultant to the Irish government on a number of ground-breaking XML projects. Paul is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.