HighRoads Board of Directors
Paul R. Daoust, Non-executive Chairman of the Board
After serving as HighRoads' CEO for 4 years, Paul is the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of HighRoads.
Paul is a recognized leader in the HR consulting and insurance industries. He spent 30 years with Watson Wyatt Worldwide, one of the world's leading human resource consulting firms, in a variety of consulting and management roles before retiring as global Chief Operating Officer. Just prior to HighRoads, Paul served as chairman and CEO of GRX Technologies, Inc., a software company focused on supply chain management for the commercial insurance industry.
Paul currently sits on the Board of Salary.Com (NASDAQ: SLRY) and the Advisory Boards of Brodeur Partners and LaborMetrix, Inc.
Paul has a Bachelor of Mathematics from Boston College and a Master of Actuarial Science with distinction from the University of Michigan Business School. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
Michael Byers
Mike is CEO and President of HighRoads. He is the visionary helping to drive the strategic direction of HighRoads as the only company giving the world's largest employers complete control over their health care costs and compliance. Mike oversees sales, services, marketing, product development and finance. While at HighRoads he has lead the transformation of the Company from a software company to a technology enabled services organization.
Mike was previously CEO of Centive, a founding company in the Enterprise Incentive Management (EIM) market, while at Centive he raised in excess of $70 million in venture capital, built the management team and grew revenue from zero to in-excess of $25 million. Prior to joining Centive, Mike served as CFO and VP Finance for NuMega Technologies, Inc where he negotiated the sale of the company to Compuware (NASDAQ; CPWR) for $150 million. Mike has also held senior finance positions in the software industry including SQA, Inc., and Object Design, Inc.
Mike is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Cum Laude with a BA in Accounting and a minor in Economics. Mike is also a CPA in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
William Burgess
Mr. Burgess has 25 years of experience in venture capital and corporate finance. Immediately prior to joining ABS, he was Managing Director and Global Head of Deutsche Bank Venture Partners. He has also served as Vice Chairman of Global Corporate Finance at Deutsche Bank, and Global Co-Head of Industry Groups Investment Banking and Head of Technology Investment Banking at Alex Brown and Sons.
Burgess is a board member of Adeptra Ltd, ClickSquared Inc., and most recently served on the Boards of Clearforest (acquired by Reuters PLC) and PowerDsine (NASDAQ:PSDN, acquired by Microsemi). He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New England Aquarium and Trustee and Treasurer of St. Marks's School. He received his BA from Dartmouth College and MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jay Corscadden
Mr. Corscadden has worked extensively with emerging growth technology companies. While at Adams Harkness, he focused on advising technology companies with respect to raising public and private equity capital and in mergers and acquisitions transactions. During that tenure, he helped his clients successfully complete more than $2.8 billion of transaction volume. Until joining Adams Harkness Ventures full time in early 2001, Corscadden spent nearly seven years as an investment banker in the Technology Group at Adams Harkness. Currently he manages the Firm's investments in Endeca, HighRoads and Blacksmith Applications.
Corscadden began his career with KPMG Peat Marwick, where he served a number of technology clients, among others. After two years with KPMG, he joined Siemens-Nixdorf Information Systems, where he spent the majority of his time in that firm's software and consulting division. He graduated from Providence College, and received his M.B.A. from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Alex Gregory
Mr. Gregory joined Egan-Managed Capital in 2000. He has over a dozen years of operations and finance experience with growth companies. As a partner at Egan-Managed Capital, Gregory serves on the Board of Directors of Genalytics, HighRoads and VXI.
Formerly, he worked closely with Conjoin (acquired: Intranets) and served on the board of Monetrics (acquired: J.M Family Enterprises) and Sprockets. In addition to evaluating new business plans, Alex is working closely with Softrax and Whaleback Systems.
Previously, Gregory headed Boston Beer Company's expansion efforts in Australia and the Pacific Rim. He concentrated on forming and formalizing distributor relationships, building their marketing and sales efforts, and growing that business. Prior to Boston Beer Company, he worked in the Corporate Finance Group while at Alex Brown & Sons. His banking experience included M&A activity, IPO's and Secondary Offerings.
Gregory earned his AB in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business.
John R. Egan
Mr. Egan is a Managing Partner at Egan-Managed Capital. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of one former portfolio company NetScout Systems and is a Board Member at EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and VMWare, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) He formerly served on the EPiCON (acquired by Northern Telecom), CenterStone Software (acquired by Manhattan Software), HighGround Systems (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Lineo, Monetrics (acquired by JM Family Enterprises), Novera Software (acquired by Mercator Software), and Caldera Systems boards.
Egan co-founded Egan-Managed Capital. He was previously Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at EMC where he directed the development of EMC's sales force and market positioning. During his tenure, the sales organization missed only one out of 54 quarterly sales quotas while growing the business from $3 million to nearly $3 billion in annual sales. He retired from active employment at EMC at the end of 1998. He holds degrees in marketing and computer science from Boston College.
Lou Volpe
Mr. Volpe is the Managing General Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners. Prior to joining Kodiak, he was President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of ArrowPoint Communications where he was responsible for all of ArrowPoint's functional organizations and focused on managing worldwide operations to achieve company growth objectives. ArrowPoint had a successful IPO in March 2000 and was acquired by Cisco Systems for $5.5 billion in June 2000.
Prior to joining ArrowPoint, Volpe was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing and a member of the Board of GeoTel Communications, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in June 1999. He joined GeoTel early in its developmental stage and was a major contributor in building its worldwide sales and marketing presence. He was also instrumental in guiding the company through its IPO and eventual $2 billion acquisition. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Operations for Parametric Technology Corporation from 1989 through 1994. Before Parametric, he was an executive at Prime Computer. He has been an active investor and board member of a number of companies including Atria (acquired by Pure) and Softdesk (acquired by Autodesk).
He is a member of the boards of directors for Kodiak portfolio companies including airwide solutions; Azimuth Systems; ChannelAdvisor; Egenera; HighRoads; Newforma; and SpaceClaim.