SupplyScape Board of Directors
Henry Ancona
Henry has broad-based experience as an advisor, angel investor, and leader of technology-based businesses in the areas of security software, applications, and information services.
In addition to being a member of the angel investment group CommonAngels, Henry has served on the Board of Directors of a number of private and public technology companies. He currently serves on the Board of Visible Measures Corporation.
For more than 25 years, Henry has led both small companies and large global enterprises. He was most recently President at Pegasystems, a rules-based business process management software company, and Chairman & CEO of Evidian, a security and telecom management software company. Previously, as Executive Vice President at Polaroid, he led the company's Digital Imaging and Commercial Imaging businesses. Henry also held a variety of general management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation that included leading the company's office applications software business.
Henry holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and BS and MS degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Jeffrey BeirGeneral Partner, North Bridge Ventures Partners
Jeffrey Beir joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2004, having been an entrepreneur and CEO in the software industry. For more than two decades, Jeffrey has built world-class product teams, created market-leading products and leveraged technology transitions to create market value. Jeffrey was most recently EVP of Products for Documentum, a division of EMC, where he was responsible for the planning, engineering and delivery of their enterprise content management, collaboration and compliance solutions.
Jeffrey was the co-founder and CEO of eRoom Technology which was acquired by Documentum/EMC in December 2002. The acquisition was the largest private software transaction in 2002 with a deal value in excess of $200m. At eRoom, Jeffrey spearheaded the design, development, marketing and sales of the company's award-winning, extended enterprise collaboration solutions and grew the company from a PowerPoint presentation into a market leader in the collaboration category with more than 1,000 customers. In 2003, Jeffrey was recognized by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year in New England for Information Technology for his efforts at eRoom.
For the past three years, Jeffrey has served on the Board of Overseers for the Museum of Science in Boston. Prior to eRoom, Jeffrey was Senior Vice President of Applications at Lotus Development Corporation, where he led the desktop applications organization and held several other executive management and marketing positions. Prior to Lotus, Jeffrey held engineering positions at IBM and Xerox. Jeffrey received his MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Syracuse University and a BSEE from Northwestern University.
Shabbir Dahod Chairman and Founder, SupplyScape Corporation
Shabbir collaborates with industry leaders to uncover new business opportunities and drive consensus on the development of business models and industry standards that deliver tangible long term value for companies across the life sciences value chain. Through his vision of a collaborative information network providing precise and timely product, transaction, and demand visibility, Shabbir seeks to help companies increase patient safety and maximize revenue. His blueprint for a safe and secure trade ecosystem based on pedigree value chain master data helps drive a unified product strategy and partner ecosystem.
A 20-year enterprise software veteran, Shabbir led the vision for transforming the pharmaceutical industry through an industry-wide standard approach to combat counterfeiting and diversion threats. He has partnered with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, wholesalers, pharmacies, and organizations such as the MIT Auto-ID Lab on creating approaches to secure the supply chain and thereby improve patient safety. Shabbir was a senior executive in the Paul Allen group of companies, has obtained several patents and was a senior leader at Microsoft.
Robert K. DresingCo-Founder, Bethesda Partners, LLC
Bob Dresing is an entrepreneur whose career is equivalent to the three-sport athlete, having revolutionized the retail, non-profit, and healthcare industries.In 1963, Dresing envisioned changing how people shopped for furniture and co-founded the first Ethan Allen Furniture store. In addition to owning several stores, Dresing worked with the Ethan Allen Furniture Company to develop the prototype store that the Company then used to open 600 stores nationwide. Dresing's healthcare career began in the early 1980's when he started a company to bring quality medical care provided by urban academic teaching hospitals to suburban populations. The company succeeded in developing a chain of freestanding emergency medical clinics in joint venture with academic teaching hospitals.
After selling his companies in 1984, he applied his business background to lead the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a non-profit organization with which he had been personally involved. From 1984 through 1993, Dresing forged partnerships between the Foundation, corporations, and academic teaching hospitals, the government, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. His efforts resulted in unprecedented revenue growth of 500% during his tenure and, most importantly, cystic fibrosis research vaulted to the forefront of the medical community's efforts to cure a genetic disease.
Dresing recognized that pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturers were in need of a new method to deliver products to the patients. In 1996, Dresing co-founded TheraCom to be a full-service care provider of specialty, biotechnology and pharmaceutical products. As Chairman, Dresing led TheraCom to become the preeminent provider of specialty medications respected throughout the industry for its commitment to quality care. Dresing grew TheraCom to almost $100 million in 2001 when it was acquired by AdvancePCS. Dresing continued to lead TheraCom until shortly after AdvancePCS was acquired by Caremark, Inc. in March 2004. After leaving TheraCom, Dresing co-founded Bethesda Partners, LLC, an investment and consulting firm that assists health service companies.
Dresing is a Member of the Health Services Advisory Council of Columbia University; Founding member of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Council and Research!America; Former board member of the National Association for Biomedical Research; Former member of the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease Advisory Council (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)and Special advisory council to the former Director of NIH.
Dresing is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio where in 1994 he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus. Dresing has been featured in Fortune and World Business magazines.
Chip HazardManaging General Partner, IDG Ventures
Chip Hazard joined IDG Ventures in the Boston office as a Managing General Partner in May of 2002. Before joining IDG Ventures, Chip was a General Partner with Greylock, a leading national venture capital firm he joined in 1994. 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.
While at Greylock, Chip led numerous successful investments in the enterprise information technology field including Narrative Communications (acquired by @Home), IBA (acquired by ServiceSoft/Kana), and The Vincam Group (IPO in 1996, acquired by ADP). He currently serves on the boards of Bowstreet, Idiom, iPhrase, mValent, NewView Technologies, Reveal Imaging and Trusecure.
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.
Margaret H. LawrencePartner, Pilot House Ventures
Margaret has been investing in information technology companies since 1998, and brings a combination of investment and information technology expertise to the firm. Prior to joining Pilot House, Margaret was an Associate at Chestnut Partners, a Boston-based merchant banking/venture capital firm that invests in and provides financial advisory work to early-stage software companies. At Chestnut, Margaret worked in partnership with management teams though all stages of their business, to increase speed to market and enhance opportunities for financing. She was also part of the team that invested in iAtlas (sold to AltaVista/CMGI) and Africana.com (sold to AOLTimewarner). Previously, she was a product manager at Verizon Wireless.
Margaret began her career at Lehman Brothers where she focused on mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. Margaret currently serves on the Board of Directors of nTAG, and works closely with Camiant. Margaret earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Williams College and a Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Mark O’ConnellPresident and CEO, SupplyScape Corporation
Mark collaborates with customers, industry leaders, and strategic partners to create industry focused business solutions that improve the overall quality, safety, and financial performance of our customers' value chains. As our company leader, he is driving our business strategy, organizational development, and business partner ecosystem to continually exceed the expectations of our global customers.
With high technology and software industry leadership experience spanning more than 25 years, Mark has successfully built and grown companies in emerging markets. As CEO of MatrixOne, Mark led the company to a market leadership position in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market through a cross-industry and global expansion strategy that took the company to $145M in revenues, more than 850 customers, an Initial Public Offering (IPO), and subsequent acquisition by Dassault Systems. Prior to MatrixOne, Mark was President of Adra Systems, and previous to that, he held leadership roles in Finance, Operations, and Marketing at Digital Equipment Corporation.
