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Bruce Berger was appointed as Reva’s CEO in early 2009. Prior to joining Reva Systems, Berger served as President and CEO of Verrillon, Inc. a venture-backed optical fiber company specializing in harsh-environment applications within the oil and gas, military/avionics and industrial markets. Before Verrillon, Berger served as an Executive Officer of Digi International and as Senior VP and General Manager for NetSilicon Incorporated, a subsidiary of Digi, engaged in silicon-based networking products.

Berger also served as Senior VP/Managing Director of Digi International's European and Asian Operations, based in Dortmund, Germany. Earlier in his career Berger served as Vice President and General Manager of TeCom Incorporated, a company focused on the development of embedded systems for various building and industrial automation applications.

Berger holds a BS in Marketing and a BS in Operations Management from Florida State University, as well as an MBA from the University of Tampa.

As founding CEO with the company since its start-up potential was conceived, Ashley Stephenson led Reva to great success with important customer wins and prestigious industry recognition. Reva's string of industry accolades is bringing RFID solutions into focus with network innovation, technology excellence and manufacturing merit. Prior to co-founding Reva Systems, Stephenson was CEO and then Chairman of Xedia Corporation, a developer of advanced Internet access equipment, up until its acquisition by Lucent in 1999. While at Xedia, Stephenson was awarded "CEO of the Year" by the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council. Prior to Xedia, Stephenson was Vice President of Marketing at ISIS Distributed Systems, a provider of software and integration services for Reliable Group Messaging acquired by Stratus Computer. Stephenson began his career in Hi-Tech at IBM R&D in the U.K. During recent years Stephenson has taught Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Professor in the Babson College MBA program, and is on the advisory board of Middlesex Community College's RFID Training Program. He has also served on the Board of Directors of several venture-backed startups and industry consortia. Stephenson is a graduate of Imperial College, London (Physics) and an Associate of the Royal College of Science. He is the holder of several U.S. patents.

Mike Zak joined Charles River in 1991 and has served as the principal sponsor for investments in a number of information technology markets and technologies, including semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, vertical market software and networking software. Examples of past investments include Agile Networks (acquired by Lucent in 1996), American Internet (acquired by Cisco in 1998), CIENA Corporation (IPO in 1997), CPort Corporation (acquired by Motorola in 2000) and ON Technology Corporation (IPO in 1995, acquired by Symantec in 2003) and Broadbus Technologies (video on demand).

Zak graduated from the College of Engineering at Cornell University in 1975. After spending four years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, he graduated from Harvard Business School in 1981. During the next ten years, he worked at Motorola and at McKinsey & Company. He was also a co-founder at Concord Communications, then a venture-capital backed supplier of software for network monitoring and analysis, where he served in several executive roles.

Zak is active in local civic, conservation and church affairs and is a member of the Board of Directors of Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts.

Jamie Goldstein joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 1998. Prior to joining North Bridge, Goldstein co-founded PureSpeech, a venture-backed speech recognition software and applications company targeting telcos and enterprise call centers. Goldstein served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing prior to its acquisition by Voice Control Systems (NASDAQ: VCSI) and subsequent sale to Phillips Electronics. Before PureSpeech he was with Symmetrix, a provider of manufacturing execution software and consulting services.

Goldstein's venture investing is targeted at the communications and enterprise software industries. Goldstein is a graduate of M.I.T., 1989 and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1994.

  
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