Management & BoardBarry G. MorseChief Executive OfficerMr. Barry Morse joined Retica in 2005 to drive the company’s go to market strategy. A twenty year veteran of the international financial services software and secure networking industries, Mr. Morse focuses on identifying and developing private sector applications, relationships and opportunities, particularly in the financial services sector. Prior to joining Retica, Mr. Morse spent 22 years in Europe where he was a successful entrepreneur in financial software and transaction-based services. Mr. Morse was the founder and CEO of several companies, including Bolero.net Ltd., the pioneer in global electronic trade documentation, and Softbridge Capital Markets Ltd., the pioneer in decision support software for the global swaps market. Mr. Morse also served as Vice President of Marketing and member of the Executive Committee of S.W.I.F.T. scrl, the Belgian-based global financial telecommunications cooperative, where he is credited as the strategic thrust behind S.W.I.F.T.’s emergence as the dominant global financial network. Mr. Morse holds an M.A. and B.A in Economics from The George Washington University.
Marc D. Friedman, Ph.D.Vice President of EngineeringDr. Marc Friedman leads the company’s device development. He joined Retica in 2005 and has 20 years of technical, managerial and consulting experience in optical and medical devices. Prior to joining Retica, Dr. Friedman served as Director of R&D at LumeRx developing a phototherapeutic device used for the eradication of helicobacter pylori. Previously, he served as Director of R&D at DUSA Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company engaged primarily in the development and marketing of Levulan Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and Photodetection (PD) for multiple medical conditions, with a primary focus on dermatology. Dr. Friedman was also president of Optical Life Sciences, Inc. an optical engineering and medical device consulting firm and Manager of Optical Development at Summit Technology, Inc., a worldwide leader in the development of medical excimer lasers systems. Dr. Friedman holds a B.S. and M.S. in Optics from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Biomedical Engineering.
Richard DalePrincipal of Sigma PartnersMr. Richard Dale, principal of Sigma Partners, has twenty years experience in software and high technology. Before Sigma, Mr. Dale co-founded Phase Forward Incorporated, a provider of service and software infrastructure for managing pharmaceutical clinical trials over the Internet, where he was Vice President of Services and then Vice President of Strategic Development. Previously, he was Vice President of Operations for Vermeer Technologies, creators of FrontPage and acquired by Microsoft in 1996. Mr. Dale also held professional service, senior product management and IS management roles at Sybase, Epoch Systems (a subsidiary of EMC) and MicroTouch Systems. Mr. Dale received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Durham in England. He shares responsibility for Sigma's investment in ExaGrid, Instill, Reflectent, Savantis, Silverlink and Visual Mining. He has also been an advisor to many startup companies, including Vignette, OnDisplay, FirstSense, OnExchange and QXL.com.
John MandileManaging Director of Sigma PartnersMr. John Mandile is managing director of Sigma Partners. He has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was the President and CEO of Vermeer Technologies, Inc., the developers of FrontPage, the leading Web authoring tool. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft, providing Sigma and the other venture investors a very successful return. Previously, he was an early principal at SQL Solutions, where he created and led an engineering organization chartered to build heterogeneous database tools. Following an acquisition of SQL Solutions by Sybase, he took responsibility for the new Systems Management Product unit, which he grew to $55 million in sales in 30 months. Prior to SQL Solutions he was a member of the Advanced Engineering program at Honeywell where he worked in communications, operating systems and co-processor design. Mr. Mandile is a graduate of Tufts (BSE in Engineering Science) and Worcester Polytechnic State University (MS in Computer Science). He has been responsible for Sigma's investments in Blue Agave Software, Datasage, Digital Music Network, EasyAsk, Novera Software, Oberon Software, Onexchange, OpenPages, Reflectent Software, and Silverlink Communications.
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