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Team.
 Eric had his first successful software company at age 11 selling software for
the Altair/IMSAI 8080. It has been pretty much downhill since then.
After getting his BS CS, Eric was one of the six Arpanet "IMP programmers" at
Bolt Beranek and Newman. (For the under-40 crowd: the Arpanet was the
precursor to the modern Internet - read
this book). Eric
later spent eight years at Convergent Technologies, mostly in Unix-land,
ultimately running the division building the world's first (and fastest!)
386-based Unix SMP machines. He then joined an early LAN-based e-mail
company, cc:Mail as VP of Engineering, becoming its divisional CEO after being
acquired by Lotus in 1991.
Eric started Collabra Software in 1992. Collabra was an early
e-mail-based groupware company whose marvelous employees, despite Eric's
meddling, created Collabra Share™ - winner of 1994 Byte's Award of Distinction,
1994 & 1995 PC Magazine Editor's Choice, Groupware '94 Best of Show, 1995 LAN
Magazine Product of the Year. Collabra Share, along only with Microsoft
Office and Microsoft Windows, were finalists for the 1994 PC Magazine Technical
Excellence Awards. Okay, so he's a bit proud of Collabra.
Netscape bought Collabra in 1995 and Eric took over Netscape's Server
Products Division - the folks who brought you some very cool internet
technologies like LDAP, a commercial implementation of IMAP4, the Netscape Web
Server, and a bunch of other fine products which you may now know as Sun's iPlanet products. In 1997, Eric became the CTO for Netscape.
Eric started Inventures Group in 1998.
Eric holds a B.S. and
honorary PhD in Computer Science from the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and has completed the Stanford University/AEA
high-technology executive summer program. Eric serves as a trustee for the
Computer History Museum located in
Mountain View, California (please visit them!). He is married with two sons and
lives in Palo Alto, California.
Glenn Goldberg, search consulting partner
g2@ingroup.com
 Glenn Goldberg brings more than 22 years of high tech experience to his role
with the Inventures Group. As Search Consulting Partner, Glenn brings a unique
background with hands-on experience in a broad range of roles including
engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. Since 1992 he has been working
with founders of venture funded start-up companies on the critical task of
building initial teams. Most recently, Glenn served as the Executive Search
Partner at Crosspoint Ventures, one of the industries top returning early stage
Venture Capital firms. Click here
to read more about Glenn.
Glenn and Eric have worked together on a number of earlier incubations and start
up projects and are cooperating to pull together initial teams in candidacy as
Inventures Group portfolio companies.
Besides to his incubation work with Inventures Group, Glenn continues to work on
a retained search basis for several top venture firms on funded portfolio
companies.
Kathy Beal, finance consulting partner
kathy@ingroup.com
 Kathy brings 25 years of professional accounting management
experience to her role as finance consulting partner for The Inventures Group.
The past 12 years she has specialized in providing CFO/Controller leadership to
Silicon Valley computer software start-ups.
Since 1989, as Consultant CFO/Controller, she has helped to
build the financial and accounting foundations for Collabra Software, Inc.,
Actra Business Systems, LLC, Netscape Communications, Cygent, Inc, Accept.com,
Gigabeat, Inc., Omniva Policy Systems, and Good Technology. She has a solid
reputation with a “can-do” attitude and is much more interested in results than
she is in titles.
Prior to starting her consulting practice, she learned the
accounting ropes at one of the first computer manufacturers in the area, Victor
Technologies, Inc., of Scotts Valley, (time to get out the history books…we
thought 7 Mhz was fast!) where she rose from ordinary accountant to Corporate
Controller in less than 2 years. Okay, so no one else wanted the job (in a
company fighting its way out of bankruptcy, but it was an incredible learning
experience…)
Kathy lives a balanced life and when she’s not consulting
you’ll find her in her studio painting, on photographic field trips, or perhaps
performing weddings, house blessings, baby blessings and other rituals as an
ordained Interfaith Minister. One of the added benefits of being her client is
the use of her original paintings to dress up your lobby, conference rooms and
offices. Perhaps she’ll also add corporate blessings to her repertoire.
Read more about Kathy's "real" life at her
site.
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