Emily Nagle Green

Chairman

Emily Green is chairman of the board at Yankee Group Research, Inc. In this role, she helps guide the firm's direction, speaks to the market and works with key clients. As the firm's CEO from 2005 to 2010, she partnered in its acquisition with primary investor Alta Communications and led its transition to the global connectivity research vision it calls "Anywhere."

In her long and varied career in technology as an engineer, entrepreneur, marketer and analyst, Green has become widely respected as a thought leader on the impact of connectivity on networks, enterprises and consumers.

Green received a B.S.L. cum laude in linguistics from Georgetown University and an M.S.E. in artificial intelligence and computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering.

She also currently serves as the vice-chair of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX), the U.S.'s largest Internet advocacy council; as a member of the Executive Committee of the John Adams Innovation Institute; and as a member of the governor's Mass Tech Hub Collaborative, for which she chairs the communications working group.

ANYWHERE, her book on the business impact of global connectivity, was published in January 2010 by McGraw-Hill.

B. Lane MacDonald

Board Member

B. Lane MacDonald, a general partner of Alta Communications, joined the firm in 1999. He specializes in identifying and managing investments in media and telecom services with an emphasis on television broadcasting, cable television, publishing, information services and towers.

Before joining Alta, he was a principal at J.W. Childs Associates, a leveraged buyout firm with more than $1 billion under management, where he invested in cash-flow-related businesses. Prior to this, MacDonald was an assistant vice president at BancBoston Capital (the private equity division of FleetBoston), where he also focused on cash-flow-related private equity investments.

MacDonald graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in economics and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was also a member of the 1988 U.S.A. Olympic Hockey Team. He currently serves on the boards of several privately held companies including Rapid Communications LLC, JW Broadcasting LLC, Jackson Television LLC, BrandMuscle, Inc. and AmeriVault Corp.

Larry Weber

Board Member

Larry Weber is recognized as a visionary in applying technology to the communications field. He is the chairman and founder of W2 Group, Inc., a group of global communications companies. Earlier in his career, he started his own public relations company, The Weber Group, in 1987. Within 10 years, The Weber Group was the world's largest and most established technology public relations firm. Weber's personal interest and expertise in adopting technology to drive communications led to his founding of Thunder House, which was one of the first online marketing firms.

Weber's philosophical style and international success attracted the attention of marketing communications conglomerate The Interpublic Group of Companies, which purchased The Weber Group in late 1996. Thunder House also was purchased by Interpublic and forms the core of its interactive marketing communications offerings. In early 2000, Weber was named chairman and CEO of Interpublic's Advanced Marketing Services group. In the summer of 2001, Weber engineered the merger of Weber Shandwick Worldwide and BSMG Worldwide to form the world's largest public relations firm.

Weber's first book, The Provocateur: How a New Generation of Leaders Are Building Communities, Not Just Companies, was published by Random House/Crown Business in January 2002. His second book, Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business, was published in June 2007 by John Wiley & Sons.

Tim Dibble

Board Member

Tim Dibble is a founder and managing general partner of Alta Communications. In 1989, he joined Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., which became Alta Communications in 1996.Dibble leads Alta's involvement in the wired and wireless telecommunications sectors. In this capacity, he has served on numerous boards of directors of telecommunications and media companies including South Texas PCS (STPCS), Telemedia Communications Inc. and WNP Communications, Inc. In addition to his telecommunications focus, Dibble has significant investing experience and has served on boards in the radio, television, cable and security-monitoring industries.

He began his career in 1986 at the Bank of Boston in the Acquisition Finance Division, structuring and monitoring the performance of management buyouts in cash-flow industries. Dibble received a degree in economics from Wesleyan University. He currently sits on the boards of Year Up (yearup.org) and Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay.

Terry Waters

Board Member

Terry Waters is charged with managing Yankee Group's strategic direction and day-to-day operations, and he focuses specifically on helping clients address opportunities from the impact of global connectivity, what Yankee Group terms "Anywhere."

Waters brings to Yankee Group extensive leadership and expertise in growing information services businesses. Previously, he was president and CEO of Highline Financial, a banking information and financial analytics company. He also held leadership roles with research firm Gartner, Inc., including chief marketing officer with responsibility for the company's global marketing and corporate communications efforts, and president of its Executive Programs business unit. Before Gartner, Waters was chief operating officer for Screaming Media, a Web-based content aggregation, syndication and business services provider.

Waters holds a B.A. from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

Jaime Ellertson

Board Member

Jaime W. Ellertson is currently the Chairman and CEO of TriNimbus Corporation.

Ellertson recently served as the President and CEO of Gomez, Inc. from 2005-2010. He led the company through an IPO registration process that eventually resulted in the successful sale of Gomez to Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) in October of 2009 for $300,000,000. Prior to Gomez, he served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of S1 Corporation (NASDAQ: SONE), a provider of software for the automation of financial transaction processing from 2000 to 2005. From 1997 to 2000, he orchestrated the highly successful turnaround of Interleaf, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAF), a provider of software tools for e-content management. Under his leadership as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Interleaf, Inc. saw its market cap increase over 7,000 percent, culminating in its acquisition by BroadVision, Inc. in April 2000. Ellertson served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Strategic Operations of BroadVision during the merger integration period in 2000.

Previous to Interleaf, Ellertson founded several high-growth software companies, including Document Automation Corporation (1982-1987), Openware Technologies (1990-1995) and Purview Technologies, Inc. (1996-1997).

Ellertson is currently Chairman of the Board of TriNimbus Corporation (Waltham, MA) and a Director of EverBridge, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) and Qvidian Corporation (Lowell, MA). He has held director positions on the following boards: Gomez, Inc. (2005-2009), Danka Business Systems (2002-2009), S1 Corporation (2000-2005), Apropos, Inc. (2000-2004), Trigo Technology, Inc. (2001-2004), e-WatchDogs, Inc. (1999-2001), RoundArch, Inc. (1999-2000), E2B Solutions, Inc. (2000-2001), Interleaf, Inc. (1997-2000), Purview Technologies, Inc. (1996-1997), Tartan, Inc. (1996), Openware Technologies, Inc. (1990-1995) and Document Automation Corporation (1982-1987). He has also served as an adjunct faculty member for New York University (1984-1985) and Georgetown University (1981-1982).