Jericho Road Board Members

John G. Conley, Board President and Treasurer

John G. Conley is a Partner and co-founder of Gilliam Capital, a life-science investment firm in Concord, Massachusetts. He has spent several years in the biotechnology industry and is a Special Advisor to the investment banking firm of JSB Partners. He was Vice President of Business Development at Transkaryotic Therapies up until its acquisition by Shire Pharmaceuticals, and was a co-founder of the RNA interference therapeutics company Alnylam Pharmaceuticals where he held the position of Vice President, Strategy and Finance and CFO through to its successful 2004 IPO. Over ten years at Biogen Inc. (now Biogen-IDEC) he served in several marketing, business development, sales and finance positions, including Country Manager - United Kingdom and Ireland, and Treasurer. He was a Manager at the strategy consulting firm of Bain & Company. John graduated with a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Darr Aley

Darr has spent the last twenty years building companies in the business-to-business and business-to-consumer technology, software, and Internet segments. Most recently, Darr sold a business intelligence company, called Generate, to Dow Jones / News Corp in April, 2008. While at Dow Jones, he helps manage a new business unit that combined several different product lines and was responsible for managing the sales and marketing of the unit, called Business & Relationship Intelligence.

Prior to co-founding Generate, Darr was at Amazon.com where he helped direct corporate development and M&A. Prior to this he was hired out of Accenture by Amazon to help build their E-Commerce ASP Services business, focused on selling Amazon's best in breed retail solutions to F500 global retailers. This grew to become a $700M business unit for Amazon between 2001-2005. As an entrepreneur, he has started or joined in the early stages with several companies whose successful exits have totaled over $700M. Included in these were executive roles in marketing, business and corporate development capacities for Shiva (sold to Intel), Avatar (sold to DCA), Zip2 (sold to Compaq), WhoWhere (sold to Lycos), and Epylon (sold to Accenture).

Tom Aley

Tom Aley is currently the SVP and Managing Director of Dow Jones' Business and Relationship Intelligence group. Prior to Dow Jones Tom co-founded Generate Inc., where as President and CEO he was responsible for the company's vision and strategic direction, management and technology development. Prior to founding Generate, Tom was a Partner at Reed Elsevier Ventures, the venture arm of the $8 billion media company where he co-led investments. Earlier in his career, Tom served as executive vice president at Stonepath Group, a VC firm, where he co-led the company's initial public offering; a co-founder of OneZero Media; a founding director at ZDNet; and head of eastern regional sales at Shiva Corporation.

Tom serves on the board of the Software & Information Industry Associations's (SIIA) Content Division. Tom has served on boards of iPhrase, Nextpage, the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX), Northeastern University's High Technology MBA Program, and the Jericho Road Project.

Chris Bade

Chris Bade is currently Senior Vice President of Operations in the Sensors and Simulation Group at L-3 Communications Corp. He has P/L responsibility for four high technology divisions serving a wide range of industries. He is also responsible for contributing to the pipeline of acquisitions for the corporation. Prior to this he was president of the L-3 Communications Infrared Products division. Chris was a corporate vice president at Raytheon and was a director on the corporate staff at Textron after serving 7 years as a Marine Corps officer and aviator and 6 years at a general management consultant for Arthur D. Little, Inc. and A.T. Kearney/EDS.

Deborah Chausse

Deborah Chausse is the Executive Director of House of Hope, a family shelter and permanent housing developer in Lowell, Massachusetts. She has been at House of Hope for ten years and during her tenure this non profit organization has experienced tremendous growth and currently serves 22 families in shelter, 14 families in permanent housing owned by this non profit and dozens of other families who have moved through shelter and now reside in housing throughout the State. Prior to coming to Lowell Deb worked for 14 years for the Homeless Services Division of Boston's Department of Public Health and also supported its service expansion as the crises of homelessness developed throughout the 1980's. Deb earned both her B.A. and her M.S.P.A from the University of Massachusetts in Boston and lives in Lowell.

Fran Grigsby

Frances Grigsby is Founder and Managing Principal of Next Level International, a consulting firm that helps technology companies enter new markets. Next Level specializes in business development, M&A preparation and strategy. Before founding Next Level, Fran was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for GigaNet, a successful startup acquired by Emulex. She joined GigaNet as its fourth employee and helped deliver its first round of venture financing, corporate alliances and company launch. At Motorola, Fran was Vice President of Enterprise Networks, responsible for its switching and networking businesses. Earlier she held executive positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, including founding its wireless and cable modem businesses and expanding its industry-leading communications server business. She held senior positions in storage systems, field support and corporate logistics. Fran holds MBA and BA degrees from Vanderbilt University, and received an Executive Certificate at INSEAD Graduate School of Management, Fontainebleau, France. She serves on the Boards of the Massachusetts Network Communication Council, British American Business Council, United Cerebral Palsy.

Jennifer Hurley-Wales

Jennifer Hurley-Wales is a co-founder of From the Top, Inc. a non-profit organization that encourages and celebrates the commitment of young people to music and the arts. Through radio, television, web, and in school programming, From the Top provides a platform for young artists to present themselves, share their passion, and develop into important cultural leaders. In their 9th year of operations, Hurley-Wales serves as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Producer. She spent 17 years in arts management prior to the founding of From the Top. In her decade at the New England Conservatory of Music, Hurley-Wales was a senior development officer for the Capital Campaign, and subsequently served as the interim Director of External Affairs and Special Projects Director, identifying collaborations and strategic partnerships for the Conservatory. Hurley-Wales holds a B.A. from Denison University and lives in Concord, MA with her husband and daughter.

Maia Heymann

  Maia is an active investor and the Managing Director of DeVere Management Group, an investment firm she started in 2006 to invest in emerging companies. Maia has worked with dozens of start-ups and growth companies throughout her 20-year career as a venture capitalist and banker. She worked for BancBoston Ventures, Bank of America, FleetBoston Financial, and Bank of Boston, including 10 years based in Palo Alto, CA. From 2004 to 2008 Maia was a Managing Director at BancBoston Ventures, part of Bank of America's global private equity group. There she and her team managed a diverse $330 million portfolio of venture and private equity.

Maia joined BancBoston Ventures in 1999 and opened and managed BancBoston Ventures' Palo Alto, CA office from 1999 to 2002. Prior to that, Maia was a corporate banker based in Palo Alto, CA. She originated and structured corporate finance transactions for public and private technology companies. She also worked closely with 4 private equity firms to underwrite senior and sub-debt for leveraged buy-out transactions in the technology industry. From 1989 to 1992, Maia worked in the Audit department of Bank of Boston Corporation where she led risk-assessments at multiple lines of business in numerous domestic and international locations. Maia graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wellesley College and was elected into Phi Beta Kappa. She lives in Concord, MA with her husband and two sons. She currently sits on the boards of Apperian, CommonAngels, and The Jericho Road Project.

Helena Long

Helena Long is a Vice President at Boston Analytics. Helena is responsible for managing the health care practice and ensuring that clients receive high value research and analytic services. She has devoted the last twenty years helping her clients transform market data to market intelligence to identify and penetrate new markets, launch new products and create competitive advantage. As a former Director of Marketing at a Fortune 100 firm, Ms. Long brings extensive marketing experience to her consulting practice. Prior to joining Boston Analytics, Helena was a Principal at Abt Associates. She serves clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and healthcare information technology sectors. Helena leverages her marketing, consulting, research and context expertise to enable her clients to solve complex business problems to drive both top and bottom line growth. She earned her MBA from Boston University.

Andy Macey

Andrew currently serves as VP at Sapient (www.sapient.com) where he is responsible for digital and ecommerce strategy. Prior to Sapient, Andrew served as COO of product design and innovation firm HLB; as VP sales and services for RFID software company OATSystems (an outgrowth of the MIT Auto ID Center); as MD Europe for Formation Systems, the first enterprise software for formulation and recipe management; and as SVP operations for American White Cross, where he and his team helped triple the company to just under $100MM in approximately four years.

Andrew originally began his career as a consultant at Bain & Company, where he led US and European teams engaged in go-to-market strategies, operational improvement, M&A, and corporate strategy for several Fortune 100 companies.

Andrew also serves on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, the global technology community of 80,000 constituents in 26 international chapters.

Andrew received his AB from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business.

Sven T. Olson

Sven is a real estate entrepreneur and Senior Loan Officer with JP Morgan Chase. He has spent over 20 years in the real estate industry, specializing in residential real estate. His background also includes work in technology, as a Quality Assurance Engineer for firms from internet start-ups such as MotherNature.com to JP Morgan Chase's former on-line brokerage unit, Brown & Co. Mr. Olson graduated with a BS in Accounting from Northeastern University. He resides in Concord with his wife and five children.

Philip vanderWilden

Philip has been the Co-Chair of the JRP Board since its formation, and an active member of First Parish since 1998. Philip is the Executive Director of the Crawford Idema Family Foundation, a charitable organization that focuses on enhancing opportunities for low-income and minority populations through its grant making. Prior to working with the Foundation, Philip worked for ten years as a project manager with the U.S. Department of Transportation in Boston and as a management consultant with Arthur Young and Arroyo Seco Associates in Los Angeles. The majority of that work was with public sector and non-profit agencies with a focus on organizational efficiency and effectiveness, program development, and strategic planning.