Board of Directors

In April 2009, Wenda Harris Millard became President of MediaLink LLC, a leading strategic advisory and business development firm that provides critical counsel and direction to the media, advertising and entertainment industries and to companies and investors that interact with those sectors. She works with Chief Executive and Founder Michael E. Kassan to provide advice and implementation on strategic marketing and brand development, implementation roadmaps, technology solutions for media, media sales and revenue generation, business development, public organizational planning, public policy management, competitive analysis, and financial restructuring to some of the Fortune 100’s largest global brands.

Before joining MediaLink, Ms. Millard was Co-CEO and President, Media for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. She joined MSLO in July 2007 after three years as a member of its Board of Directors. Ms. Millard oversaw MSLO’s media businesses, which include publishing, internet and broadcasting. She is credited with elevating the company to its leading position in percent of revenue derived from digital advertising among other “traditional” media companies and was the driving force behind creating cross-platform programs for marketers in TV, digital, magazines and radio.

Before MSLO, Ms. Millard was Chief Sales Officer at Yahoo! where she led the team that drove revenue from $700 million to over $6 billion in six years and was consistently credited as the number one sales organization in the media industry. On an industry-wide level her work at Yahoo! established brand advertising on the web. Prior to Yahoo!, Ms. Millard was Chief Internet Officer at Ziff Davis Media and President of Ziff Davis Internet. Previously, Ms. Millard was a founding member of the executive team at DoubleClick, where she served as Executive Vice President responsible for establishing the DoubleClick brand and overseeing the operations of DoubleClick Media. She also served as President and Group Publisher of SRDS, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Family Circle and Executive Vice President/Group Publisher of Adweek, Mediaweek and Brandweek magazines.

Ms. Millard has received numerous industry awards including the 2007 John A. Reisenbach Award for Distinguished Citizenship; the 2006 “Advertising Person of the Year” Silver Medal Award from the AAF and the 2005 Matrix Award for “Women Who Change the World.” Advertising Age acknowledged her as a “Digital Media Master” — one of the 20 most influential executives in interactive media. She was the subject of a profile by Tom Brokaw as part of NBC’s “Women to Watch” series.

Active on behalf of the advertising industry throughout her career, Ms. Millard is immediate past Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and former President of the Advertising Club of New York. She has served on the Boards of the Advertising Council, the American Advertising Federation, the Advertising Education Foundation and others. Currently, she sits on the Boards of several emerging media companies as well as on the Boards of the James Beard Foundation, Pop!Tech and Do Something. She served two terms as a Trustee of Trinity College in Hartford.

Ms. Millard holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Trinity College.

Patrick joined NEA in 2006 as General Partner focusing on a broad range of information technology investments with particular emphasis on enterprise software, Software-as-a-Service, and Internet companies.

Pat sits on the boards of ChannelAdvisor, Millennial Media, Spring Wireless and TidalTV. Prior to joining NEA, Patrick was General Partner of Grotech Capital Group where he specialized in high-tech investments and served on a number of boards including Advertising.com, CDnow, Fieldglass Software, Hillcrest Labs, SALIX Technologies, and Synchrologic. Prior to Grotech, Patrick spent nearly 10 years at Alex. Brown & Sons as an investment banker for high technology companies. At Alex. Brown & Sons, he was responsible for a range of financing and advisory projects including initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions for high-tech companies. Prior to that, Patrick was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Patrick served as an officer in the U.S. Navy where he spent substantially all his tenure on the staff of Admiral H.G. Rickover at the Headquarters of the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Program.

Patrick is Chairman Emeritus of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association. He received a Masters in Business Administration, with Distinction, from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University.

Bob Goodman, a founding partner in Bessemer’s New York office, joined the firm in 1998. He focuses on investments in software, communications and healthcare IT.

Bob is currently a member of the board of directors of VoIP-communications company BroadSoft (IPO); telecommunications provider GTS; mobile-advertising company Millennial Media; mobile application management company Apperian; mobile operator network solution company Intucell; social-networking company SelectMinds; data-management and backup-software company Syncsort; network software developer Vasona Networks, diversed SMB software company GFI (merged with Teamviewer); and information-security company Perimeter E-Security.

Bob's former portfolio companies include ART Advanced Recognition Technologies (acquired by Scansoft, now Nuance); Flarion Technologies (acquired by Qualcomm); Bladelogic (IPO, then acquired by BMC); IAG Research (acquired by Nielsen); Nistevo (acquired by Sterling); Octave Communications (acquired by Voyant, then Polycom); System Management ARTS (SMARTS, acquired by EMC); Taqua (acquired by Tekelec); Telica (purchased by Lucent); Zensys (acquired by Sigma Designs); and Netsmart Technologies (acquired by Genstar Capital).

Prior to joining Bessemer, Bob founded two successful telecommunications companies: wireless-equipment company Celcore, acquired by Alcatel through the acquisition of DSC in 1997, and Boatphone, a group of cellular operating companies in the Caribbean. Having acted as CEO in both companies, Bob brings the uncommon combination of entrepreneurial, operating and investment expertise to his portfolio companies. As a venture capitalist, Bob has been involved in building many successful companies including leading the first rounds for Flarion and BladeLogic.

Bob holds a B.A. from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia University. Bob also serves on several non-profit boards including The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, The Play Group Theatre and the National Venture Capital Assocation (NVCA).

Bob was named to the 2011 Forbes Midas List.

George Zachary, general partner with Charles River Ventures, has more than 20 years of operating and investing experience in computing and consumer technology. At CRV, George focuses on building great services and software technology companies. George led the firm’s investments in Areae, Geni.com, GoTV, Millennial Media, Skyrider, SocialMedia Networks and Twitter.

Previously, George was a general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV). His directorships included: Accrue Software (Nasdaq:ACRU), Andale, Critical Path (Nasdaq: CPTH), Ovation Entertainment, Sandcastle (acquired by Adobe, Nasdaq:ADBE), Securify (acquired by Kroll-O’Gara, Nasdaq: KROG), Shutterfly (Nasdaq:SFLY), Supertracks (acquired by Centerspan) and Telebot (acquired by Z-Tel, Nasdaq: ZTEL).

Prior to MDV, George led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketeer at CATS Software. He is a board advisor at the MIT Sloan School of Business and Stanford BASES. He is also an advisor to X PRIZE. George earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan School of Business.

Jay is Managing Director of Bear Creek Capital Management, an investment firm focused on public and private companies in the communications, media and technology industries. In addition to Millennial, Mr. Markley is a board member of Broadsoft (BSFT), Charter Communications (CHTR) and numerous private companies.

Prior to Bear Creek, Mr. Markley was a partner at Columbia Capital. He also worked at the Federal Communications Commission where he developed US Government spectrum policy, and with Kidder, Peabody in New York and Hong Kong.

Mr. Markley received a B.A. from Washington & Lee University and M.B.A. from Harvard University.  

Alan MacIntosh has over 20 years of international business experience starting in oil exploration with Schlumberger. He later undertook a product management role with Hewlett-Packard, before joining Canada’s Telesystem group in 1990, where he established TIW’s mobile operations in eight countries including the UK where he managed operations for three years. In 1997, Alan moved to sister company Microcell and co-founded GSM Capital, the first global wireless fund, backed by nine of the world’s leading operators.

Alan currently sits on the boards of WaveMetrix, Millennial Media, Cellfish Media and Montreal Start-up. A native of Scotland, he holds a BSc (Hons) in Offshore Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and MBA from INSEAD. He lives in Montreal with his wife and three children.

Jim currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of BroadSoft, Inc (Nasdaq: BSFT), the leading global provider of real-time communications software to telecommunications service providers, where he leads the company’s financial and administrative operations. Most recently, Jim guided the successful execution of BroadSoft’s IPO in June 2010.

Jim brings more than 20 years of financial and strategic management experience to the Millennial Media Board. Prior to BroadSoft, Tholen served as CFO and COO at NetSec, Inc., acquired by MCI; and as CFO and CSO for Career Builder.com, where he played an integral role in growing the company to their industry-leading position in the online job market.

Jim also serves as the Chairman of Millennial Media’s Audit Committee.

Arun joined Columbia Capital in 2000 and focuses on enterprise technology/services and mobile/digital media opportunities. Arun is on the Board of Directors or actively involved with Approva, Avail Media, Brickstream, Daz3D, Devas Multimedia, Intelliworks, Millennial Media, Netuitive, and Webs. Arun was also involved with former Columbia portfolio companies Adjoined Consulting (acquired by Kanbay International, Inc.), Riptech (acquired by Symantec Corporation), and Softek Storage Holdings (acquired by IBM).

Prior to joining Columbia Capital, Arun was at Carlyle Venture Partners focused on software and Internet investments. Earlier, Arun held positions in Arthur D. Little's telecom and technology consulting practice and shared responsibility for establishing ADL's operation in India.

Arun received a B.S. degree with Distinction in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University and received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.