The Expertise to Help You See Clearly

Louis A. Blatt, Ph.D.
Advisor Principal
Founder, Nantucket Ventures

Dr. Blatt is a published authority on user interface issues including pen-based computing, interactive television, usability techniques, cost-justifying human factors, and User Interface Design Guidance Systems.

Currently, he is the senior vice president for Unicenter-Computer Associate's flagship brand for infrastructure management. He is responsible for the strategic direction and market success of CA's Unicenter brand.

• Executive vice president of strategy and corporate development at Peregrine Systems where he was responsible for analyst relations, corporate strategy development, and mergers and acquisitions
• President of Peregrine's E-Markets Group, which focused on eBusiness integration
• Executive vice president, strategy, marketing, and business development for MediaBridge where he focused on CRM initiatives
• Partner at Andersen Worldwide where he started and grew a national CRM and Internet practice

Daniel Carroll
C1 Legal

Mr. Carroll has represented both public and private companies at various stages of development in a wide variety of industries.

• Several years as an associate for Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo and Warner & Stackpole
• Specializing in representing technology-based companies, including transactional work and general business representation such as mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, venture financing, private placements and general business counseling
• In-house legal counsel to Akamai Technologies where he supported Akamai's product development and sales departments on structuring, drafting and negotiating legal agreements such as license, service and strategic partner agreements
• Analyzing and evaluating technology companies for partnership potential
• General Counsel and Vice President of Engage, Inc., where he was responsible for all of the company's legal matters including advising management team on legal and operational issues affecting Engage, overseeing the company's corporate governance, litigation and dispute resolution, merger and acquisition activity, SEC compliance, contracts and management of Engage's intellectual property portfolio, including all worldwide patents, copyrights and trademarks.

Garrett "Denny" Denniston
C1 Business Development

Denny is an experienced strategic and operating technology executive, with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, including 14 years of executive management roles.

Denny brings his depth and breadth of experience to serve ConsensusOne clients in all matters concerning M&A, strategic relationships, channel development, raising capital, turnaround opportunities, and go to market strategies for professional services and proprietary software.

Recently, Denny has focused on the network management and information security areas, where he has led numerous M&A teams in the past four years.

• Chief Operating Officer, Senior VP of Business Development and Senior VP of Sales for both public and private technology companies.
• Helped grow a leading network security and integration firm from $14 million to $100 million through partnering and strategic alliances
• Created and strengthened strategic relationships with such firms as CA, Symantec, Network Associates, ISS, Microsoft, and CSC.

Timothy Hanson
C1 Business Development

Tim has over 23 years of experience in the telecommunications market, working with over 25 global telecommunication companies in a variety of diverse areas including strategic planning, systems development and implementation and managed services. A former Partner at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) in the Communication and High Tech market unit, Tim offers ConsensusOne's clients his work force management and network management skills.

• Growing Accenture's North American broadband practice from $10M in 1999 to over $80M in 2002.
• Client Partner for the largest cable companies in the US including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and AT&T Broadband.
• Managing service development and execution for e-mail and portal platforms
• Servicing delivery and assurance design and implementation projects
• ERP design and implementation
• Ordering and billing design and implementation
• Leading network operations support systems development in the Telecom Industry Group

Dennis Hayes
C1 Affiliate

Dennis is a recognized technology industry leader. During his years in the high-tech industry, he has taken on the role of entrepreneur, senior management executive, and business advisor. Dennis also founded and continues to provide leadership for a successful Internet industry trade association, which works closely with congress, the FCC, and other parts of government to protect the interests of the Internet industry through legislative initiatives and advocacy.

Dennis is the former Chairman, President and CEO of Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc., which he founded and grew from a start-up to a global company reaching revenues in excess of $240 million annually, with more than 1500 employees.

Stefan Vounessea
C1 Legal

A former associate in the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Mr. Vounessea has years of experience negotiating and drafting software license, reseller and OEM agreements, service and support agreements, technology development agreements, strategic alliances, joint ventures and a whole host of other commercial product agreements.

He also has experience representing both public and private clients on a range of general corporate and business matters, early- and late-stage venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, securities matters and commercial leasing transactions.

• Associate General Counsel for Engage, Inc., a publicly-traded company and a majority-owned subsidiary of CMGI, Inc.
• Negotiating and closing CMGI's acquisitions of AdKnowledge Inc. ($161 million), Adsmart Corporation ($545 million), Flycast Communications Corporation ($2.7 billion), The Virtual Billboard Network ($4.7 million) and MediaBridge Technologies, Inc. ($225 million), as well as Engage's sale of Internet Profiles Corporation ($1.2 million).