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David Blundin - Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Blundin has been the CEO of Vestmark since October of 2001. Previously, Mr. Blundin was Chief Technologist at Vignette Corporation which has over 1,000 enterprise customers including seven of the top ten firms in the Financial Services sector.

Prior to Vignette, Mr. Blundin was the founder, CEO and Chairman of DataSage, Inc. DataSage was acquired by Vignette in a half-billion dollar transaction in January of 2000. DataSage's software enabled businesses to centrally capture and analyze all of their electronic interactions - often involving terabytes of information - and use that information to personalize interactions with customers. In 1998 and 1999 DataSage was selected to the DataWarehouse 100. In 1999 DataSage received a DM Review World Class Solution Award and was selected to Computerworld's 100 Emerging Companies to Watch.

Prior to 1997, Mr. Blundin was the President and CEO of Cirrus Recognition Systems, a Data Mining software company. Previously, Mr. Blundin was among the first ten employees at MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and now serves on MicroStrategy's board of directors.

Mr. Blundin received a BS in Computer Science degree from MIT and serves on the boards of several Boston area high-tech start-ups. He is also a limited partner in three Boston area venture funds.



Dennis L. Sheckler - Chief Technologist, Investment Systems

Mr. Sheckler is one of the world's leading experts in Portfolio Management, Accounting, and Corporate Actions technology. He has over 20 years of experience in investment software systems design. Prior to joining Vestmark, Dennis served as the Lead Architect for Advent Custodial Data™ and Advent TrustedNetwork® products at Advent Software, Inc.

Prior to Advent, Dennis spent over 12 years at Thomson Financial where he served as a Lead Architect and Chief Programmer on the PORTIA Portfolio Management product and as a Technical Adviser to Thomson Trading Systems for Oneva Trade EQ, Autex, TradeRoute, Oasys, Oasys Global and Alert.

While a member of the Administrative Staff at MIT, Mr. Sheckler participated in the development of RDMS, one of the first relational database management systems.

Mr. Sheckler holds both a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.



John Lunny - COO and Vice President of Customer Engineering

Mr. Lunny joined Vestmark in April of 2002 and is responsible for the operations of the company and the customer engineering organization.

Prior to joining Vestmark, Mr. Lunny was a Senior Director of Engineering at Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN), where he was responsible for Vignette's analysis, personalization and wireless products. Mr. Lunny was also the recipient of the Vignette Value Award - an award offered to only a few people within Vignette's 1,200 global employees. Mr. Lunny joined Vignette through their acquisition of DataSage where he was a co-founder and the Vice President of Engineering responsible for all product design and development.

Prior to joining DataSage, Mr. Lunny had more than 15 years of TCP / IP software development experience through his tenure at The Wollongong Group (acquired by Attachmate) where he was responsible for their network management products.

Previously, Mr. Lunny worked at the MIT Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) where he helped develop the first reference TCP / IP implementation (PCIP) for the Internet.

Mr. Lunny holds both a BS degree in Computer Science and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT.



Charles D. Johnson - Vice President of Engineering and Founder

Mr. Johnson founded Vestmark in February of 2001.

Prior to founding Vestmark, Mr. Johnson was the Principle Architect of the Personalization Products Division at Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN) responsible for the architecture and design of all Personalization Products. Mr. Johnson joined Vignette through their acquisition of DataSage in January 2000. Mr. Johnson was a co-founder of DataSage and served as the Director of Engineering and Lead Architect responsible for all product design and development.

Prior to joining DataSage, Mr. Johnson had more than 15 years of experience with the DOD developing real-time distributed systems.

Mr. Johnson holds both a BS and MS of Engineering from Virginia Tech where he studied Engineering Mechanics, Computer Science, and Digital System Design.



Christine Bodoin - CFO

Ms. Bodoin has been with Vestmark since June of 2002 and is responsible for all aspects of finance and administration.

Prior to joining Vestmark, Ms. Bodoin served as Controller of Vividon Inc., where she was responsible for all financial functions.

Previously, Ms. Bodoin was Regional Finance Director for Vignette Corporation (VIGN). In January 2000, Christine managed the acquisition of DataSage, Inc., where Ms. Bodoin worked as Controller and acting CFO, and Director of Human Resources.

Before entering the high tech industry, Ms. Bodoin was a Finance Manager within the Information Systems department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ms. Bodoin earned a BS degree in Accounting and Human Resources Management from Boston College and an MBA with a concentration in International Business from Bentley College.



Heeren Pathak - Chief Architect

Heeren Pathak joined Vestmark in January, 2004, as Chief Architect and is responsible for the overall design and architecture of Vestmark's product offering. Heeren brings over 15 years of experience in enterprise software development and management.

Prior to joining Vestmark, Heeren served at Vignette Corporation in several technical and management positions, most recently as a Senior Director of Engineering, responsible the development of several products as well as the launching of Vignette's offshore software development initiative.

Prior to Vignette, Mr. Pathak held various management and technical positions at Simulation Sciences Corp., Workgroup Technology Corporation, and MITRE Corporation.

Mr. Pathak holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.



Rob Klapprodt - Vice President of Products

Mr. Klapprodt has been with Vestmark since August 2001 and is responsible for all aspects of product management.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Klapprodt was a Senior Product Manager at Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN), where he was responsible for Vignette's analysis and personalization solutions. Mr. Klapprodt joined Vignette through their acquisition of DataSage. At DataSage, Mr. Klapprodt held various positions in sales, consulting and product management, including the design of the eCRM system which became DataSage's flagship product.

Mr. Klapprodt worked at Oracle Corporation before joining DataSage, where he focused on Oracle's data warehousing and business intelligence solutions for large enterprises. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Klapprodt was in trade and investment operations at Janus Funds in Denver, CO.

Mr. Klapprodt holds a BS from Pennsylvania State University where he studied Economics and Mathematics.




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