Paul Santinelli

Paul is currently the interim-chairperson and a member of the board of directors of USA Rugby, the National Governing Body for the sport. He has focused on governance reform and lead the organization through a challenging period of a corporate reorganization. Santinelli, previously a General Partner, joined North Bridge Venture Partners in February 2005 and is located in California. Paul focuses on investments in Open Source Software, enterprise software, networking and security. Previously, he served as director of Red Hat Network and was responsible for product definition, strategy, engineering, product management, marketing and lifecycle management for the company's flagship software services offering. Prior to Red Hat, Paul was founder, president and chief executive officer of NOCpulse, Inc., a Silicon Valley software startup focused on delivering the next generation enterprise systems management platform, NOCpulse Command Center. NOCpulse was acquired by Red Hat in October 2002. While at NOCpulse, Santinelli was nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002. Before founding NOCpulse, Inc., Santinelli was chief technology officer of Global Center and vice president of technology for Global Crossing, a telecommunications company that built and operated the world's first independent global fiber optic network. During the past 12 years, he has held various positions in the technology arena with a host of companies including Red Hat, IBM, Lotus Development Corporation and Compuware Corporation. Santinelli holds a B.S. from Emerson College in Boston, where he received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012. He holds an MBA from Grand Canyon University, where he was inducted into the Delta Mu Delta International Honors Society. Paul is currently on the board of Foro Energy and USA Rugby and has served on the boards of Couchbase, Tapjoy, LiveRamp and Ravel. He also served on the advisory boards of Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Mobility.Net (acquired by Software.com) and One Secure (acquired by Netscreen). Specialties: Sports tech and media rights. Business and technology professional with 28 years of experience in the software industry. Expertise includes: financing, M&A, engineering, marketing and corporate & business development.

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