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An early entrant to deregulated telecom, founding executive at Intermedia Com. (acquired by Verizon NYSE:VZ), US LEC (NASDAQ: CLEC), & Logix Com. (acquired by Dobson Com. NASDAQ: DCEL). Following telecom Darren enjoyed success with Silicon Valley standouts UltraDNS (acquired by Neustar NYSE: NSR), Aliph | Jawbone, Azul Systems, DaveTV, & MBlox.
An early entrant to Internet commerce & security serving first in Bus Dev & Tech Strategy at GE Capital, then on to co-found MarketScience, NMA, & Securant Tech (acquired by EMC NYSE: EMC). Following security Bill enjoyed success with SIlicon Valley businesses MDshare, Solstice Beverages & involver.com.
Founder of Website Pros, Darin raised over $65M, grew the Company to 700+ employees, $80M in revenues and achieved a successful IPO. He also founded Verio, Inc. where he helped raise over $1B in equity & debt, and grew the Company to over $500M in revenues and 2,500 employees. Verio achieved a successful IPO (Nasdaq: VRIO) and sold shortly after to NTT. Darin was an associate prior to starting Verio at Norwest Venture Partners and Burr, Egan, Deleage & Company.
As Senior Vice President at VeriSign (VRSN) Mr. Petro is responsible for DDos mitigation, iDefense, and DNS-A. Prior to his position with VeriSign Mr. Petro was the President and Chief Executive Officer at Teneros, a privately held company building disaster recovery solutions for Microsoft Exchange. Ben joined Teneros from NeuStar, Inc. (NSR), where he was appointed SVP for Ultra Services, following NeuStar’s acquisition of UltraDNS Corporation in April 2006. Ben Petro had been President and CEO of UltraDNS since 2001. Prior to joining UltraDNS, Ben Petro was Vice President of Marketing at Edge Connections, Director of Marketing for Logix Communications, and has also held successful leadership positions in marketing and strategy at MCI Communications and communications consulting firm QSI. Ben Petro serves on the Board of Directors of messaging and service companies including 3jam, Inc. and Peerfluence, Inc in conjunction with his role as venture partner at the Arts Fund.
ERIC MORRIS | VENTURE PARTNER | ERIC@ARTSFUND.COM
With Kaltura Mr. Morris is the executive responsible for sales at the company which provides an open source video platform. Prior to his position with Kaltura Mr. Morris was the Vice President of Sales and Business Development for video platform provider Ooyala. Eric joined Ooyala from Akamai Technologies where he led the alternate channels program. Mr. Morris served also as Vice President of Sales for UltraDNS and Onxy Networks prior to his start in technology with Digex in 1995. Eric Morris serves on the Arts Fund management committee and as a board observer at Storyboard Media in conjunction with his role as venture partner at the Arts Fund.