When Jim's not on a redeye traveling the globe or managing business back at the North Bridge ranch, he's bringing new ideas and perspectives to the Currensee team. Prior to joining North Bridge, Jim was CEO of Covergence Networks, a developer of leading edge software-based session border controllers (SBC's) for delivering VOIP/IP telephony, Unified Communications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications to global 1000 enterprises. Jim's dynamic leadership led Covergence to their May 2009 acquisition by Acme Packet (NASDAQ:APKT). Jim was also a Co-Founder of eDocs, which became the leading provider of self-service and online billing & payment solutions to Fortune 500 companies like GE, American Express and Verizon, and was sold for $145 million in 2005 to Siebel Systems. As if all that wasn't enough, Jim was an early investor, board member and Chief Operating Officer of Virtusa (NASDAQ:VRTU) a leading provider of information technology services worldwide.

Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Jim was Senior Vice President of Sales at CheckFree Corporation where he played a key role in growing revenues from $25 million to over $250 million leading to a successful IPO in 1996. Prior to CheckFree Jim held various sales positions at EMC, XL/Datacomp and Software 2000.

Jim received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Northeastern University in 1987.  He is currently a board member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio and past boards include BankFirst National (NASDAQ:BFOH), edocs, Virtusa (Nasdaq:VRTU), Covergence, and County Savings Bank.

When he's not helping startups with disruptive business models, Jim shepherds a flock of five children and has been known to leap tall buildings in a single bound. True story. He is an avid golfer, loves to fish, work out, play hoops and above all is a capitalist, which is why we love him so.