Frank I. Lin

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In addition to his role with Rising Tide, Mr. Lin joined Newbury in July 2004.
Prior to Newbury, he was a Principal at Panasonic Ventures, the U.S.
investment arm of Matsushita in Japan.
During his three years at Panasonic Ventures, he was involved in closing 10 venture investments, totaling over $21 million in invested capital.
These included investments in MontaVista Software, Premier Retail Networks, Raindance (Nasdaq: RNDC), P-Cube (acquired by Cisco), and IntAcct.
While at Panasonic Ventures and Panasonic Incubator, Mr. Lin structured numerous revenue-generating partnerships between Panasonic's business units and other technology companies.
Prior to joining Panasonic Ventures, Mr. Lin focused on IPOs, private placements and M&A transactions in technology sectors as a Financial Analyst at Salomon Smith Barney's Global Technology Group in San Francisco.
Mr. Lin's deal experience in technology sectors include semiconductors, enterprise software, internet, and networking equipment.
Previously, Mr. Lin worked in the mergers and acquisitions group of Salomon Smith Barney's New York office where he advised on and executed transactions across various industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, real estate and technology.
Mr. Lin was also a Summer Associate at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division in Hong Kong.
Mr. Lin holds an A.B. with honors from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Newbury Ventures, Inc. Newbury Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Newbury Ventures makes early-stage investments in several industries including enterprise software products, networking and communications infrastructure, wireless, security hardware and software and semiconductor devices. Typical investments range from $5 million to $10 million in successive rounds over the life of a company, with an initial investment in the $2 million to $5 million range. The partnership also seeks out a limited number of special situation technology investments, including investments in later-stage turnarounds and restructurings. Newbury looks for companies that create products to solve significant problems for readily identifiable customers. They look for companies whose strategy will allow them to enter a market with potentially rapid growth and establish a defendable leadership position. Companies should be targeting a market with annual revenue opportunities of at least $100 million and with annual growth prospects in excess of 30 percent. Companies should also have unique and superior products or services that provide a defensible and proprietary competitive position. The firm invests in invest in domestic and bi-national companies that have or seek to have operations in both their home country and the US. Newbury serves at the lead or co-lead investor in virtually all of their portfolio companies. They take a seat on their portfolio companies' boards of directors. Typical exits are through the sale of a company to a third party for cash or marketable securities, or a combination thereof, or through an IPO.	Private Equity Analyst	2009-12-30
Affordable Luxury Network, Inc. Affordable Luxury Network, Inc. Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Provides online community for luxury travel	Founder	-

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Harvard University Harvard University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Newbury Ventures, Inc. Newbury Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Newbury Ventures makes early-stage investments in several industries including enterprise software products, networking and communications infrastructure, wireless, security hardware and software and semiconductor devices. Typical investments range from $5 million to $10 million in successive rounds over the life of a company, with an initial investment in the $2 million to $5 million range. The partnership also seeks out a limited number of special situation technology investments, including investments in later-stage turnarounds and restructurings. Newbury looks for companies that create products to solve significant problems for readily identifiable customers. They look for companies whose strategy will allow them to enter a market with potentially rapid growth and establish a defendable leadership position. Companies should be targeting a market with annual revenue opportunities of at least $100 million and with annual growth prospects in excess of 30 percent. Companies should also have unique and superior products or services that provide a defensible and proprietary competitive position. The firm invests in invest in domestic and bi-national companies that have or seek to have operations in both their home country and the US. Newbury serves at the lead or co-lead investor in virtually all of their portfolio companies. They take a seat on their portfolio companies' boards of directors. Typical exits are through the sale of a company to a third party for cash or marketable securities, or a combination thereof, or through an IPO.	Finance
University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Affordable Luxury Network, Inc. Affordable Luxury Network, Inc. Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Provides online community for luxury travel	Consumer Services