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&#8226; <a href="#vwQHJNQHKLHI"<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<AccessLan Names Ofer Doitel President and CEO</font<</a<<BR<
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&#8226; <a href="#vwMJHONQJLHI"<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<Aviva Biosciences Names Peter Wilding President and CEO</font<</a<<BR<

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&#8226; <a href="#vwHHHHQJKLHI"<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<Bush to Nominate Founder of Trident Capital as Envoy to EU</font<</a<<BR<
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&#8226; <a href="#vwQLPOKPJLHI"<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<PwC Venture Partners Adds Michael Jonovski to Team</font<</a<<BR<

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&#8226; <a href="#vwIJOHHHLLHI"<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<Racemi Names RF Solutions CEO Steve Richeson as Mrktg. VP</font<</a<<BR<

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&#8226; <a href="#vwNQMLQILLHI"<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<Peace Software Names Derek Van Keuren as HR Vice President</font<</a<<BR<


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<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<<tr<<td<&#8226; <a name="vwQHJNQHKLHI"<<b<<font face='arial,helvetica' size="2"<AccessLan Names Ofer Doitel President and CEO</font<</b<</a<</td<<td align="right"<<a href="#vwQHJNQHKLHIx"<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/arrow.gif" border="0" height="11" width="11" alt="top"<</a< &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://people.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=QHJNQHKLHI" target=NEW<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/mail2.gif" border="0" height="10" width="15" alt="mail"<</a<&nbsp;</td<</tr<
<tr<<td colspan=2<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- AccessLan Communications, which provides IP-enabled access provisioning, announced its appointment of founder and chairman, Ofer Doital, as president and CEO. <br<<br<Mr. Doital, who also continues as chairman, replaces Michael Pisterzi, who has stepped down from the company. <br<<br<The company&#39;s board members are Peter Cross, business and engineering advisor to AccessLan and formerly senior vice president of engineering at Bay Networks; Sean Dalton, general partner at Highland Capital; Bob Hower, partner at BancBoston Ventures; and Andrew Ludwick, business adviser to AccessLan, co-founder of SynOptics, and formerly president and CEO of Bay Networks/SynOptics.<br<<br<AccessLan has raised over $90 million in financing from Accel Partners, Advanced Fibre
Communications, AV Labs, BancBoston Ventures, Berkeley International Capital, Highland Capital, The Ignite Group, Intel Capital, NIF Ventures, Peery Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Tudor Private Equity Fund.</font<<BR<
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<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<<tr<<td<&#8226; <a name="vwMJHONQJLHI"<<b<<font face='arial,helvetica' size="2"<Aviva Biosciences Names Peter Wilding President and CEO</font<</b<</a<</td<<td align="right"<<a href="#vwMJHONQJLHIx"<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/arrow.gif" border="0" height="11" width="11" alt="top"<</a< &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://people.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=MJHONQJLHI" target=NEW<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/mail2.gif" border="0" height="10" width="15" alt="mail"<</a<&nbsp;</td<</tr<
<tr<<td colspan=2<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<SAN DIEGO -- Aviva Biosciences, a developer of active biochips with an emphasis on on-chip bioanalyte manipulation and screening, said it has appointed board member Peter Wilding as president and CEO. Mr. Wilding previously served as co-founder of ChemCore, a biochip company that was acquired by Caliper Technologies.<br<<br<Mr. Wilding replaces co-founder Julian Yuan as president and CEO. Mr. Yuan, who invested in the company&#39;s Series A round, assumes the post of vice chairman.<br<<br<Aviva Biosciences existing board members are Jing Cheng, co-founder of AVIVA Bioscience, professor at the Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences & Engineering, and research director at the Beijing National Biochip Research and Engineering Center; Charles H. Sie, chairman and former
vice president of the corporate engineering center&#39;s West coast site at Xerox; Mr. Yuan; and John Yu, first vice president and general manager of the technology department at China Development Industrial Bank.<br<<br<Founded in 1999, Aviva Biosciences raised $5 million in Series A funding from China Development Industrial Bank, WI Harper, private equity firm Zimmerman, and Mr. Yuan.</font<<BR<
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<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<<tr<<td<&#8226; <a name="vwHHHHQJKLHI"<<b<<font face='arial,helvetica' size="2"<Bush to Nominate Founder of Trident Capital as Envoy to EU</font<</b<</a<</td<<td align="right"<<a href="#vwHHHHQJKLHIx"<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/arrow.gif" border="0" height="11" width="11" alt="top"<</a< &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://people.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=HHHHQJKLHI" target=NEW<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/mail2.gif" border="0" height="10" width="15" alt="mail"<</a<&nbsp;</td<</tr<
<tr<<td colspan=2<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<WASHINGTON -- President Bush is expected to nominate Rockwell Schnabel, founder and managing director of Trident Capital, as the U.S. envoy to the European Union (EU), according to Mr. Schnabel.<br<<br<Mr. Schnabel said that, if his nomination was approved, he would expect to be away from Trident Capital until the end of the Bush administration, though he would remain a special limited partner. He said he was not sure whether he would return to the venture capital firm afterward. <br<<br<Mr. Schnabel&#39;s four board seats at portfolio companies have been distributed to other partners in the firm over the last six months.<br<<br<Prior to founding Trident Capital, Mr. Schnabel served as acting secretary of commerce and the deputy secretary of commerce during the Bush administration,
and as the U.S. ambassador to Finland during the Reagan administration. <br<<br<Trident Capital manages more than $1.4 billion.</font<<BR<
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<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<<tr<<td<&#8226; <a name="vwQLPOKPJLHI"<<b<<font face='arial,helvetica' size="2"<PwC Venture Partners Adds Michael Jonovski to Team</font<</b<</a<</td<<td align="right"<<a href="#vwQLPOKPJLHIx"<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/arrow.gif" border="0" height="11" width="11" alt="top"<</a< &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://people.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=QLPOKPJLHI" target=NEW<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/mail2.gif" border="0" height="10" width="15" alt="mail"<</a<&nbsp;</td<</tr<
<tr<<td colspan=2<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<LONDON -- PricewaterhouseCoopers Venture Partners (PwCVP), a seed- to early-stage venture capital firm that invests in business-to-business and life sciences companies, said it appointed Michael Jonovski, former assistant director in corporate finance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, as an investment director in its U.K. division. He is the ninth PwCVP venture partner.<br<<br<PwCVP is led by CEO Jonathan Wackett and Gerry Devlin, managing director and founder. Formerly called Pricewaterhouse Incubator, the firm has made five investments since March 2000, and its portfolio includes Cataloga, First Professional, F-Exchange, and Speedclear. </font<<BR<
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<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<<tr<<td<&#8226; <a name="vwIJOHHHLLHI"<<b<<font face='arial,helvetica' size="2"<Racemi Names RF Solutions CEO Steve Richeson as Mrktg. VP</font<</b<</a<</td<<td align="right"<<a href="#vwIJOHHHLLHIx"<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/arrow.gif" border="0" height="11" width="11" alt="top"<</a< &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://people.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=IJOHHHLLHI" target=NEW<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/mail2.gif" border="0" height="10" width="15" alt="mail"<</a<&nbsp;</td<</tr<
<tr<<td colspan=2<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<ATLANTA -- Racemi, a provider of server architecture for enterprise and service provider data centers, said it named Steve Richeson as vice president of marketing. Mr. Richeson previously served as CEO of RF Solutions. Racemi has received seed funds from 5 Paces Ventures. </font<<BR<
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<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<<tr<<td<&#8226; <a name="vwNQMLQILLHI"<<b<<font face='arial,helvetica' size="2"<Peace Software Names Derek Van Keuren as HR Vice President</font<</b<</a<</td<<td align="right"<<a href="#vwNQMLQILLHIx"<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/arrow.gif" border="0" height="11" width="11" alt="top"<</a< &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://people.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=NQMLQILLHI" target=NEW<<img src="http://venturewire.com/images/mail2.gif" border="0" height="10" width="15" alt="mail"<</a<&nbsp;</td<</tr<
<tr<<td colspan=2<<font face="verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica" size="2"<MIAMI -- Peace Software, a provider of customer management technology for utilities and retail energy companies, said it named Derek Van Keuren as vice president of human resources. Mr. Van Keuren previously served as vice president of human resources at Forums Communications. Peace Software&#39;s investors include Insight Capital Partners and Kinetic Ventures. </font<<BR<
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New Fund in formation seeks a Managing General Partner (MGP) with at least 10 years experience as a venture capitalist. The MGP will lead a small team already in place. The goal of the Fund is to capitalize on the outsourcing trend, initially through making investments in attractive early to mid stage U.S. based technology companies whose growth might be enhanced by the Fund's Indian technology services partners. A candidate must have a demonstrably successful track record in venture capital/private equity investments and should currently be a general partner in a VC fund.
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