Company: Board of Directors
Chris Holden, Director
Chris is a general partner with Court Square Ventures, a Voxant investor. He brings 18 years of early stage investing and company-building experience to Court Square, including 10 years with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in a variety of senior executive roles. From 1995 to 2000, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Kesmai Corporation, a wholly owned software and technology subsidiary of News Corp, which he sold to Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and America Online (NYSE: AOL).
Prior to becoming CEO of Kesmai, Chris was VP for the News Technology Group, which held company-wide responsibility for investing in technology-related businesses, as well as managing the integration and deployment of new technologies across News Corp businesses worldwide. He also served on News Corp’s global Interactive Strategy Taskforce, was a member of the executive team that created iGuide, a joint venture between News Corp and MCI which became TV Guide Interactive and merged with Gemstar Corporation (NASDAQ: GMST), and was a senior executive with the News Digital Media Group, which oversaw the online operations of a number of News Corp companies. Previously, he co-founded the Advanced Media Group for HarperCollins Publishers in New York (a News Corp company) and served as corporate vice president.
Chris has served as a director of numerous private companies in the IT, software, and media sectors, and currently is a director of CSV I portfolio companies CSTV, Logic Library, and Verance. He also serves on the board of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation, the University of Virginia Patent Foundation, and the Charlottesville Music Resource Center. He is a graduate of Davidson College.
Steven J. Murray, Director
Steve is a partner with SoftBank Capital, a Voxant investor. He joined SoftBank in 1997 and has over 15 years of experience working with high growth technology based businesses. His experience includes sourcing and managing venture investments, all aspects of mergers and acquisitions and significant corporate finance and accounting. He focuses on digital media technologies as well as a variety of technology based services.
During Steve's tenure at SoftBank, he has been the principal senior executive responsible for billions of dollars of complex structured monetization strategies including initial public offerings, secondary public offerings, mergers, private sales, public market block sale transaction and complex collars. He also is the partner in charge of the financial and legal affairs of SoftBank Capital.
Steve came to SoftBank from Deloitte, one of the world's largest professional services firms. While at Deloitte, he specialized in serving numerous high growth technology based businesses including Primark Corporation, Harcourt General and IDG.
Steve also serves on the boards of several other private companies, including Anystream and Pivot Solutions.
He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a BS in Accounting from Boston College.
Jim Savage, Director
Jim is a partner with Longworth Venture Partners of Boston, which provided Voxant's initial funding and increased its investment in the Series B round. Before Longworth, Jim spent 20 years successfully developing, launching, and managing early stage software and information service companies. As CEO of PlanetAll, Inc., a pioneering Web networking service, Jim directed the company from its early venture-funding phase through its acquisition by Amazon.com for $100 million.
Previously, Jim was the founding General Manager of ZDNet, the Web's leading IT information service, acquired by CNET for $1.3 billion. Before ZDNet, Jim was an Executive Vice President at Simon & Schuster/Prentice Hall, where he directed the online publishing activities of its legal publishing division. Jim started his career managing digital media initiatives at McGraw-Hill.
Jim represents Longworth on the boards of directors of Constant Contact, EnvoyWorldWide, Kaon Interactive, Innovectra, Softricity, TrueAdvantage, and Voxant. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) and Boston's Museum of Science. Jim graduated from Harvard University.
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