Larry Bettino

Larry Bettino has 19 years of private equity and venture capital investment experience. He is currently a Partner at StarVest Partners, a New York - based venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled business services that take advantage of next-generation internet and information technologies. He was a Partner and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus, joining the firm in September 2001 to lead the firm's investment activities in telecommunications and information technology, and a member of the firm's executive management group.

Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was a founding partner at Baker Capital. From 1989 to 1996 he was a partner with Dillon Read Venture Capital where he focused on technologyand data communications investments. An experienced engineer, he held a series of technical and management positions at IBM. He received his B.S. (1982) in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1989).

Mr. Bettino has been a member of the Board of Directors of several public and private companies: Accept Software (on-demand product innovation and management software), IRON Solutions (Data-as-a-Service provider: The largest farm equipment transaction information database), Accept Software (a solution for Innovation Process Management), Transactis (a leading provider of electronic bill presentment and payment [EBPP] solutions), LSSiCorp. (the leading provider of international directory database services); MACH SA (based in Luxemburg - the global leader of mobile telephony data services); and Telcordia Technologies (the world's largest provider of Operational Support Software to tier-one communications carriers and one of the largest technology leveraged buyouts of the last several years).

Mr. Bettino is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Citizen's Budget Commission, a non-profit civic organization committed to influencing constructive change in the finances and services of New York State and New York City governments. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Adventis, the global management consulting firm. He lives in Bronxville, NY with his wife and three children.