Richard D’Amore has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2014. Mr. D’Amore has been a General Partner of North Bridge Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital and growth equity firm, since its inception in 1994.

From 1982 until starting North Bridge, Mr. D’Amore served in various roles at Hambro International Equity Partners. Previously, Mr. D’Amore worked as a consultant at Bain and Company and as a certified public accountant with Arthur Young and Company.

Mr. D’Amore has served as a member of the board of directors of Veeco Instruments, Inc., a developer, and manufacturer of electronics equipment, since 1990. From 1997 to 2010, Mr. D’Amore served as a member of the board of directors of Phase Forward Incorporated, a provider of software solutions for clinical trial and drug safety monitoring that was acquired by Oracle Corporation..

Mr. D’Amore holds a B.S. in business from Northeastern University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. D’Amore’s broad entrepreneurial experience and his extensive service in consumer related companies brings a great deal of knowledge, experience, and vision to the company.