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Meet the CRA Team

DAVID ANDERSON
Founder and Managing Partner

As Managing Director and Relationship Manager, David's focus is to expand our client services base throughout the US, as well as to develop new partners in the principal investment, venture capital, and enterprise markets. He brings over 15 years of experience in corporate strategy, sales and business development in the technology and banking industries. From helping companies traverse the waters of incubation, capital procurement, and additional hurdles, David shapes companies so they can exceed their expectations. David brings a unique orientation to the client relationship. He has experience as a financing source and conduit to the capital markets; as well, he possesses the perspective as a founder of two companies. Most recently he co-founded Zap, a multi-sponsorship and commerce marketplace. David's banking experience began in 1991 in Chicago at a boutique debt management firm, and continued through his tenure at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith where he served as Relationship Manager within the middle markets space. His background in banking proved to be a tremendous asset in the technology sector. David's experience at developing long-standing client relationships and capturing new market segments for technology companies spanned eight years. During that period, he was Vice President of US Operations for a global technology services company where he was responsible for all functional and strategic direction. Previously, he was Director of Technology Sales at Confer where he developed and launched this new market platform which eventually helped lead to the successful acquisition of the company. Prior to that, he spent his early years in the technology sector at Oracle Corporation as a Senior Account Executive. David holds a degree in Communications from the University of Arizona.

Anurag is Managing Director at Lighthouse Capital, a prominent Bay Area venture capital firm. Anurag joined Lighthouse in early 2001 from Intraspect Software, which was acquired by Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN), where he served as Vice President of Corporate and Business Development. Prior to Intraspect, he was the Vice President of Finance and Operations at netDialog, where he played an instrumental role in its acquisition by Kana Communications (NASDAQ:KANA). Anurag was also a Vice President at Imperial Bank in its Emerging Growth and Venture Divisions. His other professional experiences include obtaining financing for technology and infrastructure projects internationally, managing investments at a large multinational institutional money manager, and practicing corporate law for Bryan Cave, LLP. Anurag's area of investment focus is in enterprise computing, emcompassing software and enterprise networking. While at Lighthouse, Anurag has sponsored the firm's investments in Airespace, Azul, Ironport, Cortina, LinkedIn, Six Apart, Modulus Video, Stoke, and Transparency Software. Anurag holds a B.A. from Stanford University in economics and political science, and a J.D. from Loyola Law School.

An experienced and highly successful business development professional, Ora Williamson has spent her career developing key channel and technology partner relationships that are critical to success in the high-tech communications industry. Ora is Founder and President of Foray Systems, an independent consulting firm focused on providing investment and business development services to small to medium sized companies in the technology and medical markets. Foray Systems was founded in December 2005. Prior to forming her own company, Ora spent the last 8 years assisting founders with company startups. Most recently, Ora built the framework for Concentris Systems, a mesh networking company, based in Honolulu, HI. From 2002 to 2005, Ora worked with the founders of Ascentry Technologies, another mesh networking company as Senior Vice President for Business Development and Marketing. Before making an entrée into wireless, Ora was a known leader in speech recognition technology. As a founding partner of Conversay Corporation, from 1997 through 2001 helped the founder build the company from a garage-based operation, to a 230 employee enterprise, with offices across the US and Europe. Prior to joining Conversay, she spent almost 10 years at IBM, half of that time in the IBM speech group, pioneering application and tools development for the IBM VoiceType speech product line, then later acting as IBM’s corporate evangelist for IBM Speech. Ora was part of the original IBM consulting team and was responsible for building out IBM’s consulting practice in Tokyo, Japan. Ora received a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, with a minor in French. She holds one patent, four invention disclosures, and two inventions published related to speech recognition technology. She is based in Denver, CO.

Jib Martens is the Chief Operating Officer of Reinsurance Advisory Services. Mr. Martens merged his existing company, Beacon Partners, with RAS in 2004 to strengthen service to the healthcare industry. Mr. Martens is an entrepreneur with over twenty years of operational, business development, strategic planning and financial experience, primarily in the healthcare industry. He has successfully launched, operated and financed new ventures and repositioned established companies. Mr. Martens founded and managed an e-learning company and a financial advisory services company. He has advised large and small healthcare and financial organizations in strategy, operations and finance and assisted small to midsized companies in raising capital. Mr. Martens founded Beacon Partners in 2000 to provide strategic and financial advisory services, fundraising and interim CFO services to healthcare clients. During that time he also founded QuickCompliance, a leading provider of e-learning services to the healthcare industry. Prior to Beacon Partners, Mr. Martens was the VP of Business Development and then the VP of Professional Services for Confer, a leading provider of disease management solutions. Prior to Confer, Mr. Martens was an Associate Partner in Accenture's Strategic Services Healthcare Practice and, earlier, a Commercial Banking Officer at Chemical Bank (now JPMorgan Chase). Mr. Martens holds an MBA from the Ames Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College where he was an Edward Tuck Scholar and holds a BA in economics with a concentration in physics from Middlebury College where he graduated cum laude.