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Tony Morris has been involved in the information technology (IT) industry since 1979 as entrepreneur, investor, independent Director, and consultant on both sides of the Atlantic. Since 1988 he has provided business strategy and venture development counsel to IT companies and investors, ranging from the largest computer industry companies to high potential startups. In 2000, Tony relocated to London from Boston to work with promising UK and European IT companies and their investors both on venture development in local markets and on US market entry strategy. He has made two dozen direct investments in private IT companies and is a limited partner in several widely recognized venture capital firms in the US and the UK. In 1980 Tony founded Morris Decision Systems, an early "value added" PC reseller and network systems integrator in New York, ranking #9 in the Inc. 500 when it was sold. He is a Director of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:PTEC), Nexagent Ltd. (UK), and Datanomic Ltd. (UK). He has been profiled as a successful angel investor in Winning Angels by Harvard Business School's Howard Stevenson and David Amis (Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2001). He holds an AB from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford University. Tony is a member of the Board of Global Advisors at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He lives in the Kensington section of London with his wife and two daughters. | 