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Mr. Clyatt combines extensive operating, entrepreneurial and fundraising experience with a firsthand knowledge of the Learning and Education industry to provide portfolio companies with uniquely effective support. Since 2001, he has advised clients on all facets of private equity financing, including fundraising and M&A. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Clyatt raised multiple rounds of venture capital for the two firms he founded, and brought investors liquidity in both companies through M&A with public companies. In 1997 Mr. Clyatt founded Horizon Wimba, a web-based virtual classroom software company, served as its CEO and Chairman from inception to 2001, and remains an advisor to the company. Mr. Clyatt, a California native, graduated from U.C. Berkeley, (A.B. Economics, 1980, Phi Beta Kappa) and spent his third year abroad in 1978/79 at the London School of Economics, before becoming a computer programmer in 1980. He then graduated from MIT's Sloan School of Management (S.M. Management, 1985), where he concentrated in Management of Technological Innovation. After MIT, Mr. Clyatt spent eight years at Reuters developing, marketing and selling various real-time online information services. He left Reuters in 1993 to participate in the birth of the Web, being included twice among New YorkÕs Silicon Alley 100. Mr. Clyatt founded I/O 360 in 1994, one of New YorkÕs first web design/consulting companies, and sold it to public web agency Rare Medium, (now Skyterra, Nasdaq: SKYT) in mid-1998. | 