Previously she was a partner of Advent International from 1996 to 2002 general partner of Viking Capital from 1994 to 1996 general partner of Ampersand Ventures/Paine Webber Ventures from 1985 to 1993 and a regional marketing support representative for IBM Corporation from 1979 to 1983. Ms. Hooper also currently serves as a director of PolyMedica Aspeed Optiant Enterprise Vista System Gridley & Company and New Zealand Trade Enterprise and in a number of advisory and fundraising capacities for Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was first elected to the Company's Board of Directors in 2006 and will be a Class II director. If reelected Ms. Hooper's new term will expire in 2010. |