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Mr. Dale joined Sigma Partners in 2000 with 16 years of prior experience in software and high technology. Before Sigma, Richard co-founded Phase Forward Incorporated, a provider of service and software infrastructure for managing pharmaceutical clinical trials over the Internet, where he was Vice President of Services and then Vice President of Strategic Development. Previously, he was Vice President of Operations for Vermeer Technologies, creators of FrontPage and acquired by Microsoft in 1996. Richard also held professional service, senior product management and IS management roles at Sybase, Epoch Systems (a subsidiary of EMC) and MicroTouch Systems. Mr. Dale received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Durham in England. He shares responsibility for Sigma's investment in ExaGrid, Instill, Reflectent, Savantis, Silverlink and Visual Mining. | 