Chad Jones is a socially conscious entrepreneur and venture investor with more than 20 years’ experience in strategy and development. He splits his time as an investor, board member and operational executive across a wide spectrum of companies including technology, beverage, construction fastening and sporting goods. Mr. Jones is a thought leader in many areas including the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, virtualization and alternative energy technologies. His ability to understand nuanced technology combined with an uncanny sense of market needs drive a unique perspective. He is able to shapes powerful product and business strategies that capitalize on differentiated value, and then articulate this value through enlightened positioning and thought leadership. His unique vision takes big ideas from inception through execution resulting in highly profitable outcomes including six exits to companies such as Microsoft, VMware and Intel. As an investor, Mr. Jones has chosen passions near to his heart (beer, wine, etc.) as well as ones that create better outcomes for the planet (alternative energy, wireless electricity, etc.). He has traveled the planet discussing a vision for a better world through the non-intuitive use of converging technologies. Mr. Jones is currently Chief Strategy Officer for Deep Information Sciences, serves on multiple boards, and runs his investment fund, Plesso Ventures, Inc., as its CEO. In his free time, he enjoys beach volleyball, wake boarding, heli-skiing, and finding the next great idea that transforms businesses and lives.

Chief Strategy Officer @ Deep’s mission is to drive the evolution of knowledge and possibility by fundamentally changing the way the world relates to its data. We do this through Deep Engine, our database kernel and information orchestration system that leverages machine learning to evolve the foundation of MySQL databases without requiring application changes. This reimagined approach to the fundamental science of databases transforms data into real-time relevant and universally accessible information at billions of rows, empowering and accelerating unprecedented business outcomes. http://www.deepis.com • Develop and drive GTM strategy • Work with Chief Scientist and VP, PM to drive strategic roadmap • Lead team that creates and executes marketing, lead-gen and awareness efforts From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Greater Boston AreaCo-Founder & Board Member @ Co-founder and Board member of evolutionary sport sleeve product. Sports at any level are more competitive than ever and demand that you elevate your game in order to win. The Ultimate Control Sleeve gives athletes of any sport the advantage they need to not only maximize their potential, but exceed it. Whether you are a total amateur, weekend warrior, college athlete or professional competitor, Control Athletics sleeves will increase your capabilities, protect you during play, help you recover faster and empower you to dominate your competition. If you play golf, volleyball, football, baseball, basketball, rugby or any sport that you want to take to the next level, then you need the Ultimate Control Sleeve! www.ControlAthletics.com From May 2011 to Present (4 years 8 months) Greater Boston AreaCEO @ Private equity investments in interesting game changing start-ups... • WiTricity (http://wwww.witricity.com) • Pure Cars (http://www.purecars.com) (Acquired by Raycom 2015) • Wing Power Energy (http://www.wingpowerenergy.com) • Banshee Wines (http://bansheewines.com) • Newburyport Brewing Company (http://www.nbptbrewing.com/) • Control Athletics (www.controlathletics.com) • Glanola (www.glanolanorthamerica.com/) • TaxWealth, LLC (http://www.taxwealth.com) • The Tree House LLC. (Independent Feature Film) From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Greater Boston AreaVisiting Practitioner @ Bringing real world entrepreneurial experience to students and alumni of Harvard through lectures and direct interaction in office hours. Lecture example: https://i-lab.harvard.edu/learning-library/business-internet-things-chad-jones If you are a current or former Harvard student and wish to schedule office hours, please schedule here: https://i-lab.harvard.edu/expert-resourcing/expert-appointments From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Advisory Board Member @ Advisory board member for a digital health platform that unifies all aspects of patient information resulting in evolved health care and better, more cost effective medical outcomes. From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Board Member @ Advisory board member for a stealth technology company looking to revolutionize how the Hispanic community's needs are served. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Co-Founder & Director @ Treasurer and founding board member of an evolutionary mechanical engineering firm focused on concealed fastening systems. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Greater Boston AreaPrincipal Advisor and CEO @ Virtual Potential Advisors was created to provide start-ups, venture capital firms, ISVs, and Enterprises with experienced and unique perspective on their complex and nuanced business challenges. The result is a differentiated approach to GTM, marketing, product roadmaps and business development that provides a distinct advantage in any market. From August 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Greater Boston AreaVice President, Internet of Things Strategy @ • Drive business, marketing and GTM strategies working hand-in-hand with GM, Chief Architect, VP Sales, VP Services and VP Bus Dev, while creating a unique value framework that showcases the differentiated benefits of the Xively offering. • Create unique product messages, value propositions and technical selling points to enable sales teams and partner organizations to most effectively position products and technology in the market • Oversee marketing/GTM team and vendors that creates and manages the Xively web site, a vast array of sales enablement tools including product demonstrations, ROV/TCO calculator, customer webinars, white papers and sales presentations, as well as overseeing press release messaging and strategy • Named Top Embedded Innovator for 2014 by Embedded Computing Magazine. • Received sixteen platform awards including Mobile World Congress Best Cloud Platform for Mobile, M2M Evolution Product of the Year 2014, 3 times winner M2M Best Overall IoT Solution, ARM TechCon Best Software Platform, and many more. • LogMeIn market cap moved from $400 million to $1.1 billion. From October 2012 to September 2014 (2 years) Member, Technical Advisory Council @ Technical Advisory Council member which provides strategic review and insight on various topics. From March 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 5 months) Vice President, Strategy and Product Management @ Drive strategic business and product direction including go to market plans working hand-in-hand with the CEO, CTO, CMO and VP Bus Dev, while creating a value proposition and supporting product roadmap that develops and showcases DynamicOps unique approach to hybrid Cloud computing. • Research and design a market driven product roadmap that balances long-term company goals, short-term sales opportunities, competitive pressures, and speed to market by working with the CTO, Technical Product Managers, CMO and key customers. • Create unique product messages, value propositions and technical selling points to enable sales teams and partner organizations to most effectively position products and technology in the market including coining and trademarking terms such as Cloud Development Kit®, Operations Virtualization®, OPS-V®, Cloud Management Instrumentation® and more. • Define go to market strategies through updated product pricing and packaging that accentuated the unique value of the product line and met market expectations while working hand in hand with marketing to design and execute PR plans. • Oversaw, created and contributed to an array of technical sales tools, including product demonstrations, ROV/TCO calculator, customer webinars, white papers, press releases and sales presentations. • Evangelize the DynamicOps platform and provided market thought leadership through speaking opportunities (InterOp, Microsoft Build, Microsoft Management Summit, VMworld, Cloud Summit, many more), customer and partner events, byline articles, BLOG postings, webinars, web site and video productions. From April 2011 to August 2012 (1 year 5 months) Member, Board of Directors @ Founder and Board of Directors member of a unique advertising company focused around truck-side advertising. From August 2010 to August 2012 (2 years 1 month) Member, Technical Advisory Council @ Technical Advisory Council member who provides insight into various topics. Acquired by Citrix in May, 2012. From April 2011 to May 2012 (1 year 2 months) Principal Advisor @ Virtual Potential Advisors was created to provide start-ups, venture capital firms, ISVs, and Enterprises with experienced and unique perspective on their complex and nuanced business challenges. The result is a differentiated approach to GTM, marketing, product roadmaps and business development that provides a distinct advantage in any market. From September 2010 to April 2011 (8 months) Vice President, Product Management @ • Driving the Product Roadmap – working with the CTO, Technical Product Managers and CMO in designing a customer-driven Product Roadmap that balances long-term company goals, short-term sales opportunities, competitive pressures, and speed to market. • Define the product features, pricing, packaging, support offerings and all aspects of the Neocleus product line. • Creating and deliver the technical marketing plan. Defining the most important product messages and technical selling points to enable Neocleus’ sales team and partner organizations to most effectively position the Neocleus products and technology in the market. • Creating an array of technical sales tools, including product demonstrations, ROV/TCO calculator, webinars, podcasts, white papers, BLOG postings, press releases and sales presentations. • Evangelize the Neocleus platform. Speak at industry conferences, customer events and webinar / podcasts in portraying the Neocleus technology. From August 2009 to September 2010 (1 year 2 months) Vice President, Business Development @ Responsible for exploring and establishing partner relationships as well as expanding the overall business interests of Certeon. From February 2009 to August 2009 (7 months) Principal Advisor @ The Virtualization and Management spaces are red hot areas with an ever growing number of technologies where the differences are often in the nuances. Virtual Potential Advisors was created to provide venture capital firms, ISVs, and Enterprises with experienced and unique insight into the complex world of virtualization and management products to help give you a head start on your competition. From April 2008 to February 2009 (11 months) Greater Boston AreaSenior Product Manager, Windows Client Virtualization @ • Establish global product management and marketing for Microsoft SoftGrid App. Virtualization (now App-V) as part of the MDOP start-up team resulting in millions of MDOP licenses sold. • Developed world-wide positioning and sales strategies for app. virtualization including development of web sites, FAQs, videos, ROI calculator, case studies, competitive landscape and more. • Worked with partners both externally (Dell, Citrix, etc.) and internally (SMS/SCCM, Terminal Services, SCVMM, Virtual PC/Server, VECD, more) for technology and services integration. • Developed the Market Requirements Documents (MRD) for the next two versions of SoftGrid/App-V, then worked with Program Mgmt. teams and product architect to ensure the product results met the market expectations. • Evangelized app. virtualization as a Microsoft certified spokesperson in world-wide engagements including TechEd, MMS, TechReady, MVP Summit, VMworld, Microsoft Company meeting (televised WW), and many more. From July 2006 to April 2008 (1 year 10 months) Sr. Director Product Strategy @ • One of the primary idea people behind the creation of Softricity, resulting in a new application delivery and execution platform for Windows called SoftGrid. • Authored the master functional specification with CTO as well as oversaw ongoing product strategy resulting in Softricity receiving 5 Patents and 10 Patents pending. • Defined market penetration strategies with VP, Marketing as well as oversaw technical/business positioning with product management including competitive analysis and counter positioning. • Oversaw companion products development which created additional tools to augment core product including Softricity ZeroTouch and SoftGrid Ext. for Microsoft Systems Center. • Developed the Return on Virtualization calculator which was validated by Forrester Research with the TEI seal of approval as the industry’s first App. Virt TCO model. • Evangelized app. virt. as a Softricity spokesperson at worldwide events and aided sales and technical services group as a sales and systems engineer when necessary. • Expanded US/Europe/AsiaPac penetration through direct assistance to respective EMEA teams. From January 2001 to July 2006 (5 years 7 months) Senior Director, OSS Design @ • Created a Desktop as a Service Cloud offering before cloud was known as cloud. • Designed hosted Application Service through Terminal Services solution including global implementation standards for server systems and architecture, and future technology direction. • Implemented service design through building or retrofitting 5 data centers in Tokyo, London, Calgary, Irvine, and New Jersey including building the Network Operation Center (NOC) used to monitor all data centers. • Worked closely with outsourced development and partners to create a first-of-kind provisioning system for the application service. From October 1999 to December 2000 (1 year 3 months) Senior Director, Special Projects @ Oversaw advanced and complex projects as a consultant, include data center build outs, focused on Virtual Desktop technology. Company was acquired by FutureLink in October of 1999. From March 1996 to October 1999 (3 years 8 months)

Chad Jones is skilled in: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Product Management, Go-to-market Strategy, Start-ups, Data Center, SaaS, Partner Management, VMware, Business Development, Citrix, Strategy, Program Management, Professional Services