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Mr. Friend is President and CEO of Carbonite, Inc., a leading provider of online PC backup service for the consumer market. He has been a successful entrepreneur and angel investor in the technology and communications industries for over 25 years. Mr. Friend co-founded Sonexis, Inc., in 1999 and was Chairman, President and CEO until 2003. Sonexis is a leading manufacturer of teleconferencing and web conferencing equipment. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Friend was CEO, co-founder and Chairman of FaxNet Corporation, a leading supplier of messaging services to the telecommunications industry. FaxNet was selected by Upside magazine as one of the "Hot 100" private U.S. companies in 1999 and was sold in 1999 for approximately $240 million. From 1984 to 1994, Mr. Friend was Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Pilot Software, Inc., which was sold in 1995 to Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. Pilot pioneered executive information systems ("EIS") and multi-dimensional databases, a technology that allowed large retail chains to analyze sales data in new ways. Prior to co-founding Pilot, Mr. Friend was Chairman and co-founder of Computer Pictures Corporation, whose "Trend-Spotter" software was among the first to apply computer graphics to business data. Computer Pictures was bought by Cullinet Corporation (now part of Computer Associates). Prior to Computer Pictures, Mr. Friend was President and co-founder of ARP Instruments, a popular synthesizer used by leading rock bands like the Who, Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, and many others. Mr. Friend is recognized as one of the most influential figures in the development of the electronic keyboard industry. Mr. Friend holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Yale University, and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering, where Mr. Friend was a David Sarnoff Fellow. Mr. Friend has been featured in USA Today, Tech Capital, The Boston Globe, Mass HiTech, Fortune, Forbes and Tom Peter's best-selling management book, The Pursuit of Wow! He has been a trustee of the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC | 