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Don Parsons is a founding General Partner of Appian Ventures and serves on its investment committee. He currently represents Appian on the board of Roving Planet, a leading provider of enterprise software for managing complex wireless LANS, and is a board observer for LeftHand Networks, a Boulder-based network storage company. Previously, Mr. Parsons worked with Centennial Ventures, a Denver-based firm specializing in telecommunications services and enabling communications technologies. As a general partner of three Centennial funds, he served as a board and investment team member for several IT/Communications companies, including HighGround Systems (now SunHighground), Raindance Communications, Ecrix (now Exabyte), Verio (now NTT), iVast, Wireless Telecom and Pluto Technologies. While at Centennial, Mr. Parsons also had the privilege of partnering with Vanguard Ventures to create CenCom V Sourcing, a Palo Alto-based technology accelerator that attracted Bell Canada and Panasonic as technology partners | 