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Mr. Mandile joined Sigma in 1996. He has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was the President & CEO of Vermeer Technologies, Inc., the developers of FrontPage, the leading Web authoring tool. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft, providing Sigma and the other venture investors a very successful return. Previously, he was an early principal at SQL Solutions, where he created and led an engineering organization chartered to build heterogeneous database tools. Following an acquisition of SQL Solutions by Sybase, he took responsibility for the new Systems Management Product unit, which he grew to $55 million in sales in 30 months. Prior to SQL Solutions he was a member of the Advanced Engineering program at Honeywell where he worked in communications, operating systems and co-processor design. Mr. Mandile is a graduate of Tufts (BSE in Engineering Science) and Worcester Polytechnic State University (MS in Computer Science). He has been responsible for Sigma's investments in Blue Agave Software, Datasage, Digital Music Network, EasyAsk, Novera Software, Oberon Software, Onexchange, OpenPages, Reflectent Software, and Silverlink Communications. | 