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Most recently a partner at Apax Partners, Weissman is currently managing existing investments in Apax's venture portfolio as Apax recently changed its focus from venture to global buyouts. He serves on the boards of Attensity, Centerbeam, Chiliad, Composite Software, Nanomix and Solid Information Technology. Weissman is a member of the Band of Angels and is an advisor to a number of early stage companies including Cataphora, Kalat and Modius and has served as advisor or board member to more than twenty-five other technology firms. As an investor, his emphasis is on enterprise and infrastructure software and services with a particular focus on applications of information retrieval and text analytics. Weissman has more than 25 years experience in high technology operations and marketing. Prior to Apax, he was VP of global marketing and corporate development for Verity, a leader in enterprise information retrieval. Weissman also spent more than five years at NeXT Computer, where he managed European and corporate marketing. A frequent conference speaker, he has published extensively on software trends and has been an advisor to many public and private organizations, including Apple, NeXT, Sun Microsystems, IBM and Microsoft as well as many departments of the U.S. government and was a co-author of the Academy of Public Administration/National Archives' study of the future of electronic recordkeeping in the federal government. Weissman received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is a former Fulbright Scholar. | 