MiserWare

Advisory Board

• Hooks Johnston, Valhalla Partners
• Tom Weithman, Center for Innovative Technology
• Alan Wade, D'Arch Angels

Hooks Johnston 
General Partner
Valhalla Partners

Hooks Johnston has had success as both an operating executive and as a venture capital investor. He has twenty years of experience in senior leadership roles at venture capital firms and technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Prior to founding Valhalla Partners, Mr. Johnston was a Managing Director at FBR Technology Venture Partners ("FBRTVP"). The FBRTVP funds produced seven IPOs, including webMethods, the most successful software IPO in history.

Mr. Johnston is on the boards of Exchange Solutions, Inc., Flat World Knowledge, KZO Innovations, Persystent Technologies, SEPATON, Inc., and Verical, Inc. He also led Valhalla's investments in MiserWare and ServiceBench (sold to N.E.W.). He is currently a board member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Five Talents International, and serves on the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission.

Prior to joining FBRTVP, Mr. Johnston was the President and Chief Operating Officer of The Descartes Systems Group, a leading supply chain software company ("Descartes"). Mr. Johnston helped take Descartes public in 1997. Prior to his role at Descartes, Mr. Johnston was President and Chief Executive Officer at Roadshow International, a transportation and logistics software company. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Johnston was the Chief Operating Officer of ALG, Inc., a design, pre-press and systems integration company. Prior to ALG, Inc., Mr. Johnston spent five years at Systems Center, Inc., a systems and network management software company.

Mr. Johnston received a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Brown University.

Past investments include Riverbed Technologies (sold to Aether Systems), InforMax (IPO, then sold to Invitrogen), and Global Logistics (sold to Oracle).

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Tom Weithman 
Vice President Entrepreneurship and Investment Services
Center for Innovative Technologies

Tom Weithman is Vice President of Entrepreneurship and Investment Services at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. In this capacity, Mr. Weithman oversees CIT's initiatives in assisting Virginia companies in obtaining both federal and private funding to launch and develop their early stage technology businesses. Mr. Weithman also manages CIT's Growth Acceleration Program (GAP) fund, through which makes pre-seed and seed-level investments in high-potential technology start-ups.

Before his appointment as Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Investment Services, Tom Weithman served as CIT's Director for Entrepreneurship Programs. In this capacity, Mr. Weithman advised technology companies on a variety of issues pertaining to business development and technology commercialization. Prior to joining CIT, Mr. Weithman served for three years as Business Development Manager for Hughes Electronics with responsibility for new product and services sales generation, market research and a variety of issues germane to corporate diversification into the information systems business. Before joining Hughes, Mr. Weithman held a series of marketing and program management positions with IBM.

Mr. Weithman's educational background includes a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA from Michigan State University and a Master's degree in public policy from Harvard University.

Mr. Weithman has served as a Visiting Fellow of Georgetown University's Public Policy Program and in 1997 was appointed to ISAC-13, a private sector advisory panel to the International Trade Administration and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Mr. Weithman's non-profit involvements include service as Chairman of the Alumni Association of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and President of Four Hundred Friends, Inc.

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Alan Wade 
D'Arch Angels

Alan Wade retired from federal service in 2005 after a thirty-five-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency. He retired as the Chief Information Officer, a position he held since 2001.

Early assignments at CIA involved technical programs in the United States and overseas, principally in the areas of telecommunications and technical security. The last fifteen years of his career involved a series of executive positions, including the Director of Communications, Director of Security, and Chief Information Officer. While the CIO, Mr. Wade was dual-hatted as the CIO for the United States intelligence community.

During his career, Mr. Wade’s contributions were recognized several times. He received the Meritorious and Distinguished Officer designations, and is a recipient of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal and the Director of Central Intelligence’s Director’s Medal.

Mr. Wade graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1973, receiving a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. In 1978, he received his master’s in electrical engineering from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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