ChoiceStream

Prior to founding ChoiceStream, Steve Johnson was Vice President of America Online’s Software and Technology Development division. While at AOL, Steve led the development of AOL 4.0, You’ve Got Pictures™, as well as all telephony and broadcast products. At AOL, Steve was also responsible for media technology research, development, and acquisition. In this role, he served as principal technology negotiator in AOL’s 1998 acquisition of Netscape and was the technology lead on the transition team of Netscape into AOL and the formation of the Sun-AOL iPlanet strategic alliance.

In 1991, Steve was founder and co-CEO of Johnson-Grace Company, a company specializing in image, sound and video compression technology, which was purchased by America Online, Inc. in 1996. He holds a US patent, issued in 1999, for the image compression technology currently used on the America Online service. Steve graduated from the University of Southern California in 1980 with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and received a Masters degree from Harvard University in 1985 where he continued in Harvard’s doctoral program until 1990

Michael Strickman is ChoiceStream’s co-founder and head of the engineering and product development teams. Mike was co-founder and CEO of the companies that developed the BRIEF™ editor (now owned by Borland) and TrackRecord™ project/defect tracking tool (now owned by Compuware/NuMega). Both tools were the leaders in their respective markets, with over 150,000 licenses sold. Before joining ChoiceStream, Mike worked at Compuware Corporation (NuMega Lab), which acquired TrackRecord in 1998. He received an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science with honors, magna cum laude, in 1983.

Since joining ChoiceStream in 2002, Doug Feick has served in key positions including Senior Vice President of Corporate Develop ment and Operations as well as a member of the Board of Directors. Currently, Doug is responsible for all aspects of ChoiceStream’s business and legal affairs.

Prior to joining ChoiceStream, Doug was Vice President, Corporate Development for Yahoo! Inc where he was responsible for managing the company’s domestic and international corporate development activities, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures. Doug was also Associate General Counsel, International for Yahoo!, where he managed Yahoo!’s international legal group. From 1991 to 1997, he practiced corporate law in California focusing on corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions and technology licensing law for emerging and high tech companies. Doug received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Miami University and his law degree from the University of Southern California.

As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Joel Cutler invests in both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest include: Internet and new media; financial services; consumer services and e-commerce; and travel.

Prior to co-founding General Catalyst Partners, Joel co-founded and operated numerous businesses focused on leveraging applied technology and high standards of customer care for the travel, information services, specialty retail, consumer direct marketing, and payment processing industries. These businesses include: National Leisure Group, one of the largest leisure travel technology and distribution companies in the U.S.; Retail Growth ATM Systems (sold to PNC Bank), a national ATM and interactive network provider; and Starboard Cruise Services (sold to LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Inc.), the operator of more than 300 duty-free retail stores on 100 cruise ships and owner of the Miami and Ft. Lauderdale Airport duty-free stores, where Joel served as Chairman and CEO. He is a graduate of Colby College and Boston College Law School.

Greg Sands focuses on software, internet services, and advertising, marketing and media technologies and services across channels. Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 1998 from Netscape Communications. As the company’s original product manager, he co-authored the company’s original business plan and launched and shipped its initial products, working closely with both engineering and sales. He then created and led the SuiteSpot business unit, growing it from $0 to $150M. He also worked previously at Cisco Systems, where he was the architect of a global channel management plan and at Corporate Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting), where he consulted to start-ups and Fortune 500 companies on product development and marketing strategies.

Greg is a trustee of the Stanford University DAPER Fund and is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Stanford Business School Trust. He earned an AB in government from Harvard College in 1989 and received an MBA at Stanford in 1994.