Dave Barrett

Who is Dave Barrett?

Dave joined Polaris Venture Partners after a 22-year operating career. As director, chief operating officer, senior vice president and general manager of four publicly-held software and services leaders during their periods of highest growth, he built teams whichachieved dominant market share and extraordinary enterprisevalue. His leadership experiences included consistent successes in development of executive teams,product evolutionand revenueengines, and over 20 acquisitions/mergers.

Prior to joining Polaris, through March 2000, Dave served as chief operating officer of Calico Commerce. During his tenure, the company evolved from venture-backed startup to a $45M, publicly-held corporation. His team helped to pioneer the e-business market, and with market value in excess of $3 billion, Calico was one of the top-performing IPOs of 1999 and the 6th most successful offering in the history of NASDAQ.

Before that, he served as senior vice president of worldwide operations forPure Atria Software Corporation; a $150 million publicly-operated market leader in software development automation,continuing in that role after the company was acquired byRational Software Corporation for $1 billion in 1997. Its products served as a cornerstone for Rational’s success andits subsequent acquisition by IBM in 2003, where they continue to play an industry-leadingrole.

Before Rational, Dave spent twelve years with Lotus Development Corporation, a $1 billion pioneer in enterprise software. Among many executive roles, he served as vice president of field sales and services. In that position, he led the build-out of the company’s global sales services effort, which served as an industry model and helped to establish Lotus and its flagship Notesproduct as a market-defining standard.Prior, he had also served as general manager of worldwide federal systems, which during his tenure, was the fastest growing division in the company. Lotuswasacquired byIBM in 1995 for $3.5 billion, the largestmerger in software industry history up to that point in time.

Boards:Dave represents Polaris on the boards of 170 Systems,Confluence,Dataupia,Imprivata,Integrian,LogMeIn, andmValentand is a past board member ofCentra Software(NASDAQ: CTRA) andArchivas(acquired by Hitachi Data Systems). He serves on the Microsoft Venture Capital Advisory Board and on the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Leadership Council.

Education:Dave holds a B.S. from The University of Rhode Island.