NetProspex Investors

Richard Tahta
Richard Tahta is Co-Founder of Episode 1 Partners, a venture capital firm managing the $100M Chase Episode 1 fund, which invested in early stage Internet and technology companies. Prior to that Richard was Director of Corporate Development for Amazon.com in Europe. Richard has founded and sold several companies including ARK information which sold to Thomson in 1992, Webtrack which merged with Jupiter in 1998 and Bookpages which sold to Amazon in 1998. richard has an MBA from Columbia and an undergraduate degree from Oxford University.

Simon Murdoch
Simon Murdoch has a first class degree from Cambridge University and a PhD in Computer Science. In 1996, Simon founded Bookpages to sell books on the Internet and sold the company in early 1998 to Amazon.com. Simon subsequently became Managing Director of Amazon.co.uk, launching the service in October 1998 and was appointed VP Europe for AMazon.com. Simon co-founded Episode 1 Partners, a venture capital firm managing the $100M Chase Episode 1 fund, which invested in early stage Internet and technology companies. Simon has been a successful early stage technology investor and is considered one of the UK's leading Internet Entrepreneurs.

Gary Mueller
Gary Mueller is founder and Chairman of ISI Emerging Markets, one of the most widely-used-on-line business information service of emerging markets. In 1999, Euromoney Institutional Investor, purchased ISI and the company operates as an independent subsidiary. In June 2000, Mr. Mueller was appointed to the parent company's Board of Directors. Mr. Mueller is also a Chairman of Euromoney subsidiary, Information Management Network and runs Euroweek and structured Finance International, two international finance publications. Prior to starting ISI, Mr. Mueller did research at Harvard University on economic and democratic reform in the former Soviet bloc, and then worked for KPMG's privatization group in Poland. Mr. Mueller serves on the Board of Directors of Endeavor, a non-profit organization suporting entrepreneurship in emerging markets, and the Board of Advisors of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

Roland Beaulieu
Roland Beaulieu has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He served as Chief Operating Officer of CCBN and was also the head of CCBN's Institutional Management Group, which successfully launched "StreetEvents," a corporate reporting tool which became the defacto standard of Wall Street institutions. Before his tenure at CCBN, Roland spent 13 years in a variety of positions at Thomson Financial. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Trading Service Division, and played a key role as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in building the technology behind Thomson's First Call. Most recently, Roland was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at GrandBanks Capital and formerly the Chief Executive Officer of NewRiver, Inc.