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Gene Schleppenbach
( Principal, Miles & Stockbridge )

Bio

Gene Schleppenbach represents early-stage to mature companies in diverse industries concerning a variety of corporate, high-tech and intellectual property matters. His corporate experience includes representing clients on formation issues, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, securities regulation issues, partnership and LLC matters, joint ventures, commercial contracts, debt and equity financings, including venture financings, employee stock option plans and executive compensation agreements. Mr. Schleppenbach also counsels his clients on alternative sources of financing, including federal grant programs (e.g., SBIR, STTR, ATP), federal and state Gap funding programs and government sponsored venture funds. Mr. Schleppenbach advises clients on a variety of government contract/procurement issues and has represented clients on numerous mergers and acquisitions of government contractors, including conducting due diligence, negotiating and drafting transaction documents, arranging for novation of contracts and obtaining regulatory approvals. His experience includes advising multi-national domestic and foreign companies through the various statutes and regulations that impact foreign investment in the United States. He also counsels clients on prime and subcontracts, teaming agreements and joint ventures. Mr. Schleppenbach also represents clients on a wide range of high-tech and intellectual property matters, including: software development, licensing, support/maintenance and distribution (VAR and re-seller) agreements; systems integration agreements; outsourcing agreements; source code escrow agreements; protection of intellectual property, including copyright, trademark, service mark, trade secret, government rights-in-data-clause issues; legal and product development strategy; and Internet issues, particularly those related to Website development agreements, joint marketing agreements, linking agreements, content licenses, domain name registration/infringement and NAP site access agreements.


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Mark A. Catan
( Principal, Miles & Stockbridge )

Bio

Mark A. Catan is a principal in the Tysons Corner office of Miles & Stockbridge P.C. Mr. Catan’s practice includes strategic counseling, patent validity and infringement opinions, patent prosecution, IP transactions, and IP due diligence in support of mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Catan possesses broad industry and legal experience with expertise in the electrical, computer, and mechanical areas. His education emphasized signal processing and fluid mechanics. His industry background, which included 6 years as a Principal Investigator at Brookhaven National Lab, was in experimental R&D, primarily relating to alternative energy and energy recovery. Before joining Miles & Stockbridge, Mr. Catan was with the D.C. office of Proskauer Rose LLP and before that, with Lyon & Lyon in White Plains, NY.




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Mark A. Frantz
( General Partner, RedShift Ventures )

Bio

Mark is focused on software and media investments for RedShift Ventures and currently serves on the Board of Directors at portfolio companies Intelliworks, Telarix and TerraGo. Mr. Frantz also serves on the Board of Directors at ODIN Technologies, the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the Commonwealth of Virginia's Research & Technology Advisory Council (VRTAC) and the Business Alliance of George Mason University. Mark has also been a personal investor/advisor to New Media Strategies (acq. by Meredith Corp., NYSE - “MDP”), Sourcefire (Nasdaq – “FIRE”) and Luna Innovations (Nasdaq - "LUNA"). Mr. Frantz was previously the Managing General Partner of In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital affiliate of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Prior to that, Mark was with Carlyle Venture Partners, where he worked with Blackboard (Nasdaq - "BBBB"), Imagitas (acq. by Pitney Bowes, NYSE -"PBI"), ISR Solutions (acq. by Stanley Works, NYSE - "SWK"). Mr. Frantz joined Carlyle from Redleaf Ventures, where he worked with various portfolio companies including Lightningcast (acq. by AOL TimeWarner, NYSE - "TWX"). Prior to Redleaf, he was the Associate to the Senior Chairman of Alex. Brown and he worked extensively with the Technology and Internet groups. Mark has also served as the Associate Director of The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs under President George H. W. Bush and as the economic and technology policy advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, where he developed the idea for an early-stage venture capital fund that became PA Early Stage Partners. Mr. Frantz is actively involved in the community, having served as the Co-Chair of the Virginia Innovation Showcase and the Greater Washington Board of Trade Technology Transfer Task Force, as a member of the Advisory Committee on Technology Transfer to the Virginia Joint Commission on Technology & Science, the “Accelerating Innovation/Tech Transfer” Steering Committee, the "Technology Transfer in the Mid-Atlantic" Steering Committee, the Chairman of the Northern Virginia Technology Council's Private Equity Committee and Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association ("MAVA"). Mark holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. degree from Allegheny College. Mr. Frantz was an NCAA All-American swimmer at Allegheny and has qualified for the USA Triathlon National Championship nine times.




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