Dennis Cagan has been in the high technology industry as an active and successful entrepreneur for 40 years, having founded over a dozen different companies. Dennis has been an investor and professional board member for over 30 years.

Since May, 2006 Dennis has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of TWL Corporation (TWLP.OB) and its subsidiary TWL Knowledge Group, Inc., both based in Carrollton, Texas. TWL is a leading provider of integrated learning solutions for compliance, safety, emergency preparedness, continuing education and skill development in the workplace. Since 1986, TWL Knowledge Group has met the training and education needs of more than eight million professionals in the industrial, healthcare, fire and emergency, government, law enforcement and private security markets. The company produces and delivers education and workplace skills training content to organizations via global satellite television, the Internet and traditional media such as DVD, CD-ROM and videotape.
Prior to running TWL Dennis was the founder, Chairman and CEO of the Santa Barbara Technology Group, LLC, Dennis continues to oversee all activities including monitoring portfolio investments, consulting to early-stage technology companies, and selecting new investments. Santa Barbara Technology Group, LLC is a private investment and consulting firm engaged primarily in working with, and investing in early-stage technology companies. The firm has provided world-class management assistance, strategic guidance, and valuable connections for entrepreneurs. They provide young companies access to financing and operational and technological infrastructure. The portfolio currently numbers 17 companies.

Dennis is a nationally recognized authority on information technology, including: Internet, software, hardware, and communications, in the disciplines of strategy, sales, marketing, services, and distribution channels. He has authored dozens of articles and has spoken widely at industry conferences and to paying corporate audiences such as Microsoft.

Among the many companies that Dennis has been directly involved with as an investor and/or board member include technology enterprises like Wavefront Technologies, Software.com, Somera Communications, Commission Junction, Bargain Network, InTouch Health, and Blue Casa Communications. Dennis attended the University of California at Los Angeles where he majored in economics. He has an honorable discharge from the USMC.

Dennis’ non-profit Boards have included: Santa Barbara County’s United Way, California Coast Venture Forum, South Coast Business & Technology Awards Committee, and several other local non-profit organizations. He is a member of UCSB’s Lancaster Society, Santa Barbara City College President’s Council, Santa Barbara County’s United Way CEO Club, and United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society.

Dennis has been an investor, professional board member (over 43 boards) and consultant for over 30 years.  As the founder, Chairman and CEO of the Santa Barbara Technology Group, LLC, Dennis oversees all activities including monitoring portfolio investments, consulting to early-stage technology companies, and selecting new investments.

In 1979 Dennis was the keynote speaker at the first COMDEX Show, in Las Vegas.  In 1976 he founded the David Jamison Carlyle Corp., one of the country’s largest distributors of computer peripherals, and took it public in 1981.  Between 1981 and 2000 Dennis served as an investor and management consultant.  Among the companies he has been involved with have been some of Santa Barbara’s best-known technology enterprises including Wavefront Technologies (then Alias/Wavefront - NASDAQ, acquired by SGI), Software.com (NASDAQ, merged with Phone.com, now OpenWave: OPWV), Somera Communications (SMRA, founding investor only), Supply Solution, and Commission Junction (acquired by VLCK). 

Dennis was previously on the board of a number of other public technology firms including The David Jamison Carlyle Corp. (he was the founder), ISOCOR (acquired by Critical Path: CPTH), MessageMedia, Inc. (acquired by DoubleClick: DCLK, he was the interim CEO), Great Bear Technologies, StarPress and Sanctuary Woods Multimedia.  The Santa Barbara companies he has been on the Board and/or very involved with have been some of the area’s most successful technology enterprises including Wavefront Technologies (then Alias/Wavefront - NASDAQ, original Board member, acquired by Silicon Graphics), Software.com (original Board member, NASDAQ, merged with Phone.com, now OpenWave: OPWV), Somera Communications (founding investor only, SMRA), Supply Solution (original Board member), Commission Junction (original Santa Barbara Board member, acquired by VLCK); Bargain Network (acquired by VTRU);  InTouch Technologies (first investor and Board member); Blue Casa Communication, TrustOn, Noza and Nutricate.

Dennis is currently on six Boards of Directors: Acorn Technologies, Inc. (he is the co-founder and former Chairman: Acorn was originally founded in SB), Pacific Palisades; InQ, Inc. (Chairman: he was the first outside director and investor), Agoura Hills; Nutricate Corp., Santa Barbara (Chairman: the only outside director); Truston, Inc. (ScamSafe), Santa Barbara (Chairman and co-founding director); Noza, LLC, Goleta (Chairman); and TWL Corporation (TWLP.OB)

Dennis, 62 years old, is a native Californian, and attended the University of California at Los Angeles where he majored in economics.  He has an honorable discharge from the USMC.  Dennis and his wife Angelia have four daughters and live in the Dallas area.

Mr. Brekka founded Dolphin in 1998. Mr. Brekka is Chairman of the board of Gomez, Inc. and a board member of Enpocket, Inc., Epic Cycle Interactive, The Guild, InQ, Island Data Corportion, and SeaPass Solutions Inc., which are Dolphin portfolio companies. Mr. Brekka has specialized in software as a service, mobile content, communication services, and internet investing for nearly 15 years.

Prior to founding Dolphin, Mr. Brekka was a Managing Director of CIBC's private equity investment unit and the President of CIBC's U.S. private equity investment subsidiaries. On behalf of CIBC, he served as a director on the board of 10 communications companies. Representative investments included Telesystems International Wireless, Orion Network Systems, Transit Communications and OneComm Communications. Prior to joining CIBC, Mr. Brekka was with Chase Capital and led the investments in Nextel and DisCom Communications. Prior to becoming a private equity investor, Mr. Brekka was an account officer at Swiss Bank Corporation from 1984 until 1987.

Mr. Brekka holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Southern California and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.

Jay has been a General Partner of Hudson Ventures since 1996. He was the founder of OPCENTER, LLC, a privately held company that provided help desk and computer operations services, and the founder and Chairman of Lexstra PLC, a London based consulting company. From 1990 through 1994, Jay served as Chairman and CEO of Image Business Systems Corp. a company that provided document management and workflow software. In 1989, he founded Zeitech, Inc., a company which provided computer implementation professionals through its five national offices.

Under Jay's direction, Zeitech appeared twice on Inc. Magazine's 500 List of America's fastest growing companies and was sold in January 1996 to Career Horizons, Inc. In 1986 Jay purchased Money Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) from Ziff-Davis. MMS sold software and services to banks and broker-dealers for securities trading activities. In 1989 MMS was sold to Sungard Inc. From 1968 to 1985, Jay was Chairman and CEO of Software Design Associates, a systems development firm that grew to 600 people, which was sold to AGS Computers Inc.

Currently, Mr. Goldberg serves on the Boards of several of Hudson's portfolio companies, including: MTS, X + 1, GlobalServe, inQ and The Arbitrage Fund.   He is the past Chairman of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation.  Mr. Goldberg is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the faculty of Arts and Sciences of New York University, and is a Trustee of the Charles Babbage Foundation.

Jay, an avid golfer, holds a B. A. degree from New York University and resides in New York City with his family.

Prior to founding Emergence, Jason spent a decade in the venture business as a General Partner with U.S. Venture Partners and as a Charter Class member of the Kauffman Fellows Program with Venrock Associates, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. In addition to his venture capital experience, Jason brings a mix of operating experience, strategic consulting and entrepreneurial research to Emergence. Earlier in his career, Jason served as VP of Muzertechnika, the largest private computer and telecommunications company in Eastern Europe at the time. Prior to this, he served as a strategic consultant with Bain & Company in Boston and San Francisco and with the investment firm of Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe in New York. Jason was also selected as the Charles Williams Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Business for post-graduate research in Entrepreneurship and Finance.

Jason is Chairman of the Board of the Center for Venture Education and the Kauffman Fellows Program, the leading educational fellowship in venture capital. Jason also serves on the Advisory Board of Arthur Rock Center of Entrepreneurship at Harvard and on the Steering Committee of the West Coast Research Center. Jason has led early-stage venture investments in several pubic companies such as DoubleClick (DCLK), aQuantive (AQNT), Visual Networks (VNWK), and Ask Jeeves (ASK) and private companies such as Megapath Networks, Goodmail Systems, Adapt Technologies , and SuccessFactors.

Jason graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard with Distinction. Jason is a Founding Board member of Endeavor, a non-profit serving the needs of entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Jason is married with two children. The most unique trivia about Jason is that he is a twin married to a twin. Jason can be reached at jgreen@emcap.com. Jason's executive assistant is Debra Lunderman and can be reached at dlunderman@emcap.com.

Bernard is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the company. Upon his appointment as new CEO of inQ in early 2005, he developed a new vision of assisting large companies to put sales people on their websites to recreate great in-store experiences online and increase ecommerce revenue.

In 2005 he reshaped the company to execute on that vision and built a team of senior executives with experience in selling and delivering BPO and technology solutions to Fortune 1000 companies, designing online user experiences, managing sales oriented contact centers, and developing cutting edge web technologies.

Bernard brings new business formation, retail and consumer technology experience as founding CEO of two corporate retail ventures (The Disney Store France and Office Depot France), and of two US based venture backed ecommerce and technology ventures (Bizbuyer.com and Evolution Robotics). He was also a General Manager with CitySearch, an IAC company, a marketing executive with L'Oreal and a consultant with Bain & Company.

Bernard holds an MBA with Distinctions from Harvard Business School and a BA in Business Administration from HEC, Paris , France . He lives in Southern California with his wife, two daughters and two sons.

Vincent is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Partech International. His investment experience of more than 20 years in information technologies spans over multiple sectors: computer systems, CAD/CAE, business intelligence, and enterprise software. Vincent’s prior investments include Business Objects (BOBJ) and Informatica (INFA).

Prior to co-founding Partech International in 1982, Vincent worked for the investment arm of Banque Paribas, the French merchant bank. He started his career in the French public sector, including the Ministry of Industry’s agency for technology innovation and entrepreneurship.

Vincent sits on the boards of IDesia, inQ, InQuira, Quaris and Wambo (formerly Perenety).

He holds an MS in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MS in engineering from Ecole Polytechnique.