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Jim Murray is the Founder and Managing Director of Court Square Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in telecommunications, information technology and media technology investments. Court Square Ventures, Fund II, its current fund, manages some $120M on behalf of major institutional investors. He was a founder and former Chairman of Columbia Capital, a venture capital firm that now manages some $2 billion in private equity. He has been a principal in firms specializing in investment banking and venture capital since 1982.He is a former Director of Saville Systems Inc. (merged with ADC Corp. -- NASDAQ "ADCT"). He is Founder/Director of Merrick Tower Corporation and Community Wireless Structures LLC. He is also a Director of Mintera, Corp., Labrador Communications and the Mustique Company, inter alia.He is the author of Wireless Nation , The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution in America (Perseus Books, 2001 and 2002), selected by Booklist as one of the "top ten" business books of 2001.He serves as Vice Chairman of the Virginia Business Higher Education Council and serves as Chairman of the Virginia Governor's Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. He has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School , the Darden Graduate Business School and the McIntyre School of Commerce at the University of Virginia .He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia , his J.D. from Marshall-Wythe School of Law at The College of William and Mary and an honorary Doctor of Laws from The College of William and Mary. From 1991 through 1996, by appointment of the Governor of Virginia, Mr. Murray served on the Board of Visitors of The College of William and Mary and was elected Rector (Chairman) of that Board. | 