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Mike Zak joined Charles River in 1991 and has served as the principal sponsor for investments in a number of information technology markets and technologies, including semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, vertical market software and networking software. Examples of past investments include Agile Networks (acquired by Lucent in 1996), American Internet (acquired by Cisco in 1998), CIENA Corporation (IPO in 1997), CPort Corporation (acquired by Motorola in 2000) and ON Technology Corporation (IPO in 1995, acquired by Symantec in 2003) and Broadbus Technologies (video on demand). Zak graduated from the College of Engineering at Cornell University in 1975. After spending four years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, he graduated from Harvard Business School in 1981. During the next ten years, he worked at Motorola and at McKinsey & Company. He was also a co-founder at Concord Communications, then a venture-capital backed supplier of software for network monitoring and analysis, where he served in several executive roles. Zak is active in local civic, conservation and church affairs and is a member of the Board of Directors of Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. | 