Mick founded Kiva Systems in January 2003 after spending thirteen years in high tech product development, manufacturing, operations and marketing. Prior to Kiva, Mick worked on a business process team at Webvan designing a next generation distribution strategy for grocery home delivery, during which he experienced first-hand the high cost of order fulfillment and the inflexibility of existing material handling systems. Prior to joining Webvan, Mick spent three years in product marketing at Apple Computer as a Product Manager where he helped move many new technologies into the standard desktop platform including FireWire, DVD, Fast Ethernet, and 3D graphics acceleration. He began his career at Motorola, where he spent seven years working as both a Mechanical and a Manufacturing Engineer. In 2008 Mick was a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the New England region, and in 2009 under Mick’s leadership Kiva was ranked #6 on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in America. Mick holds five United States technology patents. He earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

Ajay Agarwal
Managing Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Ajay joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Ajay spent over seven years as a senior executive at Trilogy Software, a privately held enterprise software company based in Austin, Texas. As head of sales and marketing Ajay grew Trilogy’s annual revenues to $300 million and led Trilogy’s product expansion into new areas such as enterprise pricing and enterprise incentive management. Prior to Trilogy, Ajay was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company. Ajay holds a patent for the "Method and Apparatus of Configuration Solutions.” He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dave was a member of the leadership team of FreeMarkets, Inc., an early provider of internet deployed software and services for automating the sourcing processes of Global 1000 companies. As the Chief Operating Officer of FreeMarkets, Dave managed all operations during the company’s growth from $8 million to almost $200 million of revenue and to over 1,200 global employees. Dave was a key member of the team that brought the company public. Prior to FreeMarkets, Dave served in management roles at Dole Fresh Fruit International and Union Carbide Corporation. He also completed two active duty tours of duty as an officer in the United States Army Reserve. His pioneering work on e-commerce methods and inventions has resulted in eleven U.S. patents. Dave earned a B.S. with high distinction in chemical and petroleum refining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.S. in chemical engineering from West Virginia College of Graduate Studies (now Marshall University). Dave received his M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Stephen Kaufman
Retired Chairman and CEO, Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Steve has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2001. He teaches in both the MBA program and various Executive Education programs. He is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arrow Electronics. Under his leadership Arrow grew from a $500 million USA centric corporation to a $12 billion global enterprise. In 2005, Electronics Business magazine named Steve one of the ten most influential executives in the electronics industry over the past 25 years. Prior to joining Arrow, he served in executive capacities with Midland-Ross Corporation and was a partner at the international management consulting firm, McKinsey and Company. In addition to Kiva, Steve currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Harris Corporation, KLA-Tencor and Thermo Fisher Scientific. He also serves on the Boards of several philanthropic and arts organizations in Boston. Steve earned his B.S. degree in economics and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He received an honorary Doctorate Degree from Dowling College and was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from the Harvard Business School.

Harry Mankodi
Retired Corporate Vice President, Motorola, Inc.

Harry began his career at Motorola in 1968 as an Operations Research and IT Analyst and retired in 2003 as an Elected Officer. During this period, Motorola grew from a US communications equipment company with $600M in sales to a global leader in wireless communications, semiconductor, automotive and consumer electronics with over $40B in sales. Harry’s role in this transformation included leading operations and business units in the areas of two-way communications, paging, microelectronics and parts/service/systems integration and aftermarket products. These roles included P&L responsibilities of over $2B, total combined staffing of over 9,000 people and geographical reach covering much of Asia, Europe and the US. Harry currently serves as an advisor and investor to early stage technology companies. He earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the Sardar Vallabhbhai University in India and a Masters of Science in systems engineering from the University of Iowa.