Dave Barrett,
General Partner with Polaris Venture Partners

Dave is a general partner in the Boston office of Polaris Venture Partners. He joined Polaris in May 2000. Dave focuses on investment opportunities in information technology.

Experience:

Dave joined Polaris Venture Partners after a 22-year career of success as an operating executive. As an officer and director of category-leading software and service delivery companies during their periods of highest growth, he built and led teams which consistently achieved market leadership and enterprise value. His executive experiences included broad successes in the development of operating teams, product development and revenue engines, as well as over 20 acquisitions and mergers.

Prior to joining Polaris, Dave served as a director, chief operating officer, general manager and vice president of three publicly-held companies. Through March 2000, Dave served as chief operating officer of Calico Commerce. During his tenure, the company evolved from venture-backed startup through ten-fold revenue growth to become a $45M publicly-held corporation. His team helped to pioneer the e-business market, and with market value of over $3 billion, was one of the top-performing Initial Public Offerings of 1999.

Prior, Dave served as senior vice president of worldwide operations for Pure Atria Software Corporation, a $150 million revenue, publicly-held market leader in software development automation, continuing in that role after the company was acquired by Rational Software Corporation for $1 billion in 1997. Its products served as a cornerstone for Rational's success and its subsequent acquisition by IBM in 2003, where, in turn, they continue to play an industry-leading role.

Before Rational, Dave spent twelve years with Lotus Development Corporation, a $1 billion revenue, publicly-held pioneer in enterprise software, where among many executive roles, he served as vice president of field sales and services. In that position, he led the build-out of the company's global sales & services effort, which helped to establish Lotus and its flagship Notes product as an industry-defining software standard. Prior, he had also served as general manager of worldwide federal systems, which during his tenure, was the fastest growing division in the company. Lotus was acquired by IBM in 1995 for $3.5 billion, the largest merger in the software industry up to that point in time.

Boards:

Dave represents Polaris on the boards of 170 Systems, Archivas, Confluence, Dataupia, Imprivata, Integrian, LogMeIn, and mValent. He has also served in the past on the board of Centra Software (NASDAQ: CTRA) and is a member of Microsoft's Venture Capital Advisory Board.

Education:

Dave holds a B.S. in marketing management from the University of Rhode Island.