Board of Directors' Bios
Executive Bios | Management Bios
Paul A. Biddelman, Director
Paul A. Biddelman is President of Hanseatic Corporation, a private investment firm with overall assets under management exceeding $300 million. He joined the firm as principal in 1992 to strengthen private equity investments. Prior to joining Hanseatic and since 1982, he was Managing Director in Corporate Finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., where he had responsibility for the merchant banking portfolio and the real estate investment product. His prior investment banking and corporate finance experience included stays with Kuhn Loeb & Co (Lehman Bros.) and Oppenheimer & Co. Earlier in his career he practiced corporate and securities law at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. His Directorships include SystemOne Technologies Inc., ApplyYourself, Inc., HigherOne, Inc. and DocuSys, Inc. His academic background includes a B.S. from Lehigh University, a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School and a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Ennius E. Bergsma, Director
Ennius Bergsma helps establish Passlogix’s overall strategic direction and priorities. He joined Passlogix in 2000, but has been involved with Passlogix since its inception as both an investor and advisor.
In his 25 years at McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he was Senior Director, Mr. Bergsma founded and led the Firm’s global Corporate Finance Practice and was Co-Founder and Co-Leader of McKinsey’s E-Commerce Practice. He initiated McKinsey’s Marketing Sciences Practice, led the effort that synthesized McKinsey’s approach to Business Strategy, was a leader of McKinsey’s Consumer and Telecommunications sectors and was core member of the McKinsey Strategy Initiative that crafted the Firm’s priorities. Mr. Bergsma’s client service has focused on the development of new businesses in e-commerce, financial services, consumer goods and telecommunications. He led numerous teams creating new businesses, with values ranging from $500 million to $5 billion. Mr. Bergsma is still associated with the Firm as member of the McKinsey Advisory Council.
He is Chairman of the Netherland-America Foundation, Trustee of the Hewitt School, Honorary Board Member, past Chair and President of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York and past member of Harvard Business School’s Executive Council. Mr. Bergsma holds a Candidate and Masters Degree with distinction in Corporate and Commercial Law from the University of Leiden in The Netherlands, and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School.
R. Bradford Burnham, Director
R. Bradford Burnham is a “Managing General Partner of Union Square Ventures”. Prior to forming Union Square Ventures, he was a general partner at AT&T Ventures. Earlier in his career, Brad was the founder and CEO of the software company, Echo Logic. Brad began his career with AT&T, where he held a variety of sales and marketing positions, primarily in their computer systems group. He is currently a director of several privately held companies. Brad holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University.
Gregory Arnold, Director
Gregory Arnold is one of the Passlogix’s co-founders and serves on the Board of Directors. Prior to co-founding Passlogix, Mr. Arnold worked with large corporations, start-ups and investors to create technology-based businesses. Among Mr. Arnold’s clients were Viacom Interactive Services, the new technology unit of Viacom International, Inc. He was responsible for a joint venture with a major online service and evaluated numerous Internet technologies and services. Mr. Arnold also Co-Founded Simon & Schuster Online, the online technology division of publisher Simon & Schuster, Inc., where he had responsibilities for business development, marketing, strategic planning and new technologies. He was previously an investment banker for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co., specializing in Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions. Mr. Arnold earned an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from the University of California at San Diego.
