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Matt Calkins is founder and CEO of Appian. Matt grew Appian from a startup in his basement to the most successful software IPO of 2017 with just $10 million of outside capital. He has served on the board for the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Virginia Public Access Project and the Sorensen Institute. Matt was top Economics graduate of his class at Dartmouth. He is the author of several award-winning board games, and is frequently a top finisher at the World Boardgaming Championships.

Dirk brings 20+ years of successful product development & commercialization experience in the medical device and biotechnology fields to Advanced Catheter Therapies. Dirk is president of Device Technologies, Inc. a medical device design consultancy and incubator. Since the company’s inception in 2001, he has helped numerous early-stage medical technology companies with their product development activities. His prior experience includes serving as staff engineer and patent officer with the Peripheral Technologies Division of C.R. Bard, where he led multi-disciplinary teams developing products for the interventional radiology & peripheral vascular markets, and with Sepracor, Inc. developing manufacturing of their membrane bioreactor program. Dirk holds and has pending numerous U.S. patents in the fields of peripheral vascular, cardiology, biopsy, orthopedics and other minimally invasive and catheter-based technologies. Dirk is a graduate of Boston’s Wentworth Institute of Technology, with degrees in both Mechanical Design and Management Engineering.

Leigh Michl has been the CEO of Ultimus since 2009 and a director since 2007. Prior to Ultimus, Leigh spent 24 years in the venture capital and private equity industry where he focused on the information technology and technology-enabled business services markets. He was a founder and Managing Director of Ascent Venture Partners and a Partner at Advent International. Leigh also held audit and business analysis positions at The Pioneer Group, Inc. and completed General Electric Company’s Financial Management Program. He had been Chairman of the Mad River Glen Cooperative and a member of the President’s Advisory Committee and Investment Committee of the Berklee College of Music. Leigh holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Bates College and a master's degree in finance from Boston College.