Echopass Corp.

John Balen joined Canaan Partners in 1995, and serves as General Partner in the firm's Menlo Park, California office. He is primarily focused on investments in information technology companies. Prior to joining Canaan, John served as a Managing Director of Horsley Bridge Partners, a multi-billion dollar private equity investment firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. During his nine-year tenure at Horsley Bridge Partners, he was responsible for a wide spectrum of investments in high technology companies, venture capital partnerships and buyout partnerships. Earlier in his career, he was a sales applications engineer at Codenoll Technology Corporation, a fiber communications start-up, and an engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. John received a BS in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell University. He currently serves on the boards of Blurb, Casabi, Command Audio, Dexterra, Echopass, Everdream, ID Analytics, Silicon Optix, and Soasta. He previously served on the boards of Commerce One, Intraware and Rightpoint, which was acquired by Epiphany.

David Holeman is responsible for all Echopass Operations, Customer Support , Professional Services and Product Development teams, as well as customer implementations and development of Echopass technologies. Holeman's career experience over the past 22 years includes holding CIO and COO positions in both small and large organizations spanning call centers, data centers, networks and enterprise software applications. Prior to Echopass, Holeman was the CIO for Sentient Jet, a private jet membership company, where he implemented VoIP technologies and designed their 24/7 data center with extensive fault tolerant and disaster recovery capabilities. Previously he was the CIO at the Monitor Group, and Chief Information and Operations Officer for Viaticus, a specialty insurance company. Earlier, Holeman held executive roles with Allscripts, Baxter Healthcare and the Chicago Stock Exchange, as well as the professional services practice of Deloitte & Touche. Holeman holds B.A. Degrees in Biology and Psychology from Kenyon College.