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John GannonPartnerPolaris Partner

John joined Polaris in June 1998 as a general partner and our chief financial officer.

Prior to Polaris, John was chief financial officer of Firefly Network Inc., which was sold to Microsoft in 1998. Before Firefly Network, John held a number of positions at Powersoft Corporation, including chief financial officer and treasurer. During his tenure at Powersoft, from 1992 to 1995, the company grew annual sales from $21 million to over $200 million. John was instrumental in the companys successful initial public offering in 1993 and the sale to Sybase Corporation for $1B.

John came to Powersoft from Trinzic Corporation, where he was chief financial officer, and Cullinet Software, Inc. where he held the positions of vice president of administration and treasurer. Prior to Cullinet, he was a certified public accountant for Coopers & Lybrand.

Representative Investments

Editas Editas Medicine is a transformative genome editing company founded by five of the academic and scientific leaders in the field of CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 (CRISPR-associated protein 9) and TALENs (transcription activator-like effector nucleases).

Genome editing has emerged as one of the most exciting new areas of scientific research. Recent advances have made it possible to modify, in a targeted way, almost any gene in the human body with the ability to directly turn on, turn off or edit disease - causing genes. Editas mission is to translate its genome editing technology into a novel class of human therapeutics that enable precise and corrective molecular modification to treat the underlying cause of a broad range of diseases at the genetic level.

Navitor is pioneering the development of novel therapeutics for a wide range of diseases by targeting the primary cellular pathway involved in nutrient signaling and regulation of cell growth and function.

Bitium Bitium is an enterprise software company that provides app management, single sign-on and analytics for more than 1,500 cloud-based apps allowing companies to securely manage their software catalog.

Bitiums app management platform helps organizations manage their growing list of SaaS apps with single sign-on and permissions management. As a result of the converging trends of bring-your-own apps (BYOA), bring-your-own device (BYOD), the consumerization of the enterprise and the inevitable move to the cloud, companies are left with little visibility of the apps their employees use and few tools to manage those apps. Bitium solves this with a solution that allows for flexible employee adoption while securely managing cloud-based software.

Is InsideSales.com is the leading cloud-based provider of sales automation and predictive analytics for inside sales professionals.

The company provides its clients with sales automation software with built-in power dialer telephony and a full suite of productivity and visibility solutions for sales teams that sell over the phone or through the web.

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