Jim Murray has been investing in early stage companies for over 30 years, and has been a principal in firms specializing in investment banking and venture capital for telecom and information technology businesses since 1982. Prior to Court Square, he was a founding partner of Columbia Capital, which today manages four funds aggregating over $2 billion. Jim is currently a director of CSV I portfolio companies Mintera Corp and Labrador Communications, and of CSV II portfolio company Imagine Communications. He served on the strategic advisory board of Birchmere Ventures II, LP/Bay City Capital and the Technology Crossover Ventures Internet Advisory Committee. During his career he has served as a director of over two dozen technology companies including some seven firms that were IPOs, publicly listed, or merged into public companies. He served for two years as CEO of North Coast Cellular, an operating service provider in Northern California. He served on the board of the Smurfit Graduate School of Business Administration, University College, Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution in America, the first definitive account of how the American cell phone industry evolved (selected by Booklist as one of the “top ten” business books of 2001). As an inventor, Mr. Murray is the holder of a U.S. patent for a wireless maritime ignition control system. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, and an honorary Doctor of Laws from the College of William and Mary.

Randy Castleman has two decades of company-building experience at the intersection of digital media, telecom and IT, including founding and senior operating roles in small and large companies, as well as involvement in key developments in intellectual property protection and licensing on the Internet. Prior to Court Square, Mr. Castleman created and managed the New Media and Technology Strategy group at performance rights clearing house ASCAP, advising the CEO and board on intellectual property and new technology issues. His group developed the first license for the performance of copyrighted music via the Internet, establishing ASCAP as a leader in the field. Also during his tenure at ASCAP, he was a technology policy advisor for the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, a Federal advisory commission that advised the White House on Internet-related policy issues, and which was comprised of 30 CEOs from the telecom, software, and media industries. Mr. Castleman was part of the founding team, with actress Jodie Foster, of Egg Pictures, a PolyGram-financed feature film production company, where he had both business and creative management responsibilities. He had business management responsibilities at Interscope Communications, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, and BellSouth. Mr. Castleman serves or has served as a director of CSV portfolio companies TRAFFIQ, SNOCAP, Labrador Mobile, Grand Central and Optinel Systems. He earned his BA from Princeton University and his MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Chris Holden brings over 20 years of early stage investing and company-building experience to Court Square, including 11 years with News Corporation in a variety of senior operating, strategy, and executive management roles. From 1995 to 2000 he served as Chief Executive Officer of Kesmai Corporation, a wholly owned software and technology subsidiary of News Corp, which he sold to Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and America Online (NYSE: AOL). Prior to becoming CEO of Kesmai, Mr. Holden was vice president of News Technology Group, which held company-wide responsibility for investing in technology based businesses, as well as managing the integration and deployment of new technologies across News Corp business units worldwide. He also served on News Corp’s global Interactive Strategy Taskforce, was a member of the executive team that created iGuide (a joint venture between News Corp and MCI which later became TV Guide Interactive and merged with Gemstar Corporation), and was a senior executive with the News Digital Media Group, which oversaw the online operations of a number of News Corp companies. Prior to joining the News Technology Group, he co-founded the Advanced Media Group for HarperCollins Publishers in New York (a News Corp company) and served as corporate vice president. While at News Corp, Mr. Holden served as a director of numerous private companies in the IT, Software, and media sectors.

Mr. Holden left News Corp in 2000 to form Court Square Ventures with Jim Murray and Randy Castleman. He has been a board member in CSV I portfolio companies CSTV (sold to CBS), Logic Library (sold to SOA Software), and Verance (still operating). Currently, he is a director of CSV II portfolio companies Emerging Media Group, Voxant, and Mobile Posse. He also serves on the board of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation, the University of Virginia Patent Foundation, and the Charlottesville Music Resource Center. He is a graduate of Woodberry Forest School and Davidson College.

Doug Burns joined the Court Square team in 2002. He has worked in a variety of roles with early stage technology companies since 1995, initially in Arthur Andersen's Enterprise Group (Washington, DC) as a Senior Auditor. The Enterprise Group was established to identify early stage technology companies in the region and serve their growing needs as they raised capital and executed public offerings. His private clients included dozens of technology companies in the software, IT, and telecommunications sectors based in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, California and Arizona. Previously, Doug was with SNL Securities, and served as Chief Financial Officer for Murray Enterprises (Charlottesville, Virginia), where he was responsible for overseeing a diversified portfolio of investments ranging from public and private equities to hedge funds to managed futures. Doug earned his B.S. in Accounting and Business Administration from Washington and Lee University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Masters in Business Administration from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and graduated with academic honors.

Brian Kannry joined the Court Square team in 2007, bringing over 12 years of experience in Finance, Technology, and Media. Previously, he held the position of Vice President in Merrill Lynch’s Technology Investment Banking group in Palo Alto, California, as well as positions in Capital Markets and Equity Research for JPMorgan. His clients while at Merrill Lynch consisted of both Small Cap and Fortune 500 communications and technology companies, including Oracle, Apple, Hewlett Packard, JDS Uniphase, EDS, and EMC. Mr. Kannry served as Vice President of Business Development for Charlottesville-based startup and online media company Musictoday, in which Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) acquired a majority stake in 2006. He has authored multiple cases for the MBA program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School and earned his BA in Government and International Relations from Cornell University.