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Yonald Chery has spent over 12 years as a high-tech entrepreneurial executive, mentor, and advisor specializing in identifying and launching early-stage concepts into running companies.

Yonald served as President of HingePoint, applying distributed computing technology to creating scalable business applications and workflows, founded by Eric Peters (former CTO of Avid).

In early 2005, Yonald was Founder & President of Calenova, developing software solutions for people across organizations to set-up and schedule meetings.

Before Calenova in late 2002, Yonald was co-founder & CEO of Mok3 (now branded as EveryScape), providing services & solutions to rapidly develop photorealistic 3D content & visualizations for clients in hospitality, tourism, urban planning, and architectural design.

In early 2001, Yonald was the founding executive of Newbury Networks, funded by idealab!'s Boston incubator, developing location-based services & security solutions for WLAN. He also served as CTO and Vice-President of Engineering of Newbury Networks, responsible for all early product development and intellectual property development related activities. Newbury Networks was acquired by Trapeze Networks, a subsidiary of Belden (NYSE:BDC).

Yonald founded Virtual Ink in 1997 with his graduate school colleagues and served as CTO and as a Director until early 2001. He conceived the flagship product, mimio, a portable retrofit pen-tracking system that records handwritten notes from a conventional whiteboard to a personal computer. The business was launched while at MIT and won $10,000 in 1997 in the prestigious MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition. Virtual Ink was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid (NYSE:NWL).

He is on the Board of the MIT Cambridge Enterprise Forum, is an active member of the Boston Chapter of Entrepreneur's Organization, is a mentor in MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS), was President of the Boston Chapter of FBI National Citizens' Academy Alumni Association, and serves as a judge for MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition.

Yonald often speaks about technology strategy, team-building, business plan development, and entrepreneurship and co-lectures 15.975 "Nuts & Bolts of a Business Plan" at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Yonald also sits on the Board of Directors and Advisory Boards of several Boston area start-up companies.

Yonald currently holds 12 patents in the United States, 4 patents in the United Kingdom, with several more pending in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Yonald holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, both from MIT.

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