Mr. Newman is a co-founder and General Partner with Solstice Capital, a Boston based venture capital firm, and has over 35 years of venture capital investing, operations and public accounting experience. For more than seven years, Mr. Newman was a Vice President of BancBoston Ventures Inc., a venture capital subsidiary of Bank of Boston. Previously, he held various financial management positions at the Bank of Boston and was a CPA at Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Newman is a Director of CodeRyte, and was formerly a Director of CellzDirect, Lipton Corporate Childcare and Proton Energy Systems, Inc. He serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of Commons Capital LLC, a positive impact venture fund. Mr. Newman graduated from Bowdoin College and received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.