MATT LAUZON, CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Matt Lauzon founded Paragon Lake in 2006 as a student at Babson College. Lauzon enrolled at Babson because of its reputation as the number one school in the world for entrepreneurship education and leveraged all the college had to offer while exploring various business opportunities. Paragon Lake was born when Lauzon and a fellow student uncovered a niche in the jewelry industry at the intersection of e-commerce and mass customization. Serving as co-founder and CEO, Lauzon took Paragon Lake from an idea incubating in a Babson dormitory to become an institutionally funded company in just two years.

Lauzon assembled a leadership team that includes industry veterans from both the software and jewelry spaces and driven the growth of a national network of independent jewelers that use Paragon Lake's proprietary platform to drive made-to-order sales in their stores. In addition to building the team and driving growth, Lauzon led the company through two rounds of institutional funding totaling over $6M in financing from Highland Capital Partners and Canaan Partners.

Lauzon earned a B.S. in Business Management from Babson College where he was an Arthur M. Blank Scholar. At Babson, he was named one of "America's Top Entrepreneurs Under the Age of 25" by BusinessWeek, was the winner of the John H. Muller Jr. Business Plan Competition, and was awarded the Shelby Cullom Davis prize for social entrepreneurship.

MURALI MENON, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Murali Menon joined Paragon Lake as the Chief Technology Officer in 2008. Murali has developed and delivered scalable enterprise software including e-commerce applications, data warehousing systems, core OS level platforms and high volume transaction processing applications. Most recently he was the VP of Engineering at Bladelogic and managed an R&D team of 70 people with operations in the US and India to deliver a cross-platform server configuration management application suite. He was the CTO and a founding member of SupplierMarket.com, which was acquired by Ariba. SupplierMarket.com developed an automated direct materials sourcing and collaboration solution for manufacturing buyers and suppliers. He has been a founder and technical advisor to several high technology startups and venture capital firms in the Boston area.

Murali has extensive R&D experience working as a senior researcher and program manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory. He holds two patents in the area of machine vision. Murali received a bachelor's degree, a master's degree and a doctorate in engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

IWAO HATANAKA, CHIEF ARCHITECT
Iwao Hatanaka joined Paragon Lake as Chief Architect in 2008. Iwao brings over 20 years of software engineering and product development experience to Paragon Lake. He joined Paragon Lake from n2N Commerce, where he was Chief Architect responsible for the overall architecture of n2N's Software as a Service, Web 2.0, e-commerce platform for large multi-channel retailers.

Prior to n2N Commerce, Iwao was Principal Software Architect at BEA Systems and led the design, development, and SOA enablement of the BEA RFID Edge, Mobile, and Enterprise product lines. Iwao successfully led the development and launch of the B2B XML platform for direct sourcing at SupplierMarket.com (acquired by Ariba). He also spent 13 years at IBM in various technical leadership and engineering positions in the System 390 Development Lab, Highly Parallel Supercomputing Lab, and Consumer Driven Supply Chain business unit.

Iwao holds an MS in System Design and Management from MIT and a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell University.

RAY WEILAND, VICE PRESIDENT OF MANUFACTURING
Ray Weiland joined Paragon Lake as Vice president of Manufacturing in 2008. He brings more than 32 years of manufacturing experience to the team. Prior to joining Paragon Lake Ray was the Executive Vice President of Manufacturing at Stuller Inc.

Ray joined Stuller as a bench jeweler in 1975 and was promoted to Shop foreman in 1979. His promotion to Vice President came in 1991. Ray helped grow Stuller's Manufacturing operations from four associates operating in 800 sq. ft. to its current 650,000 sq. ft. facility in Louisiana employing 869 manufacturing associates, its 36,000 sq. ft. facility in Mirada Mexico employing 250 manufacturing associates and its 13,000 sq. ft. facility in Chattanooga Tennessee employing 50 manufacturing associates. During his tenure Ray orchestrated the expansion from a basic trade shop to a fully integrated manufacturing operation employing both old world and cutting edge technology. This growth was instrumental in Stuller being awarded the US Senate Productivity Award.

STACEY SCOTT, DIRECTOR OF SALES
Stacey Scott brings to Paragon Lake a long track record of creating successful partnerships with both local and national companies. Paragon Lake is Stacey's 4th technology start-up. In each case, she was the first salesperson brought on board at every company. Her skill and experience is in developing new sales programs for new products. Prior to joining Paragon Lake, Stacey was Director, National Sales for Koko Fitness where she was responsible for introducing and selling the company's premier product The Koko Smartrainer to the health and fitness industry. Before that she was Vice President, Network Sales at Send.com where she established a for-pay network of hundreds of local retail partners nationwide to stock and deliver the company's products. She has also helped build and train a national network of independent sales organizations for MicroFinancial, Inc. Stacey has also held major account sales positions with ADP and Estateworks and is a graduate of Westfield State College