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Roger Glovsky  |  John Koenig

ROGER P. GLOVSKY

For over 20 years, Mr. Glovsky has provided legal counsel to start-up and emerging businesses in matters such as business formation, partnership agreements, stockholder agreements, technology licensing, loan agreements, and sales and distribution agreements. He began practicing business law in 1986, representing both traditional and high-tech businesses. Mr. Glovsky was an Associate at Widett, Slater & Goldman, P.C. and Posternak, Blankstein & Lund.

In 1992, Mr. Glovsky founded his own law firm, Roger P. Glovsky, P.C., which attracted over 75 business clients within the first year. In 1994, he formed a partnership with John Koenig under the name Glovsky & Koenig, P.C. expanding their representation to include small to medium-sized businesses in a variety of technology, professional and service industries.

From 1995-2002, Mr. Glovsky went "in-house" and served as a member of the executive management team for three Internet-related software companies. Mr. Glovsky was President and CEO of FCR Software, a profitable software development company licensing Internet protocol stacks on an OEM basis to top networking vendors and remote access solutions to enterprise customers.

In 1999, Mr. Glovsky joined Delphi Forums (which later became Prospero Technologies) and served as General Counsel and Director of Business Development. As General Counsel, Mr. Glovsky streamlined the contracts process to address the new Application Service Provider (ASP) market and successfully negotiated contracts with major media customers. In October of 2000, Mr. Glovsky joined the executive management team of Gold Wire Technology Inc., a venture-backed start-up selling networking software tools to Tier 1 Internet Service Provider.

Mr. Glovsky is the founder and organizer of the Business Lawyers Network, a network of lawyers and non-lawyer professionals, whose mission is to provide access to people, information and tools that facilitate the practice of law. In 2005, Mr. Glovsky joined the Board of Advisors for the Entrepreneurship program at Simmons School of Management. From 2003-04, Mr. Glovsky was a member of the Board of Directors of Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology (WEST), an organization whose mission is to foster the entrepreneurial spirit among women in the scientific and engineering communities. He helped to articulate WEST's vision, architect its strategy for growth, recruit a board of directors, and served as its first Chairman. Mr. Glovsky previously served as a member of the Executive Board of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Venture Forum from 1992-1996, being elected Vice Chairman of the Forum in 1995.

Mr. Glovsky graduated from Boston College Law School, Cum Laude, in 1986 and was admitted to practice law in Massachusetts in 1986. He received his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1991. He also graduated from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College with a Master of Engineering degree in 1982 and an A.B degree in 1980.