Dr. James D. Daniell

General Partner, Echelon Ventures

Jim Daniell is an active entrepreneur and strong supporter of high tech start-ups in the greater Boston Area. He has served on numerous boards of both private and public companies, has raised over $100M for his own companies as well as managed M&A and investment transactions totaling over $1B. His long term business goal is to make Boston the nation’s best city to start, build, and maintain a high tech business.

Jim Daniell was recently the interim President of Integrated Fuel Cell Technologies (IFCT), a Bedford-based start-up building the world’s smallest fuel cells directly on silicon wafers. Jim helped finance IFCT through a combination of angels, VCs, and government grants. Prior to IFCT, Jim was President and CEO of Celarix, a venture backed start-up in the Supply Chain Management software market. During his tenure, Celarix grew over 300% and was selected for numerous industry awards such as the Upside Hot 100. Prior to Celarix, Jim was president and CEO of OrderTrust, a firm that specialized in distributed order management and large scale transaction processing networks. Daniell joined OrderTrust in 1997, after serving as chief operating officer of AT&T's Network Commerce Services, where he oversaw the company's Web-hosting, Web-connectivity, e-commerce, call center solutions and managed connectivity solutions divisions. While at AT&T, Jim also led the firm’s business development team that did many deals around the globe. Prior to AT&T, Daniell worked in both large and small entrepreneurial environments, including the AT&T Bell Labs corporate spin-off of UNIX System Laboratories. He got his start in technology, building networking and client/server products at Software AG of North America.

Jim is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering, and of the University of Connecticut, where he earned a joint bachelor's and master's degree in computer science and engineering. Jim’s present Board affiliations include: Trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council, Overseer of the Museum of Science, as well as CommonAngels’ companies Acumenta and TimeTrade.