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? Daniel Fleming has been named a principal with River Cities Capital Funds. He was previously a senior vice president with The Walnut Group.

? Herman Pon has joined both Battery Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds as an entrepreneur-in-residence. He will explore global market opportunities for next generation mobile wireless technologies and work with entrepreneurs to more fully develop their ideas into companies focused on those technologies.Pon will split his time between Battery’s offices in San Mateo, Calif. and Wellesley, Mass., and Sevin Rosen’s offices in Palo Alto, Calif. and Dallas, where he resides. Pon has two decades of executive, operational and technical management experience and was most recently chief technical officer of Nortel Networks‘ wireless Internet business unit.