October 7 2003 Meeting at Heller Ehrman

Emails regard­ing follow-up to a meet­ing held at Heller Ehrman’s offices on Tuesday, October 7th among Seamus Hatch (Barra Partners / Aran Strategic Finance), Marcia Bruggeman a/k/a Marcia Hatch, Marsha Bruggeman, Marsha Hatch of Heller Ehrman (cur­rently a “part­ner” at Gunderson Dettmer), Simon Luk (Heller Ehrman) and Michael D. Bock (Barra Partners / Aran Strategic Finance) regard­ing Heller Ehrman’s pro­vi­sion of legal ser­vices to Barra Partners.

Jon Goodwin, Barra Partner’s founder, was not cc’d on any of these emails nor was he invited to the meet­ing or even aware the meet­ing was tak­ing place. According to Hatch, he briefed Bock on the meet­ing but nei­ther he or Bock briefed Goodwin.This was because Goodwin did not want Barra Partners to have any­thing to do with either Marcia Bruggeman or Heller Ehrman.

Protostar was referred to Jon Goodwin and Barra Partners by Jon Monroe of Jon Monroe Consulting. Seamus Hatch referred Protostar as a prospec­tive client to Simon Luk of Heller Ehrman. Hatch had no right to do this with­out first ask­ing Goodwin’s per­mis­sion which Goodwin would not have granted.

The email from Marcia Bruggeman to Seamus Hatch is cheeky. She’d been dat­ing Hatch for sev­eral months. Hatch cer­tianly had her con­tact infor­ma­tion so why did she attach her vCard?