Ms. Clifford is an Associate at Paladin focused on sourcing, analyzing and monitoring investment opportunities. Most recently, Ms. Clifford was Chief Operating Officer of a venture backed wireless middleware company with responsibility for finance, business development and marketing. Prior to this, Ms. Clifford was an Associate at Intersouth Partners and worked closely with the firm’s technology and life science investments. She previously led Cisco System’s new product introduction and manufacturing for the company’s first government focused network security products. She gained start-up experience in Silicon Valley leading new product introduction and manufacturing for Andiamo Systems a storage networking company. She assisted in establishing alliances in the storage space with EMC, IBM, HP, Hitachi and NetApp. Andiamo was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2003 for $2.5 billion. Ms. Clifford served 5 years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in international and domestic assignments. Ms. Clifford earned her M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business (Duke University) and her bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy.