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Marc Randall

Marc is the CEO of Force10 Networks and an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in high technology. Prior to joining Force10 Networks, Marc spent seven years at Cisco Systems as Vice President of Engineering. Marc led the development and extension of Cisco’s high-end routing platforms — a 2 billion dollar a year business. Under Marc’s leadership the Cisco 7500 was recognized as one of the ten most important products to be developed in Silicon Valley. Marc also led Cisco’s VPN initiative and the development of the industry-leading 7100 VPN Router. Prior to Cisco, Marc spent eleven years at Amdahl Corporation where he was responsible for software development in the Processor Products division.

 

Dick Kramlich

Dick is a co-founder and general partner at NEA and has more than 30 years of venture capital investment experience. His background includes board memberships at companies such as Ascend Communications, 3Com Corp., SGI and Juniper Networks, and he was recently Chairman and President of the National Venture Capital Association. Prior to joining NEA, Dick was a general partner of Arthur Rock & Associates and Executive Vice President of Gardner & Preston Moss. He received a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in History from Northwestern University.

 

Steven M. Krausz

Steven Krausz, who joined the U.S. Venture Partners in 1985, has a background deeply rooted in information technology. Steven's eight years of operating experience with NASA Ames, BTI Computers, Direct Inc. and Daisy Systems have served him well as an advisor to many leading network vendors, customers, investors, and start-ups. He is also a frequent panelist and moderator at many industry and engineering events and forums. At USVP, Steven has focused on communications, Internet Infrastructure, networking and systems technology. He has led the Firm's investments in, Accelerated Networks, Verity, Rasna, Xylan, Applied Digital Access, Elantec and Micro Linear, all of which became public companies. Steven had early involvement with many successful companies such as, Checkpoint Software, Harmonic, and Stratacom. He served on the Boards of Directors of EPIC Design Technologies and Photon Dynamics. Other companies, Palladium Interactive, acquired by The Learning Company, and Centerview Software, acquired by Informix, were portfolio investments. Currently, Steven is on a number of private USVP investments including, Agility Communications, Yafo Networks, Ceyba Systems, Gluon Networks, Performance Retail, Occam Networks, Kasenna, and Pathfire. He is a Board of Director Observer at New Focus, Rapid 5 Networks, Force 10 Networks and Centerpoint. Steven is also on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Steven holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

 

Paul Madera

Paul Madera was a founder of Meritech in 1999 and currently focuses on the storage, semiconductor and digital consumer sectors. He has been directly involved with Corvis Corporation, Wireless Facilities, Inc., PeopleSupport and IntraLase, Inc.

Prior to Meritech, Paul was Managing Director and Head of the Private Equity Group at Montgomery Securities/Banc of America. He began his career in finance as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he served in the United States Air Force as an F-16 Instructor Pilot and a member of the Air Force Liaison Office and representative to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees.

Paul holds a B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

 

Stan Meresman

Stanley J. Meresman is a widely respected and deeply experienced technology executive with over 30 years of experience in senior financial and operational executive positions. Mr. Meresman serves on the board of directors of several high growth technology companies as an independent director, including multiple appointments to the audit committee.

Mr. Meresman was most recently a venture partner with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a leading provider of growth capital to high technology companies. Prior to becoming a venture partner at TCV, he served as general partner and chief operating officer. From 1989 to 1997, Mr. Meresman was senior vice president and CFO at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), during which time revenue grew from $250 million to $3.8 billion. Prior to SGI, he served as vice president, finance and administration and CFO at Cypress Semiconductor as the company grew from $2 million to more than $100 million in revenue and successfully completed its IPO. He has also served as president of the board of the Financial Executives Institute (FEI), Silicon Valley Chapter.

Mr. Meresman holds a BS in industrial engineering & operations research from the University of California, Berkeley and a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

 

Peter Morris

Peter Morris is a General partner at NEA and specializes in information technologies with a focus on communications, electronics and software infrastructure. His active portfolio companies include Actelis Networks, Caspian Networks, Force10 Networks, LuxN, Network Photonics, Tasman Networks, UP Technology, Yipes Enterprise Services and Zhone Technologies. Additionally, he serves on the board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund. Past investments include Accelerated Networks (Occam), Alteon WebSystems (Nortel), Berkeley Networks (FORE Systems), Carrier Access, Clarify (Nortel), Cybermedia (Network Associates), Cyras Systems (CIENA), Fibex Systems (Cisco), Gadzoox, iAsiaWorks, Juniper Networks, Packeteer, Troika Networks and Virata (Globespan). Prior to joining NEA in 1992, he was a General Manager at Telebit, and prior to that he was with Montgomery Securities and Bain and Co. He was honored this year by Forbes magazine as one of the ten most successful venture capitalists in America. Peter received a Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

 

Bill Owens

Bill Owens has an extensive record of accomplishment in both the networking industry as well as in the Department of Defense, where he served as vice chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, the second highest ranking military officer in the country.

As CEO and vice chairman at Nortel following the disclosure of accounting anomalies, Mr. Owens reestablished Nortel as a stable Fortune 500 company leading the telecommunications and enterprise IT global marketplace. Mr. Owens has also served in executive leadership positions at Teledesic, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and most recently AEA Holdings ASIA.

Mr. Owens currently sits on the boards of Daimler Chrysler AG, Polycom, AEA Investors LLC, Wipro and Embarq, a spinoff of Sprint, as well as several philanthropic boards, including the Carnegie Foundation, Brookings Institution and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Owens holds a B.S. in mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy and a B.A. and M.A. in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University. He also received an M.A. in management from George Washington University.

 

Rick Roscitt

Rick Roscitt has a well established history of facilitating product innovation while driving operational excellence. During his more than 30 years of management experience, Rick has demonstrated his ability to build successful and profitable businesses.

As president and COO of MCI, Rick helped lead the company out of bankruptcy and reestablished it as a telecommunications leader with positive cash flow. As chairman and CEO of ADC Broadband, Rick implemented an aggressive cost reduction effort along with a complete product portfolio overhaul that returned the business to profitability. Earlier, he was the president of AT&T Business Services, the company's largest and most profitable unit with 30,000 employees and annual revenue of more than $31 billion. Rick was also a founding partner, president and CEO of AT&T Solutions, which focuses on delivering professional services to global enterprises.

Rick currently serves on the board of trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also the non-executive chairman of both CVT Prepaid Solutions and Sapien Software as well as a partner of Core Value Partner Investments. He holds a bachelor of engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

 

Tim Weingarten

Tim Weingarten is a Partner at Worldview Technology Partners. Tim brings deep telecommunications, enterprise datacenter, and network industry experience to Worldview. He helps shape Worldview’s investment strategy in these areas and provides critical support to Worldview’s portfolio companies. Tim also focuses on investments in the digital media value chain, particularly broadband-enabled applications.

Tim joined Worldview from Robertson, Stephens and Company where he worked in the Telecom Equipment research group. Tim led Robertson’s research into the architecture and build-out of next-generation service provider networks. At Robertson, Tim assisted with the IPOs of Juniper Networks, Redback Networks, Copper Mountain, Extreme Networks, Ditech Communications and Clarent Corporation, as well as the private placement for Corvis Corporation.

Tim holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and has authored a number of papers on the trends behind the design of carrier networks.