Ray Rothrock, Chairman
Managing General Partner, Venrock Associates
Mr. Rothrock joined Venrock in 1988. His focus is primarily information technology companies and security and energy. Mr. Rothrock also serves on the board of Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) of Tel Aviv, Israel and a number of private boards including Imaginova, Imperva, Jadoo Power Systems, PGP, Qpass, Vontu, and Zia Laser. He previously served on the boards of WholeSecurity (acquired by Symantec, NASDAQ: SYMC), Spyglass (NASDAQ: SPYG), DIGEX (acquired by Intermedia Communications), Pedestal Software (acquired by Altiris, NASDAQ: ALTS) and Haystack Labs (acquired by Trusted Information Systems/Network Associates). He also led Venrock's investment in DoubleClick (NASDAQ: DCLK). Mr. Rothrock received a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A & M University, an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School.
Mark Ashida
Managing Director, OVP Venture Partners
Mark Ashida joined OVP Venture Partners in 2007 and focuses on investments in infrastructure, SaaS, Networking and enterprise software. Prior to joining OVP, Mark served as General Manager of Windows Enterprise Networking at Microsoft Corporation where he was responsible for the networking infrastructure and authentication servers, representing over $450M in enterprise sales. Prior to Microsoft, Mark was Chief Operating Officer at InterTrust, a public company (ITRU). InterTrust provided secure, trusted computing for secure distribution of music, video and other digital goods and was the leading company in digital rights management. The underlying technology was seminal as confirmed by Microsoft paying the company over $400M in a license settlement. InterTrust was sold to Sony and Philips for $450M in 2002. Before joining InterTrust, Mark was also a General Manager at Intel Architecture Labs involved in the spinout of PassEdge, a green business in security, networking and digital rights management. Mark was CEO of an early venture-backed WAN networking equipment company sold to 3Com, and involved as a turnaround of one of the earliest web measurement companies. He also was a partner at Braxton Associates, acquired by Deloitte & Touche, and leader of its West Coast Strategy Practice. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Avenda, DepotPoint, Serus and Symform, and is a Board Observer to Lucid Commerce, CGI, Carbonflow and Collaborative Software Initiative.
Mark received his undergraduate degree from Pomona College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mark grew up as the son of a US diplomat and spent most of his pre-college life in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He is the father of two teenagers and has yet to find a high tech gadget he did not enjoy.
Tench Coxe
Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
Mr. Coxe joined Sutter Hill in 1987 following his tenure with Digital Communications Associates in Atlanta, where he managed T-1 products and directed internal MIS and marketing. Previously, he worked with Lehman Brothers in New York City, where he was a corporate financial analyst specializing in mergers and acquisitions as well as debt and equity financing.
His current directorships include Artisan Partners, Ceon, eLoyalty, FaceTime Communications, NVidia and Ruckus Wireless. He was also responsible for the firm's investment in Alteon Networks, @mobile, Avant!, Edify, Legato, Lynk Systems, Network Appliance, Grand Junction, NCD, OnStream Networks, Synernetics, Primary Access, and XcelleNet. Mr. Coxe graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in economics. He earned his MBA in 1984 from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business.
Nick Sturiale
General Partner, JAFCO Ventures
Nick Sturiale joined Jafco Ventures in 2009, bringing over twenty years of experience in the technology industry both as a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur. He has been with three start-ups in product and marketing roles and has developed great insights regarding how best to scale early-stage companies with limited resources. As a venture investor, he has guided and financed, from the seed stage, several significant companies.
Nick's venture capital career began with Sevin Rosen Funds, a leading venture capital fund, where he spent nearly ten years, including eight as a General Partner. At Sevin Rosen, he developed exceptional skills as an active seed and early-stage investor. He then joined The Carlyle Group as a Managing Director and co-head of its Silicon Valley office focused on technology investing. Prior to his venture experience, Nick spent twelve years as an entrepreneur and operating executive leading all facets of product management, business development and marketing in venture-backed start-ups. He was founding CEO of Timbre Technologies (acquired by Tokyo Electron for $138 million) and held senior management roles with Quorum Software and Candescent Technologies.
At Jafco, Nick is on the Board of or is actively involved with Bill.com, Groundwork Open Source, RedSeal Systems, ReputationDefender, SocialVibe and Vuclip. Nick was also instrumental in the sale of Quellan (Intersil) and Solidcore Systems (McAfee).
Nick's past investments include XenSource (Citrix Systems), which was acquired for $500 million. He also serves on the Board of Splunk and YouSendIt, two currently active prior investments.
Nick holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Chico and an MBA with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a frequent guest lecturer.
Dr. Parveen Jain
President and CEO, RedSeal Networks, Inc.
Dr. Parveen Jain is a seasoned corporate executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, Parveen
was Co-founder and CEO of JovianDATA which was acquired by MarketShare Partners. Parveen previously was a senior executive for McAfee where he served as Executive Vice President for Corporate Development and Strategy and as CMO & EVP of Marketing. Before McAfee, Parveen was Co-founder & CEO of IntruVert Networks, a pioneer in the intrusion detection and prevention market. IntruVert was acquired by McAfee in May 2003. He has 5 granted and several pending patents and has authored over 50 business and professional papers. Parveen holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Parveen is an active angel investor and serves on the boards of multiple startup companies. He is a dedicated philanthropist and an advisor for a number of non-profit organizations including American Foundation for the Blind, South Asian Heart Center, AANA, and Jain Center of Northern California.
Rhonda MacLean
CEO, MacLean Risk Partners, LLC
With more than 30 years of information technology industry experience, Rhonda MacLean is founder of MacLean Risk Partners LLC, a consulting firm that provides strategic security and risk advisory services. Prior to founding MacLean Risk Partners, Ms. MacLean was the global leader of Information Security for Barclays, PLC in London, England and Bank of America headquartered in Charlotte, NC. For over 12 years she was responsible for the respective Banks’ security policies; compliance reporting for relevant legal and regulatory statutes; security and risk technology implementations; cyber forensics and e-discovery; and general information risk management awareness. Prior to joining Bank of America in 1996, she was responsible for information security at The Boeing Company, managing Boeing proprietary and government programs. Ms. MacLean previously served on the Board of Directors for the Vontu Corporation and PGP prior to their respective acquisitions by Symantec Corporation.
In 2002, the U.S. Treasury Secretary appointed Rhonda as the Financial Services Sector Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. Over the years numerous awards have been presented to her for visionary industry leadership. Some highlights are: The Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) “2003 Women of Vision”; NetworkWorld’s 2003 and 2004 issues named her one of the fifty most powerful people in technology; 2005 CSO’s Compass Award; 2008 EMEA Visionary Award; and most recently in 2009, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the EWF.
Pete Sinclair
Managing Director, Leapfrog Ventures
Mr. Sinclair has over 20 years of senior operating and five years of venture capital experience. He has been CEO of companies that he successfully sold to Microsoft, Novell, and Adobe Systems, and has participated in two IPOs. He started his career with Hewlett-Packard and joined Apple Computer when it was still a small private company. He has raised money from and worked for some of the top venture capital firms. Mr. Sinclair has a BS in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of Stanford Business School's Executive Program for Small Company Presidents.
Kevin Mosher
EVP, Worldwide Field Operations, Delphix
Kevin Mosher joined the RedSeal Networks Board in 2012, bringing more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry as a business leader and private investor. He has in-depth insights and experience regarding how to scale early-stage companies with limited resources. Mosher currently serves as executive vice president of worldwide field operations at Delphix, a provider of agile data management products. Previously, he led worldwide field operations for ArcSight, the market leader in SIEM and Log Management, which was acquired by HP in 2010. Mosher drove sales at ArcSight from a few million to more than $400 million in annual sales, including the most successful IPO in Silicon Valley in 2008. Before ArcSight, Mosher served as senior vice president of sales at Portal Software, Inc., a provider of billing and customer management solutions. He grew global sales at Portal from one million to more than $300 million, including a successful IPO in 1999. Mosher began his sales career at Oracle, where he saw the company scale from tens of millions to more than one billion in annual sales. Mosher also served as a board member of Solidcore, which was acquired by McAfee in 2009. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from the University of Connecticut.