Board of Directors / Investors
Board of Directors
George Pavlov, Tallwood Venture Capital
John Oxaal, Seven Rosen Funds
Rob Herb, Scale Venture Partners
Haru Kato, KeyNote Ventures
Fazil Osman, Chief Technology Officer and Founding Member, Astute Networks
Clark Masters, President and CEO, Astute Networks
George Pavlov
Tallwood Venture Capital
Mr. Pavlov is a general partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. Mr. Pavlov brings broad experience in venture capital, private equity, operations and technology to Tallwood. He provides guidance and support to portfolio companies and serves as the operational focal point for Tallwood.
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John Oxaal
Seven Rosen Funds
Mr. Oxall, General Partner at Sevin Rosen Funds, focuses in areas of imaging, computing, photonics, RF communications and Semiconductors. Before joining Sevin Rosen Funds in 1999, Mr. Oxall co-founded and was CEO of Volumetrics Medical Imaging and was on the founding team of the Digital Signal Processing Division of Analog Devices. Mr. Oxall holds several patents in the field of real-time volumetric ultrasound imaging. In addition to continuing as the Chairman of Volumetrics board, John serves on the boards of Astute Networks, Cadtel, Ethertronics, Luminescent, Luxtera, Metabolon, and Scintera.
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Rob Herb
Scale Venture Partners
Mr. Herb focuses on hardware investments, primarily for consumer electronics and enterprise systems. He sits on the board of Astute Networks, Enpirion, NComputing and Siimpel. Mr. Herb also serves on the board of MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS). Mr. Herb joined Scale Venture Partners in 2005 following more than 20 years with AMD in a number of sales, marketing and general management positions. For the last four years of his tenure with AMD, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, working in the Office of the CEO. In that capacity he led the worldwide sales and marketing team and directed AMD's go-to-market strategy across all product lines.
Mr. Herb has a BSEE degree from the University of Illinois.
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Haru Kato
KeyNote Ventures
Mr. Kato is a founder and principal of KeyNote Ventures. He led the firm’s investments in Precoad, F-Origin and Link A Media, where he is a member of the board of directors. Mr. Kato works closely with the other Principals of KeyNote Ventures in finding, evaluating, and investing in promising start-ups. In addition to serving on the board of Astute Networks, Mr. Kato is an observer on the board of Inphi. Mr. Kato joined Dali, Hook Partners, the predecessor firm to KeyNote Ventures, in late 2001, as a venture partner. Prior to joining Dali, Hook Partners, he was general manager of Corporate Business Development (CBD) of NEC Corporation. Prior to this position, he was general manager of Corporate Strategy and Business development (CSBD) of NEC USA, Inc, (NEC USA), a 100% owned subsidiary of NEC. Mr. Kato started his career as a systems engineer, developing computer-based information systems. During that period, he studied at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. He holds both a BS and Masters of Engineering degrees from the University of Tokyo.
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Fazil Osman
Chief Technology Officer and Founding Member, Astute Networks
Mr. Osman has more than 25 years of hardware and systems engineering design and management experience in the communications and computer industries. In 1989, he co-founded XLNT, Inc. and, as CTO, was responsible for all of XLNT’s products. His achievements include the development of the first commercial, single chip, switched Ethernet controller and two FDDI to Ethernet switches. Mr. Osman also held engineering design positions at Cumulus, where he developed the first high performance FDDI interface for the VME bus, and at Scientific Computer Systems and Burroughs. He holds a B.Sc. Degree (Honors) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Edinburgh University. He has had numerous patents awarded for number of technologies, including programmable logic, memory chip architecture and network protocols.
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Clark Masters
President and CEO, Astute Networks
Mr. Masters brings over 30 years of technology and industry leadership to his position as President and CEO of Astute Networks. Prior to joining Astute Networks, Mr. Masters was Chairman and President of Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, and Executive Vice President of Global Industry Sales. Mr. Masters previously served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Sun's Enterprise Systems Products Group. Before joining Sun in 1996, Mr. Masters was Corporate Officer, Vice President and General Manager of Business Systems at Cray Research. In addition, he held positions as Chief Engineer, VP of Development, VP of Manufacturing and Development and was a corporate officer. Mr. Masters was also VP of Engineering at Floating Point Systems Computing before it was acquired by Cray in 1991. Before his tenure at Floating Point and Sun, Mr. Masters was VP of Systems Engineering at start-up company Celerity Computing and began his distinguished career in 1969 with NCR Corporation
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Investors
Tallwood Venture Capital
Sevin Rosen Funds
Scale Venture Partners
U.S. Venture Partners
KeyNote Ventures
Tallwood Venture Capital
Tallwood Venture Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on semiconductors and semiconductor related technologies. Tallwood raised its first institutional fund of $180 million in 2002. Investors include Stanford University and Harvard University. Tallwood's practice is based on a deep understanding of markets, the impact technology will have on them and a hands-on, very active involvement post investment. Tallwood also utilizes a best-in-class team of consultants and advisors to help build its practice and work directly with its portfolio companies. Tallwood’s vision is to actively help entrepreneurs to develop and grow technology-based start ups into world-class companies.
›› more info: www.tallwoodvc.com
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Sevin Rosen Funds
Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF), founded in 1981, is a top-tier venture capital firm with a successful track record with early-stage ventures. Over the past 21 years, SRF has employed a unique blend of technical vision and operational expertise to identify, at a very early stage, the potential of such companies as Compaq, Lotus Development, Cypress Semiconductor, Citrix, CIENA, and Capstone Turbine.
›› more info: www.srfunds.com
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Scale Venture Partners
Scale Venture Partners is the new name of a long-standing partnership with a track record of consistent, top quartile returns. The team has the right experience for venture investing. Scale Venture Partners has worked together as a partnership for many years, first as BA Venture Partners. Its combination of operating and investing expertise gives the firm the depth to help build significant companies. Scale Venture Partners is active across all stages, but particularly emphasizes mid-stage investing where its go-to-market expertise helps accelerate its portfolio companies.
›› more info: www.scalevp.com
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U.S. Venture Partners
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) invests in a broad range of early-stage information technology companies, including those involved in wireless, IT infrastructure, semiconductors, and enterprise and technical software. Representative USVP public companies are: Sun Microsystems, SanDisk, AMCC, Verity, CheckPoint, MMC Networks, 3Dfx, Leadis, Nuance Communications, Centillium, Crescendo Communications (Cisco), Elantec (Intersil), StrataCom (Cisco), Xylan, Blue Coat Systems and Concur.
›› more info: www.usvp.com
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KeyNote Ventures
KeyNote Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Menlo Park, California. The firm’s goal is to help entrepreneurs create leading information technology companies. KeyNote Ventures principally invests in early stage businesses where new technologies play a major role and where the firm has particular expertise. The portfolio company needs to have a strong management team and the potential to become a market leader. In selecting investments, KeyNote Ventures thinks about technology globally but invests locally.
›› more info: www.keynoteventures.com
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