Board of Directors / Investors
Board of Directors
George Pavlov, Tallwood Venture Capital
John Oxaal, Seven Rosen Funds
Andy Vitus, Scale Venture Partners
Haru Kato, KeyNote Ventures
John Shoemaker
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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Andy Vitus
Scale Venture Partners
Mr. Vitus is focuses on hardware investments and plays a key role in evaluating new investment opportunities in semiconductors, communications and novel materials. He is currently focused on innovations in consumer electronics and mixed signal technologies, and has worked closely with Auvitek, Entone, and Picolight. Mr. Vitus sits on the Board of INNOViON Corporation. Prior to joining Scale Venture Partners in 2003, Mr. Vitus worked as a hardware engineer for Electronics for Imaging, designing embedded print server platforms and video compression circuits. Previously, he was a software engineer for De Beers Research Labs, doing research on computer vision for both medical and mining applications. Mr. Vitus earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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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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John Shoemaker
Mr. Shoemaker has over three decades of experience in the high-technology industry. From 1990 to 2004, he held various executive management positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc., and served most recently as executive vice president, computer systems until his retirement. From 1969 to 1990, Mr. Shoemaker served in various executive management positions at Xerox Corporation where his most recent position was senior vice president of worldwide marketing. Mr. Shoemaker received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Business from Hanover College, where he is currently on the board of trustees. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Indiana University where he serves as a principal director for the Indiana University Foundation. He also serves as a member of the School of Business Dean's Advisory Council and the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Mr. Shoemaker is chairman of the board at SonicWALL, Inc. and also serves as director for Altera, Inc. and Extreme Networks, Inc.
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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
Narra Venture Capital
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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Narra Venture Capital
Narra Venture Capital (NarraVC) was established in January 2002 to invest in private high-technology companies with potential for accelerated growth. Narra focuses its investments on companies with defensible barriers to competition, which are normally based on cutting-edge technology or their efficient deployment. Narra manages two venture capital funds.
›› more info: http://www.narravc.com
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