CORPORATE
OVERVIEW
TEAM
BIOGRAPHIES
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
AFFILIATIONS
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Venktesh Shukla
President and Chief
Executive Officer
Nusym Technology, Inc.
Chris Wilson
Founder and Chief
Technology Officer
Nusym Technology, Inc.
Mark Hoover
Partner
Woodside Fund
Mark is well known as an expert in network infrastructure, his skills and success in strategic marketing and his devotion to entrepreneurs. Mark has been involved in product development, business development, and marketing in the networking industry for more than 25 years, specifically, in the technical and market development of many generations of networking technologies, and related management and semiconductor products. Mark is a Partner at Woodside Fund, an early stage venture capital firm based out of Redwood Shores, California. His primary responsibility as partner is to identify and evaluate investments and to add value to portfolio companies as a Board member. Prior to Woodside Fund, Mark was President of Acuitive, a strategic marketing firm that worked intimately at an early stage with many technology companies that went on to become important high profile contributors in the networking industry including Brocade, StratumOne, Alteon WebSystems, Maverick Semiconductor, and NetScreen. In his role at Acuitive, Mark often served as interim CEO or acting Vice President of Marketing for his client companies. Acuitive developed extensive techniques and processes to validate customer and market demand and to develop winning product and business strategies. Over a period of ten years, Acuitive helped its clients achieve over $30 billion in exit valuations. Before launching Acuitive, Mark was a senior executive at SynOptics/Bay Networks and also worked in engineering, product management, and business development roles at AT&T Bell Laboratories and AT&T Computer Systems. Mark holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
William H.
Draper
General Partner
Draper Richards
L.P.
With over forty years of experience, William H. Draper III is one of the West Coast's first venture capitalists. He is General Partner of Draper Richards L.P., a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology companies in the U.S., and Draper International, a venture capital fund investing in private companies with operations in the U.S. and India. Mr. Draper was founder of Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo Alto, California. During his twenty years as the senior partner of Sutter Hill, he helped to organize and finance several hundred high technology manufacturing companies. Mr. Draper served from 1981 to 1986 as President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. In 1986, he became the head of the world's largest source of multilateral development grant assistance, the United Nations Development Program. In addition to serving on many corporate boards of directors, Mr. Draper has served on the boards of the Atlantic Council, Draper Richards Foundation, Hoover Institution, Institute of International Studies at Stanford University, World Affairs Council of Northern California and the United Nations Association-USA. Mr. Draper formerly served as the Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Chairman of the Institute of International Education, as a Trustee of Yale University and as Chairman of the Board of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco; he was a former Board member of Population Action International, George Bush Library Foundation, the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the World Rehabilitation Fund in New York. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University. In 2005, he received the Vision Award from SD Forum and was inducted into the Dow Jones Venture Capital Hall of Fame. In 2006, he received the Silicon Valley Fast 50 Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Institute of International Education. Mr. Draper has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, and a Master of Business degree, with distinction, from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.
John
Sanguinetti
Chief Technology Officer
Forte Design
Systems, Inc.
Dr. Sanguinetti has been active in computer architecture, performance analysis, and design verification for 20 years. After working for DEC, Amdahl, ELXSI, Ardent, and NeXT computer manufacturers, he founded Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was President until 1995. He was the principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator, and was a major contributor to the resurgence in the use of Verilog in the design community. Dr. Sanguinetti served on the Open Verilog International Board of Directors from 1992 to 1995 and was a major contributor to the working group which drafted the specification for the IEEE 1364 Verilog standard. He was a co-founder of CynApps. He has 15 publications and one patent. Dr. Sanguinetti's Ph.D. is in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan.
Daniel Ahn
Managing Director
Voyager Capital
Dan focuses on web and data center infrastructure, mobile related and other core technology areas. He has extensive experience in venture capital investing, portfolio company management and technology entrepreneurship. Prior to Voyager, Dan was a partner and managing director at Woodside Fund for nine years. At Woodside, he has led the firm's investing in core technology and infrastructure companies, and led the creation, development and investment in numerous successful companies, including companies such as Analogix and Berkeley Design. Prior to Woodside Fund, he was an associate at the Foster Management Company, a venture capital firm that invested in and consolidated fragmented service companies. Prior to that, Dan was the co-founder and president of a successful technology startup company, Endpoint Technologies, Inc., which developed and sold real-time manufacturing control systems for semiconductor device production. He was responsible for the company's product management, business development, and finance. The company was acquired by Applied Materials. Prior to that, Dan was an analyst in the venture capital group at CS First Boston, where he worked with information technology companies. Dan has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College. In addition to being a classical violinist, Dan enjoys outdoor activities and reading.
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