Dave Vucina, Chairman of the Board
For more than 30 years Dave Vucina has had extensive business experience in sales,
marketing, business development, operations, engineering, mergers and acquisitions,
financial management, product development, international business and a variety
of money raising activities in the public and private markets. He has served in
executive capacities with Harris-Lanier, a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded
technology company, ProNet, a publicly traded communications company where he was
the President and COO, and most recently as the CEO of Wayport Inc., a privately
held venture backed wireless company, recently acquired by AT&T. In 2002 he was
named by Business Week Online as one of the 25 most influential executives in e-business,
and in 2004 he was a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award
in Austin, Texas.
Jason Palmer, President
Jason Palmer brings over 16 years of experience in leadership bringing award winning
products to market for fast growing technology companies such as WebTrends, 800.com,
Qualcomm, Now Software, Clientele Software, and Tut Systems. Prior to joining SmartDrive,
Jason was the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at WebTrends, Inc,
where he was responsible for defining the market-leading product development and
go-to-market strategies for WebTrends award-winning Marketing Lab suite of digital
marketing solutions and services. He was a founding member of 800.com's management
team that grew the company to $50M annual revenue within four years. He is a graduate
of Oregon State University with degrees in Marketing and Economics.
Bandel L. Carano, Managing Partner, Oak Investment Partners
Bandel L.Carano, Managing Partner, joined Oak Investment Partners in 1985 and became
a General Partner in 1987. Bandel has invested in companies with emphasis on Wireless
and Rich-Media communications (2Wire, Airspan, Avici, CommVerge, CoreTek, Endwave,
FiberTower, General Bandwidth, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, MobiTV, NeoPhotonics,
Netopia, PictureTel, Plastic Logic, Polycom, Presidio, PulsePoint, Qtera, Sentient
Networks, SmartDrive Systems, Tegic, Trapeze, and Wellfleet); Advanced Software
Systems (Entropic, firstRain, Illustra/Informix, Sybase, Tele Atlas and Visto);
Advanced Semiconductors (Actel, Airgo, CommQuest, Kenet, Level 5, NemeriX, Newport
Media, nLight, Qpixel, Resonext, SMIC, Solarflare, Stretch, Synaptics and Virata);
Design Automation (Centric Software, Interconnectix, Parametric, Synopsys and Tensilica)
and Clean Energy Technologies (Aurora BioFuels, Boston-Power, eSolar, GreenVolts,
NanoH2O, PML, ReliOn, and Sundrop Fuels). Prior to Oak, Bandel joined Morgan Stanley's
Venture Capital Group in 1983. He was responsible for advising Morgan Stanley on
high-tech new business development, as well as sponsoring venture investments. Bandel
received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He
currently serves on the Investment Advisory Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture
Fund.
Dick Kramlich, General Partner/Co-Founder, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Dick has more than 35 years of venture capital investment experience. Dick focuses
on a broad range of technically oriented companies. He was fortunate to have been
the first person to have invested in the Ethernet with Bob Metcalfe, an early investor
in balloon angioplasty with John Simpson and also backed the company that originated
PowerPoint presentations. Present board memberships include Financial Engines, Force10
Networks, Foveon, Informative, MaxiScale, Nexthop Technologies, Tabula, Visual Edge
Technology, Xoom Corporation and Zhone Technologies (NASDAQ: ZHNE). Previous board
memberships include among others, 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS), Ascend Communications
(acquired by Lucent Technologies), Dallas Semiconductor (acquired by Maxim Integrated
Products), Healtheon/WedMD (NASDAQ: HLTH), Immunex (acquired by Amgen), InfoGear
(acquired by Cisco Systems), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR), Macromedia (NASDAQ:
MACR) acquired by Adobe, NetSolve (NASDAQ: NTSL) acquired by Cisco Systems, Decru
(acquired by Network Appliance), Silicon Graphics, and Semiconductor Manufacturing
International (SMIC) (NYSE: SMI). 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 an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business
and a Bachelor of Science in History from Northwestern University.
Robert Siegel, General Partner, X/Seed Capital Management
Drawing on over 23 years of experience spanning the semiconductor, networking, physical
security, software and venture industries, Robert Siegel is an experienced leader
with a proven track record in strategy definition, operational execution, product
development, international sales and marketing, investing, fund raising and strategic
relationships. Robert currently serves as General Partner with X/Seed Capital Management,
an early stage venture fund that invests in enterprises that have developed advanced
technical innovations where there is an opportunity to develop large commercial
enterprises. Prior to X/Seed, Robert was the General Manager, Video and Software
Solutions for GE Security (NYSE:GE). In this role, he was responsible for GE's video
surveillance global Center of Excellence (COE), which generated revenues of over
$350 million in 2006. Robert's responsibilities included developing the firm's strategic
direction in video, delivering on global product roadmaps and the formulation of
the corresponding go-to-market activities. In addition, Robert has held executive
positions at Pixim, Inc., Weave Innovations, Inc. (Founder), Intel and GeoWorks.
He also worked as a consultant for Sun Microsystems and Bain and company. Robert
has a Bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA
from Stanford University. In 1996, he served as lead researcher for Andrew Grove's
best-selling book, Only the Paranoid Survive.