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Willard Hanzlik, General Partner, Nuevo Capital Partners, L.P.
See management bios for Hanzlik bio.
Dave Schwab, Sierra Ventures
Mr. Schwab has a background in software applications, enterprise software, application service providers, and infrastructure. He received his BA from University of California, San Diego, his Masters in Aerospace Engineering at Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard University. He worked in engineering at Lockheed Corporation and Sun Microsystems and was a co-founder and VP of Sales at Scopus Technology, Inc. In 1996 he joined Sierra Ventures.
He has been on the Board of Directors for Micromuse (MUSE-NASD), Interact Commerce Corp. (IACT-NASD), Onlink Technologies, Inc. (Acquired by Siebel Systems), Motiva, Inc. (Acquired by Siebel Systems), and CrossLogix, Inc. (Acquired by BEA Systems, Inc.), 360Commerce, Inc., Accruent, Inc., Addamark, Inc., DBS Communications, Kanisa, Inc., SeeCommerce, Inc., Vykor, Inc., Zebra Imaging, and Zoom Systems. His non-directorship investments include Fatbrain.com, Inc. (FATB-NASD, Acquired by Barns & Noble).
Michael Klug, Founder, CTO
See management bios for Klug bio.
Kevin Cramton, Director of Business Development, Ford Motor Co.
Mr. Cramton is presently Director, Corporate Business Development for Ford Motor Company. He has global responsibilities for the negotiation and execution of merger, acquisition, alliance/joint venture, and divestiture activities. Mr. Cramton began his career in the computer industry at UNISYS Corporation. He joined Ford Motor Company in 1987 where he has worked in various positions in Ford's Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Distribution businesses. During his career, Mr. Cramton has had functional responsibilities in Finance, Business Development, Strategy, and Marketing & Sales.
He has extensive international Business experience including assignments in the European and Asia-Pacific regions. Recent assignments include Director, Business Development, Ford Europe and CFO, Ford France. Mr. Cramton has served on the Board of Directors of several companies in the United States and Europe (including Technology start-ups in Europe). He has an MBA in Finance and a BA in Business Administration from Michigan State University. Also, Mr. Cramton is an alumnus of the London Business School Executive Management Program (ADP).
Enrique Godreau, Board Attendee, Voyager Capital
Enrique focuses on technology-rich investments primarily in software, infrastructure, and wireless communication businesses. Enrique has been actively involved in the IT industry for nearly 25 years.
Before co-founding Voyager in 1997, Enrique was the initial Washington-based industry analyst for the Gartner Group. At Gartner, he specialized in commercial interactive media and Internet technologies, advising some of the world's leading cable, telephone, media, and computer software and hardware companies. Prior to this, Enrique managed Adobe's Dynamic Media Business Group and was also a principal engineer for Aldus, where he championed several acquisitions and was a major contributor to its interactive publishing business. Enrique began his career at Xerox, including seven years on the research staff at the Company's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Enrique currently serves on the board of directors of Qsent and is a board advisor to Kryptiq, Zebra Imaging and RGB Labs. He previously served as a board advisor to aQuantive (NASDAQ:AQNT). His professional affiliations and activities include the Association of Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Oregon Entrepreneur's Forum. He also serves as a director for the Pike Place Market Foundation. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Advisors
Admiral Bobby R. Inman - LBJ Chair, UT; Ex-Director, NSA, Ex-Dep. Dir. CIA
Admiral Inman is one of Austin's most well-known and successful Angel investors who, throughout the past 16 years, has invested in over 30 start-up technology companies and taken an active role in their growth and development. His most noticeable successes were Dell and Oracle, where he served on their boards through their successful IPOs.
In his prior experience, he attained the rank of four-star U.S. Navy Admiral and served as Director of Naval Intelligence, Director of the National Security Agency, and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. After his retirement from the military, Admiral Inman became a leader in Austin's developing technology community as the Chairman and CEO of Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), a consortium of computer software and hardware makers created in 1982.
He later served as Chairman, President and CEO of Westmark Systems, Inc., a privately owned electronics industry holding company. He also was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas, and served as a member of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government.
Long active in educational concerns, Admiral Inman currently serves as a trustee of the California Institute of Technology, the American Assembly, and the Center for Excellence in Education. He is a Director of the Public Agenda Foundation and a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. In addition, he holds the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas.
He is currently on the Boards of ESPC, Fluor Corporation, Massey Energy Company, SBC Communications, , and Temple Inland Inc.
Steven Papermaster - Member, President Bush’s Science and Technology Council
Steve Papermaster is the Chairman of Powershift Ventures, an Austin, Texas based technology venture development company focused on building software and technology companies. He currently serves on the boards of directors for several public and private companies, including Perficient, Inc and Vignette Corporation.
President George W. Bush appointed Mr. Papermaster in 2001 as a member of the President's Council of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST). In this capacity, Steve serves as Chairman of the Energy Independence and Innovation Committee, as well as being a member of the Technology for Combating Terrorism Committee. He is also the founder and chairman of Technology Network Texas (TechNet), a national high-technology advocacy group for policy issues and is a member of the National Executive Committee.
Prior to founding Powershift Ventures, Mr. Papermaster was the founder, chairman and CEO of BSG Corporation, a global software and systems integration company. BSG was acquired by Per Se Technologies in 1996. He began his career as a consultant with Andersen Consulting.
Mr. Papermaster received the 1996 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Austin and has served as a national and global judge for the Entrepreneur of the Year awards since 1997. In 2001 he served as the United States' judge for the World Entrepreneur of the Year award. Steve is active as a community leader with organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Jewish Community Center, and the 360 Summit.
Mr. Papermaster received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mike Scanlin - Sierra Ventures
Principal, Sierra Ventures Mike began his career as a software engineer and project manager of software projects. In the early 1990's at T/Maker he directed a team that shipped three versions of WriteNow, an award-winning Macintosh word processor with over 500,000 users. He then joined six-person startup Storm Technology. Mike wrote the JPEG image compression software that was the major component of Storm's software licensing strategy. Storm went public on NASDAQ in 1994. Following Storm's IPO, Mike went on to General Magic, where he wrote parts of the operating system and many of the critical code optimizations for Magic's handheld wireless communicator. General Magic went public on NASDAQ in 1997. During his software career Mike was published over 50 times on software performance and code optimization. Switching gears from engineering to business in 1997, Mike was a member of the early team and VP Entrepreneur Development Operations at investment bank Garage.com (now Garage Technology Ventures). After getting his NASD licenses (Series 7, 24, 63) Mike hired a team of technical and business people who were responsible for sourcing deals, evaluating opportunities, and coaching entrepreneurs on how to optimize their businesses and present to investors. During Mike's time at Garage he personally read over 10,000 executive summaries and Garage helped dozens of companies raise $330 million in venture financing. Mike is on the Board of 360Commerce and Micro Power, and is an observer for Axentis, Vykor, and Zebra Imaging. He graduated with honors from UC San Diego in Management Science.
Barry Caldwell, Operations Manager - Trucks, Ford Motor Co.
Mr. Caldwell is the Manager of Truck Vehicle Line Systems for Ford Motor Company. He is responsible for providing IT services and support for North American Truck Product Development. Prior to this position, Mr. Caldwell was the CADCAM Technologies Manager responsible for developing and delivering product definition and analysis software to the Ford Enterprise. Mr. Caldwell also held a variety of other management positions in computer related fields.
Robin L. Curle - former CEO
Robin Curle served as Chairman and CEO of Zebra Imaging from 2002 until early 2006, during which time Zebra developed the world's first high-speed monochrome holographic imager and focused on developing government markets. Prior to joining Zebra, Ms. Curle founded and was managing director of CEO Partnerships, a consulting firm comprised of ex-CEO's who work with a wide range of companies. Prior to that, Robin was CEO of Journee, a software company that helps copmanies conquer their data integration challenges. Prior to Journee, Robin was co-founder and Executive Vice President of Evolutionary Technologies International (ETI) an Austin-based company that provides customers with software solutions and services that help them address their data integration needs. Robin resides in Austin, TX.
David Hoffman - Ford Business Development
Mr. Hoffman is presently employed by Ford Motor Company within its Corporate Business Development department. He has analytical and negotiating responsibilities for mergers, acquisitions, alliance/joint ventures, and divestiture activities. He has an MBA in Finance from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a BS in Finance from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Mr. Hoffman's career began in the banking industry, where he worked in bank regulation with the FDIC and in commercial lending with local & regional banks. In 1998 he joined Ford Motor Company and has had various financial responsibilities within Product Development, Manufacturing, and Logistics.
Dr. Vik Rao - Sr. VP, Halliburton, Technology and IP Expert
Vik Rao is vice president, Technology Ventures, for the Energy Services Group. The Ventures group is charged with taking the lead on acquisition and divestiture of technology-based assets. It is also responsible for optimizing the intersections between intellectual property considerations and business strategies and tactics. Rao previously held executive management positions in research and development, product launch, reservoir studies and sales and marketing. He joined the company in 1974 as a senior research engineer.Rao serves as a Director on the Boards of Fiberspar Inc., GMI International Inc., Enventure Global Technologies Inc. and WellDynamics BV. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of KaDa Research Inc. and PointCross Inc.Rao holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and a master's degree and a PhD in engineering from Stanford University.He is the author of more than 20 publications and has been awarded over a dozen patents.
Nicholas Negroponte - Founder - MIT Media Lab
Nicholas Negroponte is the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding chairman of MIT's Media Laboratory.
Professor Negroponte studied at MIT and has been an MIT faculty member since 1966. He was the founder of MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. In 1995, he published The New York Times bestseller, Being Digital, which has been translated into over 40 languages.
In the private sector, Professor Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc., and as a special general partner in a venture capital firm focusing on technologies for information and entertainment. He was a founder of WiReD magazine and has been an "angel investor" for over 40 start-ups, including three in China. Most recently, Professor Negroponte helped to establish, and serves as chairman of, the 2B1 Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing computer access to children in the most remote and poorest parts of the world.
Jimmy Treybig - Founder, ex CEO, Tandem
Jimmy joined NEA in August 2002 as a venture partner. Based in Austin, Texas, Jimmy works closely with NEA's information technology practice sourcing new deals and evaluating new investment opportunities. Jimmy is Chairman of the Board of ClearCommerce and serves on the board of Motion Computing, both NEA portfolio companies based in Austin, Texas. He is also on the Board of Whole Securities. Jimmy is also Chairman of the Board of Reasoning. Prior to joining NEA, Jimmy was President and Chief Executive Officer of Tandem Computers. He was Tandem's principal founder and served as its CEO from 1974 until January 1996. Under his leadership, Tandem delivered its first product in 1976, first issued public stock in 1977, and in 1980 was ranked by Inc. magazine as the fastest growing public company is America. Jimmy was recognized by UPSIDE Magazine as one of the "100 People Who Changed Our World" and by Silicon Valley's Software Development Forum for its "2002 Visionaries – Silicon Valley Pioneers". Jimmy received the Entrepreneur of the Year awards from both Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Graduate School of Business. He received his BA and BSEE from Rice University and MBA from Stanford University.
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