• Steve Lewis - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
• Nick Sturiale - General Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds
• Scott D. Sandell - General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
• Rosen Sharma - Founder and CEO of SolidCore System
• Yoni Cheifetz - Partner, STAR Ventures

Steve Lewis - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, is the former CEO of All Covered, the leading outsourced IT services company serving small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. Lewis was also the co-founder of Pharmanex, a leading phytopharmaceutical firm where Lewis was the initial COO. Prior to Pharmanex, as a partner and managing director of Generation Ventures, a venture firm focused on opportunities in China, he developed companies in the technology-intensive arenas of broadband telecommunications, Internet stock trading and GNSS-based air traffic control systems. Additionally, Lewis was a partner in Archimedes Capital, spent five years on the Board of Directors of Borland Enterprises and a decade with the consulting firm of Booz Allen & Hamilton. At Booz Allen & Hamilton he was a partner in the firm's operations & technology practice, led the service operations practice, and opened the first commercial office in the Middle East. He holds a B.A. in Economics, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering, and M.B.A. from Stanford University.

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Nick Sturiale - General Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds. Nick's five-year tenure at Sevin Rosen Funds is reinforced with experience spanning more than a dozen years in numerous start-up operating roles, including technical product marketing, product management, business development and sales. During this time he worked with three venture-backed companies in industries such as enterprise software, flat panel display and semiconductors. Nick has also held management positions in several Silicon Valley companies; among them are Candescent Technologies and Quorum Software. Prior to joining SRF full-time, Nick was founding CEO of a SRF portfolio company called Timbre Technologies, a metrology software company he incubated at the firm. Timbre Technologies was acquired in 2001 by Tokyo Electron Limited. Nick's current investment focus is in enterprise-focused technologies, including chips, software, systems and services. Nick led the investment in such companies as Airgo Networks and Green Border. He also serves on the board of SRF portfolio companies Chutney, NeoScale, RouteScience, SolidCore, Westbridge and Teneros.

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Scott D. Sandell - General Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Scott joined NEA in 1996 as an associate, became a partner in 1999 and a general partner in 2000. Scott focuses on investments in information technology, including software, semiconductors and systems. Present board memberships include Actional, Agami Systems, CenterBeam, Data Domain, Ensim, FineGround Networks, Foveon, Teneros and Spreadtrum Communications. He is also actively involved with BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited, Decru, Motion Computing and Salesforce.com. Scott serves as co-chairman of the board of the Software Development Forum.  He was previously on the board of 3ware (acquired by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation), Amplitude Software (acquired by Critical Path), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks, (NASDAQ: JNPR), NetIQ (NASDAQ: NTIQ) and WebEx (NASDAQ: WEBX). Scott started his career at the Boston Consulting Group and later joined C-ATS Software as the company's first salesman. He founded and ran the European Subsidiary before attending Stanford Business School. During and after business school, Scott was a product manager at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows 95. In addition to an MBA from Stanford, Scott holds an AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College.

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Rosen Sharma - Founder and CEO of SolidCore Systems. Rosen is a serial entrepreneur. He co-founded VxTreme in 1995 (acquired by Microsoft in 1997), Ensim in June 1998, Stratum8 in 2000, and Green Border in 2001. Today, Rosen is the founder and CEO of SolidCore Systems, a Sevin Rosen portfolio company. Rosen's roots are in technology; he received his Ph.D. and was on the Computer Science faculty at Cornell University. Prior to that, Rosen received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal.

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Yoni Cheifetz - Partner, STAR Ventures. Mr. Yoni Cheifetz joined STAR in January, 2003. He is a seasoned software entrepreneur and founded several software companies, e.g. as Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO until 2002 at Demantra, and as Co-Founder and Director at Earnix. Mr. Cheifetz also co-founded and served as Chairman for AGENTics (acquired by Mercado). He also held marketing and product management positions at Click Software (Nasdaq: CKSW). Mr. Cheifetz holds an M.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the Weizman Institute, and a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Tel Aviv University. Mr. Cheifetz board memberships include: AeroScout, Sheer Networks, Mercado, Teneros and Sandlinks.

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