Our elite group of Industry Expert Investors, Advisory Board members, and Venture Partners consist primarily of professional service executives, other successful venture capitalists, operating executives and technology "insiders" which make our Fund unique in the traditional venture capital world.
Our investor team includes former and current executives from Alcatel, Apple, Ariba, AVI Capital Partners, Bank of America Securities, BancBoston Robertson Stephens, BEA (Weblogic) Bear Stearns, Brown Venture Associates, CIBC Oppenheimer, Cabletron, Cirrus Logic, Cisco, Citrix, CUC International, Cyras Systems acquired by Ciena (former Cerant founding team), DiamondHead Ventures, eGain, Epiphany, Excite@Home, GeoCapital, Hambrecht and Quist (now JP Morgan), Heidrick & Struggles, IBM, Infinity Financial (division of SunGard Data Systems), Insignia Solutions, Intel, Interwest Partners, JP Morgan Chase, Knowledge Universe, Korn Ferry International, Legato, Linear Technology, Lycos (now Terra Lycos), Marketwatch.com (affiliated with CBS), Allegis Capital (formerly Media Technology Ventures), MetricStream, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, NBC Corp., Novell, Olivetti, Pencom, Phoenix Technologies, Quote.com (division of Lycos), Rational Software, Rockwell, ROLM (division of Siemens), RSA Data Security (Division of EMC Corp.), Saleslogix, SG Cowen, Siebel, Smartforce, SmartModular (division of Solectron), SCM Micro, Sun Microsystems, Spencer Stuart, Symantec, Tandem (division of Compaq and HP), Texas Instruments, Trimble Navigation, VerticalNet, WhoWhere (division of Lycos), WinStar Communications and Xylan (division of Alcatel).
Industry Expert Investors are investors in the Fund who, by their pre-eminent industry positions and contacts, offer a wealth of investment perspective and proprietary industry insights to the Fund's management. Some of the Fund's current Industry Expert Investors include:
Howard Charney -- Senior V.P. at Cisco Systems [CSCO]
Louis C. Cole -- Former President and CEO, Legato Systems, Inc. [LGTO]
Chris Cooper -- Founder, and former CEO of Quote.com (division of Lycos) [LCOS]
Don Ferguson -- CTO of Evil Twin Studios, former Vice President of Engineering at Terra Cotta Inc., Former Senior Manager, BEA Systems (formerly WebLogic) [BEAS]
William Gardiner -- CEO and Founder of Pencom, Inc.
Steven Humphreys -- Chairman of SCM Microsystems, Former CEO of ActivCard
Tom Kalinske -- Chairman Leap Frog Enterprises, formerly President and CEO, Knowledge Universe, Inc. (now Krest LLC)
Roger Lang -- Chairman of the Board of TransAria, Founder and former CEO, Infinity Financial Technology, Inc. (now a division of SunGard Systems) [SDS]
Richard Noling -- Former CEO of Insignia Systems [ISIG]
Gunjan Sinha -- Chairman and CEO of MetricStream and former Co-Founder and President, eGain Communications Corp [EGAN]
Al Sisto -- Former President and CEO, Phoenix Technologies [PTEC]
Pat Sullivan -- Former President and CEO of AttachStor; Founder of SalesLogix, now a division of Sage Software, Ltd., Founder of ACT! Software
Mark Templeton -- President and CEO, Citrix Systems [CTXS]
Rick Thau -- Former Chairman of Scale Eight, former Founder and CEO of Qualix, Inc., and EIR at Interwest Ventures
