Board of Directors
Pete Sinclair
Managing Director, Leapfrog Ventures
Pete Sinclair has over 20 years of senior operating and eight years of venture capital experience. He has been CEO of companies that he successfully sold to Microsoft, Novell, and Adobe Systems, and has participated in two IPOs. He started his career with Hewlett-Packard and joined Apple Computer when it was still a small private company. He has raised money from and worked for some of the top venture capital firms. Mr. Sinclair has a B.S. in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of Stanford Business School's Executive Program for Small Company Presidents.
Tom McNeight
Consultant, Software and Security Industries
Tom McNeight is a software and security technology veteran having served in key roles ranging from sales executive to President and Chief Executive Officer. McNeight was the President and CEO of GuardedNet, Inc., a security information management (SIM) software company acquired by Micromuse, which was subsequently acquired by IBM. He also served as a top executive at Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS) where he was responsible for building the field operations. Prior to ISS, Mr. McNeight was the Vice President of Sales for TSW International, a provider of plant maintenance and management software, and before that, President and CEO of Aurum Software, a leading sales force automation company subsequently sold to Baan International. His career also includes a fifteen year tenure with Dun & Bradstreet Software (formerly Management Science America) rising from sales executive to Executive Vice President of the Americas, responsible for a $345,000,000 business unit. A former commissioned officer in the United States Army serving in Europe and Southeast Asia, Mr. McNeight received his B.A. in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University and his M.S. in Management Science from Texas Christian University. He serves on the boards of SecureWorks, Inc. and vmSight.
Srivats Sampath
Entrepreneur
Srivats Sampath is a serial entrepreneur who brings over twenty years of management, investment and technical experience. An experienced leader, he has run large corporations and organizations, as well as conceiving, funding and building successful start-up companies.
He previously served as founder, president and CEO of McAfee.com (NASDAQ: MCAF). He built the company into one of the largest and most successful subscription-based, SaaS security services for consumers and small-to-medium sized businesses. Srivats orchestrated a successful IPO in December 1999, followed by the successful merger with Network Associates (NYSE: NET) in October 2002, which has now become McAfee Inc. (NYSE: MFE). Prior to McAfee, Srivats was the vice president of product marketing at Netscape Communications (NASDAQ:NSCP), and was Founder, President and CEO of Discussions Corporations, a leading developer of email-based groupware solutions. He also served in executive-level capacities for Central Point Software and as a co-founder and technical architect of Intel's LAN Enhancement Operations. He started his professional career by co-founding Mecon (NASDAQ:MECN), a healthcare software company, which was subsequently acquired by GE (NYSE:GE). Most recently, Srivats was the co-founder, president & CEO of Mercora, a social music company.
Srivats is also an active angel investor and director, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Voltage Security. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Madras University, India.
Scott Weiss
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Scott Weiss has considerable tenure in the technology industry, particularly surrounding web-based platforms and security. Currently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Weiss previously co-founded IronPort Systems and served as the company's CEO until its $830 million acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2007. He subsequently joined Cisco as vice president and general manager of the company's Security Technology Group.
Weiss was also an early team member at Hotmail, the world's largest Web-based email service, where he was responsible for business development efforts. After Hotmail's acquisition by Microsoft, Weiss led a business development team at Microsoft with the MSN division.
Previously a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Weiss also has worked at EDS as a group manager and is a graduate of the EDS management training program. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from the University of Florida.
Tim Dick (Board observer)
General Partner, Startup Capital Ventures
Tim is a Partner at Startup Capital Ventures, a Palo Alto based Venture Capital firm. As such, he is a Director or Advisor to several of the firm.s investments including Silvertail Systems, RadioTime, TagArray and Suturenetics.
Prior to joining SCV, Tim founded Hawaii Superferry in 2001, a company that brought energy-efficient inter-island vehicle ferry service to Hawaii and was recipient of the HVCA Deal Of The Year 2006.
A serial entrepreneur, Tim co-founded Grassroots.com, the the leading political web technology company in 1999 (acquired by Edelman). In 1995, he founded WorldPages.com, the internet's first white & yellow pages (NYSE:WPZ, then acquired by BT). He was also the first investor in match.com (NASDAQ:IACI), and Accept.com (acquired by Amazon.)
A believer in social responsibility, he has an energy conservation foundation - usehalf.org He is an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at the University of Hawaii. Tim co-founded TRUSTe.org which is internet.s privacy standard and is a founding Board Member of Reef Check Hawaii and an active member of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association.
Previously, Tim was a principal at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he led CEO-level strategy consulting work in high-technology, transportation, and energy industries.
Tim was previously an electrical engineer at Beckman Instruments, where he developed the first electronic speech synthesizer for use in intensive care units, and the world's first medical & scientific instrument-on-a-chip.
He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine where he founded the UCI Cycling Team.
He serves or has served as chairman, board member or advisor to numerous companies including Adama Materials, Dali Wireless, TRUSTe, Silvertail Systems, TagArray, RadioTime, Hawaii Superferry, Grassroots.com (acquired by Edelman), Accept.com (acquired by Amazon), Affinity Engines and WorldPages (ex NYSE:WPZ, now BT).
Tim was born in England to parents who instilled simple values for which he thanks them enormously. In his spare moments, he enjoys sailing, spending time with his family, and traveling. He claims the only items he could not live without are his passport, Mac, and bicycle.
Tim Eades
CEO
Mike Eynon (Shared seat)
Co-Founder, President, and CTO
Laura Mather (Shared seat)
Co-Founder & VP of Product Marketing
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