Kailash Ambwani
President and Chief Executive Officer, Actiance
Kailash Ambwani is a successful entrepreneur and senior executive
with more than 15 years in the consumer and enterprise software and
services industries.
Prior to joining Actiance, Ambwani was Chief Operating Officer of
Genesys Conferencing S.A., the leading global provider of audio,
video and web conferencing and collaboration services with 2002
revenues of $210M. As COO, he was responsible for all Front Office
operations worldwide including sales, marketing, service, and
regional P&L. Before his tenure at Genesys, Ambwani co-founded
Astound Incorporated, a leading venture backed player in the
emerging web conferencing and collaboration market, and served as
its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until it was acquired by
Genesys Conferencing. Preceding Astound, Ambwani founded and ran
several software companies in the consumer and business
productivity area including Gold Disk Inc. a leading, venture
backed provider of video editing and multimedia authoring tools for
the Windows PC.
Mr. Ambwani is a graduate of McMaster University where he received
a Master of Science in Theoretical Astrophysics and a Bachelor of
Science in Theoretical Physics, graduating Summa Cum Laude.
Tench Coxe
Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
Tench Coxe focuses his investments in telecommunications
hardware, application software, semiconductors, and payment
infrastructure.
Tench joined Sutter Hill in 1987 following his tenure with
Digital Communications Associates in Atlanta, where he managed T-1
products and directed internal MIS and marketing. Previously
he worked with Lehman brothers in New York City, where he was a
corporate financial analyst specializing in mergers and
acquisitions as well as debt and equity financing.
His current directorships include Artisan Partners, Mattersight
Corp., Kineto Wireless, NVIDIA, PINC Solutions, RedSeal Systems,
Ruckus Wireless, SeeSaw Networks, Swift Financial and Tower Cloud,
Inc. He was also responsible for the firm's investment in
Alteon Networks, @mobile, Avant!, Copper Mountain Networks, Edify,
Legato, Lynk Systems, Network Appliance, Grand Junction, NCD,
OnStream Networks, Synernetics, Primary Access, and XcelleNet.
Tench graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in
economics. He earned his MBA in 1984 from Harvard Unversity's
Graduate School of Business.
Thomas M. Neustaetter
Partner, JK&B Capital
Mr. Neustaetter has over 20 years of experience as an investor and
investment banker, including more than 15 years of venture capital
and private equity investment experience. Prior to joining
JK&B, Mr. Neustaetter was a Partner of The Chatterjee Group, an
affiliate of Soros Fund Management, where he focused on private
equity investments in the telecommunications and software
industries. Prior to The Chatterjee Group, Mr. Neustaetter was the
President and founder of Bancroft Capital, a general consulting
firm, where he provided consulting services for a number of
corporate clients, including several of The Chatterjee Group's
portfolio companies. Before founding Bancroft, Mr. Neustaetter was
with Chemical Bank for eight years where he founded Chemical
Venture Partners-Northeast and was Head of Middle Market Investment
Banking. In addition, Mr. Neustaetter served as Chief Financial
Officer of First Reserve Corporation, an energy investment fund,
for five years and was a Senior Tax Accountant at Price Waterhouse
for three years.
Mr. Neustaetter earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy
with great distinction (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of
California, Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration and
Master of Science in Information Science from the University of
California, Los Angeles.
Mark Smith
Vice President, Worldwide Sales, InfoBlox
Mark Smith brings more than 20 years of sales experience in
networking, network security, computer systems and client/server
software markets to his role as vice president of worldwide sales
for Infoblox.
Prior to InfoBlox, Mark served as vice president of corporate
sales with Juniper Networks and vice president of worldwide sales
with NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper in April
2004. While at NetScreen, Smith was named one of VARBusiness' Top
100 Execs of the year and a Computer Reseller News Channel Chief
and he played an instrumental role in the company's success by
consistently delivering double-digit quarter-on-quarter revenue
growth. Smith also has held various sales positions at Apptitude
Inc., Network Peripherals, Inc. (NPI), Digital Communications
Associates and Zenith Data Systems. Mark holds a B.A. in political
science from Wheaton College.
Sharon Wienbar
Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Sharon invests in mobile, internet, and enterprise software
companies at Scale Venture Partners, which she joined in 2001.
Sharon sits on the Boards of Biz360, Actiance, Glu Mobile,
MerchantCircle, PlayPhone, Reply!com and Waterfront Media.
Prior to Scale VP, Sharon spent 15 years at Critical Path,
Amplitude Software, Adobe Systems and Bain & Company. Among her
varied responsibilities, she directed marketing strategies and
operations, integrated product and service businesses following
acquisitions, managed the application of technology to Pacific Rim
and European markets, and negotiated complex intellectual property
licenses.
Sharon holds a BA and MA in Engineering from Harvard University,
and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sharon
also serves on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Myelin Repair
Foundation.