Arthur Patterson

(Chairman)
Founding General Partner, Accel Partners

Arthur works closely with start-up entrepreneurial teams in the area of Internet Enterprise Software and Services. As the lead investor/director he has helped over a dozen companies become public companies and leaders in their respective markets. Internet infrastructure IPO's include: Actuate, Axent/Symantec, Broadbase/Kana, Interwoven, Portal Software, UUNET/MCI-WorldCom and Veritas.

He is currently on the Boards of the following private Internet companies: Arcot Systems (authentication and authorization security); Coremetrics (e-Marketing); Counterpane (security monitoring and response); Integral Development (securities trading systems); iPIN (payment systems); iPass (secure access); Iron Planet (on-line construction equipment market); MetroPCS (PCS services for 23 million POP's in San Francisco, Sacramento, Atlanta and Miami); Noosh (e-Procurement for services); Rapt (dynamic pricing management) and Savi Technology (real-time supply chain management).

Prior to co-founding Accel Partners, Arthur was General Partner of Adler & Company. He started in venture capital at Citicorp Venture Capital. At Citicorp, he also managed a fund of publicly traded equities and was on the Equity Committee of Citicorp's Investment Management Group. Previously, Arthur worked in Washington for the International office of the U.S. Treasury Department - International Monetary, Trade and Development Policy.

Arthur served as the President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and a Director of the National Venture Capital Association. He received an AB and an MBA from Harvard.

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Howard Charney

General Manager and Senior Vice President, Cisco

Howard's primary responsibility is as an advisor to corporations and governments worldwide, communicating Cisco's strategy and vision and helping them understand how the Internet can be used to build a competitive advantage in the new Internet Economy. In this role, he interfaces with leading domestic and international corporate customers and government officials, industry groups, financial analysts, and the press through frequent one-on-one meetings and public speaking engagements. As an executive officer reporting to the President, he also contributes to the company's direction.

In October 1998, he was named Senior Vice President, Office of the President, of Cisco Systems. In this position, he has met with many of Cisco's largest customers worldwide, addressed state legislature and international political delegations, and has taken part in major speaking engagements including keynote speeches at Comdex, the Asia Pacific IT Conference and Expocomm Argentina.

Prior to his current position, Howard was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Small/Medium Business Line of Business at Cisco from April 1997 until October 1998, expanding Cisco's two-tier channel business from $170 million to $1.1 billion to become the market leader in two-tier distribution of network systems.

He began his career at Cisco in November 1995 as Vice President and General Manager of the Small Internetwork Business Unit (now the Desktop Switching Business Unit), growing Cisco's desktop switching business from $35 million to $500 million and earning the #1 market position in switching for small and medium-sized businesses.

Before joining Cisco, he was the Founder, President and CEO of Grand Junction Networks, the inventor of Fast Ethernet and low-cost switching, which was acquired by Cisco in September 1995.

A seasoned and multi-dimensional networking executive, he co-founded 3Com Corporation where he held a range of executive positions in manufacturing, engineering and legal from 1980 to 1990.

He currently participates on several corporate boards and is a member of the Colorado Governor's Commission on Science and Technology as well as the Center for Science, Technology and Society board at Santa Clara University in California.

He received his BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MBA and JD from Santa Clara University. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Federal Bar and a licensed patent attorney.

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Tom Chavez

Founder and CEO, Rapt Inc.

Tom Chavez has over 15 years of experience in decision analysis and the application of cutting-edge decision and probabilistic technologies to complex commercial problems. Prior to founding Rapt in 1998, he worked in high-tech operations at Sun Microsystems and as a researcher on various DARPA projects at the Rockwell Palo Alto Science Lab. He received an AB in Computer Science and Philosophy from Harvard and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University.

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Christopher W. Sheeline (Kip)

Managing Director, Levensohn Venture Partners

Kip is a Managing Director at Levensohn Venture Partners, where he focuses on the software and communications sectors. LVP leads investments in companies at the early stage of commercialization and works closely with the management teams and other directors on the strategic and execution issues associated with rapid company growth. Kip joined LVP from the Summit Accelerator Fund (SAF), which he co-founded in 1999 as a joint venture with Summit Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. Kip led SAF’s participation in a number of investments there, including Webex, MediaQ, Postini and Rapt.

Prior to Summit, Kip spent 11 years at Hambrecht & Quist, specializing in communications, software and Internet infrastructure. As Managing Director of the communications industry practice at H&Q, Kip was responsible for all of its investment banking activities related to communications, including software, systems, components and services. Prior to H&Q, Kip was Managing Director, Technology Planning at PacTel Corp. (a unit of the Pacific Telesis Group) and worked in software development and international marketing at Oracle Corp., where he was one of the company's earliest employees. In addition to Rapt, he sits on the boards of Broadlogic, Caymas Systems and KnowNow.

Kip received his BA and MA from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics from Stanford Medical School.

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Greg Stuart

Mr. Stuart served for five years as the CEO and President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the industry association representing over 300 online media companies. During his tenure, Mr. Stuart led the online advertising industry through an explosive period of growth, with annual revenues increasing from $6 billion to more than $16 billion. The IAB itself also grew 500% during this time. Prior to leading the IAB, he served in a variety of key executive roles at firms such as Cars.com, FlycCast Network, Y&R's Wunderman, among others. His also recently co-authored the widely acclaimed book, What Sticks: Why Most Advertising Fails and How to Guarantee Yours Succeeds (Kaplan Publishing, September 2006).

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