Advisors

Shelly Davenport

Advisor and Former Executive, Salesforce.com

Past Experience: VP Sales for Salesforce.com, 1999-2004, started the sales and services organizations for Salesforce; Sales and marketing executives at Oracle, Hyperion, Arbor Software and others.

Frank Hannig

Chairman, Board of Directors, Sequoia Hospital Foundation; Trustee, Board of Trustees, Notre Dame de Namur University

Past experience: VP & CIO, Altera; Senior Management in LSI Logic, Price Waterhouse, and Watkins-Johnson.

Tom Kosnik

Consulting Professor, Department of Managment Science & Engineering, Stanford University; co-author of the sequel to Crossing the Chasm.

Past experience: Advisor to over 100 startup companies since 1975 including Saba Software, Nuance Communications, Reactivity, Chemdex and American Management Systems; Strategy consultant and executive educator at Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Apple Computers, Applied Materials, Ernst & Young, Cummins Engine, etc.

Christopher Minson

Former Baynote VP Engineering

Past Experience: Counterpoint founder and consultant for Fortune 500 firms including IBM, Knight Ridder and Apple; Former VP Engineering for Baynote until 2007.

Rajeev Motwani

Professor of Computer Science and Director of Graduate Studies, Stanford University. Founding technology advisor to Google. Co-author/inventor of PageRank.

Past experience: Recipient of the Godel Prize, Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, National Young Investigator Award from National Science Foundation, an IBM Faculty Award, among others. Remembering Rajeev...

Cliff Nass

Professor of Communication, Stanford University; Director of the Communication between Humans and Interactive Media Lab.

Past Experience: Author of hundreds of articles and books in the areas of human-technology interaction and statistical and experimental methodology; Contributed to 200 media products and services for over 20 companies and governments including IBM, Microsoft and Amazon.com.

Peng Ong

Founder and CEO, Encentuate, Inc.

Past experience: Founder, Interwoven; co-founder and chief architect of Electric Classifieds, Inc./Match.Com. Various engineering and management roles at Illustra (now IBM Informix), Sybase Inc. and Gensym Corporation.

Prashant Shah

Principal, Hummer Winblad; Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley and Chair of the Software SIG; Investor of a number of startups

Past experience: product management in enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. BSEE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MBA, University of Chicago.

Mark Thompson

Executive coach, management advisor and author of bestseller, Success Built to Last; Producer of the Charles Schwab CEO series.

Past experience: Exec. Producer of Schwab.com; Former board member of public and private companies; 2004 Forbes 100 VC.