Advisors

Evan Bauer

Partner, Fanzilli | Bauer Technology Partners

Past experience: Global CTO, CSFB; VP Engineering, Bankers Trust ; Principal, Robert Frances Group (RFG)

Martin Brauns

Retired Chairman, President and CEO, Interwoven, Inc.

Past Experience: Led Enterprise Software provider Interwoven from a start-up through its IPO, and years of rapid growth post IPO; Sales and marketing executive at Informix, Adaptec, Wyse Technology, National Semiconductor, and others.

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.

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.

Alex Sagers

Director of Corporate IT, Yahoo! Inc.

Past experience: Head of IT at Interwoven, Verity among others; B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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.