Board of Directors

Michael Goguen

Chairman

General Partner, Sequoia Capital

Michael Goguen is a Sequoia Capital US partner and focuses on investments in the components and systems sectors. He is a Director of Consentry, Ikanos, Infoblox, LogLogic, MEMX, Navini, Ometric, PayDay One, Sipera and WideRay. Mike was responsible for Sequoia Capital’s investments in Ardent, MaxComm, Monterey Networks, Netiverse, and Pipelinks, which were all acquired by Cisco. He was also responsible for investments in Spatial Wireless (ALA), Avanex (AVNX), NetScreen (JNPR), Versatile (acquired by Vitesse), Redback Networks (RBAK), Springbank (acquired by CacheFlow), Yago Systems (acquired by Cabletron), and VitalSigns Software (acquired by International Network Services, Lucent). Before joining Sequoia Capital in 1996, Michael spent 10 years in various engineering, research, and product management roles at DEC, SynOptics and Centillion, and was a director of Engineering at Bay Networks (Nortel). Michael was also a Technical Chairman of the ATM Forum. Michael has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Arjun Gupta

Managing Partner, TeleSoft Partners

Arjun Gupta is the founder and managing partner of TeleSoft Partners, focusing on systems, software, semis and services. TeleSoft manages venture capital funds of $625+ million focusing on information technology and communications companies. Arjun has 20 years of overall experience working with technology companies in venture capital, consulting and design engineering roles. Arjun helped develop the core TeleSoft ecosystem, which includes 250+ industry executives, six corporate partners and five investment banking partners. He currently serves on the boards of Calient, Education.com, Knowledge Adventure, LiteScape, LogLogic, Nexant, Validity and VoiceObjects. Previously Arjun has served on the boards of Catamaran, EmpowerTel/Lara, Omnipoint (OMPT), Triton (TNSI), Xpedion, and VxTel.

Michael Orsak

Managing General Partner & Founder, Worldview Technology Partners

Mike, a founder of Worldview, has been successfully identifying emerging trends in technology for 20 years. For the past 14 years as a venture capitalist, he has focused on investments in communications, software, and semiconductor start-ups. Mike has led or co-led successful investments into leading companies such as AFC, Ciena, Corvis, Cosine, Cyras, DigitalThink, NVIDIA, Netcore, Obsidian, Redstone, Tellium and Tivoli. Before founding Worldview, Mike was a Fund Manager at JAFCO, where he spearheaded the firm’s investments in numerous successful companies. Prior to this, he was a Research Analyst at Robertson Stephens & Company where he covered the computer systems industry and worked on financings for companies such as Dell Computer and Sun Microsystems. Mike earned an M.B.A. degree and a B.A. degree, both from Stanford University. At Stanford, Mike taught a course on entrepreneurship, and created the first business plan competition for Stanford student entrepreneurs.

Patricia Sueltz

President & Chief Executive Officer, LogLogic

Patricia Sueltz joined LogLogic in 2007 from SurfControl, which was acquired by WebSense in October 2007. Before serving as SurfControl's CEO, Sueltz was President, Global Operations, through Salesforce.com's IPO process. Prior to that, Sueltz was Executive Vice President of Services and a Corporate Officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. for four years, having previously held a number of senior positions at IBM, including General Manager, Java Software and Vice President, Internet Software. Ms. Sueltz has also served as a Board member of Delphi Systems and Amgen, Inc., both Fortune 500 companies. She currently serves on the national board for the American Foundation for the Blind. Ms. Sueltz holds a Bachelor's degree in political science and was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the School of Theology at Claremont in California.

Esfandiar Lohrasbpour

Partner & Managing Director, INVESCO

Esfandiar heads INVESCO Private Capital’s office in Palo Alto, California. His focus is technology investments. Since joining the group in 1998, he has led INVESCO’s investments in ONI Systems, Endwave, Fastparts, Integrated MicroMachines and Sigmatel. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Endwave (now public), Integrated MicroMachines and Fastparts. Esfandiar began his career in 1982 as a member of the AT&T’s Technical Staff in Bell Labs’s semiconductor devices area. He later joined the CFO Group at Corporate Headquarters, helping to integrate the MicroElectronics Division’s business plan into the total AT&T business plan. In 1987, as CFO and Director of Operations, he co-founded a startup called Pixel Machines, a hardware plus software company in the image processing and 3D graphics business. Esfandiar received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the UCLA School of Engineering in 1982. He received a M.S. in Operations Research from the University of North Carolina in 1976 and a B.A. in Mathematics from Berea College (Kentucky) in 1974.