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.

Guy Churchward

President & Chief Executive Officer, LogLogic

Guy Churchward joined LogLogic in 2009 from NetApp, where he served as NetApp’s Vice President and General Manager of their Data Protection Group. Prior to NetApp, Churchward was VP & GM of BEA’s Weblogic Products Group and ran several business units including Server, Portal, JavaVM, Virtualization, Eventing, Realtime and RFID. Churchward’s career spans more than 20 years in the IT industry, with a bias on applications and data infrastructure, concentrating heavily on virtualization and cloud for the last 5 years. Churchward previously held senior management positions at Sun Microsystems (formerly Tarantella inc.), Santa Cruz Operations (Formerly IXI), Accenture (formerly Binder Hamlyn) and Olivetti. Churchward holds an executive MBA from Stanford Business School and he studied computer science at Cambridge College UK.

Peter Goettner

General Partner, Worldview Technology Partners

Pete joined Worldview in June 2003, bringing more than 15 years of operational experience, including nearly a decade at the senior management level. His investments and board seats include PostPath (acquired by Cisco), Nsite (acquired by Business Objects), Bitpass (acquired by Digital River), Virtual Synaptics (acquired by Ignite IP), Delivery Agent, QSecure, and Emergent Game Technologies.

Prior to Worldview, Pete was the founder and CEO of DigitalThink, an enterprise software-as-a-service company focusing on corporate e-learning. At DigitalThink, he led the company through a successful initial public offering, grew annual revenues to over $60 million in six years, and pioneered a hosted model for delivering corporate training content that revitalized the formerly stagnant industry. Before founding DigitalThink, Pete ran the marketing and business development groups at Knowledge Revolution (acquired by MSC Software) and Silicon Microstructures. Prior to this, he was a consultant in Accenture’s supply chain management group.

Pete earned an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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.

Deborah Rieman

Deborah Rieman is currently a managing partner of Equus Global Investments, a private hedge fund. With more than 25 years of experience in the software industry, Rieman was a founder and board member of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, Check Point Software Technologies Inc,where she was responsible for Check Point's sales, marketing, strategy, business development, and corporate relations. Before joining Check Point Software in 1995, Deb was Vice President of Marketing at Adobe Systems, Inc. She joined Adobe in 1993 from Sun Microsystems, where she was President and Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, Sitka Corporation. Prior to Sitka , Rieman headed Congruity, a consulting firm that provides strategic planning and marketing services to advanced technology companies. She has also held senior positions in planning and marketing at Xerox Corporation and in technical management at MITRE Corporation. Early in her career, Rieman was Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Rieman holds a PhD in Mathematics from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Marc Verstaen

Marc Verstaen is the founder of Lorienne S.A., leader in map authoring tools. Lorienne provides high-end cartographic software for editing, production, and publication to professional map designers. Since 1996, Marc has been established in the Silicon Valley where he founded and managed Beatware, a software company specialized in data representation for the Web and mobile devices, until its acquisition by Hyperion Solutions (later acquired by Oracle) in 2006. Marc is now helping several start-ups to perfect their products and business models, before joining his next venture. Marc is a former President of the French American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco and a graduate of Paris Tech/ ENSTA.