Mark Leslie
Managing Director, Leslie Ventures

Mark Leslie is currently the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company. He is also a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Sales Organization.

Mark Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. During his tenure as CEO the company went from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. In 2000 Veritas was the tenth largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company.

From 1980 until 1990 he served as president and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley high- tech start up companies. Prior experience included sales management, sales executive, systems engineer, and OS programmer.

Mark currently serves on the boards of Avaya Corporation (NYSE:AV) and Network Appliance (NSDAQ: NTAP) and a number of privately held high-technology corporations, including Cassatt Software, db4objects, Doostang, Model N Software, Panta Systems, PostX Corporation, and Xsigo Corporation, and is on the boards of non-profit organizations Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life, Community Foundation of Silicon Valley and Leslie Family Foundation.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and mathematics from New York University in 1966 and completed Harvard Business School's program for management development in 1980.

Ashok Krishnamurthi
Vice Chairman and Founder, Xsigo Systems

Ashok Krishnamurthi is a founding member of Xsigo Systems and serves as Executive Chairman. Mr. Krishnamurthi has over 20 years of experience in management and engineering. Prior to joining Xsigo Systems, Mr. Krishnamurthi was with Juniper Networks, where he held the positions of Vice President and General Manager of the Infrastructure Product Line. Mr. Krishnamurthi has also held engineering and management positions at Sun Microsystems, Philips, Xerox PARC, and AT&T Bell Labs. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and a BS from Manipal, India.

Ray Lane
Managing Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Ray Lane is a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm in enterprise and consumer technology, as well as clean and alternative energy. These companies include Ausra, (solar concentrator), GreatPoint Energy (coal to gas conversion), Virsa (compliance for large enterprises), Elance (marketplace for services), MetaMatrix (data integration), Visible Path (relationship networks for enterprises), Xsigo Systems (virtual I/O switch for datacenters), SpikeSource (open source platform for integration and testing) and PodShow (social media network). He also serves on the board of Quest Software.

Before joining KPCB, Ray was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, and was a senior partner with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he pioneered and led the Information Systems Group.

Ray received a Bachelor's degree in mathematics and an honorary Ph.D. in Science from West Virginia University (WVU). He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU and serves as a director of the Foundation Board for the University. Recently, WVU honored Ray by naming the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Ray serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. He has been an active campaigner and planner for Carnegie Mellon's establishment of a Silicon Valley campus, and the co-creator of a High Dependability Computing Consortium with Carnegie Mellon and NASA. Ray serves as Vice Chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the International Board of Special Olympics for several years. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from Golden Gate University.

Marcel Gani

Marcel Gani joined Juniper Networks as Chief Financial Officer in February 1997 and became Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in July 2002. From January 1996 to January 1997, Mr. Gani served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NVIDIA Corporation, a 3D graphic processor company. Mr. Gani also held the positions of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Grand Junction Networks, a data networking company acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc., from March 1995 to January 1996, and at Primary Access Corporation, a data networking company acquired by 3Com Corporation, from March 1993 to March 1995. Mr. Gani holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Lloyd Carney
CEO, Xsigo Systems

Lloyd Carney’s 25-year career encompasses a proven track record of leading and growing technology companies. Prior to joining Xsigo, Mr. Carney was general manager of IBM's Netcool Division, which acquired Micromuse where Carney had been chairman and CEO. IBM's Netcool Division provides IT and telecom infrastructure management tools to a variety of customers in enterprise computing, transportation, and wireless networking. Prior to Micromuse, Carney was COO at Juniper Networks, where he oversaw the sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and customer service organizations. He also has headed up three divisions at Nortel Networks, including the Core IP Division, the Wireless Internet Division and the Enterprise Data Division. Mr. Carney currently sits on the Board of Directors at Cypress Semiconductor and at BigBand Networks.

Jeff McCarthy
Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Jeff McCarthy joined North Bridge Venture Partners in December 1998. Prior to joining North Bridge, he was the President and CEO of New Oak Communications, a leading provider of extranet access switches. Once New Oak was acquired by Bay Networks, a Nortel Networks line of business, Jeff served as Vice President and General Manager of the Access Division. Prior to New Oak Jeff was the Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Cadia Networks, a developer of ATM concentrator products for the service provider marketplace. Prior to Cadia, Jeff spent eight years at Wellfleet Communications/Bay Networks where he held various senior management positions, including Vice President of Carrier Operations. Jeff is a graduate of Northeastern University, School of Management (Magna Cum Laude), and received his MBA (magna cum laude) from Bentley College.

Asheem Chandna
Partner, Greylock Partners

Asheem Chandna is a Partner at Greylock Partners. He is focused on enterprise IT company investments including the next generation data center. Asheem has helped create and grow multiple technology businesses to market-leading positions – both as a venture capitalist and as a former operating executive. His current company boards and investments include AppDynamics, Aquantia, Delphix, Imperva, Palo Alto Networks, TechProcess and Xsigo. Previous company boards and investments include Aruba (ARUN), CipherTrust (MCAF), NetBoost (INTC), PortAuthority (WBSN), Securent (CSCO) and Sourcefire (FIRE).

Asheem joined Greylock in 2003 from Check Point Software, where he was vice-president of business development and product management. During his 6+ year tenure, Check Point grew from $10M to $500M+ in annual revenues. Asheem founded the business development and product management organizations, led corporate marketing during high growth years and directed Check Point's product/business strategy, product management and industry partnerships. Prior to Check Point, he was vice-president of marketing with CoroNet Systems (acquired by Compuware), where he helped create and define a new product category for application-aware network monitoring. Previously, Asheem held strategic marketing and product line positions with SynOptics/Bay Networks and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Asheem is a charter member of TiE Silicon Valley, on the panel of judges for the Wall Street Journal annual Technology Innovation Awards, on the advisory board and program committee for the RSA Conference, and part of the VC program at DeVenCI (Defense Venture Capital Initiative). Born and raised in India, Asheem holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University. LinkedIn profile at http://bit.ly/dqyKvx or follow on Twitter @chandna.