Board of Directors

Stuart Ellman

RRE Ventures

Mr. Ellman is a Managing Partner of RRE Ventures, a New York based venture capital firm with over $850 million under management through four funds. RRE invests in early stage information technology companies with an emphasis on software, communications and related enterprises. He has been focused on technology since the early 1980’s when he taught himself computer programming and sold computer hardware and software.

In 1987, Mr. Ellman worked as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company in Sydney, Australia. From 1988 to 1990, Mr. Ellman was a Financial Analyst at Dillon, Read & Co. where he focused on leveraged buyouts and restructurings. In 1991, Mr. Ellman was an Associate at Morgan Stanley & Co., specializing in fixed income capital markets. After graduating from business school in 1992, Mr. Ellman was a co-founder and Vice President at Advisory Capital Partners, a principal investment and advisory firm. Since co-founding RRE in late 1994, Mr. Ellman has been responsible for over twenty-five technology investments including a number which started at the business plan stage. He currently serves as a Director of BioPassword, Ember Corporation, MessageOne, Proofpoint, Rave Wireless and Storm Risk Solutions.

Mr. Ellman is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia Business School where he has been since 2002, teaching the Venture Capital Seminar to MBA students. He is also on the Board of Directors of the 92nd Street Y, the Makor/Steinhardt Center, the Venture Investors Association of NY, and is a member of the Economic Club of New York.

Mr. Ellman holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University where he was a Gilbert Clee Scholar and a Horace White Fellow.

Jon Feiber

Mohr-Davidow Ventures

In more than 10 years of venture investing, Jon Feiber has identified and guided numerous entrepreneurs and played a significant role in growing category-leading companies. A managing partner at MDV, he focuses predominantly on networking and communications investments. Mr. Feiber currently serves on the boards of such portfolio companies as Allocity, Lantern Communications, Panasas, and Proofpoint. Mr. Feiber launched his high-technology career at Amdahl, where he served as senior engineer. He then joined Sun Microsystems in 1983. At Sun, Mr. Feiber worked in various managerial positions overseeing product development and strategy in the areas of software development environments, software engineering technologies, and networking. When he left Sun to join MDV in 1991, he was Sun's vice president of networking. Mr. Feiber holds a B.S. degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Colorado.

Eric Hahn

Inventures Group

Eric Hahn is the founding partner of the Inventures Group, a leading "mentor investment'' firm based in Palo Alto, California. At Inventures, Mr. Hahn has served as a director and has been actively involved with companies including Kana, Red Hat, LoudCloud, Good Technology, and RemarQ. Previously, Mr. Hahn served as the CTO for Netscape Communications, Inc. and was a member of the company's Executive Committee. In addition, Mr. Hahn was the founder and CEO of Collabra Software, Inc., a leading groupware provider that was acquired by Netscape in 1995. Prior to Collabra, Mr. Hahn ran the cc:Mail division of Lotus Development Corporation. Mr. Hahn began his career at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, where he worked on the ARPAnet, the precursor to the Internet. Mr. Hahn holds a B.S. degree and an honorary Ph.D. in computer science from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Kevin Harvey

Benchmark Capital

Kevin Harvey is one of the founders of Benchmark Capital and has extensive business-building experience as well as a long track record of developing innovative technologies into successful enterprises. Mr. Harvey's current board seats include Abaco, Allegis, Bytemobile, Collabnet, Keen, Kana (KANA), Kontiki, Qlusters, and Tellme. Before founding Benchmark, Mr. Harvey was founder, president and CEO of Approach Software, where he led the development of the world's first end-user client-server database for Windows. Approach was purchased by Lotus Development in 1993. Before founding Approach, Mr. Harvey founded Styleware and pioneered integrated software for the Apple II personal computer. Styleware was purchased by Claris Corporation, where Mr. Harvey's team created ClarisWorks, one of the best-selling software programs for the Macintosh. Mr. Harvey received his B.S. degree in engineering from Rice University in 1987.

Gary Steele

Proofpoint, Inc.

Gary Steele brings a broad range of enterprise software experience to Proofpoint. Before joining Proofpoint, Mr. Steele served as the CEO of Portera, an applications company delivering solutions for the professional services industry. Under Mr. Steele's leadership, Portera raised more than $100M in capital from some of the leading venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins, IVP, and American Express, and grew the business from its initial concept to $20M in revenue. Before Portera, Mr. Steele served as the vice president and general manager of the Middleware and Data Warehousing Product Group at Sybase, Inc., an organization of more than 350 people, spanning four geographies and generating $150M in revenue. In this capacity, he initiated and spearheaded all new Internet projects targeted at the enterprise. Mr. Steele's prior experience includes business development, marketing, and engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Washington State University.

Rob Ward

Meritech Capital Partners

Rob Ward was a founder of Meritech in 1999 and leads Meritech's investment practice in the enterprise infrastructure and data center markets including storage, security and database sectors. Rob joined Meritech from Montgomery Securities/Banc of America where he was a principal in the Private Equity Group, raising late stage capital for private information technology companies. Prior to joining Montgomery, Rob was with Smith Barney, where he spent five years in the Corporate Finance Department in New York and San Francisco. Rob received a B.A. degree from Williams College and a M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.