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Matt Oberdorfer founded Gear6 and continues to actively consult on the technical direction of the company. Prior to Gear6, Matt was the business unit manager for Scalable Computing at Hewlett-Packard Company. While at HP, Matt and his team invented and productized the world's first utility-computing-on-demand solution in 1999 called "e-utilica", which led to a dramatic shift in how capacity computing is seen, sold and used today. Matt is a published author of many books and articles about graphics, operating systems, compiler and advanced programming. Matt grew up in Germany where he studied architecture and computer science and earned a masters degree.
David joined U.S. Venture Partners as General Partner in January 2000 after retiring as president and CEO of Interval Research Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based laboratory and incubator for new businesses. David co-founded Interval Research with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 1992. David founded Metaphor Computer Systems in 1982. He served as its president and CEO until 1991 when the company was acquired by IBM. At that time David was named Vice President of New Systems Business Development for IBM's Personal Systems. In prior years, David also held both R&D and management positions at Xerox Corporation. David has served on the board of directors at Sybase, Broderbund Software, Borland International, Starwave Corp. and Ticketmaster Group, and numerous private companies. David earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Toledo. He has been named a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art and also is a consulting professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
Khaled joined InterWest in 2005 and invests in wired and wireless communications companies, including systems, software and semiconductors, as well as in underserved areas of emerging technology. For the prior five years, Khaled was investing on behalf of Alta Partners. Prior to that, Khaled spent nearly 16 years with start-ups in the networking and telecommunications fields. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of FlowWise Networks, and served as General Manager and Vice President, International, at Ipsilon Networks, an IP switching pioneer. Prior to Ipsilon, Khaled served as Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), a leading manufacturer of access routers and remote access servers, and as Vice President of Marketing and Services with Premisys Communications, a leading provider of Integrated Access solutions. From 1987 to 1992, Khaled was with Newbridge Networks, the last three years as Vice President of Network Services. He currently serves on the boards of Terawave, RedShift, Netli, Xelerated and Aegis Semiconductor. Khaled holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Mathematics and Political Philosophy from Cambridge University in England.
Doug is a networking industry veteran with over 15 years of marketing and business development experience. Investment experience includes data networking, multimedia, and Internet Infrastructure areas.Doug’s served as VP of Marketing for Precept Software, a network video software company which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998. He was also VP of marketing and business development for First Virtual Communications. Prior to FVC, Doug was a senior executive at Cisco Systems and held marketing and technical management positions at 3Com/Bridge Communications and Hewlett-Packard. Doug holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a MBA degree from Santa Clara University.
Nelson comes to the board of Gear6 with over 30 years of industry experience including positions as vice president of worldwide sales for grid storage vendor Spinnaker Networks which was acquired by Network Appliance in 2004 for $319 million, and most recently as president and CEO of secure storage vendor MaXXan Systems. Earlier in his career, Nelson held the role of GM and senior vice president for HAL Computer Systems and Amdahl Corporation, both Fujitsu business units, and was a founding member and the first sales employee of Convex Computer Corporation, later to become vice president and GM of western operations. Nelson also held senior sales management positions at Data General and Control Data. Nelson received a BS in Business from Indiana University.
Brian is the president and chief executive officer of Blue Coat Systems. He joined Blue Coat in early 1999 when it was known as CacheFlow, led a public offering later that year, and has since grown the company to profitability and the number one proxy appliance position worldwide. Prior to Blue Coat, Brian co-founded and was CEO of Ipsilon Networks, the pioneer of IP switching technology. In 1997, Ipsilon was acquired by Nokia, where the Ipsilon products became the basis for the market-leading Nokia firewall appliance. In 1993, Brian co-founded Newbridge Networks' Local Area Networking business, VIVID, and served as the unit's first general manager. Brian is a 1984 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding a Bachelors Degree in electrical engineering.
