Thomas F. Kelly, Chairman

Tom is a veteran in the technology industry, with more than 26 years' experience working in numerous executive leadership roles from software start-ups to billion dollar technology companies. As CEO of BlueStar Solutions, Tom saw the company to a successful acquisition by Affiliated Computer Services, a $4.5B IT and business process services company. Prior to that, he led Blaze Software to a successful IPO and its subsequent acquisition by Brokat Information Systems AG. From 1996-1998, Tom served in the office of the president and as chief operating officer for Cirrus Logic, a $1 billion diversified semiconductor company. Prior to Cirrus Logic, he held executive roles at Frame Technology Corporation. Tom also served as chief financial officer at Cadence Design Systems. He currently is a member of the board of directors for Epicor Software, FEI Company and SendMail, Inc. Tom earned a Bachelor's degree in economics from Santa Clara University.

Bob Bond

Bob retired in 1998 as COO of Rational Software Corporation, an industry leading provider of enterprise and embedded development tools. During his 15 year tenure Rational grew to over $300 million in sales. Prior to Rational, Bob spent over 15 years at Hewlett Packard where his responsibilities spanned Marketing through Division Management. Since Rational, he has been consulting with technology companies in the areas of business strategy, marketing, sales management, and operations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of KLA-Tencor Corporation, Clarus Systems (privately held) and DecisionPoint Applications (privately held). He has a B.S. in Engineering from Case Institute of Technology.

Rusty Harris

Mr. Harris has more than two decades of experience in the technology industry, with responsibilities managing sales, product development, and operations. He joined MontaVista Software in 2006 as executive vice president of worldwide field operations, with responsibility for managing all sales, customer support, and professional services worldwide. Prior to joining MontaVista, Mr. Harris was the managing director of the Application Managed Services Division of ACS in 2004, joining ACS when it acquired BlueStar Solutions, where he was executive vice president of sales and marketing beginning in 2002. Prior to BlueStar, Mr. Harris was executive vice president for worldwide field operations for Documentum from 1999 to 2002. As an executive for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) from 1989 to 1999, he was one of the founders of the EDS High Tech Business Unit. Mr. Harris earned a BS degree in Accounting from Indiana University.

Steven M. Krausz

Steve Krausz has focused his career on partnering and mentoring early stage companies in communications, Internet Infrastructure, Networking, and enterprise software. He joined U.S. Venture Partners in 1985, and has been involved with their investments in numerous ventures including Checkpoint Software, Harmonic Lightwaves, and Stratacom. He serves on the boards of Force 10 Networks, Agility Communications, Vontu, Kasenna, Pathfire, Imperva, Performance Retail, Object Reservoir, Notiva, Xponent, Synfora, and Sierra Monolithics. Krausz is a former executive board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

James Ready

Called "arguably the one individual most responsible for establishing the embedded OS and tools market" by LinuxDevices.com and "an iconic figure within the IT industry" by SD Times, James is a recognized authority in the embedded systems and real-time software industry. The co-founder of Ready Systems, he developed the world's first commercially viable real-time operating system (RTOS) product: the VRTX real-time kernel. Ready Systems, founded in 1980, merged with Microtec Research in 1993, went public in 1994, and was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1995. During this period, Jim served as Ready Systems' President, and as chief technical officer (CTO) at Microtec/Mentor. Jim invented the category of embedded Linux commercialization in 1999 when he founded MontaVista Software to provide the Linux operating system to the embedded systems market, and to offer embedded-system expertise to the open source Linux community. Jim got his BA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971 and his MA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976.

John Shoch

Dr. Shoch has been a venture capitalist since 1985 and has funded numerous successful companies including Ready Systems, Remedy, Portola (sold to Netscape), and Verity. Previously Dr. Shoch was with Xerox Corporation where he held both senior management and research positions. Dr. Shoch is acknowledged as a significant contributor to the development of Ethernet technology, internetworking protocols, and distributed computing.

Peter F. Pervere

Peter was Senior VP and CFO at Commerce One, an enterprise e-commerce business. During his 5 year tenure Commerce One grew from less than $2 million to more than $400 million in sales. Prior to Commerce One Peter was Vice President and Corporate Controller of Sybase, an enterprise database software business. During his 10 year tenure Sybase grew from less than $20 million to more than $900 million in sales. Prior to Sybase Peter was at Arthur Young and Company. Peter currently serves on the Boards of two other technology companies, Digital Impact and Intraware. He also serves on the Boards at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Piedmont Lacrosse Association. Peter has a B.A. in History from Stanford University.