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Kirk Bowman is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches a course in sales organization. Kirk's most recent operational experience was as sales executive at Equallogic, a storage system company, which was acquired by Dell, Inc. in early 2008. In the 20 years prior to Equallogic, Kirk held executive sales and general management positions at VMware, Inktomi, Model N, Object Design, and Parametric Technology Corporation. This diverse background has allowed Kirk to develop extensive industry experience with multiple technologies and associated sales strategies, including: enterprise software, embedded database software, enterprise search software, internet search, storage systems, internet infrastructure, and virtualization software.

Kirk received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1987.
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Raj Dhesikan is a veteran of the networking & telecom industry with multiple years of product development and operations experience. He has built multiple products in his career including media gateways, voice-data convergence gateways, multi-service provisioning platforms, and firewall / VPN's. He has been a thought leader that chooses with conviction and follows through to completion.
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Diane focuses on software and digital media investments in the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon. Diane has over 30 years of technology experience with firms such as Digital Equipment, Sequent, Tektronics, Informix and Sanctum, leading marketing, strategy and business development. Currently Diane works with start ups in the enterprise software, Internet/Web 2.0, and security software industries throughout the West Coast and Texas.
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Ian Miller has global IT experience and most recently navigated PolyServe’s sales and business development team from 2002 to their acquisition by HP in 2007. Prior to that Ian worked for IBM, Sequent, Software AG and Unisys.
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