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Clive Cook has a track record of success building and leading technology businesses. Combining expertise in management, strategic business development and technology application, Mr. Cook is an architect of both products and business models. At VeriLAN, Inc., Mr. Cook led the multi-billion dollar consortium of companies seeking to build, own and operate large wireless infrastructure projects. As CEO of Elematics, Clive led the company from business plan development, financing, and deployment. Clive worked in management positions for Nortel Networks, Acterna (now JDSU) and Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). Clive has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary and earned his master’s degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Carleton University. He holds an M.B.A. from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. Mr. Cook is on the Board of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI).
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Wayne has been a seed-stage investor since 1986, co-founding six funds with investments in nearly 100 companies. He was a founder of Cascadia Partners and has played a major role in creating over 20 spin out companies from research universities and corporate labs.
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Beatriz Infante has over 25 years experience in creating and driving high-growth businesses fueled by disruptive technologies. Beatriz is currently CEO of BusinessExcelleration and most recently was CEO and Director of VoiceObjects. Beatriz has also served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Aspect Communications, which she led to record revenues and profitability. Prior to her role at Aspect, Infante held multiple senior executive positions at Oracle Corporation, where she led the Open Systems Division to well over $1B in revenue, led the acquisition of the Rdb database business from DEC, and was the key executive for Oracle VLM which yielded dramatic improvements in query performance through a native 64-bit version of the Oracle database. She received a BSE in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and holds an MS from California Institute of Technology. She is also on the boards of Sonus Networks and Skybox Security.
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Ranjit is a co-founder of RNA Networks with over 11 years of experience in the field of high performance computing. Prior to RNA, Ranjit led the database clustering initiative at SilverStorm Technologies (now QLogic) and was the creator of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). At Intel, Ranjit worked on projects including Intel's InfiniBand initiative and the first Pentium 4 processor architecture. Ranjit holds a M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University and a B.E. in Electronics and Communications from Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, India.
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Rob has more than 20 years of software design, development, product marketing and management experience in high-profile, fast-growth technology companies. In addition to his hands on operating experience, Shurtleff has been active in the venture community as an angel investor since 1996. In 1999 Shurtleff founded Sightline Partners, a strategic consulting group focused on early stage companies in conjunction with a number of venture firms in Seattle.
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