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Board of Directors

Ray Rothrock, Chairman
Managing General Partner, Venrock Associates

Mr. Rothrock joined Venrock in 1988. His focus is primarily information technology companies and security and energy. Mr. Rothrock also serves on the board of Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) of Tel Aviv, Israel and a number of private boards including Imaginova, Imperva, Jadoo Power Systems, PGP, Qpass, Vontu, and Zia Laser. He previously served on the boards of WholeSecurity (acquired by Symantec, NASDAQ: SYMC), Spyglass (NASDAQ: SPYG), DIGEX (acquired by Intermedia Communications), Pedestal Software (acquired by Altiris, NASDAQ: ALTS) and Haystack Labs (acquired by Trusted Information Systems/Network Associates). He also led Venrock's investment in DoubleClick (NASDAQ: DCLK). Mr. Rothrock received a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A & M University, an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School.

Mark Ashida
Managing Director, OVP Venture Partners

Mark Ashida joined OVP Venture Partners in 2007 and focuses on investments in infrastructure, SaaS, Networking and enterprise software. Prior to joining OVP, Mark served as General Manager of Windows Enterprise Networking at Microsoft Corporation where he was responsible for the networking infrastructure and authentication servers, representing over $450M in enterprise sales. Prior to Microsoft, Mark was Chief Operating Officer at InterTrust, a public company (ITRU). InterTrust provided secure, trusted computing for secure distribution of music, video and other digital goods and was the leading company in digital rights management. The underlying technology was seminal as confirmed by Microsoft paying the company over $400M in a license settlement. InterTrust was sold to Sony and Philips for $450M in 2002. Before joining InterTrust, Mark was also a General Manager at Intel Architecture Labs involved in the spinout of PassEdge, a green business in security, networking and digital rights management. Mark was CEO of an early venture-backed WAN networking equipment company sold to 3Com, and involved as a turnaround of one of the earliest web measurement companies. He also was a partner at Braxton Associates, acquired by Deloitte & Touche, and leader of its West Coast Strategy Practice. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Avenda, DepotPoint, Serus and Symform, and is a Board Observer to Lucid Commerce, CGI, Carbonflow and Collaborative Software Initiative.

Mark received his undergraduate degree from Pomona College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mark grew up as the son of a US diplomat and spent most of his pre-college life in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He is the father of two teenagers and has yet to find a high tech gadget he did not enjoy.

Tench Coxe
Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures

Mr. Coxe joined Sutter Hill in 1987 following his tenure with Digital Communications Associates in Atlanta, where he managed T-1 products and directed internal MIS and marketing. Previously, he worked with Lehman Brothers in New York City, where he was a corporate financial analyst specializing in mergers and acquisitions as well as debt and equity financing.

His current directorships include Artisan Partners, Ceon, eLoyalty, FaceTime Communications, NVidia and Ruckus Wireless. He was also responsible for the firm's investment in Alteon Networks, @mobile, Avant!, Edify, Legato, Lynk Systems, Network Appliance, Grand Junction, NCD, OnStream Networks, Synernetics, Primary Access, and XcelleNet. Mr. Coxe graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in economics. He earned his MBA in 1984 from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business.

Nick Sturiale
General Partner, JAFCO Ventures

Nick Sturiale joined Jafco Ventures in 2009, bringing over twenty years of experience in the technology industry both as a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur. He has been with three start-ups in product and marketing roles and has developed great insights regarding how best to scale early-stage companies with limited resources. As a venture investor, he has guided and financed, from the seed stage, several significant companies.

Nick's venture capital career began with Sevin Rosen Funds, a leading venture capital fund, where he spent nearly ten years, including eight as a General Partner. At Sevin Rosen, he developed exceptional skills as an active seed and early-stage investor. He then joined The Carlyle Group as a Managing Director and co-head of its Silicon Valley office focused on technology investing. Prior to his venture experience, Nick spent twelve years as an entrepreneur and operating executive leading all facets of product management, business development and marketing in venture-backed start-ups. He was founding CEO of Timbre Technologies (acquired by Tokyo Electron for $138 million) and held senior management roles with Quorum Software and Candescent Technologies.

At Jafco, Nick is on the Board of or is actively involved with Bill.com, Groundwork Open Source, RedSeal Systems, ReputationDefender, SocialVibe and Vuclip. Nick was also instrumental in the sale of Quellan (Intersil) and Solidcore Systems (McAfee).

Nick's past investments include XenSource (Citrix Systems), which was acquired for $500 million. He also serves on the Board of Splunk and YouSendIt, two currently active prior investments.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Chico and an MBA with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a frequent guest lecturer.

Dr. Parveen Jain
Consultant (formerly Executive Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Strategy, McAfee)

At McAfee, Parveen was responsible for the company's overall security and intrusion prevention, worldwide marketing and corporate strategy development. Prior to McAfee, Jain was Co-founder & CEO of IntruVert Networks, a start up in the security space with appliances for the intrusion detection and prevention market. Intruvert was acquired by McAfee in May of 2003. Prior to IntruVert, Jain held several senior management and executive positions, including CEO of Computing Technologies International, which delivered software and services to power utilities. Jain has also served as vice president of Application Products at Expert-EASE Systems, managing the development of software targeting the aerospace industry, and held senior product management positions at S. Levy Inc. and Systems Control Inc. Jain is the author of over 50 business and professional papers. He has a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; MS from University of Cincinnati; BSEE from Indian Institute of Science, India; and BS from Delhi University, India.

Pete Sinclair
Managing Director, Leapfrog Ventures

Mr. Sinclair has over 20 years of senior operating and five years of venture capital experience. He has been CEO of companies that he successfully sold to Microsoft, Novell, and Adobe Systems, and has participated in two IPOs. He started his career with Hewlett-Packard and joined Apple Computer when it was still a small private company. He has raised money from and worked for some of the top venture capital firms. Mr. Sinclair has a BS in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of Stanford Business School's Executive Program for Small Company Presidents.

Tom Arthur
President and CEO, RedSeal Systems

Tom has over 20 years experience helping startups and fortune 500 companies build successful businesses. Most recently, Tom was CEO of PhoneSpots, an early innovator and international provider of mobile local search content and advertising solutions for Yellow Page and Directory Assistance (411) operators. Prior to PhoneSpots, Mr. Arthur served as President and CEO of Arbor Networks, a leading network security company focused on detecting, tracing and mitigating denial-of-service and worm attacks against service provider and large enterprise infrastructure. Prior to Arbor Networks, Mr. Arthur was President of ActivCard Inc., where he grew the company from $3m annual revenues to over $34m culminating in a successful IPO. From 1988 to 1998, Tom served in various sales, marketing and general management roles for Novell Inc. His last position was VP and GM of Novell's Internet Infrastructure Division. Tom holds a BS from the University of California at Davis.

Joel Evanier
Co-Chairman and Executive Vice President of Business Development

Joel's 25 year career includes leadership roles spanning network computing, networking and security. Prior to joining RedSeal Systems, Joel was co-founder and Vice President of sales and business development at RouteScience, a router optimization company acquired by Avaya. Prior to that, Joel was Director of sales at Cisco Systems, where he built and managed a national overlay organization for security and network management products. Before Cisco, Joel was Vice President of sales, marketing and business development at Netsys (acquired by Cisco), and spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems in national and worldwide sales management roles.

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