John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.

JOHN MASHEY , a consultant for venture capitalists and technology companies, sits on various technology advisory boards and is a trustee of the Computer History Museum. He spent 10 years at Bell Laboratories, working on PWB/Unix, including text-processing (the troff MM macros), command languages, Unix process accounting, security, and other issues needed to help Unix become widely accessible. He later managed development of Unix-based applications and software development systems.

Mike Farmwald is a successful serial entrepreneur working in the Silicon Valley high-tech industry. He is currently a partner of Benchmark Capital, a venture capital company. He has founded these companies: *"FTL" (1986) - ECL supercomputers, merged with MIPS Computer Systems *Rambus (1990) - high speed interfaces, used in PCs and video game consoles *Chromatic Research (1993) - media-processors, …

David Hitz is founder and executive vice president of Network Appliance, a company that specializes in storage of data. Prior to 1992, he worked as a senior engineer at Auspex and as an engineer at MIPS Computer Systems. A graduate of Deep Springs College, he eventually earned a BSE from Princeton University. =Links= * Dave Hitz' blog: http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/

Dave Parry , Senior Vice President, Server Products and Operations, joined SGI in1992. He is responsible for server product development and business management, and SGI's manufacturing operations and remarketed products teams. Dave has served in a variety of executive roles at SGI leading engineering and business management efforts for server, storage and remarketed products.

Stratton Sclavos currently serves as Partner of the investment firm Radar Partners. Sclavos formerly served as chairman and chief executive officer of VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of trusted infrastructure services to Web sites, enterprises, electronic commerce service providers, and individuals.

Tom Riordan is a partner in O'Melveny's Newport Beach office and a member of the Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practice. He has been involved in complex litigation and internal investigations for a wide variety of businesses in both regulated and non-regulated industries.

Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich Andrew Erlichson ( andrew@phanfare.com ), Founder, CEO, member of the Board Prior to Phanfare, Andrew Erlichson was CEO & co-founder of Flashbase, which was acquired by DoubleClick in 2000. At DoubleClick, he was Vice President of Technology for the Research and Development Group. He has worked at Mips Computer Systems, Silicon Graphics and BlackRock Financial Management.

David leads the front-end engineering efforts for the Wink website. For the last ten years, David has been involved in delivering numerous high-profile consumer experiences, including running engineering for the Yahoo! Mail and PIM products, the first full-time employee and Principal Engineer at MailFrontier, and as Director of Engineering at Excite@Home running a number of the Excite portal products.

Norm Fogelsong has more than 25 years of high-technology venture capital experience. As a General Partner of IVP, he currently emphasizes investments in private expansion-stage information technology companies with more than $10 million of annual revenue. He also invests in select public market opportunities.

Stuart Gannes , Director, Digital Vision Program Stuart Gannes brings a lifelong interest in learning and innovation to the position of Director of the Stanford Digital Vision Fellowship program. His career spans the disciplines of journalism, software publishing corporate research, and education. After graduating with a BA from the University of Michigan, Gannes received his Masters in Education and Social Policy at Harvard University.

Mr. Patrick Durbin - Co-Founder & CEO, PlanView (USA)

Peter Slocum has joined the company as senior vice president of engineering, responsible for overseeing engineering growth, quality and customer support, and guiding the development of new products and services. With over 25 years of experience developing, managing, and leading engineering teams, Slocum has proven ability in attracting and retaining some of the most exceptional engineering talent.

Chris Rowen , Ph.D. Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer. A pioneer of the RISC architecture. Chris previously was Vice President for Microprocessor Development at MIPS Computer Systems. Most recently, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Design Reuse Group of Synopsys.

Ross Smith is a Co founder of Quantum3D, and has served as an officer and a member of its Board of Directors since the Company’s inception. Mr. Smith was named President of Quantum3D in 2003 and the Company has maintained profitability since his assumption of the position.

James Mannos joined Silicon Optix with more than thirty years of executive and engineering experience, which included serving as co-founder of four successful startup companies. In addition to his high-level executive positions, Mr. Mannos has gained extensive experience in chip design and development related to image processing, graphics, broadcast-quality digital video, and complex video encoders and decoders.

Kevin Przybocki - COO & CFO Mr. Przybocki has 14 years of broad management experience in high growth technology companies. His background includes operations, marketing and general management in startup, mid-size and large public companies. He has extensive experience developing and launching new products, both hardware and software, at companies like MIPS Computer Systems, SGI and Boston Scientific.

William J. Earl , Chief Architect William J. Earl has over 30 years of experience in computer system and processor architecture, operating systems, file systems, networking, fault tolerance, and distributed systems. He has applied his talents at Tandem Computers, MIPS Computer Systems, and Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, as well as at a number of startups.

Chie-Jin Cheng Vice President, Marketing and Sales Mr. Cheng has extensive experience with the start-up environments working for MIPS Computer Systems and Palm Computing as both software and hardware product development engineer manager. His 10+ years experience in the Engineering Management sector, his hands-on and know-how approach to working from raw materials to a finished product has made him stand out among his peers.

Dave Gravell - Business Development Director Dave Gravell is a successful sales professional with a history of extensive involvement in direct sales as well as setting up and supporting reseller channels. His experience in the market place spans working for major manufacturers to establishing start up companies. Prior to becoming ApplianSys’ Business Development Director, Dave Gravell was its Sales Director.

Dean Wohlwend Chief Financial Officer Dean Wohlwend boasts two decades of experience in finance and 14 years of management experience in the high technology domain. As chief financial officer he oversees the strategic planning, outside investment, and growth plans for Infogain. Prior to joining Infogain, Dean held several senior executive positions including vice president of finance and administration and CFO for Synacom Technology, and senior director of finance, Synopsys.

Richard Baum , Perforce Software Richard Baum is currently a senior technical support engineer at Perforce Software. He has worked with computers since 1978 in various consulting and support roles at Lehigh University, Ingres, Lucent Technologies, and other companies. When not answering customer calls, Baum likes to travel with his wife and children. Baum is presenting Commit Trigger Example - Configurable Number of Revisions and Performance Update with Michael Shields .

Mark has over 20 years of experience in senior software engineering management roles at various technology companies including Sun and Apple Computer. He is an industry executive consultant for TeleSoft investments in the software industry. He is currently President of Heavenstone and focuses on consulting to companies on software management, best practices, architecture and software development. Previously, Mark was Vice President of Engineering at Infoblox.

Amir Nayyerhabibi Cortina Systems, Inc. President & CEO Mr. Amir Nayyerhabibi is President and CEO and a Member of the Board of Directors at Cortina Systems, which he co-founded in June 2001. Mr. Nayyerhabibi has over 20 years of industry experience in leading semiconductor and large scale computer & networking systems.

Provide Information Technology and business experience in a variety of industries, including eCommerce, software, supercomputer and workstation hardware, and consulting. Enhanced enterprise effectiveness through process change or business technology solutions. Built creative, high-energy, and focused teams through strong leadership. 14 years of experience in web applications, eCommerce, ERP, CRM, SFA, HRIS, and reporting system implementations.

Thomas M. Rohrs Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer Mr. Rohrs has been a Director of the Company since December 2004. Mr. Rohrs presently serves on the board of Magna Design Automation, Inc., Ultraclean Technologies, and several private companies. In addition, he is an adviser and consultant to a number of companies both public and private.

John L. Hennessy President, Stanford University John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.

Derrick Mar Vice President, Engineering Derrick brings more than 20 years of experience in the software industry to his role at FrontBridge, where he is responsible for all product development. Derrick brings more than 20 years of experience in the software industry to his role at FrontBridge, where he is responsible for all product development.

RIC GIARDINA is the founder and president of Spirit Employed, a management consulting and training firm located in Los Gatos, California near Silicon Valley. For more than 20 years, Ric has worked in corporate America, as both an attorney and as a business executive. During that time, he has also been actively engaged in encouraging people to express their spiritual selves in their workplaces.

Tom Riordan , Director Tom Riordan is currently the president and chief executive officer of Exclara, a fabless semiconductor supplier of ICs for Solid-State Lighting. Most recently, Mr. Riordan was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior to Bessemer Venture Partners, Mr. Riordan was Vice President of PMC-Sierra's microprocessor division. Mr. Riordan joined PMC-Sierra when it purchased Quantum Effect Devices (QED), the company he co-founded in 1991.

Amir Nayyerhabibi , President & Chief Executive Officer Mr. Amir Nayyerhabibi co-founded cortina-systems in June 2001. Mr. Nayyerhabibi has over 20 years of industry experience in leading semiconductor and large-scale computer & networking systems. Prior to Cortina, he held executive and engineering management positions in private and public companies such as Cisco Systems, StratumOne Communications, Silicon Graphics, Inc., MIPS Computer Systems, and Intel Corporation.

Jim McElwee joined Weston Presidio as a Partner in 1992 and has been active in the venture capital industry since 1979. Prior to Weston Presidio, Jim was Senior Vice President of the Security Pacific Venture Capital Group and the founding Managing Director of its Menlo Park office.

Rosemary is one of the few professional managers whose experiences cover semi-conductor, software, computer system, e-commerce in her over 20 years of electronic, hi-tech career. Rosemary is noted for her leadership and acuteness in supply chain management, helped Ministry of Economics Affairs to develop its nationwide, 5-year project (code name ABCDE) to improve the Taiwan Supply Chain to serve global electronic industry,

Charles Marker –Vice President of Engineering Charles Marker is responsible for all of BDNA’s engineering development functions. Prior to co-founding BDNA in 2000, Marker was VP of Engineering at Geocast Network Systems, where he led client software, broadcast infrastructure and business systems development. Marker began his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and has held several development and senior management positions at MIPS Computer Systems and SGI.

Michael E. Paul joined the Company as Vice President, International Sales in July 1994. Prior to that, Mr. Paul served as Vice President of World Wide Sales at Trade, Inc., an international trade statistics data-base company, from December 1993 to June 1994. In March 1991, Mr. Paul joined Ultra Network Technologies, a network company, as Vice President of Sales and was named President and Chief Executive Officer in March 1991 and served in that capacity until July 1993.

Charles Marker is responsible for all of BDNA’s engineering development functions. Prior to co-founding BDNA in 2000, Marker was VP of Engineering at Geocast Network Systems, where he led client software, broadcast infrastructure and business systems development. Marker began his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and has held several development and senior management positions at MIPS Computer Systems and SGI.

Trevor Fagerskog Trevor Fagerskog is a founder and partner at the Internet Consulting Firm ThoughtMatrix. He is a 27-year veteran of the Silicon Valley having held numerous engineering and executive positions with GE, Fortune Systems, Mips Computer Systems, Silicon Graphics, CHS Group, USWeb/CKS, marchFIRST and Food.com. When Trevor is not designing websites, you might find him standing in a river trying to catch a big trout on a fly.

Steven A. Przybylski Dr. Steven Przybylski is President and Principal Consultant of the Verdande Group. He provides its technical, management and intellectual property consulting services. He is widely recognized as one of the industry's foremost authorities on cache and memory system design and DRAM architecture. An independent consultant since 1991, he has consulted to over 90 semiconductor and computer system vendors, venture capitalists, and legal firms.