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Atul is Managing General Partner at Bay. Atul's investment experience includes early stage investments in Lightlogic (acquired by Intel), Amber Networks (acquired by Nokia), Auroranetics (acquired by Cisco) and Afara Web Systems (acquired by Sun ). Prior to Bay, Atul served as President and CEO of Maple.
He also served in sales and marketing leadership roles at Cadence and Arcsys (IPO: ARCS). Atul acquired hands-on hardware engineering experience in the microprocessor team at Sun Microsystems. He began his career as a Research Associate at the Harvard/MIT Interdisciplinary Biomedical Engineering program.
Atul holds a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Bombay, M.S.E.E.from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and M.B.A.from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Tom Kemp is President and Chief Executive Officer at Centrify, where he is driving the strategic and operational activities of the company. Previously he was Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield, a leading venture capital firm. Kemp was a co-founder of NetIQ and in his last position there served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development. Other positions held by Kemp in his nearly eight-year tenure at NetIQ included Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Performance and Availability Management business unit; Senior Vice President of Products; and Vice President of Marketing. Prior to NetIQ Kemp held various management, technical and marketing roles at Compuware Corporation, EcoSystems Software, and Oracle Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and in history from the University of Michigan.
Peter Levine is senior vice president and general manager of the Virtualization and Management Division for Citrix. He is responsible for the division’s revenue attainment, product management, business development and strategic direction.
Levine joined Citrix in 2007 through the $500M acquisition of XenSource, the leading provider of enterprise-class virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen® hypervisor, where he served as chief executive officer. Under Levine’s leadership, XenSource introduced the XenServer product family including the OEM edition, signed strategic business agreements with such companies as Microsoft and Symantec, and quickly acquired more than 1,000 enterprise customers worldwide.
Prior to XenSource, he was a managing director at the Mayfield Fund, where he spent three years investing in a variety of software companies including Mendocino Software, Centrify, Zenprise, TrueDemand, OuterBay (acquired by HP), and Actona, (acquired by Cisco). Before joining Mayfield, Levine was an early employee of VERITAS Software and during his 11-year tenure with the company, helped to grow the organization from no revenue to more than $1.5B, and from 20 employees to more than 6,000. By the time he left VERITAS in 2001, Levine was executive vice president for Strategic and Platform Operations. responsible for worldwide marketing, OEM sales, business development (M&A, venture fund), and several new product and platform development groups. Prior to VERITAS,he was a software engineer at MIT’s Project Athena, where he worked on a variety of distributed computing projects.
Levine holds a BS in engineering from Boston University and attended the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Ravi Mohan has focused his entire career on the software business, with five years in operating roles and eight years investing in companies at Battery Ventures. During his operating career, Ravi built transaction-processing systems at Accenture, sold and implemented packaged software applications for Hyperion Software Corporation (Nasdaq: HYSW), and ran MIC, a software development firm based in India focused on business intelligence.
Prior to co-founding Shasta Ventures, Ravi was a General Partner at Battery Ventures and served on the Executive Committee. During his tenure at Battery, Ravi led eight investments and sat on the boards of eleven companies. His investments at Battery include Corillian (IPO in April ’00 – Nasdaq: CORI), SupplierMarket (sold to Ariba – Nasdaq: ARBA), QSS (sold to Telelogic AB), Enosys Software (sold to BEA Systems – Nasdaq: BEAS), Diligent Systems (sold to VerticalNet) and SenSage, Inc.
Ravi holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan School of Business with Highest Distinction and was awarded a Citibank Fellowship for academic distinction. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.
Allen Morgan has spent nearly 25 years counseling entrepreneurs throughout the startup company process, first as a well-known Silicon Valley lawyer and, since 1999, as a partner at Mayfield. Having closed more than 650 venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings in his career, Allen brings a broad base of startup experience to bear on behalf of entrepreneurs.
At Mayfield, Allen's principal focus is on two major investment areas: enterprise software applications and infrastructure, particularly innovative solutions that enhance knowledge-worker productivity, as well as on startups in the area of consumer internet, interactive entertainment and new media. More specifically, Allen focuses on social networking, wikis, blogs, and RSS businesses. He was a panelist on social networking at the Red Herring December 2003 conference and was a panelist at Chris Shipley's Blog On event in July 2004.
Allen currently sits on the Board of Directors of Beatnik, Electric Cloud, JotSpot, PlanetOut Partners (LGBT), Scalix, Serious Magic, Tribe.net, Pluck, Value Vision Inc. (VVTV), and Varsity Group (VSTY).
Prior to joining Mayfield, Allen was a partner with renowned Silicon Valley law firms, Latham & Watkins and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Allen earned an undergraduate degree (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth College, a second bachelor's degree and master's degree from Oxford University (Christ Church) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Waheed Qureshi is the Founder, Chairman and CTO of Zenprise Inc. The company is funded by premier silicon valley venture firms Mayfield Fund, Bay Partners and Shasta Ventures. Prior to Zenprise, Waheed founded Zambeel, a venture funded company that was focused on delivering scalable network attached storage sub-system. Prior to Zambeel, Waheed was at eXcelon Corporation where he focused on ObjectStore, the industry-leading distributed object-oriented database management system. His co-authored publications have appeared in ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest in Management of Data) and VLDB (Very Large Databases). Dr. Qureshi is a member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers), ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), Tau Beta Pai (National Engineering Honor Society), Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society) and is the co-author of several US patents (pending). Dr. Qureshi's current technical interests and expertise include storage sub-systems, file & data management and autonomic computing. Waheed holds a Ph.D in computer sciences from USC.
Jayaram Bhat has been the CEO of Zenprise since January 2004. Jayaram has over 23 years of marketing experience in high technology companies. Prior to Zenprise, Jayaram consulted with CEOs of Information Technology companies in developing and managing the execution of breakthrough business strategies as well as helping to raise venture funding. Recent clients include VA Software (Nasdaq: LNUX), Euclid, CenterRun Software, and Tealeaf Technology.
Between 1993 and 2001 Jayaram was the Vice President of Marketing of Mercury Interactive Corporation. As a member of Mercury Interactive's executive team, Jayaram helped lead the company from a pre-IPO stage with $13 million annual revenues to a dominant enterprise infrastructure software powerhouse with $361 million revenues in 2001 and a 60%+ market share with a market capitalization of over $6Billion.
Prior to Mercury Interactive, Jayaram served in various marketing and sales management positions at Cadence Design Systems, EDA Systems, and Daisy Systems. He started his career in 1980 at Intel as the product manager of the Intel 286 processor. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MS in Operations Research from universities in India and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Besides Zenprise, Jayaram serves on the boards of Tealeaf Technology and Electric Cloud.
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