Advisory Board

Simon Crosby -- CTO, XenSource

Simon Crosby is CTO for XenSource, which provides the industry's highest-performance virtualization technology, the open-source Xen hypervisor. Simon was previously principal engineer at Intel, leading strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Simon founded CPLANE, Inc., a network optimization software vendor, and held the roles of president and CEO, chairman, CTO and chief strategy officer. Prior to CPLANE, Simon was a tenured faculty member at Cambridge University in the UK, where he led research on network performance and control and multimedia operating systems. He is the author of more than 35 research papers and patents.

Dr. David Newman

Dave Newman is an independent director and early advisor to Vyatta. In addition to Vyatta he is currently on the board of Lightstorm Networks (Galway, Ireland) and Cswitch. He previously led investments in Pathscale, Redline Networks and SiLutia, all of which have been acquired by public companies. Dave spent most of his career in the computer and networking industries at Rapid City, FORE , Alantec. He previously spent 9 years at Digital Equipment Corp and began his career in wafer fabrication at Fairchild Semiconductor.

Dave has a PhD from in Electrical Engineering Colorado State University, an MS in Physics from the University of Connecticut and a BS in Physics from City College of New York.

Mike Schroepfer -- Vice President of Engineering, Mozilla

As Vice President of Engineering for Mozilla Corporation, Mike helps guide and foster Mozilla's heart and soul - its engineering group which is composed of a vast community of contributors and full-time Mozilla employees. Before joining Mozilla Corp., Mike was chief technology officer for Sun Microsystems' 450-person data center automation division ("N1"). He helped set the technical direction for architecture, industry standards, partnerships and acquisition strategy for the business unit and had technical oversight for many of Sun's software product lines, including clustering, systems management and next-generation datacenter automation products. Most notably Mike was made a Distinguished Engineer, one of Sun's highest technical accolades. He joined Sun as part of its acquisition of CenterRun, which Mr. Schroepfer founded and served as its Chief Architect and Director of Engineering. Prior to starting CenterRun, Mr. Schroepfer worked as a consultant helping startups build their initial technology infrastructure and hire their engineering teams. Mike was also the second engineer hired at a digital effects software startup where he architected and built digital video effects software used in motion pictures such as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Gladiator. He holds both bachelors and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University and has filed two U.S. patents.