Board of Directors

Kelly Herrell: Chief Executive Officer, Vyatta

As CEO and member of the Board of Directors, Kelly provides the strategic leadership and vision for Vyatta and drives it through to rapid execution. Kelly has a proven track record for growing companies based on open source in the systems, embedded and telephony industries. Before joining Vyatta, Kelly was the SVP of Strategic Operations at MontaVista Software, the world's pre-eminent embedded Linux supplier, where he led the strategic focus into telecommunications equipment and mobile phones. Today operators around the world such as NTT DoCoMo have network infrastructure and tens of millions of mobile phones in use that are based on MontaVista Linux.

Prior to joining MontaVista, Kelly was Vice President of Marketing for Cobalt Networks, the dominant provider of open source-based server appliances for web hosting. After helping drive the company growth through an explosive IPO and beyond, he played a key role in driving its successful $2.3B merger with Sun Microsystems.

Previous to Cobalt, Kelly was VP of Marketing for CacheFlow (Nasdaq: BCSI), directed worldwide marketing for Oracle's database products, and served in various product- and market-focused roles at NCR, Teradata and AT&T. Kelly holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Marketing from Washington State University, and an MBA from Cornell University.

Tom Bevilacqua: Managing Partner, ArrowPath Venture Partners

Tom founded ArrowPath in 1997 and is a Managing Partner of the firm. He brings over 25 years of Silicon Valley experience as an executive, general manager, investor and advisor to technology driven companies.

Prior to ArrowPath, Tom served as an Executive Vice President of E*TRADE Financial. At E*TRADE, Tom held a number of operational roles and was instrumental in establishing E*TRADE's successful acquisition and investment strategies. Tom was previously a Partner at two of Silicon Valley's leading law firms, where he lead practice groups targeting the needs of technology start-ups. In this role, Tom served as an advisor in over 250 public and private financings.

Tom currently serves on the Board of Active Reasoning, BlueRoads, Innotas, MetaLincs, Remend, and Xceedium. Prior investments and Board seats include Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless), Critical Path (CPTH), NetSec (acquired by MCI), Immunix (acquired by Novell), Sanera (acquired by McData), Persist (acquired by Hewlett-Packard) and Knight Trading Group (NITE).

Tom received his B.S. in Business Administration and J.D. from the University of California.

Allan Leinwand: Venture Partner, Panorama Capital

Allan is a Venture Partner at Panorama Capital (previously JPMorgan Partners). He focuses on technology investments and joined JPMorgan Partners in 2004 as an Operating Partner. From 2001 to 2004, he was President and Co-founder of Proficient Networks, Inc. From 2000 to 2001, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Telegis Networks, Inc. In 1997, Allan joined Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD) at inception and served as their Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer through the company's IPO and secondary offering. From 1990 to 1997, Allan served as Manager of Consulting Engineering and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. helping to build and engineer service provider and enterprise networks worldwide. He co-authored "Cisco Router Configuration" and "Network Management: A Practical Perspective" and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the subjects of computer networks, network management, and network design.

Allan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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 form the University of Connecticut and a BS in Physics from City College of New York.

Roland Van der Meer: Partner, Velocity Interactive Group

Roland has more than 25 years of experience in the communications industry as an engineer, strategist and investor in the communications, media, technology and infrastructure sectors. He is a founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group and was a General Partner with ComVentures, the firm he originally co-founded in 1987. Over the course of his career, Roland has invested in and helped manage more than 50 companies. He was among the first to spot the digital transmission revolution and funded PairGain. He followed this up by being the only venture investor in Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), the broadband communications semiconductor company that led the frontier of digital signal processing. Roland was also the initial investor in Arbinet (Nasdaq: ARBX), which created and operates the world's largest market exchange for telecommunications carriers, and Zantaz (acquired by Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), the leader in email/file archiving and retrieval. A number of Roland's pioneering companies have been acquired by major communications industry players, including: Chromatis Networks (acquired by Lucent), Confertech (acquired by Frontier), dynamicsoft (acquired by Cisco), Monterey Networks (acquired by Cisco), PairGain (acquired by ADC), SiteSmith (acquired by Metromedia Fiber Network), and Ascendent Systems (acquired by RIM).

Previously, Roland spent several years with Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners. Early in his career, he held engineering positions with GTE Labs and Sprint.

He holds a BSE from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from the Wharton School.

Deepak Sindwani: Principal, Comcast Interactive Capital

Deepak Sindwani is a principal with Comcast Interactive Capital, a $500 million venture fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation, where he focuses on building broadband, communications, and digital media companies. Prior to joining CIC, Deepak worked as an independent consultant to three telecom service providers. Previously, he worked as a product manager at Lucent Technologies, leading Lucent's content delivery network initiatives. Prior to Lucent, Deepak founded an Internet software startup company and worked as an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston's Global Technology Group.

Deepak graduated from the Management & Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the School of Engineering & Applied Science