Advisory Board

Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix Systems. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Previously, he was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. Before joining the private sector, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTOs.

 

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 is the Vice President of Engineering at Facebook. Mike is responsible for harnessing the engineering organization's culture of speed, creativity and exploration to build products, services and infrastructure that support the company's users, developers and partners around the world. Before coming to Facebook, Mike was the Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global, collaborative, open and participatory product development process behind Mozilla's popular software, such as the Firefox web browser. Mike was formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems where he was the Chief Technology Officer for the data center automation division ("N1"). He was also the founder, Chief Architect and Director of Engineering at CenterRun, which was acquired by Sun. Mike worked with several startups at the outset of his career, including a digital effects software startup where he built software that has been used in several major motion pictures. Mike holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University and has filed two U.S. patents.

 

Eugene Kuznetsov was most recently an executive at IBM, with responsibility for product management and marketing of SOA appliances. In addition to his P&L management duties, Kuznetsov was also a member of IBM Software Group Architecture Board and IBM AIM (WebShere) Strategy Council. Kuznetsov joined IBM through acquisition of DataPower in October 2005, with substantial returns for all shareholders. Both Kuznetsov's business and technical leadership has received recognition, including the prestigious InfoWorld Top 25 CTOs of 2005 and regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 awards. Eugene founded DataPower in 1999 and served as President until spring 2003.The company developed the first "XML-aware networking" hardware, then unique in delivering message-level processing functions within a secure network device. DataPower's broad product family ensures award-winning security, performance and manageability for XML, Web Services and SOA applications. Kuznetsov served as President, VP of Marketing, CTO and Chairman at various points in the company's six year history as it grew from one to 75 employees, raising over $20M from investors and building a customer list of household names. Kuznetsov's articles have appeared in ZDNet, EETimes, XML Journal, Network World, Java Report, eBizQ and SC Magazine. He is a well regarded speaker at numerous conferences and events including NetSec, JavaOne, Networld+Interop, NATO C3 Agency, HPWorld, CIO Council XML.gov Working Group, Web Services DevCon, MITRE XML Day, NECINA, Web Services Edge, Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit, the IT Security & Privacy Conference, and ITTC 2004.

 

Shawn Findlan has over 20 years experience in successfully managing technology services, venture companies and investments. West Avenue Capital provides funding, economic development and business development services to best-of-breed, early-stage companies. Prior to starting West Avenue Capital, Mr. Findlan was Global Head of Strategic Engineering & Architecture at Morgan Stanley where he was responsible for infrastructure and architecture strategy as well as investment due diligence. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Findlan held several senior management roles at J.P. Morgan Investment Bank, including Global Infrastructure Manager for Credit & Fixed Income and Asia Regional Head of Technology Infrastructure Management. He has been based in New York and Asia. Before joining J.P. Morgan in 1997, Mr. Findlan worked for AT&T in Asia and for the U.S. Department of Defense. He was awarded Best CTO on Wall Street in 2007, a Smithsonian-ComputerWorld Laureate in 2006, and Best Technology Initiative on Wall Street in 2005.