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Marcel Gani

Marcel Gani joined Juniper Networks as Chief Financial Officer in February 1997 and became Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in July 2002. From January 1996 to January 1997, Mr. Gani served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NVIDIA Corporation, a 3D graphic processor company. Mr. Gani also held the positions of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Grand Junction Networks, a data networking company acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc., from March 1995 to January 1996, and at Primary Access Corporation, a data networking company acquired by 3Com Corporation, from March 1993 to March 1995. Mr. Gani holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.



Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Vinod serves on the boards of Agami, eASIC, Indian School of Business, Infinera, Kovio, Metricstream, Spatial Photonics, Xsigo and Zettacore.

Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.



Ashok Krishnamurthi
CEO & Chairman, Xsigo Systems

Ashok Krishnamurthi is a founding member of Xsigo Systems and serves as both CEO & Chairman. Mr. Krishnamurthi has over 18 years of experience in management and engineering. Prior to joining Xsigo Systems, Mr. Krishnamurthi was with Juniper Networks, where he held the positions of Vice President and General Manager of the Infrastructure Product Line. Mr. Krishnamurthi has also held engineering and management positions at Sun Microsystems, Philips, Xerox PARC, and AT&T Bell Labs. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and a BS from Manipal, India.



Ray Lane
Managing Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Ray Lane is a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm in enterprise and consumer technology, as well as clean and alternative energy. These companies include Ausra, (solar concentrator), GreatPoint Energy (coal to gas conversion), Virsa (compliance for large enterprises), Elance (marketplace for services), MetaMatrix (data integration), Visible Path (relationship networks for enterprises), Xsigo Systems (virtual I/O switch for datacenters), SpikeSource (open source platform for integration and testing) and PodShow (social media network). He also serves on the board of Quest Software.

Before joining KPCB, Ray was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, and was a senior partner with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he pioneered and led the Information Systems Group.

Ray received a Bachelor's degree in mathematics and an honorary Ph.D. in Science from West Virginia University (WVU). He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU and serves as a director of the Foundation Board for the University. Recently, WVU honored Ray by naming the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Ray serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. He has been an active campaigner and planner for Carnegie Mellon's establishment of a Silicon Valley campus, and the co-creator of a High Dependability Computing Consortium with Carnegie Mellon and NASA. Ray serves as Vice Chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the International Board of Special Olympics for several years. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from Golden Gate University.



Mark Leslie
Managing Director, Leslie Ventures

Mark Leslie is currently the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company. He is also a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Sales Organization.

Mark Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. During his tenure as CEO the company went from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. In 2000 Veritas was the tenth largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company.

From 1980 until 1990 he served as president and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley high- tech start up companies. Prior experience included sales management, sales executive, systems engineer, and OS programmer.

Mark currently serves on the boards of Avaya Corporation (NYSE:AV) and Network Appliance (NSDAQ: NTAP) and a number of privately held high-technology corporations, including Cassatt Software, db4objects, Doostang, Model N Software, Panta Systems, PostX Corporation, and Xsigo Corporation, and is on the boards of non-profit organizations Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life, Community Foundation of Silicon Valley and Leslie Family Foundation.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and mathematics from New York University in 1966 and completed Harvard Business School's program for management development in 1980.



Frank Vitagliano
VP Worldwide Channels, Juniper Networks

Frank joined Juniper Networks in March 2006 as Vice President of WW Channels and in July 2006 assumed his current position as Senior Vice President of WW Channels and U.S. Enterprise Operations. In this role, Frank has responsibility for Juniper’s WW Channel organization and all sales to U.S. Enterprise customers.

Prior to joining Juniper, Frank started with IBM in 1973 and spent the early stages of his career in a number of assignments, ranging from Business Operations to Sales Management in both the Enterprise and Channel organizations.. In 1994 he was named Director of Channel Marketing for the IBM Personal Computer Company and held that position until 1996 when he was named Vice President 0f WW Fulfillment Operations. In 2000 Frank was promoted to Vice President of Distribution Channels Management and in 2003 was named as the Vice President of WW Distribution Channels for the IBM Global Business Partner Organization.

Frank has a degree in Business Management from Northeastern University in Boston. He is married with one daughter, who is currently at the University of Georgia. He previously was a Member of the Board of Directors for COMPTIA (2001-2003) and a Member of the Marketing Board of the Technology Association of Georgia (2002-2004). In addition he has served on the Board of Advisors for numerous companies and provided advice related to go-to-market strategies, particularly regarding channels.

In August 2003 Frank was recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award by VAR Business Magazine, in recognition of ongoing accomplishments in the U. S. Information Technology marketplace.