Regular speaker at P&P Startup Camp

Regular lecturer in the Entrepreneur class

www.ataventures.comATA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seeking out early stage private companies which appear to offer above average prospects for capital growth. With $440 Million of capital under management, ATA Ventures focuses on Information Technology (IT) and provides seed capital and early stages of financing to these companies.

Trilibis delivers server-side software delivering an optimized, one-web experience across all desktop and mobile devices.

Zoosk is a global on-line dating platform that is smart, effective and used by 30+ million singles in 60 countries and in 25 languages. The global on-line dating market is estimated to be $4B with 2B singles.

Zoosk is a leading online dating company that learns as you click in order to pair you with singles with whom you're likely to discover mutual attraction. Zoosk's Behavioral Matchmaking™ technology is constantly learning from the actions of more than 40 million members in order to deliver better matches. Zoosk is a market leader in mobile dating. Available in over 80 countries and translated into 25 languages, Zoosk is a global online dating platform.Zoosk, Behavioral Matchmaking™, Carousel, First Comes Like, SmartPick™ and the Zoosk logo are trademarks or service marks of Zoosk, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks or names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

WAN aware, hybrid cloud design & management.

Streaming the world’s best VR video

Web, Email, and Social Media Security.

Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 200 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than 500 billion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Rakuten, CSC, Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media

Whether you're paying bills, shopping online or need help managing passwords, Billeo combines three great tools into one convenient package to make your online life easier and more secure.1. Bill Pay Assistant Makes it easy to pay bill with credit or debit cards, auto-saves receipts and reminds you when bills are due. 2. Shopping Assistant Makes shopping easy by filling forms, saving receipts and storing your online profile securely.3. Password Assistant Memorizes and auto-fills all your passwords for online accounts.

The Argyle in-memory data management system ingests, processes, analyzes and actions data on a massively parallelized and scalable platform. Technology is built to optimize and harness the power of next generation multi-core processors and with a fully SQL standards-compliant in-memory database (ACID compliance, NUMA-aware), operates on commodity hardware and operating systems, and has complete API library for customer applications- operates in both stand-alone and grid/clustered environments to integrate disparate data sources for analytics.

Fredio is developing a content aggregation application for internet connected TVs, Blu-Ray players and game consoles that allows consumers to find and enjoy on their TV's free of charge (i.e. ad-supported premium video content from major broadcast network’s websites). Cumulatively, such websites offer tens of thousands of hours of professionally produced video content – all for free.

Acquired by InComm in Sept 2011Medagate’s OTCNetwork technology platform supports several applications that enable members of private health plans, Medicare and Medicaid to more easily access and spend their monthly healthcare and incentives benefits by using restricted spend debit cards at retailers nationwide. Using this solution, health plan providers can reduce healthcare costs, attract and retain members by offering them unique incentives to improve their overall health and wellness, and easily control benefit and incentive spending. The OTCNetwork is currently integrated into point-of-sale terminals at over 35,000 retail locations in all 50 states. The OTCNetwork’s re-loadable prepaid cards for Medicare and Medicaid were the first to restrict usage exclusively to OTC benefits eligible items.

Acquired by EdgeWave in August 2010. Red Condor is a managed service provider of highly resilient email security systems for businesses, government agencies and service providers. Red Condor’s email security eliminates spam, viruses, spyware, phishing schemes and other offensive content, with perimeter defense against denial-of-service and directory harvest attacks.

WaveBender is an early stage, venture backed company, founded to pursue the development of next generation flat panel antenna innovation developed by pioneers in antenna design.

Acquired by QualComm in April 2007. TeleCIS Wireless is a leading supplier of IEEE 802.16-2004 WiMAX System-on-Chips (SoCs) for both fixed and portable WiMAX consumer devices and applications

A MEMS company backed by Sequoia Capital, Austin Ventures, & Council Ventures manufacturing fully optical switches for telecomm applications.

Layer 7, Content Router company funded by Sequoia Captial.

Telecomm Optical Amplifier company backed by Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners. Acquired by Bookham in 2004.

Tunable Laser Company funded by IVP, Accel Partners, and Oak Ventures manufacturing VCEL lasers for Telecomm applications. Acquired by NeoPhotonics.

Developed and sold large Optical Switch Systems for Telecomm applications. Backed by Accel Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Pequot, Thomas Weisel Partners & SAIC. Described in a Telephony Magazine Article ,,, (The Best CEO You Have Never Heard Of) [http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_best_ceo_youve/] as well as a Princeton U. Case Study [http://www.memx.com/Hodges.pdf].$1.5B IPO in 2001 & later acquired by Zhone 2003.

3 color laser cinema projection.

Nanoparticle company funded by IVP, Venrock, and Nth Power, & ATA Ventures.

Video router.Acquired by Tandberg in 2006.

Automated whole blood cell counter for CD4/8 cells, stem cells, and WBC's in PLT transfusions.Acquired by Becton Dickinson 1999.

Manufactured and sold optical terabyte memory systems for near-line access of large databases. Acquired by ATG

Acquired by UniLever and later by Abbott LabsManufactured and sold the "Cell-Dyn" line of blood cell analysis instrumentation equipment.

Public NYSE company until acquired by CIBA Geigy 1987Served in a variety of engineering and management positions including the Division President of the Bar Code Scanning division in Eugene, OR and the Division President of the Autolab Chemistry Automation division in San Jose, CA..