Board of Directors
Board Observers
Daniel H. Ahn
Managing Director, Voyager Capital
Dan focuses on internet, infrastructure, clean IT, wireless, and core technology areas. He has extensive experience in venture capital investing, portfolio company management and technology entrepreneurship. He serves on the boards of Coulomb, Nusym and Vidder for Voyager. Prior to Voyager, Dan was a partner and managing director at Woodside Fund, an early stage venture capital firm, for nine years. At Woodside, he has led the firm's investing in core technology and infrastructure companies, and led the creation, development and investment in numerous successful companies, including companies such as Analogix and Berkeley Design. Prior to Woodside Fund, he was an associate at the Foster Management Company, a venture capital firm that invested in and consolidated fragmented service companies. Prior to that, Dan was the co-founder and president of a successful technology startup company, Endpoint Technologies, Inc., which developed and sold real-time manufacturing control systems for semiconductor device production. He was responsible for the company's product management, business development, and finance. The company was acquired by Applied Materials. Prior to that, Dan was with the venture capital group at CS First Boston, where he worked with information technology companies. Dan has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College. In addition to being a classical violinist, Dan enjoys outdoor activities and reading.
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Mark Leschly
Managing Partner, Rho Capital Partners and Rho Ventures
Mark has spent over 15 years in the private equity and venture capital business investing in information technology, energy, healthcare and media. Mark is a Managing Partner of Rho Capital Partners and Rho Ventures. He manages the west coast office of Rho and as a Managing Partner of Rho Ventures he has both founded and financed numerous emerging private companies. Previously, he had several years of management consulting experience at McKinsey & Company. Mark received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Harvard University. Rho Ventures has a multi-stage investing strategy focused on high-growth companies in large markets. Rho Ventures’ investments span energy technology, new media, healthcare, IT, communications and other disruptive technologies. Rho Ventures brings nearly 30 years of venture experience, combined with its partners’ deep sector expertise and its far-reaching network to assist each portfolio company. This approach has allowed Rho to participate in the growth of some of today’s most innovative and successful companies, including Active Power, Capstone Turbine, Ciena, Compaq Computer, Gloucester Pharmaceuticals, Human Genome Sciences, iVillage, MedImmune, ReachLocal, Shire Pharmaceuticals and Tacoda. Rho Ventures is currently investing from Rho Ventures VI, a $510 million fund. The firm has offices in Palo Alto, New York and Montreal, with investments across the globe. www.rho.com
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Richard Lowenthal
Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Coulomb Technologies, Inc.
Richard Lowenthal is the CTO of Coulomb Technologies, which he co-founded in 2007. From 1998 until 2007 he was instrumental in starting several companies, including Lightera, Pipal Systems and Procket Networks. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Lowenthal was vice president and general manager of Cisco's WAN Access Products Division. From 1990 through 1995, Mr. Lowenthal was vice president of research and development for StrataCom, a telecommunications equipment company. Prior to StrataCom, Mr. Lowenthal was co-founder and vice president of engineering for Stardent Computers, and vice president of engineering for Convergent Technologies. Mr. Lowenthal is also a former Mayor of Cupertino, California, and has been heavily involved in the non-profit world. He has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
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Pasquale (Pat) Romano
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Romano was formerly the President and CEO of 2Wire which was recently acquired by Pace Plc. for $475 million. Prior to co-founding 2Wire, Mr. Romano held several engineering and marketing positions at Polycom, Inc. In 1989, he co-founded Fluent, Inc., a digital video networking company, and served as chief architect until the company was sold to Novell Corporation in 1993. Mr. Romano earned his undergraduate degree in computer science from Harvard University, and received his master's degree from the MIT Media Laboratory.
Gerd Goette
Investment Partner Venture Capital, Siemens Financial Services Inc., Siemens Venture Capital
Bonwoong (Brian) Koo
Managing Partner, Harbor Pacific Capital
Tom Whiteaker
AVP, Hartford Ventures,
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