Dr. Paul Voois, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Voois, a co-founder of ClariPhy, previously served as Chief Executive Officer of 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), a provider of voice over IP technology. Before assuming the CEO role at 8x8, he led the development of 8x8's consumer videophone product line. Dr. Voois received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where his research focused on digital communications and signal processing. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University, summa cum laude. Dr. Voois is an inventor on 10 issued U.S. patents.

Dr. Norman L. Swenson, Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Swenson, a co-founder of ClariPhy, has over 20 years of experience in the communications industry. Prior to ClariPhy, he served as CTO and VP Engineering at Kestrel Solutions, a maker of optical networking systems for local exchange carriers. Prior to Kestrel, he was Chief Engineer and Program Manager for Advanced Communications at Lockheed Martin, where he directed research in multi-gigabit communication systems. Dr. Swenson received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he developed novel applications of signal processing for fiber optic communication channels. He received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Physics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Dr Swenson has nine patents issued or pending and several journal and conference publications.

Robert B. Abbott, Norwest Venture Partners
Since joining Norwest Venture Partners in 1998, Mr. Abbott has focused primarily on enterprise software and communication technologies. Mr. Abbott sits on the board of mBlox (formerly MobileSys), Occam Networks and ClariPhy and actively works with Open-Silicon. He has also worked with such companies as Embark, Escalate, mPower (acquired by Morningstar), Quantum Effect Devices (acquired by PMC-Sierra), Silicon Access, Summit Microelectronics and Think3. Mr. Abbott was formerly a member of the board of directors of Covigo (acquired by Symbol Technologies) and Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices).

Mr. Abbott has nine years of operational experience in various roles, from engineering to marketing and product management. Before joining NVP, Mr. Abbott was at Silicon Graphics. Prior to Silicon Graphics, Mr. Abbott worked at IBM-ROLM Systems.

He holds B.S and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, all from Stanford University.

Susan A. Mason, Onset Ventures  
Ms. Mason came to ONSET Ventures in 1996 after holding positions in high technology engineering, marketing and business development. Ms. Mason most recently led a successful consulting practice, helping Fortune 100 corporations capitalize on emerging markets and technologies. Early in her career, she held positions in marketing and engineering design of high-performance systems and microprocessors for Fujitsu Microelectronics, Fairchild Semiconductor and NCR Microelectronics.

At ONSET Ventures, Ms. Mason specializes in hardware and software investments in the communications, networking and security arenas. She currently serves on the boards of CPlane, Glimmerglass, Lumenare Networks, Network Telephone and SS8 Networks. In addition, Ms. Mason leads ONSET's investment in Ensim.

Ms. Mason received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado and her MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Ms. Mason is a Kauffman Fellow and a founding board member of the Center for Venture Education.

Jonathan Funk, Allegis Capital
Jon Funk is a Managing Director of Allegis Capital, a $500 million group of venture capital funds founded in 1996 and focusing on startup investments in information technology. From 1985 to 1996, he was a founding General Partner of InterVen Partners, a Southern California early stage technology venture capital firm. Previously he was an officer in the venture capital group of First Interstate Bancorp. He has served on the Boards of many early stage and emerging companies, including Sandpiper Networks, Bizrate, Trading Edge, Ideaforest, Rent.com and Staccato Communications. Mr. Funk received an MBA as a Dean's List Scholar from the University of Southern California, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Nersi Nazari, Pacific General Ventures
Dr. Nersi Nazari is the founder of Pacific General Ventures, an early stage fund, which invests in semiconductor and software companies. Before Pacific General, Dr. Nazari was vice president of Signal Processing Technology at Marvell Semiconductor Inc., where his responsibilities included the development of storage and  communications products.  At Marvell he was directly responsible for the architecture of advanced read channels, Giga bit Ethernet physical layer devices, as well as WLAN products.  Additionally, he established the system-on-chip (SOC) family of products for the storage market, the highest revenue single family of products at Marvell.

From 1994 to 1997, Nazari was chief technologist at GEC Plessey Semiconductor. Before that, he was an engineer at Seagate Technology and Digital Equipment Corp. He holds eight patents.  He has a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Dr. John M. Cioffi, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Dr. John M. Cioffi holds the Hitachi America Professorship in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University , where he has been a member of the faculty since 1986. Dr. Cioffi’s research interests are in the area of high-performance digital transmission. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering; an International Marconi Fellow, a Fellow of the IEEE; and a recipient of the IEEE Kobayashi Medal and the IEEE Millennium Medal. He has published over 250 papers and holds over 40 patents.