Board of Directors

Kailash Ambwani

President and Chief Executive Officer, FaceTime Communications
Kailash Ambwani is a successful entrepreneur and senior executive with more than 15 years in the consumer and enterprise software and services industries.

Prior to joining FaceTime, Ambwani was Chief Operating Officer of Genesys Conferencing S.A., the leading global provider of audio, video and web conferencing and collaboration services with 2002 revenues of $210M. As COO, he was responsible for all Front Office operations worldwide including sales, marketing, service, and regional P&L. Before his tenure at Genesys, Ambwani co-founded Astound Incorporated, a leading venture backed player in the emerging web conferencing and collaboration market, and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until it was acquired by Genesys Conferencing. Preceding Astound, Ambwani founded and ran several software companies in the consumer and business productivity area including Gold Disk Inc. a leading, venture backed provider of video editing and multimedia authoring tools for the Windows PC.

Mr. Ambwani is a graduate of McMaster University where he received a Master of Science in Theoretical Astrophysics and a Bachelor of Science in Theoretical Physics, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

Tench Coxe

Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
Tench Coxe joined the firm in 1987 following his tenure with Digital Communications Associates in Atlanta, where he managed T-1 products and directed internal MIS and marketing. Previously, Coxe worked with Lehman Brothers in New York City, where he was a corporate financial analyst specializing in mergers and acquisitions as well as debt and equity financing.

Coxe's current directorships include Artisan Partners, Ceon, Clarus, Copper Mountain Networks, eLoyalty, JP Kids, Lynk Systems, NVidia, Vivace Networks and WildCard Systems. Coxe was also responsible for the firm's investment in Alteon Networks, @mobile, Avant!, Edify, Legato, Network Appliance, Grand Junction, NCD, OnStream Networks, Synernetics, Primary Access, and XcelleNet.

Coxe was also recently listed by Forbes magazine as the #5 VC in the country for total return in 2001. Mr. Coxe graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in economics. Coxe earned his Master of Business Administration from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business.

Mehdi Maghsoodnia

Founder, FaceTime Communications
Mehdi Maghsoodnia is a founder of FaceTime Communications and member of the Board of Directors. Under Maghsoodnia's technology vision, FaceTime built the first "IM network independent" integrated real-time business communication platform, IM Director in 1999. IM Director has been used as the basis for developing and delivering FaceTime's unique business applications and services to over 250 customers. Maghsoodnia's career spans over 15 years of telephony and communications architecture experience. Maghsoodnia is a frequently invited speaker to emerging network and technology trend conferences where he functions as a thought leader and founder of venture backed companies.

Maghsoodnia's career began at AT&T labs where he focused on high speed switching technologies and VLSI design. He later joined Metaphor Computer Systems to work on the first distributed decision support system, which was later acquired by IBM. In the early 1990's, Maghsoodnia co-founded Presidio Systems, a venture backed technology company that became the leading worldwide provider of distributed clinical data collection systems to the pharmaceutical industry.

Mr. Maghsoodnia holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his graduate studies in computer science at Stanford University.

Thomas M. Neustaetter

Partner, JK&B Capital
Mr. Neustaetter has over 20 years of experience as an investor and investment banker, including more than 15 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience. Prior to joining JK&B, Mr. Neustaetter was a Partner of The Chatterjee Group, an affiliate of Soros Fund Management, where he focused on private equity investments in the telecommunications and software industries. Prior to The Chatterjee Group, Mr. Neustaetter was the President and founder of Bancroft Capital, a general consulting firm, where he provided consulting services for a number of corporate clients, including several of The Chatterjee Group's portfolio companies. Before founding Bancroft, Mr. Neustaetter was with Chemical Bank for eight years where he founded Chemical Venture Partners-Northeast and was Head of Middle Market Investment Banking. In addition, Mr. Neustaetter served as Chief Financial Officer of First Reserve Corporation, an energy investment fund, for five years and was a Senior Tax Accountant at Price Waterhouse for three years.

Mr. Neustaetter earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy with great distinction (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mark Smith

Vice President, Worldwide Sales, InfoBlox
Mark Smith brings more than 20 years of sales experience in networking, network security, computer systems and client/server software markets to his role as vice president of worldwide sales for Infoblox.

Prior to InfoBlox, Mark served as vice president of corporate sales with Juniper Networks and vice president of worldwide sales with NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper in April 2004. While at NetScreen, Smith was named one of VARBusiness' Top 100 Execs of the year and a Computer Reseller News Channel Chief and he played an instrumental role in the company's success by consistently delivering double-digit quarter-on-quarter revenue growth. Smith also has held various sales positions at Apptitude Inc., Network Peripherals, Inc. (NPI), Digital Communications Associates and Zenith Data Systems. Mark holds a B.A. in political science from Wheaton College.

Sharon Wienbar

Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Sharon invests in mobile, internet, and enterprise software companies at Scale Venture Partners, which she joined in 2001. Sharon sits on the Boards of Biz360, Facetime Communications, Glu Mobile, MerchantCircle, PlayPhone, Reply!com and Waterfront Media.

Prior to Scale VP, Sharon spent 15 years at Critical Path, Amplitude Software, Adobe Systems and Bain & Company. Among her varied responsibilities, she directed marketing strategies and operations, integrated product and service businesses following acquisitions, managed the application of technology to Pacific Rim and European markets, and negotiated complex intellectual property licenses.

Sharon holds a BA and MA in Engineering from Harvard University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sharon also serves on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Myelin Repair Foundation.