ACCEL Partners
ACCEL Partners is dedicated to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build category leading technology businesses. Accel has invested in many successful companies, including: Veritas, UUNet, Facebook, Real Networks, Walmart.com and MacroMedia. Accel also has a very strong pedigree in mobile technology. One of its most active partners in this area is Bruce Golden, who sits on our Board.

Bruce Golden: Bruce Golden has been focused on emerging markets and technologies since 1984, when he worked in the computer division at Lucasfilm. Bruce joined Accel in 1997 and specializes in enterprise and consumer software investments. Bruce currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at several private and public companies, including Amobee, comScore (SCOR), Qliktech, Streambase and Super Derivatives. Bruce was responsible for Accel's investment in Ajuba Solutions (acquired by Interwoven, Inc.), eCommerce Industries Inc. (acquired by Insight Venture Partners), Exchange.com (acquired by Amazon.com), Itemfield, (acquired by Informatica), Offermatica (acquired by Omniture), and SupportSoft (SPRT).

Prior to Accel, Bruce held executive marketing and sales positions at Illustra Information Technologies, a pioneer in the area of object-relational databases. In 1996 Illustra merged with Informix Software, where Bruce became General Manager of the Data Warehouse Business Development Unit. Prior to Illustra, Bruce spent eight years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of entrepreneurial roles, including developing Sun's strategy for the financial services market, moving to Hong Kong to help launch the Sun Asia subsidiary, and managing Sun's market development organization.

Bruce holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Columbia University. Bruce currently lives in London with his wife and two children.

Globespan Capital Partners
Globespan Capital Partners is a leading global venture capital firm investing in information technology companies. Globespan’s investment team has a proven track record based on partnering with management teams to build strong, successful companies.  Globespan have significant experience and relationships in Asia which allows them to provide portfolio companies with access to global markets. With offices in Boston, Palo Alto and Tokyo, Globespan invest in companies all across the U.S. and in Japan on behalf of a global base of limited partners.

Venky Ganesan: As a Managing Director at Globespan Capital Venky serves on the boards of Agitar, Exeros, Jajah, Nominum, oDesk, Plaxo and Strongmail.  Venky previously served on the board of Sendia (acquired by Salesforce.com).  Prior to joining Globespan, Venky was a co-founder of Trigo Technologies which was acquired by IBM.  His other work experiences include working at McKinsey and Microsoft.  He has degrees in Computer Science, Economics, and Math from Reed College and the California Institute of Technology. Venky sits on Amobee’s Board.

Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital has a long legacy of successful technology investments. Some of its best known and most successful investments in recent times have been in online advertising businesses such as Google, Yahoo and YouTube. Sequoia also invested in many more successful companies over the years, such as Cisco, Oracle, EA, Apple and many more.
We have the privilege of working closely with several partners at Sequoia, in particular, Haim Sadger who sits on our Board.

Haim Sadger: Haim Sadger focuses on semiconductor, systems and software investments. Before joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Haim held senior engineering and management positions at Intel Corporation. Haim has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He has invested in Actona, Bitband, Followap, Jajah, Kontera, Pentacom and Triana.

Advisors
We are fortunate to also receive advice and support from the following individuals:

Judy Gibbons, Venture Partner, Accel: Judy Gibbons has over 25 years experience in the computer industry with a focus on software, internet and consumer technologies. Before joining Accel, Judy was Corporate Vice President of MSN Global Sales and Marketing at Microsoft Corp managing the business across 40 markets worldwide. Judy joined Microsoft in 1994 to launch MSN in the United Kingdom, and went on to manage MSN Europe. She was promoted to run MSN International covering Asia-Pacific and Japan and then also took on responsibility for US Sales & Marketing.

Judy served on the main board of O2, the European mobile network operator, until its purchase by Telefonica.