COMPANY INFO
Board of Directors
Nick Beim, General Partner, Matrix Partners
Tom Bogan, Partner, Greylock Partners
Paul Brady, Chief Executive Officer
Don Casey, Chairman
Frans Kaashoek, Professor, MIT
Max Poletto, Technology Strategist & Co-Founder
Stephen Van Beaver, General Partner, Pilot House Ventures Group
Nick Beim, General Partner, Matrix Partners
Nick Beim, Nick Beim, a General Partner at Matrix Partners, focuses primarily on software and online services companies. Beim also serves on the boards of TheLadders.com, Care.com, the Gilt Groupe, and OATSystems. Previous investments he was involved in include JBoss. Prior to Matrix, Nick advised a variety of technology companies on strategic, operational and financial issues at McKinsey & Co and Goldman Sachs & Co.
Beim graduated from Stanford University and holds an M.Phil. from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. Nick also serves on the board of Endeavor, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Tom Bogan, Partner, Greylock Partners
Tom Bogan joined Greylock in 2004. His areas of focus include: software and development tools.
Before Greylock, Tom was president and COO of Rational Software, an S&P 500 enterprise software company from 2000 until its sale to IBM in 2003. He previously had served Rational as its COO and general manager of its testing business from 1996 to 2000. Prior to Rational, Tom was president and CEO of two early stage technology companies that focused on networking and peripheral products – Pacific Data Products (1993 to 1996) and Avatar Technologies (1987 to 1993). Before Avatar, his background was in finance and he served as a financial officer in public and private companies as well as positions in public accounting.
Tom sits on the boards of ClearForest and Ounce Labs. He also serves as a director of Citrix Systems as well as mValent and is a trustee of Stonehill College. He was previously a director of several public and private companies including eRoom Technologies and Meca Software.
Tom graduated from Stonehill College in 1972 with a degree in Accounting.
Paul Brady, Chief Executive Officer, Mazu Networks
Paul Brady has more than twenty years of experience in the general management and strategic development of high-growth businesses in the technology industry. Brady has a track record of leadership and success in establishing, developing, growing and operating solutions-oriented technology companies. As chief executive officer of Mazu Networks, Brady is responsible for revenue growth, customer acquisition, customer retention and business operations.
Most recently, Brady was president and chief operating officer of Guardent, a leading Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) that was acquired by Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) in February of 2004. Prior to joining Guardent, Brady was the senior vice president of services at Exodus Communications (NASDAQ: EXDS).
Previously, Brady was president of Cohesive Technology Solutions, where he helped direct the merger of Cohesive into Exodus Communications in 1999. Prior to that, Paul was founder and chief executive officer of Business Technologies Consulting Group, an IT services firm ranked as a "Fast 50" company in 1998 by Deloitte & Touche. His firm was distinguished as the eighth fasting growing technology company in New England and the 60th fastest growing company in the U.S. in 1998.
Brady began his career at Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) as consultant in the financial services technology practice.
Brady received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Hofstra University and a MBA from the Sloan Business School at MIT where he was an Alfred P. Sloan fellow.
Don Casey, Chairman
Don is responsible for working with the Board of Directors to steer the company's strategic direction. Don brings 30 years of IT management and consulting experience from companies such as IBM, Apple Computer, Wang and Lotus Development Corporation.
Don spent 21 years with IBM, where he held several senior management positions including vice president of communication hardware and software. After leaving IBM, he joined Apple Computer as vice president of networking and multimedia. Following Apple, Mr. Casey joined Lotus Development Corporation as vice president of the spreadsheet division, where he was responsible more than 80% of Lotus' revenues.
After leaving Lotus, Don became President and Chief Technology Officer for Wang Global. There he led the turnaround effort that remade Wang into a software and services company with $3.5 billion in annual revenues. Following the sale of Wang Global for $4 billion to Getronics, Mr. Casey joined Exodus Communications President and Chief Operating Officer.
Don has also served as a business and technology consultant to EMC and Fidelity Investments and is a member of the Board of Directors of Aspen Technology. He assumed his position at Mazu Networks in September, 2004.
Frans Kaashoek, Professor, MIT
Associate Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and a member of the MIT Lab for Computer Science.
Frans Kaashoek is a leading innovator in the field of computer systems, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a consultant for Cisco Systems.
He has made numerous inventions in operating systems, distributed computing, computer networking, compilers, and programming languages.
Kaashoek is also a founder of SightPath (acquired by Cisco), a provider of intelligent content delivery technology for enterprises and service providers.
Max Poletto, Technology Strategist & Co-Founder
Prior to co-founding Mazu, Max was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Lab for Computer Science, where he collaborated on the modular packet processing architecture that has since evolved into the Mazu platform.
Max received a Ph.D. from MIT in 1999 for research on improving the performance of computer programs by allowing them to automatically adapt to changing run-time conditions. His work on compiler algorithms has been adopted by groups at Microsoft and IBM.
Immediately prior to Mazu, Max bicycled over five thousand miles from continental Europe's northernmost point to its southernmost point.
Stephen Van Beaver, General Partner, Pilot House Ventures Group
Prior to joining Pilot House Ventures, Stephen was co-founder and Senior Vice President of Operations for Road Runner LLC, the high-speed data joint venture between MediaOne (now AT&T Broadband), Time Warner (now AOL Time Warner), Compaq and Microsoft. He also served as Vice President of Operations and Technology for MediaOne Internet Services, and prior to that, for Continental Cablevision. While at Road Runner LLC, Stephen rapidly grew numerous operational functions such as a carrier-class Network Operations Center (NOC), twenty-one high-availability data centers worldwide, Deployment, Program Management, Quality Assurance, Network Operations, Customer Care, and Regional Operations. Overall, Stephen played a significant role in the acceptance and growth of the Broadband industry pertinent to Internet cable-modem services.
Prior to joining Continental Cablevision, Stephen was General Manager of the AT&T Interchange Online Network division. In addition, Stephen held executive positions at Shiva and Index Technology within the Marketing, Operations and Technology functions.
Stephen has been an entrepreneur and active in investing in and assisting startup companies since 1984. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Storigen, Aura Communications, Stargus, UCentric Systems and Mazu Networks.
Stephen holds a Masters degree from New Hampshire College and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Hartford.