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Mimosa Systems Board of Directors/Investors
T. M. Ravi has had a long career with broad experience in enterprise management and storage. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of Mimosa Systems, Inc., a provider of information management solutions. Previously, Ravi was founder and chief executive officer of Peakstone Corporation, a venture financed startup and source of performance management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. In the past, Ravi was vice president of marketing at Computer Associates (CA). At Computer Associates, Ravi was responsible for the core line of CA enterprise management products including CA Unicenter; and in the areas of application, systems and network management, software distribution, help desk, security and storage management. He joined CA through the $1.2 billion acquisition of Cheyenne Software, the market leader in storage management and antivirus solutions.
At Cheyenne Software, Ravi was the vice president responsible for managing the company's successful Windows NT business with products such as ARCserve backup and InocuLAN anti-virus. Prior to Cheyenne, Ravi founded and was chief executive officer of Media Blitz, a provider of Windows NT storage solutions that was acquired by Cheyenne Software. Earlier in his career, Ravi worked at Hewlett-Packard's Information Architecture Group where he did product planning for client/server and storage solutions.
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A co-founder of August Capital in 1995, Dave's commitment to entrepreneurs and their market vision is reflected by his long-standing board relationships, he has served on more than 25 boards of directors during his 20 year venture capital career including Microsoft, Sun, Seagate, Adaptec, and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco). Prior to August Capital, Dave was a co-founder of Technology Venture Investors (TVI) in 1980 where he was involved in four highly successful funds that invested in more than 100 start-up and emerging growth companies. Among these early investments was Microsoft, where TVI was the sole investor and where Dave has been on the board of directors since 1981. Dave began his venture career at Institutional Venture Associates, where he spent a year after graduating from business school. Previously, Dave was a design engineer and development manager at Diablo Systems (acquired by Xerox) where he collaborated on and/or led various disk drive and printer programs.
Dave received a BSME from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford University. He also completed coursework for an MSEE at Stanford University. He has served as president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and is a past director of the National Venture Capital Association.
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Sumant joined Clearstone Venture Partners in October 2000, and focuses on core technology investments for Carrier and Enterprise Infrastructure. He is on the boards of portfolio companies Chutney Technologies, Mimosa Systems, Kazeon Systems and SiNett, he also led Clearstone's investments in ARIO Data Networks and works closely with Crimson Microsystems.
Prior to Clearstone, Sumant spent more than eight years as an entrepreneur and successful manager, including building one business in India from start up to substantial revenues. He served as a Managing Director for Technip Inc., a company focused on infrastructure technologies in Asia. Sumant engineered the sale of controlling equity in his corporate division to a European multinational. Sumant was also a founder of MyPotential, Inc., a multi-media company where he helped write the company's first business plan, hired the key management team, raised close to $15 million in angel and venture financing and built key strategic relationships.
Sumant has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University.
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Joe Horowitz — Managing General Partner, JAFCO Ventures
A veteran venture capitalist, Joe joined JAFCO Ventures as the Managing General Partner in 2003, bringing 25 years of experience working with emerging growth companies as a venture capitalist, business advisor, and operating executive. Prior to joining JAFCO Ventures, Joe was Chairman & CEO of Geocast Network Systems, a broadband data broadcast company backed by Mayfield, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). Before Geocast, with the assistance of Bessemer Venture Partners, IVP and Benchmark Capital, he formed ICON Venture Advisors, a venture advisory business. In this capacity he actively consulted with and served on the boards of a number of early-stage businesses, aiding them in their strategic partnering, management, and financing initiatives. Prior to that, Joe spent ten years with U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). He joined USVP in 1982 as their fourth investment professional and became a General Partner and then a Member of the Executive Committee. Joe began his venture capital career in 1978 at Exxon Enterprises, the venture capital arm of Exxon Corporation.
Joe received his MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He initially studied engineering and applied sciences and then earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics at Columbia University. back to top
Rajeev Motwani is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1988. His research has spanned a diverse set of areas in computer science, including databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. He has written two books - Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. Motwani has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
Motwani serves on various industry boards and advisory boards, including Adeosoft, Agitar, Centrata, Coral8, DotEdu Ventures, Flarion, Google, Green Border, Jareva, Jumpstartup Ventures, Meru Networks, Mimosa Systems, Revenue Science, Sanera, Vhayu, and Xambala. He is a charter member of TIE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) and on the board of BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students).
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Vic Mahadevan is president and chief executive officer of NeoEdge Networks. Mahadevan was most recently CEO of Maxxan, where he led the company through the development and launch of its next-generation networking infrastructure technologies for the enterprise storage industry. Mr. Mahadevan is a 27-year veteran of the high tech industry with extensive experience in guiding companies and developing strategic business development agreements. Before serving as CEO of Maxxan, he was CEO and co-founder of iVita Corporation, an enterprise asset management software company. Before starting iVita, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Storage and Application Recovery Division for BMC Software. Prior to BMC, he transformed Compaq's Enterprise Storage and Options Division into a $4 Billion industry powerhouse as its VP and General Manager. Vic holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and business administration from the University of Iowa.
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Paul A. Sallaberry
Paul Sallaberry is a software industry veteran with a career of building and managing enterprise-class worldwide sales, marketing, technology, and consultative services organizations. Most recently, Paul was executive vice president of sales strategy for VERITAS Software, positioning international sales territories for growth. As executive vice president of worldwide field operations at VERITAS, Paul was responsible for defining the strategy and managing operations to drive revenue in excess of $1.5 billion, which propelled the organization from an emerging start-up to the world's leading provider of enterprise storage management solutions.
Paul joined VERITAS from OpenVision Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of client/server systems software for automated operations, application availability, backup, and network security. At OpenVision, Paul was senior vice president of North American operations, where he led the organization's product and professional services revenue growth and was responsible for sales. Prior to OpenVision, Paul held a series of positions at Oracle Corp., including vice president of Oracle's vertical sales division, where he defined Oracle's vertical sales strategy, and evolved the organization from an emerging market opportunity to become a major component of Oracle's mainstream revenue.
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Navin Chaddha - Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Navin Chaddha is a proven serial entrepreneur, corporate executive and venture investor. Navin was named on the Forbes Midas List as a top 100 dealmaker in 2007. He invests in the software, enterprise infrastructure, networking systems, communications, Internet infrastructure and semiconductor sectors in the U.S. Navin leads Mayfield's investments in India. His current Mayfield investments include Mimosa Systems, Seedfund and Tejas Networks. Navin has made 25 investments in the past of which 9 have had IPOs and 6 have been acquired.
Navin was founder and CTO of VXtreme, a streaming media software company that was acquired by Microsoft and became Windows Media. He served in various management roles at Microsoft after that. Navin was also the co-founder of iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ IPO) and CEO of Rivio (acquired by CPA2Biz). His venture investing experience includes Managing Director at Gabriel Venture Partners and Venture Partner at Mobius Venture Capital.
Navin holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University (received the Stanford and IBM Graduate Fellowships) and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi (received the Director's Medal for being first in his class) and was honored with the prestigious distinguished IIT Alumni Award in 2006.
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