"After finding and implementing the comprehensive email archiving solution from Mimosa, now the eDiscovery search process is reduced substantially – all with less manpower."
— Doug Blackburn, Systems Programmer Analyst, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department
T. M. Ravi — President & CEO, Mimosa Systems, Inc.
T. M. Ravi is president and CEO of Mimosa Systems, the leader in enterprise content archiving and eDiscovery. Before Mimosa Systems, Ravi was founder and CEO of Peakstone Corporation, a venture-financed start-up, providing performance management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Previously, 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, as well as the areas of application, systems and network management, software distribution, and 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 antivirus. Prior to Cheyenne, Ravi was the CEO and founder of Media Blitz, a provider of Windows NT storage solutions, which was acquired by Cheyenne Software. Earlier in his career, Ravi worked in Hewlett-Packard's Information Architecture Group, where he did product planning for client/server and storage solutions.
Sumant Mandal — Managing Director, Clearstone Venture Partners
Sumant joined Clearstone Venture Partners in 2000. His primary passion lies in helping visionary entrepreneurs build companies around large markets from the ground up. He represents Clearstone on the boards of DiVitas Networks, Mimosa Systems, Kazeon Systems, Billdesk (India), DiGibee Miicrosystems (India), Games2win (India), Rubicon Project and ThisNext. Sumant initiated and is responsible for Clearstone's investment activities in India.
Prior to Clearstone, Sumant spent more than eight years as an entrepreneur involved in starting companies both in India and the United States. Sumant was a founder of MyPotential, Inc., a multi-media company based in Santa Monica, CA, where he helped create the initial business plan, hire the executive team and launch the offering. As a Managing Director for Technip Inc., a company focused on infrastructure technologies in Asia, Sumant incubated and launched companies in the Industrial technology and renewable energy areas for the Indian and Asian markets.
Sumant has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. He is a Charter Member of TiE.
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.
Paul A. Sallaberry — Ex-VERITAS Software, EVP
Paul Sallaberry is a software industry veteran with a career leading Enterprise-class worldwide sales, marketing and services organizations.As Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for VERITAS Software, Paul was responsible for defining strategy and driving revenue in excess of $1.5 billion achieving profit goals for the corporation’s global multi-tier sales distribution and professional services operations. Paul propelled the organization’s transition from that of an emerging start-up to its unprecedented position as the world’s leading provider of enterprise storage management solutions, and industry-recognized sales distribution powerhouse. Paul left Veritas in 2003 in the capacity of Executive Vice President of Sales Strategy, having successfully positioned the organization’s International growth territories for the next phase of sales expansion.
Paul joined VERITAS in the role of Vice President, North American Sales in April 1997, through the acquisition of OpenVision Technologies,Inc. Paul successfully led the integration of OpenVision’s customer-facing functions with those of VERITAS which subsequently enabled VERITAS’ future worldwide distribution expansion. Promoted to SVP of worldwide sales, Paul led the seamless worldwide integration of VERITAS’ acquisition of Seagate, growing VERITAS’ worldwide sales capacity from an employee base of 200 at acquisition, to its current capacity of 2200+.
At OpenVision, Paul served in the capacity of Senior Vice President of Sales where he led the organization’s product and professional services revenue growth in the Americas up to its subsequent acquisition. Prior to OpenVision, Paul held a series of positions at Oracle Corporation from 1989 through 1992, including Vice President of Oracle’s Vertical Sales Division.
Paul serves on the Board of Directors for Quest Software, Calypso Technologies, Mimosa Systems, GFI, Dorado Software. He is also a member of the U.C. Davis Foundation Board of Trustees and is a frequent speaker at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Davis.
Navin Chaddha — Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Navin Chaddha is a proven serial entrepreneur and venture investor. Navin was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009, ranked on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 dealmakers as #11 in 2009, #10 in 2008 and #58 in 2007. He invests in the energytech, internet/digital media, enterprise, semiconductor, and service provider sectors in the U.S. and leads Mayfield’s investments in India. Navin has made over 25 investments in the past, of which 9 have had IPOs and 6 have been acquired.
Prior to joining Mayfield, Navin was a Partner at Gabriel Venture Partners and EIR at Mobius Venture Capital. He 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 and founder of Rivio (acquired by CPA2Biz).
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. Navin is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs and holds over 35 patents.
Vivek joined August Capital in 2003. He invests broadly in IT infrastructure and areas of interest include data center technologies, systems management, security, storage, and cloud computing systems and software.
Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek co-founded Cobalt Networks in 1996. As CTO & VP of Product Development, Vivek built the first successful server appliance and grew Cobalt into a worldwide leader in the category, culminating in a successful IPO and acquisition by Sun Microsystems for $2B. At Sun, Vivek served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Cobalt Business Unit and a member of Sun’s Technical Architecture Counsel.
Prior to founding Cobalt, Vivek held a number of technical and management positions at Apple, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Vivek received a BS in Electronics from Punjab University, India, and an MS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.
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