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INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD

INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD

Hossein Eslambolchi, Ph.D

  • Venture Advisor, Allegis Capital
  • CIO/CTO ATT and President of ATT Labs (Retired)
  • President of ATT Global Networks (Retired)
  • Over 800 Patents

For nearly two decades, Dr. Eslambolchi led the transformation of AT&T's network, systems and services up until 2005. Dr. Eslambolchi served as Chief Technology Officer and advised its top leaders on the formulation and implementation of a strategic technology vision from 2001 to 2005. In addition to serving as CTO, Dr. Eslambolchi was also President of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services, President and CEO of AT&T Labs and Chief Information Officer. Dr. Eslambolchi has won numerous Awards including notable AT&T Science and Technology Medal and became AT&T Fellow and received the most prestigious technical award in 2002 given to any individual in history of AT&T Communications. Dr. Eslambolchi holds over 800 worldwide patents —Issued, Pending and in preparation. Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi is Chairman and CEO of 2020 Venture Partners (http://www.2020vp.com).

Charles Jablonski

  • Venture Advisor, Allegis Capital
  • VP Operations, OnLive
  • Former Executive Chairman, President & CEO, Myrio
  • Former COO, Geocast Network Systems
  • Former Vice President of Engineering and Technology, NBC

Mr. Jablonski oversees the operational aspects of OnLive, bringing a breadth of senior management, engineering and broadcast technology expertise to the company. Previously, Mr. Jablonski served as Executive Chairman, President and CEO of Myrio. Before that, Mr. Jablonski was Chief Operating Officer of Geocast Network Systems, a data broadcasting startup based in the Silicon Valley. Previously, Mr. Jablonski spent 16 years as the Vice President of Engineering and Technology at NBC. His responsibilities included Owned Stations Operations and Engineering, Strategic Technology, Network Distribution, International Operations and the Olympics, for which he was awarded four Emmys. Mr. Jablonski was the past President and is currently a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He also chairs the Emmy Awards Committee for Science and Technology.

Evan Bauer

Evan Bauer
  • Venture Advisor, Allegis Capital
  • CTO, Collaborative Software Initiative
  • Former CTO, Credit Suisse First Boston

Mr. Bauer has over 30 years of experience as an executive, consultant, analyst, and software engineer in the architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance of complex information systems and software products for mission—critical applications, primarily in the financial services industry. Mr. Bauer served as an adviser to the board of the Open Source Development Lab and is now the CTO of the Collaborative Software Initiative. Mr. Bauer served as CTO at Credit Suisse First Boston, the head of trading and sales architecture at Bankers Trust, and as an industry analyst with both Giga Information Group and the Robert Frances Group. Earlier in his career he worked as a software engineer at Digital Equipment, Control Data, SEED Software, and as an investigator on the staff of the United States Senate. His publications include over one hundred articles, research notes, and monographs. Mr. Bauer is on the board of Habitat for Humanity New York City where he has worked as a volunteer since 1999. He is an alumnus of Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Frank Fanzilli

  • Venture Advisor, Allegis Capital
  • Global Chief Information Officer, Credit Suisse First Boston (Retired)
  • Board of Directors—PeopleSoft, Interwoven, CommVault

Frank J. Fanzilli Jr. serves as a Corporate Director and advisor to technology companies, research firms and venture capitalists in the technology field. Mr. Fanzilli is the former Global Chief Information Officer and Managing Director of Information Technology at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he retired in 2002 after 18 years of service. Mr. Fanzilli remains very active in the technology industry, serving on several Boards of Directors in the software sector, including two public companies, PeopleSoft and Interwoven, and two private companies, CommVault and nLayers. In addition, Mr. Fanzilli serves as an advisor to a number of firms in the Silicon Valley, including Allegis Capital, based in Palo Alto, where Mr. Fanzilli is a Venture Partner. Mr. Fanzilli also holds a Research Chair at the Robert Frances Group, a technology research boutique in Westport, CT, where he is the Senior Research Fellow.

Tom Gillis

Tom Gillis
  • Venture Advisor Allegis Capital
  • CEO, Bracket Computing
  • Vice President and General Manager for the high—growth STBU Cisco's WSRTG
  • Former Co—Founder and Sr. Vice President of Marketing, IronPort Systems

Tom Gillis is CEO of Bracket Computing, a company he founded in December 2011. Gillis started Bracket with a vision to re-imagine enterprise computing. Before starting Bracket, Gillis was VP/GM of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems. This Technology Group included the business units responsible for Cisco's entire Network and Content Security product portfolio, including firewalls, IPS, VPN, and email security and web security gateways. Prior to Cisco, Tom was VP of Marketing and part if the founding team of IronPort Systems which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. Before that, he held the position of VP/GM at iBEAM Broadcasting, an Internet start up that wentpublic on NASDAQ. He has also worked at Silicon Graphics, the Boston Consulting Group, and Raytheon Corporation. Gillis received a BSEE from Tufts, an MSEEfrom Northwestern, and an MBA from Harvard.

Andrea Goldsmith, Ph.D

  • Venture Advisor, Allegis Capital
  • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
  • Stanford University

Andrea Goldsmith received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 1986, 1991, and 1994, respectively. She was an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at Caltech from 1994-1999. In 1999 she joined the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford University, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her industry experience includes affiliation with Maxim Technologies from 1986—1990, where she worked on packet radio and satellite communication systems, and with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1991-1992, where she worked on microcell modeling and channel estimation. Her research includes work in capacity of wireless channels and networks, wireless information and communication theory, multiantenna systems, joint source and channel coding, cross-layer wireless network design, communications for distributed control, and adaptive resource allocation for cellular systems and ad—hoc wireless networks.

Todd Rowe

Todd Rowe
  • Venture Advisor Allegis Capital
  • Head of Worldwide Channel Sales, Google, Inc.
  • Former Sales, Marketing and General Management positions with Adobe, Apple Computer, IBM, E.piphany and PeopleSoft

Mr. Rowe leads Google's channel sales organization globally, which is one of Google's fastest growing sales organizations worldwide. He is responsible for selling Google's AdWords, video and mobile products to small and mid—sized companies through third parties in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Mr. Rowe has 20 years experience in the hardware and software industries, with sales, marketing and general management experience. He is experienced in building high—growth businesses, having built and managed mid-market oriented businesses in domestic and international markets. Before joining Google, Mr. Rowe was the Group Vice President & General Manager of SAP Business Objects' Mid-Market business unit, responsible for Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Strategy, growing the business to over $500 million. Mr. Rowe began his career at IBM in direct sales, where he achieved the Top 1% of Sales nationwide. Mr. Rowe has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah.