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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
  • President of ATT Global Networks
  • Over 700 Patent

Hossein Eslambolchi is AT&T's Chief Technology Officer and the President of AT&T Labs. As CTO, Mr. Hossein advises the AT&T Chairman and its' senior leaders on technology issues, and chairs a company-wide Technology Strategy and Development Council. As President of AT&T Labs, Mr. Hossein leads a team of the world's best scientists and engineers focused on next-generation Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications, entertainment and information services.

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.

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.

Charles Jablonski

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

Mr. Jablonski currently serves as an industry consultant to various media, technology and investment funds. 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.

Danny Lui

  • Venture Advisor, Allegis Capital
  • Chairman & CEO, Authosis, Inc.
  • Co-Founder, Legend Computers (now Lenovo)
  • 25 years of Asian Venture Capital & Operating Experience

Mr. Danny T. P. Lui is Chairman and CEO of Authosis Inc., a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in fabless IC and IT companies in China and the United States. In 1982, Mr. Lui founded Daw Computer Systems Ltd. in Hong Kong/China. Daw Computer was one of the first IBM PC Authorized Distributors and one of the leading system integrators in China. In 1987, Mr. Lui co-founded Legend Group (now known as Lenovo) in Hong Kong, in joint venture with the Institute of Computing Technology, China Academy of Science. In 1994, he led Legend through a successful IPO on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. Today, Legend is one of the constituent stocks of Hong Kong Hang Seng Index. It is also the largest PC manufacturer in China.

Geoff Ralston

  • Venture Advisor, Allegis Capital
  • WWW—Infrastructure and Applications
  • Former Chief Product Officer, Yahoo Corporation
  • Extensive Management and Product Vision Experience

Mr. Ralston was at Yahoo! from 1997-2005. He came to Yahoo! with their 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp where he was the VP of Engineering and led the creation of Yahoo! Mail's predecessor, RocketMail. During his time at Yahoo! Mr. Ralston was the GM of the Communications Business Unit for several years and was the company's Chief Product Officer from 2003-2005.