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Board of Directors
Gary Hromadko, Venture Partner, Crosslink Capital
Ted Mocarski, Managing Director, Key Venture Partners
Mark Spagnolo, President, CEO
Saurabh Srivastava, Partner, Artiman Ventures
Marv Tseu, Advisor to the Board
Roland Van der Meer, Partner, Velocity Interactive Group
Gary Hromadko
Venture Partner, Crosslink Capital
Mr. Hromadko joined Crosslink Capital in 2002 as a venture partner, with a focus on communications infrastructure, applications and services. His current board seats include Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX), the leading provider of network neutral data centers; Yipes, a leading provider of Ethernet communications services to enterprises; and Electric Cloud, a provider of solutions used to accelerate the software development process. Prior investments include Good Technology, a provider of platform independent, mobile messaging services (acquired by Motorola); and VitalStream, a provider of content delivery network services (acquired by Internap, NASDAQ: INAP).
Prior to joining Crosslink, Mr. Hromadko was a private venture capital investor. Previous investments in software and communications infrastructure companies include Packeteer (NASDAQ: PKTR), Netcode (acquired by Netscape), and Medior (acquired by America Online).
Prior to forming his own investment practice, he was a partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre, a venture capital firm focused on early stage technology companies. He was also a partner at Robertson, Stephens & Co., focused on equity research in the software sector. He began his investment career in public market investing at Dodge & Cox.
Mr. Hromadko has a BA from Carleton College and the MA, English Literature and MBA from the University of Virginia.
Ted Mocarski
Managing Director, Key Venture Partners
Managing Director since 2003, Mr. Mocarski brings 17 years of investment and legal experience to Key Venture Partners, with a focus on communications, data services, and information technology businesses. He currently serves as a board member of XyEnterprise, OpSource, Kasenna, and airwide solutions.
Previously, he was a Managing Director at Nautic Partners, and Fleet Equity Partners, where he was responsible for leading the funds' investment efforts in the communications and IT industries. Mr. Mocarski was the lead or an early investor in a number of companies, including Exodus Communications, Dobson Communications, FairPoint Communications, and Verio, generating significant returns for investors. Prior to that he was an attorney with Edwards & Angell, where he represented several venture capital and private equity firms.
Mr. Mocarski holds a B.A. from Colby College and a J.D. from American University.
A veteran of the communications industry, Mark Spagnolo has held senior and executive management positions for startups and Fortune 500 companies, including president of the Infotainment strategic business unit of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and CEO and president of UUNET. At UUNET, Spagnolo significantly increased revenues and profitability, while increasing margins and expanding operations into 29 countries.
Following UUNET, Spagnolo was the CEO and chairman of SiteSmith, a managed services company that delivered outsourced Internet services to the Global 1000 until it was acquired by Metromedia Fiber Networks (MFN) in 2001. Spagnolo was subsequently named president and CEO of MFN. He restructured MFN from three separate entities into a unified company resulting in substantial cost reductions, enhanced customer satisfaction and increased revenue.
In 2002 he founded The Spagnolo Group, LP, a management consulting firm, under whose auspices he served as interim CEO for Flag Telecom, assisting with the company's restructuring upon its emergence from bankruptcy. Spagnolo also evaluated the acquisition of Broadwing Communications from Cincinnati Bell and was named CEO upon the close of the transaction. There, he built an industry-leading executive team, restructured operations to achieve significant improvement in gross margins, and improved annualized revenues through increased sales productivity and the successful acquisition and integration of Focal Communications.
Spagnolo currently serves on the board of Opsource, a provider of direct and private-label IT infrastructure services to Global 2000 companies. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Newark College of Engineering.
Saurabh Srivastava
Partner, Artiman Ventures
Saurabh Srivastava focuses on early-stage technology investments in systems and software. As a Partner of Artiman Ventures, he is currently on the boards of airwide Solutions, SiOptical, Kasenna, OpSource and Ortiva Wireless.
Prior to joining Artiman in 2000, Saurabh was a Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for Cisco Systems' Corporate Business Development group, where he led the technology strategy for VoIP and wireless mobility teams, focusing on Cisco's technology and acquisition strategies in the voice-over IP, wireless/mobility and VPN areas. At Cisco he led 18 acquisitions and 10+ investments.
Before joining Cisco, Saurabh worked part time for Philips while completing Stanford's MBA program. At Philips, he worked with a group that created the venture funding arm of Philips in the US. Prior to that, for almost eight years, Saurabh held various operating roles from engineering to engineering management, marketing and pre-sales at Silicon Graphics, Inc., Kaleida Labs and Digital Equipment Corp.
He also holds two patents for networking protocol technologies.
Marv Tseu - Advisor to the Board
President, CEO and Co-Founder, Active Reasoning
Mr. Marv Tseu has founded, developed and led communication companies for more than 30 years. He currently serves as a director and chief executive officer of Axesstel (AMEX:AFT), a global communications company. Mr. Tseu also serves as chairman of Plantronics (NYSE: PLT), the leading manufacturer of lightweight communications headset products since 1999. From 1984 to 1996, Mr. Tseu was employed with Plantronics and was a key member of the company's leveraged buyout and subsequent IPO. His various positions at Plantronics included vice president of sales and marketing and president of its subsidiary Clarity. Mr. Tseu was on the board of CIDCO, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of advanced telephone products for consumer markets, from 1999 to February 2002 when EarthLink acquired the company. Mr. Tseu also founded Active Reasoning, a provider of software for the management of IT infrastructure and served as CEO from inception in 2002 to March 2006. In 2001, he was CEO of Method Networks, Inc., an Internet technology company that helped enterprises automate the management of their Internet networks. In 1999, Mr. Tseu co-founded SiteSmith, a leading provider of outsourced Internet site operations, for which he was president and CEO. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Tseu served as president of Structured Internetworks, Inc., network communications hardware firm focused on facilitating enterprise traffic flow to the WAN and Internet. Mr. Tseu's early career was with AT&T where he was involved with the residential telephone consumer product division.
Mr. Tseu holds a B.A. in economics from Stanford University.
Roland Van der Meer
Partner, Velocity Interactive Group
A Velocity Interactive Group cofounder, Roland Van der Meer invests in technologies and early stage communications companies with the potential to redefine business and economic models, as well as the way in which whole segments of the communications industry operate. Listed 18th on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 technology dealmakers, he focuses his investments on systems, components and services.
Roland's recent investments and board seats include Ambric, Cloudshield, Fabrik, FilmLoop, FyreStorm, OpSource, PacketHop, Quantia and Sensys.
Roland was one of the first to spot the digital transmission revolution and funded PairGain. He followed this up by being the only venture investor in Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), the broadband communications semiconductor company that led the frontier of digital signal processing. Roland was also the initial investor in Arbinet (Nasdaq: ARBX), which created and operates the world's largest market exchange for telecommunications carriers, and Zantaz, the leader in email/file archiving and retrieval.
A number of Roland's pioneering companies have been acquired by major communications industry players, including: Chromatis Networks (acquired by Lucent), Confertech (acquired by Frontier), dynamicsoft (acquired by Cisco), Monterey Networks (acquired by Cisco), PairGain (acquired by ADC) and Ascendent Systems (acquired by RIM).
He has more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry as an engineer, strategist and investor. Before helping to cofound Velocity Interactive Group, Roland served as a partner with Partech International, co-founded Communications Ventures, and spent several years with Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners. Early in his career, he held engineering positions with GTE Labs and Sprint.
