Board of Directors

Mark Mangiola
Canaan Partners

Mark Mangiola is a Venture Partner focused on information technology investments with Canaan Partners. He brings over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, early stage investor, and advisor to numerous successful companies. Mark has held key operational roles at uRoam, Kiva, Illustra and Sybase. Early in his career he spent ten years with IBM in senior sales and marketing positions.

George Hoyem
Blueprint Ventures

George Hoyem is a Managing Partner with BluePrint Ventures. He brings over 20 years of entrepreneurial, operations, and venture experience in high technology companies. Prior to joining Blueprint George was co-founder and Managing Partner of Redleaf Group, a $230 million venture investment group. His 18 year operating career included positions with Hewlett Packard, Verifone, Visix Software and Tektronix. He currently serves on the boards of Astoria Software, Atreus Systems, Platform Solutions and SpectraSensors.

Sergio Magistri
Chairman, Former CEO InVision Technologies

Dr. Sergio Magistri was most recently President and CEO of InVision Technologies the leading provider in the multi-billion dollar global market for explosive detection systems (EDS) in aviation security. Dr Magistri joined InVision as President and CEO in 1992. He led the company for twelve years from an initial staff of 20 researchers to over 1,000 employees designing, manufacturing, marketing and supporting sales of EDS systems worldwide. InVision received FAA-certification for their CTX 500 product in 1994, the first company to receive it for EDS products. InVision went public in 1996 and in March 2004 the company entered into a merger agreement with General Electric pursuant to which it would be acquired for approximately $900 million net. Prior to joining InVision, Dr. Magistri worked for AGIE Switzerland, a manufacturer of high precision tooling equipment. Dr. Magistri received his diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1977 and a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 1982 both from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

Peter Meekin
Trident Capital

Peter Meekin is a Managing Director of Trident Capital. He has more than 20 years of experience in software, information services, and technology consulting. Prior to joining Trident Capital, he was Vice President of Venture Development at Enterprise Associates, LLC, the venture capital division of IMS Health. Peter has direct experience with early stage companies having launched three start-ups in the software and consulting industries, as well as having held senior roles at Dun & Bradstreet, Lotus Development Corporation, and IBM.

Masaru Sakamoto
Vice President, Corporate Planning and Marketing, NEC Corporation of America

Masaru Sakamoto has held various executive positions in sales, marketing, corporate planning and business development since joining NEC Corporation in 1983. As one of the founding members of NEC USA's Corporate Strategy and Business Development Division in 1997, Mas helped expand NEC's venture investment operations in Silicon Valley and also pioneered the NEC Entrepreneur-in-Residence Initiative, an innovative technology commercialization program to monetize the largest corporate patent portfolio in the world. Mas has been a guest lecturer on international business and IP commercialization at New York University's Stern School of Business and the University of California at Berkeley.