Dr. Telage's professional career spans 35 years of executive management, venture capital, technical development and operations in high technology systems plus several academic positions teaching computer science and mathematics. He currently is an active board member, advisor and investor in several technology start-up companies and teaches mathematics at Boston College part-time. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Network Solutions Inc. (NSI) from 1995 through its 1997 public offering until its purchase by VeriSign in 2001 for $21 billion, a record acquisition price for an Internet company. Earlier positions included Group Senior Vice President with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Systems Engineering Manager at GTE Strategic Systems Division where in both cases his focus was communications systems design and development. In his 10 years at SAIC, he grew and managed their global communication group. Dr. Telage has a Ph. D. in Mathematics and additional graduate training in Computer Science.
Mr. Rasor has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor business. In his most recent position as VP of Medical Technologies at Texas Instruments (TI), he was responsible for establishing relationships with universities, venture capital investors and innovative startups in the medical device sector. Previously, Mr. Rasor formed TI's corporate strategic marketing/business development group, which helped incubate 12 TI business units, supplying chips to everything from digital cameras to broadband IC's. Today these businesses account for more than $3B of TI's revenue. Mr. Rasor had several stints away from TI, among them Sierra Semiconductor (now PMC Sierra). Before entering the semiconductor business, Mr. Rasor was Director of Engineering at Simutech, a developer for real-time simulation software/hardware for the F16 fighter jet platform.
Mr. Rasor obtained his degree in Systems Engineering from Wright State University with postgraduate work in Computer Science.
Dr. Glancy is currently a technology consultant. He is the former Executive Vice President and Director of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a high-tech services firm, and the former CEO and Vice Chairman of Telcordia, Inc. (formerly part of Bell Labs) one of the largest telecommunications software and engineering companies. He managed SAIC's spinouts of Network Solutions, Inc., the primary manager of Internet domain names and of Tellium, an optical networking equipment company.
Under Dr. Glancy's leadership, SAIC extended its reach outside the U.S. with partnerships such as INTesa, a joint venture between SAIC and Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., DS&S;, a joint venture between SAIC and Rolls Royce, and Tecsi and Danet, joint investments with France and Deutch Telecoms. Prior to this, he managed the company's Technology Sector that developed advanced composite materials, instrumentation and control systems, renewable energy systems, intelligent transportation systems, and fusion energy.
Prior to joining SAIC Dr. Glancy worked as a nuclear physicist at General Atomics and the Atomic Energy Commission. He earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1968 and a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and a Ph.D in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 1972.
Mr. Matt Ocko, Managing Director of Archimedes Capital Management, has twenty five years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive, and venture capitalist, both in the US and in China. Matt holds a BA in Physics from Yale University. Matt has been a General Partner of VantagePoint Venture Partners and Softbank Technology Ventures (of which he was a founder), as well as a Partner at Helix Investments. He has been directly involved in raising over $2 billion in venture capital investments from limited partners, and building major practices at these firms. Matt has led investments in and/or served on the Boards of the following: XenSource (acqd. by Citrix Systems), DataMirror (DMCX), SupportSoft (SPRT), CriticalPath (CPTH), VxTreme (acqd. by Microsoft), Planet U (acqd. by Transora), Zip2 (acqd. by Compaq), Verisign (VRSN), Alantro (acqd. by Texas Instruments), nDSP (acqd. by Pixelworks), Sandcraft (acqd. by Raza Microelectronics), NuCore (acqd. by MediaTek), 3Ware (acqd. by AMCC), Akimbi Systems (acqd. by VMWare), and Prio (acqd. by InfoSpace). Matt is also a personal investor in Aggregate Knowledge, Spreadtrum (NASDAQ: SPRD), BCD Semiconductor, Fortinet, and PanoLogic. Matt founded and was VP of R&D; for Da Vinci Systems, a pioneering e-mail software vendor with over 1 million users world-wide prior to its acquisition. He was also the founding Director of Oracle's Media Server Division and had a leadership role in the business and technical operations of the division.
Dr. Gerald Anderson has over 30 years of experience in telecommunications, information systems, intelligence systems, software engineering, and program management. He currently serves as a consultant for organizations engaged in providing national security strategy, technology and services.
For 17 years, Dr. Anderson was responsible for managing SAIC's Applied Communications Business Unit with approximately 800 professional staff. The unit focused on C4ISR systems engineering and integration in support of emergency communications systems, mission planning, INFOSEC, information operations (IO), advanced terrestrial and wireless networks, MILSATCOM, C2 and combat support systems, interoperability analysis, physical security, system standards, and military operations. Prior to joining SAIC, Dr. Anderson served as an Associate Department Head at the MITRE Corporation, where he led a major classified program in the C3I Systems Engineering Department. As Director at M/A-COM Government Systems (Linkabit), he was engaged in systems engineering for the Commercial Satellite Initiative (CSI), Post Defense Satellite Communication System (DSCS) III, Multiple Satellite System (MSS), the Small ICBM (SICBM) Launch Control System (LCS), the COMFY DISH training satellite jamming system for the Air Force Electronic Security Command, and development of prototype software to support communications intercept. Dr. Anderson was also on the faculties of the mathematics departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Anderson received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Michigan. His publications include one book and 11 articles in referred journals. He was an alternate member of the Industry Executive Subcommittee of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and industry board member of UCSD's Center for Wireless Communications.