Board of Directors

Don Telage - Chairman of the Board
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 PhD in Mathematics and additional graduate training in Computer Science.

Douglas S. Rasor - Board Member
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 for 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 at 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.