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Management

Chris Wesley, sr. software architect

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Tony Martin, SVP Technical Strategy & Platform Architecture

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Jason Fairchild, SVP Business Development

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Mitchell Weisman, SVP Business Development

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Board of Directors

Magdalena Yesil has been part of Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. She most recently was a venture capitalist at US Venture Partners (USVP), making investments in information technology start-ups. She has been an early stage investor in several successful companies, including Salesforce.com, 3Ware, Valicert, Securify, and Claria. She joined USVP after a successful career as an entrepreneur, founding two successful electronic commerce companies, CyberCash, a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems area, and MarketPay, a software company. She also was part of UUnet in its early days and was chosen Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997 by Red Herring magazine. She started her career as a semiconductor design engineer at Advanced Micro Devices. She is the author of Creating the Virtual Store, published by John Wiley & Sons. Ms. Yesil holds a master's degree in electrical engineering and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, both from Stanford University.

Andy Bechtolsheim

Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, returns to Sun as Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Network Systems organization and is also a member of Sun's executive management team. In his new role, Bechtolsheim will drive the rapid productization of next generation network server technologies.

Bechtolsheim brings with him over 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and expertise. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems where he held a variety of roles including Vice President of Technology and Chief Architect of Sun's highly successful workstation product line. He invented the "Stanford University Network workstation" that eventually became the Sun-1 Workstation and was instrumental in launching other successful Sun products, including the SparcStation¨ 1.

Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet start-up company, that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996. Andy became Vice President of Engineering and later Vice President General Manager of Cisco's Gigabit Systems business which developed the Catalyst 4000 family, the industry's highest volume modular Ethernet switching platform.

Bechtolsheim returns to Sun via the Kealia, Inc. acquisition, a company which he co-founded to develop advanced server technology.

Bechtolsheim received a MS in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and he was a PhD student in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, a German National Merit Foundation scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Dennis Coleman

Denis Coleman, Entrepreneur, Angel investor and Mentor to early stage companies Denis Coleman is founder, investor, and Mentor of numerous technology and software start-ups in Silicon Valley. In the Biotech sector Coleman is currently the Chairman and President of Solus Biosystems, a startup with a hardware/software platform to accelerate drug discovery by measuring the interactions of proteins and drugs. In the mobile and handheld marketplace, Coleman is Director of Moonstorm (www.moonstorm.com). Moonstorm is at the nexus of consumer marketing to-the-hand. In Internet marketing, Coleman Founded Claria Corporation (www.claria.com) in 1998, and served as it’s Chairman until 2004. Claria is the leader in online behavioral marketing, serving over 42 million consumers and 900 Advertisers. Coleman Co-Founded Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) in 1983, and served there through 1988 as VP of R&D. Coleman’s other companies include DCL, Wealthcycle (acquired by Loan City), C Level Design Corporation (a EDA company), Financial Engines, Neoforma (NASDAQ: NEOF), Visioneer Communications (merged to form SSFT), and Cognitive Technology Corporation. Coleman has served these companies in many roles including Director, Founder, and Investor.

Denis Coleman holds a BS and an MS in Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Management, all from M.I.T., and a Ph.D. in Management from Stanford University. Coleman has taught on the faculty of Stanford University, and is credited with 14 academic publications and one book.

Dave Burow

Dave Burow Joins Catalytic Inc. as Chief Executive Officer
Appointment of Seasoned Industry Executive
Coincides with Added Funding, Next Phase of Growth
Palo Alto, Calif. –– January 9, 2006 –– Electronic systems and semiconductor
industry veteran Dave Burow today became president and chief executive officer (CEO)
of Catalytic Inc., a company whose tools simplify signal processing design. His
appointment follows Catalytic’s announcement last month that it raised $7 million in
second round funding that will be used to expand its research and development efforts
and distribution channels.
“Dave is a successful and experienced executive with the skill set to help advance
Catalytic through its next phase of growth,” says Randy Allen, Catalytic’s founder who
moves from being CEO to chief technology officer.
Adds Burow: “DSP design is central to the consumer and communications
applications driving the growth in electronic systems and semiconductors. Catalytic and
its exceptionally talented technical team are creating software tools ideally suited to serve
this large designer community. The market opportunity and a solid team who work well
together are what attracted me to Catalytic.”
Burow brings more than 20 years’ senior management experience to Catalytic.
Most recently, he was executive chairman of Arithmatica, an Intellectual Property (IP)
and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) firm that uses advances in silicon math
algorithms to lower costs and power while increasing speed for math-intensive chips.
He previously was a senior vice president at Synopsys Inc., where he served as
general manager of the Verification Group and of the Internet Design and Services
Group. Burow joined Synopsys in 1997 through its acquisition of Viewlogic. At
Viewlogic, he was group vice president of their IC design automation business. Prior to
joining Viewlogic, Burow held CEO and senior management positions within the EDA
and semiconductor industries at Silicon Architects (also acquired by Synopsys),
CrossCheck Technology, SimuCAD and Fairchild Semiconductor. He holds a Bachelor
of Science degree in engineering from Purdue University of West Lafayette, Indiana, and
an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Burow serves on the Board of Directors of Arithmatica Limited, Claria
Corporation and Numetrics Management Systems Inc.
Catalytic’s initial software product –– Catalytic RMS (Rapid MATLAB®
Simulator) –– is used to streamline and accelerate the algorithm design of signal
processing systems through faster MATLAB (a popular numerical analysis and
visualization environment from The MathWorks) simulation.
About Catalytic Inc.
Catalytic speeds the development of signal processing applications by creating an
efficient path from algorithmic specification to implementation. Catalytic Inc. was
founded in 2001 by Dr. Randy Allen, a successful entrepreneur, world-renowned
compiler technology expert and the co-author of the book, “Optimizing Compilers for
Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach.” Corporate headquarters are
located at 1076A East Meadow Circle, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303. Telephone: (650) 846-
2555. Facsimile: (650) 846-2557. Email: info@catalyticinc.com. More information
about Catalytic Inc. can be found at its website located at: http://www.catalyticinc.com.
Catalytic Inc. acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products
and services.

D. Freeman

Serves as Claria's outside Special Counsel on Privacy and Regulatory Affairs. He is a former staff attorney for the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection and currently a partner at Kelley Drye Collier Shannon in Washington D.C.

Philip Young

Prior to joining US Venture Partners, Phil Young was President & CEO of Oximetrix, a manufacturer of critical care instruments and disposables, where he spent 8 years growing the privately-held venture-backed company from $1 million in revenues to nearly $50 million. Prior to Oximetrix, Mr. Young spent 6 years at New Court Securities in venture capital and corporate finance, 2 years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co., and 6 years on Admiral Rickover's project management staff at the Atomic Energy Commission.

Mr. Young has represented US Venture Partners on the boards of Aerogen, CardioThoracic Systems, CardioVascular Imaging Systems, CoCensys, Compugen, FemRx, Penederm, 3Dfx Interactive, Vical and Xoma--all of which became public companies. Currently Mr. Young sits on the boards of Zoran, a public company, as well as Aptus Endosystems, Bayhill Therapeutics, Caspian Networks, Claria, Dotomi, RelayHealth, Synarc, St. Francis Medical and Timi3 Systems.

Richard Purcell

Richard is CEO of Corporate Privacy Group (www.corporateprivacygroup.com) and former Chief Privacy Officer of Microsoft.

Lawrence Ponemon

Chairman of the Ponemon Institute (www.ponemon.org), a leading privacy consulting and research firm.

David Sze

David is a General Partner at Greylock and joined the firm in January, 2000. Prior to Greylock, he was Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, David also held roles as GM of Excite.com and Vice President of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Before Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Crystal Dynamics and Electronic Arts. He started his career in management consulting for the Boston Consulting Group and Marakon Associates. He received a B.A. from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.