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XenSource

Management

Simon Crosby, CTO

Simon Crosby is CTO for XenSource, which provides the industry's highest-performance virtualization technology, the open-source Xen hypervisor. Simon was previously principal engineer at Intel, leading strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Simon founded CPLANE, Inc., a network optimization software vendor, and held the roles of president and CEO, chairman, CTO and chief strategy officer. Prior to CPLANE, Simon was a tenured faculty member at Cambridge University in the UK, where he led research on network performance and control and multimedia operating systems. He is the author of more than 35 research papers and patents.

Chuck Dooley, VP Sales

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Gordon Mangione, SVP Product Operations

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Craig Parks, VP Customer Support & Services

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Ian Pratt, Program Leader

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John Bara, VP Marketing

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Earl Charles, CFO

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Frank Artale, VP Business Development

Most recently, Frank Artale was a founder and CEO of Consera Software in Redmond, WA. He was active in all aspects of company operations. His specific responsibilities include management of business operations, customers, partners, and investors. In February of 2004, Consera was acquired by HP.

Before founding Consera, Frank was an executive at VERITAS Software. As vice president of the Windows Solutions Group for VERITAS availability products at VERITAS Software, he oversaw overall product strategy of the Windows targeted availability solutions.

Prior to VERITAS, he was the general manager in the Windows 2000 group at Microsoft Corporation. Frank's nine-year career at Microsoft Corporation included responsibility in the areas of product development and sales. For his efforts on Windows NT adoption, Frank received the Microsoft Chairman's Award for Top U.S. Member of Technical Staff in 1993 and was also named the top Systems Engineer in the same year.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Frank was a principal at FD Consulting, Inc., NY where he led the design and engineering efforts for trader workstation products He began his career as a programmer analyst, working on retail brokerage systems, at the Monchik-Weber Corporation, NY.

Currently, Frank is active in the venture capital community and is Chairman of Realm Systems. He was recently Chairman of Rendition Networks (sold to Opsware in January 2005). He is an advisor to Centrify Software and Zenprise.

Frank graduated from Monsignor Farrell High School in 1983 and attended the Polytechnic Institute of New York before joining Monchik-Weber Corporation in 1984.

Moshe Bar, CTO

Moshe Bar is Qumranet's Chief Technology Officer and a Co-Founder.

Prior to founding Qumranet, Moshe was the CTO and a Co-Founder of XenSource, a leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen™ hypervisor. At XenSource Moshe led technology strategy, as well as research, development and engineering.

Prior to XenSource, Moshe co-founded Qlusters, Inc., a leading provider of Open Source data center provisioning and management software for physical and virtual environments. At Qlusters Moshe served as CTO, and led technology and product strategy. Prior to Qlusters, Moshe was a VP of Application Integration Products at Baan.

Moshe is the author of three books on Linux and open source development tools.

He is a one of the founders of Democritos, the Italian national institute for nuclear simulation. Moshe is a frequent speaker and lecturer and has taught computer science at Tel Aviv University. He also served as an advisor to the UN Atomic Agency.

Rafael Santini, Sr. Director of Sales

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Board of Directors

Kevin Efrusy

Kevin Efrusy came to Accel in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company.

Efrusy invests broadly in software and internet businesses, but he focuses on consumer internet companies, open source software, and wireless application providers. He co-led Accel’s investment in Facebook, currently serves on the boards of Metacafe, Hyperic, Xensource, Terracotta, and BBN Technologies. He is also actively involved in Riverbed Technology and Transera.

Efrusy has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.

Larry Augustin

Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Compiere, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho, SugarCRM, and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in 1999.

(Source: MindTouch)