Larry Link

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Mr. Link has a successful, 20-year track record in managing sales and marketing programs for leading information technology companies including: Juniper Networks, Neoteris, Excite@Home, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett-Packard. Most recently, Mr. Link served as Vice President of Sales, Secure Products Group at Juniper Networks. Mr. Link joined Juniper Networks with the acquisition of NetScreen in April 2004 and was responsible for growing the company's worldwide SSL-VPN customer base, revenues and channel partnerships. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Mr. Link was the VP of Worldwide Sales for Neoteris, the market leading SSL-VPN provider that was acquired by NetScreen for $300M in November 2003. As a member of the executive management team, he crafted the successful "go-to-market" strategy, acquired the initial customers, and subsequently built the category leading sales team. Prior to Neoteris, Mr. Link was VP of Sales for the @Work division of Excite@Home, and in that role led an Enterprise sales team that sold corporate Internet Access and Managed VPN services. Mr. Link held sales and sales management positions at Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. In addition to his role at Silver Peak Systems, Mr. Link is a member of the Board of Directors at Applied Identity and is on the Board of Advisors for Teneros,Inc. and several other high profile Silicon Valley start-ups.

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Will Luden - President & CEO, InfoPartners
Mr. Luden is a seasoned entrepreneur as well as a successful large company senior executive. Mr. Luden started and grew a successful chain of stereo stores and a loudspeaker manufacturing operation in Colorado in the 70's. In the 80's, as President and COO, he grew PacTel Information Systems from zero to $220 million, and as President and CEO he took Cellular One in Northern California from $9 million to $50 million. In the 90's, Mr. Luden was the President of Multicom, a home-and-family-focused CD-ROM title company funded by Meredith, the parent to Better Homes and Gardens. Mr. Luden left Multicom to participate in purchasing 50% of Purdy Electronics, a technology-based integrator and fabless manufacturer of private-label flat panel displays and related electronics, where he was the President. Prior to Info Partners, he was the CEO of an Internet-related company, Conveigh, Inc., that supplied interactive video to clients like Lowe's, True Value and Black and Decker. Mr. Luden holds a BA from the University of Colorado and an MBA from The Harvard Business School.

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Doug McLean - Vice President Products, PGP
Mr. McLean most recently served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Postini, a leading provider of enterprise email anti-spam and anti-virus perimeter solutions. Prior to Postini, he served as Vice President for Launch Pad. He has also held management positions at Xerox Corp., Apple Computer, and Hewlett-Packard. Mr. McLean has a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University as well as an MBA from Dartmouth College-Amos Tuck School.

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Arno Penzias - Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates
A Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Arno helps NEA portfolio companies in areas such as technology, strategy and intellectual property. He came to NEA from Bell Labs where he headed its research organization and served as its chief scientist. As the author of two books on information technology, numerous scientific and technical articles, and a wide-ranging portfolio of patents, Arno has received a number of honors and awards for his contributions to science, R&D management and public service—most notably, the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries related to the origin of the Universe.

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Eli Peyman - Assistant Vice President, Corporate IT, Parsons Brinkerhoff
Eli has 25 years of technology experience both hands-on and in technical management and he has w

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