Dado Banatao is a managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital (www.tallwoodvc.com) in Palo Alto, California.  Formerly a venture partner at Mayfield, Mr. Banatao co-founded three Silicon Valley companies: S3, Chips and Technologies, and Mostron. He has also served as Chairman of Marvell Technology Group, Newport Communications (acquired by Broadcom), Cyras (acquired by CIENA) and Silicon Access Networks.

David Ladd is a Managing Director of the Mayfield Fund in Palo Alto California. David, a successful former entrepreneur, sits on the boards of Casabi, Inphi, LGC Wireless, LV Sensors, Pixim, Pure Networks, Sylantro Systems, T-RAM, TimeBridge and WaveSplitter.  After eight years as an engineer at ROLM, he co-founded voice messaging company Opcom/VMX, which grew to a $100 million publicly held company.  In 1994, VMX merged with Octel Communications and David became CTO.  After Lucent Technologies acquired Octel in 1997, David joined Mayfield part-time while continuing to help Lucent form spin-out companies based on Bell Labs technology.  David joined Mayfield full-time in May 1999.

Sam Srinivasan is a veteran financial executive in the semiconductor industry and currently serves the boards of SiRF Technology and Centillium Communications as director and chairman of the audit committee.  Sam was Chief Financial Officer of Cirrus Logic and served as Director, Internal Audits and Corporate Controller at Intel Corporation.

Lip-Bu Tan is the chairman and founder of Walden International (www.waldenintl.com), where he focuses on communications, semiconductors, and software and IT services.  He has been an active venture capital investor for more than 19 years, with more than 50 technology investments worldwide. Prior to founding Walden International, Mr. Tan was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy.  He currently is a board member for Cadence Design, Flextronics, SMIC, Sina, and Mindtree Consulting.