Board of Directors
Elie Antoun - President and CEO
Dr. Partha Bhattacharya - CTO, Vice President of Engineering, and Founder
Hsun K. Chou, CEO and founder of EICO INC.
Heiner Sussner, Managing Director at Miramar Venture Partners
Richard Kagan, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Orchestration Systems business unit at Infoblox
Robert Thomas, President and Chief Executive Officer of Infoblox
Hsun K. Chou, CEO and founder of EICO INC.
Founder & CEO of EICO, Inc., a back-end service company for semiconductor industry. Formerly served as Director of Operations of Toshiba Semiconductor USA, in charge of two wafer fabrication facilities. He is also a seasoned angel investor who supported a broad range of high-tech companies from the early stages including NetScreen Technologies Inc.(IPO and then acquired by Juniper Networks) and Protego Networks, Inc. (acquired by Cisco Systems).
Dr. Chou received both a B.S. and M.S. from The Tokyo Institute of Technology and a Ph.D from The University of Tokyo.
Heiner Sussner, Managing Director at Miramar Venture Partners
Heiner is Managing Director at Miramar Venture Partners where he focuses on storage and cloud related investments. In addition to AccelOps, he is a Director of Fastsoft, IMT, Jeda Networks and Matrix Sensors, and previously served on the board of Azuro (acquired by Cadence), Protego Networks (acquired by Cisco) and SiliconSystems (acquired by Western Digital).
Prior to joining Miramar, he was a Senior Managing Director of H&Q Asia Pacific, where he was responsible for technology investments in Asia and Silicon Valley and served on the boards of several technology start-ups incl. Headway Technology (acquired by TDK in 2000).
Heiner started his professional career at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart and joined IBM Research in San Jose, California in 1980 working on advanced recording technology. In 1986, he became Director of Storage Systems and Technology for IBM Research and in 1992 joined IBM Europe in Paris where he became co-founder and Director of IBM Europe's corporate venture group.
Heiner is a graduate of the Technical University of Munich and received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1976 for his work at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique in Grenoble, France and the University of Konstanz, Germany. He is author of numerous scientific publications, holds several patents and was awarded the 1994 IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence.
Richard Kagan, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Orchestration Systems business unit at Infoblox
Kagan brings more than 25 years of marketing, business development, and engineering experience in the telecommunications, networking, and security industries.
Prior to joining Infoblox as vice president of marketing, Kagan served as vice president of marketing at Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), where he launched the company and defined Unified Threat Management, one of the fastest growing segments in the network security market. Before Fortinet, he was vice president of marketing at VPNet (acquired by Avaya), vice president of sales at Echelon (NASDAQ:ELON), and held engineering positions at ROLM and Bell Laboratories.
Richard earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a master of science in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Robert Thomas, President and Chief Executive Officer of Infoblox
Robert Thomas brings more than 25 years of technical, sales, marketing, and management experience in the technology sector to his role as president and chief executive officer of Infoblox.
Most recently, he was president and CEO of NetScreen Technologies, where he grew the company from 31 employees to 950 employees and led its successful public offering and eventual acquisition by Juniper Networks.
Before NetScreen, Thomas held positions at Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, and ICL. During his nine years at Sun Microsystems, he was general manager of intercontinental operations and director of international marketing development, overseeing Sun's international business opportunities and policies.
Robert holds a B.Sc. in mathematics from Adelaide University in Australia.