Sunit has over 27 years of extensive and wide-ranging experience in the silicon chip and other industries. Prior to co-founding Altierre in 2002, he was an Exec. Officer/COO/Exec VP of various companies including Alliance Semiconductor and Sandcraft Inc and has managed very large P&L’s in the most competitive sectors of the silicon industry. > more


Anurag Goel
CTO and VP Software

Anurag Goel has over 26 years experience in systems engineering, product design, development, product management, product evangelism and marketing of robust enterprise scale software products. His technology experience ranges from computer image processing & pattern recognition, hardware interfaces, CAD/PLM and enterprise software. Prior to co-founding Altierre in 2002, he worked as product architect and group manager for EDS /PLM, McDonnell Douglas, Medstone and Amada. > more


Gary Smith
CEO Encore Associates (Ex SVP Marketing, Safeway)

Gary Smith has a distinguished career in grocery marketing, merchandising and retail operations spanning more than 40 years. Prior to founding Encore Associates, Gary served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Safeway where he was credited with the development and implementation of many of Safeway’s industry-leading merchandising and marketing programs company’s premium private label Safeway SELECT brands. > more


Andre Turenne
Senior Vice President, D. E. Shaw Group

Andre Turenne is a senior vice president of D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and an executive of the D.E. Shaw group's venture capital unit. Mr. Turenne has more than 25 years of operating, technical, and venture investment experience in the technology sector. Prior to joining the D.E. Shaw group in 2006, Mr. Turenne was a managing director of NeoCarta Ventures, Inc., a venture capital investment firm. From 1996 to 2000, he served as senior manager of strategic investments at Intel Capital, the venture capital unit of Intel Corporation. > more


Michio Fujimura
Managing Director, ATA Ventures

Michio is a co-founder and Managing Director of ATA Ventures. For 15 years, Michio owned and operated Vanguard Systems Consulting (VSC). VSC built a strong reputation in Silicon Valley that specialized in the areas of international business development and business operations consulting (product planning, product marketing and manufacturing) for U.S. start-up companies. > more



OBSERVERS

Ravi Chiruvolu
General Partner, GKM Ventures, Charter Ventures

A regular columnist in Venture Capital Journal, Chiruvolu is widely recognized as a thought leader in the venture capital industry. Currently, he serves as Venture Partner at GKM Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investments in expansion-stage technology companies located in the Western U.S. From June 2000 through June 2005, he was Managing Director of Charter Venture Capital, a $150 million early stage technology and life science fund. > more


Sean Foote
General Partner, Labrador Ventures

Sean Foote has been a venture capitalist investing in early stage companies for the past 9 years. He is active on the board of directors of Altierre Corporation, Eoplex Technologies, Everyone.net, ezboard, Green Border Technologies, and Integrated Materials Inc. > more


Willie Heflin
Managing Director, Kinetic Ventures

Willie joined Kinetic Ventures in 1990. His investment activities focus on telecommunication and information technologies and software. He has led investments in Altierre, Ample Communications,Caymas, Cerent, NetCore, Corvis, Sitara, Ciena, Seneca Networks, Zaffire, Optical Capital Group,Nayna Networks, Calix, and Covega. > more