Board of Directors
Henry Wasik, Chief Executive Officer and President, Force10 Networks
Henry Wasik has served as president and chief executive officer of the company since November 2004 and as a director since December 2004. Prior to that, he served as a senior vice president of the fixed communications group for Alcatel-Lucent SA, a provider of solutions and services ranging from backbone networks to user terminals for operators, service providers, enterprises and consumers, where he served from October 1999 to April 2004. At Alcatel-Lucent SA, Henry was responsible for all aspects of the global business operations of multiple product lines related to the fixed communications group. Henry holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bridgeport and a master of industrial management degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Howard A. Bain III, Consultant & Certified Financial Expert
Howard is an independent consultant with expertise in all aspects of corporate finance, operations, internal control systems for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and public company financial and accounting issues. Howard has served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or senior financial executive of five public software/IT companies during more than three decades in Silicon Valley. He was most recently CFO of Portal Software, a developer of customer revenue management software for communications and content service providers, from 2001-2004. Prior to joining Portal, Howard held CFO positions at Vicinity Corporation in 2000, Informix from 1999-2000, and Symantec Corporation from 1991-1999. He has also held senior financial and accounting management positions with Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation and as a consultant with Arthur Andersen LLP, where he was a certified public accountant. Howard currently serves on the boards of Learning Tree International (NASDAQ: LTRE), a provider of instructor-led, hands-on courses and certification programs for technology professionals and managers in business and government organizations, Nanometrics,Inc. (NASDAQ: NANO) a leader in high-performance process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs, and PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data security and encryption solutions. He holds a B.S. in Business from California Polytechnic University. Howard currently qualifies as an independent director and certified financial expert under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
B. J. Cassin, Venture Capitalist
B.J. has been a venture capitalist for nearly 30 years. He was a financial founder in a number of public companies, including Advanced Fibre Communications, Cadence Design Systems, Centex Telemanagement, Cerus Corporation, Endosonics Corporation, Equatorial Communications, Laserscope, Maxtor, Quantum Corporation, Quantum Health Resources, Racotek/Zamba, Scientific Microsystems, Stratacom, and Symphonix Devices. B.J. was as a financial founder in companies sold as private companies, including CardioRhythm (Medtronic), Extricity (Peregrine Systems), Metricon (Johnson & Johnson), and Mountain Computer (Nakamichi).
Before becoming a venture capitalist, B.J. co-founded Xidex Corporation in 1969, which achieved Fortune 500 status in 1987 with sales of $752 million and employing 7,000 worldwide.
B.J. is Founder and Chairman of the Cassin Educational Initiative Foundation, launched in 2000, to establish private, college preparatory middle and high schools in economically-challenged communities throughout the country. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Saint Mary's College of California, serving as Chairman from 1995–1999. He also served for three years on the Advisory Board of the Business School of Santa Clara University and was a Director of the Daper Investment Fund at Stanford University.
He currently serves on the Board of Cerus Corporation and several private companies.
B.J. is Chairman of the Foundation for Nativity and Miguel Schools, a board member of the Cristo Rey Network and FADICA, and is a member of the California Jesuit Province Investment Committee.
B.J. received a B.A. in Economics from Holy Cross and is married, the father of five children, and resides in Los Altos Hills, California.
Keith G. Daubenspeck, Advanced Equities, Inc.
Keith G. Daubenspeck, Chairman and Co-Founder of Advanced Equities, Inc., is a 22-year veteran of the securities industry. He started his career working at the Chicago offices of Lehman Bros., Oppenheimer and Bear Stearns. In the mid-1990’s he co-founded Madison Securities. Recently named to Forbes magazine’s Midas 100 List, a prestigious list of the world’s best global deal makers in technology and life sciences, Keith serves as the head of the firm’s venture capital investment banking activities. He also sits on the Boards of Directors of several of AEI’s portfolio companies, including Alien Technologies, Motricity, and MetricStream.
Dixon Doll, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board, Force10 Networks, Inc.
Dixon, the Chairman of Force10’s board of directors, is the co-founder and a general partner of Doll Capital Management, or DCM, an early stage technology venture capital firm. DCM is headquartered in Menlo Park, California and also has offices in Beijing, China and Tokyo, Japan.
For more than 35 years, Dixon has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer and communications industries. In 2005, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). He was subsequently appointed to the Executive Committee and became NVCA Chairman in May 2008.
Dixon has led DCM’s investments in About.com (Acquired by The New York Times Co.), @Motion (Acquired by Openwave), Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq: FDRY), Internap (Nasdaq: INAP), Ipivot (Acquired by Intel) and Neutral Tandem (Nasdaq: TNDM) among others.
In the mid-1980’s, Dixon co-founded the venture capital industry’s first fund focused exclusively on telecommunications opportunities. Previously, Dixon was the founder and CEO of an internationally recognized strategic consulting firm focused on telecommunications and authored the seminal text Data Communications published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1978.
Dixon serves on the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Advisory Board and the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers at Stanford. Dixon received his B.S.E.E. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.
Dick is a co-founder and general partner at New Enterprise Associates, or NEA, and has more than 30 years of venture capital investment experience. His background includes board memberships at companies such as Ascend Communications, 3Com Corp., SGI and Juniper Networks, and he was recently Chairman and President of the National Venture Capital Association. Prior to joining NEA, Dick was a general partner of Arthur Rock & Associates and Executive Vice President of Gardner & Preston Moss. He received an M.B.A.from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in History from Northwestern University.
Steven M. Krausz, U.S. Venture Partners
Steven, who joined the U.S. Venture Partners in 1985, has a background deeply rooted in information technology. Steven's eight years of operating experience with NASA Ames, BTI Computers, Direct Inc. and Daisy Systems have served him well as an advisor to many leading network vendors, customers, investors, and start-ups. He is also a frequent panelist and moderator at many industry and engineering events and forums. At USVP, Steven has focused on communications, Internet Infrastructure, networking and systems technology. He has led the Firm's investments in, Accelerated Networks, Verity, Rasna, Xylan, Applied Digital Access, Elantec and Micro Linear, all of which became public companies. Steven had early involvement with many successful companies such as, Checkpoint Software, Harmonic, and Stratacom. He served on the Boards of Directors of EPIC Design Technologies and Photon Dynamics. Other companies, Palladium Interactive, acquired by The Learning Company, and Centerview Software, acquired by Informix, were portfolio investments. Currently, Steven oversees a number of private USVP investments including, Agility Communications, Yafo Networks, Ceyba Systems, Gluon Networks, Performance Retail, Occam Networks, Kasenna, and Pathfire. He is a Board of Director Observer at New Focus, Rapid 5 Networks and Centerpoint. Steven is also on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Steven holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Paul was a founder of Meritech Capital Partners, a leading late stage venture capital investor, in 1999 and currently focuses on the storage, semiconductor, networking and digital consumer sectors. He has been directly involved with 2Wire, Corvis Corporation, Danger, Homestead Technologies, IntraLase, Riverbed Technology and Salesforce.com. He is currently involved as a board member or participant with Meritech’s investments in BlueArc, DealerSocket, Facebook, OpenLane and Tensilica.
Prior to Meritech, Paul was Managing Director and Head of the Private Equity Group at Montgomery Securities/Banc of America, and he began his career in finance as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he served in the United States Air Force as an F-16 Instructor Pilot and a member of the Air Force Liaison Office and representative to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees.
Paul holds a B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently serves on the board of the USAFA Endowment.
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