Board of Directors

Michael Stark, Crosslink Capital
Michael co-founded Crosslink Capital. He oversees all public and private investment activities and is active in the firm's core technology/semiconductor venture initiative. Michael joined Robertson Stephens in 1983 where he served as Director of Research and equity analyst covering the semiconductor and software industries. Prior to that he was at Intel Corporation. Michael holds a BS, Engineering, Northwestern University and an MBA with honors, University of Michigan.

Antti Kokkinen, BlueRun Ventures
Antti Kokkinen, Partner, co-founded the firm and is based in the Helsinki office, where he covers technology aspects of all fund investments. Prior to joining BlueRun ventures, Antti has more than 12 years of technology and business development experience within Nokia, including two internal start-ups and establishing the Nokia Boston site. Antti holds an M.B.A. and a M.S. (EE) from Helsinki University of Technology.

Brooke Seawell, NEA
Brooke brings 25-plus years' experience in technology finance and operations. He has served with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), NetDynamics, Synopsys, Weitek, Southwall Technologies. In 1990, Brooke was recognized by Upside magazine as one of the top 15 high-tech CFOs. He currently serves on the board of three public companies (NVIDIA, Informatica and Glu Mobile) and a variety of private companies. Brooke received his MBA and BA from Stanford University.

Rich Sevcik
Richard W. Sevcik served as Executive Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors at Xilinx Inc. where he managed all product Divisions, with responsibility for overall P& L, including software and silicon technologies, and was instrumental in fueling the company’s growth from $135M / Qtr. to $470M / Qtr. in revenue. Before Xilinx, Rich held positions at Hewlett Packard Company, Bell Northern Research (Nortel) and Bell Laboratories (AT&T) He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois and a Masters Degree, Electrical Engineering from North Western University.

Kapil Shankar, Founder, CEO
Kapil Shankar, founder and CEO of SiliconBlue, has over 20 years experience in semiconductors and programmable logic. At Xilinx, he spearheaded low cost, consumer FPGA Spartan products. At Lattice, Kapil created ISP, in-system programmable CPLDS. He also worked at AMD's programmable logic division. Kapil has 16 patents in programmable logic. He has a MSEE & MSCS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY and has done his BSEE from the Delhi University.

Armando Pauker, General Partner
Armando is a general partner at Apex Venture Partners. Prior to joining Apex, Armando served as Vice President of Networking Products for Cybernet Systems Corporation, a Linux-based software start-up. Previously, he was a senior product manager for Electronics for Imaging, a developer of high performance digital imaging servers. Armando holds an MBA with High Distinction from the University of Michigan, and he received his BS in Engineering from California Institute of Technology.