Murli Thirumale – CEO, Ocarina Networks
Murli Thirumale leads the overall strategy and business execution at Ocarina.

Prior to co-founding Ocarina, Thirumale was Group Vice President and GM of the Citrix Advanced Solutions Group, where he led the SSL-VPN division (acquired via Net6) to the number #1 unit market share and #2 revenue share position in eighteen months.

As the CEO and co-founder of Net6, Thirumale led the company from its inception through acquisition. He provided the vision and strategy for leveraging the company's unique network focus and approach to SSL-VPN security, IP telephony/VOIP applications and data mobility. Under his leadership, Net6 attracted $17 million in venture capital funding, secured OEM relationships with Cisco, Avaya and Nortel, and was acquired by Citrix Systems.

Prior to Net6, Thirumale was executive vice president and general manager of Symmetricom where he founded a new broadband division for the company and established Symmetricom as the undisputed leader in telecom network timing. Prior to Symmetricom, Thirumale also spent fifteen years at Hewlett-Packard where he served as general manager of Timing Solutions for Communications Operation. Thirumale also founded two new business units at Hewlett-Packard: Network Synchronization and OEM Wireless Timing.

Thirumale holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with distinction from the Institute of Technology-BHU in India and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he was an Austin Distinguished Scholar.

Goutham Rao – CTO, Ocarina Networks
Goutham Rao is responsible for algorithmic research and design, architectural guidance and technology vision.

Prior to Ocarina, Rao was the CTO of the Advanced Solutions Group for Citrix Systems. Citrix ASG provided solutions for Secure Remote Access, IP Telephony Applications, Business Continuity and Mobile Solutions. Rao provided technology and product leadership to Citrix Systems on identifying new market opportunities.

Rao was the CTO of Net 6 and joined Citrix via the acquisition. Rao invented the Hybrid VPN, the first of its kind to provide application access from any PC with support for real time applications such as VoIP. Using cutting edge SSL over IP techniques, Rao architected a channel ready product that worked seamlessly for all applications with superior application performance and geographical high availability.

Prior to joining Net6, Rao was an open source Linux kernel developer AND a key Operating Systems Architect at Intel where he worked on the IA-64 project. At Intel, Rao worked on various UNIX kernels, and in particular designed and implemented some key components of Linux's Intel 64 bit architecture. He was also a key architect with Lockheed Martin on a distribution and optimization network for low bandwidth radio based networks, a program used by the US Government in the defense industry.

Rao holds an MS in Computer Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania and a BE from Bangalore University both with high distinction. Rao has authored many patents and has published articles in areas such as business continuity, secure remote access and distributed fault tolerant architectures.

Matt Murphy - Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
Matt Murphy is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; he joined in 1999. His focus areas of investment include mobile applications and communications-computing infrastructure. Matt is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of Autonavi, Dash, Pelago, M2Z, IPUnity, Kodiak Networks, RGB Networks, Stoke, Aerohive Networks, Ocarina, Xsigo, and eASIC. Previously Matt was a board observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO) and director at Peakstream (acquired by Google).

Prior to KPCB, Matt led product management at a semiconductor start-up (Netboost acquired by Intel), worked at Sun Microsystems where he led business development for the Network Systems Group and was a Product Line Manager for networking platforms. He also worked in strategic and technical consulting for a number of years at Booz, Allen, & Hamilton and Accenture.

Matt holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Peter Bell - Highland Capital Partners
Peter works with technology investments across all stages of company growth. As an industry veteran, Peter has worked with and invested in companies in the information security, e-commerce, data center infrastructure, enterprise software and communications industries. Peter represents Highland on the boards of ExaGrid Systems and Ocarina Networks.

Before joining Highland Capital Partners, Peter was Managing Director and founder of Stowe Capital, LLC, which specialized in providing capital and management expertise to emerging growth companies. Prior to establishing Stowe Capital in 2002, Peter was the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of StorageNetworks, an information storage software and services company. Under his leadership, Peter took the company from pioneering concept to over $120 million in annual revenue in three years and closed six rounds of equity capital financing, totaling over $700 million, including a successful IPO in June 2000.

Peter began his career at EMC Corporation. During his tenure he held positions in marketing, operations and sales and played a key role in building and managing the Open Storage Group at EMC, a major growth engine for the company. Peter currently serves on the board of directors of Healthbase, PeerApp, Prospectiv and WeiTai Technology LTD, a Chinese storage company. He is also on the board of advisors of Personeta.

Peter lives in the Boston area with his wife and three boys. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at Boston College. In addition, Peter currently serves as a Distinguished Executive in Residence at The Carroll School of Management at Boston College and is a Senior Lecturer at The Sloan School of Management at MIT. Peter is the co-founder of the Boston College Technology Council.

Peter holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Boston College, an MBA from Harvard Business School and an Honorary Doctorate from Babson College.

B.V. Jagadeesh - CEO, 3Leaf Systems
Jagadeesh's entrepreneurial career began in 1994 when he co-founded Exodus Communications, which became the leader in the Internet Web co-location business for mission-critical Internet applications and went through an IPO. Exodus was sold to Cable and Wireless in 2002 and eventually acquired by Savvis communications. He was also instrumental in founding VPNet Technologies which was acquired by Avaya. Prior to founding Exodus, he has held senior positions at 3Com and Novell.

In 2000, he joined Netscaler as CEO and raised money from some of the top tier. NetScaler products today sit in front of some of the most well known and complex sites in the world such as Google, Amazon, E-Bay, CricInfo, Yahoo, Apple and over thousand other customers. Netscaler grew to become the market leader in Application Delivery Systems and was acquired by Citrix for $325M in 2005. He was Group Vice President and General Manager of Citrix Systems' Application Networking Group and currently serving in an advisory role transitioning before embarking his next project.

At present, he works with several leading VC's such as Sequoia Capital and Gabriel Venture partners and is currently on the board of FireEye (a security malware attack protection company), Edurite (providing education over web), NetMagic Solutions (a managed internet data center company) and Ocarina Networks (an application aware storage company).

Jagadeesh holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Bombay, India.