Chris Hoogenboom, chairman of the board, president and CEO, Internet Machines
Prior to founding Internet Machines, Chris directed the engineering development of next generation Ethernet and ATM switching products for Xylan Corporation, which is now a division of Alcatel. During his tenure at Xylan, Chris directly contributed to the company's revenue growth from $0.5M in 1994 to $370M in 1998, which made Xylan the fastest growing networking company ever. Prior to Xylan, he was a design engineer at General Instrument Corporation, where he managed application specific standard product (ASSP) projects for digital video consumer products. Chris holds seven US patents in the fields of data networking and digital video compression and has other patent filings in process. He graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, with a BSEE.

Frank P. Knuettel, II, founder, chief financial officer and vice president of operations, Internet Machines
Frank was chief financial and operating officer for Viking Systems, Inc., a Boston-based producer of enterprise software systems for non-profit institutions, prior to founding Internet Machines. At Viking, he managed the company's financial, information systems, human resources, and customer support operations. Prior to that, he was vice president of operations and chief financial officer for Fightertown Entertainment in Lake Forest, California. There, he was instrumental in growing the company's revenues over 400% during a three-year period, and was responsible for the development of the company's strategic plans, operations, and all aspects of company finance. Prior his tenure at Fightertown, Frank held various roles in finance and strategy. He received a BA in Economics from Tufts University and received an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School.

Donald L. Ciffone, Jr., president and chief executive officer, Exar Corporation.
Don Ciffone is an experienced executive in the semiconductor industry in California's Silicon Valley. He has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director of EXAR Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAR) since his election by the Board of Directors in October 1996. Previously, Mr. Ciffone was Executive Vice President of Toshiba America, located in Milpitas, California, the U.S. semiconductor subsidiary of Toshiba. Before that, he was Senior Vice President of the VLSI Products Division at VLSI Technology, of San Jose, California.

Richard Nottenburg, president and chief executive officer, Multilink Technology Corporation
Dr. Richard Nottenburg, company founder and lead executive since the founding of Multilink in 1995, has over 20 years of experience in the design and development of high bit-rate electronics. He is also an internationally recognized expert in advanced integrated circuit technologies and in the design of fiber-optic communications ICs. He received his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Dr. Nottenburg was a "Bell Labs Pioneer" at AT&T Bell Labs (now Lucent Technologies) in the 1980s.

John Walecka, founding partner of Redpoint Ventures
John currently focuses on the core infrastructure and application services areas revolving around the next generation broadband Internet. He is working with enabling semiconductor products companies such as Internet Machines and has been involved in a number of very successful network products companies including Xylan and Wellfleet. He also serves as Director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC) and is a Director of the Stanford Business School Venture Capital Trust. John is a former general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, which he joined in 1984. Prior to joining Brentwood, John worked at Hewlett Packard and the Stanford University Smart Product Design Laboratory.� He received a BS and an MS in Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Scott Bradner, senior technical consultant, Harvard Office of the Provost
Scott Bradner is a consultant to Internet Machines� technical advisory board. He has been involved in the design, operation and use of data networks at Harvard University since the early days of the ARPANET. Scott is the codirector of the Transport Area in the IETF, is a member of the IESG, and until June 1999 was an elected trustee of the Internet Society where he still serves as the Vice President for Standards. He was also codirector of the IETF IP next generation effort and is coeditor of "IPng: Internet Protocol Next Generation" from Addison-Wesley. Scott is a senior technical consultant at the Harvard Office of the Provost, where he provides technical advice and guidance on issues relating to the Harvard data networks and new technologies. He founded the Harvard Network Device Test Lab, is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a weekly columnist for Network World, an instructor for Networld+Interop, and does independent consulting.

Brent Bilger, entrepreneur-in-residence, US Venture Partners
Brent Bilger joined USVP as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in October 1999. He was most recently the vice president of marketing at MMC Networks, a network processor company. Brent joined MMC in 1997 and was instrumental in setting the strategy and marketing positioning for the company. Prior to joining MMC, Brent spent more than seven years with Cisco, where he served most recently as director of marketing for service providers. Brent also served as director of marketing for high-end routers and ATM products during part of his tenure at Cisco. He received a BA from Dartmouth College, a BE from Thayer School, Dartmouth College, and an MSEE from Cornell University. 

Jim Greenberg, chief technology officer and co-founder, MediaCenters
Jim Greenberg has over 19 years of creating network architectures and fulfilling the dynamic needs of infrastructure services.  Prior to MediaCenters, Jim was the co-founder and chief network officer of Rhythms NetConnections, a preeminent DSL service provider. He was responsible for Rhythms’ national network architecture, engineering, product development, operations, field services, regulatory management, and administrative back office/IT superstructures. Prior to Rhythms, Jim held several executive positions at Sprint where he was an early pioneer of the first US national Internet backbone. He is also credited for creating the first public ATM and frame relay networks for Sprint business customers.  Besides leading Sprint's systems development, engineering, and service centers organizations, Jim was responsible for the development and construction of the America Online data network. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland with a BS in computer science, and also holds an MS in business from the University of Maryland.

James T. McManus, investor and industry expert, former vice president of systems engineering for UUNET, a WorldCom company
Jim McManus was most recently vice president of systems engineering at UUNET.� During his four-year tenure there, he oversaw the design, creation, maintenance and growth of UUNET�s Network Systems Management, Network Engineering, and Strategic Technologies, which included the continuing development of the largest TCP/IP network in the world.� Jim also directed the Global Product Engineering Group, whose accomplishments have been recognized with many industry awards.

Prior to joining UUNET Technologies, Jim was vice president of systems engineering at Salomon, Inc., where he was responsible for strategic networked systems planning and operational support for all North American business units.� Additionally, he oversaw the strategic planning of all global technology installations and operations. Jim earned his BE in Engineering and MBA (Finance) from Manhattan College.