Board of Directors

Matt Blumberg
Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman, Return Path

Prior to founding Return Path in 1999, Matt was General Manager of the Internet division of MovieFone, Inc. from inception to the company's $600 million sale to AOL five years later, as well as Vice President, Marketing and Product Management for the company as a whole. Matt has served as an associate with General Atlantic Partners, a private equity investment firm, and as a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He graduated from Princeton University.

Scott Petry
CEO, Authentic8

Scott Petry is currently the CEO at Authentic8, which develops a Disposable Browser, a service designed to insulate users' computers from all forms of web-borne threats. Prior to Authentic8, Scott was the product management director at Google Postini, the leading enterprise-level email security and compliance service. Mr. Petry founded Postini in 1999 and continued in leadership roles in the company through its acquisition by Google in 2007 for $625 million. Early clients of Postini included Merrill Lynch, Circuit City, and Hormel Foods -- the company that makes the canned meat product known as Spam. Mr. Petry began his career at Apple in the product management group where he worked on the Newton project. He was also a US national team rower and won a bronze medal in the 1987 world championships.

Greg Sands
Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures

Greg Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 1998 from Netscape Communications. As the company's original product manager, he co-authored the company's original business plan and launched and shipped its initial products, working closely with both engineering and sales. He then created and led the business unit, growing it from $0 to $150M. He also worked previously at Cisco Systems, where he was the architect of a global channel management plan, and at Corporate Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting), where he consulted to start-ups and Fortune 500 companies on product development and marketing strategies. Greg also serves as a director for ClosedLoop, Collabrys, iPin, Merced Systems, Pivia, and QuinStreet. He is a trustee of the Stanford University DAPER Fund. He also co-founded, and is a director of the non-profit Start Up, a microenterprise program for entrepreneurs and small business owners in underprivileged communities. He earned an AB in government from Harvard College in 1989 and received an MBA at Stanford in 1994.

Scott Weiss
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Scott Weiss is the fourth General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He is formerly the vice president and general manager of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems, a $1.3 billion line of business. Prior to this role, Scott served as the co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems. Now part of Cisco, IronPort is a product of Scott's past experiences with companies that innovate with their use of security technology. He was one of the early team members at Hotmail, the world's largest Web-based email service. At Hotmail, Scott was responsible for all partnership and revenue generating business development efforts. After Hotmail's acquisition by Microsoft, Scott led a business development team at Microsoft with the MSN division. Scott left Microsoft to pursue new start-up opportunities. He developed a concept in the e-commerce space, and pulled together the core team to incubate the idea. In the process of seeking funding for the concept, he ultimately joined idealab! as Managing Director and Entrepreneur in Residence. Prior to joining Hotmail, Weiss had been a consultant at McKinsey & Co. He also worked at EDS for five years, completing a rotational management development program. Scott holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of Florida.

Fred Wilson
Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures

Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. Fred was the Managing Partner of Flatiron Partners and was responsible for securing $150 million of initial capital commitments from Chase Capital Partners (now JP Morgan Partners) and SOFTBANK. He built the investment team, which grew to 10 investment professionals, and managed the creation of a $570 million portfolio. Fred is currently on the Boards of Alacra, Bigfoot Interactive, Comscore, iBiquity Digital, ITXC, Return Path, and Tacoda Systems. Fred has a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred has been a guest lecturer at The Stern School of Business at NYU and is active on a number of community and non-profit boards.

Brad Feld - Board Advisor
Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital and Foundry Group

Brad Feld has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital. Brad currently serves on the board of directors of Gnip, Oblong, Standing Cloud, and Zynga for Foundry Group. Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. AmeriData acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications. Brad had grown Feld Technologies into one of Boston's leading software consulting firms prior to the acquisition. He also directed the diversification into software consulting at AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company which was acquired by GE Capital in 1995.

Jeff Epstein - Board Advisor

Jeff Epstein is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oracle, one of the world’s largest and most profitable technology companies, with a market value of over $150 billion. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Priceline.com, where he serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees, a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Stanford University Hospital, and a member of the Management Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Previously, Mr. Epstein was Chief Financial Officer of several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (sold to Google), King World Productions (sold to CBS), Advo (sold to Valassis), and Nielsen’s Media Measurement and Information Group. Earlier in his career, he was a merger and acquisition investment banker at The First Boston Corporation. He has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
 
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