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Bruce Bauer, Senior Managing Director, Newbury Ventures

Bruce is a founder of Newbury and has spent more than 20 years in the venture capital industry. At Newbury, Bruce focuses on investments in security, imaging, sensors, IT and enterprise software products and services. Bruce led the firm’s investments in, and has served on the Boards of Sentillion, Okena (acquired by Cisco), MessageGate, PacificEdge (acquired by Serena), Hydrocision, PS’Soft and Sensor Platforms.

Dan Brown, Technology Partner, Arrowpath Venture Partners

Dan Brown is a Technology Partner at Arrowpath and brings strong technology and operational expertise to the firm. Dan focuses primarily on enterprise infrastructure, network hardware and components. Dan currently serves on the Board, or is a Board Observer, of Anagran, BinOptics, MetaLincs, OnSite, Sensor Platforms and Vyatta.

Charles P. Carinalli, Principal, Carinalli Ventures

Mr. Carinalli is director of Fairchild Semiconductor and has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. From 1999 to 2001, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Adaptive Silicon, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company. From 1996 to 1999 he was President and CEO of Wavespan Corporation. He previously worked in several management and executive positions with National Semiconductor Corporation from 1970 to 1996, including as senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Carinalli is a director of Extreme Networks, Inc. and Attune Systems.

Bill Eichen, Chief Executive Officer

Bill has over 20 years of experience in the consumer and IT semiconductor industry. Most recently, he was President and COO of Analogix Semiconductor, a leader in the consumer multimedia market that has shipped production volume to the HDMI and DisplayPort markets. Prior to Analogix, he was CEO of Memcall, a pioneer in the Layer 4-7 search market, and was founder and CEO for Nueba Semiconductor, a manufacturer of security processor ICs. Bill has a proven track record as an innovator, and has been responsible for a variety of management successes at Cypress Semiconductor, IDT, Zoran, Motorola, NEC, and TCSI. He is Chairman of Software Incubators, a wireless client/server financial applications corporation. Bill holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

George Hsu, Founder and CTO

George is the founder and CTO of Sensor Platforms and has focused his 17 year career on the sensor industry, having invented several breakthrough sensor technologies, including the Magneto-Inductive magnetometer sensor which is the mainstay of today’s electronic compassing in both the automotive and consumer markets. George is dedicated to accelerating the growth and success of the sensor industry by providing standard, application-specific, and custom sensor interface IC's. He is a graduate of Stanford University School of Engineering and a much-published author of technical articles on sensor theory, design and applications.