Rajeev Motwani
Rajeev Motwani is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University , where he also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. Professor Motwani is a leading authority in the privacy of databases and has been an influential advisor to leading startups, such as Google.

His research has spanned many areas in computer science, including databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, information privacy, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. He has also written two books: Randomized Algorithms, published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001.

Professor Motwani has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award. He has also served on various industry boards and advisory boards, including Coral8, DotEdu Ventures, Flarion, Google, Neopath Networks, Mimosa Systems, Sinett, and Xambala.

Phil Neches
Dr. Philip M. Neches is a world-renowned authority in databases and was the founder and chief scientist of Teradata, a leading database vendor. He began his career as Manager, Systems Evaluation Group, at Transaction Technology Inc. (Citicorp subsidiary), where he led analysis of consumer banking networks, including the first large-scale deployment of automated teller machines (ATMs) in the US . At Teradata Corp., he helped pioneer the application of parallel processing to commercial applications. As Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist, NCR Corp., he led both the repositioning of their computer product family and the product plan for a merger with AT&T.

Dr. Neches is presently an independent consultant working with early-stage companies in the information technology and communications services industries on their technical, market and business strategies as an advisor, board member and investor. He serves on the Board of Directors of ExpandBeyond Inc. and on the Advisory Boards of EarthLink, Tacoda Systems, Luxtera, and the Technology Group (analyst practice) of Merrill Lynch. Dr. Neches served as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Multimedia Products and Services Group, AT&T Corp. Prior directorships include MCC, Semitech, Dayton Public Radio DemoGraFx, MediaMap, PeopleLink, and VendQuest. In addition, Dr. Neches served as Acting Chief Technology Officer of idealab!.

Dr. Neches holds a BS, MS and PhD in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. He serves on the Caltech Board of Trustees and sits on its Audit, Business & Finance, Development, JPL, and Executive committees, and chairs the Technology Transfer Committee and the Engineering & Applied Science Division Visiting Committee.

Jim Rosen
Jim Rosen has been a serial pioneer in bringing new technologies to market. Mr. Rosen was part of the founding management teams of two highly successful software startups, Netegrity and LANSystems, and has held leadership roles in some of the largest technology companies in the industry, including Lotus Development and Genuity.

As a member of Netegrity’s founding management team Mr. Rosen held a number of leadership roles, including marketing, business development and corporate development. He was instrumental in contributing to the company's growth from publicly held start-up to one of the fastest growing software companies in the industry. At Lotus Development and Genuity (then BBN Planet), he held key positions managing strategic and channel alliances. Prior to Lotus Development, Mr. Rosen was a member of the founding management team at LANSystems. He held a number of leadership positions at LANSystems and was responsible for building their software business, the company’s market-share-leader, which was acquired by Intel.

Mr. Rosen sits on the board of TimeTrade and holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from MIT.

Charles (Chuck) Stuckey
Mr. Stuckey has held several high-level executive positions throughout his prominent career. He most recently served as Chairman and CEO of RSA Security (NASDAQ: RSAS), where he built the company into a global leader in e-security with more than one quarter billion dollars in revenue and more than 1,000 employees.

Mr. Stuckey also serves as a director at Matrix One (NASDAQ:MONE), a leading provider of collaborative product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions for the value chain; director of the Massachusetts Telecom Council (MTC), where he previously served as its chairman; and director and chairman of the Boston Common Angels. He also currently serves as director of two private companies, TimeTrade Systems and Adesso Systems, and is a director of the Ohio University Foundation and a member of the Russ College of Engineering Board of Visitors at Ohio University.

G. Mead Wyman
G. Mead Wyman is a retired entrepreneurial company executive and venture capitalist currently working with entrepreneurial, often high-tech, companies. During his professional career, Mr. Wyman was CFO at Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., Dataware Technologies, Inc. and Lotus Development Corp., and a senior financial manager at Prime Computer, Inc. and Waters Associates, Inc./Millipore Corp. He successfully conducted the IPO process for Mercury, Dataware and Lotus. Mr. Wyman was also a general partner at Hambrecht and Quist Venture Partners from 1986 to 1992. He currently sits on four corporate boards (one public) and three advisory boards.

Mr. Wyman has a Bachelors degree from MIT in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ken Zolot
Ken Zolot leads MIT's "Innovation Teams" program, where students spend a semester working with preeminent research labs evaluating go-to-market strategies for breakthrough discoveries. Ken has founded many companies, most recently Egenera, where he was first employee, first investor, and served as COO and director for the first two years of the company’s operation. Egenera, the leader in server virtualization and utility computing, is widely considered to be one of the most successful technology start-ups of our time, and was named to Red Herring's list of "100 companies most likely to change the world". His previous startup, Geer Zolot Associates, was a spinoff from MIT Project Athena. Geer Zolot developed network security software for electronic trading and commerce, and designed the Internet security architecture for much of the financial services industry. After the sale of Geer Zolot Associates, Zolot was retained by Goldman Sachs to guide its technology strategy. He has also held positions at MIT Project Athena, and at Digital Equipment Corporation's Innovative Technology Research Center in Cambridge . Zolot’s first start-up was Spectra Communications, specializing in satellite telecommunications. Ken is also a director of Yoga301, serving the MIT and Cambridge community in advancing the art, science, and practice of the timeless discipline of yoga. Mr. Zolot holds a Master of Science degree from MIT in Management of Technology. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Syracuse University.