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Board of Directors
Don Butler is the President of Thomvest Ventures Inc. He began
his career with the investment banking firm of Lehman Brothers, where
he was a member of the energy and high technology industry groups
in New York and San Francisco . In this capacity Don assisted in
completing transactions ranging from initial public offerings to
mergers and acquisitions. Don has also worked with the consulting
and investment firm Asia Pacific Ventures, where he assisted numerous
technology companies in business development in the East Asian markets. Don
received a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese from UCLA and Master’s
degrees in East Asian Studies and Political Science from Stanford
University.
Scott is an expert in the field of secure ID solutions. His most recent position was
Executive Vice President at Digimarc Corporation where he was responsible for business
development and North American sales for secure identification solutions.
Scott led Digimarc’s currency anti-counterfeiting business, and has testified on ID
security issues before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the National Conference of
State Legislators Homeland Security taskforce. Scott is the co-inventor of more than 20 patents.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University and an
executive MBA from the Stanford/AeA program.
Hatch is an accomplished business executive and technologist
who focuses on the entrepreneurial realm. He has founded a number
of successful start-ups, including Wave7 Optics in Georgia and Rosonext
in California, which was acquired by RF Micro Devices. He has also
served as CEO of venture-backed companies such as Actelis Networks,
Bandwidth9 and Arroyo Optics and managed publicly traded businesses
such as Zoran Corporation (ZRAN). Hatch holds a B.S. in Engineering
from Idaho State University and is the recipient of the University’s
Professional Achievement Award. He currently serves on the College
of Engineering Advisory Committee.
Elliott’s background is in high-volume manufacturing and packaging.
Prior to YottaMark, Elliott was the VP Operations at Portola Packaging,
Inc., a $250 million packaging manufacturer, where he oversaw high
speed, high volume production lines across six US plants. Previously,
he was a manager at McKinsey & Company, a strategy consulting
firm, where he focused on industrial operations improvement and corporate
spin outs. Elliott earned his doctorate in engineering from Cambridge
University.
Chris Hollenbeck is a founding member of the Granite Ventures team. He joined Granite after serving as Vice President of Hambrecht & Quist's Venture Capital department, and focuses his investments in software. In addition to software applications, Chris is also interested in companies that capitalize on the current digital content explosion – from voice and video to consumer entertainment – and next-generation software infrastructure technologies. Chris currently sits on the Boards of Bunchball, Convio, DecisionView, Episodic, Oversight Systems, Telltale and YottaMark. He sponsored Granite’s investments in Digimarc (NASDAQ: DMRC) and Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN), and was a member of the Boards of AvantGo prior to its acquisition by Sybase (NYSE: SY) and of Liquent prior to its acquisition by Information Holdings (NYSE: IHI). Earlier in his career, Chris held several positions within Hambrecht & Quist's Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance departments.
Chris holds a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford University.
Advisory Board
Tom has over 35 years of experience in cryptology and computer science. He is the founder of Anagram Laboratories and a Fellow, Past-President and Director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). He was the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and editor of the Journal of Cryptology. Tom also served on the advisory board of the International Journal of Information Security (IJIS) and as a principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Bob is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He was the past chair of the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department. He also has served as visiting faculty at UC, Berkeley, the Amos Tuck Business School, and the IMI in Geneva. Bob has published over sixty articles and technical reports and is an expert in production and capacity planning, new product development, and manufacturing strategy.
Rob is the Senior Vice President, Trust & Safety at eBay, Inc. Previously he was a senior federal prosecutor for 11 years with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia where he led the Major Crimes unit, and handled several noteworthy espionage cases including the prosecution of CIA employee Aldrich Ames. Rob is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Harvard Law School.
Kip Knight is the President of Knight Vision Marketing, a strategic marketing consultancy based in Silicon Valley, as well as Dean of the U.S. Marketing College for the State Department. Over the past 25 years Kip has held a variety of international marketing and general management roles at Proctor and Gamble, Pepsico, Taco Bell, and KFC. Kip is also on the Board of Advisors for Reactrix, Dayak, and C.E.O Women. He earned his MBA from the University of Cincinnati.
Sharam is the CEO of Empact Software, and has previously served as the CEO of University Planet, Verification Technologies and Hyperstone Electronics. Sharam’s extensive technology background includes leadership positions in Teknekron and Zilog and roles of advisor and consultant to LinkExchange and Bain & Company. Sharam has BSEE and MSEE degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
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