The Gear6 Board

Tom Shea, President and Chief Executive Officer

Tom Shea brings extensive startup management and execution experience to Gear6. He was previously CEO of Mirra, a developer of digital content production products. Prior to Mirra, Tom served as President and COO of Roxio, a developer and publisher of digital media software and tools. Previously, he held numerous executive posts during a long tenure at Adaptec Corporation, which he concluded as general manager of the software division that ultimately spun off as Roxio in 2001. Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Matt Oberdorfer

Matt Oberdorfer founded Gear6 and continues to actively consult on the technical direction of the company. Prior to Gear6, Matt was the business unit manager for Scalable Computing at Hewlett-Packard Company. While at HP, Matt and his team invented and productized the world's first utility-computing-on-demand solution in 1999 called "e-utilica", which led to a dramatic shift in how capacity computing is seen, sold and used today. Matt is a published author of many books and articles about graphics, operating systems, compiler and advanced programming. Matt grew up in Germany where he studied architecture and computer science and earned a masters degree.

Paul Matteucci, General Partner, USVP

Paul joined U.S. Venture Partners in May 2001. Prior to USVP, Paul was CEO of HearMe, taking that company public in 1998. His two decades of operations experience include eight years with Adaptec, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the SCSI host adapter division. Paul served as a Resident Entrepreneur for Institutional Venture Partners in 1995 and was an advisor to Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures in the 1990s. Paul received an M.B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. from the University of the Pacific. He is currently on the boards of Intransa, LimeLife, Piczo, PodTech, Total Beauty, Trovix, W5 and Winster, and is a board observer on LV Sensors. Paul also serves as a trustee of the World's Affairs Council and is a board member of the University of the Pacific's School of International Studies. He is a frequent lecturer at Montana State University.

Khaled Nasr, InterWest

Khaled joined InterWest in 2005 and invests in wired and wireless communications companies, including systems, software and semiconductors, as well as in underserved areas of emerging technology. For the prior five years, Khaled was investing on behalf of Alta Partners. Prior to that, Khaled spent nearly 16 years with start-ups in the networking and telecommunications fields. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of FlowWise Networks, and served as General Manager and Vice President, International, at Ipsilon Networks, an IP switching pioneer. Prior to Ipsilon, Khaled served as Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), a leading manufacturer of access routers and remote access servers, and as Vice President of Marketing and Services with Premisys Communications, a leading provider of Integrated Access solutions. From 1987 to 1992, Khaled was with Newbridge Networks, the last three years as Vice President of Network Services. He currently serves on the boards of Terawave, RedShift, Netli, Xelerated and Aegis Semiconductor. Khaled holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Mathematics and Political Philosophy from Cambridge University in England.

Doug Tsui, Horizon Ventures

Doug is a networking industry veteran with over 15 years of marketing and business development experience. Investment experience includes data networking, multimedia, and Internet Infrastructure areas.Doug’s served as VP of Marketing for Precept Software, a network video software company which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998. He was also VP of marketing and business development for First Virtual Communications. Prior to FVC, Doug was a senior executive at Cisco Systems and held marketing and technical management positions at 3Com/Bridge Communications and Hewlett-Packard. Doug holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a MBA degree from Santa Clara University.

Brian NeSmith

Brian is the president and chief executive officer of Blue Coat Systems. He joined Blue Coat in early 1999 when it was known as CacheFlow, led a public offering later that year, and has since grown the company to profitability and the number one proxy appliance position worldwide. Prior to Blue Coat, Brian co-founded and was CEO of Ipsilon Networks, the pioneer of IP switching technology. In 1997, Ipsilon was acquired by Nokia, where the Ipsilon products became the basis for the market-leading Nokia firewall appliance. In 1993, Brian co-founded Newbridge Networks' Local Area Networking business, VIVID, and served as the unit's first general manager. Brian is a 1984 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding a Bachelors Degree in electrical engineering.