Theresia Gouw Ranzetta
General Partner, Accel Partners

Theresia focuses on software investments with particular interest in security, systems software and enterprise applications. She currently also serves on the Board of Directors of Accel-KKR, Aceva Technologies, ForeScout, Found, and WebCohort.

Theresia has worked in the computer and communications industries since the late-1980's as an entrepreneur, consultant and venture investor. Prior to joining Accel Partners, she was a founding executive at a venture-backed company which developed products to enable encryption and payment for the software industry. Theresia was a key member of the senior management team and was instrumental in growing the company from $0 to $15M in revenue. Before that, Theresia worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company. While at Bain, she worked with computer and communications equipment companies to develop their technology, marketing and financial strategies.

Bachelor Science in Engineering from Brown University, magna cum laude Master's degree in business adminitration (MBA) from Stanford University

Jaime Hale
Principal, Oak Hill Venture Partners

Jamie Hale is a Principal of Oak Hill Venture Partners. He leads and structures investments and works closely with several portfolio companies, including Andale, Knowledge Networks, Liquid Engines, Perfect Commerce and Sandial. Previously, he helped manage New Product Development for NextCard. Prior to NextCard he worked at Open Market, HAL Investments, and was an Associate at Lazard Freres.

B.A. from Bowdoin College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School

Linda Hayes
President and CEO

As President & CEO of Andale, Linda is charged with building the Andale vision and strategy and is focused on maintaining the Company's profitability and overall growth.
Linda has been with Andale since mid 2000 and has been Chief Operating Officer since 2001. As COO, Hayes managed product strategy, sales and marketing and was instrumental in driving the Company’s revenue growth. In addition, she also spearheaded all aspects of the Company's corporate communications efforts, including overall vision and strategy. During her tenure as COO, Andale’s revenues and user base have grown substantially.

Previously, Linda was Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Marketing for General Magic where she led all marketing efforts. In addition, she was responsible for running a business segment, the myTalk consumer service, which PC Computing voted as one of the top three websites of 1999 (along with Yahoo). Linda was also Vice President of Marketing for Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), an encryption company purchased by Network Associates in 1997. At PGP she built and managed the entire marketing department which determined the company's product and communications strategies, positioning and branding efforts, as well as government relations endeavors.

During her tenure with Novell as head of worldwide marketing, Linda was the driving force behind the company's global branding and outbound communications efforts which required building consensus with all business units within the company. She was responsible for the launching of many products as well as creating an award-winning consistent look and feel for Novell. This effort included a new corporate identity, company positioning, key messages and was used to market the company on a worldwide basis.

Linda has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for marketing and public relations programs.

Bachelors in English from Kansas State University
Corporate Communications Program at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School

Randy Strahan
General Partner, Mohr, Davidow Ventures

Randy Strahan joined Mohr, Davidow Ventures in November, 1999 with more than 20 years of senior general management and operations experience at leading telecommunications companies. As a Venture Partner he helps Mohr, Davidow Ventures portfolio companies develop operations strategies, and has served as interim CEO of a number of Mohr, Davidow Ventures's early stage investments.

Randy was most recently president and CEO of Telmax Communications, a privately held company that manufactures and markets telecommunication equipment to telephone companies such as RBOCs, CLECs and independent telecom companies. Before that, he spent 20 years in various management positions at Pacific Bell, serving most notably as president of Pacific Bell's Service Operations Division where he was responsible for all customer delivery in the company.

Bachelor's degree in criminology from California State University, Fresno, summa cum laude
Master's degree in business administration (MBA) from Chapman College in Orange, California
Sloan Senior Executive Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Advanced Management Program, Telecommunications, at the University of Southern California

George Zachary

George has 17 years of experience in engineering and marketing technology. Before joining MDV he ran the Consumer Products business at Silicon Graphics, developing joint ventures with Nintendo, AT&T, Philips, and Samsung. He successfully managed, evangelized, marketed, and launched the highly successful SGI-developed Nintendo 64 home video game system creating an installed base of over 15 million units. He was also responsible for the product marketing of next-generation graphics systems at Silicon Graphics.

George has held various engineering and marketing management positions at VPL Research, Apple Computer, and Texas Instruments.

George is a board director at CriticalPath, Accrue Software, and Securify. He is also involved with Viant, Onvia.com, and several other MDV Internet companies. George is also on the board of Stanford University's BASES 2,000 member entrepreneurial group. He is focused on Internet service and software companies.

Joint Bachelors of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management