Advisory Board
John Hart
Chairman
A former CTO and Senior Vice President at 3Com Corporation, John is chair of the Advisory Board. At 3Com, John was responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company during the period in which it transitioned from a $400 million p.a. operating system company to a $6 billion p.a. networking company. John was the strategic worldwide spokesperson for 3Com at trade shows and played a key industry and company role in the introduction of numerous networking technologies/solutions and the enhancement of the company's patent portfolio from five patents to over 500. John's earlier career included eight years with Vitalink Corporation as VP Engineering and five years as an Executive Consultant for the Control Data Corporation.
Currently, John is a member of the Board of Directors of Coherent Inc., PLX Technologies, and the Advisory Board of Atrica, Inc.
Dr. Vijay Pande
An opinion leader in computational biology, Vijay Pande is currently an assistant professor of chemistry and structural biology at Stanford University. His current research centers on the development and application of novel simulation techniques to address problems in chemical biology. He also heads up the HYPERLINK "http://folding.stanford.edu" Folding@Home project where he has, for the first time, directly simulated protein folding dynamics with quantitative comparisons with experiment, often considered a "holy grail" of computational biology. Professor Pande holds a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has won numerous awards, including most recently being named to MIT's TR100 (top young innovators in 2002), a Frederick E. Terman Fellowship (2002), and a Henry and Camile Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (2003).
Dr. Deven Verma
Deven is the founding general partner of Redwood Ventures and Edgewood Ventures, and has more than 25 years of experience as a technologist, entrepreneur and investor. He has masters degrees in physics and microwave engineering and a PhD in microwave systems. A former senior vice-president at Loral Corporation, he is a veteran of the satellite communication industry, having led the Direct-to-Home initiative for India using a satellite network. Before Loral, Deven was an executive at Intelsat and managed a series of satellites. He was also in charge of the systems activity of the Intelsat-VI program, which was built by Hughes Aircraft. Under the leadership of former President K R Narayan (Indian Ambassador to the USA), Deven worked as a senior diplomat at the Indian Embassy in Washington DC from 1979 to 1982, where he was responsible for forging the relationship between India and the USA in space technology. In 2000 he was a member of President Clinton's delegation during his visit to India.
Dr. David May
David May is professor and head of computer science at Bristol University. Before joining the university in 1995, David worked for 16 years in the microelecronics industry, joining Inmos (now STMicroelectronics) at its formation in 1979. He is well known for his work on innovative microprocessors including the Inmos transputer. He is the author of over 100 papers and patents, and has given numerous conference presentations. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his contributions to computer architecture and parallel computing. David's current research interests are in microprocessor architecture, system design and verification, and mobile and wearable computing. He maintains active relationships with industry and technology investors, and is on the technical advisory boards of several new microelectronics design companies.
Shahin Khan
A well-respected industry luminary with more than 20 years of expertise, Shahin Khan was most recently vice-president and chief marketing officer of Azul Systems which introduced the industry's first network attached processing solution. Prior to joining Azul Systems, he spent eight years at Sun Microsystems where he held numerous senior-level positions, most recently as vice-president of the High Performance and Technical Computing business unit. Shahin also served as Sun's chief competitive officer and as Sun's vice-president of product marketing for computer systems. Prior to Sun Microsystems, Shahin held management positions with Cray Research and Floating Point Systems, including a stint at the Cornell National Supercomputing Facility in Ithaca, New York. Shahin is a graduate of Cornell University with bachelor and master degrees in engineering and the author of several peer-reviewed papers on parallel processing and large-scale systems.