Company Team I Board of Directors
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Uri Raz, Founder and President
Uri is the Chief Executive Officer of Dyyno. Prior to Dyyno, he was the CEO and founder of Appstream (acquired by Symantec),
a company which sells business solutions for application streaming. Uri also served as CEO for Golden Screens Interactive Technologies (GSIT) and founded Teletel, the first online search engine in Israel and today Israel's number one portal (www.walla.co.il). He holds a B.S. Summa Cum Laude from the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel, and is co-author of several patents pending for Internet and e-commerce technologies.
Saurabh Srivastava, Partner, Artiman Ventures
Saurabh Srivastava focuses on early-stage technology investments in systems and software. As a Partner of Artiman Ventures, he is currently on the boards of airwide Solutions, SiOptical, Kasenna, OpSource and Ortiva Wireless.
Prior to joining Artiman in 2000, Saurabh was a Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for Cisco Systems' Corporate Business Development group, where he led the technology strategy for VoIP and wireless mobility teams, focusing on Cisco's technology and acquisition strategies in the voice-over IP, wireless/mobility and VPN areas. At Cisco he led 18 acquisitions and 10+ investments.
Before joining Cisco, Saurabh worked part time for Philips while completing Stanford's MBA program. At Philips, he worked with a group that created the venture funding arm of Philips in the US. Prior to that, for almost eight years, Saurabh held various operating roles from engineering to engineering management, marketing and pre-sales at Silicon Graphics, Inc., Kaleida Labs and Digital Equipment Corp. He also holds two patents for networking protocol technologies.
Education: Saurabh holds a B.S.E.E. from BITS, India, an M.S.C.S. from SUNY @ Stony Brook and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.
Investments: airwide Solutions, Adir Technologies, ClickServices, Dyyno Inc, Globespan (Nasdaq: GSPN/CNXT), JetCell (acq by Cisco), Kasenna, Morphics Tech (acq by Infineon), NetForensics, Nuance Communications (Nasdaq: NUAN), OpSource, Ortiva Wireless, Pingtel, SiOptical
Pr. Bernd Girod, Founder
Bernd Girod is Professor of Electrical Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science in the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, California, since 1999. Previously, he was Professor of Telecommunications in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His current research interests are in the areas of video compression and networked media systems. He has published over 400 conference and journal papers, as well as 5 books, receiving the EURASIP Best Paper Award in 2002 and the IEEE Multimedia Communication Best Paper Award in 2007, as well as the the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2004. As an entrepreneur, Professor Girod has been involved with several startup ventures as founder, director, investor, or advisor, among them Polycom (Nasdaq:PLCM), Vivo Software, 8x8 (Nasdaq: EGHT), and RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK). Since 2004, he serves as the Chairman of the new Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin. He holds an Engineering Doctorate from University of Hannover, Germany, and an M.S. Degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Girod is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).
