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Board of Directors
Govind Kizhepat
Founder and CEO, NetXen
 A semiconductor industry veteran, Govind founded NetXen, while serving as an entrepreneur in residence (EIR) at the venture capital firm, Benchmark Capital. Prior to joining Benchmark, Govind was Executive Vice President of Globespan (CNXT), a leading worldwide provider of integrated circuits (chip sets), software, and system designs for broadband solutions. At Globespan, Govind headed the Media Gateway Division where he was responsible for video and audio codecs as well as voice over packet products. In 1996, Govind founded iCompression, and served as the company's founding CEO and Chairman. Govind grew iCompression to be the industry leader in MPEG encoders and voice over packet codecs before arranging the sale of the company to Globespan in a stock deal valued at more than $400 million.
Before founding iCompression, Govind held various technical leadership and management positions at S3, and Sun Microsystems where he played key roles in the development of SuperSPARC and UltraSPARC processors. Govind holds a BSEE from Delhi University, and an MSEE from Wayne State University.
Bruce Dunlevie
General Partner, Benchmark Capital
 Bruce is a seasoned veteran of venture capital with more than 15 years experience in high-tech investing. Prior to Benchmark, Bruce spent six years as a general partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre (MPAE). Before MPAE, Bruce served as general manager of the Personal Computer Division of Everex Systems, which he founded and grew to a multi-hundred million-dollar business unit. Bruce also worked in investment banking for three years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and as a systems designer and programmer with Andersen Consulting. Bruce has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Rice University.
Carl Everett
Venture Partner, Accel Partners
 Carl is a venture partner at Accel and has more than 30 years of technology management and investment experience. Before joining Accel, Carl served as senior vice president of Dell Computer Corporation's Personal Systems Group where he was responsible for worldwide development and marketing of all Dell desktop, workstation and notebook product lines. During his tenure, Dell captured the number one worldwide position in workstations, as well as desktop and notebook PCs. Prior to Dell, he enjoyed a 20-year career with Intel Corporation leading many of Intel's strategic efforts in setting industry and technology directions. Carl became an Intel vice president in 1989, overseeing North American sales and later all worldwide sales and marketing organizations. In 1994, he became senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Microprocessor Products Group. In that role, Carl oversaw the rapid market adoption of the Pentium processor and introduced P6 technology, the foundation of Intel's product roadmap into the late 1990s. Carl holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from New Mexico State University. In 1992, he was named NMSU's Distinguished Alumni, and in 1997 he was inducted into the university's College of Business Hall of Fame. In 2005 NMSU recognized Carl with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Thomas H. Lee, Sc.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
 Tom is a recognized leader in the area of high speed analog design. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and founded the Stanford Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory. Tom has been involved in high speed analog design at Analog Devices, and Rambus, and co-founded Matrix Semiconductor. He has also been involved in the development of PLLs for Alpha, StrongARM, and the AMD K6/K7/K8 microprocessors. He holds 35 US patents, is an IEEE distinguished lecturer, has authored and co-authored six books on high speed circuit design, and has twice received "Best Paper" awards at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Tom holds S.B., S.M. and Sc.D degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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