Board of Directors

Charles (Chuck) Berger is the chairman and CEO of ParAccel.  Chuck is an established Chief executive and director with 30 years experience in technology including extensive P&L, general management, marketing and financing experience in high growth, large and mid-sized companies.

Mr. Zane has 32 years of product development experience, principally focused on large distributed and parallel software and hardware systems. He has led the development teams for several products from inception to successful customer and market segment acceptance.

Tom Clancy is a managing director of Tao Ventures, an early stage investment fund. In addition to ParAccel, he is a director of The Active Network and of Threatstop. Additionally, he is a board member and past president of the San Diego Venture Group.

Mary has been a Managing Director at Walden International since 2002. She focuses on investments in software, Internet and IT services. She has led investments in the following companies: SugarCRM (open source CRM), Savvion (Business Process Management), Genius.com (web analytics for sales reps), Funambol (open source wireless email), Apptera (voice-based mobile as platform), Agiliance (IT Governance, Compliance and Security) and Levanta (Linux data center management appliance).

John joined Menlo Ventures in 1985. Over the past 23 years, he has led Menlo’s investments in more than 40 portfolio companies, primarily in the communications, storage, semiconductor, Internet and financial technology sectors. His recent investments and board seats include: Aprius, Avere Systems, Cavium Networks (CAVM), DiVitas Networks, Librato, Matisse Networks, MobiTV, Parascale, PowerReviews and Zimbio.

Stu is General Partner at Bay. Stu has a rare combination of in-depth operating expertise coupled with a successful track record in venture capital. Prior to founding Ridgelift Ventures, Stu was a General Partner at US Venture Partners where he led investments in communications, software and services companies, such as Cacheflow, @Road, Procket Networks, Flyswat, Merlin Networks and Force10 Networks.

Jim Smith leads investments in software and systems companies, and is active in extending MDV’s relationships with leading universities and research centers.

Bill Russell spent more than 20 years at HP where he served in a number of senior-level roles including vice president and general manager of the multi-billion dollar Enterprise Systems Group. He has been a board director of a number of public and private enterprise software companies since he left HP in May 2003, and is currently serving as a Director at KXEN, Global 360 and PROS (NYSE: PRO).