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Vernon Altman - Chairman of the Board |
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Vernon Altman is a Senior Partner of Bain & Company, a leading international consulting firm. Mr. Altman joined Bain at its founding in 1973, founded a number of its major offices and practices, including the West Coast practice, and leads the company's Telecommunications practice and the company's Full Potential Transformation practice. In addition to his responsibilities at Bain, Mr. Altman served as a Senior Vice President of Cisco Systems, Inc. Early in his career, Mr. Altman held technical positions at General Electric and Honeywell.
Mr. Altman received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a master's in management from MIT's Sloan School. |
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Dan Beldy - Director |
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Dan Beldy is a managing director of Steamboat Ventures. Dan has spent the last 20 years in technology and finance as an investor, entrepreneur and operator. Dan currently serves on the boards of Move Networks, Baynote, Greystripe, and Passenger. Prior to Steamboat, Dan was a co-founder and managing director of Plainview Capital, an innovative family of fundamental value investment funds that leverage a proprietary software platform, Plainview Analytics™. Before Plainview, Dan was an associate and partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Focusing on early stage software investments, Dan was involved with several successful, growing companies as an investor / advisor / board member including Employease, acquired by ADP (NASDAQ: ADP), Technorati, Starmine, Method Home and Maxion Systems. Early in his career Dan was an officer and an F/A-18 Hornet jet instructor pilot for the U.S. Navy, completing over 275 aircraft carrier landings in tours of duty with the Atlantic Fleet.
Dan received a BS in computer science as a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy in 1986, and received an MBA in finance from The Wharton School in 1998.
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Yangbin Wang - Director |
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| Prior to founding Vobile, Yangbin was the CTO of Onewave Technologies following the acquisition of the IPTV business of YZTECH by Onewave in 2004. He was the founder and CEO of YZTECH, a leading IPTV technology provider in China famous for the landmark deployment of its IPTV platform by Hangzhou Netcom/WASU. It was the first and largest commercial IPTV service offering in China. Previously, Yangbin was the founder and CEO of EnjoyWeb, which pioneered the time-shift delivery of video contents via broadband Internet. In addition, Yangbin was director of software architecture at Oak Technology's Broadband Consumer Group. He also participated in several startups. At the outset of his career, he was a research engineer at Compression Labs (CLI) and General Instrument (GI). Yangbin earned a BS degree from Zhejiang University in China and an MSEE degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He also completed the executive education program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
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Steve Wurzburg - Director |
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| Steve Wurzburg is the Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley office of the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Mr. Wurzburg has extensive experience in business transactions and intellectual property matters. In his practice, he serves as outside corporate counsel for small and emerging corporations, handling all of their legal matters, and as outside counsel for large corporations having their own in-house legal staff, handling select transactions. Prior to joining Pillsbury in February 2000, Mr. Wurzburg was a partner with the law firm of Rosenblum, Parish & Isaacs, P.C. where he worked for 20 years. Mr. Wurzburg has a bachelors degree in Sociology, a masters degree in Management Science and Engineering, and a law degree, all from Stanford University. |
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Gideon Yu - Director |
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| Gideon Yu is the Chief Financial Officer of Facebook, where he leads finance, accounting, investor relations, real estate and human resource operations. Prior to Facebook, Gideon was the CFO of YouTube, where he negotiated its $1.65 billion sale to Google. Gideon was also the Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance for Yahoo and led corporate finance, M&A / business development evaluation, cash management, real estate and treasury operations. Gideon executed over 30 acquisitions or investments for Yahoo, including Alibaba / Taobao, Overture, Inktomi, Flickr, and del.icio.us and over $5 billion of capital markets transactions, including $750 million in zero coupon / zero yield convertible notes -- Yahoo's first financing since its IPO. Prior to Yahoo, Gideon was the CFO of NightFire Software (acquired by NeuStar, NYSE: NSR) and held positions at Disney, Hilton, and DLJ / CSFB. He holds a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University. |
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