Founding Board Members

The founding advisory board included a unique combination of Silicon Valley professionals from business,research, and academia.

Dr. Harry Saal
Former Chairman of Network General and Director of Smart Valley

Dr. Douglas Engelbart
Director of Bootstrap Institute

Dr. Steve Deering
Former Technical Advisor, Cisco Systems

Prof. Annalee Saxenian
Dean and Professor in the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California-Berkeley

Dr. Haruhisa Ichikawa
Executive Manger, NTT Software Labs.

The board made recommendations on the commercial development of technologies and assisted with recruiting quality research engineers locally.