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Splashtop Inc. - Management
Prior to Splashtop Inc., Mark was a co-founder and CEO of OSA Technologies. Founded in 2000, OSA raised a total of $20M from Intel, Dell, Quanta, Foxconn, UMC, Storm Ventures, Sycamore Ventures, and others. The company had operations in San Jose, Shanghai and Taipei. OSA was acquired by Avocent in 2004 for $100M. Mark continued to serve as Senior VP of Avocent until June of 2006.
Prior to OSA, Mark spent over 7 years at Intel.
Mark received his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and executive MBA from ASU.
Thomas Deng, Co-Founder and SVP of Product Management
Prior to Splashtop, Thomas was the CTO and co-founder of OSA Technologies, where he was responsible for the architecture and development of OSA's industry-leading server management software and firmware solutions, which were shipped by top tier software and hardware vendors such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell, HP, and IBM. After OSA's acquisition by Avocent in 2004, Thomas continued to serve as the CTO of Avocent's Embedded Software and Solutions division until 2006.
In addition to OSA and Avocent, Thomas has worked at Intel, Motorola, NCR/AT&T Global Information Solutions, the NASA Science Internet Office, and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
Thomas received his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Robert Ha, CFO and SVP of Product Management
Prior to Splashtop Inc., Robert was a co-founder and VP of Finance & Corporate Development at OSA Technologies. Prior to OSA, Robert had a career in the finance industry in New York City, serving as a Vice President for Citibank, Salomon Smith Barney and West LB. His responsibilities ranged from proprietary trading to structuring derivatives transactions for worldwide clients. Prior to Wall Street, Robert held engineering positions at Hewlett Packard, IBM Taiwan, and MIT Research Labs.
Robert received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT.
Philip Sheu, Co-Founder and CTO
Prior to Splashtop Inc., Philip was the VP of Field Applications for OSA Technologies, where he led development of server manageability firmware and integration with Tier 1 server OEMs.
Before OSA Technologies, Philip was a technical lead in server hardware engineering for Hewlett Packard. His responsibilities included system architecture and high-speed board design. Philip also held research and teaching positions at MIT and industry laboratories in digital logic and microwave circuit design.
Philip received his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Cliff Miller, President, Asia Pacific & Chief Marketing Officer
Cliff has founded, run and advised high tech companies for 20 years. His first company, TurboLinux, grew to become the top Linux company in Asia in terms of user base and revenue. TurboLinux pioneered alliances and software bundling deals with Dell, HP, IBM, NEC, Fujitsu, Oracle, Lenovo and others, and by 1999 had become one of the first profitable Linux and Internet companies.
His second company, Mountain View Data, specialized in data storage software and server provisioning software. Cliff sold the data storage business to NEC in 2005 and the server provisioning business to a Silicon Valley company in 2007.
Cliff is a recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Utah, the Distinguished Teaching Award at Zhejiang University, and highly competitive research awards from the National Science Foundation and the American Electronics Association. In his spare time Cliff dabbles in clean technology, music and new educational methods.
Tim Cheng, SVP of Enterprise Products & Advanced Technology
Tim is instrumental in developing Splashtop's best-in-class remote technology and integrating it into a series of successful products. He is now leading the company's push into the enterprise market.
Prior to joining Splashtop, Tim spent 10 years on research and development of CPU/GPU systems, virtualization and dynamic translation technologies. He held various management and engineering positions at NVIDIA, Montalvo Systems and Transmeta.
Tim studied computer science at Tsinghua university and received his B.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Uranan-Champaign with the Bronze Tablet honor.
Besides Mark Lee, Co-Founder and CEO, and Thomas Deng, Co-Founder and SVP of Product Management, the Splashtop Inc. Board of Directors has the following members:
Bobby Chao – Founding Managing Partner, DFJ DragonFund China
Prior to co-founding the DFJ DragonFund, Bobby served as the CEO of VA Linux, founded and lead OCRON, and co-founded Cadence Design Systems. DFJ investments include Baidu, Skype, Focus Media, Hotmail, and many others.
Ryan Floyd – Managing Director, Storm Ventures
Ryan is a founding member of Storm Ventures. He has invested in semiconductor, components, and software companies, including MetaRAM, SandForce, Ignis Optics (acquired by Bookham), Appcelerator, Netforensics, Yieldbuild, and Kidaro (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to founding Storm Ventures, Ryan directed business development at E-TEK Dynamics.
Peter Sonsini – Partner, NEA
Pete joined NEA in 2005, specializing in software, systems and technology-enabled services companies. His current board memberships include Compiere, Conviva, Engine Yard, Limbo, Teracent, and Tintri, and he led NEA's investment in Xensource (acquired by Citrix Systems). Prior to NEA, Pete was an executive at VMware where he built the company's initial OEM channel.
Benny Kirsh - Information Technology Executive
Benny is an accomplished IT professional with over 20 years of experience in leading Global IT teams, IT Strategic planning, Change Management, IT Transformation and M&A activities. He was directly responsible for leading several significant business transformation implementations including ERP, Distribution systems, Finance, supply chain and others, providing technology solutions responding to the business needs of SMB companies in Life science and High-Tech industries. His accomplishments have proven to improve operation effectiveness and organization financial performance.
Bill Demas – President of Turn; former CEO of Moka5; former SVP of Yahoo! Publisher Network
Bill is President of Turn, a leading online ad network. Prior to Turn, Bill was CEO & President of Moka5, a desktop virtualization software company. Prior to Moka5, Bill was a senior vice president and GM of the Yahoo! Publisher Network. His other past roles include executive positions at Vividence and Microsoft.
Danny Lui – co-founder and former CEO of Lenovo
Danny co-founded and led Lenovo (formerly Legend Computer).
David Riemer – former VP of Marketing at Yahoo!
David led Yahoo! marketing between 2002 and 2008.
Ed Yang – former VP and CTO of HP
Ed is a former VP and CTO of HP Personal Systems Group, with a 25+ year track record at HP.
Gokul Rajaram – former Director of Product Management for Google AdSense
Gokul led AdSense product management at Google from 2003 till 2007.
Jason Chen – VP of TSMC Sales & Marketing; former VP of Intel Worldwide Sales & Marketing
Jason is the VP of Sales & Marketing at TSMC, and a former VP of Worldwide Sales & Marketing at Intel Corporation.
Jerry Shen – CEO of ASUS
Jerry is the CEO of ASUS.
Jim Wiatt - former CEO of William Morris; Board of of AOL
John Hui – founder of eMachines (Gateway)
John is the founder of eMachines (now part of Gateway), and owned Packard Bell until its sale to Gateway – Acer.
Kai Huang – Founder /GM of Guitar Hero (RedOctane), acquired by Activision Blizzard
Kai was founder and GM of Guitar Hero (RedOctane), which was acquired by Activision Blizzard. Guitar Hero is one of the most successful console game ever produced, selling over 30M copies, on track to generate over $1.8B in revenue in 2009.
Larry Augustin – former CEO of VA Linux (SourceForge / Slashdot / Linux.com)
Larry is an angel investor and advisor to technology companies. He serves on the boards of Appcelerator, Compiere, DotNetNuke, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho and SugarCRM. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (NASDAQ:LNUX). Serving as CEO until 2002, he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO.
Lee Ting – Board Director of Lenovo
Lee is a Director of Lenovo and Managing Director of WR Hambrecht + Co. He is a former VP and a 30+ year veteran of HP.
Madeline Duva – former CEO of China MobileSoft (PalmSource / ACCESS)
Madeline was the CEO of China MobileSoft and has 20+ years of experience in the wireless communications industry
Mark Kuo – former Microsoft executive
Mark was an executive at Microsoft, responsible for licensing and monetization strategy for the enterprise and online software groups, and driving search product management, marketing and distribution. In his prior roles, Mark was involved in investments and M&A in the US, South America, and Asia.
Peter Hsing – founding partner of Merus Capital; former Managing Director of Microsoft's Corporate Strategy Group
Prior to founding Merus Capital, Peter led Microsoft's Corporate Strategy Group (2003-2007) in identifying, developing, and recommending "white space" growth opportunities and led several early stage Internet investments as a senior member of the Corporate Development (M&A) team (1999-2003).
Ray Taylor – former Executive Director of Verizon Wireless
Ray was Executive Director of the Consumer Multimedia Products group at Verizon Wireless, leading the 1st BREW, 3G service, and Mobile Web 2.0 services in US. Ray worked in wireless industry for over 20 years.
Richard Chen – VP of Gigabyte
Richard is a VP of R&D at Gigabyte and has 12+ years of BIOS experience at Phoenix / Award.
SageCreek Partners
SageCreek Partners is started by several Altiris founders and executives (CEO, CFO, CTO, etc.), which was acquired by Symantec. SageCreek advises and assist startups in various phases of growth.
Salman Ullah – founding partner of Merus Capital; former Vice President of Corporate Development at Google
Prior to founding Merus Capital, Salman was responsible for corporate development at Google, including acquisitions of YouTube and DoubleClick.
Samuelson Young – Silver Lake Partners, Special Advisor; former VP of IBM
Samuelson is the Silver Lake Partners China Advisor. He has 30+ years of technology experience with IBM, ultimately as the VP of IBM Asia.
Timothy Chen – VP of Business Development & Strategy, VIA Technologies
Timothy is a VP of Business Development & Strategy at VIA.
Vish Makhijani – SVP of Zynga, former CEO of Yandex Labs, former Yahoo SVP
Prior to joining Zynga, Vish was CEO of Yandex Labs (#1 Russia search engine). Prior to Yandex, Vish was the Senior VP at Yahoo, responsible for Yahoo! Search and other properties including Local, Shopping, Travel, Personals, Answers and Delicious.
Wen Li – CMO of Trident
Wen is the Chief Marketing Officer of Trident Microsystems, a leading HDTV / IPTV chip company. Previously he was the CTO of Agilent Storage Business and the CEO and President of RedSwitch.
