Scott Sandell
Chairman

Scott Sandell is a general partner at NEA and joined in 1996 as an Associate, became a Partner in 1999 and a General Partner in 2000. Scott focuses on investments in information technology and alternative energy. Present board memberships include Agami Systems, CenterBeam, Data Domain, Ensim, FineGround Networks, Foveon, Ion America, Spreadtrum Communications, Tableau Software and Teneros. He is also actively involved with Motion Computing and Heliovolt.

Scott serves as Co-Chairman of the board of the Software Development Forum. He has sponsored investments in 3ware (acquired by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation), Amplitude Software (acquired by Critical Path), Fineground Networks (acquired by Cisco), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks, (NASDAQ: JNPR), NetIQ (NASDAQ: NTIQ), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and WebEx (NASDAQ: WEBX).

Scott started his career at the Boston Consulting Group and later joined C-ATS Software as the company's first salesman. He founded and ran the European Subsidiary before attending Stanford Business School. During and after business school, Scott was a Product Manager at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows 95. In addition to an MBA from Stanford, Scott holds an AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College.

John Roberts
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder

John Roberts, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of SugarCRM, is a pioneer in the enterprise software market. As co-founder of SugarCRM, John established SugarCRM's commercial open source business model, co-led the product design of SugarCRM products, and helped build the Sugar Community into one of the largest open source communities on the Web. With experience across marketing, business development and product management, John has established SugarCRM as the only viable alternative to established proprietary CRM solutions.

Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, John spent 14 years in various product management and sales engineering roles at leading CRM companies E.piphany, BroadVision, Baan/Aurum Software and IBM. John holds a BS in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Larry Augustin

Larry Augustin, chairman of VA Software, founded the company in 1993 as a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Stanford University. A strong advocate of collaborative software development, Augustin was the visionary behind SourceForge.net, the largest Open Source development site on the Internet.

Before founding VA, Augustin was a research associate in the program analysis and verification group (PAVG) at Stanford University where he worked on rapid prototyping languages, software engineering, hardware verification and software prototyping environments. Prior to Stanford, he worked as a systems engineer on high-speed switched digital services at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Larry Augustin holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Larry Augustin is currently Chief Executive Officer of Medsphere Systems Corporation.

Mary Coleman

Mary is the Managing Director of Walden International. Prior she was CEO of Rightworks, an e-procurement and trading exchange software firm, which was acquired by I2 Technologies. She joined Rightworks from Internet Capital Group, where she had been a Managing Director focusing on investments in enterprise software and internet infrastructure including companies such as Rightworks. Prior to Internet Capital Group, Mary was the CEO of the Baan Company, a leading European ERP software firm.Coleman attained this position after selling Aurum Software - a CRM software firm where she served as the CEO - to the Baan Company, after taking Aurum Software public on the NASDAQ.

Earlier in her career, Coleman served as a vice president of marketing for a number of high technology firms. She studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Mark Leslie

Mark Leslie is a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Sales Organization. He is also the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company, and serves on the boards of two public companies, six private companies and three nonprofit organizations.

Mark Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. During his tenure as CEO the company went from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. In 2000 Veritas was the 10th largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company.

From 1980 until 1990 he served as president and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley high-tech start-up companies. His prior experience included sales management, sales executive, systems engineer, and OS programmer.

Mark currently serves on the boards of Avaya Corporation (NYSE:AV) and Network Appliance (NSDAQ: NTAP) and a number of privately held high-technology corporations, including Cassatt Software, db4objects, Model N Software, Panta Systems, PostX Corporation, and Scalix Corporation, and is on the boards of nonprofit organizations Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life, Community Foundation of Silicon Valley, and Leslie Family Foundation.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and mathematics from New York University in 1966 and completed Harvard Business School's program for management development in 1980.

Josh Stein

Josh Stein is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he focuses on investments in wireless communications, software infrastructure/applications and consumer services.

His current board responsibilities include abazab, Box.net, Eventful, Personiva, Polaris Wireless, SugarCRM, and ViVOTech. Prior to joining DFJ, Josh was a Vice President at Telephia, where he managed a group providing strategic analysis and information to the nation’s largest wireless carrier. Previously, Josh was a co-founder, Director and the Chief Strategy Officer for ViaFone (NYSE:SY), a DFJ portfolio company and a leading provider of wireless applications to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Josh has previously held positions in product management at Microsoft and NetObjects and was a management consultant in the San Francisco office of The Boston Consulting Group.

Josh holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.

Board of Advisors

Andrew Aitken

Andrew is the Founder and Managing Partner of Olliance Group, a business and strategy consulting firm whose mission is to help clients capitalize on the strategic, technological and financial benefits of open source software.

Andrew has over 12 years senior management experience building and leading national professional services companies. Most recently Andrew was VP of Business Development for eWork, the leading provider of online contingent workforce management solutions. Prior to eWork, Andrew was VP of Corporate Strategy and Marketing for ESG Consulting, a firm he helped build into a national provider of IT professional services. Andrew has spoken at multiple industry conferences, is a member of Open Source Software Institute's Board of Directors, and has personally helped companies such as: Intel , Nokia, HP and others develop their Open Source strategies.

Matt Asay

Matt Asay has been involved with open source for the past seven years, and has been at the forefront of uncovering novel business models to monetize open source software. To this end, Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference as a place to aggregate the industry's luminaries to figure out promising open source business strategies; co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office and helped to kick-start the company's growing Linux business; served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, dedicated to finding and developing open source investment opportunities; and ran embedded Linux startup, Lineo's, network & communications business until its acquisition by Motorola in 2002. Asay speaks and publishes frequently on open source business strategy, and consults frequently for several open source startups and venture capital firms.

Asay holds a juris doctorate from Stanford, where he worked with Professor Larry Lessig on analyzing the GPL and other open source licenses. He also holds an MA from the University of Kent (United Kingdom) and a BA from Brigham Young University.