Azul Systems

With almost two decades of technology engineering successes, Gil Tene guides Azul Systems architectural vision and product design to align with business and market opportunity strategies. Prior to co-founding Azul Systems, Gil was Director of Technology at Nortel Networks, having joined Nortel... through the acquisition of Shasta Networks. Gil architected Shasta’s Broadband IP Services Platform and Service Creation System. Before joining Nortel, Gil was Director of Technology at Check Point Software Technologies where he delivered several industry-leading traffic management solutions, including the industry's first Firewall-1 based security appliance in partnership with Nokia. Prior to Check Point, Gil held numerous management and design engineering positions at industry-leading companies including Stratus and Qualix Communications. Prior to working for commercial companies, Gil served in the Israeli Navy Computer R&D Unit. Gil also holds a BSEE from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is a member of numerous technology advisory boards and has been granted three patents in computer technology.
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With more than 18 years of successful leadership in building high technology companies and delivering performance-built, architecturally-advanced products to market, Scott Sellerrs leads the company’s sales, marketing, engineering, operations, and finance teams. Previously at Azul, Scott... served as vice president of hardware engineering where he was instrumental in the development of Azul Systems hardware and chip architectures and innovation across the engineering design team. Prior to co-founding Azul Systems, Scott founded 3dfx Interactive, a graphics processor company. Scott served at 3dfx as Vice President of Engineering, CTO and as a member of the board of directors and delivered 7 award-winning products and developed 14 different chips. After a successful initial public offering, 3dfx was later acquired by NVIDIA Corporation. Prior to 3dfx, Scott was a CPU systems architect at Pellucid, later acquired by MediaVision. Before Pellucid, Scott was a member of the technical staff at Silicon Graphics where he designed high-performance workstations. Scott graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor of science, earning magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. Scott has been granted 8 patents in high performance graphics and computing and is a regularly invited keynote speaker at industry conferences.
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Geoff Yang is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, Geoff was a general partner with IVP, a firm he joined in... 1987.Geoff emphasizes investments in consumer media and infrastructure.  His media and advertising investments include Ask Jeeves, Excite, MySpace and TiVo.  His networking investments include  BigBand, Calix, Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, MMC Networks and Wellfleet. He currently serves on the Board of  BigBand Networks  and TiVo .  His privately-held company board seats include: Azul Systems, Calix, Gaia Online, Efficient Frontier, Fanfare, M2Z Networks and Oodle.In addition, Geoff was founding director or previously led investments in Agile Networks, Applied Digital Access, Centillion, Collabra, Crescendo, Golfweb, JotSpot, Netcore Systems, Netlink, Promatory, Rapid City, Shasta Networks, Synernetics, and Whitetree.Geoff is currently on the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and previously served on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee as well as a Director of the National Venture Capital Association and President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. Prior to joining IVP, Geoff was an Associate with First Century Partners where he had specialized in communications and software investments. Earlier, Geoff had been in technical support and marketing at IBM Corp.Geoff holds a B.S.E. in Engineering and Management Systems from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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As CEO of Azul Systems, Stephen provides the overall strategic leadership and visionary direction for Azul Systems. Stephen has a dynamic reputation... and proven track record of undeniable achievements throughout the systems, networking, and consumer software industries. Before joining Azul Systems, Stephen was the Vice President and General Manager of Content Delivery and Edge Computing for Sun Microsystems, where he joined following the acquisition of Cobalt Networks. As Cobalt's President and CEO, Stephen guided his team from its earliest stages of development through a period of rapid growth, including the initial release of the company’s first server appliance. While at the helm, Stephen also led Cobalt through one of the most dramatic initial public offerings and drove its successful merger with Sun Microsystems. Prior to joining Cobalt, Stephen held a seat on the executive staff at Cisco Systems as Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Network Management Business Unit and Vice President of Enterprise Marketing. Before Cisco, Stephen was Vice President of Marketing for Symantec Corporation, a leading consumer software company. Stephen also served as General Manager of the Canadian subsidiary of Symantec based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Stephen holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Economics from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. To contact Stephen directly, please email him at: president@azulsystems.
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