Convex Computer

Steven "Steve" J. Wallach, born Brooklyn, NY, September 1945, is currently an adviser to Centerpoint Venture partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Interwest, and a consultant to the United States Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Wallach was... previously Vice President of technology for Chiaro Networks and was co-founder of Convex Computer, their Chief Technology Officer and Senior V.P. of Development. After Hewlett-Packard bought Convex, Wallach became the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard's large systems group. He was also a visiting professor at Rice University from 1998-1999. Prior to Convex, he was manager of Advanced Development for Data General. His efforts on the MV/8000 are chronicled in Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winner The Soul of a New Machine. Wallach has 33 patents and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow and was a founding member of PITAC .
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Pierre Lamond focuses on semiconductor, systems and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1981, Pierre was a founder and... technical director of National Semiconductor and the general manager of Fairchild's Integrated Circuit Division. He has also been the president of Advent, a consumer electronics company and Coherent, a manufacturer of lasers.  Mr. Lamond is a past president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. Mr. Lamond is a Partner at Sequoia Capital and focuses on components, software and systems investments.  Mr. Lamond is a Director of Barcelona Design, Santur, Tera Systems, Open Silicon and Mellanox.  He is also working with T-Networks.  Mr. Lamond has been the Chairman of Vitesse Semiconductor , Redback Networks , Plumtree Software , Verisity Design , Cypress Semiconductor , Microchip , Combichem and a Director of VitalSigns Software , Convex Computer and the MarchFirst .
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