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For the Ontarian dollar-beer, see James Ready James "Jim" Ready is a businessman and technologist. He is known within the Linux community for pioneering real-time embedded operating systems. Ready received his BA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971 and his MA from the... University of California, Berkeley in 1976. Ready was founder and President of Hunter & Ready beginning in 1980, which merged with CardTools in 1986 to become Ready Systems. Ready Systems merged with Microtec Research in 1993, went public in 1994, and was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1995. Ready served as chief technical officer at Microtec and Mentor until he left in 1999 to found MontaVista Software. Jim served as founder and CEO of MontaVista until June 5, 2006 when the role of CEO was taken over by Thomas F. Kelly. Jim switched to the role of CTO of MontaVista. After the acquisition by Cavium Networks, Jim is still CTO of MontaVista, now a wholly owned subsidiary. As of end of February 2011, Jim is ad-interim president of the still separate subsidiary again.
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Steve has been involved with USVP's investments in Checkpoint Software, Harmonic Lightwaves and Stratacom. He serves on the boards of Asempra, Force... 10 Networks, Imperva, Kasenna, Megapath, MontaVista, National Banana, Occam Networks, Sierra Monolithics, Synfora, Vontu, Xirrus and Xponent. Steve has led the firm's investments in Accelerated Networks, Applied Digital Access, Elantec, MicroLinear, Occam Networks, and Xylan. The father of two, Steve serves on the board of Woodside Priory School and is a former executive board member of the National Venture Capital Association. An avid skier, Steve enjoys travel with his family. When time permits, his reading interests include world history, especially the Middle East and Asia. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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