Trapeze Networks

Dan Simone served as a Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Trapeze Networks.

Prior to joining DAG in 1999, John was a Managing Director at Amsterdam Pacific, an investment bank specializing in media and telecommunications.... While at Amsterdam Pacific Corporation, John worked with BBU Mezzanine Fund I and BBU Mezzanine Fund II, where he sourced, supported and exited mezzanine investments across a number of industries. Previously, John worked at Octel Communications and Tandem Computers in Marketing and Strategic Planning roles. He also worked at JP Morgan in both capital markets and corporate finance. John received a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. John led DAG II's investments into Raza Microelectronics, Agami, Tropos Networks, Qlusters, Centrata, Kovio, Pedestal Networks, Trapeze Networks, Topspin Communications, and Entrisphere.
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Bill Miskovetz was entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners before Trapeze and vice president of engineering at Redback Networks, where he led the... team responsible for software that accounted for all of the company's revenue before its 1999 merger with Siara Systems. He was also vice president of engineering at FreeGate Corp. and held management roles at Cisco Systems.
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John Walecka is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, John was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, a... firm he joined in 1984.John works closely with entrepreneurs to build industry leading companies in emerging technology sectors and he is interested in innovative business models built on deep intellectual property.  In the Information Technology area, John focuses on critical infrastructure appliances and platforms, and he is currently working with enterprise and data center appliance companies Fortinet, Trapeze and Schooner. In the Semiconductor area, John looks for companies with unique opportunities to build category leading companies.  He is currently working with Entropic Communications, Avnera and BCD Semiconductor. IIn addition to his work in IT, John also leads Redpoint's investment activity in the Energy and Materials sector.  Areas of interest include alternative and renewable energy and storage, innovative new materials, clean coal and water technologies, efficient transportation, and energy management solutions. John is currently working with Envia, Solyndra, Intermolecular and AMEC. John also works closely with Redpoint's China activities.John has also worked closely with a number of very successful companies in the enterprise and broadband infrastructure space. Key investments in the communications products area include: Xylan , Wellfleet Communications , Synernetics , Agile Networks , Network Equipment Technologies , Polycom , Onstream , Avici Networks , TransMedia Communications , Lightera Networks , Promatory Communications , Netro , and StratumOne . John has also led investments in a number of software infrastructure companies, including Sybase , Documentum , Object Design and Vitria Technology . John served as Director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and he is currently a Director of the Stanford Business School Venture Capital Trust, an advisor to the Stanford Engineering School, and on the Investment Committee of Sacred Heart School in Menlo Park. Prior to joining Brentwood, John worked at Hewlett Packard and the Stanford University Smart Product Design Laboratory.John received a B.S. and an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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