Board of Directors Profiles
Bob Dutkowsky, Chief Executive Officer and member of the board, Tech Data Corporation, and Chairman of the Board, Egenera, Inc.
Bob Dutkowsky is chief executive officer and member of the Board of Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ GS: TECD), a leading distributor of IT products. He was Egenera's president and CEO from February 2004 until October 2006.
Dutkowsky began his career at IBM, where he quickly ascended through the organization in positions of increasing responsibility. Highlights of his IBM tenure include regional vice president of product marketing for the RS/6000, S/390 and AS/4000 product lines; vice president of distribution for IBM Asia Pacific; executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for the RS/6000; and multiple executive assignments, including working directly for former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner.
After IBM, Dutkowsky joined EMC as executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. In 2000, he was appointed chairman, president and CEO of GenRad, leading the publicly traded company to a successful merger with Teradyne. He was named president and CEO of J.D. Edwards in January 2002, and chairman in March of that year, resigning as planned after the integration with PeopleSoft.
Dutkowsky serves on the board of SEPATON Inc., and received the 2000 Ellis Island Medal of Honor recognizing distinguished American citizens. He earned a bachelor of science degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.
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William P. Collatos, Co-founder and Managing General Partner, Spectrum Equity Investors
Collatos co-founded Spectrum in 1993 and has been involved in private equity investing for more than 20 years. He began his career as a banker lending money to startups, eventually heading the media lending group at Fleet Bank. He joined TA Associates in 1980 as an associate, ultimately becoming general partner. While at TA, he was one of the founding partners of Media/Communications Partners, a spin-off of the firm. Collatos has sourced and managed investments across a wide range of communications companies both domestically and in Europe, including cellular, radio, publishing, network infrastructure, and voice/data services providers. He holds an AB in economics from Harvard College and is on the boards of Access Television Network, Inc.; CBSI; and Surebridge, Inc.
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David Epstein, Venture Advisor, Crosslink Capital
Epstein joined Crosslink in 2001. Prior to this, he had been starting, managing and helping high-tech companies grow for more than 20 years. His experience includes work in the Silicon Valley venture-capital community and advising several early-stage companies in the Internet, software, wireless, semiconductor and computer-systems arenas. Recently, Epstein was interim CEO for a venture-backed technology company and served as strategic consultant to Transmeta Corporation. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of XStream Logic where he helped build an organization and strategy to compete in the network processor arena. Epstein was founding CEO of Raycer Graphics, vice president of engineering at NexGen and VP of engineering at Kendall Square Research. He started his career at Data General as a CPU designer, chronicled in Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine." Epstein serves on the editorial board of the Microprocessor Report, and is named on 13 patents in computer architecture and systems. He earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Boston University.
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Charles Kane, President and Chief Executive Officer, One Laptop per Child
Mr. Kane is the president and chief executive officer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization created to design, manufacture and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. Prior to OLPC, Mr. Kane held CFO roles at RSA Security (acquired by EMC Corp.), Aspen Technology, and Informix Software (acquired by IBM Corp.). He also served as president and CEO of Corechange Inc. (acquired by Open Text Corp.), in addition to executive positions at Stratus Computer, Prime Computer and Deloitte and Touche. Mr. Kane is a CPA and a Senior Lecturer teaching International Finance at the Sloan Graduate School of Business at MIT.
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Rick Kimball, Founding General Partner, Technology Crossover Ventures
Rick Kimball has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for more than 20 years. Prior to founding TCV he was a managing director at Montgomery Securities, where he spent over 10 years focusing on telecommunications and data communications as both a venture capitalist and senior equity research analyst. As a senior securities analyst, he played a pivotal role in identifying, sourcing and executing several preeminent initial public offerings, including StrataCom, Chipcom and FORE Systems. Rick's research received number one Institutional rankings from Greenwich Associates and "Home Run Hitter" accolades from Institutional Investor Magazine for his timely buy call on StrataCom, the top-performing growth stock of 1994. Rick graduated Cum Laude from Dartmouth College with an bachelor's degree in history and received a master of business administration degree with an emphasis in finance from the University of Chicago. He is currently on the board of directors of Vastera and several private companies. Rick also serves as a director to the Intel 64 Fund.
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Louis J. Volpe, Managing General Partner, Kodiak Venture Partners
Prior to joining Kodiak, Lou was President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of ArrowPoint Communications where he was responsible for all of ArrowPoint's functional organizations and focused on managing worldwide operations to achieve company growth objectives. ArrowPoint had a successful IPO in March 2000 and was acquired by Cisco Systems for $5.5 billion in June 2000.
Prior to joining ArrowPoint, Lou was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing and a member of the Board of GeoTel Communications, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in June 1999. He joined GeoTel early in its developmental stage and was a major contributor in building its worldwide sales and marketing presence. He was also instrumental in guiding the company through its IPO and eventual $2 billion acquisition. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Operations for Parametric Technology Corporation from 1989 to 1994. Before Parametric, he was an executive at Prime Computer. Lou has been an active investor and board member of a number of companies including Atria (acquired by Pure) and Softdesk (acquired by Autodesk).
Volpe holds a master of business administration degree from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Tufts University. He serves as Chairman of the Board of IMlogic and RulesPower and is also on the boards of Azimuth Systems, CXO Systems, Egenera, GTESS, IE-Engine, and sentitO Networks.
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