Vadim Antonov is currently the Chief Architect of Exigen Group, a banking and insurance Application Service Provider. Prior to this, he was the Chief Network Architect of Genesys Telecom Labs, which was acquired by Alcatel. Vadim is also the founder and former CTO of Pluris, Inc, a terabit router startup. Prior to Pluris, Vadim was with nCube, Berkeley Software Design (BSD Unix), and Sprint (as the architect of the first commercial T-3 and fiber optic Internet backbone). Vadim also founded the first ISP to the USSR.

Vadim holds an M.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Moscow State University.

Steve Capps is currently a founder of a startup, onedoto.com. Onedoto is working on novel user interfaces and software for wireless products. Prior to that Steve has worked at all the big names in the personal computer world: Microsoft, Apple, and Xerox. At Microsoft, he was an Architect concentrating on user interfaces. He contributed to many versions of the Internet Explorer, was a major designer for MSN Explorer, and most recently, worked on the UI portions of the .NET initiative.

At Apple, Steve was an Apple Fellow with major contributions to the Macintosh and Newton projects. He was a member of the original Macintosh software team and contributed many parts of the ROM, system, and development environment. Most notably, he co-wrote the original Finder whose interface design still pervades both Apple's Finder and Microsoft's Explorer. Steve was one of the founders and leaders of the Newton. He similarly contributed many parts of the ROM, system, applications, and development environment. Most notably, he was the overall designer of the Newton user interface.

In between the Mac and Newton efforts, Steve independently designed electronic toys and music software. He created award-winning products such as Studio Session, Jam Session, SoundEdit, Jaminator, and others.

Steve has received 51 patents to date with a dozen pending.

Steve holds a B.S. degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

John M. Davidson is an entrepreneur and technologist in the communications networking industry currently working as an independent advisor to several high technology startup organizations. For over 30 years he has been actively involved in the commercialization of both Local Area Network and Internet technologies.

In 1968, John was a graduate student with the University of Hawaii's ALOHA System, the research project that pioneered the concept of shared-access digital channel networking. He served as the University's liaison to the ARPANET Technical Working Group and participated in a number of networking advances that paved the way for the emergence of today's Internet.

In 1979, John became technical Founder of Ungermann-Bass, the networking industry's first Local Area Networking company. As the company's Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of R&D, he helped grow the company to 1,600 people and revenue of $400 Million.

In 1993, he left UB to become Founder and CEO of Network TeleSystems, a privately held, self-funded and profitable supplier of Internet Protocol software for ISPs, Carriers, and Enterprise customers. In May 2000, Efficient Networks, a leading provider of CPE for the DSL market place, acquired NTS. John served as VP of Corporate Development until Siemens acquired Efficient for $1.5B in April 2001.

John holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii.

Peter Kent is currently CFO of Aurora Networks, an equipment provider for the transport of broadband signals to homes and businesses. He has over 25 years of financial experience in Silicon Valley. Previously he was CFO of NetScreen, a high-growth producer of firewall and traffic shaping products; and RadioLan, a wireless Ethernet company. He was also the founder and President of INSIGHT Business Systems, a consulting firm that focuses on financial and strategic issues for early stage technology companies. Founded in 1993, INSIGHT specializes in building highly sophisticated business models, and offering advice and counsel to CEOs and CFOs. Through Insight, Peter has often served as CFO on a part-time basis for a wide variety of companies. Prior to Insight, he helped create Adaptive Corporation in 1989, a high-growth telecommunications company that was sold to Network Equipment Technology Inc. in 1993. Peter also served as CFO for WordStar International in the 80's (formerly Micropro International, Inc.), a high-growth software company that he took public in 1984.

Peter holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Paul Mockapetris, a 25-year veteran of the information technology industry, created the Domain Name System (DNS) and was the first to implement the SMTP mail protocol. He was the co-founder and the CTO of Urban Media, a CLEC, where he oversaw the development of the company's fiber-to-the-floor architecture that brought high-speed fiber optical networks closer to the end-user. He was also a co-founder of @Home, where he directed the development and implementation of one of the world's first broadband Internet backbones.

An Internet pioneer, Paul has worked on the DCS Project (a high-speed LAN) and on the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), where he served as program manager for networking. He has a strong background in telecommunications equipment, serving management roles with Cerent and Siara Systems. In addition, he has served as Internet Engineering Task Force Chair (IETF), CTO at Software.com, and director of the HPCC Division at USC/Information Sciences Institute.

Paul holds a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine and degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT.

Bob Welch is founder and CEO of Coast Ventures, LLC, a company specializing in "positioning companies for profitable growth and shareholder liquidity" since 1987. From April 1999 until August 2001, Bob was Director of Business Development for Agilent Technologies, Inc. Prior to Agilent, he was President and CEO of Telegra Corporation, a privately held network test equipment company that he and his management team sold to HP/Agilent in April 1999. Bob and two other principals founded Telegra in February 1996 and it quickly became the leading worldwide supplier of network test systems for the testing of facsimile systems and networks. In less than 3 years, the shareholders of Telegra received from 3 to 50 times their original investment on the sale of Telegra to Agilent.

From 1987 to 1996, Bob was CEO of a number of venture-backed companies through his consulting firm, Coast Ventures. In 1979, Bob founded Zitel Corporation, where as President and CEO where in 1983 he led his team in the acquisition of a $12 M division of Intel and took Zitel public through Kidder Peabody. In 1983, while at Zitel, Bob co-founded OEMTech, Inc., where he was an active member of the Board. OEMTech was sold to Corvus Systems, Inc. in 1996, with the shareholders of OEMTech achieving liquidity through the sale with multiples of 2 to 35 times their original investment.

Bob holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University.