Board of Directors

Scott Genereux | President & CEO, Nirvanix

Under Scott Genereux's visionary strategy, Nirvanix has become the recognized leader in the enterprise cloud storage market as demonstrated by signing an OEM pact with IBM, implementing the largest private cloud in the world, securing more petabytes under management in 2011 than the prior 3 years combined, and strengthening its competitive positioning by diversifying its cloud storage portfolio to encompass private and hybrid cloud services. Genereux joined Nirvanix from QLogic Corp. where he served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. While at QLogic Genereux spearheaded an aggressive sales push to expand the company's presence in Fibre Channel and InfiniBand switching, forging successful design wins at tier-one OEMs such as Dell, EMC, HP, and IBM. Prior to QLogic, he was at DataDirect Networks (DDN), as senior vice president of worldwide sales, marketing and support. At DDN, Genereux increased revenue in 2008 at a rate twice as fast as the prior year; expanded the company into new market segments; significantly raised its profile in the industry and introduced its first-ever indirect channel organization. Prior to DDN, Genereux headed up a $2.7B global storage business for Hitachi, Ltd.'s Data Systems unit (HDS) as senior vice president of worldwide sales, marketing and support. He is credited with significantly expanding the company's addressable market by focusing the global sales organization on midrange storage platforms and heterogeneous virtualization solutions while diversifying its revenue stream through HP, Sun and over 1,500 VARs worldwide.

David Ryan | Mission Ventures

Dave Ryan is a founding partner of Mission Ventures and has over 23 years of venture capital experience focusing on early-stage information technology and service companies. Prior to Mission Ventures, he served as General Partner of Copley Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in information technology, business services and healthcare. Prior to Copley, Dave held positions in strategic planning, business development and plant modernization with Medusa Corp, a Midwest-based manufacturer of industrial materials. Dave holds a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a Director of 3E Company, BMS Reimbursement Management, Kalon Semiconductor, LogicalApps, DevZuz and WorkWell Systems.

Charles Curran | Valhalla Partners

Charles Curran has been a technology venture capital investor since 1998 helping to drive Valhalla's efforts in data storage, mobile and Internet marketing. Before joining Valhalla, Charles was a partner of Saturn Venture Partners in New York, NY where he led Saturn's enterprise technology investing efforts, including application software, infrastructure software, e-security, and storage. Charles has also worked as an associate with New Enterprise Associates in Reston, Virginia, working closely with Art Marks. Prior to NEA, Mr. Curran worked as a telecommunications and technology investment banker for Lazard Frères & Co. and DLJ Securities Corporation, advising clients on over $35 billion announced M&A and capital markets transactions. Charles received a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Distinction from Stanford University.

M. David Titus | Windward Ventures (Board Observer)

David Titus is co-founder and Managing Partner of Windward Ventures, investors in early stage technology companies located in Southern California. He also serves as the President and CEO of the San Diego Venture Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the venture capital ecosystem in San Diego. Since 1997, Windward Ventures has invested in 24 Southern California early stage companies, of which 5 are active in the portfolio. He is board representative to 4 of these companies and Chairman of one additional private company. Mr. Titus has served on the boards of over 25 companies, including 2 public companies. Mr. Titus is a member of the Executive Committee of CONNECT and former officer of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He has served as an advisor to numerous business organizations including the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC), CommNexus and Corporate Directors Forum.

Mr. Titus began his career in venture capital in 1986, when he joined Technology Funding, a San Francisco bay area venture firm with $200 million under management. He was Managing Director of Corporate Finance directing all investment activities when he left in 1991 to move to San Diego. Prior to entering the venture capital business, he was a founder and Senior Vice President of his own start-up, Silicon Valley Bank, where he led the Technology Division. Mr. Titus has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Michael V. Wall

Mike Wall is an independent business consultant with extensive experience in developing and managing high technology businesses. From 2002 through 2007, he was the general manager of Intel Corporation's Storage Group, based in Chandler, Arizona, where he was responsible for managing the P&L and all aspects of product and business development for Intel's $500M storage business. From 1994 through 1996, Mike was the general manager of Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division. His division led the introduction of Intel's x86 architecture into the high performance computing market with massively parallel systems. Prior to joining the Intel Corporation in 1992, Mike was an area general manager at Cray Research, responsible for North American Operations. He also held several marketing management positions at IBM in New York City. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Sports Foundation. Mike earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed his Masters of Management Sciences, Harriman College for Urban and Policy Sciences, at SUNY Stony Brook.