Board of Directors

Jeff Treuhaft, Zetta CEO and Co-founder

Jeff Treuhaft spent more than five years at VeriSign where he led the global digital content and messaging business unit to more than a $130M per year run rate in revenues. Prior to VeriSign, Jeff was one of the first employees at Netscape and during more than five years was responsible for standardizing the SSL protocol, leading the product teams that launched JavaScript and Netscape's JVM, managing the W3C and IETF relationships, and establishing the technical infrastructure for Netscape Netcenter including launching RSS, syndicated identity management and growing the DevEdge web developer community. Prior to Netscape, Jeff spent several years in technical marketing roles at Silicon Graphics.

 

Jeff Whitehead, Zetta Vice President Technical Operations & CTO and Co-founder

Jeff Whitehead spent more than two years as CIO of Shutterfly. At Shutterfly Jeff led the IT and production operations staff through a rapid growth phase from less than one petabyte of online storage to more than six petabytes while improving availability from less than 99% to more than 99.99%. Prior to its acquisition by Shutterfly, Jeff was co-founder of Memory Matrix and led all technical operations. Jeff was previously Director of Operations for Shopping.com, Dealtime and Epinions. Jeff began his career in Silicon Valley as one of the first website administrators at Netscape developing techniques commonly known now as global load balancing.

 

Greg Gretsch, Sigma Partners

As a former founder and executive of four start-up technology companies, Greg uses his expertise to assist entrepreneurs in building strong businesses. Greg has been in the high-technology industry for more than 17 years. He joined Sigma in 2000, and brings to the firm expertise in new venture creation and marketing. Greg tracks markets that have an impact on both the enterprise and the consumer, including business applications, enterprise infrastructure, storage, Internet services, consumer services, and alternative energy.
Read Greg's blog at: http://www.greggretsch.com

 

Ashmeet Sidana, Foundation Capital

Ashmeet is a seasoned executive who comes to Foundation Capital with a combination of 15 years of experience in enterprise software and core systems technology. His experience spans line-of-business management, product strategy and engineering at start-up and large companies.

 

Most recently, he was at VMware (acquired by NYSE:EMC) where he was responsible for multiple products including Virtual SMP, P2V and their flagship product, ESX Server.

 

Kirk Bowman

A high-technology industry veteran, Bowman brings more than 20 years of sales leadership experience to technology companies. Most recently he was executive vice president of worldwide field operations for EqualLogic where he was responsible for leading all sales activities up to and through the purchase of EqualLogic by Dell. Bowman joined EqualLogic from ModelN, a provider of revenue management software for life science companies, where as chief operating officer he drove all customer facing activities.

 

ADVISORY BOARD

Taher El Gamal

One of the world's leading cryptographers and a successful serial entrepreneur, Dr. Elgamal is recognized as the inventor of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology writing the patents and promoting SSL as the Internet security standard. An inventor of several key security technologies, Dr. Elgamal created many industry and government standards in the data security and digital signatures areas, including the Digital Signature Standard (DSS) government standard for digital signatures. Dr. Elgamal is the inventor of the Elgamal Cryptosystem which is used in many commercial products and is the foundation for modern elliptic-curve ciphers.