David Strohm

Partner at Greylock Ventures

Dave is a 30-year veteran at Greylock and Director at EMC Corporation and VMware. Dave’s primary areas of focus have been on enterprise technology (especially enterprise software), and electronic design. He has been an early/ founding investor in more than 30 companies. Among these, 10 have become publicly-traded, including Mentor Graphics, Ascend Communications, Legato, Forte Software, Doubleclick, and Internet Security Systems. He has also been an early/founding investor in more than 20 companies which have resulted in successful mergers, including ccMail (Lotus/IBM); Kiva (Netscape/Sun); Octane Software (ePiphany); Net Effect (AskJeeves); Decru (Network Appliance); and Wily (Computer Associates).

Dave is also on the board of AtHoc, Bounty Jobs, EMC Corporation, OpenDNS, Progreso Financiero, Tabula and VMware.

He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School.

Dave Whorton

Founder and Managing Director of Tugboat Ventures

Dave is the founder and Managing Director of Tugboat Ventures. Prior to founding Tugboat, Dave was a Managing Director of TPG Ventures, the founding CEO and a former board member of Good Technology (acquired by Motorola), the co-founder of Drugstore.com, a co-founding board member of Newschools Venture Fund, and the general manager and president of Optical Engineering, Inc. Dave also worked at Netscape, Hewlett Packard and Bain and served as an Associate Partner of Kleiner Perkins.

Dave currently serves on the board of directors of RichRelevance, GoalSpring, RepairPal, and SuccessFactors (SFSF).

Dave earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University.

David Silverman

Venture Capital Investor, Crosslink Capital

David brings more than 15 years of experience working with technology businesses as a venture capital investor and investment banker. Prior to joining Crosslink, David was a partner at 3i Ventures, a global venture capital fund. He also served as a senior officer in the technology practices at both Robertson Stephens and Piper Jaffray. David’s previous investment experience includes BlueLithium (acquired by Yahoo!), Demand Media (DMD), Fotolog (acquired by Hi-Media), Omniture (OMTR; acquired by Adobe) and Speakeasy (acquired by Best Buy).