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Ido Sarig Ido is a Venture Partner with Thomas Weisel Venture Partners. Ido focuses on enterprise and infrastructure software, and is responsible for identifying new investment opportunities in those areas. While at TWVP, Ido has been involved in the firm's investments in Aligo (acquired by Corrigo), Netuitive and Senforce.Ido currently sits on a number of advisory boards including Confluent Software (acquired by Oblix), Business Signatures, and Leverage Software. Prior to TWVP, Ido was Vice President of technology strategy for Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP). During his tenure at Mercury, he was responsible for formulating the company's technology roadmap, and searching for and evaluating new technologies and business opportunities for Mercury. Ido holds an MBA, Magna Cum Laude, from Tel Aviv University. He earned his BS, Cum Laude, in Computer Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. In his free time, Ido enjoys spending time with his two daughters, as well as playing basketball, reading and biking. |
| John Spinale John has spent the better part of his career at the intersection of technology and consumer products. John has started, built and rebuilt companies in the entertainment software and mobile spaces, all of which are around and thriving today. Early in his career, Spin was a key member of the early restart team at Activision, now the #1 independent game publisher, then more recently in the turnaround and sale of Eidos, where he ran Studios. Between extended stints in the gaming industry, he's started and sold a wireless enterprise software company which has grown through M&A to be known as MBlox, the world's largest mobile messaging network. To the best of his recollection, he has an engineering degree from Yale. |
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John William Van Dyke Jr. John is Vice President of Worldwide Sales of Sylvan Source, a venture backed water company in Sunnyvale, CA. Mr. Van Dyke has had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor. John began his venture in vesting in 1989 both individually and along side Hambrecht & Quist. He has invested in over 100 venture projects, primarily software and telecom. He is a board member of Zephyr-Tec, WebPackaging Corp. and Voice Access Technologies. In the past ten years he has also served as interim CEO and CFO for several companies. Have been active for many years in Young President's Organization and World President's Organization. He served many years as Chairman of the Board of Walking Shield American Indian Society in Orange, Ca., the largest foundation in the country to benefit Native Americans. He was also the first Chairman of the Iowa Lottery Commission and a former Mayor of Sioux City, Iowa. Mr. Van Dyke graduated from Dartmouth College and earned an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. |
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Peter Yared Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO at wdgtbldr, a venture funded, stealth startup. Peter was most recently the Founder and CEO at ActiveGrid, a commerical open source company delivering the LAMP stack to the enterprise. Previously, he was CTO of Sun Microsystems' Liberty Network Identity initiative. Peter was also CTO of Sun Microsystems' Application Server Division. Before its acquisition by Sun, Peter served as CTO of NetDynamics, which pioneered the then-leading J2EE application server. Earlier, he was Founder and CEO of JRad Technologies, an enterprise Java company acquired by NetDynamics. Additionally, Peter was Chief Architect of client/server products at object-oriented tool maker Prograph International and the architect of several mission-critical systems deployed by U.S. government agencies and the GED Testing Service. Peter holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. |
