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Sean Deson (email) Sean Deson founded Deson & Co. and Deson Ventures in 1999. He Serves as Director of a select number of private and public technology companies, and has assumed interim-Chief Executive Officer responsibilities for portfolio companies. Sean was previously a Senior Vice President of Technology Investment Banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), now Credit Suisse First Boston. During his 10 years at DLJ, Sean managed all aspects of the investment group and was responsible for approximately 100 transactions totaling several billion dollars. Sean was also responsible for investing the DLJ proprietary family of funds into technology companies totalling several hundred million dollars, which included private equity, private placements, public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions activity. Sean received his MBA in Finance and a BS in Computer Technology and Management from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. return to top Greg Duplessie, General Partner (email)
VaNessa is an experienced manager in customer
service, sales and marketing, administration, and finance with strong
record of service to the community. Since 2000 she has spend her time
in the data storage industry managing client services as well as
marketing and operational projects. She spends her time helping small
companies with various marketing communication and sales related
activities including trade show coordination, sales lead programs, email
campaigns, external advertising campaigns and company website projects
including SEO and site mapping projects.
VaNessa spent 6 years with The Enterprise Strategy Group where she managed
client relations for over 125 clients touching all segments of the data
storage industry while working with analysts and vendors, maintaining
relationships with key industry leaders.
VaNessa holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Small Business
Management/Entrepreneurship from San Francisco State University.
Jot Gill, General Partner Bob Graham, Managing Partner (email) Bob brings over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. Starting as an IT Professional and progressing to key executive roles including Group Manager, Digital, Executive Vice President, Sun Microsystems, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Manufacturer's Services Limited, Chairman & CEO Ridge Technologies, President, Adaptec. Since 1998 he has managed several successful investment funds, and managed a successful consulting group. Bob is the lead partner for Ridge's analyst practice. Additionally, Bob is responsible for coordinating the Financial and Technology practices. He assists with specific clients and development opportunities. return to top George Hall, Strategic Development Partner (email) George’s career includes more than 25 years of building teams to successfully design, build and manage large scale enterprises in the computing, network, telecom and computer storage management markets. He founded and ran SNA, the first and largest independent computer network services and systems integration company in California’s capital region. He has built nationally recognized teams of technical and business talent for several profitable, multimillion dollar high-tech enterprises including telephone companies, computer manufacturers and information technology systems integrators. He has also led the design and development of industry leading products in the areas of computers, communications and digital video distribution.
As a founding member
of the Governor’s (CA) High Technology Crime Task Force, George has taught
courses nationally on network and computer security. George is a graduate
of Hillsdale College and a mentor to the UC Davis Graduate School of
Management. At Ridge Partners George participates in both the Financial
and Technology services practices. He assists clients with acquisitions,
restructuring, and the expansion or development of new services oriented
business ventures. He is a frequently published author and speaker on the
subjects of storage, security, compliance and forensics. John Hayes, Financial Partner (email) As Managing Partner of Ridge, John works with the partnership to ensure our clients are receiving optimal results from the right mix of Ridge talent and resources. In addition, John brings 15 years of architectural, engineering and business development experience to the computing, networking, storage and systems industries. John has architected and designed business and technical solutions to solve a wide variety of design criteria including wired and wireless networking equipment, multimedia servers, internet appliances and computer host interfaces. He has brought products from the concept stage through to full production. John's strengths include the ability to quickly understand new technologies and their impact on the marketplace, and the ability to communicate complex concepts to a variety of audiences in papers and presentations. John was one of the founders of Alteon WebSystems, a network switching and interface (NIC) equipment manufacturer. Alteon held its IPO in 1999 and was acquired by Nortel Networks in 2000. John was CTO and founder of Azule Technology, a developer of network based storage solutions for the blade server market and John was President and founder of Archduke Design, Inc, a privately held consulting firm. Archduke Design's customers included Seagate Technologies, ServerWorks and Fast-Chip. John has also held management and technical positions with Network Plumbing, GEC Plessey Semiconductor, RadioMail and Ultra Network Technologies. John holds 2 patents and has additional patents pending. return to top Bill Huber, General Partner (email)
Engineering executive with over 25 years experience developing new
products. Bill has managed
programs that included software, hardware and ASIC development.
Experienced with networking, storage, computing systems, and
embedded controllers.
Strong in managing product development process, technology
development, and strategic planning.
Outstanding ability to analyze competitive markets, investigate
customer needs and develop targeted and successful new products.
Skilled in identifying and growing key contributors and
building teams to maximize success.
Mike Eneboe, General Partner (email) Mike has worked with members of Ridge Partners since the Ridge Technologies startup in 1997 which was subsequently sold to Adaptec, spun out, and sold to Western Digital in 1999. While at WDC and LSI Logic, he created and critiqued strategic plans as well as business development efforts in a variety of storage, technology, EDA and semiconductor arenas. He has managed electrical, mechanical, embedded system and EDA teams for over 15 years. In 2002, as VP Programmable Plaforms, he led the RapidChip program to the fastest growing product line (bookings) at LSI Logic since the mid '90s. Mike managed teams across the US to deliver the simplified EDA methodology necessary to enable a new generation of ASIC designs. While at Apple Computer for 8 years, Mike gathered experience in delivering high-quality consumer products using state-of-the-art design methodologies and program management processes. He led the IEEE1394 (Firewire, iLink) ASIC development as well as being a key driver of the Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) standardization efforts. Eneboe has experience in patent development and management combining work from his own 18 issued patents and his leadership of teams that created over 100 disclosures and more than 50 filed patents in one year. return to top
Mike McPherson, General Partner (email) Mike has over 27 years of experience in the
computer and computer networking business with Texas Instruments,
3Com, SynOptics Communications, Bay Networks, Alteon WebSystems,
Nortel Networks, S2IO/Neterion, PathScale and SilverStorm
Technologies in OEM, channel, government and major account sales,
sales management and business development.
Most recently, as Vice President of World Wide
Sales for SilverStorm Technologies, Mike took revenue from $5M to a
$24M run rate, closed relationships with IBM, Dell and Cisco. He
also managed transition due to acquisition by QLogic.
At PathScale, Mike established OEM relationships with IBM, HP along with a channel of 30 HPTC partners. Mike was instrumental in raising the valuation of the company from $45M to $150M in less than 10 months (PathScale was acquired by QLogic in April of 2006). return to top As a technology operating executive, advisor and investor, Mike works with high-tech company management teams and boards in forming and executing on operational goals and strategic initiatives that directly lead to M&A exits. Mike has deep domain experience in storage and IT infrastructure, and his work includes assessment of strategy, markets, competitors, and partners. Hands-on execution help in the formation or refinement of corporate and product strategies, business development strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions follows this. Mike's consulting and advisory work includes multiple years with BladeLogic, Double Take, FilesX, InterSAN, OuterBay, Portable Internet, and Princeton Softech. His board of directors' work includes Connected Corporation, Precise Software, Evident Software, Neartek, Mediconnect.net, and NuView. Mike is currently working with Atempo, Inc. (unstructured data and fixed-content archiving and data protection) and Applimation (structured data archiving and e-discovery). He is active on the boards of Blackball, and the advisory boards of Data Storage Group, Miralink, and Millenniata, along with the screening committee for the AngelVine network in New Jersey. Mike's previous experience includes EVP of Business Development and Product Management for Evident Software, and the VP of Corporate Development for VERITAS Software during its high growth years. Prior to VERITAS, Mike held a variety of senior management and technical positions at Hewlett Packard, Novell, Unix Systems Labs and AT&T Bell Labs. Mike holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and a Masters degree from Stanford University. Rich
Pappas, General Partner Kevin Walsh, General Partner (email) As a general partner responsible for business and financial evaluation engagements, Kevin brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in strategic, international operational and financial planning. Most recently Kevin comes from Sun Microsystems, where for over 10 years he was responsible for all aspects of the company's finance and planning group. Prior to Sun Microsystems, Kevin was the Chief Operating Officer for Spatial Technology Inc, a Colorado- based CAD-CAM Software Company. He has also worked as Vice President of Finance for Schlumberger Group, and as group controller for Fairchild Semiconductor memory and logic devices in California. Kevin's international experience includes Fairchild Semiconductor's Paris-based plant controller and plant manager, and Principal Manager of Coopers & Lybrand's consulting and public accounting practices in London, Brussels and Paris. Kevin has a B.Sc. in Economics (Hons) from the London School of Economics, is a Chartered Certified Accountant (UK), Member of the Institute of Management Consultants (UK), and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. return to top |
