While a publisher-pundit (1990-2000), Bob was CEO of IDG's InfoWorld Publishing Company (1992-1995). For eight years, he opined about the Internet in an InfoWorld column read weekly by half a million information technologists.

Bob serves on the boards of Polaris-backed start-ups including 1366, Ember, Greenfuel, Infinite Power Solutions, Mintera, SiCortex, and SiOnyx. Bob is a director-trustee-advisor to Avistar, St. Mark’s School, USC Stevens, MIT, MIT’s Technology Review Magazine, MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the MIT Energy Initiative.

Bob graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 with two bachelor degrees, in electrical engineering and in industrial management. He received a master degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1970. In 1973, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, where his dissertation was Packet Communication.

Awards: In 1980, Bob received the Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 1988, he received the Bell Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 1995, Bob was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he received the IEEE's Medal of Honor. In 1997, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 1999, to the International Engineering Consortium. In 2003, Bob received the Marconi Prize and was inducted into the Bay Shore High School Hall of Fame. In a 2005, Bob received the National Medal of Technology for his "leadership in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet." Bob entered the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows in 2008.

Richard Harris Rich Harris led the creation of RedShift Ventures in the Spring of 2006. Mr. Harris currently serves on the board of directors of several RedShift portfolio companies including DigitalBridge Communications, Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Novariant, TerraGo, and VBrick. Rich has worked with a number of successful technology companies, including Cronos Integrated Microsystems (acquired by JDS Uniphase), MDLinx (acquired by a division of Sony) and Woodwind Communications (acquired by Vina Technologies).
Prior to forming RedShift Ventures, Rich was a Managing Director with SpaceVest and prior to that, a program manager for the Dingman Center. He is also a former practicing attorney, specializing in civil litigation and intellectual property law.

Jeannine Sargent Executive with more then 20 years of International experience in technology companies. Ms. Sargent has worked in several established and emerging technology markets including Solar Energy, Integrated Circuit: Design and Manufacturing, Embedded Systems Software, and Capital Equipment for Semiconductor, LED, LCD, MEMS, HDD and Nano-Biotech manufacturing.

Jeannine Sargent is currently with Crosslink Capital Ltd., as a member of the Energy and Core Technology/Semiconductor Practice. Prior to Crosslink, Ms. Sargent was the founding CEO of Oerlikon Solar, a leading provider of end-to-end Thin Film Photovoltaic Solar solutions based in Switzerland. Prior to joining Oerlikon Solar, Ms Sargent was an Executive Vice President and General Manager at Veeco Instruments where she led the Metrology and Instrumentation Business and Corporate Development office. Veeco Instruments is a provider of equipment solutions for the semiconductor, data storage, solid state lighting and nanotechnology scientific research markets. Earlier Ms Sargent served as a CEO of Voyan Technology, an embedded systems provider serving the Communications and Semiconductor industries. She also held various senior management positions at GaSonics, now part of Novellus, and Tencor, now KLA-Tencor. She began her career at Digital Equipment Corporation in their Advanced Semiconductor Device Group.

Ms Sargent earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from Northeastern University and was a Carl S. Ell Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Sargent is the author of several technical and marketing publications and holds a patent for determining sequences of polynucleotides. Jeannine Sargent is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of Northeastern University’s College of Engineering and the Bio Nano Centre based in London, England which is a joint venture of Imperial College London and University College London.

Dr. Paul Russo
Paul is currently serves as a Director of SiOnyx, and as Lead Director of three other venture funded technology companies including Beam Networks (www.beamnetworks.com), FONOLO (www.fonolo.com) and SBG Labs (www.sbglabs.com). Dr. Russo Founded Silicon Optix, a privately held fables semiconductor company focused on high quality video processing, and served as Chairman & CEO through 2007. Prior to Silicon Optix, Dr. Russo was the founder, Chairman and CEO of Genesis Microchip (acquired by ST Micro in 2007) through 2000, including its successful NASDAQ IPO in 1998.

Prior to Genesis, he was General Manager of GE's Microelectronics Center (RTP, North Carolina), Senior Manager in GE's Industrial Electronics Group (Charlottesville, Virginia) and Head, Microsystems Research at RCA's David Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton, New Jersey).

Dr. Russo received his B. Eng. from McGill University and his MSc and PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley. He holds six U.S. patents, is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received numerous RCA and industry awards, including the IEEE Centennial Medal and the 2006 Tech Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum. He served as an outside director of ATI Technologies from 2001 through its acquisition by AMD in late 2006, as well as numerous private venture funded start-ups acquired by public entities (e.g., RocketChips was acquired by Xilinx, Atnos was acquired by Mosys).
Dr. Russo is also a member of the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA) Emerging Company CEO Council and participates in its EDA sub-committee.

Dr. Michael Hawley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hawley
Mike is a Director of a number of things: he serves on the boards of Eastman Kodak, TTI/Vanguard, and advises sundry startups and nonprofit organizations; he directs the EG Conference (www.the-eg.com); he is one of the founders of www.192021.org; and he founded Friendly Planet, a small educational charity that has done helpful things in Cambodia and Bhutan.

The bulk of his professional career has been spent in education in and around computing. He took his undergraduate degrees in music and computer science at Yale (where he serves as a trustee); and enjoyed nearly two decades of graduate and faculty work at the MIT Media Lab, where he was among the most visible and active researchers and inventors in all aspects of digital media. Mike has had an industrial career as well: he developed the library of digital books at NeXT, including the world’s first significant digital editions of Shakespeare and Webster’s dictionary; did pioneering work in digital cinema systems at Lucasfilm; was a computer music researcher at IRCAM in Paris; and cut his teeth in research at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, back in the day.

Mike plays the piano (he won the Cliburn competition in 2002), and is a photographer of note (he received a Guinness World Record for publishing the world’s largest book, BHUTAN, in 2003). He resides in Cambridge with wife Nina and dog Tashi.