Advisory Board
Staccato’s Advisory Board members have extensive trade knowledge and are helping identify strategic opportunities, areas for product advancement, and share insight into targeted application markets.
Morio Kurosaki
Mr. Kurosaki is President of IT-Farm, a Japan-U.S. Venture Capital company. Prior to IT-Farm, Mr. Kurosaki was founding CEO of Aisys Corporation. The company has been supporting Silicon Valley start-ups in entering the Japanese market since 1988. He has been supporting all phases of establishing operations from building strategic partnerships between U.S.-startups Japanese enterprises, to hiring management team to establish K.K., to business development, to office setup. He has the incomparable network in both Japanese IT industries and executives in Silicon Valley. He is now also a committee member of Industrial Structure Council, Industrial Science Technology Policy Committee, Research and Development Subcommittee of METI. Prior to founding Aisys in 1988, he held various sales and account management positions at Western Digital Japan, Daisy Systems Japan, and Intel Japan. He also serves on the Advisory Council of Japan MITI Semiconductor Technology Board.
Paul Mockapetris
Mr. Mockapetris is Chairman and Chief Scientist of Nominium, the leading provider of IP address infrastructure solutions for Global 2000 companies. He is best known as the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS). He created DNS in the 1980s at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) where he was later the Director of ISI's High Performance Computing and Communications Division.
Throughout his career, he has contributed to the computing research community and to the evolution of the Internet. His earliest work at the University of California, Irvine on distributed systems and LAN technology preceded the commercial Ethernet and Token Ring designs.
At ISI, after working on the design of the SMTP protocol for email and its first implementation as part of the birth of the Internet in 1983, Mr. Mockapetris took on the challenge of designing DNS, and then operated the original "root servers" for all Internet names. After the formal creation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1986, DNS became one of the original internet standards; the IETF continues to be the focus of new applications and extensions to DNS. He has been associated with the IETF since its creation, chaired several DNS and non-DNS working groups, and was Chair of the IETF from 1994 to 1996.
Mr. Mockapetris was program manager for networking at ARPA in the early 1990s, supervising efforts such as gigabit and optical networking. From 1995 on, he held leadership roles at several Silicon Valley networking startups, including @Home, Software.com (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco), and Siara (now Redback Networks). His mission at Nominum is to help guide DNS and IP addressing to the next stage.
Paul Mockapetris has dual BS degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT, and a PhD in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine.
Lee Van Pelt
Mr. Van Pelt is an attorney whose practice now includes patent litigation strategy, patent prosecution, patent portfolio evaluation, patent counseling, opinion preparation and patent related licensing matters. Mr. Van Pelt has worked extensively with complex signal processing and network technology. He has also written a substantial number of patents related to optics, cryptography, circuits, telecommunication, wireless communication, semiconductor devices, business methods and antennas. Currently, his time is spent mostly on wireless and broadband systems, signal processing, nanotechnology, network technology and software. His engineering experience prior to becoming an attorney was in optical signal processing and computer aided engineering software. Mr. Van Pelt has evaluated patent strategies and planned the patent strategy for a number of emerging companies. Practicing in Silicon Valley during the last decade, he has seen his clients’ patent portfolios scrutinized in large transactions and public offerings.
Mr. Van Pelt earned a bachelor of science degree in physics, summa cum laude, from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and earned a J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of California-Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He began his career practicing as a patent litigator with Heller Ehrman White McAuliffe in its Palo Alto office. Mr. Van Pelt also practiced as a patent prosecutor in the Palo Alto office of Hickman, Beyer & Weaver.