Board of Directors
Staccato’s Board of Directors truly understands the potential for UWB enabled products and is helping to ensure the company maintains its course as the industry leader, with advanced products and thought leadership.
Marty Colombatto, Executive Chairman, Staccato Communications
Marty became Executive Chairman of Staccato Communications in 2009. He assumed the position of CEO in 2006 after joining as Director in 2004. He brings with him 20 years of experience in engineering, strategic marketing, product development, sales, and merger & acquisition strategies and tactics. Most recently, he was vice president and general manager, Networking Business Unit, Broadcom Corporation, (NASDAQ: BRCM) where he established and managed a business unit that grew to more than $400 million in revenue over a four-year period. During his tenure at Broadcom, Mr. Colombatto participated in the acquisition of several companies, five of which were assimilated into his business unit. Prior to Broadcom, Mr. Colombatto managed sales organizations in Europe and North America for LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI). Earlier in his career, he held positions as software development engineer for Reliance Electric and field sales engineer with Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN).
Mr. Colombatto holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electronic engineering Technology from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Andrew Vought, CEO, Staccato Communications
Andrew Vought is a 30 year veteran of semiconductor and technology companies, with a track record of building market leading businesses and successful teams. He joins Staccato by way of the merger with Artimi where he was the CEO.
Andrew joined from BroadLight, where as CEO, he built the company to be the market share leader in Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) chipsets. Vought previously served in the Office of the President at GlobespanVirata (formerly known as Virata). Earlier, as CFO of Virata, he helped lead the company from start-up mode through a successful IPO, which culminated in the company becoming the market share leader of DSL semiconductors and software. Prior to Virata,
Vought founded and served as a general partner of Cheyenne Capital Corporation, a private venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, he served as CFO of Micro Power Systems, and held finance and operations management positions with Diasonics, Texas Instruments Europe and General Electric.
Vought holds Bachelor's degrees in finance and environmental studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Jon Castor, Non-Executive Director
Jon Castor was Chairman of the Board of Artimi. He has more than 25 years of industry experience as an executive, entrepreneur, strategist, and board member with public and private high tech companies. He was previously CEO and co-founder of TeraLogic, a leader in HDTV SOC's, which merged with Oak Technology in 2002 and was subsequently acquired by Zoran Corporation in 2003.
At Zoran, Mr. Castor served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the DTV Division. He previously served as President, CFO, and member of the Board at TeraLogic, and following the merger with Oak Technology, as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the TeraLogic Group at Oak Technology. He has also enjoyed a successful career as an accomplished corporate strategist for several leading major corporations.
Mr. Castor is also a member of the Board of Directors of Adaptec (NASDAQ: ADPT), Genesis Microchip (NASDAQ: GNSS), and Omneon Video Networks. He holds a BA with distinction from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Charles Cotton, Representative, Oak Investment Partners
Charles Cotton is a director of Solarflare Communications, Feeva Technology and Terabitz in the US. His UK directorships include Library House, Cambridge Enterprise and Wigadoo.
Prior to its acquisition by TomTom, in June 2008, he was a Supervisory Board member of Tele Atlas, the Euronext Amsterdam and Frankfurt Exchange listed supplier of digital maps. Previously, he was Executive Chairman of GlobespanVirata Inc. the NASDAQ listed, New Jersey based, semiconductor company. Before the merger with GlobeSpan, he was CEO of Santa Clara based Virata Corp. He took Virata public on NASDAQ, in 1999, raised $682 million across six financing rounds, executed five acquisitions and established and ran a venture fund.
Previously, he was CEO of Shandwick Europe; President of Boston Mass. based Thermal Scientific Inc, and a Director of London Stock Exchange listed Thermal Scientific Ltd. Prior to that he was Sales and Marketing Director at Sinclair Research Ltd. and held senior Operations, Finance, Marketing and Product Planning positions at British Leyland and Ford.
He has a BA Hons in Physics from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Jon Funk, Managing Director, Allegis Capital
Mr. Funk has been making venture capital investments in early stage information technology companies since 1981. Prior to co-founding Allegis Capital in 1996, he was a founding general partner with InterVen Partners, a Southern California early-stage technology venture capital firm. He has directed start-up investments in all areas of information technology, including semiconductors, CAE software, electronic assemblies and components, digital imaging systems, peripherals, digital cable programming, telecommunications and internet services. He is on the Board of Directors of ClariPhy Communications, IdeaForest.com, as well as Staccato Communications. He has previously served on the Boards of Directors of Sandpiper Networks, Rent.com, Shopzilla.com and many other public and private companies.
Mr. Funk received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Southern California.
Hermann Hauser, Co-founder, Amadeus Capital Partners
A co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, Mr. Hauser has a long history of success as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Companies he founded or co-founded include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder Director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited, Electronic Share Information Limited and E*Trade UK. However, Mr. Hauser's influence on the European computer and technology industry cannot be reflected in lists. Thanks to his work in the nascent personal computer industry in the UK in the 1980s, through his work at Acorn Computers and as Vice President of Research at Olivetti, Mr. Hauser has been instrumental in a vast range of industry developments.
At Amadeus, Mr. Hauser continues to oversee a broad range of early and later stage developing technology companies, providing the benefit of his experience of turning scientific advances into real-world technology products to a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Mr. Hauser holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory at King's College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mr. Hauser holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Polytechnic, and was awarded an Honorary CBE for "innovative service to the UK enterprise sector" in 2001.
Doug Laird, CEO, Cswitch
Mr. Laird presently works for Charles River Ventures as an executive in residence. Previously he was a founder and executive vice president of Product Development for Transmeta Corporation. In that role, he managed various engineering organizations of the company. Prior to founding Transmeta, he led engineering organizations at Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW), LSI Logic (NYSE: LSI), Ultra Network Technologies, ROLM Mil-Spec Computers, and National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM).
Mr. Laird received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Santa Clara University.
Bill Tai, General Partner, Charles River Ventures
Mr. Tai brings more than 17 years of operating and investing experience to CRV, most recently as managing director and general partner of Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). At IVP, he focused on early-stage investing in enabling technologies, communications equipment and wireless technologies. Over the last decade, he has worked actively with 28 private companies in their early formation, seeing the majority through public listing (15) or acquisition (5). His investment record includes Transmeta (NASDAQ: TMTA) where he was the founding VC investor, Microtune (NASDAQ: TUNE), Terayon Communications (NASDAQ: TERN) and Premisys Communications (NASDAQ: PRMS). Mr. Tai currently serves on the board of directors of three publicly listed companies and is chairman of the board at IP Infusion. Prior to joining IVP, he was founding chairman, president and CEO of iAsiaWorks (NASD: IAWK). Earlier in his career, he established Alex Brown & Sons research practice in semiconductors and was responsible for the positioning of public offerings for Atmel, Adaptec, Cirrus Logic, Dallas Semiconductor, Exar and Zilog, among others. He also held technical and marketing positions with Texas Instruments and LSI Logic.
Mr. Tai has a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is a past officer and director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.
Dino Vendetti, General Partner, Formative Ventures
Mr. Vendetti is focused on communications companies in the wireless, optical and data networking sectors. He joined Formative Ventures in July 2006 as a general partner, bringing with him over 20 years of operating and investment experience. Prior to joining Formative, Mr. Vendetti spent six years as a general partner at Bay Partners, an early-stage Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with over $1 billion of capital under active management. He began his venture capital career in 1997 as an investing partner at Vulcan Ventures, the Seattle-based investment firm led by Paul Allen. Prior to Vulcan, he was Vice President and Research Analyst at Dain Rauscher, where he covered the telecom industry. Prior to embarking on a venture capital career that has spanned nearly a decade, Mr. Vendetti held a variety of key operating roles at some of the communications industry's leading companies. He was Vice President of Product Management at MetaWave (NASDAQ: MTWV), a leading developer of smart antennas for wireless networks. He also held product management and business development positions at Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) and US West Cellular. He began his operating career as an engineer at TRW, where he designed satellite communication systems.
Mr. Vendetti has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from San Diego State University, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering, and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.