Rebecca Ward, Chairman of the Board, CEO
Rebecca Ward brings to Tealeaf a wealth of experience in managing and growing technology businesses. She joins Tealeaf after most recently serving as entrepreneur in residence at Foundation Capital. Previously, Rebecca served as group president of engineering, marketing, and product development at Digex. Revenues grew to $214 million during her tenure. Prior to joining Digex, Rebecca worked for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where she held the position of vice president of product management and engineering. Rebecca began her career with Xerox in 1982 in a technical position and then moved into the sales organization, before joining BBN Systems and Technologies in 1991.
Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering Technology from Northeastern University, a Master of Computer Science from Boston University, and is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Business Management Program.
Robert Wenig, Founder, CTO, Member of BoardRobert Wenig founded Tealeaf Technology with a vision of revolutionizing insight into the interplay between Web applications and end users. He is responsible for driving the technology vision of the company. Robert first conceived the vision for Tealeaf within SAP Labs, where he served as Director of Advanced Technology, reporting directly to SAP Chairman, Hasso Plattner. Realizing that the value could reach far beyond the SAP market, Robert initiated and achieved the first-ever SAP spin-off. While developing Tealeaf's core technology, Robert won two Smithsonian Awards for Innovation.
Well known and highly regarded among the SAP development community, Robert created and executed SAP's Internet strategy and delivered SAP Employee Self Service (ESS), generating over three million Internet users for SAP. He also created the SAP TechEd Conference - the largest non-Microsoft developer conference. Prior to SAP, Robert was Director of Development at AutoDesk, where he created and sustained the top three revenue products, AutoCAD 386, AutoCAD for Windows, and AutoCAD LT. Robert began his career as a Developer at Wang, where he was awarded patents for image storage algorithms. Robert holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an Executive MBA from the University of San Francisco McLaren Graduate School of Management. Robert maintains the position of Fellow at SAP.
Jayaram Bhat, Zenprise
Jayaram Bhat has been the CEO of Zenprise since January 2004. Jayaram has more than 23 years of marketing experience in high technology companies. Prior to Zenprise, Jayaram consulted with CEOs of information technology companies in developing and managing the execution of breakthrough business strategies as well as helping to raise venture funding. Recent clients include VA Software (Nasdaq: LNUX), Euclid, and CenterRun Software.
Between 1993 and 2001 Jayaram was the Vice President of Marketing of Mercury Interactive Corporation. As a member of Mercury Interactive's executive team, Jayaram helped lead the company from a pre-IPO stage with $13 million annual revenues to a dominant enterprise infrastructure software powerhouse with $361 million revenues in 2001 and a 60%+ market share with a market capitalization of over $6 billion.
Prior to Mercury Interactive, Jayaram served in various marketing and sales management positions at Cadence Design Systems, EDA Systems, and Daisy Systems. He started his career in 1980 at Intel as the product manager of the Intel 286 processor. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Operations Research from universities in India and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Jayaram also serves on the Board of Electric Cloud, a software build infrastructure company.
Alfred Chuang, BEA Systems
Alfred founded BEA in early 1995 with the two other principals of the company and is presently BEA President and CEO. He is a nine-year veteran of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he held various senior management positions including corporate director and chief scientist of Sun Integration Services. Prior to Sun, Alfred spent more than ten years in commercial computing, software systems research, and systems consulting. He is a well-known expert on enterprise information technology rightsizing and distributed data management and has published many technical papers. Chuang pioneered and prototyped the implementation of the TCP/IP protocols on the IBM PC platform.
Mr. Chuang received a master's degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis.
Bill Elmore, Foundation Capital
In creating Foundation Capital in 1995, Bill was merely continuing his long history of building strong organizations from the inside. In addition to Tealeaf, Bill currently serves on the board of directors for Commerce One, Onyx Software, Wind River Systems, Atheros Communications, gForce Systems, Packet Design, Qstrategies, Shoreline Communications, and Wherenet. Prior to Foundation Capital, Bill was a General Partner at Inman & Bowman for eight years, and before that, he worked as the president of Visual Engineering, a graphics software supplier, and in a variety of key marketing management roles at Hewlett-Packard.
As director and past president of the Western Association for Venture Capitalists, and in his role as a director of the National Venture Capital Association, Bill is actively involved in defining, serving and representing the interests of the venture capital and private equity industries.
In addition to an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Bill holds a BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University.
Atul Kapadia, Bay Partners
Atul is Managing General Partner at Bay. Atul's investment experience includes early stage investments in Lightlogic (acquired by Intel), Amber Networks (acquired by Nokia), Auroranetics (acquired by Cisco) and Afara Web Systems (acquired by Sun ). Prior to Bay, Atul served as President and CEO of Maple.He also served in sales and marketing leadership roles at Cadence and Arcsys (IPO: ARCS). Atul acquired hands-on hardware engineering experience in the microprocessor team at Sun Microsystems. He began his career as a Research Associate at the Harvard/MIT Interdisciplinary Biomedical Engineering program. Atul holds a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Bombay, an M.S.E.E. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a M.B.A., from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Bob Lisbonne, Matrix Partners
Bob Lisbonne joined Matrix Partners as a General Partner in the Silicon Valley office in June 2001. Before Matrix, Lisbonne was a general partner with Crosspoint Venture Partners. Prior to Crosspoint, Lisbonne was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the browser products division at Netscape Communications. Before that he was Vice President of Marketing at Collabra Software, which was acquired in 1995 by Netscape. Previously, Lisbonne was Director of Integrated Products at Claris and a co-founder of Pacific Coast Software. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker specializing in high technology companies at Goldman Sachs.
Bob attended Stanford University, where he earned MBA, MA, and BA degrees and did graduate studies in Computer Science.
