Board of Directors

Bill Chambers
As president and CEO of LeftHand Networks, Bill leads the company's corporate strategy, develops strategic alliances, and generates awareness for LeftHand Networks among industry analysts and potential partners. Prior to LeftHand, Bill served as President and CEO of Tango Technologies, Ltd. and President and CEO of one of General Electric's Asia Pacific-based technology businesses.

Harry Blount
A leading Wall Street equity analyst at Lehman Brothers from 2000 to 2007, Harry spent 21 years on Wall Street conducting equity research in multiple consumer and enterprise technology disciplines including storage, servers, IT distribution, internet, wireless, PCs, hard drives, and telecommunications.  Harry is a Chartered Financial Analyst and currently serves on the National Academy of Science Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technology.

Tim Connor
Tim is a partner at Sequel Ventures. He has eleven years investment banking experience as a Managing Director in Lehman Brother's Technology Investment Banking Group. He provided financing and strategic advisory services to companies, raised over $10 billion in equity and debt financing and advised on $5 billion in strategic transactions.

Jack Cuthbert Jack has more than 25 years of experience in the storage, computer, and software industries. Most recently he was an Executive Vice President at Brocade with responsibility for global sales, building annual revenues to $500M over his six-year tenure. Prior to Brocade, Jack was Vice President of Sales at Macromedia and held various sales management positions during 10 years with SGI.

Bob Finzi
Bob joined Sprout as a General Partner in May 1991 when Sprout assumed management of two public venture capital funds originated by Merrill Lynch. He became Co-Managing Partner in November 2003. Bob joined Merrill Lynch Venture Capital, Inc. in 1984 and became a Partner in 1985. He graduated from Lehigh University and went on to earn his MBA at Harvard Business School.

Stephen James
As an independent consultant, Steve supports companies in their efforts to raise venture or strategic partner capital, to prepare for IPOs, or to navigate other strategic and/or liquidity events. He serves on five “for profit” boards of directors or advisory boards including Intrado (TRDO), O’Connor Development, First Western Bank Holding Company, LeftHand Networks, and Medallion Foods.

Gene Riechers
Gene is a general partner and founder of Valhalla Partners. Prior to Valhalla, Gene was the founder and Managing Director of FBR Technology Venture Partners (FBRTVP). Under Gene's leadership, FBRTVP raised two funds and invested an aggregate of approximately $150 million into early-stage technology companies. Prior to founding FBRTVP, Gene spent 16 years in senior operating roles with technology companies, including four early-stage ventures, all of which ultimately went public.