Directors
 | Nina Saberi |
| Mary Coleman |
| Kip Myers |
| Gilles Samoun |
| Joe Fantuzzi |
| Sean Cunningham |
| Pravin Kothari |
| Cliff Higgerson |
Nina Saberi
Member of the Board
Nina Saberi is the founder and managing general partner of early stage venture capital firm Castile Ventures. An industry veteran with extensive investment and operational experience, Nina entered the venture community as a general partner of OneLiberty. She began her technical carrier at a start-up, went on to lead a successful joint venture, and then turned around a venture-backed company. Nina was the CEO of Netlink which was acquired by Cabletron in 1996, ranking among the top three acquisitions of the year.
In addition to Agiliance, Nina's investments include security and compliance companies ChosenSecurity, GeoTrust (acquired by VeriSign) and Network Intelligence (acquired by EMC), as well as Ahura Scientific, Aurora Networks, Brix Networks (acquired by EXFO), Sonus (NASDAQ:SONS), and Trapeze Networks (acquired by Belden).
Ms. Saberi is the Chair of the Advisory Council at the University of Rhode Island's College of Engineering where she received her BS in Electrical Engineering.
Mary Coleman
Member of the Board
Mary Coleman is Managing Director, USA for Walden International,a global venture firm. Mary joined Walden International in 2002.
Prior to joining WI, she was CEO of Rightworks, an e-procurement and trading exchange software firm, which was acquired by I2 Technologies. She joined Rightworks from Internet Capital Group, where she had been a Managing Director focusing on investments in enterprise software and internet infrastructure including companies such as Rightworks. Prior to Internet Capital Group, Mary was the CEO of the Baan Company, a leading European ERP software firm. She attained this position after selling Aurum Software, a customer relationship management software firm, where she was the CEO, to the Baan Company, after taking Aurum Software public on NASDAQ. Earlier in her career Mary served as a Vice President of Marketing in several high technology firms. Mary studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Kip Meyers
Member of the Board
Kip Myers is a Partner with Red Rock Ventures where he has established a track record as a successful venture investor and entrepreneur.
Prior to Red Rock, Kip was a partner in Vanguard III, IV and V over a fourteen year period. Previously, he was founder and vice president of engineering and marketing of Plexus Computers. Kip also co-founded Onyx Systems. Earlier he served as an engineering manager at Zilog.
Kip earned an M.B.A. and a B.S.E.E. from U.C. Berkeley.
Gilles Samoun
Member of the Board
Gilles Samoun is the CEO at NTR Global in Barcelona, Spain. Prior to NTR Global, Mr. Samoun was Chairman and CEO of Solsoft. Mr. Samoun joined Solsoft after working at Benchmark Capital as a member of its EIR team. Prior to Benchmark, Mr. Samoun was the founder and CEO of Qualys where he established the company as the leading global online security auditing service provider. Before founding Qualys, Mr. Samoun was the CEO of MediaPath Technologies, a LAN caching software company which was privately acquired. He also spent 5 years at Verity, a leading provider of software solutions that power business portals, where he served as General Manager and Vice President for Europe. While at Verity, Mr. Samoun successfully managed sales growth and developed the company's European presence. Prior to Verity, Mr. Samoun held various technical leadership and management positions at Artefix and Fininfo.
Mr. Samoun holds a degree in Physics from Orsay University, and a Masters in Computer Science from Paris Jussieu University.
Joe Fantuzzi
President and CEO, Member of the Board
Joe drives the company's overall busines direction, strategy and execution, reporting to the Board of Directors. He is an expert at creating high-growth, venture-backed businesses in emerging technology markets and helped build over $3b in market valuation as an executive for industry leaders.
Bringing 24 years of software experience to Agiliance, Joe was CEO at Workshare (security) for nearly 5 years, growing new sales by 400% and customers from 3,500 to 11,000 including 62% of the F1000, establishing a household name in content security. Previous to Workshare, Joe was CEO at Liquid Engines (financial management), now a division of Thomson Reuters (TRI), creating a strategic cash and tax planning solution for global enterprises, Prior, Joe was co-founder and CEO at NetDialog (SaaS CRM), and sold it to Kana (KANA) for $100m in 1999. Prior to Kana, he was General Manager at Autodesk (ADSK) Discreet (3D graphics), growing that business unit market share from 20% to 65% over 3 years. Joe was also Worldwide Marketing VP at Macromedia (ADBE) from inception, to private-private merger, through its public offering, and International Sales and Marketing Director at Interleaf (BVSN), then Inc's 7th fastest growing company in America.
Joe received a MS in Computer Engineering from Tufts University in Boston, MA and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.
Sean Cunningham
Board Observer
Sean Cunningham has spent over 25 years managing, investing and building companies in the high tech industry.
Mr. Cunningham joined Intel in 1994 and has worked in multiple management roles in Marketing and Sales. Sean spent three years as an entrepreneur with Intel startup companies funded by Intel New Business Investment group. He has been making equity investments with Intel Capital since 2000, and currently serves as Director of Strategic Investments responsible for Intel investments in enterprise and internet security technology. He is leading investments for multiple Intel business units.
Mr. Cunningham serves as the Intel Capital Board of Director Observer on Agiliance, Cloakware, Credant Technologies, Crossbeam Systems, Tricipher, Lockdown Networks, Signacert and Lifemasters . He previously was Board of Director Observer for Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint Software), Musicmatch (acquired by Yahoo) and Trymedia (acquired by Macrovision).
Prior to Intel, Mr. Cunningham was responsible for Marketing and Service Management functions for over five years with Sequent Computers. He also held numerous Finance Management and Marketing positions during his seven years at ISC Systems.
Mr. Cunningham graduated from Gonzaga University with a BBA in Finance and Management. He earned his MBA from Gonzaga University.
Pravin Kothari
Founder, Advisor and Board Observer
Pravin was founder, CTO and VP Engineering of Agiliance from late 2005 to late 2010.
Prior to founding Agiliance, Mr. Kothari was the founding VP of Engineering at ArcSight, a leading security information management software company, where he led the product development for five years from inception to market dominance. Prior to ArcSight, Mr. Kothari was the founding Chief Architect at Impresse Corporation. Previously, he held technical leadership positions at Verity, Attachmate and Tata Consultancy Services. Mr. Kothari has over twenty years of successfully bringing new products to market in information security, compliance, enterprise software, SaaS services, and large-scale software infrastructure.
Mr. Kothari holds an MS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Charter Member of TiE, a global organization dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship.
Cliff Higgerson
Board Observer
Cliff Higgerson is a Venture Partner with Walden International. Cliff Higgerson has more than 35 years of experience in research, consulting, planning and venture investing. Cliff has backed some of the most successful companies in the communications industry.
Recent investments and board seats include Astute Networks, Hatteras Networks, Kotura, Lambda OpticalSystems, Ygnition, and Xtera Communications. Prior to investments include such industry leaders as Advanced Fibre Communications (Nasdaq: AFCI); America Online; Ciena (Nasdaqa; CIEN); Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless); Digital Microwave, now Stralex Networks (Nasdaq: STXN); Tellabs (Nasdaq: TLAB); MCI (Nasdaq: MCIP); Octel (NYSE: OTL); and Tut Systems (Nasdaq: TUTS).
Cliff was a Founding Partner of ComVentures and a General Partner with Vanguard Venture Partners. He has also served as a Managing Partner and Director of Research for Hambrecht & Quist, and as a Special Limited Partner and Director of the Communications Group for L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin.
Cliff holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BS from the University of Illinois.
