TeleSoft Partners Культура компании

V. Paul Unruh has served as a member of Symantec Corporation's Board since July 2005 following the acquisition of Veritas. He had served on Veritas' board of directors since 2003. Mr. Unruh retired as Vice Chairman of Bechtel Group, Inc., a global engineering and construction services company, in June 2003. During his 25-year tenure at Bechtel Group, he held a number of management positions including Treasurer, Controller and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Unruh also served as President of Bechtel Enterprises, the finance, development and ownership arm from 1997 to 2001. He is a member of the board of directors of Aconex Ltd., which is traded on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a private company. Mr. Unruh is a Certified Public Accountant.

Mr. Alan D. Foster serves as Managing Director of TeleSoft Partners. Mr. Foster focuses on semiconductors, systems and software investments. He has over 18 years of experience with technology companies in venture capital, engineering and product management roles. Before joining TeleSoft Partners, he served as a Principal at Berkeley International Capital Corporation and worked on 32 investments totaling $380 million of invested capital. Prior to Berkeley International, he worked in the Circuits and Interconnect Technology Group at Silicon Graphics. Previously, Mr. Foster held design and automation engineering positions at Apple Computer. He served at Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc. and Apple Inc. He started his career at an entrepreneurial laser systems manufacturer designing laser systems, building embedded control systems and managing product development for medical applications. Prior to joining BICC, he held positions at Netro Corporation and Line Lite Laser Corporation. He serves as a Director of Knowledge Holdings, Inc. Mr. Foster served as a Director of Education.com, Inc., and JumpStart, Inc., (alternate name JumpStart Games, Inc.). He served as Director at Voxeo Germany GmbH (formerly VoiceObjects). He received a B.S. and an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A., with Honors, from The Anderson School at UCLA.

Mr. Al Howard is the Chief Financial Officer at TeleSoft Partners. He is also the and SBIC Director at the firm. He is responsible for finance and administration at the firm and has more than 30 years experience in accounting, finance, human resources, and corporate administration through a variety of management positions. Prior to joining Telesoft Partners, Mr. Howard was the Chief Financial Officer at Creative Communications; Vice President of Finance and Administration; and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Hydro Agri and Chief Financial Officer and Board Member for Wilson & Geo. Meyer & Company. He also served as a Financial Consultant to small businesses. Mr. Howard serves on the Board of VCBC. He was a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Howard earned his C.P.A. certificate while with Pete Marwick/KPMG in Accounting and Finance from California State University and Golden Gate University and a B.S. in Psychology from Colorado State University.

Mr. William A. Magill, Bill is a Managing Director at TeleSoft Partners. He has over 20 years of experience working with optical and technology companies as a venture investor, equities and market analyst, and technologies. Mr. Magill focuses on optical components and systems investments. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Principal and Senior Research Analyst at Banc of America Securities LLC where Mr. Magill covered wireline telecom equipment companies. Prior to Banc of America, he was a Senior Analyst tracking markets for fiber optic components and systems first with ElectroniCast Corp. and later with RHK, Inc. Mr. Magill began his career as a Lasers and Optical Systems Technologist at TRW and Livermore National Labs. He is an Observer on the Boards of Amberwave, Nexant, Xambala, and Lynx Photonic Networks. Mr. Magill authored the first Wall Street perspective on optical networking (The Appeal of All Optical Networking Or How I Learned To Love The Photon) in 1997, and was awarded Honorable Mention in Institutional Investor's 1998 All-American Research Team. He has published numerous articles in Fiberoptics Online on investing in optical networking markets. Mr. Magill received an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California Davis. He also has a degree as an Associate of Applied Science in Lasers and Electro-Optics from Texas State Technical Institute.

Mr. Edwin M. Martin, Jr., Ned is a Partner at DLA Piper US LLP. He operated from the London, Reston, and Washington offices of the firm. Mr. Martin is a Senior Advisor and SBIC Corporate Secretary at Telesoft Partners. At DLA Piper, his global focus lies on the corporate sector. Mr. Martin's areas of practice include corporate, corporate and securities, and mergers and acquisitions. Since January 2005, he has been in the London office, bringing his United States capital markets expertise to a wide variety of capital markets transactions. During the last two years Mr. Martin has worked on a number of offerings involving listings on various exchanges outside the United States. He has over 35 years of experience in the area of domestic and international legal and business transactions, particularly with technology and emerging growth companies and their investors. Mr. Martin has practiced in the area of domestic and international business transactions and securities offerings for over 40 years, particularly with technology and rapid growth companies. He has been involved in the structure and negotiations of joint ventures and other corporate partnering transactions in biotechnology, software, electronics and telecommunications. Mr. Martin has served as counsel to a wide range of companies, from New York Stock Exchange-listed companies to start-ups, in a number of industries. He has represented such technology companies as EG&G, Inc., Gen Rad, Inc., Storage Technology Corporation, and Omnipoint Co. In the United States, Mr. Martin has served as issuer's Counsel or underwriter's Counsel on more than 40 public offerings and has served as a principal outside counsel for more than 20 companies listed on U.S. exchanges. He has also worked on more than 150 merger or acquisition transactions. Some of his representative transaction experience in the field of public offerings includes his being an Issuer Counsel for Eschelon Telecom, Inc.'s integrated telecommunications services; August 2005; $75,000,000; initial public offering; Lehman Brothers, UBS Securities, Jefferies; Audible, Inc.'s audio content delivery; November 2004; $128,000,000; secondary offering; Citigroup, ThinkEquity Partners, Adams Harkness, America's Growth Capital, Kaufman Bros., Merriman Churhan Ford; and PEC Solutions, Inc.'s eGovernment solutions; April 2000; $29,925,000; initial public offering; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Chase H & Q, Legg Mason, DLJ direct, Inc. Mr. Martin was a underwriter for OTG Software, Inc.'s storage management software; March 2000; $109,250,000; initial public offering, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, SG Cowen, Friedman, Billings Ramsey and Sphinx Pharmaceutical Corp.'s January 1992; $75,000,000; initial public offering; Lehman Brothers and Oppenheimer & Co. He has served as a Principal Outside Counsel for over 20 public companies some of which include Audible, Inc. since 1999 and their IPO in 1996; Cabot, Cabot & Forbes Land Trust from 1970 till 1974 and their IPO in 1971; and Trusted Information Systems, Inc. from 1995 till 1998 and their IPO in 1996. In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Martin's experience includes PEC Solutions' acquisition by Nortel in June 2005; Groove Networks, Inc.'s acquisition by Microsoft in April 2005; and Trusted Information Systems, Inc.'s acquisition by Networks Associates, Inc. in March 1998. He is admitted to practice law at the Bars of District of Columbia and Massachusetts. Mr. Martin was named one of the Best Lawyers in America for 2007 and for 2008 in the specialties of Merger and Acquisitions Law and Securities Law. He received an LL.B., magna cum laude, from the Harvard Law School in 1966 and an A.B. in Economics in 1963 from the Harvard University.