Betsy Atkins, President and CEO, Baja LLC, is a co-founder of Ascend Communications, where she served as a director until the acquisition of Ascend by Lucent Technologies. While at Ascend, Betsy played an integral role in taking the company public in 1994. Betsy also served as CEO of NCI Inc., a functional food manufacturer, and has held several senior executive positions in the technology industry at UNISYS, Amdahl and BBN/Genuity. Betsy has served on a variety of private and public boards for over 23 years.

Atul Bansal, Co-Founder, President and COO, Laurel Networks, brings many years of executive experience in the data communications industry to Laurel, specializing in the application of IP technology into the service provider sector. As president of FORE Systems' Network Control Technology, an IP routing technology subsidiary, as well as director of FORE's multilayer Ethernet switching division, he led efforts that generated hundreds of millions in revenue. Previously, Mr. Bansal held engineering and technical management positions for router products at Digital Equipment Corporation..

Peter Barris, Managing General Partner, New Enterprise Associates, joined NEA in 1992, became a general partner in 1993 and a managing general partner in 1999. His present board memberships include Cidera, DataCore Software, eCommerce Industries, Evolutionary Technologies, eZiba.com, Mobius Management Systems, Norigen Communications Group and PathNet. Peter specializes in information technology companies. Before joining NEA, Peter was President and Chief Operating Officer at LEGENT, and Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Systems Software Division at UCCEL. He also held various management positions between 1977 and 1985 at General Electric, including Vice President and General Manager at GE Information Services.

Don Pyle, CEO, Laurel Networks, provides the key leadership and strategic direction for Laurel Networks. Most recently, Mr. Pyle was vice president of North American Sales at Juniper Networks. In six years at Juniper he was instrumental in winning key accounts, driving revenue growth and building the sales and systems engineering teams. At Cisco Systems, he managed one of the largest regions in the service provider division. He served in a similar capacity at StrataCom prior to its acquisition by Cisco. Previously, Mr. Pyle spent 10 years at Case Communications where he held sales and sales management positions focused on the service provider market.

Stephen Vogelsang, Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Laurel Networks, has over 10 years of experience in networking and telecommunications. As a co-founder of Laurel Networks, he identified the emerging market for multi-service routers years ahead of competitors and was instrumental in developing Laurel's business plan to address this market. Previously, as senior director of strategic marketing at FORE Systems, he developed and executed a marketing strategy to expand FORE's presence in the service provider market. With a strong technology and business background, he is able translatetechnology innovation into business value.

Fred Wang, General Partner, Trinity Ventures, has over ten years of experience in communications. Prior to joining Trinity in 1999, he was a Partner at Spectrum Equity Investors, making investments in next generation communications companies. Previously, Fred held senior management positions at The Boston Consulting Group working with clients such as AT&T, Wiltel, Lucent, Philips, and Siemens; at Pacific Bell in the New Technologies Group; and at Intuit.

Tim Weingarten, Principal, Worldview Technology Partners, serves as a board observer of Laurel. Tim has a strong technology investing background with 4 years of venture capital experience and 4 years of high tech investment banking experience. On behalf of Worldview, Tim currently serves on the board of Cogent Communications, Force10 Networks, and Movaz Networks. In addition, Tim is a board observer of Butterfly.Net and Reactrix Media and works on Worldview's investment in Catena Networks. Prior to Worldview, Tim worked in the networking and telecom research group at the investment banking firm Robertson, Stephens & Co.