Board Members
Bob Zipp (Amicus, LLC)
Bob Zipp has been counseling early stage companies since 1996. Before co-founding Amicus, Bob was a director at Venture Law Group and a partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. In addition to the Amicus companies, Bob has worked closely with Hotmail (including its acquisition by Microsoft), Astrology.com (including its acquisition by iVillage) and ComputerESP (including its acquisition by CNET) as well as a number of venture capital firms and investment banks. Bob graduated from Texas A&M; University in 1985 and Duke University School of Law in 1988.
Ben Dubin (Asset Management Company)
Ben Dubin joined Asset Management as a partner in 1998. Prior to this, Ben managed Enterprise Java at Javasoft. This included the introduction, management, and marketing of the Enterprise JavaBeans Component technology as well as the JNDI, JMS, RMI and JDBC technologies.
Ben holds twin bachelor of science degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also was one of the early arrivals at a then little-known company called Sun Microsystems.
Technology and management have marked his career. He co-founded two companies, Full Source Software, an open source application software firm, and Los Altos Technology, an open systems software security business where he also served as Chief Technology Officer. Another decade was spent working and consulting at marquee companies like Oracle, Netscape, Sybase, Sandisk, Lockheed and a variety of startups. As an inventor, he holds the patent on a technique for database restoration. Currently, he sits on the boards of directors of Airflash, Libritas, PrimeAdvantage, Searchbutton, Skire and Vetcentric, among others.
Outside the office, he is actively involved in a number of professional organizations, including the Churchill Club, IEEE Computer Society, the Software Entrepreneurs' Forum and the MIT/Stanford Venture Laboratory.
Bruce Miller (Investure)
Bruce is a Managing Director of Investure, an investment manager serving university endowments and non-profit foundations. Bruce is responsible for private equity investments on behalf of Investure. Prior to Investure, Bruce was a Partner at Carmel Partners, a real estate private equity fund based in San Francisco. Bruce also worked at Intel Capital where he was responsible for strategic equity investments in software and internet businesses.
Bruce’s operating experience includes his role as Vice President, Corporate Development at iMediation S.A., a software company and various management positions at The Ryland Group, NationsBank, and Trammell Crow. Bruce earned a BA from the University of Virginia and his MBA from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Stephen Sun Chiao (Sycamore Ventures)
Mr. Stephen Sun Chiao is a Partner of Sycamore Ventures. He is also a professor of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University where he established the Integrated Circuits Lab and directs the Broadband Optical Networking Laboratory. Prior to that, he held various senior management and technical positions at Gould/AMI, Hewlett-Packard and Varian Associates.
Prior to joining Sycamore, Mr. Chiao advised several high-tech startups and investments in Silicon Valley. Between 1986 and 1996, he co-founded three companies: Analog Microsystems; Wincomm Communications in Taiwan; and Elite Semiconductors, which was acquired by publicly-traded Mosel Electronics Group in Taiwan. He then served as Vice President of Mosel in charge of business development in foundry, intellectual property, new product development, and M&A; activities. He holds a B.S. from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, a M.S. from University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Dave Schwab (Sierra Ventures)
Dave Schwab is a Managing Director of Sierra Ventures; his investment practice focuses primarily on Software Applications, Enterprise Software, Application Service Providers and Infrastructure.
Prior to joining the venture capital community, Mr. Schwab’s professional career began at Lockheed Corporation where he was a software engineer and engineering manager for five years. He subsequently attended Harvard Business School and then returned to Silicon Valley to work in sales and sales management at Sun Microsystems. While at Sun, Schwab was repeatedly one of the highest producing sales executives in the company and was subsequently promoted to a variety of Sun sales management positions. Schwab co-founded Scopus Technology (NASD-SCOP) with a fellow Sun sales manager and two other executives. During his five years at Scopus, Schwab served as Vice President of Sales, and also served as Vice President of Application Development. Scopus was taken public by Morgan Stanley & Co. and was subsequently acquired by Siebel Systems in a $480 million transaction.
At Sierra Ventures, Schwab was the founding investor in MicroMuse Corp. (NASD-MUSE), a highly successful network management enterprise software company. He was also the lead investor in OnLink, a successful e-commerce enterprise software company which was sold to Siebel Systems in July, 2000. He is on the Board of 360Commerce, Accruent, Inc., Corrigo, DBS, Infotone Communications, Knova (fna Kanisa, Inc.), SeeCommerce, Vykor, Inc., Zebra Imaging, Inc., and Zoom Systems.
In addition to an MBA from Harvard Business School, Schwab holds two graduate engineering degrees from Stanford University and an undergraduate engineering degree from UC San Diego.
Jeff Loomans (Sierra Ventures)
Jeff Loomans is a Venture Partner of Sierra Ventures; his investment practice focuses on Enterprise Software (CRM, Supply Chain) and Internet Infrastructure.
Previous to joining the venture capital community, Mr. Loomans was Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and VP Engineering at OnLink Technologies, which was purchased by Siebel where he was Vice President, Engineering. Prior to that he was Engineering Manager at Decisions Systems and Co-founder and President at Integrated Business Software.
At Sierra Ventures, Loomans is on the Board of Active Decisions, Inc., Corrigo, Infotone, and Zoom Systems. He is also an observer on the Boards of Spoke and Accruent.
Mr. Loomans holds a B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems and a M.S. degree in Computer Science, both from Stanford University
Rick Michaux (Founder/President - Corrigo, Inc.)
Rick Michaux brings his experience in wireless and telephony communications from start-up organizations at Motorola where he managed acquisitions, product and marketing management, marketing communications, business development, e-commerce, and operations as Director of Marketing for their Lexicus Division.
Prior to Motorola, Rick worked in the real estate world where he gained an understanding of the issues facing property managers through working on financial analysis and tenant services. Rick has a Masters in Business Administration from Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an MA in East Asian Economics from George Washington University.
Rick currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Oregon Software Association.
