Kumar Malavalli is a co-founder, executive chairman and the lead investor in Glassbeam. He is a successful serial entrepreneur who did pioneering work at Brocade Communications as it’s co-founder. and CTO.

He is the co-author and driving force behind Fibre Channel, an evolutionary and disruptive technology that enabled the development of a multi-billion dollar industry based on storage area networks (SAN’s). Kumar holds several patents in Fibre Channel technology

After retiring from Brocade, Kumar became a private investor and philanthropist. He co-founded and invested in InMage Systems, a cloud infrastructure software company. Serving as InMage CEO and Chairman, Kumar drove the company’s acquisition by Microsoft which is now a major business unit there. Kumar has invested in more than two dozen technology companies, the major portfolios being C3DNA, Formation Data Systems, The Hive, The Fabric , PubNub, PowWow, Punch, Aparna Systems, Virtual Power Systems, TeleVital and NanoHorizons.

Kumar’s philanthropic work cover U.S. and India. He established the first Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and he pioneered the Data Science Initiative at UCSC. He serves on the Foundation Board of UCSC and Education Foundation Board of Trustees of California State University, East Bay, where he is involved in the promotion of STEM education.  Kumar is the trustee of Indus Scholastic Management Services, which he co-founded to establish Indus International Schools in India based on IB curriculum of Switzerland.

In 2003, Kumar was inducted into Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. In 2013, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science at California State University, East Bay. Kumar is a past board member and remains a charter member of TiE Silicon Valley, an organization which fosters and promotes entrepreneurship. In 2009 Kumar took the position of Development Chair and Director of the San Francisco/Bangalore Sister City Initiative, and  joined the Board of Directors of the Asian Art Museum in 2012.

Kumar has degrees in electrical engineering and physics from the National Institute of Engineering in Mysore, India. Kumar and his wife Vijaya in Los Altos Hills, California.

Puneet Pandit is the Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer of Glassbeam, and serves on its Board of Directors.

Puneet has over 25 years of global experience as a management consultant and as an operational executive building, scaling, and managing businesses with leading edge technologies ranging from Industrial IoT analytics in the healthcare market to data center-based storage networking vertical.

Puneet co-founded Glassbeam with the core premise that machine logs will become the foundation for smart product companies to reinvent themselves in the world of connected machines and IoT analytics. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company, driving business execution excellence, and building a world class team to meet and exceed the high expectations of Glassbeam’s customers.

Puneet started his career at Tata Unisys as an IT management consultant and then moved to management consulting with Ernst & Young as part of their strategic advisory services. Prior to founding Glassbeam, he was Senior Director of the Database and Business Applications Solutions Group at Network Appliance, focused on capturing the $500 Million Oracle-on-NetApp market with cross-functional initiatives across joint R&D, sales, services, and marketing programs.

In his spare time, Puneet is an outdoor buff and loves hiking the trails around bay area, backpacking in Yosemite, and doing his early morning runs. He loves reading and devours anything related to Eastern Philosophy and Buddhism.

Puneet earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University.

Vish is a well-known veteran of Silicon Valley with a strong network and solid relations with entrepreneurs, executives and venture capitalists. Vish brings over 30 years of progressive business experience in the technology industry, as an Entrepreneur, CEO and Venture Capitalist.

Vish was a VC for 15 years at Clearstone Venture Partners with $660M in committed capital with offices in Palo Alto, Santa Monica and Mumbai with investments in over 100 technology companies and multi-billion exits through IPO’s and M&A’s. A Co-founder of Excelan, Vish pioneered a venture-backed networking company that merged into Novell post IPO, generating over $1B in revenues. Now a board member, Vish co-founded Telera, a cloud software company funded by Accel and Sequoa, merged into Actatel. Vish is also Co-founder and board member of Quantros, a healthcare software venture acquired by Francisco Partners, Investor and board member of CloudVolumes acquired by VMware, Investor/Advisor in InMage acquired by Microsoft, CRISI Medical Systems acquired by Beckton-Dickinson, and Cognilytics acquired by CenturyLink Communications. Vish serves as Mentor and Advisor in the The Hive & The Fabric, Big Data and Cloud Infrastructure company-builders with 16 investments and two exits: Deep Forest Media to Rakuten and Kosei to Pinterest. He is on the Board of Advisors at The Vijay Amritraj Foundation, and active in TiE, the world’s largest professional entrepreneurship society, from inception and President of TiE Silicon Valley. He is the Director at India Community Center and Advisor to Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at San Jose State. Vish is also a founding board member of San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative and the Bay Area co-chair for Akshaya Patra, a mid-day school meal program in India serving 1.4 million meals daily.

Vish is a frequent speaker at industry gatherings on entrepreneurship, business-building and global investing. He is featured in numerous periodicals, articles, books and newspapers. Voted as the top 10- Influencer of Silicon Valley by San Jose Mercury News and 51 most influential global Indian Men by Times of India. Vish earned his BSEE from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and MSEE from North Dakota State University in USA.

Brenda Christensen holds a Board Observer seat at Glassbeam.

Brenda Christensen is an innovative market development executive having a broad base of experience in deep technology, non-profit management, and global sales and marketing. Brenda was the founding Vice President of Marketing for Brocade and simultaneously chaired the international efforts to create the storage networking industry.

She was disciplined in sales while at Xerox Corporation; a pioneer in linguistics software sales; and held positions in sales, marketing and engineering program management at Digital Equipment (DEC).

With Kumar Malavalli, the primary architect of Fibre Channel technology, they were lead evangelists in the education on the benefits of the technology and its adoption by the global OEM storage and networking community. Brenda has served in board positions in companies in France, Israel, India and the US.

Currently an active Trustee at Seattle University, she is engaged in programs for STEM, AI and Ethics, global community engagements, and the Albers School of Business and Economics. She is the author of “The $8 Man: from India to North America, Immigrants who came with nothing and changed everything”.

Sashi Reddi is a strategic advisor and holds a Board Observer seat at Glassbeam.

A successful technology entrepreneur, business leader, active angel investor and member of the investment team at Gabriel Investments, Sashi runs SRI Capital, a seed stage venture fund that is typically the first institutional investor in various technology and media startups. Some of the companies in his portfolio are Glassbeam (machine log analytics for technology support), ThinCI (graphics chip design company in stealth mode), Identropy (identity as SaaS), Edutor (leading tablet based e-learning player in India), and iMomentous (mobile-based talent engagement).

A serial entrepreneur, Sashi founded four different companies: Applabs (the world’s largest independent software testing company with over 2,500 QA professionals in India, the US, and the UK), EZPower Systems (web content management pioneer acquired by DocuCorp, and later on acquired by Oracle), iCoop (group purchasing dotcom), and FXLabs (leading Indian game developer acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment).

Sashi received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the IIT Delhi, his Masters degree in Computer Science from NYU, and later his PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Sashi serves in the advisory boards of Wharton Entrepreneurship, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). He is a charter member of TiE Philadelphia and TiE Hyderabad. He also runs SRI Trust, a charitable organization that supports the educational and overall development needs of 600 children in 3 schools in India.

Eric Milledge is a strategic advisor and holds a Board Observer seat at Glassbeam.

Eric is the Chairman of Symetis S.A. where he assists with an innovative and minimally invasive heart valve replacement device which uses transapical and transfemoral delivery systems. Prior to this, he spent 37 years in the pharmaceuticals and medical devices industry with Johnson & Johnson and private medical device startup companies. He spent eight years as the President of Johnson & Johnson and nine years as the Group Chairman.

Eric was honored by the Women’s Counseling Center in 1998 and the Women’s Resource Center in 1994. He was the recipient of the 1994 Man of the Year award from the Epilepsy Foundation. In 1999 he was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the Martin House for Justice Foundation. In 2002 he was honored as “Father of the Year” by the American Diabetes Association.

Gopal is the President, Cetas Healthcare Americas and Head, Strategy Consulting and Founder & CEO of Grow Beyond, LLC. Gopal’s career spans world class diagnostic imaging companies and academic institutions. This proven, progressive leadership experience is deeply rooted in his multi-country/multi-cultural upbringing, and his unshakable passion to use high-technology into creating affordable, distinctive, innovative and meaningful healthcare solutions. Over these years, he has gained valuable experience and expertise in global leadership, P&L management, strategy, product management, marketing, development, pricing, quality. He is particularly proud of the track record of creating focused, high-performance, results-oriented teams that are made of passionate, diverse people unified by a compelling vision and direction.

Apart being the Strategic Advisor to the Glassbeam focused on the healthcare marketplace and clients, Gopal now leads two entrepreneurial ventures:

— Cetas Healthcare Americas

— Grow Beyond, LLC

Gopal is also pursuing the role as an Adjunct Professor at the Business/Management Schools at the University at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute here in the Capital district of New York.

Steve has 25 years of a proven track record as a successful senior-level executive, board of directors member and advisory board member. He maximizes corporate performance and enhances board directives for startups. He has been with six startups: one is now listed on a public exchange; three others have been acquired by Wells Fargo, Francisco Partners and Microsoft. He understands the startup culture and expectations. He currently sits on three advisory boards and two boards of directors. In 2015, he served as a senior business advisor to Science & Technology Corporation, doing a project for NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, CA.

Steve is currently the SVP of Business Development and Business Ecosystems for Diginome, Inc., a five-year-old startup in San Francisco, CA. His domains of expertise include: Enterprise Software, The Internet of things “IOT” analytics software, Machine Data analytics software, Information Integrity and corporate risk governance and management software, Cloud solutions in visualized IT environment’s software, disaster recovery and continuous data protection software, Media software, Big Data software, and artificial intelligence workflow software.

Siki is a well-recognized leader in the IoT and M2M space. Prior to joining Glassbeam, she was the global senior vice president of cloud and connected solutions for Verizon Enterprise Solutions. In this role, Siki was responsible for Verizon’s end-to-end global cloud ecosystem, as well as technology convergence and connected solutions through the company’s wireline and wireless networks. She led a global team of cloud and data center professionals to bring the new Verizon Cloud services to the market, ensuring clients could harness this enterprise-class platform to unlock the value of their data, and access it where and when they need it.

Prior to joining Verizon, Siki was the vice president of cloud computing and software services at CSC. In this role, she had global responsibility for implementing cloud computing strategy in consulting, systems design and integration while driving the SaaS-enablement of CSC’s portfolio of industry solutions.

Siki’s experience of more than 20 years in international operations, marketing and sales includes tenures as president and chief executive officer at Fortisphere, president and chief executive officer at Managed Objects where she helped create the business service management software market category, vice president of strategic business at Novell, and senior vice president at Computer Associates.

Vic is an enterprise consultant and currently sits on the boards of many enterprise startups. Recently, he was appointed to the Board of Directors at Violin Memory. Previously, Vic was the CSO of NetApp and the VP of Marketing at LSI Corp where he drove all aspects of Product Management, Outbound Marketing, and Business Alliances. Since November 2012, Vic has also been sitting on the board of directors of Overland Storage, Inc., a provider of data management and data protection products.