KAIAM :: Board of Directors
 Chris
Rust is a Partner at U.S. Venture Parnters, and a founding investor
in KAIAM. He was the CEO of Mahi Networks (acquired by Meriton)
from 2002 to 2004, a partner at Sequoia Capital from 1998 to
2002. Chris's operating experience before joining Sequoia spanned fourteen
years in software development, systems engineering, and product management
at Carrier Access Corporation (Nasdaq: CACS), ComCore (acquired by National
Semi), US WEST Advanced Technologies, and Nokia. While at US WEST, Chris
was a founding network architect of Time Warner Roadrunner, now one of
the largest broadband service providers in the world.
Chris is currently
a Board Member of Akros Silicon, Clustrix, KAIAM, and VeriWave. Previously,
Chris was a Founding Director or early stage investor in Abrizio
(acquired by PMC Sierra), Afara (acquired by SUN), Avanex (Nasdaq: AVNX),
Commerce5 (acquired by Digital River), Dune Networks (acquired by Broadcom),
LVL7 (acquired by Broadcom), Mellanox (Nasdaq: MLNX), Santur, Stratalight
(acquired by Opnext), SwitchOn Networks (acquired by PMC Sierra), Telera
(acquired by Alcatel), and VxTel (acquired by Intel). Chris received a
B.S. and M.S. Electrical engineering from the University of Lowell, an
M.S. Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder,
and an M.S. Engineering Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Chris was a founding member of the Cable Labs DOCSIS cable modem
standards effort, and holds issued patents related to broadband communications,
home gateways, and set top box design.
 Phil
Anthony is currently an Executive in Residence at Storm
Ventures. He was the President of the Amplification Products
Group of JDS Uniphase, responsible for its optical amplifier,
passive optical component, and integrated module businesses.
During the telecommunications infrastructure boom, he coordinated
business functions to achieve a growth in revenues that accelerated
to >50% Q/Q. In the ensuing revenue collapse, he managed
the orderly restructuring of 14 businesses bought by JDS
Uniphase while maintaining cash-flow neutral operations.
He emphasized structured processes throughout the merged
operations to increase product dependability and customer responsiveness.
His organizations enhanced margins through innovative product
platforms and revised production systems; they retained as
much margin as possible by efficiently transferring production
to a mirrored organization in China. He joined JDS Uniphase
in 2000 when it acquired E-TEK Dynamics, where he was the
VP of Engineering for two years.
Prior to E-TEK, Dr. Anthony was the Director of the Passive Devices
and Integrated Modules Organization of Lucent Technologies. During 20
years at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent, Phil helped develop
the technological foundations for a number of photonic businesses, including
lasers, DWDM components, optical interconnects, photonic switching,
integrated optics, and optoelectronic packaging.
He served as the President of the IEEE Photonics Society (formerly
LEOS) in 2001 and in various capacities on its Board of Governors since
1994. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from
the University of Illinois, and graduated with a B.S. in Physics from
the University of Dayton.
 Dr.
Thomas
Schrans was most recently at Santur Corporation and
led the integration team for the parallel transceiver
product. Prior to Santur, he acted as the Director of
Engineering at Oplink and developed the first XFP transceivers.
He spent 10 years at Ortel and Lucent developing advanced
components for fiberoptic telecommunications.
Though his background
is in laser design and physics, with a PhD from California
Institute of Technology, his interest now lies in high
speed module development. In addition to numerous publications
and presentations, Dr. Schrans has been active in the
Standards bodies and helped shape IEEE standards and various
multi-source agreements.
 Dr.
Bardia
Pezeshki was previously the main founder of Santur Corporation
(2000-2008), and acting as the President, Director, VP of
Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer of the company
at various times he developed the key ideas and managed their
transition to manufacturing. These included the tunable laser
that dominated the transition of long haul and metro networks
from fixed wavelength lasers to tunable, and more recently
the parallel transceiver that now leads the world in 100Gb/s Ethernet.
Prior to Santur, Dr Pezeshki managed the Development group
at SDL (now part of JDS Uniphase) and a similar group at IBM Research
in Yorktown Heights. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University
and has approximately 30 patents and 100 peer reviewed publications
and presentations.
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