Rousseau Aurelien

Israel Ganot

David Beisel

David joined Venrock in 2007, and was previously a principal at Masthead Venture Partners in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at Masthead, he helped lead an investment in Expo TV, and was an integral member of the investment team for Tremor Media, Intercasting, TripConnect, and NewsGator. Prior to joining Masthead, he co-founded Sombasa Media, an e-mail marketing company which was successfully acquired and subsequently became the About Direct division of Primedia (NYSE: PRM). As Vice President of Marketing at Primedia, David led the marketing group responsible for the company's e-mail newsletter product suite, managed the division's customer relationship operations, and coordinated related business development activities. In addition, he has worked as a management consultant at The Parthenon Group and in product management at Adobe Systems. He is also the founder of the Boston Web Innovators Group and blogs at www.GenuineVC.com.

Austin Ligon

Mr. Ligon is a co-founder of CarMax and has been integrally involved in the leadership of the business since its inception. He has been president of CarMax since 1995 and chief executive officer since the separation of the company from its former parent Circuit City on October 1, 2002. He was appointed senior vice president of corporate planning at Circuit City in 1991 and became senior vice president-automotive of Circuit City and president of CarMax in 1995. Mr. Ligon has served as a director of CarMax since January 1997. On October 6, 2005, Mr. Ligon announced his intent to retire in fiscal 2007 following the appointment and election of a successor.

Ashton Peery

Ashton is an experienced manager, investor and high-tech consultant. He is a former General Partner of Lucent Venture Partners, served as the Chief Strategy Officer and head of Business Development at Lucent Technologies and was the Managing Director of GeoPartners Research, Inc., a thought-leading technology strategy consultancy. Early in his career, Ashton was a public television Producer, Director and Writer. He serves on the Boards of several early stage startups and a New Ventures incubator.

Mike Tyrrell

Mike joined Venrock in 1999 after 16 years as an entrepreneur at venture backed technology companies. Prior to Venrock, he spent nine years with Spyglass, a Venrock-backed portfolio company, joining as their sixth employee. Spyglass licensed the first internet browser Mosaic to many of the world's leading software, online services, and device companies, including Microsoft. As the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, Mike helped take the company public in 1995. Before Spyglass, he was with two other start-ups, Multiflow Computer and Celerity Computing, both UNIX systems pioneers. Mike began his career at Prime Computer.

Henry Vogel

Henry Vogel is a seasoned executive, independent investor and advisor to several fast growth consumer companies. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Vogel was the Chief Revenue Officer at Quigo, an online ad network and Search Engine Marketing Agency. During his tenure, the business grew more than 200% and was successfully sold to AOL. Prior to joining Quigo, Mr. Vogel held a number of executive positions at eBay including Vice President of Internet Marketing and Business Development as well as leading the company’s Corporate Strategic Planning & Analysis group. Mr. Vogel is credited with charting eBay’s strategy into several new verticals, developing relationships with key partners including Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL, managing eBay's world-renowned affiliate program and overseeing the design and execution of eBay's natural and paid search optimization efforts. Prior to eBay, Mr. Vogel was the founder and CEO of eClips, a provider of data-mining and direct marketing services to retailers and consumer packaged goods manufacturers. Additionally, he spent nearly 15 years as a partner and senior consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.

Alexander "Hap" Ellis III

Hap's interest in energy took root during his first job out of college, when he went to work for US Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA) as a Legislative Assistant. In the ensuing four years, Middle East events changed forever both the politics and the economics of the global energy sector. Once in the private sector he formed a boutique insurance brokerage group to work with independent power companies. He was recruited away from the energy space by Knoll International to help re-invigorate this now well known furniture name. After the sale of Knoll to Westinghouse, he was recruited to Kenetech Corporation, the leading wind development and turbine manufacturer at the time, to help globally position this venture-backed company in anticipation of an IPO. After Kenetech and prior to joining RockPort, Hap and a partner developed, permitted and sold two 500+MW gas-fired power plants in the US, among other entrepreneurial ventures. Hap is a graduate of Colorado College with a BA in Political Science and earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management.