Board of Directors

Andy Gottlieb
CEO, Talari Networks

Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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Hal Calhoun
Managing Director, Menlo Ventures

Hal joined Menlo Ventures in 2000. Previously, he was one of the early employees at ONI Systems (ONIS), a leading optical communications equipment manufacturer, where he served in a number of roles, most recently as Senior Vice President of Product Marketing. He held various market development positions in the Optical Networks division at Nortel Networks and was Senior Manager of Broadband Transport Planning at Fujitsu Network Communications. At Menlo, Hal focuses on investments in leading companies in the information technology sector. Aside from Talari Networks, his other recent investments and board seats include: GTronix, Invidi, Lensvector, Movaz (ADVA), Neterion, Quellan, Rivulet, Santur, Stretch, Tablus (EMC), and VT Silicon. Hal is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering), where his graduate work focused on photonic semiconductor materials, devices, and systems.
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Jeff Thermond

An independent advisor to several startups, Jeff's 30-year career encompasses an impressive track record in leading and growing large organizations in global broadband and data networking markets. Formerly President and CEO of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching vendor Woven Systems, he had previously led the team that established Broadcom's first foray into wireless products, which grew to a quarter of a billion dollars in five quarters. Before becoming a part of Broadcom, Jeff was the CEO of Epigram which pioneered the high speed home networking marketplace for semiconductors, which has grown into a multi-hundred million dollar market today. He later architected the sale of Epigram to Broadcom for what was the largest amount ever paid for a pre-revenue semiconductor start-up. He also served as vice president and general manager of 3Com's enterprise router business, growing it from $60 million to $350 million during his tenure. Jeff holds an MBA in marketing from Indiana University and a BA in Psychology and Philosophy from Yale University.
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