The VideoIQ board plays a key role in helping VideoIQ build on its leadership position in the video analytics marketplace.
Axel Bichara, partner, Atlas Venture
Axel Bichara is a Partner in the technology sector. He joined Atlas Venture in 1993 and focuses on software and services technology. Before coming to Atlas Venture, he was Vice President of Product Development at Premise, a venture-backed software company which he co-founded in 1987. Premise was acquired by Computervision in 1991.
Axel was lead investor in SolidWorks, a mechanical design automation software company that was acquired in 1997 by Dassault Systemes. Axel also participated as a first round lead investor in SpeechWorks. As a Board Member, Axel helped build the company through an IPO in 2000 and its later sale to ScanSoft in 2003. He continues to serve on the Board of Phase Forward (IPO in July 2004) where he was also the first round lead investor.
Kenneth Boyda
Ken Boyda is a security industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience providing strategic direction for leading security companies, including GE Security, Inc. where he most recently held the position of president and chief executive officer. GE Security was formed through General Electric’s acquisition of Interlogix, Inc., a public company (NASDAQ) and leader in technology development and manufacturing for the electronic security industry.
Boyda served as president and CEO of Interlogix until the company was acquired in 2002. Prior to Interlogix, Boyda was president and CEO of security companies SLC Technologies and Sentrol. Over a fifteen-year period, he grew the security business from revenues of $32 million into a global industry leader with revenues of $2 billion. Previously, he held senior management positions with Colortran Inc., and American Can Company.
Don Bulens
Don Bulens is an industry veteran with extensive experience in strategically building companies from early-stage to large market leaders. As former president and CEO of EqualLogic, Bulens led the company to success in the high performance iSCSI storage area network (SAN) market and ultimately to an acquisition by Dell for $1.375 billion. Throughout his career, he has propelled emerging companies into leadership positions by devising and executing on innovative channel strategies that led to broad customer adoption. During his tenure at EqualLogic, its channel program was one of the fastest-growing and highly regarded in the storage industry, delivering an extensive portfolio of tools and resources to help partners achieve and maintain competitive advantage.
Prior to his position with EqualLogic, Bulens served as CEO of Trellix Corporation, a leading provider of OEM Web publishing tools for consumers and small businesses, which was acquired by Interland (now NASDAQ: WEB) in 2003. Before Trellix, Bulens played a central role in driving the widespread market adoption of Lotus Notes. At Lotus, Bulens spearheaded the strategy and implementation that led to the creation of the industry of more than 18,000 companies that developed and marketed applications and services based on Lotus Notes.
Brian Paul, managing director, Tenaya Capital
Brian Paul is a Managing Director of Tenaya Capital. He initially joined the predecessor to Tenaya (Lehman Brothers Venture Partners) in 1999, and co-founded Tenaya in 2009. Previously, Brian worked in Lehman Brothers’ Global Technology and Healthcare Investment Banking groups in New York, London and Los Angeles. Within these groups, Brian was responsible for public and private equity offerings as well as strategic advisory assignments. Before joining Lehman Brothers in 1994, Brian was at First Boston, where he was responsible for the purchase and sale of mortgage loan portfolios.
Brian holds an M.B.A. with distinction from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott Schnell, president & CEO, VideoIQ
An IT security industry veteran, Scott Schnell brings over 20 years of experience to his role as president and CEO of VideoIQ. With deep expertise across sales, marketing, business development, professional services and engineering, Schnell has a proven track record of guiding innovative companies to market leadership.
Most recently, Schnell was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Atlas Venture where he identified potential investment opportunities and consulted with the firm’s portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy and execution. Before Atlas, Schnell served as senior vice president of sales, marketing and professional services at RSA Security, where he was responsible for nearly doubling the company’s customer base and driving record revenue results. At RSA, he also managed the acquisition and integration of four companies and achieved record levels of partner integration with industry leaders including Microsoft, Cisco and Accenture. Before joining RSA, Schnell served as vice president of marketing at Photonics where he defined and executed marketing, product and business strategy for the company’s line of wireless networks for PC, Macintosh and PDA platforms. Earlier in his career, Schnell held various sales, marketing and consulting positions with Apple Computer, McKinsey and Chevron.
Schnell earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah.
David Skok, general partner, Matrix Partners
David Skok joined Matrix Partners as a General Partner in May 2001. He has a wealth of experience running companies. David started his first company in 1977 at age 22. Since then David has founded a total of four separate companies and performed one turn around. Three of these companies went public. He joined Matrix from SilverStream Software, which he founded in June 1996. Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100m, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world.
David’s work as a value added investor is best known for helping JBoss take their Open Source business to a successful exit with their sale to Red Hat, and for helping both AppIQ and Tabblo from their inception to their sale to HP. David serves on the boards of Digium (makers of the very popular Asterisk Open Source PBX/telephony software), Diligent Technologies, OpenSpan, Solidworks, VideoIQ and Virtual Iron Software.
He holds a B.SC Honours Degree in Computer Science from the University of Sussex, England.