3Tera Advisors

Thomas F. Burniece

Tom Burniece has over 30 years of experience in the storage industry and is currently the CEO of iVivity, the leading provider of high-performance Storage Network Processors. He is also on the Board of Directors of Ciprico, a publicly traded company, where he served for two years as Chairman of the Board. In addition, he is on the Board of Advisors of 3Tera, Inapac, and Matisse Networks, all privately-held companies. Tom served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at COPAN in 2004-2005. Prior to that, he was an independent consultant in Silicon Valley, as well as a partner in IN_fusion, the leading business development consultancy in the storage industry, specializing in strategy formulation, business development and due diligence. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Intoto and DAS Devices and was the CEO of Rutilus Software and Voelker Technologies, as well as a senior executive at Maxtor, Digital Equipment, and Control Data. Tom holds a BEE degree from the University of Minnesota and an MSEE degree from Arizona State University. He is also a graduate of MIT's Sloan Senior Executive Program.

Ismael Ghalimi

Ismael is a proven technology visionary and strategic business leader. He is the CEO of Intaglio, a Business process management company that he found in 1999. At Intaglio he secured three rounds of venture funding, put together the world-class engineering team that created a new breed of enterprise software - the first standards-based business process management system (PMS). He has a track record spearheading partnerships and industry alliances. In 2000 he founded the Business Process Management Initiative (BPI.orgy), where as a Chairman he initiated the development of several BM and Web Service Orchestration specifications like BONN (Business Process Modeling Notation - a standardized graphical notation for drawing business processes in a work flow) and Web Service Choreography Interface (SCI). For the last year he is authoring IT|Redux-New Rules for a New IT World, a web log dedicated to the new trends and radical changes in the IT industry today, where he was first to coin the term Office 2.0. Ismael has Engineering Degree in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy. He studied parallel and distributed computing at l'Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France). He is also a contemporary furniture designer, certified scuba diving instructor and a Single Engine Land Private pilot.

Richard Freyberg

Rich Freyberg is a senior-level executive with over 35 years experience in Information Technology and Financial Services. He has a pr oven track record of applying emerging technology to strategic business problems. Rich was formerly the CIO of Schwab Capital Markets, a Managing Director of Syndicated Lending Technology at Bankers Trust and a First Vice President of Retail Technology at Security Pacific. Prior to these positions he started up several successful software development companies; specializing in distributed, mission critical banking applications. Rich holds Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. Rich is currently on the Advisory Boards of Northstar, Xtiva, Certagon and Mainsoft; on the Board of Directors of IO-Informatics, APCaP and Gold Medal Foundation.

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Richard Lary

Richard Lary has been in the computer industry for 37 years. He started out as a software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, building operating systems and compilers for the PDP-8 and PDP-11 computers. In 1975, he served as a member of the core team that defined the VAX computer architecture, and later the implementation team for the first VAX computer. After joining Digital's Storage Business Unit in 1978, Richie was a key architect of the Digital Storage Architecture and a key implementer of several of the hardware and firmware components of the associated product family. He became Digital's Storage Architect in 1990, Digital's Storage Technical Director in 1994, and Compaq Computer Corporation's Storage Technical Director in 1998; as Technical Director he was responsible for technical oversight of the entire corporate storage architecture and product line. Richie holds 30 patents for his work in processor and storage system architecture and design, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Server I/O Conference in January, 2000 in recognition of his contributions. He left Compaq in June, 2000 and is now an independent consultant in the computer storage industry, and an adviser to several emerging storage companies.

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Sam Pullara

Sam Pullara is VP of Platform at Yahoo. Before that he was a Chief Architect at Borland after the acquisition of Gauntlet Systems in January 2006 , where Sam was CEO. Prior to that Sam was EIR at Accel Venture Partners. Before that, he was at BEA Systems where he designed and implemented numerous key features in all generations of BEA's flagship WebLogic product. He was the first server engineer hired at WebLogic, Inc. in 1996 and has worked on all aspects of the WebLogic Application Server. Highlights of his work include in-memory clustered session replication, the personalization system, and a web service stack. He has been involved in Java standards work related to J2EE, EJB, JSP, Servlets, caching, SOAP, and XML processing. He is also a technology leader and contributor to various open source Java components. Before WebLogic he did consulting work at TransUnion and Searle Corp. Sam earned a MS in Physics from Northwestern University and a Bachelors of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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Ross Schibler

Ross has over 25 years experience in network engineering. Currently he is Senior Director at Cisco Systems. He joined Cisco after the acquisition of Topspin Communications, a company he co-founded and served on as CTO. Prior to Topspin, Ross was Director of Software Engineering for Nortel's High Performance Switching Division. He was responsible for the software architecture of Nortel's Passport 8600, their flagship IP platform and a key component in many of the world's largest networks. Ross is also the founder of Rapid City Communications, the company that in 1996 created the first Gigabit Ethernet routing switch and was acquired by Bay Networks and eventually sold to Nortel Networks Corp.

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Isabel Wang

Isabel has been working in the Internet infrastructure market for nearly 10 years.
She is the author of the popular "Isabel Says" blog, where she writes on the convergence of Web 2.0 and Web hosting. She is a freelance writer/consultant and also writes a blog for The Web Hosting Industry Review magazine. Formerly, she was the editor and publisher of Web Hosting Magazine where she covered the rise and fall of early Web hosting pioneers. Isabel also served as vice president of Communications at EV1Servers where she focused on the dedicated servers business. Prior to her position at EV1Servers, she co-founded ISPcheck, a company providing banner ads to early Web hosting providers. Isabel attended MIT and majored in political science.

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