Juha Christensen

Chairman, and Partner at Progression Partners

Juha Christensen is a Partner at Progression Partners, a Silicon Valley based firm that works with entrepreneurs on building successful companies.

Mr. Christensen wrote the business plan and led the negotiations that brought Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and others together to create the mobile operating system company Symbian. Later he ran Microsoft’s mobile platform efforts, bringing to market Pocket PC, Smartphone and a range of server products.

After Microsoft, Mr. Christensen served as President at Macromedia, bringing to driving a diverse range of Internet and Mobile tools and products.

Mr. Christensen is Chairman of Cogniance and Cloudmade. He is a long serving member on the board of Teleca, the largest systems integrator in the mobile industry with over 2,000 employees, and a founding Venture Partner at Sunstone Capital, a venture fund with approximately $750 million under management.

Glenda Dorchak

Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Glenda Dorchak is a thirty year technology industry veteran who joined VirtualLogix as Chief Executive Officer in January, 2009. Most recently, she was the Chairman and CEO of Intrinsyc Software, a publically traded Wireless software and engineering services business based in Vancouver Canada and specializing in telephony solutions.

Ms. Dorchak was an executive with Intel Corporation from 2001 to 2006 including Vice President and COO of Intel Communications Group; Vice President & General Manager of Intel’s Consumer Electronics Group and Vice President and General Manager Broadband Products Group. Prior to her tenure at Intel, she served as chairman and CEO of Value America, Inc., an online retailer that pioneered the sale of consumer products on the Internet.

In 1999, Ms. Dorchak was named one of the “Top 25 Executives of the New Millennium” by Computer Reseller News, for growing Value America to a position of acknowledged industry leadership in online merchandising in the technology sector.

The majority of Ms. Dorchak’s career was spent with IBM, both in IBM Canada and later with IBM Corporation based in Raleigh NC, where she held executive positions with the IBM Personal Systems Group including directorships with the Ambra Systems group and IBM PC Direct North America.

Giuseppe Zocco

General Partner, Index Ventures

Giuseppe Zocco co-founded Index Ventures in 1996 and is a General Partner of the firm. His areas of investment focus currently include components, communication and wireless infrastructure and devices. He serves as a Director of several public and private companies including Artimi, Certess, Conexant (NASDAQ: CNXT), Ozon, SpinX and Telegent Systems.

Previously, Mr. Zocco spent five years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in several European offices. During his career at McKinsey, Mr. Zocco advised several major corporations on a number of strategic and organizational matters including European entry strategies, strategic positioning, marketing and new product introductions.

Mr. Zocco holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, an IEP from London Business School and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Alan Duncan

Managing Partner, DFJ Esprit

Alan Duncan has been in the venture capital industry for more than twenty years, initially through establishing a corporate venturing fund for Ferranti and then with Foreign Colonial Ventures and Newmarket Venture Capital. He joined Prelude Ventures in 1996.

Mr. Duncan is responsible for a portfolio of DFJEsprit’s electronics investments including Phyworks, Xanadu Wireless, Lime Microsystems, SiConnect, XMOS and DisplayLink. His previous investments have included Alphamosaic (sold to Broadcom) and nCipher (IPO on LSE).

Mr. Duncan has an electronic engineering background and gained his industrial experience in computer systems with Ferranti plc.

Mr. Duncan is a past member of the European Venture Capital Association High Tech Committee and lectures regularly on EVCA’s venture capital professional training courses

Michel Gien

Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy

Michel Gien’s passion for technology, working with customer issues, and commitment to excellence are the foundation of VirtualLogix's culture. He has over 30 years experience in the research and software industry.

Prior to co-founding VirtualLogix as its first CEO in August 2002, Mr. Gien was Co-founder, General Manager, and Chief Technology Officer of Chorus Systems. He became the first Distinguished Engineer outside North America at Sun Microsystems when they acquired Chorus Systems in 1997.

Prior to founding Chorus Systems, Mr. Gien worked as a Director at INRIA (French public IT research center) and CNET (France Telecom's research labs) leading research projects on computer networks, UNIX, and distributed operating systems from 1971 to 1986. He founded, co-chaired then chaired the European UNIX Association (EUUG then EurOpen) from 1980 to 1990. Mr. Gien graduated from Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris, France in 1971.