Cloud-9 Ventures Partners Biography:

Sayuri Sharper is a general partner at Cloud-9 Ventures. She has over 17 years of experience in communications industry. Prior to Cloud-9 Ventures, she was Director of xDSL Marketing at Cisco, responsible for Cisco's xDSL product strategy. Before Cisco, Sayuri was founder and CEO of Telesend, Inc., an xDSL company that was acquired by Cisco in '97. Previously she was Group Product Manager for Messaging Products at Lotus and Director of Marketing at Retix. Sayuri received her Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Craig Sharper is a general partner at Cloud-9 Ventures. He has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications industry. Craig has held numerous senior engineering management positions, including Cisco, Verilink, Integrated Network Corporation, and AT&T Bell Labs. Craig was also a founder and VP of Engineering of Telesend, Inc, an xDSL company. Craig holds 12 patents in communications area. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.