PSS Systems Board of Directors
Eric Byunn
Partner, FTV Capital
Eric Byunn joined FTV Capital in 2002 and is a Partner leading the firm's software team. Prior to joining FTV Capital, Eric was Director of Online Services at myCFO, a startup wealth management firm. He joined myCFO from America Online, where he held several roles including management of Netscape's Personal Finance Channel. Prior to the acquisition of Netscape by AOL, Eric led product management for the Netscape Navigator browser. He has also worked at Microsoft and at McKinsey & Company, where he primarily worked with telecommunications clients. Eric received an AB summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar; he is also a CFA charterholder. Eric is an active board member for a number of FTV Capital portfolio companies including Cloudmark, Coremetrics, Covario, GMI, and SourceCode, and was actively involved with KVS (acquired by Veritas — now part of Symantec; NASDAQ:SYMC)
Cameron Lester
General Partner, Azure Capital Partners
Cameron Lester is a founding General Partner with Azure Capital Partners where he specializes in software and related infrastructure technologies. In addition to PSS Systems, he is on the board of ROME Corporation, SourceCode Technology and Zend Technologies. Other Azure investments include TopTier Software (acquired by SAP), Totality and VMware (acquisition announced by EMC). Prior to Azure, Cameron was Managing Director and Global Head of the Software Group with the Credit Suisse Technology Group. Prior to Credit Suisse, Cameron was a Director with the Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Technology Group and, previously, was Vice President in Corporate Finance with the PaineWebber Technology Group. Cameron received his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Virginia and his M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Peter Nieh
Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Peter is a general partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners, focusing primarily on software investments. He has spearheaded the firm's investments in companies such as DoubleClick, Informatica, KIVA Software, and Phone.com (now Openwave). Prior to joining Lightspeed in 1995, Peter served in business development and product marketing roles at General Magic. He also ran Acer's portable PC business in North America, after serving as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, an AB in Economics, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Deidre Paknad
President & CEO
Deidre leads the company and drives its solution vision; she is widely credited with having conceived of and launched the first commercial applications for legal holds, collections and retention management in 2004 and is a well respected thought leader in the legal and information governance domain. She has been a member of several Sedona working groups since 2005 and leads the EDRM IMRM working group 6. Deidre is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with 20 years' experience applying technology to poor-functioning business processes to reduce cost and risk. Prior to PSS, she helped Certus launch its Sarbanes Oxley software solution. Deidre previously founded and was CEO of CoVia Technologies from 1996 to 2000, where she was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution for innovation in 1999 and again in 2000. She held operations and marketing management posts at Altera Corporation, Consilium (acquired by Applied Materials) and Zinka over the course of her career. She has been profiled in several books and articles for entrepreneurship, most recently in Business Lessons from the Edge by Jim McCormick and Grade A Entrepreneurs by Marylene Delbourg Delphis. She graduated from the University of California.
Alain Rossmann
Founder and Chairman
Alain Rossmann is a prodigious entrepreneur and technologist with a remarkable track record of corporate and innovation successes. Most recently, Alain founded Openwave in 1995 (NASDAQ: OPWV) and was its CEO and Chairman until 2000 and Chairman until 2001. He is widely credited with being the father of wireless access protocol (WAP), a technology that enables cell phones to access the Internet. Prior to Openwave, Alain was the CEO of EO Inc. from 1991 to 1994, when he sold the company to AT&T. Prior to EO, Alain was a founder and vice president of operations of C-Cube Microsystems from 1989 to 1991. He was also co-founder and vice president of marketing and sales at Radius. Prior to Radius, Alain held a variety of marketing positions at Apple Computer. Alain holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MS in civil engineering from Ecole des Ponts et Chaussée, and an MS in math and physics from Ecole Polytechnique in France.
