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Dave Schwab is a Managing Director of Sierra Ventures. Sierra Ventures is a $1 billion venture capital organization headquartered at 2884 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California (www.sierraventures.com). The firm invests in early stage and emerging growth technology companies with a special focus in three areas: networking and telecommunications, mission critical enterprise software, and Internet infrastructure. Since its founding in 1982 Sierra Ventures has successfully invested in numerous early stage technology companies including ConvergeNet (Purchased by Dell), Intuit (INTU-NASD), MicroMuse (MUSE-NASD), OnLink (Purchased by Siebel), Quinta (Purchased by Seagate) and StrataCom (purchased by Cisco). At Sierra Ventures, Schwab’s investment practice focuses primarily on Software Applications, Enterprise Software, Application Service Providers and Infrastructure. Prior to joining the venture capital community, Mr. Schwab’s professional career began at Lockheed Corporation where he was a software engineer and engineering manager for five years. He subsequently attended Harvard Business School and then returned to Silicon Valley to work in sales and sales management at Sun Microsystems. While at Sun, Schwab was repeatedly one of the highest producing sales executives in the company and was subsequently promoted to a variety of Sun sales management positions. Schwab co-founded Scopus Technology (NASD-SCOP) with a fellow Sun sales manager and two other executives. During his five years at Scopus, Schwab served as Vice President of Sales, and also served as Vice President of Application Development. Scopus was taken public by Morgan Stanley & Co. and was subsequently acquired by Siebel Systems in a $480 million transaction. At Sierra Ventures, Schwab was the founding investor in MicroMuse Corp. (NASD-MUSE), a highly successful network management enterprise software company. He was also the lead investor in OnLink, a successful e-commerce enterprise software company which was sold to Siebel Systems in July, 2000. He is on the Board of Accruent, Inc., Corrigo, DBS, Infotone Communications, Knova (fna Kanisa, Inc.), Opalis Software, Vykor, Inc., Zebra Imaging, Inc., and Zoom Systems. In addition to an MBA from Harvard Business School, Schwab holds two graduate engineering degrees from Stanford University and an undergraduate engineering degree from UC San Diego. | 