David is the Founder and Managing Principal of Braunschvig LLC. He had been a Senior Managing Director in the Technology, Media, & Telecom Group at Bear Stearns where he played a senior role in the firm's global investment banking effort, particularly in Europe, with an emphasis on TMT. Before working for Bearn Stearns David co-headed Lazard Freres' Internet advisory activities. Prior to that, David was a director at Coopers & Lybrand's strategy consulting practice, where he was an advisor on telecommunications assignments and technology policy. David was also affiliated with Arthur D. Little, Inc., the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

David is a co-author of The Future of the Electronic Marketplace (MIT Press, 1998). He served as staff representative on the advisory council of Vice President Gore's National Information Infrastructure (1996), was committee chairman of the Information Industry Association (1990), and served on the commission of the French government that deployed the Minitel videotext infrastructure (1978).

Education: MA in Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Paris.

Alon served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at JVP in order to build the business plan and launch Siano. Prior to Siano, he was the CEO of Emblaze Semiconductor Ltd., a leader in multimedia chips for mobile platforms, which was sold to Zoran Corporation (NASDAQ: ZRAN) in 2004. His previous management experience includes General Manager of Zoran Israel and VP Engineering of Zoran Corporation, in charge of the overall engineering activity of Zoran world wide. Alon has 15 years of experience in fabless IC management, product roadmap definition and strategy, SoC architecture and design, building and maintaining commercial relationships with European and Asian customers. He is experienced in leading the entire activity of a fabless IC company, including building its vision, mission, strategy and daily tactics and revenue generation. Alon has a proven record in building partnerships with market leaders.

Education: BSEE (Cum Laude), The Technion, Haifa; MSEE, Santa Clara University.

Ygal is a private investor with over 20 years of international private equity investing experience in a variety of industries. Ygal's relationship with JVP goes back to 1992, when Erel Margalit co-founded Jerusalem Pacific Ventures along with Oxton International, a company Ygal established with three other partners. Currently, Ygal is Managing Member of YTD, LLC, a US based international private equity investor, Managing Director of Emerging Ventures Limited, a European based international private equity investor, Chairman of the Board of Multimedia Polska, SA, a leading Polish cable TV operator, and director of Comfort Time Sp Zoo, a luxury real estate developer in Europe.

Ygal has over twenty years of experience in making and managing investments in various industries, and geographies. He has been an investor and director of emerging and established companies in a variety of technology and non-technology related fields. He is the founder, shareholder, and managing director of Emerging Ventures Limited, and a founder, shareholder, and managing member of YTD, LLC. Prior to that, Ygal was a principal of Berkley International Capital Corporation, where he managed equity and debt investments in 18 portfolio companies and generated and executed the firm's corporate finance business. This included setting up cross-border joint ventures on behalf of portfolio companies. In the past, he was actively involved as a director and shareholder of Polimex Cekop SA, and also served as a management consultant at Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett and at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Education: BS degree, University of Illinois; MBA, University of Chicago.

Prior to founding Cogent Communications in 1999, Dave was the sole founder of Pathnet Inc, which raised $36 million in private equity and completed a $350 million high-yield transaction led by Merrill Lynch. Under Dave's direction, Pathnet successfully negotiated a $165 million vendor facility from NEC as well as a $2 billion supply agreement and supply facility from Lucent Technologies.

Dave has founded and operated a total of seven successful businesses, including the second-largest delivery and ground transportation enterprise in the United States with annual revenues of approximately $25 million and a property and casualty underwriter with $17 million in assets and $12 million in annual revenues. He has also developed 44 commercial real estate properties in the Washington D.C. metro area, retaining controlling interest in 23 of these projects.

Education: BS in Physics, University of Maryland; PhD candidate in Economics, University of Maryland.