Company Board

Brendon Mills is a serial entrepreneur in the communications technology market. Prior to founding RipCode in 2005, Mills served as founder, CEO and president of GENBAND (General Bandwidth, Inc.). From its inception in 1999, Mills led the company's pioneering efforts in the packet voice equipment industry. During his five years at General Bandwidth, Mills guided the company through one of the telecommunication industry's most tumultuous times, successfully raising $180 million in private capital, developing an award winning VoIP gateway, and securing eight patents and several marquis customers in the burgeoning broadband voice industry.

Mills has also held positions at Cisco Systems and was the director of product marketing for NetSpeed, Inc, a developer of DSL broadband technology acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998. Prior to NetSpeed, Mills also held positions at Dell Computers and Dallas-based NetWorth, Inc., an Ethernet equipment manufacturer acquired by Compaq Computers.

Mills holds a BA degree from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

Jeff was one of the founders of Vesbridge in 2004 and has been a venture capitalist since the mid-90s. During that time, Jeff has served on 25 boards and has been fortunate enough to be involved with several very successful entrepreneurs, a great number of whom have taken their companies public or been acquired.

In addition to being a VC, Jeff has served as the CEO of Sistina Software, now a Redhat subsidiary, was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and taught statistics at Harvard College. Jeff is a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School.

Jeff Williams is a Managing Director of Hunt Ventures and has over ten years experience investing in early and late stage companies. Prior to Hunt Ventures, Jeff was a General Partner with Chisholm Private Capital where he was responsible for making early stage technology investments in software and semiconductors companies.

Jeff's most notable investments include Sychip (sold to Murata), Softricity (sold to Microsoft), Ontela, RipCode and MetaCarta. Jeff focuses on making investments in software, internet content, and wireless communications.

Jeff received his B.S. in Finance and Economics from the University of Texas at Dallas. Jeff is also a board member of the Texas Venture Capital Association, the North Texas Enterprise Center, and Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business Investment Board.

Scott Irwin joined El Dorado Ventures in 2000. He focuses on software and infrastructure investments. At El Dorado, he has worked closely with prior EDV investments including MediaQ (acquired by nVidia) and Torrex (acquired by Applied Materials).

Prior to El Dorado, Irwin held software engineering and product management positions with Accenture. He received his BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he was a Venture Fellow and Welsh Scholar. He currently serves on the boards of BridgeLux, ClickShift, GetActive, Skytide, Tower Cloud and TriActive.

Mark Floyd was the CEO of Entrisphere, a broadband network equipment supplier based in Santa Clara, California, until Ericsson acquired the company in February 2007. He also serves on the boards of Tekelec (NASDAQ: TKLC) and Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD).

Prior to Entrisphere, Floyd held senior leadership positions at Siemens Information and Communication Networks-U.S., a leading, worldwide provider of integrated voice and data networks and solutions for enterprises, carriers, and service providers. In 1993 he was a founder of Efficient Networks, which Siemens acquired in April, 2001 for $1.5 billion.

Prior to that, Floyd served as Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Networth Inc., a provider of Ethernet hubs, switches, network interface cards, and other LAN products. Floyd also served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of the Interphase Corporation, producers of high-capacity storage and high-speed LAN and remote access applications.

Floyd holds a B.B.A. in finance from the University of Texas at Austin and was Recipient of the 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Southwest region.