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Board of Directors

Prem Uppaluru

President & Chief Executive Officer

Prem brings to Transera his 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and networking industry and his keen entrepreneurial instincts. Prior to joining Transera, Prem was Executive Vice President, Voice Portal Solutions at Genesys, where he was responsible for strategic direction and development of the company's Voice Platform and Managed Service solutions. As a result of his efforts, the Genesys Voice Portal products were awarded the top ranking in worldwide market leadership from the Gartner Group for completeness of business vision and ability to deliver compelling value to the marketplace. Prem joined Genesys in mid-2002 when the company he co-founded, Telera, was acquired by Genesys and its parent company, Alcatel. While at Telera, Prem served as Chief Executive Officer, and was the driving force behind the company's success in the emerging VoiceXML platform and solutions market. Prior to co-founding Telera, Prem co-founded VOIS Corporation where he served as Chief Executive Officer. Before launching into his entrepreneurial efforts, Prem held Vice President and General Manager positions at Novell. He also served as Vice President of Engineering at Fluent and Samsung Software America. Prem also held engineering management positions with Bell Labs and Bellcore during his tenure in telecommunications, network management, multimedia and telephony. Prem holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his masters and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay.

Jim Swartz

General Partner, Accel

Jim Swartz has been active in venture capital since the early 1970's. Experienced in the operating needs of young companies, he enjoys working with start-up teams defining new industries. He served as a Director for over forty successful companies and has been closely involved as lead investor with industry pioneering firms including Avici Systems, BroadBand Technologies, FastForward/Inktomi, FVC.com, Illustra/Informix, Medical Care America, Netopia, PictureTel, Polycom, Remedy Corporation, and Ungermann-Bass. Other current private company directorships include Gen3 Partners, InGenuity Systems, MetraTech, and Riverbed Technology. In addition, Jim is working closely with the Accel Europe team as a founder/mentor of Accel's European business. Before founding Accel Partners, Jim was founding General Partner of Adler & Company, which he started with Fred Adler in 1978 after his tenure as a Vice President of Citicorp Venture Capital. Earlier in his career Jim worked as a management consultant, entering the venture capital industry in 1972. Active in industry affairs, Jim is a former Director and Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and a former President of the New York Venture Capital Forum. He is a graduate of Harvard University with a concentration in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, and holds an M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ronald Weissman

Partner, Apax Partners

Ronald Weissman has more than twenty-five years of technology management experience and has worked with more than forty venture backed companies and has served on twenty technology company boards. Currently, he manages investments in Apax’s venture portfolio and was a partner in Apax’s tech and telecom group until recently, when the global private equity firm exited the venture capital market. He is currently on the boards of Apax portfolio companies Centerbeam (infrastructure management via SaaS), Composite Software (data integration) and Silicon Optix (Emmy-award winning video processing) and is board observer for Nanomix (carbon nanotube medical sensors) and Peregrine Semiconductor (sapphire on silicon technology for high density applications). As an investor and advisor, his primary focus is on software, particularly analytic applications and infrastructure.
 
In addition to current Apax directorships, he has served as an advisor, observer or director for many Apax portfolio companies, including BlueArc, Bristol Technologies (sold to HP), Confluent Software (sold to Oblix/Oracle), Global Factory, HAL Knowledge Systems, Icarian (sold to Workstream), INEA (sold to Cartesis / Business Objects / SAP), Lexiquest (sold to SPSS), Mesh Networks (sold to Motorola), Milcom Technologies, Pictage, Planview, Plexus Online, Preventsys, Promethean, Solid Information Technologies (sold to IBM), Sonim Technologies, Sysis, Tideway and Visalign (sold to CDC). He has also served as acting VP of Marketing for several Apax companies including Composite and BlueArc.

Sanjay Subhedar

Managing Partner, Storm Ventures

In addition to Transera, Sanjay also sits on the boards of IML, RiseSmart, mSilica and Maul Soup. Prior to founding Storm Ventures in September 2000, Sanjay was at E-TEK Dynamics, Inc. (fiber optic component manufacturer) since December 1997, serving most recently as its Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer. Sanjay played a key role in E-TEK's 1998 IPO, its merger with JDS Uniphase in 2000, and its growth from 400 to over 5000 employees in less than three years. Previously, Sanjay served as Chief Financial Officer for StrataCom, Inc. from its inception in 1986 until its merger with Cisco Systems in 1996. Following StrataCom's merger with Cisco Systems, he served as Vice President of Cisco's WAN business unit until October 1997.

Sanjay also serves on the Board of Trustees of Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Board of Directors of the Indiana University Foundation and the Governing board of the Indian School of Business. He earned a B.S. from the University of Bombay, India and an MBA from Indiana University.