Inveneo

Board of Directors

Kristin Peterson

Chair and Chief Development Officer, Inveneo

18+ years of communications industry business development, new market development and marketing experience. Most recently, she was VP Marketing for Tello, an enterprise IP services technology start-up that provided instant IP services to enterprises. Prior to Tello, Kristin founded Velocity Consulting, an organization that provided go-to-market guidance to a variety of networking, wireless, and VoIP tech start-ups. Before Velocity, she was Executive Director, Business Development at GoRemote through IPO. She also held various roles in international product management and market development for AT&T. She has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from NMSU and a M.B.A in International Marketing from Pepperdine University. Kristin was recently named a CNN Principal Voice in Innovation and Technology for 2007.

Kristin grew up in the New Mexico sunshine and couldn't wait to see the rest of the world. She is still on the move, but now she is helping to bring the world to the people in the places that she travels to through technology.


L. Wilton Agatstein

Board Member

L. Wilton Agatstein, Jr (Willy) was most recently Vice President at Intel and the head of Intel's Emerging Markets Group. He believes in the power of technology to make the world a better place and is passionate about making that a reality. Agatstein had been with Intel for over 27 years and has had a broad spectrum of accomplishments. This includes silicon process development, ASIC design, the start up of Intel's chip design centre in Penang Malaysia, the creation of Intel OverDrive(r) Processors and the ramp of retail/reseller boxed processors/motherboards to over 120 countries world wide. Agatstein is the visionary of Intel's strategy for emerging market specific platforms and is the father of the Intel Powered classmate PC (CMPC).

Outside of Intel, he has coached girls/woman's soccer for 14 winning seasons, is an avid bicycle rider/snow boarder and is always looking for an adventure.

Agatstein retired from Intel in Jan of 2008 to work with NGOs, social enterprises and educational institutions on how technology can transform what was not formerly possible to be possible in a sustainable manner. Currently, Agatstein is a visiting Assistant Professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and Executive Director at UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship


Jim Forster

Board Member

Jim Forster has spent the last 30 years specializing in communication and networks and recently, International Development. After working for two Silicon Valley startups, he joined Cisco Systems in 1988, when it was quite small. There he wrote IOS software, was a software manager, and did system architecture and business development activities. He authored RFC-1613, "X.25 Over TCP", was awarded several patents, and was a Cisco Systems Distinguished Engineer.

While at Cisco he started working on projects and policies to improve Internet access in developing countries, speaking at conferences in Africa including the East Africa Ministerial Broadband Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda; and the TEDGlobal event in Arusha, Tanzania. He continues this work as President of a small NGO, NetworktheWorld.org, is is Board member of MedCommons, Esoko, and Inveneo. He is an author of the book, "Wireless Networking in the Developing World” which can be found at www.wndw.net.


Dominic Orr

Board Member

Dominic Orr, currently CEO and Chairman of the Board of Aruba Wireless. is the founder of several highly successful networking companies in the Bay area including Alteon WebSystems and Netgear. He has more than 20 years of experience in the computer networking industry and has also held leading roles in several major networking companies including Bay Networks, Hewlett-Packard and most recently that of President, Content Networking Business Unit at Nortel Networks.

Additionally, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Information Science and Technology Program of the California Institute of Technology, the Advisory Board of the School of Sciences and Engineering and the Technical Advisory Board of Daimler Chrysler.



Bob Marsh

Treasurer and VP of Engineering, Inveneo
Co-Founder and VP Engineering 30+ years in Consumer and wireless computing technology - starting with one of the first home computers, now in the Smithsonian. He was a founder of early personal computer startup, Processor Technology Corp, founder and VP Engineering at document management firm, Document Technologies (IPO#1), and Director of Hardware Development at GSM equipment maker Interwave Communications (IPO#2).

Currently he is also a Board of Directors member of two other Bay Area non-profits.


Mark Summer

Board Member and Chief Innovation Officer, Inveneo

Over 15 years specializing in VoIP/IP Networking Architectures and Operations Management. Most recently Mark was CTO of IPDeliver. Previous to IPDeliver, he founded ImmediateIT, a company that provided consulting for VoIP network design and service roll-out. Prior to ImmediateIT, Mark played key technology strategy and support team development roles in Mirapoint, NetCentrex, GoRemote. He started his career in Internet Services by launching Computer Management GmbH in Germany, an IT training, consulting and enterprise ISP in 1991.

Mark grew up around the world living the US, South Africa and Germany before he was 8 and has never stopped traveling. He has lived in Thailand, and Malaysia and recently traveled through Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia on motorcycle. Now he is based in one place for awhile - San Francisco.