Nick Triantos, CEO

Nick Triantos is Chief Executive Officer at TokBox, and has been with TokBox since November 2007. Prior to joining TokBox, Nick was a Partner at Quantum Technology Partners, a technology-focused venture capital firm. Before that, Nick has spent 8 years in software engineering and engineering management roles at NVIDIA, where he helped grow the company from fewer than 50 people to more than 3,500. Nick also previously worked as a software engineer at Navio Communications, The 3DO Company, and Apple Computer. He has been actively involved in startups since the mid-90s as an engineer, and as an investor since 2004.

Nick holds MBA degrees from Columbia University and the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and a BS in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Ron Hose, Founder and CTO

Ron Hose is Founder and Chief Technical Officer at TokBox. Prior to TokBox, Ron spent two years consulting with various startups in the New York City area, and founded another software company. Ron founded TokBox around the principle that video communications should be as easy as possible, and available wherever people want to communicate.

Ron holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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Brian Phillips, VP of Product Management

Brian is Vice President of Product Management at TokBox. Prior to joining TokBox, Brian served as Senior Director of Consumer Product Management at PayPal, the global leader in online payments. Brian spent over five years at PayPal, including leading PayPal’s International eBay business unit and co-leading the integration of PayPal on eBay. Prior to joining PayPal, Brian was founder and Head of Product for Groovi, a pioneer of web-based authentication services.

Brian received a BS from the University of Colorado, a JD from the Santa Clara University School of Law and a MBA from the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business.

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Tim Wenzel, VP of Human Resources

Tim Wenzel is VP Human Resources at TokBox, and has been with TokBox since November 2007. Prior to joining TokBox, Tim was VP of HR for Tesla Motors. Before that, Tim spent 7 years at PayPal, where he helped grow the company from 50 people to more than 5,000. Tim was the first recruiter at PayPal; he built a very strong Staffing team and also served as the HR business partner for all of the non-technical groups.

Tim holds an MBA and a BS in Finance from San Jose State University.

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Sequoia Capital provides venture capital funding to founders of startups who want to turn business ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs", Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Jen-Hsun Huang of nVIDIA, Michael Marks of Flextronics, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube and Dominic Orr and Keerti Melkote of Aruba Wireless Networks. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit www.sequoiacap.com.

Youniversity Ventures is an early-stage investment firm formed by Jawed Karim (one of the founders of YouTube), Kevin Hartz (an early investor in PayPal, Friendster, Trulia, and several other successful firms and a multi-time entrepreneur), and Keith Rabois (former EVP at PayPal and early investor in YouTube and LinkedIn).

Lauren is a free-spirit looking for an apartment in San Francisco. She's a California girl raised in the North and educated in the South. Lauren keeps everybody on track and everything in order at TokBox. She enjoys baking cookies, indulging in reality TV, cheering on her USC Trojans, and traveling.

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Bartosz Solowiej's software saves baby dolphins trapped in tuna fishing nets, re-grows once-logged tropical forests, and provisions time travel. Bart hacks systematic solutions to problems in user interface engineering, design, and simply life in general. When not engineering, he's surfing, motorcycling, running in place, or cooking. You should try his marinated steak.

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Jason “Compnski” Freidman. Jason loves to compute and Jason loves to ski. When he's not skiing, he's computing. When he's not computing, he's skiing. While computing, he cranks out mad PHP scripts. He hails from New York.

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Dr. Kundan Singh brings several unique expertise such as VoIP, peer-to-peer and Flex to our team. He loves watching movies, playing volleyball, painting landscapes and writing software. An artist at heart, he is convinced that writing software is also an art. In his spare time he stares at the computer monitor, and thinks about ways to program at the speed of light!

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Adam (the second) is a nomad: born in Melbourne and raised in Singapore, Seoul, and Tokyo. He has a Software Engineering background and has recently discovered his love for ActionScript 3. In his spare time he and his wife like to introduce their 1 year old son to authentic cuisine from around the world. We're hoping he'll stick around for a while before he exhausts the large supply of restaurants in the SF Bay Area.

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Cindy is a Bay Area native but went to the east coast to get a degree in Computer & Systems Engineering and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is well versed in Java, C#, and JavaScript, and currently spends her days writing cool features in ActionScript. She enjoys cooking, eating good food, photography, snowboarding, and playing with her dog, Coco.

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Formerly employed by the Borg from Redmond and the Incredible Shrinking Yahoo!, Chris has come to wield his design chops on the freshest video tool on the planet. When he's not designing, he can be found playing his guitar, surfing, riding his bike, or playing with his beautiful wife and daughters at the beach.

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Sunil comes to Tokbox with one mission: To make video communication so easy and simple that even a caveman can experience it! He is using his expertise in real time communication protocols, large scale networks and software programming to make it happen. Previously he was at Microsoft corp developing the instant messaging and conferencing software now known as Office Communicator and then he worked at Juniper Networks building large scale routing software for the world's biggest service provider networks. Sunil enjoys skiing, traveling, attending international film festivals around the bay area and reading articles related to technology and business.

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