Cameron leads the technology direction at ParaScale, bringing over 17 years of systems software development and deep expertise in distributed operating systems and file management. Earlier, Cameron led design, deployment, and operation of Scale8's one-thousand server distributed Internet storage service that provided storage for digital content owners including MSN and Viacom/MTV. At the HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab, he developed system software for disk volume management, data security, and grid provisioning. At Teradata, Cameron developed extensions to UNIX to allow the massive parallel processing required by the Teradata database, the world's largest and fastest distributed RDBMS. Cameron started his career at Locus Computing, a pioneer in distributed operating systems, single-system image clustering, and distributed file systems. Cameron holds a BS, summa cum laude, and an MS with honors, in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine. Cameron holds 4 patents in scalable distributed storage systems, virtual file systems, and high availability systems.

John joined Menlo Ventures in 1985. Over the past 22 years, he has led Menlo's investments in more than 40 portfolio companies, primarily in the communications, storage, semiconductor, Internet and financial technology sectors. His recent investments and board seats include: Cavium Networks (CAVM), Centrality Communications, DiVitas Networks, Evergrid, Matisse Networks, MobiTV, ParaScale, PowerReviews and Zimbio. John was a lead venture investor in the following public companies that achieved successful initial public offerings: Ascend Communications (ASND, now part of Lucent), Cavium Networks (CAVM), Digital Insight (DGIN), FaxSav (EASY), iBasis (IBAS), SpectraLink (SLNK), Syntellect (SXNT, now part of Enghouse Systems) and UUNET Technologies (UUNT, now part of Verizon). John is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering) and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.). He is a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Management Board, a trustee of the Crystal Springs Uplands School, and a trustee of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sajai Krishnan drives overall strategy and business execution for ParaScale. Before ParaScale, he was general manager of the StoreVault Division of NetApp, responsible for creating and developing the division's multi-national efforts within the mid-market segment. StoreVault won more industry awards than any other product in NetApp history, and VARBusiness magazine awarded its channel program five stars, placing it in the top bracket in 2008. Prior to his appointment, Krishnan served as the general manager of NetApp’s Storage Management Software business, overseeing the company's core management software offerings. Before joining NetApp, Krishnan served as vice president at management consultants Booz Allen & Hamilton, and as a partner in the company's Communications, Media & Technology (CMT) practice. While there he served as a business consultant to clients in the wireless, software, telecommunications, cable, networking, and systems arenas. Before that, Krishnan was a software engineer at Sun Microsystems. Krishnan has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in addition to a master’s degree in computer science from Rice University. His B.S. is in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.

Varun Nagaraj: CEO, Aprius

Varun brings hands-on operating and strategic planning experience to the ParaScale Board. Varun is the CEO of Aprius - a development stage company building server interconnects for data centers.  During his 20 year career in technology, Varun has served as CEO of NetContinuum (acquired by Barracuda Networks), as EVP of Marketing and Customer Operations for Ellacoya Networks (acquired by Arbor Networks), and as VP of Product Management and Marketing at Extreme Networks (EXTR).  Varun was previously a Partner at PRTM - a leading management consulting company focused on product and operational strategy.  Clients included the world's leading server, storage, and communications companies.  Varun holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, and an MBA from Boston University.

Rasoul Oskouy: Co-founder

Rasoul is a Silicon Valley veteran, with over two decades of technology innovation and corporate leadership. Early on at ParaScale, Rasoul participated in engineering management, led the finance, and was the lead investor in the seed-round with syndicates that included seed investors in Google and PayPal . Rasoul invests in select startups with disruptive technologies backed by strong intellectual property and takes on as advisor to some of his investment companies. Oskouy’s investment has been in Information Technology, Alternative Energy, Genetic research and instrumentations, healthcare products, and Real estate. Rasoul was a founding member of Juniper Networks where he contributed to the development of the first and second generation Juniper platform architecture, and network routing innovations. Prior to Juniper, Rasoul held senior engineering and management roles at Sun Microsystems, Computervision, Wang Laboratory, and Advanced Micro Devices. Rasoul earned a BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Rasoul holds over 20 patents in networking, routing, and related technologies.

Bruce Sachs joined Charles River in the fall of 1999 as a general partner, after twenty years of experience in the telecommunications, networking, Internet and computing industries. Sachs started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and then as a director of engineering at Memotec/Infinet. He joined publicly held Xylogics as director of engineering in 1989 and ultimately became chief executive officer. Sachs led the company through a dramatic reformulation of strategy and repositioning, and in 1995 sold Xylogics to Bay Networks. Sachs went on to serve as an executive vice president of Bay Networks (now a unit of Nortel Networks), completing four acquisitions in his first year and enhancing the company’s position in key emerging telecommunications markets. After leaving Bay Networks in 1997, Sachs joined publicly held Stratus Computer as president and CEO. At Stratus, Sachs led the repositioning of the company, to focus on telecom software and services in addition to its traditional computing foundation. The Stratus Computer turnaround led to its acquisition by Ascend Communications in October 1998. Sachs was then tapped as executive vice president and general manager of Ascend’s Carrier Signaling and Management Group, and stayed on briefly as a consultant at Lucent Technologies upon its acquisition of Ascend.

Sachs holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University (1980), a Masters degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University (1981), and an MBA degree from Northeastern University (1988). He currently serves on the boards of Carrier IQ, Cedar Point Communications, Copivia, iControl, M2Z Networks, Nantero, ParaScale, Samplify Systems, and publicly held Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In addition, he is a current investor in Great Call and Vanu. Previously, Sachs managed CRV’s investments in Acopia Networks (sold to F5 in 2007), BigBand Networks (NASDAQ: BBND), Flarion Technologies (sold to Qualcomm in 2006), RiverDelta Networks (sold to Motorola in 2001) and Hammerhead Networks (sold to Cisco Systems in 2002).