JAY CHAUDHRY
Founder & Chairman, Air2Web
Jay Chaudhry is a seasoned entrepreneur and experienced technology executive with a track record of success. Chaudhry's background includes nearly 25 years of sales, marketing and engineering experience from leading companies such as IBM, NCR and Unisys and the successful launch of several technology companies.

Most recently, Chaudhry founded CipherTrust in March 2000, creating the industry’s first email gateway security appliance. Under his leadership, CipherTrust grew from a pioneering start-up to the market leader in messaging security, and was named by IDC as the largest vendor in secure content management appliances and in messaging security appliances. Keeping the tradition of innovation, Chaudhry and his team expanded CipherTrust offerings to address inbound and outbound messaging threats across multiple communication channels, including email, instant messaging and Web-based communication - leading to the successful merger with Secure Computing in September 2006 to create the leader in enterprise gateway security.

Chaudhry has proven himself to be an innovator and trendsetter by spearheading numerous initiatives to improve the overall posture of the security industry. In 1997 Chaudhry founded SecureIT, the first pure-play Internet security services company that experienced exponential revenue growth. As a self-funded company, SecureIT was acquired by VeriSign in July 1998, where Chaudhry served as vice president and general manager of the Security Services Division. The experience at SecureIT and VeriSign during early stages of the security market provided Chaudhry a strong foundation to start a number of companies in new emerging markets.

Over the years, Chaudhry has been a founder, primary investor and/or chairman and CEO of several successful start-up technology companies. In 2002, he launched AirDefense, which pioneered the wireless LAN intrusion detection and prevention market and today serves more than 500 blue chip clients. In 2000, he launched CoreHarbor, the first ASP for e-procurement solutions, which was acquired by USi, the leading managed/hosted application provider. USi was acquired by AT& in October 2006. In 1999, he launched Air2Web, a developer of mobile Internet platform mobile marketing applications for enterprises and connects more than 500 carriers in 200 countries.

In 1995 Chaudhry joined IQ Software, a public company that specialized in database reporting tools as senior vice president of worldwide marketing. Previously, he was vice president of sales and marketing for Software Products Division at Unisys. Prior to that, he held various sales and marketing management positions at NCR and IBM. Chaudhry began his career in software development and systems integration.

Chaudhry is considered an industry thought leader in cyber-security and has been honored for his entrepreneurial leadership and management success by numerous organizations. He was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year in the Southeast and as a finalist for the US national by Ernst & Young. He was named an Innovator & Influencer by Information Week magazine, and “Who’s Who” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year awards from Catalyst magazine, and is a winner of Atlanta’s “Top 50 Names to Know” many times. In addition to the personal honors achieved by Chaudhry, the companies he founded have been recognized for their innovation and leadership, including the following: Red Herring magazine named Air2Web, AirDefense and CipherTrust to the Red Herring 100; Red Herring magazine named CipherTrust as a Top 10 Private Security Company; and the Atlanta Business Chronicle named both AirDefense and CipherTrust to the Pacesetters list as two of the fastest growing private companies in the Southeast.

Chaudhry serves on the board of directors for the Technology Association of Georgia, AirDefense and Air2Web. He is founding president of TiE Atlanta and has been on the Board of Trustees of global TiE, a non-profit global organization dedicated to promote entrepreneurship. Additionally, Chaudhry and his wife Jyoti support charitable educational and healthcare initiatives in rural India.

He holds a Masters in Computer Engineering, Masters in Industrial Engineering, and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati. He has attended executive management programs at Harvard Business School, Wharton Business School and IBM Corp.
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J.S. COURNOYER
Executive-in-Residence, VantagePoint Venture Partners
Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer is currently an entrepreneur-in-residence with VantagePoint Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based diversified top-quartile venture capital fund where he focuses on investments in IT. Prior to VantagePoint, he was responsible for the venture capital investment activities of la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP) in IT, leading numerous investments in the areas of Internet, wireless, semiconductors and networking. At CDP, he was also responsible for investments in venture funds in Quebec and Silicon Valley, building relationships with most VC funds in Canada and in Silicon Valley. Prior to CDP, Mr. Cournoyer was an angel investor, CFO and Vice President, business development at Terrascale Technologies Inc., a storage software company that was sold to Rackable Systems (NASDAQ: RACK). Prior to Terrascale, Mr. Cournoyer was with Innovatech, an early-stage venture fund where he lead numerous investments in digital media, Internet, wireless, open-source, networking and software infrastructure. Mr. Cournoyer also co-founded two Internet companies in the Boston area and was a management consultant with Arthur D. Little, Inc., focusing on the telecommunications and energy industries. JS is an active entrepreneur and angel investor with investments and/or advisory relationships in a number of Canadian startups in digital media, Internet, social networking, video, IPTV, cleantech, and exploration/mining. JS is also a co-founder of MontrealStartup, a seed fund targeting high tech companies in Montreal.
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SANJOY MALIK
Founder, Air2Web
Sanjoy Malik has more than 18 years of experience in the software industry. Before founding Air2Web, he started Synchrologic, Inc., a leading developer of Internet-based mobile computing software. As founder and President, he was responsible for raising venture capital, hiring a successful management team and establishing partnerships with key industry leaders. Prior to founding Synchrologic, Malik spent seven years at Sales Technologies (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 1989) in a variety of Senior Product and Engineering positions. He held several engineering positions at Intergraph. Malik earned dual master's degrees in Computer Sciences and Engineering from the University of Florida, as well as a bachelor of science degree in Engineering from IIT Delhi.
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ALLAN THYGESEN
Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Allan C. Thygesen is a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group where he focuses primarily on U.S. venture and growth capital investment opportunities. He is based in the firm's San Francisco office.

Prior to joining Carlyle in February 2001, Thygesen served as the Executive Vice President, Sales and Business Development of Wink Communications, Inc., a provider of an end-to-end software platform for interactive television services. He joined Wink in July 1996, and developed and led Wink's relationships with Wink's largest cable and satellite operator customers, broadcast and cable networks, advertisers and advertising agencies, and consumer electronics manufacturers. At Wink, Thygesen also served as Interim Chief Financial Officer in preparation for the company's initial public offering (NASDAQ: WINK) in August 1999.

Earlier, Thygesen served in a variety of executive, sales, marketing, customer service and finance management roles at Gold Disk, Inc., a venture-backed publisher of personal and corporate productivity software; at Media Vision Technologies, Inc., a multimedia hardware manufacturer and publisher of CD-ROM entertainment software; at Pellucid, a venture-backed start-up developing 3D graphics hardware acquired by Media Vision in May of 1993; at Everex Systems, a manufacturer of personal computers and peripheral products; and at Radiometer A/S, a manufacturer of medical measuring equipment.

Thygesen received an M.Sc. degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen and an M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller scholar. The Carlyle investments with which he has been actively involved include Air2Web, Archetype Solutions, Canesta, Indigo Systems (acquired by Nasdaq: FLIR), Rhythm NewMedia, SMaL Camera (acquired by NYSE: CY), TradeBeam and Viator.
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