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Darren Williams is the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of Sensory Networks. As such, he is the principal architect and primary driver of Sensory Networks' technology. Dr. Williams has an extensive background in security, protocols, networking and software.
Prior to co-founding Sensory Networks, Darren lectured in Computer Science at the University of Sydney in a variety of areas to post-graduates and under-graduates. He had previously co-founded network security consultancy Infilsec and developed software & intellectual property for Dilithium Networks, a next-generation telephony start-up. His expertise within the security area is broad and covers protocol, software, embedded and kernel level security. Dr. Williams has authored numerous articles and papers on security vulnerabilities and networking, and has spoken at a number of international conferences.
Dr. Williams holds a first class honors degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Active Networking from the University of Sydney.
Matthew Koertge is a General Partner of Accede. Prior to founding Accede, Matthew led a number of successful investments whilst he was the head of the Australian technology venture capital team at Deutsche Bank and at Macquarie Bank where he was a founding team member of the technology venture capital team. Matthew has worked with over 30 venture backed companies encompassing all stages of the company life cycle including a number of successful IPOs and acquisitions. Prior to joining the venture industry, Matthew held several engineering and operational positions at various companies including Fujitsu.
Matthew has served on the Boards of numerous portfolio companies including Dilithium Networks, ManageSoft and G2 Microsystems, Engana (acquired by NASDAQ:OPTM) and Sensory Networks. Investments which Matthew has worked on prior roles include SEEK (ASX: SEK), LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK), Telera (acquired by NYSE: ALA ), Altium (ASX: ALU), Greengrocer.com.au (acquired by ASX: WOW), Presence Online (acquired by NYSE: IBM), OneBox.com (acquired by NASDAQ: OPWV), RedSheriff (acquired by NASDAQ: NTRT).
Matthew holds a BE (Electrical) from the University of NSW where he was a CO-OP Scholar, a MBA from the AGSM where he completed the fourth and final semester at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Matthew holds the FAICD qualification and has also completed the HPLP at the Harvard Business School.
Allan is one of the two founding partners of Technology Venture Partners, which is a specialist investor in the IT&T sector with over $200m in funds under management. Allan was a founding executive with the Australian Technology Group and has been involved in early stage venture capital for the past 12 years, three of which were spent in Silicon Valley. Prior to this, he spent 8 years in Management Consulting with McKinsey & Company and as a Director of the Ernst & Young’s Management and Technology Consulting practice. Allan has also spent several years in professional and system engineering roles as well as marketing with IBM Australia. Allan is a member of Ausindustry’s ITC committee overseeing Commercial Ready Grants and was a past member of the Concessional Loans Committee. He is a member of the Australian Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) council. He holds an Honours degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Business Administration and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Mark Richards is a General Partner at Accede. Prior to Accede, Mark was a General Partner at Technology Venture Partners. Mark is a serial entrepreneur with over 18 years experience in venture-backed software and communications start-ups. He was founder and CEO of London, England based DBMX, a developer of distributed database management software, acquired by IBM in 1997. In 1998 Mark was co-founder and angel investor in Austin , Texas based PointOne Telecommunications. PointOne subsequently raised the largest ever venture round in Texas of over US$155 million to deploy the industry's 1st carrier-grade, nationwide VoIP network. In 2001, Mark co-founded and was CEO of Austin, Texas based Metreos Communications, a venture-backed start-up developing leading edge, standards-based, application and media servers that enable Fortune 500 enterprises to deploy truly converged communications services. Metreos was acquired by Cisco Systems for US$28 million in July 2006.
Mark's previous investments have focused on the networking and communications industries. He has served on a number of Boards including Engana (acquired by NASDAQ:OPTM) , ThreatMetrix, Sensory Networks, Xelor Software, and Thinkwell Corp. Mark holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Kingston University England.
Roger Barry has been a venture capitalist since 1983. In 1994, he founded IVF. Mr. Barry was a general partner of Crosspoint Venture Partners from 1983 to 1993. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Mr. Barry was a general partner at KPMG Peat Marwick, and held financial positions with Castle and Cooke, Bankers Trust, and First Boston. Mr. Barry has a MBA degree and was a CPA.
Mr. Barry's investments include Salesforce.com, Netlogic, and NBCi/Xoom.
Mr. Barry currently is a member of the Board of Directors of iSpheres, and SAE Power.
Art Collmeyer is a true industry visionary and veteran in the fields of semiconductor and high-tech research.
With over 35 years of industrial and entrepeneurial experience, Art brings world-class credentials to Sensory Networks. Since 2000, Art has been actively involved in the founding and development of several technology companies, including iWatt, Iridigm (since acquired by Qualcomm), and ZeroG Wireless. In 1996, Art founded Hi/fn to fill the market need for compression, encryption, authentication, and application recognition technologies. As CEO, Art grew the organization from a team of four to a fully operational public company in two years.
The first company that Art helped create was Weitek, famous as the first company to implement the fabless semiconductor business model. He served as the company's CEO from its founding in 1981 through its public offering in 1988, becoming Chairman in 1992. At CALMA, Art was instrumental in quickly growing the company's annual sales by over $100M, and eventually saw the company sold to General Electric.
Art has served as the CEO and on boards of directors for several other high tech companies, helping them grow significantly and eventually go public. Art has BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering.