Our Board of Directors

Jos Burger
Chairman

Jos Burger was named Chairman of Castify Networks in early spring 2001, bringing with him valuable experience in directing telecommunication and cable companies. Jos also serves as a venture partner at Alta Berkeley, a technology venture capital company. He represents Alta Berkeley as a member of Castify's Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Alta Berkeley, Jos was the CEO of Palet Kabelcom, a company that merged with CasTel to become Essent Kabelcom, one of the largest cable companies in The Netherlands. Jos's main assignment was to concentrate on leveraging existing cable infrastructure to provide high-speed Internet services to homes and businesses; resulting in a successful joint venture between Essent Kabelcom, @Home US and Intel which started offering broadband services as @Home Benelux in 1998.

Before Essent Kabelcom, Jos was CEO and co-founder of InTouch Telecom in Belgium from 1993 till 1997. Prior to InTouch Telecom he was, from 1989 till 1993, Managing Director of 3C Communications in Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands and member of the 3C Communications European management team in Luxembourg. Jos also serves on the board of directors and advisory boards of several companies.

Barun Dutta, CTO, Alta Berkeley
Director

Barun's professional career in computer, communications and software technology goes back nearly two decades. In his role as Alta Berkeley's CTO he still spends some of his days collaborating with leading scientists, writing research papers, and still gives plenary and academic talks at scientific conferences in his ongoing role as a Senior Scientist at IMEC, Brussels, the largest independent Infotech Research Center in Europe.

Prior to IMEC, for nine years Barun was involved in both operational, strategic and research activities at various entities of AT&T Bell Labs and also Bellcore on either side of the Atlantic in networking and telecoms sectors and with corporate start-up entities. .He was an advisor to several pioneering networking and Internet start-up efforts. Intertwined with his early research career was an education at MIT, Middlebury College and Rutgers University.

Marco Politi, Senior Analyst, Kiwi II Ventura Servicios de Consultoria
Director

Marco started his career in 1988 with Telettra S.p.A. as a Design Engineer in the R&D departments of the Radio Business Unit developing the RF and IF parts of a 38GHz Radio link system. In 1994 he joined Italtel S.p.A. as a Senior Engineer in the R&D departments of the Mobile Radio Business Unit developing and managing several projects on CDMA, GSM, Smart Antennas and UMTS Base Transceiver Stations systems. He has co-published 14 papers and has been awarded with 4 International Patents.

End 1998 he joined Kiwi II Ventura Servicios de Consultoria, advisor of Kiwi I and Kiwi II Venture Capital close-end funds specialized in telecom, Internet and new media companies, as senior analyst with the responsibility of Start-up and investment analysis of several Telecom and Internet projects e.g. among others e-via, regional CLEC's, Blixer, Broadway, Castify, CableNet, and Palinet.

Christian Stoller, Manager, Invision Private Equity AG
Director

Christian Stoller joined Invision in 2000. Prior to that, he was a Consultant at Arthur Andersen AG, Switzerland. In the course of his advisory activity he was involved in projects in the areas of Shared Services, implementation of ERP systems and Supply Chain Management, among others in the chemical and telecommunication industry. Mr. Stoller holds the degree of Licentiate in Business Administration/Economics from the University of St.Gallen.

Christian holds an MBA from the University of St. Gallen where he wrote his thesis "The usage of information technology in retail controlling."

Kevin Fielding, Partner, Alta Berkeley
Director

Kevin's experience came from building and managing companies in the semiconductor industry and his interests extend to companies doing product development for mobile computing, wireless communications, and consumer entertainment applications.

Kevin's career accomplishments include President and CEO, ParthusCeva (Nasdaq: CEVA); President, Parthus Technologies plc (IPO 2000); founder and MD, the StrongARM microprocessor business (acquired by Intel 1998); DEC (original Alpha processor); Philips BV (high-speed processor design); and time at the National Microelectronics Research Centre in Cork.

His academic achievements include an MBA at Northeastern University, Boston, and Masters and BE degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ireland in Cork.

Jörg Nonnenmacher, CEO and Founder, Castify Networks
Director

Jörg is the chief architect behind Castify Networks' strategy for network providers and enterprises. In 2000, he assembled the team for Castify's corporate mission, writing the initial business plan and raising the initial seed funding, with the later Series A funding from a leading European group of venture capitalists.

Jörg acted as Castify's CEO from its inception in December 1999 until May 2002. Since May 2002, Jörg has focused on the further expansion of Castify beyond the EMEA region into the US markets, and as VP Strategy has added focus to Castify's value for satellite service providers.

Today Jörg is responsible for sales and Castify's P&L in the US, Central Europe, and Scandinavia. In addition to his sales responsibilties, Jörg also heads Castify Support worldwide. As VP Strategy he defines the company's long-term strategic postioning for the enterprise and service provider markets and is responsible for Castify's partnership with Microsoft.

Jörg brings Castify a unique blend of successful sales and marketing experience with awards for fundamental technology research early in his career. Prior to founding Castify, Jörg was with famous Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, US. At Bell Labs, Jörg investigated Internet measurements, reliable multicast, and broadcast audience estimation. During this time, Jörg was awarded the Communications Society's William R. Bennett Prize for best publication in 1999 in the prestigious journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Jörg holds a PhD from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and an MSc degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Jakob Hummes, CTO and Founder, Castify Networks
Director

Jakob brings 13 years of development experience to Castify Networks. He is an expert in collaborative computing specialist with extensive expertise in component-based software, large-scale multimedia applications and distributed object-oriented systems.

Jakob's experience includes a posting at the Open Software Foundation in Boston, where he specialized in interoperability issues of CORBA over OSF's distributed computing environment. Jakob joined Jörg Nonnenmacher in the Berkom MMC venture and was responsible for leading product development.

Jakob holds a PhD from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and an MSc degree from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.