Bill Joy, Director
Bill Joy, longtime KP Limited Partner, joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005. At KP, he helps entrepreneurs advance the Internet, develop wireless innovations, and find new ways of using large scale computing to solve the most difficult problems. He also works with entrepreneurs who have discoveries and inventions that can solve energy and resource problems, and helps them apply 21st century advances in physics, chemistry and the natural sciences to create abundance.

Bill Joy was Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. He led Sun's technical strategy from the founding of the company in 1982 until September 2003. While at Sun, Bill was a key designer of numerous Sun technologies including Solaris, SPARC, chip architectures and pipelines, and Java. In 1995 he installed the first city-wide WiFi network. Bill has more than 40 patents issued or in progress. Before co-founding Sun, Bill designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX - the first open source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet. Bill's many contributions were recognized in a Fortune cover story which called him the "Edison of the Internet."

Bill has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Engineering, honoris causa, from the University of Michigan. Bill is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a trustee of the Aspen Institute.

Ryan Floyd, Director
Ryan is a founding partner of Storm Ventures. Ryan invests broadly in information technology including semiconductors and software. Prior to Storm, Ryan directed the business development activities at E-TEK Dynamics where he focused on building strategic OEM and customer relationships, scaling E-TEK's manufacturing operations as well as directing the equity investing and acquisition activities until E-TEK merged with JDS Uniphase in 2000. While Ryan was at E-TEK, the company grew from 400 employees to over 5000 employees in less than three years and completed an Initial Public Offering in 1998.

Prior to joining E-TEK, Ryan was with Summit Partners, a private equity firm, where he focused primarily on the communications industry, including Summit's investment in E-TEK Dynamics in July 1997. Ryan received his B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University. Ryan is currently on the board of directors at DeviceVM, Kidaro, MetaRAM, Netforensics and Sandforce.

Saiyed Atiq Raza, Director
Saiyed Atiq Raza is the Founder of Raza Microelectronics, Inc. Prior to Raza Microelectronics, Atiq was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Micro Devices. At AMD, he was responsible for laying the foundation of AMD’s processor roadmap and brought the AMD-K6 and Athlon family of processor products to the market. Atiq also served on the Board of Directors of AMD. He became part of AMD’s management team after the merger with NexGen, Inc. in January 1996. At NexGen, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until the merger with AMD.

Prior to joining NexGen, Atiq held various engineering and management positions within VLSI Technology Incorporated, including Vice President Technology Centers, which was his last position prior to joining NexGen.

Atiq has been working in various engineering and management positions for the last thirty-three years. Atiq obtained his Bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of London, and a Master’s degree from Stanford University.

Fred Weber, Founder, President and CEO
Fred Weber has 25 years experience in the computer and semiconductor industry as an entrepreneur in start-ups and as Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Micro Devices. Fred spearheaded the development of the Opteron chip at AMD, which was recognized as the best processor in the industry, drove significant profit gains, and catapulted AMD from perennial second place to a leadership position in microprocessors. In his 12 years at AMD, Fred led design engineering teams of over 100 people and managed budgets of more than $50M. Prior to AMD, Fred spent eight years at Kendall Square Research a venture backed startup in Boston, where he was a founding engineer in 1987. He has a B.S. degree in Physics from Harvard University and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Suresh Rajan, Founder and VP, Marketing and Business Development
Suresh Rajan has over 20 years experience in the computer and semiconductor industry. Prior to founding MetaRAM, Suresh was Director of Marketing for NVIDIA’s award-winning nForce platform processors. Suresh has also held engineering and management positions at Rambus Inc., SGI, and Schlumberger. He has a B.E. degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Madras, India and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.