Gary Holyoak
Gary Holyoak was appointed Chief Executive Officer of INNOViON in August 2003 after joining the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 2002. Mr. Holyoak's career spans more than 20 years in the semiconductor materials and services sector.

Prior to joining INNOViON, he held engineering, product marketing and sales management positions in the European and US divisions of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., a world renowned substrate materials provider to leading semiconductor manufacturers.

He received his BSc Hons. in Chemical Engineering and Fuel Technology from Sheffield University, England and is a Corporate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Chartered Engineer.

Rory O'Driscoll
Rory is a veteran venture capitalist who is focused on mobile, internet, and enterprise software and services. During his career, Rory has contributed to the evolution of software-as-service business models at companies such as Frontbridge, Omniture, and Placeware. Currently, he sits on the boards of Arena, Contivo, Hubspan, INNOViON, Mblox, Omniture, PatchLink, and Picolight.

He was previously an investor in Altra, Connect, EGroups, Frontbridge, Good Technologies, Net6, NetGenesis, OuterBay, Pavilion, Placeware, and Zonelabs. Prior to Scale Venture Partners, Rory worked in Corporate Development at Bank of America and was founder and CEO of Mercia Ltd., a UK-based manufacturing company.

Rory was born and raised in Ireland and holds a BSc. from the London School of Economics.

Andy Vitus
Andy is focused on Scale Venture Partners' hardware investments and plays a key role in evaluating new investment opportunities in semiconductors, communications and novel materials. He is currently focused on innovations in consumer electronics and mixed signal technologies, and has worked closely with Auvitek, Entone, and Picolight.

Prior to joining Scale VP in 2003, Andy worked as a hardware engineer for Electronics for Imaging, designing embedded print server platforms and video compression circuits. Previously, he was a software engineer for De Beers Research Labs, doing research on computer vision for both medical and mining applications.

Andy earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Russ Weiss
Russell Weiss has over 37 years experience in the Semiconductor Industry. Starting with Monsanto Electronic Materials in 1970, he held numerous direct sales, sales management, product management, and project-engineering positions related to silicon materials. In 1984 Russ joined Micro Mask Corporation where he became Executive VP and COO. He was instrumental in the sale of Micro Mask to Hoya Corporation in 1987. He then became President and CEO of Probe Technology, a probe card manufacturer and wholly owned subsidiary of Hoya Corp. In 1991 he joined Schlumberger as WW VP of Field Operations (including sales, service and applications). In 1993 he became VP and General Manager of Schlumberger ATE test equipment division.

In 1996 Russ joined KLA-Tencor where he held several senior executive positions including President and Representative Director KLA-Tencor-Japan Ltd, VP/GM WW Sales Operations and VP/GM of Sales and Strategy Development. In February 2007 Russ retired from KLA-Tencor and founded Ascot Consulting where he is President and CEO.

Russ earned an MBA from Babson College and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University.

   
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