• Bryan Mistele, Chairman
• Ajay Agarwal, Director
• Craig Chapman, Director
• Roger Eigsti, Director
• John Johnston, Director
• Tony Sun, Director
• Kendra VanderMeulen, Director

Bryan Mistele is the founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX. Prior to INRIX, Mistele was an executive at Microsoft, responsible for successfully building four businesses including Mobile Services, Automotive Telematics & Mobile Speech, HomeAdvisor Technologies, Inc. and Microsoft Investor/MSN MoneyCentral.

He was most recently the General Manager of the Mobile Services Business Unit at Microsoft. In this role, Mistele was responsible for MSN Mobile as well as Microsoft’s carrier and client-based mobile services efforts. These initiatives focused on building revenue-sharing relationships with carriers around a full range of communications, messaging, information and entertainment applications. Under Mistele’s leadership, Microsoft’s Mobile Services efforts grew to become one of the leading providers of mobile portal and communications services to the wireless industry – with more than 1.6 million subscribers across more than 20 countries.

As General Manager, Automotive, Mistele was responsible for driving the overall market success of Microsoft’s Automotive products, including T-Box – Microsoft’s wireless telematics device and Voice Command – a revolutionary speech recognition product for the Pocket PC.

Prior to this, Mistele was General Manager of HomeAdvisor Technologies, Inc. – a joint venture between Microsoft, Chase Manhattan, GMAC/RFC and FreddieMac. HomeAdvisor Technologies was in the business of providing tools and technology to streamline and automate the mortgage and real estate process. Mistele was responsible for creating and managing the HomeAdvisor business within Microsoft, which grew to more than 250 people. When he left, HomeAdvisor was ranked as the #1 real estate & mortgage service on the web.

Mistele joined Microsoft in August of 1995 as a program manager responsible for the business & finance category of The Microsoft Network. He later became the driving force behind the creation of Microsoft Investor, which now exists as MSN MoneyCentral. Bryan led the design, development and release of three versions of the site. Investor has consistently been rated the #1 financial site on the web.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Mistele worked as a project manager with the Ford Motor Company and also spent time at IBM and General Motors. He holds a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. In 2003, Mistele was a regional finalist for the White House Fellowship.

Ajay is Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. Bain Capital Ventures is the Boston-based venture capital arm of Bain Capital. Founded in 1984, Bain Capital and its affiliates have invested in over 230 companies with such notable successes as Doubleclick, Gartner Group, and Staples. Bain Capital Ventures invests across all stages of a company's growth from providing seed capital through offering late stage growth equity. Bain Capital Ventures and our early stage companies benefit from the broader resources of Bain Capital, including over 400 investment professionals across North America, Europe, and Asia, $37 billion of assets under management, and the knowledge from 20 years of successful venture investing.

Ajay focuses on early stage software, wireless, and consumer internet investing. Before joining Bain Capital Ventures, Ajay spent over seven years as a senior executive at Trilogy Software, a privately-held enterprise software company based in Austin, Texas. As head of Sales and Marketing, Ajay grew Trilogy's annual revenues to $300 million and led Trilogy's product direction. Prior to Trilogy, Ajay was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company. Ajay holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Craig Chapman is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of INRIX. Chapman is an accomplished development engineer and architect with 30 years experience developing advanced software systems and managing teams of software and hardware engineers.

Prior to INRIX, Chapman was an executive at Microsoft serving as the Development Manager for the Automotive Business Unit. As Development Manager, he was responsible for Microsoft’s automotive client development team including software development, hardware development, and customer engineering. Chapman was also responsible for managing the technical relationships with semiconductor partners. Prior to that position, Chapman was the Systems Development Lead for the Automotive Business Unit where he was responsible for all Operating System and platform components of the Auto PC, including hardware abstraction layers, drivers, Windows CE extensions, and various other system components.

Before joining the the Automotive Business Unit, Chapman was the Technical Lead in the Consumer Productivity Business Unit. While in this position, he lead the design and develolpment of a Multimedia HTML authoring component that shipped with Microsoft Home Publisher. Prior to becoming the Technical Lead, Chapman was the Group Program Manager, where he managed a program management team and provided high-level architectural design for a consumer desktop and multimedia publishing products.

Chapman has also served as a Principal Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services, where he acted as lead architect and managed development of state-of-the-art information systems in a number of industries. He worked with senior management and senior technical staff to provide guidance in the areas of software architecture, software development, the development framework, and corporate-wide organizational requirements necessary to deliver and support distributed applications. He has also taught classes and seminars on Microsoft technology, tools, development strategies and the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).

Prior to joining Microsoft, Chapman was a Director of Software Development at Span Instruments, a Principal Engineer at AST Computers, an Adjunct Instructor at Orange Coast Community Colleage, a Principal Engineer for Basic Four Information Sytems and a Senior Systems Analyst for Burroughs Corporation. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Occidental College and has taken additional computer systems coursework at the California Institute of Technology. He serves on the Board of Directors with Families Northwest.

Roger Eigsti is the former Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of SAFECO Corporation. He led the growth of SAFECO into a national player in the insurance and financial services marketplace. During his 28-year tenure with Safeco, Roger held numerous executive leadership roles and was responsible for the $2.8 billion acquisition of American States Financial Corporation in 1997. Early in his career, he held several positions at Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte and Touche)

Roger has served on over twenty five for profit, industry and non-profit boards including Washington Mutual, Security Pacific Bank of Washington, United Way of King County, Institute of Business, Technology and Ethics, Seattle Pacific University, and University of Washington School of Business.

Roger was the recipient of the Puget Sound Business Journal Executive of the Year in 1998. He received a BS degree from Linfield College and was previously a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

John Johnston co-founded August Capital in 1995.  August Capital is a leading venture capital firm actively investing in entrepreneurial teams throughout the information technology market spectrum. With more than 50 years of combined venture capital experience and dozens of successful IPOs and public company board relationships, August has financed technology companies with an aggregate market capitalization of over $400 billion. These companies generate $75 billion in annual revenue and employ 240,000 people around the world. Early stage investments of the firm's partners include Microsoft, Adaptec, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Seagate, Intuit, Sybase, Visio, Actel and ViewLogic.

Prior to co-founding August Capital, John served as a general partner with two venture capital firms, Technology Venture Investors (TVI) since 1988 and Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners (H&Q) from 1983 to 1988. During his venture career, John has invested in more than 25 companies, serving on more than 20 boards of directors. His high-technology venture investments include eShop (Microsoft), Frame Technology, Intuit, Insignia Solutions, Logic Automation (Synopsys), Saros (FileNet), Sybase, Visio and Xilinx. John received an AB in English from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University. He is a past director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.

Tony Sun is Managing General Partner at Venrock Associates. Venrock was founded as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and continues a six-decade tradition of funding outstanding entrepreneurs and establishing successful, enduring companies. Venrock was formed in 1969 to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller Family that began in the late 1930s, when Laurance Rockefeller pioneered early-stage venture financing. Today, having invested more than $1.3 billion into more than 350 companies over the past 35 years, Venrock is one of the most established venture firms in the United States, with investment returns that place it among a small number of premier organizations that have achieved consistently superior performance. Venrock’s investments include Apple Computer, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Intel, 3Com, Caliper Technologies, Centocor, Illumina, and Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

Tony joined Venrock in 1979 and focuses exclusively on information technology projects. He serves on the boards of AccessLine Communications, ANDA Networks, BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited, Bivio Networks, Canesta, Cognex Corporation, Future Dial, Neoconix, Phoenix Technologies, Ltd., and Polaris Networks. He previously served on the boards of Ramp/Nokia, Brightware/Firepond, Lightera Networks/ Ciena, StrataCom/Cisco, TransMedia Communications/Cisco, WhoWhere? Inc/Lycos, Worldtalk Corporation/Tumbleweed Communications Corporation and Zettacom/Integrated Device Technology.

His previous experience was with Hewlett-Packard, TRW and Caere Corporation. Tony is currently a member of the Corporation and Trustee of MIT. He is also a board member of the National Venture Capital Association. In addition, Tony serves as a Commissioner and Trustee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Tony holds an S.B. in Electrical Engineering, an S.M. in Electrical Engineering, and an Electrical Engineer degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Kendra VanderMeulen is a veteran of the wireless telecommunications industry. She most recently served as Executive Vice-President, Mobile at InfoSpace where she led the team which engineered the turnaround of InfoSpace’s mobile business and the acquisition of several companies. Kendra joined AT&T Wireless (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications, now Cingular) in 1994 to lead the formation of the wireless data business. She and her team pioneered the Mobile Internet, leading the development of wireless packet data services and their applications, including WAP. Additionally, she served as senior vice president of Product Development and Strategy, responsible for definition, development, introduction and management of new mobility products.

Prior to McCaw, Kendra served as Chief Operating Officer and President of the Communications Systems Group at Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (now Convergys). Earlier Kendra held a variety of business and technical management positions at AT&T in the fields of software development, voice processing, and signaling systems.

Kendra received a BS degree in mathematics from Marietta College and a MS degree in computer science from Ohio State University. She is the recipient of the 1999 Catherine B. Cleary award as the outstanding woman leader of AT&T. She is currently an active board member and advisor to a variety of companies in the wireless Internet arena.