Medio™ - Mobile Search and Advertising Leader

Robert P. Lilleness

President & CEO

Lilleness has built several successful high-tech businesses in digital media, mobile, software, and consumer products. In his current role as President and CEO of Medio Systems Inc., a Seattle-based mobile analytics company, Lilleness has led Medio to profitability and rapid growth. Medio is backed by leading venture capital firms including Mohr Davidow and Accel Partners.He joined Medio from Universal Electronics (NASDAQ: UEIC) a global leader in wireless control and digital media technology. During Lilleness' tenure as President and COO, the company reversed declining sales, fortified their technology, quadrupled their patent portfolio, and developed an array of new products. As a result, revenue grew rapidly from approximately $100M to over $250M, earnings more than tripled, and the market capitalization grew from ~$100M to ~$500M. Lilleness was also on the initial team that built the Windows Networking business at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) where he served in a number of management roles. He was responsible for shipping multiple versions of Windows NT Server and helping to build the Windows networking business from zero to over $500M in sales and to profitability.

He serves on the board of directors of Smart Labs, Inc. the developer of INSTEON home automation technology and owner of http://www.smarthome.com. He also holds seven patents in the digital media and wireless control space. He speaks German, Spanish, and English. Lilleness holds a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Brian Lent

Chairman & CTO

Lent co-founded Medio Systems in 2004 from his role as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Previously the founding CEO of Intelligent Results, a business analytics software company, Lent also held senior technical and marketing management positions at Amazon.com, where he led efforts in data mining, data warehousing, CRM, and e-commerce search engines. Lent was a principal and Director of Applications at Junglee, later an Amazon acquisition, where he pioneered new internet database technologies. As an NSF and Department of Defense ONR Fellow, he held research and development positions at IBM Almaden Research Center and Silicon Graphics.

At Stanford, Lent was a co-founder of the MIDAS (Mining Data At Stanford) group, the lab that spawned the Google crawler and search engine. He has contributed to several professional publications and is a patent holder on the topic of data mining, information retrieval and database systems. Lent sits on a number of technology advisory boards in the areas of search, advertising and customer analytics. Lent holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Nevada Reno, and an MS and PhD Candidacy in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Jim Smith

General partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Jim Smith leads investments in software and systems companies, and is active in extending MDV's relationships with leading universities and research centers.

Prior to MDV, Jim spent six years developing computing architectures and integrated circuits for high performance multimedia systems at Silicon Graphics, Inc., including the multi-billion dollar revenue O2 and Octane workstation lines. He has authored and refereed numerous papers on computing systems and circuit design. He also spent three years as a researcher in the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. Jim received a doctorate in electrical engineering and a master's degree in industrial management from Stanford University. He also earned a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford.

Len Jordan

General partner, Frazier Technology Ventures

Len Jordan currently sits on the boards of Control4, Wetpaint, and Medio Systems. He most recently served as a senior vice president at RealNetworks. He managed the Media Systems Division from 1997 to 1999, releasing four major versions of the RealSystem software platform, which generated the majority of the company's more than 100 percent annual revenue growth during that period. From 1999 through 2001, Jordan's team pioneered RealNetworks' entry into non-PC markets, developing products and technology integration agreements with Nokia mobile phones, Sony PlayStation game consoles and numerous television set-top boxes.

Prior to this, he was president of Creative Multimedia, Inc., a developer and publisher of CD-ROM/Internet products. Creative Multimedia co-developed reference products with Time-Warner, USNews, Viacom and Billboard before its acquisition in 1995 by TBG Holdings, NV. In addition, Jordan led product management for PCTools' utility software for several years at Central Point Software, before it was acquired by Symantec. He began his career at Safeco Insurance Company, developing financial models for personal computer automation of the independent insurance industry. Jordan graduated magna cum laude from the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah with BS degrees in finance and economics.

Scott Alderman

President, Trilogy Equity Partners

Scott Alderman is the President of Trilogy Equity Partners, an investment fund formed in 2006 by the founding leadership team Western Wireless Corporation, Western Wireless International and Voicestream Wireless/T-Mobile.

Previously, Alderman spent eleven years at Western Wireless, most recently the Chief Financial Officer of Western Wireless International, a company that operated wireless businesses in eleven countries in Europe, Africa, South America and the Caribbean. At WWI, he was involved in the acquisition, financing, network development and sale of wireless assets that created nearly $2 billion in value for WWI's shareholders. Earlier in his Western career, Alderman was instrumental in securing spectrum assets that enabled the growth of Voicestream Wireless, which was spun out of Western in 1999 and later became T-Mobile. He has a BA degree from Whitman College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kevin Efrusy

General Partner, Accel Partners

Kevin Efrusy came to Accel in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company.

Efrusy invests broadly in software and internet businesses, but he focuses on consumer internet companies, open source software, and wireless application providers. He co-led Accel's investment in The Facebook and Tumri, currently serves on the boards of Metacafe, Hyperic, Xensource, Terracotta, and BBN Technologies. He is also actively involved in Riverbed Technology and Transera.

He has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.