Celio Corp: Driving Smartphone Computing

Most recently Thomas worked as senior vice president and the Chief Platform Architect at Avocent Corporation where he defined and implemented the common software platform strategy for the company. Prior to that, as vice president of engineering at LANDesk Software, Mr. Davis oversaw the development of all LANDesk product lines and international engineering teams. With 11 years at Intel Corporation, he served as engineering director and CTO of the Software Products and Services Division, managing a staff of more than 100 engineers and product managers.

Mr. Davis served in the United States Air Force, where he was an honors graduate of U.S. Air Force Technical Training. Mr. Davis holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University with continued education at Cal Berkley and Cal Tech.

With a unique blend of high-growth and technology industry knowledge, financial acumen and market insight, Marshall exhibits a strong marketplace vision and ability to achieve organizational goals, from startups to mature entities. In addition, Mr. Marshall’s background has provided him experience at combining strong metrics for accountability and controls that provides companies for exponential, scalable growth.

Mr. Marshall’s responsibilities have included the management of the sales, business development, and financial operations of numerous successful companies. His designed operations and financial strategies that have successfully allowed the sale of companies and product lines as well as the licensing of technology of more than 25 start-up technology and high-growth ventures to companies including Dell, HP, Johnson & Johnson Medical, Altiris, Avocent, Nextel, Nike, Mattel, Hasbro and numerous others.

Prior to Mr. Marshall obtaining his CPA credentials, he concurrently earned his bachelors and masters degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University’s School of Management.

Prior to joining Celio, Colin Cook was a research scientist for Avocent where he developed embedded KVM products and compression algorithms for video over IP networks. As the CTO of Soronti, Mr. Cook led the development of KVM server products sold by Dell, Intel and other server ODM’s. Mr. Cook also worked for Intel where he designed server management cards for Telecom chassis. Additionally, he lead the team that developed the core communications engine for LANDesk Management Suite 2.0, and pioneered Intel into the Anti-Virus product space with the world’s first Real-time Server Scanning Technology (later sold to Symantec).

Mr. Cook holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Brigham Young University, and has issued 4 patents.

Mark Christensen recently left Intel Corporation after a 23-year career, where he was corporate vice president and director of communications sectors for Intel Capital. Mr. Christensen was responsible for managing Intel Capital’s investments in mobile devices and communications infrastructure. This included all equity investments, and M&A activity for cellular, wired and wireless networking and communications.

While at Intel, Mr. Christensen was also the vice president and general manager of Intel’s Network Communications Group (NCG), responsible for the management of Intel’s networking communications silicon business. The group consisted of over 30 sites in 10 geographies worldwide. Developed products include Ethernet client and server adapters, home networking and broadband connectivity solutions, optical electronic and modules, and a family of network and storage processors including the Intel Internet Exchange Architecture.

Mr. Christensen is a two-time winner of Intel’s highest award for excellence, the "Intel Achievement Award". He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University, is a charter member of Oregon State University’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers, and has been awarded the school’s Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers Award. He also received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon.

Ed Ekstrom is easily recognized as a high-tech pioneer. Before joining the vSpring team, Mr. Ekstrom served as vice president of the Intel Communications Products Group and general manager of the Intel Utah Software Development Center, a post given to him after Intel acquired LANSystems where he was a principal. Prior to Intel, Mr. Ekstrom was a vice president at CeriSyn and a founder at Cericor, acquired by Hewlett Packard in 1985.

Mr. Ekstrom is a trustee at Westminster College and a director of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah. In addition, he is the former chairman of the Utah Information Technologies Association.

As managing director of vSpring Capital, Mr. Ekstrom led the firm's investment in Cemaphore, Fatpipe Networks, Gandiva, LanDesk Software, Levanta, XAware, and Soronti (acquired by Avocent). He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Brigham Young University and a MBA from Westminster College.

Jeron has worked as a Principal at vSpring for nearly 3 years. Previously, Jeron was a Director of Board Services for Thomson Financial (NYSE: TOC). He accepted this position after convincing Thomson to invest $1.5M in an online business intelligence service for boards of directors called BoardLink which he created. From 1999 to 2002, Jeron worked as a consultant in Monitor Group's Boston office where he advised clients on a range of strategic, operational, and organizational improvements. Jeron has also worked in corporate development at RSA (acquired by EMC, NYSE: EMC) and as a summer associate at vSpring.

Jeron received a Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. with a dual concentration in Economics and Philosophy, cum laude, from Brigham Young University. Jeron currently serves on the boards of Sparxent, Netaphor, Sybrant and Celio and is actively involved with the boards of Cemaphore, XAware, and Penguin Computing. Jeron has also worked with the board of Soronti (sold to Avocent Corporation, NYSE: AVCT).