V.i. Labs Board of Directors
Joe Noonan - President and CEO
As an industry veteran, Joe Noonan brings a wealth of expertise in guiding software companies to success. Prior to V.i. Laboratories, Joe was most recently senior vice president of worldwide sales, services and business development at Authentica Inc. Before Authentica, Joe served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and services at Eprise Corp., a publicly traded Web content management company, and was instrumental in the successful sale of the company to Divine, Inc. Joe was also president and CEO of Upspring Software, a software development tools company, and successfully completed the sale of the company to MKS Systems. Joe also spent five years at Wall Data Inc., a highly regarded publicly traded software company. During his tenure at Wall Data, he managed a sales team that grew sales from 35 million to 150 million and played a major role in the successful acquisition of Wall Data by Net Manage. Joe has also held key management positions at both Memorex Telex Corp. and Burroughs Corp.
Dr. David Pensak - Chief Scientist
Dr. David Pensak founded V.i. Laboratories after a distinguished 30 year career at DuPont, where he held myriad senior research positions and served as a corporate technology growth champion, providing guidance for and managing advanced computer-technology explorations and development. He also now runs his own research institute, The Innovention Group, to extend some of his chemical inventions. Dr. Pensak was the founder and inventor of technology for two successful information security companies. Raptor Systems provided the first commercial Internet firewalls for business and industry. The company's rapid growth, commercial success and eventual acquisition by AXENT Technologies (now Symantec) led to technical and financial recognition for Dr. Pensak. Subsequently, he founded Authentica (acquired by EMC in February 2006), a recognized leader in the enterprise digital rights management marketspace. Dr. Pensak has acted as an adviser for the U.S. Department of Energy on Computer Security and Network Protection, the Clinton Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, and the National Center for Biotechnology Information. From 1991-95, he served as director of the National Computer Graphics Association.
Geoff Oblak - Ascent Venture Partners
Geoff has 12 years of experience investing in early stage information technology companies, including nine years at Ascent. Prior to joining Ascent, Geoff served as an Investment Analyst in the Boston office of Norwest Venture Partners, where he researched emerging technology markets and worked on successful investments such as Quatritek Systems (acquired by Lucent) and Nashoba Networks (acquired by Cisco). Prior to Norwest, he worked in the Audit/Business Advisory division of Arthur Andersen, LLP, where he was sponsored by the firm in an accelerated MBA program. His current board seats include V.i. Labs, Exchange Solutions, Fidelis Security, Forefield, Guardium, and WebLayers. Geoff is a CPA and holds a CFA Charter. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the Boston Security Analysts Society.
Pascal Luck - Core Capital Partners
Pascal Luck joined Core Capital in 2000 and focuses primarily on the firm’s new media, networking infrastructure and information technology sectors. Pascal has been an advisor to and an investor in emerging technology companies as an investment banker and venture capitalist for more than seventeen years.
Prior to joining Core, Pascal was Managing Director and Founder of Cross Hill Financial Group, a DC-based private investment banking/M&A advisory firm. Earlier, he was a Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting where he specialized in finance and strategy initiatives for product and service companies in the telecommunications and information technology industries. He began his career as a systems engineer with AT&T-IS/Bell Laboratories.
Pascal is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds an M.B.A. in Finance with Distinction from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. in Physics/Engineering from Loyola University in Maryland.
Pascal represents Core on the Boards of Directors of BridgeWave Communications, JackBe, Triumfant, Purewave Networks, and V.i. Laboratories. Previous board affiliations include GENBAND, Inlet Technologies (acquired by Cisco), NextPoint Networks (acquired by GENBAND), Sourcefire (NASDAQ: FIRE), Trust Digital (acquired by McAfee), Covega (acquired by Gemfire Corporation), and VPI Systems.
Ross Longfield - Rockford Capital
As a successful entrepreneur and investor, Ross Longfield brings significant experience to his role at Rockford Capital and at V.i. Labs as a board member. Currently, Longfield is a managing partner at Longfield Consulting LLC, a company he founded in 2001 to provide consulting services to financial services companies, investor groups and venture capital firms. He also serves on the boards of Liberty Tax Service, the third largest and fastest tax service in the U.S. and Canada, as well as CoreStar Financial, an originator of non-conforming and sub-prime mortgages.
From June 2001 to December 2004, he served as chairman of the board at Incurrent Solutions Inc., a leading provider of Web-based customer service solutions for major credit card issues including MBNA, CitiGroup and Target. In December 2004, Incurrent was successfully sold to Online Resources. From 1960 to 1998 he held senior management roles within Beneficial Corp. During his tenure as president and CEO of Beneficial Refund Lending Services, the exclusive provider of refund lending products to customers of H&R Block and all major tax preparation companies, he received four U.S. patents related to the electronic filing of tax returns. Between June 1991 and June 1998, he concurrently served as chairman and chief executive officer of Beneficial National Bank USA, a provider of private label credit cards for major retailers such as Best Buy, Costco, K-Mart and many others. At Beneficial, he was instrumental in growing the bank from a start up to an $8 billion enterprise. In June 1998, he oversaw the successful merger of Beneficial Corporation's credit card operations with those of Household International, another major financial services firm, at which time, he was named managing director and chief executive officer of Household Retail Services USA. He served in this role until December of 2000.