Board of Directors

PeerApp Board of Directors

  Robert Mayer, PeerApp Chairman & CEO

Robert has over 20 years experience in the high tech sector where he held various positions in business management, engineering management and research and development. Prior to being named CEO of PeerApp, Robert was with EMC Corp for 10 years. He began as a key developer of EMC’s revolutionary storage platform that yielded as much as $6 Billion in annual revenues for the company. His latest EMC position was Vice President of Information Management. Earlier, Robert served as an officer in the Israeli Air force for seven years. He received a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the Northeastern University, Boston.

  Stephen Van Beaver, General partner, Pilot House Ventures Group, LLC

Stephen is a General partner at Pilot House Ventures Group, LLC and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Camiant, CentrePath, Mazu Networks, Navic, Stoke and is involved with BigBand Networks.

Prior to joining Pilot House, Stephen was co-founder and Senior Vice President of Operations for Road Runner LLC, the high-speed data joint venture between MediaOne (now Comcast), Time Warner (now AOL Time Warner), Compaq (now HP) and Microsoft. He also served as Vice President of Operations and Technology for MediaOne Internet Services, as well as for Continental Cablevision.

  Nimrod Schwartz, General Partner, Cedar Fund

One of the founders of NetVision, Israel’s leading ISP, Mr. Schwartz brings to Cedar the technologist and entrepreneur’s perspective. With 5 years as NetVision’s VP of Business Development and CTO and over 12 years of technology and engineering experience with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Mr. Schwartz is experienced in the operations aspects of technology development, support and management.

Mr. Schwartz currently focuses on opportunities in IT Datacom and Telecom infrastructure software, systems, and services and has also been involved with several Cedar portfolio companies in the areas of storage and security software and systems. He holds board seats in Guardium, Pegasus and PeerApp.

  Adi Gan, General Partner, Evergreen Venture Partners

Mr. Gan joined Evergreen in 1997 and has focused on optical communications and communications infrastructure investments. Mr. Gan has 11 years of experience in both the private sector and in the Israeli Defense Forces. His earlier positions included managing the Real-Time Systems Division of a leading Israeli software services company.

  Don Casey

For over thirty years, Don Casey has served the software and IT Services industries in positions ranging from development to chief executive to chairman. Don was President and Chief Operating Officer of Exodus Communications and is currently chairman of the board for Mazu Networks and serves on the board of AspenTech and Ounce Labs. His other notable achievements include leading the turnaround of Wang Laboratories from a bankrupt, proprietary hardware vendor to a $3.5 billion services company. Don was president and CTO of Wang and directly responsible for Wang's US Services business. Don previously served as Vice President of Lotus Development Corporation’s Spreadsheet Division, which at the time represented over 80% of the company’s revenue. He was also Vice President of Networking and Multimedia for Apple Computer, where he assumed responsibility for multimedia strategy and successfully planned and delivered the QuickTime product, now an industry standard. Don began his career at IBM, serving over 20 years and achieving the role of Vice President of Communications Hardware.

  Nir Ackerman, chief financial officer, Expand Networks

Mr. Ackerman previously served as Vice President of finance for Aryt Industries Limited and was corporate controller for Reshef Technologies Ltd, which provided components to the telecommunication industry.