As the founder and CEO of Promethium, Kaycee has a proven track record of bringing new, disruptive technologies such as data de-duplication, data virtualization, and hyper-converged infrastructure to market. With nearly 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Kaycee has lead global operations & product management for both startups and Fortune 500 companies.

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Most recently, Kaycee was the President and Chief Operating Officer for Waterline Data where he helped transform the company into a leader in the data governance space by growing revenues by 600% within 12 months. At Waterline Data, Kaycee worked with numerous global organizations in their efforts to automate data governance and prepare for GDPR. Prior to Waterline Data, Kaycee helped introduce hyper-converged infrastructure and

software-defined storage to the market while at Virsto Software. During that time, Virsto’s revenues increased by 500% under his leadership, resulting in the successful acquisition by VMware. Prior to Virsto, Kaycee held senior leadership positions at Avamar (acquired by EMC for $165M), Delphix, and EMC. At EMC, he served as General Manager for a $120M business unit that was growing at 50% per year.

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A self-proclaimed “data geek”, Kaycee began his career as a business analyst working with data, databases, and business intelligence solutions at companies such as EMC, Microsoft and The Federal Reserve. Kaycee graduated from Pomona College with a Bachelor’s in Psychology.

Jocelyn Goldfein is a widely recognized industry expert on product strategy, infrastructure and organizational scale. Her career as an engineering leader spans from early-stage startups to high-growth years at Facebook and VMware.

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During Jocelyn’s tenure at Facebook, she helped convert News Feed to Machine Learning and spearheaded the transition to a ‘mobile first' product organization. As an early engineer at VMware, she built core virtualization technology and ultimately established and ran VMware’s Desktop Business Unit, a $150M line of business. Jocelyn also held engineering and leadership roles at startups Datify, MessageOne and Trilogy/pcOrder.

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As an angel investor, she’s backed over 20 startups with an emphasis on infrastructure and AI. She serves on several boards, including Harvey Mudd College, and is a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, where she received her BS in Computer Science.

Arnold Silverman is a former CEO that has spent his career helping to build transformative companies. In addition to becoming President of Dymo Industries, he was also the CEO of ICOT Corporation, where they engineered a turn-around of the company. He also led the company’s acquisition of Amati Communications and ultimately the company’s strategic sale to Texas Instruments. He was a founding board member of Oracle, Informatica and Business Objects, which was acquired by SAP in 2007.

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He also created Discovery Ventures, LLC, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investment in software companies with market leadership potential in emerging technologies, in 1995 in order to help other entrepreneurs create companies of lasting value. Some of Discovery’s most notable investments include: Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Epiphany, and TimesTen Performance Software (acquired by Oracle).

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He has been on the Board of the UC Berkeley Foundation since 2004 and currently chair the Finance Committee. Additionally, he was elected Chairman of the AeA (American Electronics Association) in its 50th anniversary year. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

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As a recovering engineer, Graham Brooks loves to dig deep with techie founders. He joined .406 Ventures in 2007, after nine years of technology-oriented operating, investing and start-up experience.

At .406 he leads the firm’s Data and Cloud strategy. Graham also is involved with the firm’s university outreach initiatives including the .406 Student Fellows program.

Graham previously was an intrapreneur with the New Ventures Group and then Business Development Manager at Bose, where he led the team that identified, evaluated and structured strategic investment and acquisition opportunities within the digital media and consumer products markets.

As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Accentus, a spin-out of Dartmouth College, focused on bringing innovative solutions to the financial trading industry. At Accentus, Graham led product management and sales. Out of college, Graham began his career as a software engineer and database administrator at ALK Associates (Acq Trimble), a logistics solutions spin-out of Princeton University.

Graham is a Kauffman Fellow (Class of 2010). He received his MBA from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business in 2002, where he was a Tuck Scholar, and an engineering degree in Computer Science from Princeton University.

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