Jeff Fried
Jeff joined Cilk Arts as a private investor and board member at its inception in 2006. Jeff has over 25 years of technology and business experience, and is currently VP Advanced Solutions at Fast Search and Transfer ASA. Jeff was previously CTO of Empirix, which specializes in testing and monitoring of contact centers, networks, and Web-based applications. He led development at speech application firm Unveil Technologies (acquired by Microsoft), was co-founder and CTO of distributed call center firm Teloquent Communications (acquired by Syntellect), and built and ran product development groups at LingoMotors (natural-language search software), InvisibleHand Networks (agent-based bandwidth auctioning systems), and GTE (telecommunications switching systems). Jeff has served as advisor to several successful start-ups including Endeca, Ardence and Alexa. He holds 15 patents, has authored more than 50 technical papers and holds BS, MS, and Engineer's degrees in computer science from MIT.
Charles E. Leiserson
Charles is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, member of the Theory of Computation research group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and head of CSAIL's Supercomputing Technologies research group. His research centers on developing theoretical principles of parallel and distributed computing, especially as they relate to engineering reality. His research contributions include the divide-and-conquer method of graph layout, the retiming method for optimizing digital circuitry, the concept of systolic architectures, the fat-tree interconnection network, and the notion of cache-oblivious algorithms.
Charles' textbook, Introduction to Algorithms, coauthored with Ronald L. Rivest, Thomas H. Cormen, and Clifford Stein, is the leading textbook on computer algorithms and the second most cited reference in all of computer science. Charles was network architect for the Connection Machine Model CM-5 Supercomputer manufactured by Thinking Machines Corporation and Director of System Architecture at Akamai Technologies, where he directly managed a 35-person engineering team that developed a worldwide content-distribution network that now numbers over 20,000 servers. He is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, an ACM Fellow, and a senior member of IEEE and SIAM. Charles is on leave from MIT and works full-time at Cilk Arts.
Paul Levine
Paul joined Cilk Arts as private investor and
board member in 2007. He has spent the last 10 years as a venture
partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with
$2.5B under management. Before joining Morgenthaler, Paul was the
founding CEO of Atria Software, a venture-backed software tools
companies, where he built a business that developed, distributed, and
supported a high-end configuration management system for large software
development teams. Paul led Atria through an IPO in 1994. Atria reached
a market capitalization of over $1 billion under Paul's leadership.
Prior to Atria, Paul spent 8 years at Apollo Computer, and before that
several years at Prime Computer. He is a graduate of MIT, where he
earned BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Duncan McCallum
Before joining Cilk Arts as a cofounder, Duncan spent 10 years in the venture capital industry. He began his venture capital career at Flagship Ventures where he was a General Partner, before joining Bessemer Venture Partners where he ran the Boston office. Duncan was an early-stage investor and board member in 17 software and internet companies which have produced an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $1 billion to date. Prior to joining the venture industry, Duncan was at Haemonetics where he served as Assistant to the CEO, ran marketing for their largest division, and started a new service business. In his early career, Duncan was at Draper Laboratory where he was Senior Member of Technical Staff and Program Manager. Duncan holds a BS and MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
Ray Stata
Ray joined Cilk Arts' Board of Directors in 2007, representing Stata Ventures. He is cofounder of Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), a Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 company recognized for leadership in the design and manufacturing of analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing semiconductors. Ray served as President of ADI from 1971 to 1991 and CEO from 1973 to 1996. He has been Chairman of the ADI's Board since 1973 and continues to serve in this capacity. In addition to his leadership role at Analog Devices, Ray has been involved with a wide range of successful technology startups. Ray is a graduate of MIT, holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT, and is now Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1984 he was elected to MIT's Corporation and today is a member of its Executive Committee.