Board of Directors
Dan Connell
Dan is currently Managing Director for Greenwich Associates, heading up the Information Services Division. Prior to that Dan was the CEO of Correlix, a leader in electronic trade information services and technology. Leading up to Correlix, Dan was with Spire Capital Partners as an Executive in Residence focused on the financial information and technology sectors. Before that, Dan was the Chief Operating Officer of Xinhua Finance Ltd, a leading provider of financial information and media services.
From 2002-2005, Dan was the CEO of Interactive Data Corp's Real Time Division. He also spent ten years with Standard & Poor's as Executive Managing Director of their Information Services group. Within this role, he was also CEO of ComStock, a global provider of real time market data. He spent the preceding ten years at First Data Corporation.
Dan holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts.
Randy Ditzler
Randy Ditzler is a Partner with Sequoia Capital Israel and focuses on systems and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2004, Randy served as the CEO of Actona Technologies (CSCO). Prior to joining Actona, Randy was the Founder & CEO of Telegis Networks. Earlier, Randy was the Founder & CEO of MarketOne Builders and before that the President & CEO of Freestone Investments. Randy has a BS in Industrial Technology from California State University in Fresno.
Frank J. Fanzilli Jr.
Mr Fanzilli has served as a Corporate Director and advisor to a number of companies in the technology field. Frank is the former Chairman of the Board of InterWoven, where he currently serves as an Independent Director and Chairman of the Strategy Committee; he is a board member at CommVault, which launched a successful IPO in 2006; and is also a board member and Lead Director at Calypso, a leader in derivatives processing software. Mr. Fanzilli has also served technology company boards in several other notable transactions, including as an independent director at PeopleSoft, up to and including the sale of that company to Oracle; and as an Independent Director at Avaya, which was acquired in a private equity engagement in 2007.
Mr. Fanzilli also spent nearly two decades on Wall Street, where he was Global Chief Information Officer and Managing Director Credit Suisse First Boston, where he retired in 2002. At CSFB, Frank was a member of the firm's Operating Committee and Information Executive Board, managed a global division in excess of $2 billion, and was based in New York, London, and Zurich. Mr. Fanzilli remains very active in the technology industry, and serves on the advisory boards of several venture capital firms, including Allegis Capital and FOCUS Ventures, both in Palo Alto. He is a Director-at-Large on the board of the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to the use and dissemination of open source software. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Frank began his career in technology as a systems engineer with IBM.
Shawn Melamed
As CEO, Shawn is in charge of the strategic vision, overall management and business leadership of Correlix.Shawn is the visionary behind Correlix's flagship products, leveraging many years of experience in working on enterprise distributed transaction performance problems by monitoring raw network traffic, Shawn combined it with extensive research in unrelated bioinformatics algorithms to create the unique message correlation technology underlying the Correlix Latency Intelligence solutions.
Before founding Correlix in 2005, Shawn was partner and CTO of Strauss Strategy, where he managed enterprise technology consulting practice for international corporations in the Banking, Equity Trading, Insurance and Retail sectors as well as with leading independent software vendors (ISV's). Prior to Strauss Strategy, Shawn held senior technical positions at Navicula, PrimeNet, and IDF.
Shawn graduated Cum Laude with a BSc in Computer Science and Biology from Tel Aviv University.
Bruce Taragin
Bruce has 15 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney. Bruce's venture experience includes the following exits: eVoice - acquired by AOL [TWX], PureSight - acquired by Boston Communications Group [BCGI], Vista Research - acquired by McGraw Hill [MHP] and IP Infusion - acquired by ACCESS CO., LTD [TSE: 4813]. Prior to joining Blumberg Capital in 1998, Bruce held several senior management positions within technology companies including Charles River Computers. Bruce also structured and managed early-stage technology transactions at Hambrecht & Quist, Mayer Brown & Platt and Bankers Trust Company.
Bruce earned his BA in Finance and Communications, cum laude, from Yeshiva University, and his MBA and JD from Fordham University in New York.
Bruce serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of CaseStack, Insightix, LiteScape, and Correlix.
