Tom H. Bredt

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Prior to joining Menlo Ventures in 1986, Dr. Bredt was Senior Vice President and Director of the Information Systems Group at Dataquest Incorporated.
Prior to Dataquest, he worked for the Hewlett-Packard Company as an engineering manager in the computer systems, manufacturing applications and data communications groups.
Dr. Bredt also worked for Bell Laboratories and was a member of the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stanford University.
At Menlo, Dr. Bredt focuses on early-stage communications, Internet and software companies.
His recent investments and board seats include: Apexon, ePeople, newScale and Nuasis.
His prior board seats include: Aspect Communications ; Caw Networks, acquired by Spirent Communications ; Clarify, acquired by Nortel; Latitude Communications; Priority Call, acquired by LHS Group; Red Brick, acquired by Informix ; Rubric, acquired by Broadbase ; Synoptics Communications, that merged with Wellfleet to form Bay Networks, which was acquired by Nortel ; and Xros, acquired by Nortel.
Dr. Bredt is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he received a B.S.
in Science Engineering.
He received a M.E.E.
in Electrical Engineering from New York University, and a Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Former positions of Tom H. Bredt

Companies	Position	End
Nuasis Corp. Nuasis Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Nuasis Corp. provides enterprise software solutions. It served its customers through phone, e-mail, and web to self service. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered at Mountain View, CA.	Director/Board Member	26/06/2007
Xros, Inc. Xros, Inc. Telecommunications EquipmentElectronic Technology Xros' revolutionary silicon-based micro-mirror technology will allow data to be switched through large-scale optical networks entirely in the form of light. Xros is another key building block in Nortel Networks strategy to be the first-mover in delivering the all-optical Internet	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
SynOptics Communications, Inc. SynOptics Communications, Inc. Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology SynOptisc Communications, Inc. used to design, manufacture, market and supports diverse, high performance local area network systems in the United States. The company's products include was connectivity, internetworking and network management options for Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI. The company was headquartered in Santa Clara, CA	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
Red Brick Systems, Inc. Red Brick Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Red Brick Systems, Inc., was the industry's fastest growing database company and was a leading provider of high-performance relational database products for data warehousing. Its flagship product, Red Brick Warehouse 5.0, was the fastest and most scalable relational database for data warehousing, including data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data mining. It was located in Los Gatos, CA.	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
Priority Call Management, Inc. Priority Call Management, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Part of Ribbon Communications, Inc., Priority Call Management, Inc. provides network-based solutions for telecommunications providers. The company is based in Wilmington, MA. The company was founded by Andrew D. Ory. Priority Call Management was acquired by uReach Technologies, Inc., a SUB of Ribbon Communications, Inc. from Sema InfoCell on August 16, 2004.	Corporate Officer/Principal	-

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Training of Tom H. Bredt

University of Michigan	Undergraduate Degree
New York University	Graduate Degree
Stanford University	Doctorate Degree

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