Donald Peck
Managing Director, South Asia, Actis Capital LLP

Donald Peck is Managing Director, South Asia, of Actis Capital LLP. He has been involved in private equity investments in India since 1992. In 1995, he moved to India to set up Actis Capital's private equity business in Bangalore. Since 1998, he has been running Actis Capital’s businesses in South Asia from Delhi.

Donald Peck holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from Oxford University. He worked for 13 years in investment banking at Lloyds Bank, Morgan Grenfell and then in private equity at IFC (Washington) before joining Actis Capital at its London headquarters in 1991.

John Burton
Managing General Partner, Updata Venture Partners

John Burton is a Managing General Partner of Updata Venture Partners. John is also a Managing Director of Updata Capital. John joined the Updata organization in 1997 from the Burton Technology Group, an IT investment and advisory firm.

During that time, John also served as Chairman of Banyan Worldwide, where he was instrumental in successfully repositioning the company. Prior to starting the Burton Technology Group, he was Chief Executive Officer of Legent Corporation, a provider of systems software and services. John joined Legent after the company acquired Business Software Technology (BST), a start-up that he co-founded. John is currently a director of Ecutel, MainControl, OTG Software, ePresence and SwapDrive.

Tim Guleri
General Partner, Sierra Ventures

Tim has been a General Partner of Sierra Ventures since 2001. Previously, Tim co-founded Octane Software and served as its CEO until its acquisition by E.piphany, Inc. Tim then served as Vice Chairman & Executive Vice President at E.piphany. Tim previously held the position of Vice President of Technical Field Operations and Product Marketing at Scopus Technology and he ran Information Technology at LSI Logic.

Tim is a director of private and acquired companies, including Motiva (acquired by Siebel Systems), Net6, Octane Software (acquired by E.piphany), Sourcefire, Ventaso, and Spoke Software.

Tim is an alumnus of Punjab Engineering College, India, with a Masters in Robotics and Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Andrew Jones
General Partner, Boulder Ventures

Andy has more than 18 years of technology industry experience emphasizing software and communications. Prior to joining Boulder Ventures in 1998, Andy worked at Grotech Capital Group. At Grotech, Mr. Jones was responsible for sourcing, due diligence and deal structuring of early-stage information technology investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Grotech, Mr. Jones was with the Deloitte Consulting and Andersen Consulting. Mr. Jones began his career at Motorola, where he was an engineer in both the Applied Research and Cellular Infrastructure groups.

Andy holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, as well as an MSEE and a BSEE, both from Cornell University.