I'm sure I've met Dave somewhere, but I'll be most interested to hear about his experience at Shutterfly, given my 'subtle' involvement in the early days with Zachary.

Dave Bagshaw

Dave Bagshaw joined Trident Capital as an Entrepreneur in Residence in January 2006. Mr. Bagshaw will use his experience to concentrate on emerging Internet companies.

Mr. Bagshaw has a broad set of experiences managing high growth technology-based companies in Silicon Valley. As CEO of Shutterfly, Mr. Bagshaw helped Shutterfly grow into the leading internet-based digital photo service by employing viral marketing across the popular photo sharing and printing photo service. Mr. Bagshaw was also the General Manager and Senior Vice President of @Home Network where he led the development of the online user experience for the first broadband internet Internet service employing cable modems. His team developed broadband applications and content for the network of @Home customers within multiple cable providers including TCI, Comcast and Cox. As VP or Marketing at Silicon Graphics in the late 80's and early 90's, Mr. Bagshaw managed all aspects of the company's marketing activities including product marketing, business development, marketing communications and public relations during the firm's high growth years. His first entrepreneurial experience came as co-founder of Pacifc Sun, an engineering consulting firm that specialized in solar and energy conservation technologies.

Mr. Bagshaw is a board member for University Games, based in San Francisco, CA and the non-profit Riekes Center For Human Enhancement in Redwood City, CA.

Mr. Bagshaw has a BS degree and MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA degree from Stanford University.

Evangelos Simoudis

Evangelos Simoudis joined Trident Capital as a Venture Partner in 2005. Evangelos focuses on investments in software and Internet businesses. Prior to joining Trident, Evangelos was a partner at the venture capital firm Apax Partners, where he served as a member of the board of directors at Bristol Technology, Composite Software, Confluent Software and Princeton Softech.

Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. His experience as a technology executive includes serving as President and CEO of Customer Analytics, a Trident-backed, Ecrm company acquired by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM.

Evangelos' current directorships include Evil Twin Studios and Micronets, Inc.

Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.

Trident has an impressive portfolio of successes.  It is interesting how Jeteye cuts across several of their areas of investment, particularly COMMUNICATIONS, ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE, AND IT SERVICES.

Should be fun to see how they respond to our take on the "landscape", on "social computing", and where Jeteye really has a solution for the 'next web' that few companies, if any, are capable of offering. 

Our management team is comprised of veteran venture capitalists as well as leading entrepreneurs.