Board of Directors

Neal Margulis, Founder and COB

Neal has almost 20 years of experience in the technology industry. With a powerful combination of engineering and marketing expertise, Neal has formulated winning development strategies and helped build several successful companies. Prior to Calista, Neal was president and CEO of iCompression, a leading developer of voice and video codec technology for the broadband and consumer markets. Prior to iCompression, Neal was general manager at S3 responsible for their market-leading 3D graphics technology. Neal started his career as a x86 engineer at Intel. Neal is the primary inventor on nine issued U.S. patents and has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont.

John Schroeder, President and CEO

John joined Calista Technologies based on seeing enterprises struggle with the challenges of efficiently managing physical IT resources while responding to ever increasing business requirements. John has over 25 years of enterprise technology industry experience. In his most recent operating role, John was President and CEO of Rainfinity. Rainfinity is now a key technology in the EMC’s server (VMWare) and storage virtualization strategy. In addition to Rainfinity previous positions include Senior Vice President of SQRIBE Technologies; Open Systems General Manager at Compuware and General Manager of DB2 Products at Candle Corp. John has a BS in computer science from Southern Illinois University.

Charles Chi - Partner, Greylock Partners

Charles Chi ‘s area of focus is systems, semi-conductors and related software for communications, computing and storage for the enterprise, service provider and consumer markets. Prior to Greylock Charles was vice president marketing for CIENA Corporation. Previously Charles had co-founded and led marketing at Lightera Networks, Inc., a market defining optical core switching company acquired by CIENA. Before Lightera he held marketing, sales engineering and engineering roles at Cisco, StrataCom, AT&T Canada and Bell Canada. Charles represents Greylock on the boards of Aquantia, Espial, Quorum Systems, SiTime and ZeroG. Charles' previous investments include Sanera Systems (acquired by McDATA) and Siliquent (acquired by Broadcom). He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1988 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

Barry Eggers - General Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Barry Eggers is a founding partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners, and focuses primarily on enterprise infrastructure, digital media, networking, and semiconductor investments. He has nine years of venture capital experience and ten years of operating experience.
Prior to joining Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners in 1997, Barry was Director of Business Development at Cisco Systems, where he led several acquisitions and integrations. While at Cisco, Barry also was responsible for establishing several of the company's largest technology partnerships and distribution channels with OEMs, Service Providers, and VARs. Barry holds a BA in Economics and Business from UCLA and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.