Corrigo Board Members

Stephen Sun Chiao (Sycamore Ventures)

Mr. Stephen Sun Chiao is a Partner of Sycamore Ventures. He is also a professor of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University where he established the Integrated Circuits Lab and directs the Broadband Optical Networking Laboratory. Prior to that, he has held various senior management and technical positions at Gould/AMI, Hewlett-Packard, and Varian Associates. Prior to joining Sycamore, Mr. Chiao advised several high-tech startups and investment companies in Silicon Valley. Between 1986 and 1996, he co-founded three companies: Analog Microsystems; Wincomm Communications in Taiwan; and Elite Semiconductors, which was acquired by publicly-traded Mosel Electronics Group in Taiwan. He then served as Vice President of Mosel in charge of business development in foundry, intellectual property, new product development, and M&A activities.

Dr. Chiao holds a BS from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, an MS from the University of Southern California, and a PhD from Stanford University.

Ben Dubin (Asset Management Company)

Ben Dubin joined Asset Management as a partner in 1998. Before working at Asset Management, Ben managed Enterprise Java at Javasoft, where he introduced, managed, and marketed the Enterprise JavaBeans Component technology as well as the JNDI, JMS, RMI, and JDBC technologies. He also was one of the early arrivals at a then little-known company called Sun Microsystems. Technology and management have marked his career. He co-founded two companies, Full Source Software, an open source application software firm, and Los Altos Technology, an open systems software security business where he also served as Chief Technology Officer. Another decade was spent working and consulting at marquee companies like Oracle, Netscape, Sybase, Sandisk, Lockheed, and a variety of startups. As an inventor, he holds the patent on a technique for database restoration. Currently, he sits on the boards of directors of Airflash, Libritas, PrimeAdvantage, Searchbutton, Skire, and Vetcentric, among others. Outside the office, he is actively involved in a number of professional organizations, including the Churchill Club, IEEE Computer Society, the Software Entrepreneurs' Forum, and the MIT/Stanford Venture Laboratory.

Ben holds twin BS degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jeff Loomans (Sierra Ventures)

Jeff Loomans is a Venture Partner of Sierra Ventures. His investment practice focuses on Enterprise Software (CRM, Supply Chain) and Internet Infrastructure. Before joining the venture capital community, Mr. Loomans was Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Vice President of Engineering at OnLink Technologies, which was purchased by Siebel Systems, where he was Vice President of Engineering. Prior to that he was Engineering Manager at Decisions Systems and Co-founder and President at Integrated Business Software. At Sierra Ventures, Loomans is on the Board of Active Decisions, Inc., Corrigo, Infotone, and Zoom Systems. He is also an observer on the Boards of Spoke and Accruent.

Mr. Loomans holds a BS in Symbolic Systems and an MS in Computer Science, both from Stanford University.

Rick Michaux (Founder/President)

Rick Michaux is a veteran of the web and wireless technology industry and has worked with the building service industry for almost 20 years. Prior to founding Corrigo, Rick held a series of senior marketing, sales and business development roles at Motorola where his responsibilities spanned advanced wireless, web and call center technologies. At Motorola he met the other founders of Corrigo.  Prior to Motorola, Rick had extensive domestic and international experience working in the real estate and property management industries. He is a frequent speaker on services best practices at industry conferences such as BOMA, IFMA, NMHC, PRSM, and Realcomm. Rick currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Oregon Software Association.

Rick has an MA in Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, an MA in East Asian Economics from George Washington University, and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Bruce Miller (Investure)

Bruce is a Managing Director of Investure, an investment firm serving university endowments and non-profit foundations. Bruce is responsible for private equity investments on behalf of Investure. Prior to working at Investure, Bruce was a partner at Carmel Partners, a real estate private equity fund based in San Francisco. Bruce also worked at Intel Capital where he was responsible for strategic equity investments in software and Internet businesses. Bruce's operating experience includes his role as Vice President, Corporate Development at iMediation S.A., a software company, and various management positions at The Ryland Group, NationsBank, and Trammell Crow.

Bruce earned a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Dave Schwab (Sierra Ventures)

Dave Schwab is a Managing Director of Sierra Ventures, where his investment practice focuses primarily on Software Applications, Enterprise Software, Application Service Providers, and Infrastructure. Before joining the venture capital community, Mr. Schwab's worked for five years at Lockheed Corporation as a software engineer and engineering manager. He subsequently attended Harvard Business School, returning to Silicon Valley to work in sales and sales management at Sun Microsystems. While at Sun, Schwab repeatedly produced the highest sales in the company, and was subsequently promoted to a variety of Sun sales management positions. Schwab co-founded Scopus Technology (NASD-SCOP) with a fellow Sun sales manager and two other executives. During his five years at Scopus, Schwab served as Vice President of Sales, and also served as Vice President of Application Development. Scopus was taken public by Morgan Stanley & Company, and was subsequently acquired by Siebel Systems in a $480 million transaction.

At Sierra Ventures, Schwab was the founding investor in MicroMuse Corporation (NASD-MUSE), a highly successful network management enterprise software company. He was also the lead investor in OnLink, a successful e-commerce enterprise software company which was sold to Siebel Systems in July, 2000. He is on the Board of 360Commerce, Accruent, Inc., Corrigo, DBS, Infotone Communications, Knova (fna Kanisa, Inc.), SeeCommerce, Vykor, Inc., Zebra Imaging, Inc., and Zoom Systems.

In addition to an MBA from Harvard Business School, Schwab holds two graduate engineering degrees from Stanford University, and an undergraduate engineering degree from the University of California at San Diego.