Building the Big Data Ecosystem

Ping Li has over 16 years of experience as a technology investor and operating executive in helping build market leading technology companies and product lines. At Accel Partners, he focuses on early stage and growth software and digital media investments, with specific interest in cloud computing, big data, storage, mobile, and gaming. He is also responsible for Accel's Big Data Fund.

Prior to Accel, Li worked at Juniper Networks as a senior product line manager for their flagship M-series router products, as well as director of corporate development. He also served as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.

Li is on the board of software companies Cloudera, Code 42, Lookout, Nimble Storage, Nimbula, and ScaleXtreme and digital media companies BitTorrent, Blue Jeans Network, Raptr, and YuMe.

At Ignition, Cameron Myhrvold invests in software and infrastructure companies. He represents Ignition as director on the boards of Cloudmark, Ratify, Likewise (formerly Centeris), Seven, Topsy and Zenprise. He also acts as Ignition observer on the board of Azaleos and Splunk. He previously served on the boards of Consera (acquired by Hewlett Packard), Rendition Networks (acquired by Opsware) and RLX Technologies (acquired by Hewlett Packard).

Prior to Ignition, Myhrvold spent thirteen years with Microsoft Corporation, most recently as vice president of the Internet Customer Unit, where he was responsible for building business relationships with network operators and a broad range of telecommunications providers. Myhrvold was responsible for setting strategy and building relationships with such global telecommunications providers as NTT, AT&T, Comcast, Cisco, Qualcomm, British Telecom, and Deutsche Telecom.

Justin Borgman is co-founder and CEO of Hadapt. Prior to Hadapt, Borgman led product development for COVECTRA, an anti-counterfeit technology firm. Before that, Borgman founded an online social media company and spent the first six years of his career as a software developer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Raytheon.

Borgman has a B.S. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar; he attended graduate school at the Yale School of Management.

Before co-founding Retail Solutions, Jon Golovin was the founder and chairman of Consilium Inc., the largest independent manufacturing execution system (MES) company (now Applied Materials). Golovin is considered the father of MES and in 2000 received the SEMI Award for his contributions.

Consilium products were implemented in over 25 countries and 25 industries, including 60% of all semiconductor fabrication plants, and 10 of the top pharmaceutical and healthcare companies in the world. Consilium went public in 1989 and was acquired by Applied Materials in 1998. Consilium was selected as one of the 100 Best Small Companies in America by Business Week and one of the 200 Best Small Companies in America by Forbes. Fortune Magazine named Workstream, Consilium's flagship product, one of the 100 Best Products in America.