


Rembrandt Advisory Board
Paul Atkinson
CEO, Casero
Paul leads the overall management and leadership of Casero. An Internet Protocol industry veteran, he has proven experience and marketing and sales expertise in high-growth environments. Most recently, Paul was Senior Vice President, marketing at Amdocs, responsible for its global marketing activities. Paul also served as CEO of Solect Technology group, acquired by Amdocs for US $1.2 billion in March 2000. He was also President and Co-founder of Southwest Sun, a Sun Microsystems independent sales organization.
Paul is also the Co-Founder of AudienceView Software Corporation, a Toronto-based software company that provides software to sports and entertainment organizations for their customer relationship management and ticketing operations.
Paul serves on the Board of Directors of Clublink Corporation, the Institute for Enterprise Education, the Toronto International Film Festival Group and Variety - The Children's Charity. Paul is active in the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and is on the Advisory Boards of the Richard Ivey School of Business and EMAGINE, an initiative of the Emagine program at the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy. Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
Noel Fenton
General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Noel has been part of the Silicon Valley venture capital community for 35 years. Prior to co-founding Trinity Ventures in 1986, he was co-founder of three successful technology startups, and CEO of two of them, Covalent Systems and Acurex. From 1983 to 1986, he led Covalent Systems from start-up to a profitable $12 million sales level in three years. He led Acurex from 1972 to 1982 during a period when sales increased nearly ten-fold to $65 million.
Noel is actively involved in the World Presidents' Organization and the Stanford Athletic Board, and is a past chairman of the Northern California Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization and a past chairman of the American Electronics Association.
Dr. Randall C. Fowler
Private Investor
Randy Fowler has a unique combination of Wall Street knowledge, technical expertise, and hands-on experience in financing, marketing, and sales. Currently retired from day-to-day business operations, Randy founded Identix, Incorporated, and served as Chairman and CEO until his retirement in 2001. He created and patented the biometric technology (prior to starting the Company in 1982) that enabled Identix to maintain its leadership in creating the Biometric Industry worldwide. He led the Company through its IPO in 1985 (NASDAQ, and later the American Stock exchange) and subsequent financings including a number of acquisitions and mergers. During his almost 20 years at Identix, he became the first Chairman of the International Biometrics Association. In addition, he also served as Chairman of ANADAC, Fingerscan, Australia, and Syvan/Identix Joint ventures. The company was awarded Fast 50 and Fast 100 Companies in Silicon Valley in 1999, 1997, 1996 and 1995. Dr. Fowler received the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1997, the Kjakan Award of New York in 1998, Professional Awards, as well as Distinguished Alumnus award, Univ. of Louisville, where he currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the University. He presently sits, or has sat, on the Board(s) of Directors for several private/public companies, and mentors young entrepreneurs in development of new ventures.
Prior to founding Identix, he held General Manager, Marketing and Sales, and Technical positions at a number of Fortune 500 companies. He taught for several years as Professor of Engineering at San Jose State University.
Randy holds patents in electro-optic techniques for biometric equipment, and for Attitude Control & Dynamic Stability for Spacecraft and Rocket hardware.
He earned a Doctorate of Engineering from Stanford in 1969, a master of science in Engineering from Arizona State University in 1964, and a Bachelor of Science from University of Louisville in 1962.
Barry Rubenstein
General Partner,
Wheatley Partners
Barry co-founded and is a principal of Wheatley Partners. Barry has been investing in technology companies since 1976. He co-founded Woodland (1976) and Seneca (1979), partnerships that invested over $50 million in small capitalization technology companies. Barry was a founder or founding consultant to several technology companies, including Applied Digital Data Systems, Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., Novell, Inc., and Cheyenne Software, Inc., where he also served as Chairman and CEO. Barry holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from New York University.