As founding CEO with the company since its start-up potential was conceived, Ashley Stephenson led Reva to great success with important customer wins and prestigious industry recognition. Reva's string of industry accolades is bringing RFID solutions into focus with network innovation, technology excellence and manufacturing merit. Prior to co-founding Reva Systems, Stephenson was CEO and then Chairman of Xedia Corporation, a developer of advanced Internet access equipment, up until its acquisition by Lucent in 1999. While at Xedia, Stephenson was awarded "CEO of the Year" by the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council. Prior to Xedia, Stephenson was Vice President of Marketing at ISIS Distributed Systems, a provider of software and integration services for Reliable Group Messaging acquired by Stratus Computer. Stephenson began his career in Hi-Tech at IBM R&D in the U.K. During recent years Stephenson has taught Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Professor in the Babson College MBA program, and is on the advisory board of Middlesex Community College's RFID Training Program. He has also served on the Board of Directors of several venture-backed startups and industry consortia. Stephenson is a graduate of Imperial College, London (Physics) and an Associate of the Royal College of Science. He is the holder of several U.S. patents.

David Husak founded Reva Systems in August 2003. Prior to Reva, Husak co-founded and became CTO of C-Port Corporation, a fabless communication semiconductor company, and was the principal architect of the category-creating C-5 Network Processor. C-Port was sold to Motorola in May 2000. Husak was the founding engineer and system architect at Synernetics Inc., the pioneering Ethernet and FDDI LAN switching company, which was sold to 3Com. Prior to that, he developed LAN interface hardware at Apollo Computer. Throughout his career, Husak has contributed extensively to network industry standardization efforts. He has been granted seven patents, and has several more pending. Husak holds a SBEE in Bioelectrical Engineering and has completed graduate work in communications systems at MIT.

Mike Zak joined Charles River in 1991 and has served as the principal sponsor for investments in a number of information technology markets and technologies, including semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, vertical market software and networking software. Examples of past investments include Agile Networks (acquired by Lucent in 1996), American Internet (acquired by Cisco in 1998), CIENA Corporation (IPO in 1997), CPort Corporation (acquired by Motorola in 2000) and ON Technology Corporation (IPO in 1995, acquired by Symantec in 2003) and Broadbus Technologies (video on demand).

Zak graduated from the College of Engineering at Cornell University in 1975. After spending four years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, he graduated from Harvard Business School in 1981. During the next ten years, he worked at Motorola and at McKinsey & Company. He was also a co-founder at Concord Communications, then a venture-capital backed supplier of software for network monitoring and analysis, where he served in several executive roles.

Zak is active in local civic, conservation and church affairs and is a member of the Board of Directors of Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts.

Jamie Goldstein joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 1998. Prior to joining North Bridge, Goldstein co-founded PureSpeech, a venture-backed speech recognition software and applications company targeting telcos and enterprise call centers. Goldstein served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing prior to its acquisition by Voice Control Systems (NASDAQ: VCSI) and subsequent sale to Phillips Electronics. Before PureSpeech he was with Symmetrix, a provider of manufacturing execution software and consulting services.

Goldstein's venture investing is targeted at the communications and enterprise software industries. Goldstein is a graduate of M.I.T., 1989 and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1994.

With a distinguished career spanning over 30 years in the networking industry, Gary Bowen brings proven sales & marketing expertise, as well as the emerging market experience garnered from his many board-level positions at successful technology startups, to the Reva Board. In addition to his activities as a private investor and advisor to technology companies, Bowen’s operational experience includes a 13-year career at Hewlett-Packard where he held positions in engineering, sales, and management. Subsequent to HP, Bowen helped start two technology companies, Masscomp and Wellfleet Communications. At Masscomp, he held senior management positions including General Manager of the OEM Systems Group and Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support. At Wellfleet, which later became Bay Networks, he was the Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support.

As a supply chain industry visionary, Devdutt Yellurkar, Founder, retired President and CEO of Yantra Corporation, brings an in-depth knowledge of the supply chain market to the Reva Board. Yellurkar’s company has been instrumental in the successful roll out of innovative technologies to a broad range of supply chain related customers including BestBuy, Motorola, DHL, and Circuit City. Yellurkar led Yantra from a venture-funded start-up to a highly successful software company with eight years of consecutive revenue growth prior to its acquisition by Sterling Commerce, the leading multi-enterprise collaboration company and subsidiary of SBC Communications, in 2005. Prior to Yantra, Yellurkar was the Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Infosys Technologies Ltd where he built the field sales organization, pioneered several strategic initiatives, and led the dramatic sales growth from under $1 million to profitability as a very successful publicly-listed company.

Maciej Kranz brings 20 years of marketing and management experience to his position as Vice President of Marketing of the Wireless Networking Business Unit (WNBU) at Cisco Systems. His primary responsibility is to drive business and product strategy for Enterprise, Commercial/SMB and Outdoor wireless and mobility offerings at Cisco. Mr. Kranz previously led marketing for the Desktop Switching Business Unit (DSBU) at Cisco Systems, where he grew the stackable Ethernet switching across enterprise, SMB and Metro Ethernet networks to a multi-billion dollar business. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Kranz was the Vice-President of Marketing for IPHighway, Inc., a developer of policy-based Quality of Service software solutions. Between 1993 and 1997, Mr. Kranz held various management positions at 3Com Corporation, where he was instrumental in the strategy, development and expansion into new markets of 3Com’s $1B Ethernet network interface cards (NICs) product line. He began his professional career at IBM Corporation in International Marketing. Kranz received his Bachelor of Internal Business from the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland and his Master of Business Administration from Texas Christian University.

Jennifer Scholze joined SAP Ventures in 2001, opening its Boston office at that time. Previously, she held management positions in international marketing and communications, strategic planning and development, and partner management for SAP. Prior to joining SAP in 1994, she spent 5 years at International Data Corporation as a senior industry analyst focusing on applications software. Scholze received her bachelor's degree in management and marketing from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.