| Tom Garland Tom founded ACT Venture Partners Inc. after the conclusion of Acuitive, a pioneer in the work for equity "sweat capital" portfolio model. During it's 10 year history, Acuitive worked with over a hundred companies and enjoyed over 30 liquidity events. Tom specializes in working with early stage companies developing new market business strategies, partnership opportunities, strategic alliances, distribution programs and lighthouse sales deals with large recognized brands in vertical markets. Often this work helps companies earn critical industry validation for their technology and has significant valuation impacts. He has helped a number of international companies establish a presence in the US, particularly in the Silicon Valley. Tom is currently SVP of Marketing and Business Development for Snaptell. Tom recently completed an interim CEO role for EverNote culminating in a successful Series A financing and as CMO of Catalyst Mobile. Between ACT Venture Partners and Acuitive portfolio companies, Tom has been active in many start-up companies including Attune Systems, Chelsio Communications, Centrify, Consentry Networks, InQuira, Matisse Networks, Neoscale Systems (sold to nCipher), ObserveIT, Topspin Communications (sold to Cisco), SnapTell, Soundpipe (sold to Comdial), SJLabs (sold to YMAX Magic Jack), and Tacit/Illumio Software (sold to Oracle). Tom has also worked with large established companies such as Extreme Networks/Avaya and Juniper Networks. He has recently completed a number of M&A due diligence projects for a number of investment banks, leveraged buy-out firms and large corporations. Prior to Acuitive, Tom was formerly a General Partner of The Venture Operations Group working alongside venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in early stage private companies. Tom has been a Business Development and Marketing executive in the Silicon Valley for over 18 years. He has put together technology alliances, partnerships and transactions with some of the most significant brands in the world including such partners as Disney, Eastman Kodak, ABC Networks, Nintendo, CNNSI, MTV, Yahoo, AT&T, ESPN, Intel, Cox Cable, Hasbro, Vonage and Sun Microsystems. He spent four years as an executive from early stage through IPO at HearMe/Mpath (Nasdaq:HEAR) in various roles, including Vice President of Network Programming and Business Development. Prior to that, Tom spent over eight years at SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics) in numerous product marketing, business development and sales roles in the Advanced Systems Division and the OEM Products Division, working in the supercomputing, high performance graphics and distributed computing (servers and storage) markets. In addition, Tom was a founding member of the management team of Silicon Studio (SGI's entertainment company). Tom has an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is based in the Silicon Valley and can be reached at 408-867-5624 or tgarland ACTventurepartners.com Peng Tu Peng Tu has over 10 years of experience in the field of mobile data applications. Most recently, Peng was the general manager, China for Catalyst Mobile, a mobile music and entertainment company. He led the China team in launching and enhancing several successful mobile applications for the Chinese market and achieved significant revenue growth. Before Catalyst Mobile, Peng was the VP of Product Management for Hands-On Mobile (formerly Mforma), a leading developer and publisher of mobile entertainment. Peng ensured that the company’s extensive mobile game and application portfolio matched worldwide market demand. Peng also oversaw game and application porting for North American mobile carriers. Before Hands-On, Peng was a Director of Product Management within the Mobile and Devices group at Macromedia (subsequently merged with Adobe). Peng successfully launched iChannel, a Flash-based mobile push application for DoCoMo of Japan. Before Macromedia, Peng held various product management and sales positions at Openwave Systems. Peng started his career as a technology consultant with Accenture. Peng holds an MBA from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia, Canada. |
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ACT Venture Partners Inc.
ACT Venture Partners Inc.
