Jim Barksdale
The Barksdale Group
Tellme Advisor

Jim Barksdale is President and CEO of Barksdale Management Corporation, a philanthropic investment company. He has over 35 years of operational experience. Jim served as President & CEO of Netscape Communications Corp. from January 1995 until the company merged with America Online in March of 1999. He was Director of Netscape from October 1994. Upon completion of the merger with America Online, Jim joined AOL's Board of Directors.

Prior to Netscape, Jim worked at AT&T Wireless Services (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications) as their Chief Executive Officer. From April 1983 to January 1992, Jim served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Federal Express Corporation and prior to that, he served as their Chief Information Officer for four years. Jim Barksdale also held various management positions, including Chief Information Officer with Cook Industries and started his career at IBM.

In January 2000, Jim and his wife, Sally, gifted $100 million to the State of Mississippi to create a statewide reading institute, The Barksdale Reading Institute. This is a joint venture with the Mississippi Department of Education and the state's seven public university schools of education.

In 1997, Netscape received the "Entrepreneurial Company of the Year" award from both Stanford and Harvard Business Schools alumni groups. Computer Reseller News named Barksdale "#1 Executive of the Year," PC Magazine named him "Person of the Year," and at the 1997 ETRE Conference in Budapest he received the "Executive of the Year" award. Jim has also received awards such as the BEAR Award from Brown University for citizenship, the Headwave Award from the State of Mississippi, and a NetDay Hero Award for his work for education. He has also been inducted into the University of Mississippi Hall of Fame, the Mississippi Business Hall of Fame and the Memphis Society of Entrepreneurs.

Jim sits on the boards of several companies and foundations, including AOL Time Warner; Federal Express; Mayo Foundation; Sun Microsystems, Inc., and TechNet. Jim was also appointed to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board by President George W. Bush. He is also a Special Advisor for General Atlantic Partners. He is also currently serving as co-chair of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, which recently published their report, "Protecting America's Freedom in the Information Age."

Jim received his B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Mississippi.

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Peter Currie
General Atlantic Partners
Tellme Board Member

Peter Currie is a General Partner at General Atlantic Partners, a worldwide private equity firm, where he has worked since 2002. Mr. Currie is based in General Atlantic’s Palo Alto office where he focuses on the Enterprise Software sector.

Prior to joining General Atlantic Partners, Mr. Currie was a partner and co-founder of The Barksdale group, an early stage venture capital firm. Before that he had been Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Netscape Communications where he worked from April 1995 until the sale of the company to AOL in March 1999. He was CFO and had responsibility for the Company's human resources, information technology, facilities, and operations departments.

From April 1989 until March 1995, Mr. Currie held various management positions at McCaw Cellular Communications (predecessor company to AT&T Wireless) including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Vice President-Corporate Development. Prior to joining McCaw he was a Principal at Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated. Mr. Currie holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Williams College.

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John Doerr
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Tellme Advisor

John Doerr is currently a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he has sponsored a series of investments (Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Lotus, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Symantec) that led to the creation of over 30,000 jobs.

Previously, Mr. Doerr was at Intel, just after the invention of the 8080 8 bit microprocessor. He was an engineer and marketing manager for micro-computers, and the top-ranked systems salesperson.

Mr. Doerr was the founding CEO of Silicon Compilers. He serves on the Board of Directors of Intuit, Macromedia, myCFO, Netscape, Platinum, Realtor.com, Shiva, Sun Microsystems, Academic Systems, The Lightspan Partnership, and Amazon.com.

Mr. Doerr holds patents for computer memory devices he invented as a design engineer at Monsanto. Recent areas of interest include the Internet, education (especially kids), and genomics.

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Mohan Gyani
Former CEO
AT&T Wireless Services
Tellme Board Member

Mohan Gyani, is the former president and chief executive officer of AT&T Wireless Mobility Group. Mr. Gyani is a telecom and wireless industry veteran. He has played key roles in the $1.6 Billion IPO of AirTouch in 1993 and the $10.6 Billion IPO of AT&T Wireless in 2000. Effective 2003, Mr. Gyani reports, as Senior Advisor, to the Chairman & CEO of AT&T Wireless Group on matters related to Strategy, Business Development and Operations.

Mr. Gyani led the company's domestic voice and data mobility businesses, focusing on completing the expansion of the company's footprint across the U.S. and accelerating growth, particularly in the wireless data business. Since joining AT&T Wireless, he has been instrumental in helping produce industry pacesetting growth in subscribers and revenue while improving profitability and evolving the business to mainstream next generation technology.

Following the merger of Vodafone and AirTouch, Mr. Gyani was head of Strategy and Corporate Development and a member of the Board of Directors for Vodafone AirTouch PLC. Prior to the merger, Mr. Gyani was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AirTouch Communications.

As Executive Vice President and CFO of AirTouch, Mr. Gyani was a key leader in the $120 Billion merger of AirTouch and Vodafone and the subsequent $70 Billion joint venture with Bell Atlantic. Prior to the merger, Mr. Gyani played a major operational and strategic role in the company's growth from an IPO to a $70 Billion global company in five years.

Mr. Gyani began his career in 1978 with Pacific Telesis Group where he held a number of financial and operational positions. He holds an MBA in finance from San Francisco State University. Mr. Gyani was born in India and grew up in several countries before settling in San Francisco in 1970.

Currently, Mr. Gyani is a member of the Boards of the GSM Association, Keynote Systems, Inc. and IDEA Cellular. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association) and has been a Board Member in numerous public and private enterprises in the past.

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Kevin Harvey
Benchmark Capital
Tellme Board Member

Prior to founding Benchmark in 1995, Kevin Harvey started two successful software companies. The first, Styleware, was founded in 1985 and pioneered integrated software for the Apple II personal computer. Styleware was ultimately purchased by Claris Corporation.

After the acquisition, the Styleware team developed ClarisWorks, one of the best-selling software programs for the Macintosh.

At his second startup, Approach Software, Mr. Harvey led the development of the first easy-to-use client/server database for Windows. Approach was acquired by Lotus Development in 1993. Mr. Harvey managed Approach as a division of Lotus for two years.

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John’s remarkable history in telecommunications has helped Tellme grow into a leading Internet-powered telecommunications company. In September 2001 John was enticed out of a brief retirement by Tellme’s vision for changing the phone. Formerly John was the CEO of Cincinnati Bell.

During John’s 16-year tenure at Cincinnati Bell, revenues grew to more than $2 billion. John established Cincinnati Bell as one of the most innovative local telecommunications companies, consistently receiving the highest national customer satisfaction rankings. In addition, John built and grew two subsidiary companies, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems and Matrixx Marketing, which were spun-off in 1998 to form Convergys, the leading outsourced communications billing and customer care company, with more than $1.5 billion in annual sales.

John spent 17 years at AT&T. As director of strategic planning, he worked to remove regulatory barriers and advised the office of the chairman on strategy related to the Justice Department’s mandated breakup. His career began at Bell Laboratories in 1966.
John serves on the boards of Kroger, Burlington Resources and eLynx. He received his Juris Doctorate from Indiana University, his Ph.D. in physics and bachelor’s of electrical engineering from the Catholic University of America and holds three patents in the fields of optical memories and acoustic-optic interactions. John and his wife Betsy live in the Bay Area and Cincinnati and have five adult children.

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Mike McCue
President
Chief Operations Officer
Co-Founder
Tellme Networks, Inc.
Tellme Board Member

Mike laid the foundation and vision for Tellme’s business in February 1999 when he co-founded the company. He is responsible for overall company operations.

From 1996 to 1999 Mike was vice president of technology at Netscape. There he helped to establish the company’s client, portal and server lines of business.

Mike founded Paper Software, Inc. in 1989 and served as CEO. He led the company to an overwhelming leadership position in 3D software, winning nearly 80% market share from Microsoft and SGI. Mike oversaw Netscape’s acquisition of Paper in February 1996.

In 1986 Mike began his formal career at IBM, giving up a congressional nomination to attend the US Air Force Academy. His entrepreneurial start came while in his teens, selling video games he wrote out of his parents’ home. Mike is from Woodstock, New York.

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Brad Silverberg
Ignition

Mr.Silverberg is currently a founding member of the venture holding firm, Ignition, investing in wireless and other technology start-ups. Mr. Silverberg was a senior vice president at Microsoft, where he served as a member of Microsoft's 9-person Executive Committee, its top decision-making body. Brad ran the Windows business from 1990-1995, and then directed Microsoft's Internet turnaround. Mr. Silverberg was responsible for driving all aspects of the Windows and Internet businesses including establishing the vision and strategy, and executing on product marketing and development. He grew the Windows business from $50 million to over $3 billion.

Over his 9 years at the company he managed Windows (versions 3.0, 3.1, 95, and CE), MS-DOS (versions 5 and 6), Internet platform (Internet Explorer versions 1 through 4, Java, Commerce Server, Commercial Internet Server) and Microsoft Office (Office Suite 97). He also was responsible for the developer tools division, the developer relations group, and the web authoring product unit.

In 1998 and 1999, Mr. Silverberg was a strategic consultant for Microsoft president Steve Ballmer. In 1995, for his leadership of Windows 95, Brad was named PC Magazine's Person of the Year.

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