Mark Cummings is the founder and Managing Partner of enVia, a venture catalyst spun out of Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Mark was the founding CEO of Morphics, SkyCross and RFco. Mark is the principal inventor on the earliest patent granted on the use of reconfigurable logic for SDR (Software Defined Radio). At SRI he developed the technology projection methodology based on industry standards association participation. As part of that process, he chaired the Organizing Committee of the SDR Forum (an international industry association with over 100 member companies) and was its first Technical Committee Chair, served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and is currently driving the MLM (Meta Language for Mobility) Working Group. He is also currently active in IEEE P1900.5. Earlier in his career, Mark held technical, marketing, finance and management leadership positions in communications common carriers, large end users, equipment manufacturers, and he founded the Pocket Intelligence Program at SRI International (Stanford Research Institute). He helped found and sat on the Board of Directors of PCMCIA, and the Smart Card Industry Association. He was an early member of IEEE 802, a contributor to the X.25 standard and designed the first international X.25 network. He helped with the early organization of the San Francisco Apple Core, served on its Board of Directors and led the Assembly Language Programming Group.

Mr. Hamilton has been an expert in technology based ventures for over 35 years. He has managed venture capital portfolios, been the lead venture capitalist in many successful start-ups, played the supporting partner role in many others, been a partner in a successful corporate venture fund, acted as an entrepreneur in creating successful new companies, and played a key role in commercialization of government developed technology

Prior to his involvement with enVia I, he was a Partner with Rothschild Ventures, Euclid Partners II & III and Westford Technology Ventures (a seed fund).  As General Manager, he started and managed Exxon Corporation's business development in solar energy (early corporate VC) where he was the CEO of the Solar Thermal Systems Corporation (enhanced oil recovery and co-generation). Mr. Hamilton began his career with the National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA) as a systems engineer in the Apollo Program where he became Director of Technology Utilization. He was also the NASA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Energy Programs, which was the first group chartered by Congress to commercialize NASA developed technology.

Mr. Hamilton has an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Sloan Fellow, a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and BA in English literature from the University of Notre Dame. In 1976, he was a member of the White House Committee for the Commercialization of Solar Energy.

Mr. Yang has been a seasoned serial entrepreneur with 20 years of product management and technical experience in wireless and networking industry. Tom co-founded Lonpan Communication Inc., a China based mobile broadband network equipment company since 2006. Prior to that, Tom was COO of Allway Communication Inc., a China Ministry of Railway Joint Venture in Beijing, deployed first Chinese mobile mesh network with VOIP and streaming video applications in 2004. Prior to Allway, Tom co-founded WireGate Technology at Silicon Valley, a network acceleration equipment company in 2002. WireGATE is currently a market leader, enjoying 70% of the MMS (Multimedia Messaging) DIY (Do-It-Yourself) equipment market in China. It has been profitable since the third quarter of 2004.

Prior to Tom’s entrepreneur career, He has also held positions at Acorn Campus Ventures and has represented NTT DoCoMo in SDR Froum. Tom was VP of Product Management of Accelerate Mobile at Silicon Valley, a mobile Internet equipment company in 2000. Director of Product Marketing at Lucent, deploying the first Lucent softswitch technology in 1996. Mr. Yang pioneered the development of 3G packet switching (Softswitch Core Network Engine). For many years, Mr. Yang also represented Lucent in major international cellular standards groups including IS-136, IS-634 and IS-95.

Tom also held management role in RAM Mobile Data where he pioneered the development of a vehicle tracking system based on this network (Mobitex) and GPS. In the early days of  Tom's career, Tom has helped to develop cellular basestations at Bell Labs and worked with Motorola to deploy cellular infrastructure in US.  Tom was PhD EE candidate, Polytechnic University of New York. Tom received MS in Management, Polytechnic University of New York. MSEE, Polytechnic University of New York and BSEE, State University of New York at Buffalo. He is fluent in Chinese and English.

In China, Ms. Quan is the founder of a consulting practice helping US companies do business in China . She has worked with a broad cross section of companies including SBC, Commerce One, Agilent, Ultratech Stepper, APIA and the semiconductor trade association SEMI.  She has also worked with Acorn Campus Ventures, Guangdong Ventures, and Shanghai Ventures.

Ms. Quan also worked in Japan with Itochu, and she spent time starting local subsidiaries of Chinese corporations in several small countries. She has also been the CEO of a US subsidiary of a Chinese multi national, working out of San Francisco .

Ms. Quan graduated from Xian Teachers College with a BA in Public Administration; and is currently in an Executive MBA program at Tsinghua University.    She is fluent in English and Japanese as well as Chinese.

Mr. Ohno started his career at Yagi Antenna Company where as VP of International Marketing he built a very successful international business. When Yagi was merged into Hitachi , he spent a year helping Yagi through the transition. He then joined Sony as a General Manager. He ran a number of communications initiatives for Sony in such areas as Integrated Communications and Computing, Smart Buildings , and Wireless Local Loop (WLL). He was a founding member of the enVia I team, was a member of the enVia I Board of Directors, and played a key role in the launching of each of the enVia I portfolio companies. He acted as the initial VP of Marketing for each of the enVia I companies.

Mr. Ohno has been an active member of the Software Defined Radio Forum and is a Member of The Special Committee of the Software Radio Study Group of the IEICE (Japanese equivilent of the IEEE).

Mr. Ohno holds a BS degree in Economics and International Commerce from Waseda University . He is fluent in English and German as well as Japanese.

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