Directors

Nina Saberi - Executive Chair

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Nina Saberi is the founding VC and executive chair at VGo. She is the managing partner at Castile Ventures with investment focus on enterprise and consumer networking, information security, and e-business infrastructure. She led Castile's investment in Sonus (NASDAQ:SONS), Ahura Scientific (acquired by Thermo Fisher), Brix Networks (acquired by EXFO), ChosenSecurity (acquired by PGP/Symantec), GeoTrust (acquired by VeriSign), Network Intelligence (acquired by EMC), Trapeze Networks (acquired by Belden) and was the chairman of Quantiva (acquired by NetScout) and of Stargus (acquired by C-COR). In addition to VGo, she currently serves on the boards of Agiliance, Aurora Networks, and RatePoint.

Ms. Saberi founded Castile Ventures in 1998 to bring capital, deep industry expertise and hands-on management experience to a new generation of entrepreneurial businesses. She started her venture capital career as a general partner at OneLiberty Ventures after a highly successful tenure as president and CEO of Netlink, Inc. Under her leadership this venture-backed company grew to become a leading global provider of network infrastructure and was ultimately acquired by Cabletron, ranking among the top three acquisitions of its year. Ms. Saberi joined Cabletron as a senior executive. Ms. Saberi started her career as a design engineer with venture-backed Avanti Communications where she went on to hold senior engineering roles. She then held marketing/engineering roles with BBN and managed an international joint venture for Data General. She was also general manager at venture-backed Amnet which she was instrumental in turning around resulting in the company's sale.

Ms. Saberi is deeply engaged in the New England entrepreneurial community and was recognized for this effort in 2010 by AlwaysOn as one of the top VCs in the East and in 2006 by Mass High Tech as an All Star in the Finance category. She was the Chairman (2004-2006) of the Massachusetts Network Communications Council and was Chair (2007-2009) of the Advisory Council at the University of Rhode Island's College of Engineering where she received her BS in Electrical Engineering. URI honored Ms. Saberi with the 2007 President's Distinguished Achievement Award.

Grinnell More - Chief Robotics Officer and Co-Founder

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Grinnell is a co-founder of VGo Communications is responsible for much of its robotic design. Mr. More is a life-long entrepreneur and robotics industry pioneer. He founded his first robotics company, Real World Interface, Inc. in 1983, the year he graduated high school. Mr. More developed RWI into the leading developer & supplier of academic and research oriented mobile robots and from the mid 1980s through the 1990s RWI supplied the worlds leading robotics research organizations with developmental systems, accelerating their ability to create new robotics algorithms and technologies. Customers included MIT, CMU, Stanford, IBM, NASA, Army Research Labs, Navy Research Labs, Etc.
In 1998 Mr. More merged RWI, Inc. with MIT spin-off IS-Robotics to form the iRobot Corporation. From 1999 to 2003 Mr. More ran iRobot’s Military Systems Division, during which time he established the major military robot platforms and contract awards that continue to underpin iRobot’s defense business, including the PackBot-EOD, Warrior, and SUGV programs and platforms. Mr. More left iRobot shortly after their IPO in 2005 and founded North End Technologies (renamed VGo Communications in 2010) with Partners Tim Root and Tom Ryden.

BRUCE RYAN - DIRECTOR

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Bruce Ryan brings extensive experience in the high-tech industry including over 40 years experience in a wide range of technology companies. Prior to VGO Mr. Ryan was a director of two previous Castile portfolio companies; Ahura Scientific and Silverstorm Technologies where Mr. Ryan also took on the role as CEO for an interim period. As a director and audit committee chairman he has served on the board of 11 public companies. In addition to VGO he is currently a director of Kronos, Inc. and KVH Industries. He has also served on the board of UTStarcom, CNT Corporation, Enterasys Systems, Iona Technologies, PLC, In Range Technology Corp., Ross Systems, Perceptive Bio Corp., Axeda Systems and Tarantella Corp.

Mr. Ryan was employed by Digital Equipment Corporation for 25 years where he had extensive international experience as a senior vice president in finance and operations. Mr. Ryan also served as EVP and CFO for Amdahl Corporation where he played a leading role in business development including the completion of key acquisitions which led to the successful sale of the company to Fujitsu in 1998. After his role at Amdahl he was the EVP and CFO for Global Knowledge Network, a leader in network infrastructure education, where he was responsible for the acquisition of several education companies in Asia, Europe and North America building a $400m enterprise. He earned a BSBA from Boston College and an MBA from Suffolk University.