Management Team

Hon Wong, CEO

Hon has served as CEO of Symphoniq since its inception. Prior to joining Symphoniq, Hon co-founded NetIQ, where he served on the board of directors until 2003. Hon has also co-founded and served on the board of several other companies, including Centrify, Ecosystems (acquired by Compuware), Digital Market (acquired by Oracle) and a number of other technology companies. Hon is also a General Partner of Wongfratris Investment Company, a venture investment firm.

Hon holds dual BS in electrical engineering and industrial engineering from Northwestern University and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ching-Fa Hwang, Executive Chairman

Ching sets our technology and product direction. Prior to Symphoniq, Ching served as President and Chief Executive Officer of NetIQ Corporation from its inception in 1995 to January 2002 and as Chairman of the Board until July 2002. During his tenure at NetIQ, Ching provided the vision and leadership to transform the company from a startup to a public company with annual revenues of approximately $300 million and over 1,200 employees. Prior to NetIQ, Ching was with Compuware Corporation from 1993 to 1995 as a Vice President and General Manager of the EcoSystems Business. In 1993, Compuware acquired EcoSystems Software, a startup that was co-founded by Ching in 1991.

Ching holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and a M.S. in computer science from the University of Utah.

Dr. Her-daw Che, Chief Technology Officer

Her-daw leads our development team to convert our patent-pending technology into simple to deploy and use products. Prior to joining Symphoniq, Her-daw held various positions at NetIQ, a company that he co-founded, including Senior Vice President of Unix Technology and Vice President of Engineering. From September 1993 to July 1995, Her-daw served as the Director of Engineering of the EcoSystems Business Group at Compuware. In 1993 Compuware acquired EcoSystems Software, a startup that was co-founded by Her-daw in 1991.

Her-daw holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Howard Doherty, Vice President of Sales

Howard is responsible for our sales and customer support activities. Prior to joining Symphoniq, he held a number of senior management positions at various companies that ranged from start-up to Fortune 100 status. His 20-plus years of high-tech experience most recently included serving as VP WW Sales and Biz Dev at NetContinuum. There he created major revenue generating OEM deals, as well as doubled revenues year over year since 2005. Under Mr. Doherty's direction, international business grew to 50% of revenues. NetContinuum was acquired by Barracuda Networks in July 2007. Before NetContinuum, he was a sales and business development consultant for Sana Security, where he was heralded for being instrumental in expanding the company from stealth mode to widespread commercialization. Prior to Sana, Mr. Doherty was responsible for directing an $85-million sales territory for Cisco Systems' security and VoIP products. He is also credited with establishing Netscape's Internet Learning Academy (later becoming iPlanet Learning)-subsequently growing it to a $30-million business through both direct and indirect sales and partner relationships.

Howard received his BS degree in Marketing from the University of Southern California.

Board of Directors

Ching-Fa Hwang, Executive Chairman

Hon Wong, Director

Dr. Her-daw Che, Director

Steve Bowsher, Director

Steve Bowsher serves as Managing Partner and Executive Vice President at In-Q-Tel, leading In-Q-Tel's strategic investment strategy. Mr. Bowsher will also oversee In-Q-Tel's University Outreach Programs, including In-Q-Tel's work with universities and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Mr. Bowsher joins In-Q-Tel from InterWest Partners. While at InterWest, he served as General Partner, concentrating on the Enterprise software and Internet sector, and led and managed 13 investments in those sectors.

Previously, Mr. Bowsher worked at E*TRADE, managing its value-added products and services. During his tenure at E*TRADE, he helped launch Destination E*TRADE, the company's award-winning Web site. Mr. Bowsher was also an early stage employee at two start-up companies, where he was responsible for revenue and distribution targets.

Mr. Bowsher has been a frequent speaker at industry-leading conferences such as the Wharton Technology Conference, IBF's Early Stage Investing Conference, Internet World Annual Conference, and Dow Jones Private Equity Summit, and has been frequently quoted as a subject matter expert in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Fortune magazine.

Mr. Bowsher graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received his MBA from Stanford.

Aneel Bhusri, Director

Aneel Bhusri is Co-founder and President of Workday. Aneel is responsible for the company's overall strategy and day-to-day operations at Workday.

Aneel is also a General Partner at Greylock Partners, a leading early stage venture capital firm, which he joined in 1999. Aneel was involved with PeopleSoft from 1993 to 2004, serving first as Senior Vice President in charge of product strategy, business development and marketing, and most recently as Vice Chairman of the Board.

Aneel is on the Board of Directors of Above All Software, PolyServe, Cape Clear, Data Domain and Outlooksoft, and has previously served on the boards of Vantive (acquired by PeopleSoft), Marimba (acquired by BMC Software), and Corio (acquired by IBM).

He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Brown University.

Rick Thau, Board Advisor

Rick is a consultant and advisor to emerging growth companies and participates with InterWest Partners as an Executive in Residence. From 1990 to 1999, Rick was founder and CEO of FullTime Software (formerly Qualix Group). Prior to that, he was CEO of Micro-MRP. Rick has also held Vice President and General Management positions in various computer graphics, information appliance, and information services companies.