David Furneaux

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Mr. David Furneaux is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at BlueIO. Mr. Furneaux serves as a Board Member at Wallit. He also is the Founder of Furneaux Capital. He also served as a Board Member at Buen Sabor. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at Solantro Semiconductor. He serves as an Advisor at World Within Ventures. He also serves as Executive Chairman at Lufa Farms. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Virsec. He serves as Executive Chairman at CyberSaint Security. He co-founded Causemo and served as its Board Member & Chief Executive Officer. He serves as an Advisory Partner at Inerjys Ventures. He is also a Board Member at Lumicell. He was the Founder and served as Managing Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners. He has over 15 years of venture investing and company-building experience. He focuses on a broad range of opportunities in information technology and Internet markets. He also serves as Advisor at Newlans. He served as a Board Member at GreenLight Biosciences. He represents Kodiak on the Boards of Application Security, BTI Systems, Lumicell Diagnostics, and Vette Corp. He is also an observer on the board for Cortina. Before founding Kodiak in late 1999. In 1993, he was a member of the early team at Chrysalis Symbolic Design, a semiconductor design company, and was responsible for directing East Coast and major account sales. The company was later acquired by Synopsys. Before that, he was a telecommunications analyst at the National Conference. During his career as an entrepreneur and fund manager, he has been directly involved in the conception, funding, launching, and operations of many high-growth companies in the information technology landscape. Selected earlier investments include ALIS (Karl Zeiss), Auroranetics (Cisco), Extreme Packet Devices (PMC-Sierra), Enfora (Novatel), Philsar (IDT), RMI (Netlogic) Skystone (Cisco), Telica (Alcatel/Lucent) and Watchfire (IBM). He has spent his 20-year career as an entrepreneur, investor, and venture capital fund manager. During this time, he has played active roles in building some of the leading technology and Internet companies in North America. He also started and operates 2 investment companies; Furneaux Capital Holding Company, LLC and Kodiak Venture Partners.