DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - Key Persons

Ken has 35 years of achievement in high tech business development and venture startup enablement. Before founding Distributed Systems, Ken served on the Board of North Bay Angels, the largest angel investment group north of the Golden Gate and previously, as an executive at Oracle where he managed Oracle's software partnerships with embedded, consumer electronic, IoT, automotive, connected home and data communication major accounts. His previous engagements include executive HW & SW positions at Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments and a number of successful start-up enterprises. Earlier, Ken served in the U.S. Navy as an officer and carrier pilot (LT, USN). He holds a bachelor of science degree from Oregon State University (Physical Science).

Pat has 28 years' experience in developing and delivering hardware, software, and system management products and still works as a hands-on design engineer. For the past 12 years, he has held senior management roles for a number of start-up companies and as CTO at TruSi Technologies who developed the first through-silicon interconnect technology which is now widely used in the chip industry to support cell phone miniaturization. Previously, he held senior management positions at a number of companies including Xerox. Pat has 14 patents to his name and has 14 published technical papers. He holds a BSEE in Electronics and Telecommunications from Sussex University in England.