CrossLoop Board

John Zicker
Director & CEO

John Zicker is a veteran entrepreneur with a proven track record of expeditiously bringing companies from initial concept to thriving businesses. Recently at Sana Security as CEO, Zicker transformed an interesting laboratory project into a thriving business, breaking through the exceedingly crowded computer security market to emerge as one of the top three vendors in intrusion prevention and anti malware software, competing with some of the biggest names in technology today. With an enviable list of high profile customers in the hotly competitive financial and government sectors, Zicker currently dedicates himself to high-level customer care, overseeing product development, directing company operations, increasing sales and attracting investment. Sana Security was successfully sold to AVG. In his previous role as founder and CTO of Sagent Technology, Zicker brought to life a highly complex business intelligence concept, built a team of 200+ worldwide employees, and broadened the company's offerings and differentiation through two highly successful, strategic acquisitions. His leadership contributed to an extremely successful initial public offering, and a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion. At ReportSmith, a company he co-founded in 1991, Zicker pioneered the world's first 'live' database reporting concept, acquiring enough customers and revenues to sell the company to Borland for six times its revenues - an unmatched multiple for its time. Zicker has also held research positions at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, NASA Ames and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories.Zicker holds an MSEE degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a BSEE degree from the University of California, Davis.

Tom Peterson
Director

Tom Peterson is a veteran early-stage technology investor who has been with El Dorado Ventures since 1986. He focuses on early-stage investments in software, service and communications companies. Tom joined El Dorado from Union Venture Corp., the venture capital arm of Union Bank of California, where he was an Investment Officer. Prior to joining Union Venture, Tom held engineering and management positions with Hewlett-Packard and General Electric. Tom received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Tom is also a board member of Edgewater Networks, InsideTrack and Motista.

Mike Tyrrell
Director

Mike joined Venrock in 1999 after 16 years as an entrepreneur at venture backed technology companies. Prior to Venrock, he spent nine years with Spyglass, a Venrock-backed portfolio company, joining as their sixth employee to run sales and marketing. Spyglass licensed the first internet browser Mosaic to many of the world's leading software, online services, and device companies, including Microsoft. As the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, Mike helped take the company public in 1995. Before Spyglass, he was with two other start-ups, Multiflow Computer and Celerity Computing, both UNIX systems pioneers. Mike began his career at Prime Computer. Mike's active investments include AppNexus, Bizo elQnetworks, Endeca Technologies, Inc., Second Rotation, WHERE, Inc. and ZoomInfo.