Greg Collins

Greg Collins is President and CEO of Basho Technologies. Collins was President of Cape Fear Advisors, LLC, a strategy and business development firm based in Wilmington, NC. His clients included fast-growing organizations in software, data services and applied technology in automotive, logistics, aviation and other markets.

Previously, Greg was Senior Vice President at The Reynolds and Reynolds Company. Prior to his 8 years at Reynolds, Greg held various leadership positions, including roles at Collins & Company, and Price Waterhouse.

Greg received his M.B.A. from the University of Virginia’s Darden School, and his B.A., in economics from Williams College. He and his wife and their two sons live in Wilmington, NC.

Dr. Eric Brewer

Dr. Brewer is globally recognized as one of the most influential people on the architecture of the Internet. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering for leading the development of scalable servers (early cloud computing), and also received the ACM Mark Weiser award for 2009. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in EECS from the MIT, and a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley. He was named a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum, “the most influential person on the architecture of the Internet” by the Industry Standard, one of InfoWorld’s top ten innovators, one of the top 100 most influential people for the 21st century (the “TR100″) by Technology Review, and one of Forbes’ 12 “e-mavericks,” for which he appeared on the cover. Dr. Brewer focuses on all aspects of Internet-based systems, including technology, strategy, and government.

As a researcher, he has led projects on scalable servers, search engines, network infrastructure, sensor networks, and security. His current focus is in (high) technology for developing regions, with projects in Cambodia, India, Ghana, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (so far), and including communications, health, education, and e-government.

In 1996, he co-founded Inktomi Corporation with a Berkeley grad student based on their research prototype, and helped lead it onto the Nasdaq 100 before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003.

In 2000, he founded the Federal Search Foundation, a 501-3(c) organization focused on improving consumer access to government information. Working with President Clinton, Dr. Brewer helped to create FirstGov.gov, the official portal of the Federal government, which launched in September 2000. Also in 2000, he propounded the CAP Theorem. CAP stands for Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. The theorem simply states that any shared-data system can only achieve two of these three.

Anthony S. Thornley

Mr. Thornley, currently the Director of Callaway Golf, joined the Board of Directors of Basho in October 2010. From February 2002 to July 2005, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of QUALCOMM Incorporated, the San Diego-based company that pioneered and developed technologies used in wireless networks throughout much of the world. He previously served as QUALCOMM’s Chief Financial Officer since 1994, while also holding titles of Vice President, Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President.

Prior to joining QUALCOMM, Mr. Thornley worked for Nortel Networks for 16 years, serving in various financial and information systems management positions including Vice President of Public Networks, Vice President of Finance NT World Trade, and Corporate Controller Northern Telecom Limited. Before Nortel, Mr. Thornley worked for Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Thornley is the CEO of Callaway Golf Company, and is a director of Cavium Networks (a semiconductor company), Transdel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Proximetry Inc. (a privately held wireless network management company), Gorgon Media, Inc. (a privately held application software business), Public Wireless (a privately held wireless solutions company), Tip City (a privately held company in the business of communicating deals offered by restaurants on-line and through smart phones), and KMF Audio, Inc. (a privately held microphone company) where also serves as Chief Financial Officer.

Mr. Thornley received his degree in chemistry from Manchester University, England, and is qualified as a chartered accountant.

Chester C. Davenport

Chester C. Davenport is Managing Director of Georgetown Partners LLC, a private equity firm he founded more than 20 years ago. He has since served as chairman of GTE Consumer Services Inc., Georgetown’s $3.2 billion joint venture with GTE providing cellular service to consumers in the Greater Chicago and St. Louis metropolitan areas. Mr. Davenport also served as Chairman of Envirotest Systems Corp., a publicly traded company with a market value of more than $650 million.

Previously, Mr. Davenport was an Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Transportation. He has worked in the United States Senate as a legislative assistant to Senator Alan Cranston of California and began his career as an attorney in the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Mr. Davenport is a graduate of Morehouse College and received his LL.B from the University of Georgia Law School. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Davenport serves as trustee of both the University of Georgia (UGA) Foundation, where he is a member on the audit committee and investment committee, and Morehouse College.

Earl Galleher

Earl Galleher has been commercializing successful Internet technology companies for the past 17 years. He co-founded Basho Technologies in January 2008 and he held the position of Chairman and CEO from its inception in January 2008 through June 2011. In that time he guided the company through its founding and early growth, raising $17.5 million of equity financing and building a board of directors of industry luminaries.

Prior to Basho, Earl was a Series A investor in and the Executive Vice President of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), from it’s inception, through it’s IPO and highest growth years. In just two years, Earl built a global sales, marketing, service and support organization of 650 employees in 6 countries and he grew revenue from $0 to $165 million annually.

Earl’s record of success in developing valuable Internet companies began in 1996 when he created and was President of the Web Site Management Services Division of Digex, Inc. He led Digex, now part of Verizon Communications, to become the world’s largest provider of corporate web site hosting services for Fortune 2000 corporations. Earl participated in executing a successful IPO of DIGEX in 1997, raising $48 million, and he participated in the sale of the company for $178 million in June, 1998.

In between Akamai and Basho, Earl dedicated his full time effort as Chairman of the Board of KIPP DC, a Washington DC charter school. From 2003 through 2007, he guided an aggressive expansion of KIPP DC from one middle school serving 160 students in the most underserved areas of DC, to a seven-school system, including three elementary schools, three middle schools and one high school, all in Southeast Washington DC. Today, KIPP DC is the number one performing charter or public school/school system in the District of Columbia, serving over 2,000 students. Earl continues to serve as a Board member of KIPP DC.

Robert L. Reisley

Robert L. Reisley is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Evergreen Industries, LLC, a private investment firm, and President of Evergreen Capital Advisors, Inc., a merchant banking firm he founded in 1996.  Rob is also a Member of Georgetown Partners.

Over the past two decades, he has played a major entrepreneurial role in advising, financing, and founding early stage and emerging growth companies, primarily in the healthcare, business services and information technology industries. Notably, he sponsored the successful management buyout of Research Pharmaceutical Services and played an instrumental role in the creation of Quench USA.

Previously, Rob was a Principal of Eureka Growth Capital, Managing Director of KBL Healthcare, Vice President of ING, and as a principal in a family-controlled buyout firm. His early career experience includes investment banking at EF Hutton and consulting at ICF. Rob currently serves on the Boards of MTI Precision Products (Chairman), IAB Solutions (Chairman), and MCMC LLC. He graduated from Bowdoin College in with a B.A. in Economics 1979 and earned an MBA from the Wharton School in 1983.

Dave Ross

Dave Ross joined the Board of Directors at Basho in October 2012. He has over 20 years of experience in product management, sales, and business development in the wireless industry. Dave joined Qualcomm in 1996 as a product manager for the first commercial CDMA phone. He also worked on the team that delivered the first phone with mobile Internet, and on the first phone with an App Store. Dave holds 12 patents, and is listed on 9 patents covering wireless and computing services, devices, and accessories. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he was recruited to perform product innovation and sales at American Mobile Satellite Corporation, the first ever hybrid mobile satellite/terrestrial telephone and data system. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is a former United States Marine.

Atsushi “Ash” Yamanaka

Ash Yamanaka joined the Board of Directors at Basho in February 2013.

Ash is a General Manager in President Office of IDC Frontier Inc., a Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure Service Provider in Japan where he is in charge of business strategy, business planning, investment planning and external affairs. Ash also serves as a Steering Committee Member for Japan Data Center Council (JDCC) where he leads various industrial and governmental collaboration activities as an industry representative.

He started his career as a Data Center specialist at Japan Telecom (current Softbank Telecom) in 2000, followed by joining Softbank IDC (current IDC Frontier) from its foundation in 2005 where he led many multi-million-scale Data Center construction projects which received many domestic and international awards.

Ash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics with Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London, and also is an Associate of Royal College of Science (ARCS).