QTV has assembled a group of hard-working partners, advisors and start-up accelerators whose experience includes running start-ups, achieving history-making turnarounds, and managing multi-hundred million-dollar P/L's. We have built this experience through executive positions in technology companies including personal computing, server, storage, networked storage and software firms. Our objective is to assist entrepreneurs to quickly build strong teams, strategies and implementation plans that result in profitable revenue streams.
Partners
Steve Schlossareck
Maury Domengeaux
Steve Schlossareck, Vice President and General Partner
Before forming Quantum Technology Ventures, Steve served as senior director of Corporate Development at Quantum Corporation. He was responsible for implementing strategic transactions including acquisitions, spinouts, technology licenses, equity investments and a multitude of other strategic relationships. Steve was instrumental in driving core business opportunities for the company such as the acquisitions of both ATL and Meridian, the spin-out of Benchmark Tape Systems, the business relationship with and investment in TiVo, the licensing of Java and many more.
From 1986 through 1997, Steve was at Apple Computer. His most recent role was as senior manager for Corporate Development and Strategic Investments. In this role, he was responsible for spinning out Apple technologies and teams, creating new, independent startup companies. He also handled equity investments, strategic relationship deal structuring, due diligence for strategic transactions, financial analysis, competitive analysis, business planning for new businesses, strategic loans to software companies and technology development agreements.
Before Corporate Development at Apple (1986-1990), Steve held positions in the Apple USA Sales and Marketing division and in the Information Systems and Technology division.
Maury Domengeaux, Vice President and General Partner
Domengeaux joins Quantum Technology Ventures from Rivio, Inc where he served as senior vice president of marketing and sales. Maury was responsible for managing Rivio's marketing, channel and business development functions including customer acquisition, strategic relationships, channel development, branding, public relations, and advertising. Maury was instrumental in building the Rivio brand, distribution channel and partnerships with Bank of America, Bell South, Verizon, Fleet/Bank Boston and Microsoft.
Prior to joining Rivio, he was vice president of marketing for the SNAP division of Quantum where he developed the marketing and channel strategy that has established SNAP as the leading network attached storage appliance for workgroups.
Domengeaux was also a key contributor to the turnaround and success of Iomega Corporation, resulting in Iomega's sales increasing from $100 million in 1994 to more than $1.7 billion by 1997. Domengeaux's accomplishments include leading the Jaz division from product concept to generation of $480 million in annual revenue. He was also responsible for managing Iomega's Zip and Jaz tools software products.
Earlier in his career Maury was a UNIX analyst with International Data Corporation. He also served as Director of Third Party Software for Interactive Corporation, a Unix Operating System supplier acquired by Sun Microsystems and a HP-UX product manager at Hewlett Packard. He has two patents for work in multimedia management technology.
Advisors
Jim Schraith
Shmuel Shottan
Currently, chairman and chief executive officer for Snap Appliances, Inc, Jim Schraith brings a broad range of business development and general management advice to QTV.
As the former president of QTV, Schraith understands how to identify and invest in pre-public companies. In his previous position as executive vice president of worldwide sales and corporate marketing at Quantum, Schraith was responsible for worldwide sales for Quantum's two distinct businesses: the DLT & Storage Systems Group and the Hard Disk Drive Group. Schraith also led Quantum's corporate branding and communications strategies.
Prior to joining Quantum in 1999, Schraith was chief executive officer for ShareWave, a fast-growing developer of digital wireless home networking solutions. From 1996 to 1998, he served as vice president and general manager of Compaq's North America division, responsible for sales, marketing and management of more than 6,000 employees and revenues in excess of $10 billion. Prior to Compaq, he was president and chief operating officer of AST Research, Inc. In his nine years at AST, Schraith also held a number of senior executive positions including senior vice president of worldwide sales and service.
In addition to his role as chairman of the Snap Appliances board of directors, Schraith also sits on the boards of Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ: SMTC), SONICblue, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBLU) and several private technology companies.
Shmuel Shottan is currently the chief strategy officer for SNAP Appliances, Inc. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the company in technology development and forging industry partnerships.
Shottan has over 22 years' experience in the research and development of hardware and software, and in engineering management for firms ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. As senior vice president of engineering and chief technical officer at Meridian Data, Inc., Shottan led the development of the Snap Server and several other award winning networking products. After Quantum's acquisition of Meridian in 1999, Shottan guided the network attached storage systems strategy and oversaw the development of Quantum's network appliance servers. Under Shottan's direction, the award-winning Snap Server garnered 80 percent of the rapidly developing market for entry-level network attached storage systems.
Before Meridian, Shottan also held previous engineering development and management positions with Parallan Computer, AST Research, ICL North America/ CCI division. Shmuel holds a BSEE degree from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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