Barrett Lyon

CEO and Co-founder

Barrett Lyon, creator of the Opte Project, founder of Prolexic Technologies and co-founder of BitGravity, is building on his past ventures and technology innovations to create new ideas to improve people's interaction with technology and content at XDN Technologies.

In addition to XDN, Prolexic Technologies and BitGravity, Lyon is a central player of the forthcoming cyber-thriller Fatal System Error which depicts the real life efforts to track and apprehend an international denial of service extortion ring. Lyon's Opte Project is an Internet mapping project that has gathered support worldwide and is featured at the Boston Museum of Science and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Chris Wallace

Co-founder and VP of Business Development

Chris Wallace, a founding team member from Exodus Communications, founder of Digital Pipe and executive with several technology companies, where he was directly responsible for revenue generation, product development, marketing, and overall business strategy, brings his enthusiasm and industry knowledge to XDN Technologies.

Wallace is building on 16 years of experience creating reliable and scalable infrastructural solutions for businesses to safely distribute and conduct commerce over the Internet. Wallace holds a BA from University of California at Santa Barbara and lives in San Mateo with his wife and four children.

Nathan Hickson

VP of Operations

Nathan is excited to be driving XDN's daily operational success… delivering creativity, reliability, efficiency, and effective execution to XDN's mission.

Nathan comes to 3crowd from Google where he primarily focused on scalable content delivery and was a leading engineer during the explosive growth of YouTube's colocation, server, and network infrastructure.

Nathan brings 17 years of internet operations, engineering, and architechture experience with him from his participation in Google, YouTube, eBay, Cable & Wireless, Exodus Communications, Earthlink Networks, and NASA.

Christine Shannon

Director of Business Operations

Christine has been keeping XDN on track and operational since its inception as the Director of Business Operations.  Her serene and gentle nature, combined with her outstanding organizational skills have been instrumental in building today's great XDN team.
 
Prior to spending five years living abroad in Rome, Christine held positions in both Channel Sales and International Marketing at various Silicon Valley companies, including Sun Microsystems and Informix Software.
 
Ms. Shannon holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of Santa Clara.

Steven M. Machado

VP of Finance

Steven M. Machado joined 3Cowd Technologies, Inc. in 2009. Mr. Machado is responsible for accounting, external reporting, tax compliance, and all other financial and treasury functions.

Mr. Machado has more than 17 years financial management experience in high technology, aviation finance, and renewable energy. Mr. Machado was a founding team member at Exodus Communications, Inc..

Mr. Machado holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of San Francisco.

Ronn Brashear

VP of Engineering

As Vice President of Engineering, Ronn provides vision, expertise and leadership to the technology research and development effort at XDN.

Prior to XDN, Ronn served as director of engineering at OnLive, a cloud-gaming service, where he led the architecture and creation of the service infrastructure. He also served as an architect for Tellme, and has held leadership roles at Austin Decisions, Trilogy, and LiveOps.

Gregoire Villain

VP of Products

As Vice President of Products, Greg leads the product development and marketing efforts, focusing on forging new paths in online content delivery, and making sure XDN keeps its customers at the core of its constant, future innovations.

Greg was formerly in charge of the CDN market and product development for the EMEA Region at TATA Communications. Villain has also held various network engineering positions, ranging from engineering triple play networks for a DSL unbundling mass market ISP, as well as designing, and implementing network and hosting infrastructures for high volume content platforms (Dailymotion). He also designed and rolled-out Internet Exchange points in France (PaNAP) and the Middle East.

Barrett Lyon

CEO and Co-founder

Barrett Lyon, creator of the Opte Project, founder of Prolexic Technologies and co-founder of BitGravity, is building on his past ventures and technology innovations to create new ideas to improve people's interaction with technology and content at XDN Technologies.

In addition to XDN, Prolexic Technologies and BitGravity, Lyon is a central player of the forthcoming cyber-thriller Fatal System Error which depicts the real life efforts to track and apprehend an international denial of service extortion ring. Lyon's Opte Project is an Internet mapping project that has gathered support worldwide and is featured at the Boston Museum of Science and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Chris Wallace

Co-founder and VP of Business Development

Chris Wallace, a founding team member from Exodus Communications, founder of Digital Pipe and executive with several technology companies, where he was directly responsible for revenue generation, product development, marketing, and overall business strategy, brings his enthusiasm and industry knowledge to XDN Technologies.

Wallace is building on 16 years of experience creating reliable and scalable infrastructural solutions for businesses to safely distribute and conduct commerce over the Internet. Wallace holds a BA from University of California at Santa Barbara and lives in San Mateo with his wife and four children.

Maha Ibrahim

Canaan Partners

Maha Ibrahim is a technology trend spotter with deep operational experience. She joined Canaan's Menlo Park office in March 2000 and focuses on digital media, networking and wireless investments. Maha loves to work with some of the nation's smartest entrepreneurs to build innovative companies from the ground up. A thought leader with deep insight into which business models will disrupt the status quo and propel companies to market dominance, Maha has won numerous industry awards, including The Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 Under 40 award, and is frequently invited to speak at digital media conferences. She has served as a judge for startup competitions at Web 2.0 Expo, Digital Living Room and Under the Radar.

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Ryan Floyd

Storm Ventures

Ryan is a founding member of Storm Ventures. At Storm Ventures, Ryan has focused on enterprise IT, internet and web infrastructure opportunities. He has invested in both semiconductors and components (SandForce and Ignis Optics/acquired by Bookham), as well as software (Appcelerator, DeviceVM, Netforensics, Yieldbuild and Kidaro/acquired by Microsoft.)

Prior to founding Storm Ventures, Ryan directed the business development activities at E-TEK Dynamics where he focused on building strategic OEM and customer relationships, scaling E-TEK's manufacturing operations as well as directing the equity investing and acquisition activities until E-TEK merged with JDS Uniphase in 2000.

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Jay Adelson

Jay Adelson is a serial entrepreneur and advisor. Most recently, Adelson served as CEO of SimpleGeo, which provided services and tools that make it easy for developers to create location-aware applications. SimpleGeo was sold to Urban Airship in November, 2011.

Prior to SimpleGeo, Adelson served as the CEO of the social news website Digg, where he took the company from an unknown startup to a global brand. Under his leadership, Digg grew from less than 20,000 to more than 35 million monthly visitors.

Adelson is also the founder and chairman of the board of the Internet television network, Revision3.

Prior to Digg and Revision3, Adelson founded Equinix, Inc (Nasdaq: EQIX), a multi-billion dollar company that operates data centers and provides network connectivity services for companies around the world. Currently, more than 70% of the world's Internet traffic depends on Equinix to reach its destination.

Adelson also co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation's Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX), one of the largest Internet aggregation points in the world, and he was an original early employee and leader at Netcom On-Line Communications, Inc., one of the nation's first Internet Service Providers.

On July 15, 2003, Adelson testified before congress, advising the House's Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity and Science and Technolgy on the topic "The Private Sector's Role in Keeping America's Cyberspace Secure."

In 2008, Adelson was recognized in Time Magazine's Time 100 – The Most Influential People in the World.

Canaan Partners

www.canaan.com

Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies. Founded in 1987, the firm has raised eight funds and completed more than 78 acquisitions and 53 IPOs. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise, clean tech, biopharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics and healthcare infrastructure companies. Among its successes are Associated Content, the people's media company; VOIP equipment supplier Acme Packet; Amicus Therapeutics, a pioneer of next-generation oral therapies for the management of human genetic diseases; BiPar Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering novel tumor-selective therapies to address urgent unmet needs of cancer patients; Calixa Therapeutics, developer of hospital-based antibiotics to treat infections resulting from resistant strains of bacteria; Cerexa Inc., one of the largest biotech acquisitions of 2007; CommerceOne, the company that pioneered B2B ecommerce; DoubleClick, the leading online advertising solution;  Match.com, the most popular online dating site in the world; and SuccessFactors, the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions. Other Canaan investments include Active Networks, Advanced BioHealing, blip.tv, Blurb, Calibra Medical, Chimerix, Inc., iYogi, Lending Club, Liquidia Technologies, ON24, OpenSky, Prime Sense, SOASTA, ReVision Optics, Theraclone Sciences, Tremor Media, TweetPhoto, VaxInnate and Zoosk.  Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel.

Storm Ventures

www.stormventures.com

Storm Ventures was founded by a seasoned group of industry veterans with the common vision of sharing their collective experience, passion and energy to help talented and driven entrepreneurs build great companies of enduring value. Storm Ventures focuses on seed and early stage information technology companies which best leverages their operational perspective and experience and enables them to add value in the critical early stages of a company's development.

Greenwich Technology Associates

Angel Investors

XDN has strategic angel investments from serial entrepreneurs Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, and other powerhouse industry moguls.