Board of Directors

Brian Bershad (Founder)

Dr. Brian Bershad founded Skytap as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington and served as its first CEO. Prior to joining the University of Washington faculty, Brian was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Bershad received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award in 1990, an ONR Young Investigator Award in 1994, an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award in 1994, and the ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award in 2004. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM. In 1997, Dr. Bershad founded Appliant, Inc, and served as CEO from 2000 to 2001.

Dr. Bershad received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Sunny Gupta

Sunny's career spans more than 16 years in enterprise software with roles including general management, strategic marketing, product management and business development. Sunny currently is the CEO of Apptio, Inc., an enterprise software as a service company focused on optimizing IT data centers. Prior to Apptio, he was EVP of Products at Opsware where he was responsible for all product business lines (Opsware was acquired by HP Software for over $1.6B). Before Opsware, Gupta was the co-founder and CEO of iConclude, where he pioneered the IT Run Book Automation market and drove its acquisition to Opsware for $65M in less than 2 years from inception. Before founding iConclude, Sunny ran the Java/.NET performance management product group for Mercury Interactive; served as vice president of marketing and business development at Performant (acquired by Mercury Interactive); and served as General Manager of Business Development at Rational. Gupta also co-founded Vigor Technology before its acquisition by Rational and held product management and consulting roles at Easel Corporation and IBM.

Hank Levy (Founder)

Hank Levy is Chairman and Wissner-Slivka Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Levy's research involves operating systems, computer architecture, distributed computing, and the Web. Levy is author of 2 books and over 80 technical papers, including a dozen award papers from major computer systems conferences. With his UW colleagues, he invented Simultaneous Multithreading, which has been used by Intel ("Hyperthreading") and IBM CPUs. Hank is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and recipient of a Fulbright Research Scholar Award. He was a co-founder of Performant, Inc. (acquired by Mercury in 2003). Before coming to Washington in the 1980s, Hank was a consulting engineer and systems architect at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Matt McIlwain

Matt McIlwain has been a member of the Skytap Board of Directors since 2006. At Madrona, he focuses on a broad range of software-driven companies and has previously sat on the board of many successfully companies including iConclude (acquired by Opsware), Performant (acquired by Mercury Interactive), and World Wide Packets (acquired by Ciena) and continues to serve on the board of Isilon (NASDAQ: ISLN). He is a board member of the Washington Technology Industry Association, the Villa Academy, serves on Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna’s Technology Advisory Board, and serves on the advisory board of Families Northwest. Mr. McIlwain teaches a course on venture finance for the University of Washington Technology MBA Program. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Scott Roza

Scott Roza is Skytap's Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Skytap, Scott was vice president of worldwide OEM and channel sales for HP/Opsware’s Business Service Automation business unit. In October 2007 HP acquired Opsware for $1.6B, where Scott served in the same role. Prior to Opsware Scott was vice president of marketing and business development for iConclude, where he was instrumental in positioning iConclude as the leader in the emerging Run Book Automation space. In this role he also established iConclude’s business relationship with Opsware, the firm that ultimately acquired iConclude for $65 million in early 2007. Prior to iConclude, Scott served as vice president, sales and marketing, for Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC), a $475M public data storage company, where he more than doubled ADIC’s branded business. Scott has also worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Co., and served 5 years in the United States Navy as a Submarine Officer.

Scott holds a B.S. degree in Marine Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland, an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School.

Brad Silverberg

Brad is a founding partner of Ignition. Brad represents Ignition as director on the boards of Seven, SourceLabs, ice.com, infiLearn, Avvo, and Skytap.

Prior to founding Ignition, Brad is best known as an industry pioneer who built the Microsoft Windows franchise and led Microsoft's Internet turnaround. During his nine-year tenure at Microsoft, he was a senior vice president and member of Microsoft's nine-member Executive Committee. He was responsible for driving all aspects of the Windows business from 1990 through 1995, including establishing the vision and strategy, and executing on product marketing and development. In five years, he grew Windows from a $50 million business to over $3.5 billion.

From 1994 through 1997, Brad led the Internet effort at Microsoft and was responsible for its Internet platform, as well as the Developer Tools Division and the Developer Relations Group. As part of the Internet efforts, Brad's responsibilities included Internet Explorer versions 1-4, which he grew from 0% share to over 60%, Outlook Express, Java, Commerce Server, and Commercial Internet Server. In 1996 and 1997, he also led the Microsoft Office division, was responsible for over $6 billion in revenue and managed over 5,000 people.

Prior to Microsoft, Brad's career involved running product development at Borland International; running product development at Silicon Valley startup called Analytica, which was later acquired by Borland; product development at Apple Computer; and computer science research at SRI International.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude in Computer Science from Brown University, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.