Raymond joined Presto as President and CEO in 2006 and brings a wealth of experience and leadership in consumer-focused technology products and in strategy development and execution.

Prior to assuming the role of CEO of Presto, Raymond spent eight years with Intuit where he helped shape the direction and execution of successful growth strategies for the company. Most recently he was Senior Vice President of Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer.

Before Intuit, Raymond served as Vice President and Partner with the Boston Consulting Group, leading the West Coast high technology and media practice. Much of his work involved exploring market opportunities and segmentation, competitive dynamics, business economics, and evaluating investments and acquisitions.

In addition to his family and business pursuits, Raymond is active in the community. He is currently a board member of The Holocaust Center of Northern California.

He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Masters Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Marian Cauwet brings to Presto over 20 years of experience developing market-leading products and building world-class product-development teams.

As Palm Computing's first Vice President of Engineering, she oversaw the entire development and release of the Palm product family. Prior to joining Presto, Marian was Vice President of Engineering at Tapwave, Inc., where she led the development and launch of a Palm-based entertainment device and service targeted for young adults. Her other roles have included Director of Engineering at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where she managed work on software that became Java; Senior Director at Motorola, Inc., Director of Information Systems, Operations and Software at 3Com, and Software Development Manager at Apple Computer.

Marian is actively involved with early-stage companies in advisory or consultative capacities, and has served as a director on the board of Sharedata, Inc., the leader in equity compensation software, until its sale to E*Trade. She holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Greg Paulsen brings an extensive background in finance and business development as well as more than 15 years of business experience and leadership to the Presto team.

As Intuit's Vice President of Corporate Development, Greg and his team worked with many of the company's businesses on growth strategies and executed a variety of strategic transactions. Greg served as Senior Director of Finance for a division of Intuit where he provided financial leadership and business consulting to grow and improve the operations of businesses ranging in size from $10M to $200M of revenue. Prior to Intuit, Greg spent several years at LSI Logic and PricewaterhouseCoopers in a variety of finance and consulting roles. At LSI, he served as a senior leader in the corporate planning and analysis organization. At PricewaterhouseCoopers, he led engagement teams to provide strategy and business consulting, M&A, and audit services to clients in numerous technology industries.

Greg is a Certified Public Accountant and has BS/MSCE degrees in materials science from the University of Nevada at Reno and an MBA degree from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.

For over 20 years, Peter has developed and marketed consumer technology products people love to use. Peter focuses on developing products that have a deep connection with their users—crafting and communicating each product's unique and compelling story. This has been his core success strategy behind the development, positioning and launch of hundreds of new consumer products and services at startups, mid-size and Fortune 100 companies.

Over Peter's career, he has led marketing and product development functions at Seagate Technologies, Monster Cable Products, Mirra, Oceanic Worldwide, Sage Systems and Data Robotics. Besides leading marketing and product management teams at those companies, Peter also played key roles raising venture capital and managing the integration of employees gained through acquisition.

He has a B.A. in Industrial Arts from San Francisco State University where he also completed his graduate coursework, taught a core design course, and is a frequent speaker.

Prior to joining Presto, Russ was co-founder and CEO at Sentinel Vision, which provided a vision-based security and notification system serving the apartment market. Russ raised venture financing, managed the engineering development effort, and directed multi-channel sales efforts, resulting in the sale of the company. Previously, Russ served as Vice President of Marketing at iCargo, a venture-backed B2B air cargo exchange.

He was also co-founder and CEO of Clearvox Communications, the company that pioneered the market for mobile phone headsets, where he spearheaded sales relationships with Best Buy, Cellular One, Fry's, GTE, Motorola, Panasonic and Uniden before orchestrating sale of the company to Plantronics. Previously, Russ honed his product management skills at Adaptec and sold for AT&T.

Russ continues to be excited by entrepreneurship and new technologies, and acts as advisor or board member for several Silicon Valley start-ups. He received a BSBA from Boston University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Julia Dorfman Schiff is a product planning and management professional with more than 15 years of experience in the consumer product and service industry. Working with ground-breaking engineering teams at WebTV Networks, MSN and Yahoo!, she has launched consumer hardware and service products that impact the lives of consumers in a meaningful way by helping them to communicate with each other more easily and share content that makes their lives richer. Having worked on TV-connected hardware and services, such as WebTV, Julia understands the complexities of delivering an easy-to-use product that continues to provide value for the end-user beyond first installation. Julia possesses deep knowledge of consumer segments including advanced technology enthusiasts, such as Broadband Home Network Entertainment users, and novice technology users, such as seniors and non-PC adopters, children, and families.

In addition to leading teams that defined, developed and launched new products and services, Julia has owned and operated her own product management consulting firm, helping companies of all sizes assess new market opportunities, define core features and evolve their strategies.

Julia holds a B.A. in English and Communications from Tufts University and an M.A. from Stanford University.

Joe Beninato is no stranger to the entrepreneurial world. Since graduating from M.I.T. with a degree in aerospace engineering, Joe has worked with a dozen startups, serving as founder, employee, investor, or advisor.

Before co-founding Presto, he was Vice President of Product Marketing and Business Development at Roku, a privately held digital media start-up company. Prior to Roku, Joe co-founded and served as Vice President of Marketing for When.com, a leading Internet calendar and event service that was acquired by America Online less than one year after incorporation. In addition, Joe has spearheaded marketing efforts for Books That Work, Integrated Systems, Inc., and S3 Inc., later known as SONICBlue.

Actively involved in the Silicon Valley start-up community, Joe is a limited partner in several venture capital funds, has served on the board of directors for When.com and eDaycare (acquired by Parentwatch), and acted as an advisor for Bigstep (acquired by Affinity Internet), Ofoto (acquired by Kodak) and Topica (private).

Dan Eilers is a Managing Director at Vanguard Ventures. Dan brings over 20 years of technology and venture capital experience to his role. Immediately prior to joining Vanguard Ventures, he was an angel investor, advisor, and board member to several early stage private and public companies including WebEx Communications, SiteSmith, and Carrier Access Corporation. Prior to that, Dan served as President and CEO of CIDCO, Inc., a publicly traded consumer telecommunications products company with about $250M in revenue during Dan's last year at the company. CIDCO was the creator of the MailStation and the iPhone, as well as numerous other telecommunications products for consumers. He served as CEO-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and while in this role became CEO and President of NAT Systems, a private enterprise software and services company backed by KPCB. Dan spent nine years at Apple and held the Chief Marketing Officer position (Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing). For nearly five years Dan led Claris Corporation, a leading personal computer applications software company in the 1980s and 1990s, as President and CEO.

Dan's current board memberships include Artificial Muscle, DVDPlay, Radiance Technologies, and Vormetric, in addition to Presto.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Washington, and an MBA degree from Stanford University.

Bill Elkus has enjoyed a successful 30 year career as a venture capitalist and family wealth manager. He was named one of the top 100 Venture Capitalists in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Bill founded Clearstone Venture Partners in 1997 and has been a Managing Member of its General Partners ever since. His current and past board memberships and observer roles include United Online (NASD: UNTD), Overture (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003), PayPal.com (acquired by eBay in 2002), the Chronicle Publishing Company (The San Francisco Chronicle and KRON television), Cooking.com, and WeddingChannel.com (acquired by The Knot in 2006).

Bill began his career at the Boston Consulting Group in 1977. As a strategic planning consultant, he worked in Menlo Park, Chicago, and Munich, covering such industries as semiconductors, magnetic recording media, and publications databases. Upon leaving BCG in 1982, Bill became president of Nathan Todd & Company, an investment advisory firm specializing in wealth management services and representing private family fortunes. Prior to founding Clearstone, Bill served as co-founder and managing director of a boutique Los Angeles merchant bank affiliated with Jefferies & Company, Inc.

Bill is a graduate of MIT, earning a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Management from Sloan School of Management. He graduated magna cum laude with a JD from the Harvard Law School.

Pradeep joins Presto's board of directors after a 25-year career at HP, where he served most recently as senior vice president for the $16 billion global Imaging and Printing Supplies business.

In 1996, Pradeep founded HP's Consumer Business Organization, the company's first formal go-to-market effort focused specifically on the consumer segment. The business grew dramatically, and by 2002 HP was a $15 billion supplier of consumer products ranging from home PCs and printers to digital entertainment and photography products. Prior to this, Pradeep held a number of general management, channel marketing and category marketing positions at HP, both in the U.S. and Germany.

Pradeep currently serves as an advisor to a handful of start-up companies in Silicon Valley and is on the advisory board of the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University — a center for research and dialog on issues in the areas of business ethics, bioethics, government ethics, campus ethics and character education.

Pradeep holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, a Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and a Master's in Business Administration from Stanford University.