Managing Members

Steve Cooper

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Steve is Formational Ventures' General Manager.  His responsibilities include website operations and maintenance, scheduling and operating global web and tele-conferences with Formational member investors and management teams and entrepreneurs and the continuous automation of back-office systems, including accounting, tax preparations, member initiations and communications.  Steve's area of expertise includes project management, remote data gathering and integration technologies and process automation.  He currently resides in London, England and frequently travels to Menlo Park, California.

Dave DePuy

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Dave is an experienced marketing and sales executive specializing in advanced data communications and telecommunications markets.  Dave began his career as a design engineer at Hewlett-Packard working on an intelligent network adapter.  He later held senior sales and marketing positions when he assisted with the growth of several new and successful start-up companies including 3Com, Crescendo, and LAN Media.  Dave’s expertise includes market development, sales channel development and management and product analysis.  He now resides in Los Altos Hills, California.

Mark Housley

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Mark Housley has demonstrated outstanding leadership performance in both global and startup technology companies.  He most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Media 100 immediately following its merger with Digital Origin Inc., a public company, where he was Chairman and CEO.  Digital Origin developed and marketed tools for the streaming media industry.  Earlier, Mark founded and was V.P. Marketing of Spectrum Wireless, Inc., Vice President and General Manager of SuperMac Technology’s Color Publishing Division and Vice President for Siemens AG, a multinational manufacturer of electronic equipment.   Earlier, Mark rapidly advanced through various engineering, marketing and sales management positions at IBM, ROLM and ASK Computers.  He remains a Director of Media 100 and also serves as a director of Applied Magic, Inc, a developer of consumer video appliances.  Mark graduated with honors in mathematics from Pomona College.  He currently resides in Palo Alto, California.

Michael Khuen

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Michael is the Founder and former CEO of Miro Computer Products, an international graphics display company with annual revenues of $240 million and worldwide operations.  Mr. Kuehn brings to Formational Ventures a strong background in video technology having introduced more than 60 software and hardware products to the market in the ‘90s while leading Miro to become the worldwide leader in digital video editing.  After selling the company in 1997, Michael formed a Silicon Valley consulting firm that helped companies execute turn-around and start-up projects, including the restructuring and sale of the Radius’ hardware business, the rebuilding of ColorMatch for KDS, and the launch of TeVeo - an Internet video company.  He has an M.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Dipl.-Ing. In Electrical Engineering from Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany

Tom Rota

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Tom began his career in finance at the headquarters of two Fortune 100 companies, first at The Ford Motor Company and later at Kimberly Clark.  He moved westward to Silicon Valley and began his finance career in venture-backed companies 24 years ago. Over this time Tom has helped lead four companies through rapid growth and to initial public offerings.  He has helped shape operating plans and budgets and capital finance strategies for numerous companies and has raised over $300M in capital financing.  Tom has also shaped corporate information strategies as CIO for growing, global enterprises.  His area of expertise is in corporate finance and capitalization strategies for start-up and emerging growth companies.  He resides in Palo Alto, California.