Brian Hinman

Brian L. Hinman joined Oak as a Venture Partner in 2006. Brian was the co-founder， President and CEO， of 2Wire， a provider of broadband service platforms acquired by Pace （FTSE 250: PIC）. Brian is also the co-founder， and formerly the CEO， of Polycom， Inc. （NASD: PLCM）， the world's leading teleconferencing company. Brian was the co-founder of PictureTel Corporation （formerly NASD: PCTL） at the age of 22， pioneering the video compression technology that has endured into the standards of today. Brian is an engineer by training， a specialist in digital signal processing， and holds 18 U.S. patents. He has received several awards for entrepreneurship， including being named an Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2005. To catalyze entrepreneurship at his alma mater， he sponsors the Hinman CEO （Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities） Program at the University of Maryland. Brian currently serves on the board of directors of four Oak portfolio companies: Aurora Algae， GreenVolts， NanoH2O， and Phononic Devices. He has previously served on the boards of eSolar， Sundrop Fuels， the American Electronic Association， and was co-founder and director of the International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium （IMTC）. Brian holds a B.S.E.E. summa cum laude from the University of Maryland， an S.M.E.E. from M.I.T.， and an honorary Sc.D. from R.I.T.