Renesys Corp

Board of Directors

Jay Borden

John (Jay) Borden was founder and CEO of telecom software company Granite Systems from its inception in 1993 through its successful sale to SAIC and merger with Telcordia in 2004. Granite was named four times to the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing private companies, and Borden was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 in the New England software category and New Hampshire High Tech Council Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000. Prior to founding Granite, Jay was at Digital Equipment Corporation in Sophia Antipolis, France and Littleton, MA, where he was responsible for the telecom network management software business. Jay began his career at the Yankee Group in Boston and later London, where he was a research director and responsible for starting the Euroscope research program. Jay holds a B.A. in Romance Languages, Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University.

Marina Chen

Marina was most recently a professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at Boston University. Prior to that, she was the president of Cooperating Systems Corporation, a consulting services company that provided rapid software prototyping and technology planning for advanced research and development in academia and industry. Marina has also been an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. She serves on numerous committees in the research community, has been an editor at various technical publications and chairs conferences and workshops. Marina received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from California Institute of Technology and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

Jim Cowie

Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder

Jim has more than 15 years entrepreneurial and software development experience in high performance computing, network modeling and simulation, web services, and security. Prior to founding Renesys, Jim was a principal at Cooperating Systems, a consulting services company that provided rapid software prototyping and technology planning for advanced research and development in academia and industry. Jim's fascination with the Internet's impact on security and collaboration dates back to 1995, when he authored the first web-based collaborative environment for cryptographic key factoring. Jim is the primary architect of SSFNet, the first open-source network simulation framework to support transparent parallelization and multiprocessor execution. Jim holds a B.S in computer science from Yale University.

Richard Leahy

Richard is a principal and co-founder of JWM Partners, LLC, an investment management firm based in Greenwich, CT. JMW Partners, LLC specializes in the development and application of sophisticated financial technology for investment management. Prior to JWM Partners, he was a principal, co-founder and limited partner of LTMC. Before founding LTMC, Richard was with Salomon Brothers, as co-head of the Mortgage Securities Department and earlier a product manager in the Derivative Products Group. Richard began his career at Merrill Lynch and Company. Richard received his B.S. in Economics from Boston State College and later attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania.

Andy T. Ogielski

President and Chief Scientist, Co-founder

Andy has more than 25 years experience encompassing data networking and telecommunications, Internet protocols, wireless systems, software systems, and scientific computing. Before founding Renesys, he was a research professor at Rutgers University where he led multimillion-dollar government funded projects such as scalable Internet modeling and simulation software (SSFNet) that pioneered analysis of large networks exceeding 100,000 multiprotocol hosts and routers. At Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia), Andy built pioneering high-speed network packet traffic recording and analysis systems, fraud detection software, streaming distributed video servers, and network operations software systems. As a research scientist (MTS) at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1982 to 1989, Andy was involved in very large scale scientific computing. In 1984 he designed and built a special-purpose supercomputer that ran Monte Carlo simulations of complex materials several times faster than a Cray supercomputer built the same year. Andy holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Wroclaw, Poland.