Board of Directors
Michel Quazza — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
An International Executive, Michel has 20 years of business experience with telecommunications and software companies across the globe. Prior to his CEO role at SurfKitchen, he held executive positions with Phone.com and Openwave in Silicon Valley, as Vice President of Product Management, Vice President of Business Development and General Manager of its Mobile Infrastructure Business Unit.
During his earlier career, Michel held sales, marketing and business development roles across Europe with Octel Communications (acquired by Lucent Technologies), Global One (now Equant ) and France Telecom.
Michel holds an MSc from the French “Grande Ecole” Centrale Paris, with follow-on studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Andrew Davison - Director
Andrew is a partner at Scottish Equity Partners and has 13 years venture capital experience. Andrew focuses on investments primarily in the communications, semiconductor and hardware sectors at all stages of development, from university spin-outs and A round investments through to corporate spin-outs and MBOs.
His current investments include: Kiala, the European collection point network operator; ip.access, the leading picocell and femtocell vendor; Zeus, the internet and application load balancing infrastructure business; Surfkitchen, a company developing software for mobile handsets and Tideway Systems, a software company focused on data centre application mapping. He also has two investments in fabless semiconductor companies targeting the power management market - Cambridge Semiconductor and Powervation.
Tony Haight — Director
Prior to joining Argo Global Capital, Mr. Haight was a founder and a Managing Director of Advent International Corp. ("Advent"), one of the world's largest private equity investment firms with more than US $24 billion under management, operating in 39 countries from 16 offices with more than 150 investment professionals. Mr. Haight joined Advent in 1983. He was closely involved in the formation of, and was responsible for, Advent's operations in the Pacific Rim. Later, Mr. Haight was also responsible for Advent's operations in Canada. At Advent, Mr. Haight was directly responsible for more than US $75 million of investments in 27 companies. Prior to joining Advent, Mr. Haight founded or acquired 11 companies in a number of fields (including forest and consumer products), many of which had operations in Asia, Latin America and Canada. Mr. Haight is currently a director of OnMobile Inc.; Neural Technologies Ltd.; ArgNor; OnMobile Systems Global, Ltd.; uReach; Surfkitchen; Nostix; SP Industries; and a number of funds and fund management companies. He received a BS from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Maisy Ng — Director
Maisy founded ADD Partners, venture capitalists, after a ten-year career in technology and venture capital. Previously, she worked at Vertex Management, a Singapore-based multi-national private equity firm, where she headed their London-based European office and was involved in 15 of the 20 European deals that Vertex closed from 1996 to 1999. Prior to this, she spent 7 years in the semiconductor industry, as a chip designer in both Silicon Valley and Singapore before moving into product marketing.
