Mr. Lawless has more than 25 years of experience in venture investing, business operations and company development. Mr. Lawless served as Director of Strategic Investments for Intel Capital, responsible for enterprise & internet security/manageability technology investments, an average portfolio value greater than USD$250 million. His regional focus included North and South America, Israel and China. Mr. Lawless served as Intel's representative to nine private company Boards of Directors, where he helped build world-class companies. He completed 16 investments and advised on many more during his tenure at Intel Capital, investing in innovative companies such as Credant Technologies (acquired by Dell), Crossbeam Systems (acquired by Blue Coat), DataSynapse (acquired by Tibco), NetScaler (acquired by Citrix for $300M), Oblix (acquired by Oracle), Safend (acquired by Wave Systems), TriCipher (acquired by VMware) and SignaCert (acquired by Harris Corp), where he served also as Senior Vice President for Marketing and Corporate Development. Additionally, Mr. Lawless was involved with preparing groups for spin-out, spin-in and other M&A activities for Intel. Mr. Lawless served as Managing Director for Hunter Wise Securities, advising on various capital and debt transactions. He served as CEO of Vector Teknologies, Inc., and has held other executive positions throughout his career. He holds five technology patents. Mr. Lawless graduated from the University of Maryland where he received his BS in Business and resides in Austin, Texas.

Mr. Gillette has over 41 years of business operating experience as a senior officer of both public and private companies.  Prior to his role as Managing Director for CIRRUS, Mr. Gillette was a Managing Director at Hunter Wise Financial Group, LLC and Hunter Wise Securities, LLC, an Irvine, CA based investment banking firm.  Beginning in 2003, Hunter Wise’s Denver team assisted small and medium sized companies in the areas of mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance, raising several hundred million in debt and equity capital.  Before joining Hunter Wise, Mr. Gillette owned and operated his own boutique corporate finance firm and subsequently folded his operations into Hunter Wise.  Mr. Gillette began his business career in general aviation as a flight instructor and spent 21 years in the airline business where he was co-founder and CEO of two regional airlines, the first based in Denver and the later, based in Kansas City, MO.  In addition, Mr. Gillette was responsible for executing numerous equity, debt, lease and other corporate transactions.   Mr. Gillette graduated from Rutgers University where he received a BS in Economics and now resides in Aurora, CO.