Technical Advisory Council

Carl Amdahl

Technology Partner, Doll Capital Management

Carl Amdahl has twenty-five years of experience as a senior executive in the IT industry. During this period, he was a founder of three publicly traded companies, and has participated in raising over $300M in private and public funding. Carl's technical background is broad, encompassing systems architecture, networking, semiconductors, and software. He is a prolific inventor and is named on eighteen issued United States Patents. At DCM, he assists portfolio companies in developing product strategies, building technology partnerships, and leads DCM's Technical Advisory Board. Carl currently serves on the Advisory Boards of numerous DCM portfolio companies.

Prior to joining DCM, Carl operated Amdahl Associates, an independent consulting firm serving Intel, Novell, and Tandem Computers. Before consulting, Carl joined the Board of Directors of F5 Networks (NASD: FFIV) in May 1998, and later joined F5 as CTO. F5 was one of the top performing IPOs in 1999.

Prior, Carl was a founder of NetFRAME Systems, and served as Chairman as well as in various operating roles including CTO and CEO. Carl defined the "superserver" market segment and established key technical relationships with Intel, Microsoft, and Novell. NetFRAME grew to a peak of $90M in annual revenue, went public in 1992 (NASD:NETF), and was acquired by Micron Electronics (NASD:MUEI) in 1997.

Previously, Carl was a co-founder of Trilogy Systems Ltd. (NASD: TRILF), and served as Vice-Chairman and Director. Trilogy engaged in the design and development of large-scale IBM System 370 compatible mainframe computers and sophisticated wafer-scale integrated circuit technology. Carl was also a co-founder of Magnuson Computer Systems Inc. (NASD: MCSI), and served as Executive Vice President of Engineering and Director. Carl was the principal system architect and central processor design engineer for two generations of IBM System 370 compatible mainframe computers.

Carl is a Stanford Sloan Fellow and received an MS in Management from Stanford University, and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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