John Hoffman has over 25 years of global high technology management experience building growth organizations in both the semiconductor and information technology markets.

Prior to joining Pivotal Systems, John was a Senior VP with Spencer Trask Ventures, a New York based venture capital firm. While at Spencer Trask, John was primarily involved in the solar and integrated circuit efforts of the firm. Prior to Spencer Trask, John was the Chief Executive Officer of RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, an Inc 500 fastest growing private company. John reorganized the company and enabled record growth in revenue and profitability during his tenure. Prior to RagingWire, John worked in various general manager roles at Applied Materials for 18 years. He was the President of the billion dollar “Etch Product Business Group”, VP and GM of the Process Control and Diagnostic Business Group and the General Manager of the Customer Service Division which grew by over 300% during his tenure.

John has a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an Executive MBA (AEA) from Stanford University. He currently serves on several Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards.

Joseph Monkowski has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry focused on providing process equipment and metrology solutions for next generation device manufacturing.

Prior to joining Pivotal, Monkowski was the SVP of Business Development for Advanced Energy Industries, where he led the company's M&A strategy to expand its product portfolio and position the company as a market leader in the semiconductor subsystems space. Previously, he held senior executive positions at Pacific Scientific, Photon Dynamics and Lam Research, where he served as EVP and CTO. During his career, Monkowski led efforts to design and build a number of leading CVD and plasma etch systems, winning the R&D 100 award and multiple Semiconductor International Best Product awards. He has authored numerous patents and publications.

Joseph Monkowski has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Materials Science, all from Penn State University. He also served as a Professor of Electrical Engineering for six years at Penn State University.

Omesh Sharma has 20+ years of financial management experience in the public and private sectors.

Prior to joining Pivotal Systems, Sharma held several key senior financial and management positions at RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Media Arts Group Inc. and Nortel Networks, where he was responsible for implementing business processes, procedures, financial and operational metrics, and controls. His demonstrated ability to streamline operational procedures has helped a number of companies achieve significant cost-efficiencies. While at Nortel Networks, Sharma received two Top Talent awards and was recognized with numerous Pride awards for his outstanding contributions to the company.

Omesh holds Master’s degrees in finance, business administration and economics.

Mukund Venkatesh has over 15 years of marketing and business building experience across the global high technology supply chain.

Prior to joining Pivotal, Mukund was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey&Co. where he led several business building and sales / marketing growth efforts. His clients consisted of both Fortune 100 companies as well as smaller nimbler companies in industries ranging from software to telecom services to device makers to semiconductor manufacturers. Apart from his client work, Mukund was a leader within the firm’s Global High Tech and Telecom practices. Prior to McKinsey, Mukund worked at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, where he designed diagnostic systems for large-scale fusion energy reactors.

Mukund Venkatesh holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from l’Ecole des Ingenieurs, Paris.

Sherk Chung has over 17 years experience building production software systems for semiconductor, telecom, and information technology industries.

At Pivotal, Sherk is responsible for implementing the company’s core technologies into semiconductor fab-deployable control products. Prior to Pivotal, Sherk was co-founder and VP of Engineering of Enuvis Inc., a high-tech startup providing an innovative high-sensitivity GPS solution for the wireless telecom market. At Enuvis, Sherk was responsible for product development of telecom-grade server equipment and embedded GPS modules. Prior to Enuvis, Sherk was the CTO of Fandango where he managed the implementation and deployment of Fandango.com. Previously he worked at Sapient as a Director where he was responsible for building large mission-critical production systems for companies like Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Hallmark, and McKesson. Prior to Sapient, Sherk worked at COMSAT Corporation developing DSP modules for use on communication satellites.

Sherk Chung holds both a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.