Amperion Board of Directors
Mike Tomana, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Michael Tomana is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Redleaf Group and the Managing Director of RLI Partners. Previously, Mr. Tomana served as the Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at the Redleaf Group.
His background includes over 25 years of business and legal experience with public and private companies. Mr. Tomana was the General Counsel at RedSiren Technologies Inc. and an Equity Partner at Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, LLP where he provided counsel to clients on corporate, commercial, and technology matters.
Mr. Tomana began his career at Thorp, Reed & Armstrong in 1982 and later joined National Intergroup, Inc., where he served until 1990 as Chief Counsel of the Operating Units of that company.
At Thorp, Reed & Armstrong and National Intergroup Inc., Mr. Tomana served as Counsel during numerous strategic mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures in the metals, technology, and distribution areas.
He is a Director of LucidMedia. Mr. Tomana received a Bachelor's degree from Yale University and a Juris Doctor degree from Boston College Law School.
Bill Melton, Director
Mr. William Melton is the Managing Partner of General Internet Ventures (GIV). For more than 30 years, Mr. Melton has been an entrepreneur building global technology companies. In the early 80s, Bill founded VeriFone, the transaction automation company that has made credit authorization terminals ubiquitous on retail merchant counters throughout the US.
In 1998, VeriFone was sold to HP for approximately $2.1 billion. Then, in the early 90s, Mr. Melton joined as an early investor and Director of the Board of America Online.
Mr. Melton has also held positions as Chairman and CEO of Cybercash, a pioneer in e-commerce transaction systems, and, in 1994, he co-founded Transaction Network Services (NASDAQ: TNSI), a nationwide network dedicated to efficient transportation of financial transactions.
TNSI was sold to PSINET in 1999 for approximately $750 million. Mr. Melton currently serves on the Boards of Directors of several privately held technology companies. He holds a Masters degree in Asian Studies and Chinese philosophy.
Milan Mandaric, Director
Mr. Milan Mandaric is the Owner and Chairman of Leicester City Football Club in the UK. He is a successful international business man with investements in Europe and the US.
Mr. Mandaric has extensive operating experience in the Contract Manufacturing industry. He was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sanmina Corporation, a leading independent supplier of backpanel assemblies, printed circuit board fabrication and contract assembly.
From its founding in 1980, Sanmina's revenues have grown to more than $10 billion. Prior to that, Mr. Mandaric founded Lika Corp. in the early 1970s and served as its Chief Executive until 1980, when he sold it to Tandy Corporation.
In 1989 Sanmina acquired SCI Systems, a much larger competitor, becoming Sanmina-SCI Corp one of the largest contract manufacturing companies in the world.
Mr. Mandaric also began branching out into investment banking operations such as Behrman Capital and became owner of the St. Louis Storm, a Major Indoor Soccer League franchise that ceased operations in 1992 when the MISL also folded.
After purchasing and selling a number of soccer clubs in the US and in central Europe, Mr. Mandaric has been focused in recent years on the UK. He is the former owner of Portsmouth club and the current owner of Leicester City Football Club.
Nachum Sadan, President and CEO
Mr. Nachum Sadan is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and the running of its business operations. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in computer networking and communications. Mr. Sadan was co-founder and Vice President Engineering of two networking startups that successfully sold in the mid and late 1990s.
Prior to his position at Amperion, Mr. Sadan was Chief Operating Officer of Mintera Optical Networks, a pioneer in development of 40Gbps optical transport products.
Prior to Mintera, he served as Executive Vice President of Technical Operations at Sitara Networks, delivering Quality of Service (QoS) products to large enterprise and service provider customers. During his period the company grew from a technology start-up into a high gross margin, revenue-producing business, serving major enterprise and telecommunications carriers worldwide.
He holds an MSEE degree from Northeastern University in Massachusetts and a BSEE degree, cum laude from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, MassNetComms, American Technion Society, Northeastern University Alumni Association and the IEEE.