Board of Directors

Kenneth Choi

Kenneth Choi is a founding partner and managing director of East Gate Capital Management. Kenneth has more than 20 years of venture capital and public equity investment experience in information technology, manufacturing, clean-tech research and development, and IP development and licensing companies. In addition to Intematix, Keneth serves in the board at Big Spoon (on-line game publisher), 3Cim (social media content provider), Time Voyager (social web game developer) and Blackstone Korea Advisors.

Kenneth was the president of the Korea Game Industry Agency under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which governs interactive media related policies and promotes the Korean game industry. Prior to East Gate, he was a portfolio manager of publicly traded securities at Pacific Gemini Partners and Sit/Kim International Investment Associates, Inc. Kenneth started his investment career at Citibank, N.A.

Kenneth is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), and holds Master's degree in Engineering Management from Stanford University and a B.S. in Engineering from Seoul National University.

Jennifer Fonstad

Jennifer Fonstad is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson with 15 years of experience in high-technology venture capital. In addition to Intematix, Jennifer has served in board of director roles at Kalima Bio Agritech, Pentalum Technologies, iCiX International, EdenIQ, Flurry, Nanostring, Nantero, and a number of other private companies. Through Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ms. Fonstad has been involved in investments in Athena health (eHealth services), Ember (wireless mesh network), Luminus Devices (solid state lighting), and Molecular Imprints (nano-imprint lithography). Previous investments include United Online, Achex (acquired by First Data Corporation) and iShip (acquired by Stamps). Jennifer began her career with Bain and Company.

Jennifer graduated Cum Laude from Georgetown University and holds a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and is a former Kauffman Fellow.

Alain Harrus

Alain Harrus has spent more than 25 years in the semiconductor industry as a technologist and an investor in high-growth early-stage companies. Alain is a partner at Crosslink Capital, where he focuses on the firm’s Energy Technologies and Computing and Semiconductor venture investing activities.

Before joining Crosslink, Alain was a General Partner at Compass Technology Partners investing in technology-intensive, early stage companies. Prior to that Allain served as Vice President and and Chief Technological Officer of Novellus. During his tenure at Novellus, Alain's roles ranged from director of technology for dielectrics to director of strategic marketing, where he evaluated new technologies and opportunities designed to fuel Novellus' growth in target markets. He began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories' advanced materials development group where he developed thermal and plasma processes for thin film dielectrics deposition for semiconductor device manufacturing.

Alain earned a bachelor of science in Mathematics and master of science in Physics from the University of Paris XI at Orsay, France. Alain also holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Solid State Physics, from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Warren C. Jensen

Warren C. Jensen is currently Chief Technology Officer at and Executive Vice President of Acxiom. Warren has over 20 years of experience in operational finance and has been involved in scaling many major companies.

Warren has been named twice as one of the “Best CFOs in America” by Institutional Investor magazine and has a successful track record guiding corporations at important inflection points in their evolution.  Before joining Acxiom, Warren was COO at Silver Spring Networks, a provider of smart grid networking technology. Warren has also served as CFO at Electronic Arts, Amazon.com and NBC.

Warren received both an undergraduate degree in accounting and a Master of Accountancy from Brigham Young University.

Mark Swoboda

Mark Swoboda brings over 27 years of experience in the LED, solid state and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Intematix, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Bridgelux, Inc, where his vision transitioned the company from an R&D and chip design business into a vertically integrated solid state lighting product company. Prior to Bridgelux, Mark served as Executive Vice President of Philips Lumileds, where he led sales, marketing, applications and custom product development teams that pioneered the power LED product class and developed high-growth markets in applications including automotive forward lighting, mobile phone camera flash, LED backlighting and general lighting. Additionally, Swoboda spent 17 years with the Hewlett-Packard Semiconductor Products Group in various sales, marketing, and channel management positions.

Mark earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Marquette University.