Ron Lachman,
Co-founder and Investor
Ron currently serves
as a senior advisor/board member capacity to thirteen different technology
companies in the fields of distributed computing and Internet commerce.
Investments and
Current Involvements
Ron is President of Kinetech, his technology investment & patent
holding company with Ezra Goldman. Kinetech, Inc. is also doing business
as Lachman / Goldman Ventures.
Internet Dynamics at http://www.interdyn.com
developed the Conclave product. This product allows "fine grain"
security management for your information and the network. It integrates
firewall, certificate manager, VPN, remote access and Intranet security.
Ron is a co-founder.
2Bridge Software at http://www.2bridge.com
is creator of an electronic publishing product called 2Share. It allows
real-time collaboration of authors/contributors to create high production
value electronic publications. Ron is a co-founder/director.
Connected Corporation at http://www.connected.com
is the provider of VirtualMIS and Connected Online Backup service that
allow corporations to backup, restore and maintain their PCs across
intranets and the Internet and extend their IT support practices to
the edges of a distributed enterprise. Ron is a director and near-founder.
Sandpiper Networks at http://www.sandpiper.net
is a network service that transparently moves web-site content close
to its users, reducing bandwidth and management. Ron is co-founder.
Santa Cruz Operations at http://www.sco.com
is the owner of UNIX, and popular server software. Ron is a director.
Telemedia Devices at http://www.telemediadevices.com
is the maker of "FreezeDry" Java, that creates 12x smaller
byte codes than Sun and a full Java interpreter for consumer products
and embedded systems that is under 20k bytes.
Computer Systems Development at http://www.csdinc.com
is an instruction, consulting, integration and outsourcing Services
Company. Ron is a director and near-founder.
Nexiv, formerly known as Webstyles at http://www.nexiv.com
is an Internet services and technology company focusing on creating
electronic communities. Ron is a director.
Technically Elite at http://www.tecelite.com
develops technology to monitor your network, and markets RMON hardware
and software.
Alpine Microsystems at http://www.alpinemicro.com
is a new Silicon on silicon IC packaging / circuit board specializing
in multi-layer silicon circuitry and novel packaging.
etComm at http://www.etcomm.com
is an electronic meter reading product & technology. Also with Metering
Technology, another company that creates electronic meters using etComm
chips.
Whitebarn Studios at http://www.whitebarn.com
is a consulting company with strengths in networking system software
and website design. Ron is a director.
Aliroo at http://www.aliroo.com
is an Israeli company specializing in graphics encryption, recoverable
encryption and hidden digital signatures of printed paper documents,
and generalized client encryption technologies.
CenterGate® Research
Group, an Internet Think Tank, creators of http://www.efridge.com
online calendar and UltraDNS Domain Name Service at http://www.ultradns.com
. Ron is a director of CenterGate.