Team

Brian L. Hinman joined Oak as a Venture Partner in 2006. Brian is the co-founder, and formerly the President and CEO, of 2Wire, a provider of broadband service platforms for the DSL market. Brian is also the co-founder, and formerly the CEO, of Polycom, Inc. (NASD: PLCM), the world's leading teleconferencing company. Brian was the co-founder of PictureTel Corporation (formerly NASD: PCTL) at the age of 22, pioneering the video compression technology that has endured into the standards of today. Brian is an engineer by training, a specialist in digital signal processing, and holds twelve U.S. patents. He has received several awards for entrepreneurship, including being named an Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2005. To catalyze entrepreneurship at his alma mater, he sponsors the Hinman CEO (Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities) Program at the University of Maryland. Brian currently serves on the board of directors of seven Oak portfolio companies: Aurora Biofuels, eSolar, GreenVolts, NanoH2O, Phononic Devices, Sundrop Fuels, and 2Wire. He has previously served on the national board of the American Electronic Association, and was co-founder and director of the International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC). Brian holds a B.S.E.E. summa cum laude from the University of Maryland, and an S.M.E.E. from M.I.T.