Vinod Khosla, consistently named the Silicon Valley's most successful venture capitalist, was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. In 2003 Forbes magazine named Vinod Khosla "The Man with the Golden Touch" when they put him at the top of their list of tech's best venture investors. Vinod has an uncanny talent for identifying emerging trends and opportunities. Khosla was the backer of some of Kleiner's most successful investments, including Juniper, now a public company, and Cerent and Siara Systems, which in 1999 were sold for $11.2 billion in total. In addition to eASIC, Vinod serves on the boards of Agami, Centrata, Indian School of Business, Infinera, Kovio, Metricstream, QWEST Communications, and Zettacore. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Vinod Khosla has been a General Partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers since 1986.