Andreas von Bechtolsheim is a member of the board of directors of VoltDB. He is an angel investor. He is Chairman, Director of Development and a member of the Board of Directors of Arista Networks. Prior to that, he co-founded Granite Systems and Kealia. In 1982, he co-founded Sun Microsystems and was its chief hardware developer. In 2010, Oracle bought Sun for $7.4 billion. He is currently the co-founder, chairman and chief development officer of Arista Networks, a network switching company. This engineering genius is a hardworking and driven man who has founded a number of successful companies. Andy cleverly and calculatingly invested $100,000 in Google, which by March 2010 was worth $1.7 billion.