Plug and Play Acceleration and Collaboration Track (PACT)  

 

John Bautista
Partner
Orrick

John Bautista, a partner in the Silicon Valley office, is a member of the Emerging Companies Group, which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. Before joining Orrick, he was a co-founder of Venture Law Group and served on the Executive Committee. Mr. Bautista previously practiced at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. Mr. Bautista focuses on emerging companies, and represents both public and private high-tech companies and venture capital funds in many areas, including corporate and securities law, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, public company representation, and technology licensing.

David Cohen
Founder and Executive Director of TechStars

David has a soft spot for technology startups and enjoys helping innovative early stage technology companies succeed. He also has a passion for Colorado and believes it's a fantastic community for any startup. The Colorado TechStars program combines these passions with capital, connections and real-world experience to provide a unique opportunity for early stage startups. David is a founder of several software and web technology companies including Pinpoint Technologies (now ZOLL Data Systems) of Broomfield, Colorado. While at ZOLL Data Systems, David was also the CTO. The company was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL) in 1999. You can read about it in No Vision, All Drive [Amazon]. David was also the founder and CEO of earFeeder.com, which was sold to SonicSwap.com in 2006. David is also an active startup advocate, advisor, board member, and technology investor who comments on these topics on his blog at ColoradoStartups.com. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Center of Innovation at Metropolitan State College of Denver. David's hobbies are technology, software/web startups, business history, and tennis. He has two amazing kids who always seem to be teaching him something new.

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Ron Conway
Founder, SV Angels

Baseline Ventures is the personal investment arm of Ron Conway, an angel investor who was once called "The Godfather of Silicon Valley." Conway typically invests small amounts in many different startups across the Internet sector. He famously invested in over 240 startups in less than three years during the late 1990s. One of those companies was Google, a persistent success story. Learn more »

Jeffrey Crowe
General Partner
Norwest Venture Partners

Jeff joined Norwest Venture Partners in 2004 and focuses on seed and mid stage investments in software, Internet, and consumer arenas. He currently serves on the board of deCarta, Jigsaw, Lending Club, Nano-Tex, Tuvox, Turn and Wallop. Jeff is responsible for NVP's investment in 5 Square Systems and is actively involved with Cast Iron Systems. Learn more »

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Sean Dempsey
Partner
Merus Capital

Sean co-founded Merus Capital in November 2007. Previously he was a Principal of Corporate Development at Google, responsible for acquisitions and investments. Prior to that, he spent over six years at Microsoft in the Corporate Development team, where he was a Director. His areas of focus at Google and Microsoft included consumer web services, online and traditional advertising, online video, gaming and enterprise software-as-a-service.
Before joining Microsoft, he spent two years in technology Mergers & Acquisitions at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in Menlo Park and was a Research Analyst at the Jennings Group in San Francisco.
He holds a BA in Economics/Environment/Politics and a BA in French from Claremont McKenna College.

Tim Draper
Founder, Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mr. Draper serves on the boards of Glam, Flux, SocialText, decentral.tv, Meebo, Lund 3 Aps, Wigix, Increo, and Chroma Graphics. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY) and Digidesign (AVID), among others. Learn more »

Kamran Elahian
Chairman and Co-founder
Global Catalyst Partners

Kamran Elahian has co-founded more than ten high-tech companies and two nonprofit organizations (see list below), in addition to co-founding Global Catalyst Partners. He serves as chairman of the board for Centillium Communications, Planetweb, Actelis Networks, the Global Catalyst Foundation and Relief International-Schools Online, and serves on the boards of Beceem Communications, Ikoa, Melodis, and Yoomba.
In December 2006, Mr. Elahian was presented The Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the development, innovation, growth and long-term opportunities of the fabless semiconductor industry.
Mr. Elahian received his BS in computer science, BS in mathematics, and masters of engineering in computer graphics from the University of Utah. Learn more »

Mike Folgner
Head
Yahoo! Brickhouse

Mike is GM of Video at Yahoo. He came over to the company after his company, Jumpcut, was acquired. Mike has extensive experience in marketing, sales and business development in interactive video technologies. Mike was Director of Business Development at OpenTV Inc., a leading provider of interactive television software and consumer video products, where he helped build the company’s consumer interactive applications business. Mike has experience in sales and partnership development and has managed projects to build consumer facing interactive television products. Mike also worked in business and competitive strategy for Hewlett-Packard. Mike has an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where he developed the business plan for Jumpcut.
Currently, Executive Vice President Tapio Koivu has the responsibility over Ventures, the commercialization arm of VTT. This includes management of IP portfolio of VTT and a portfolio of start-up companies. Licensing and sales of IP is also part of Ventures at VTT.
Prior to his current responsibilities he established the VTT Silicon Valley operations, was a research fellow at the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering at Stanford and before moving to the U.S., he headed Strategic Technology Development division at VTT Building and Transport with responsibilities covering industry collaboration and technology strategies for partnership level customers. He holds a Ph.D. in construction management from Tampere University of Technology.

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Shuly Galili
Executive Director
The California Isreal Chamber of Commerce

Shuly Galili is the Executive Director of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC). Her primary focus in this capacity is working with Israeli technology companies on launching their market access efforts in the US, creating business development and investment outreach programs, working with the US VC community on funding opportunities in Israel. Shuly joined the CICC at its inception in 2000 and worked to build the presence, brand and strength of the Chamber's network spanning over 7000 companies, investors and executives from both Israel and California.
Over the years Shuly fostered strategic relationships for the CICC with industry giants such as Oracle, Intel, Motorola, HP, Google, Microsoft and many more. Under Shuly's leadership CICC had significant impact on its members' success in securing millions in capital, establishing US/Israel offices and R&D Centers and branding Israel's emerging tech industry in Silicon Valley.
The CICC was recenty awarded the "Innovate Europe 2007 Award" by DEMO producers and was honored as "Economic Development Organization of the Year"
Prior to founding the CICC, Shuly worked at various international NGOs focusing on economic development programs and educational initiatives. She held marketing and program development roles at the Gorbachev Foundation USA/State of the World Forum and The New Israel Fund. Shuly studied International Relations and at SFSU and French Studies at Grenoble University in France. Born and raised in Israel, she served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as an Artilery Instructor. Currently Shuly lives with her husband and two children in Los Altos Hills, California.

Gerd Goette
Managing Partner
Siemens Venture Capital

Gerd is Managing Partner, based in Palo Alto, CA . He specializes in investments in energy, communications and industrial solutions. His investments include Broadlight, Dune Networks, IP-Unity Glenayre, Kagoor Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks), Myrio (acquired by Siemens), Reactive NanoTechnologies and Verimatrix. In addition he manages SVC's investments in G2 Microsystems, Prenova and SmartSynch. With more than 20 years of worldwide industry experience, he combines a strong technical background with wide-ranging operational skills. Prior to joining Siemens Venture Capital in September 2000, Gerd held the position of Vice President and Head of CableTV Solutions in Siemens Information and Communication Networks.

Steve Harrick
General Partner
Institutional Venture Partners

Steve Harrick joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in October 2001. He focuses on investing in later-stage technology companies with exceptional growth potential. Specifically, Steve targets Internet, communications and technology-enabled services companies which have the potential to become leaders in their respective markets. He enjoys working closely with committed entrepreneurs to help create businesses that are both respected and revolutionary.

Mateu Hernandez
Executive Director, Barcelona Activa

Mateu Hernandez Maluquer has been Executive Director of Barcelona Activa since September 2003. Until then he had been involved in the same organization where he had the opportunity of participating directly in various new projects of the local development agency of the city of Barcelona. Collaborating with the rest of the management team of Barcelona Activa, he participated in the design of the Local Action Plans for Employment and Innovation of Barcelona and, as Assistant Director, and then as Executive Director, he has developed a number of the policies and programs defined in the action plan.
As Executive Director he co-ordinates the programs for promoting entrepreneurship, business creation and consolidation, new employment opportunities, digital spread and innovation of the city of Barcelona. He has also been involved in the first Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Barcelona as the technical secretary of the Economic Promotion Commission.
Mateu Hernandez studied law in the University of Barcelona and has a Masters Degree in Public and Social Policies from the Pompeu Fabra University and the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore. In 2006 he participated in the German Marshall Fellow program for the United States of America and participates as a lecturer on various Masters Degree courses on public policies and local development.

Mike Hodges
Managing Director
ATA Ventures

Mike Hodges joined ATA Ventures in 2006 and became a Managing Director in 2008. Mike has built a reputation as a successful CEO and interim CEO and is credited with several successful turn-around efforts, including Tellium, a Telecom Networking company that began as a technology spinout from Bellcore in 1997 (Tellium completed a public offering of $1.5B in 2001). Learn more »

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Yuji Ide
President, Japanese University Network in the Bay Area (JUNBA)
Professor/Executive Director, Kagoshima University North American Center
President and CEO, Pixera Corporation

Yuji Ide is the Executive Director and Professor of Kagoshima University North American Center and the President of JUNBA, Japanese University Network in the Bay Area.
He is not only a Professor of the University, but also an entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley. He founded Pixera Corporation in 1995 and has developed high resolution digital cameras for microscopy applications and a telemedicine system etc... He was a Senior Scientist at Toshiba R&D Center in Japan for 15 years until 1994 and has developed many key technologies regarding today's digital camera and HDTV systems.
He is currently promoting academia-industry collaborations between US and Japan with many Japanese Universities through JUNBA.

Dr. Parameshwar P. Iyer
Principal Research Scientist
Department of Management Studies
Indian Institute of Science

Prof Parameshwar P. Iyer is on the faculty of the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He heads the Institute's initiatives and activities in Business Entrepreneurship and Project Management.
A silver medalist from IIT Kharagpur, Prof Iyer holds a rare and unique distinction of having been on the Faculty of an IIT (Kharagpur), an IIM (Kozhikode), and the IISc (Bangalore). He was previously the Associate Chairman of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Consultancy (CSIC) , IISc. He has been on the screening committee at the N S Raghavan Cell for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at IIM Bangalore. Besides research, teaching, and consulting in Project Management and Strategic Management, Prof Iyer has been involved in promoting Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship. He has offered formal and informal mentoring to over a dozen entrepreneurs, and has seeded and evaluated over 25 business plans of entrepreneurs.
Prof Iyer has published 3 books and over 40 research papers in his areas of interest and expertise. He has also received several awards and fellowships, including the prestigious Wright Fellowship from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Dr. Iyer holds a BS Degree from IIT Kharagpur, MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and PhD from the University of California at Davis.

John Jaquette
Executive Director
Entrepreneurship at Cornell University

John Jaquette is Executive Director of Entrepreneurship@Cornell (E@C). The E@C program is governed by the nine Deans of the participating colleges at Cornell. The program serves undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and alumni by supporting academic instruction, research, experiential learning, student clubs, public lectures, an internship program, the Cornell Entrepreneur of Year (CEY) celebration, the Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) and Cornell Entrepreneurship Expo. Prior to assuming his position at Cornell in 1997, John held senior executive positions with a number of entrepreneurial health care companies specializing in addiction treatment, mental health, rehabilitation and long-term care from 1984 to 1995. From 1970 to 1984 John helped found and develop North Carolina's largest community-based, hospital-centered, alcoholism treatment service system in Wake County (Raleigh). He was the CEO from 1980-84 and the Clinical Director from 1976-80. John has a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, a Masters of Divinity and a Masters of Theology from Duke University Divinity School, and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. John is a member of the Steering Committee for the Stanford's Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE), a member of the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center Directors and the Kauffman National Consortium for Life Sciences Entrepreneurship. He is also an Emeritus Member of the Board of Visitors of Duke University Divinity School.

Deepak Kamra
General Partner
Canaan Partners

Deepak Kamra has a knack for identifying innovative companies that disrupt the status quo to become leaders in their fields. After an 11-year career growing technology startups into successful global leaders, Deepak joined Canaan in 1991 and is focused on investments in digital media and software. Deepak led Canaan's early investment in DoubleClick, the Internet's first and leading online advertising solution; Match.com, the most popular dating site worldwide; and BharatMatrimony, the world's number-one online matrimony site.

Han J. Kim
Co-Founder & General Partner
Altos Ventures

Han Kim is a General Partner and co-founder of Altos Ventures, focusing on investments in the areas of software and business services. He also concentrates on companies with significant business in Asia, leveraging the firm's substantial contacts in the region, particularly in Korea. Han currently serves on the board of Blogcocktail, Lohika, OutSpark, Pandora.tv, Provade, Nable Communications, and SeeControl and works closely with DemandTec and Vesta Corporation. He also led the firm’s prior investments in Instill (acquired by iTradeNetwork), CallConnect (acquired by Workscape), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software), Evant (acquired by Manhattan Associates), iOwn (acquired by Citibank) and ProduceOnLine (acquired by World Commerce). Before founding Altos Ventures in 1996, Han worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton solving strategic and operational issues for global media, retail and distribution companies. Previously, he was at Procter & Gamble. Han also served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Han served two years in Korea, commanding both U.S. and Korean soldiers. Han received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Omid Kordestani
Senior Vice President
Global Sales & Business Development
Google

Omid Kordestani is the senior vice president of global sales and business development. He is directly responsible for Google's worldwide revenue generation efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company's sales organization. As Google's "business founder," Omid led the development and implementation of the company's initial business model. Since joining in May of 1999, he has brought Google to profitability in record time, generating more than $10 billion in revenue in 2006.
Omid has more than 20 years of high-technology consumer and enterprise experience, holding key positions at several start-ups, including Internet pioneer Netscape Communications. As vice president of business development and sales, he grew Netscape's online revenue from an annual run-rate of $88 million to more than $200 million in 18 months. Prior to Netscape, he held positions in marketing, product management, and business development at The 3DO Company, Go Corporation and Hewlett-Packard.
Omid received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University.

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Lucio Lanza
Managing Director
Lanza techVentures

Mr. Lanza is director of Lanza techVentures, is an early stage venture capital and investment firm for new companies with innovative technologies in the semiconductor and technical software markets. He has held the position of general partner with U.S. Venture Partners. He held the position of chief strategist and leader of merger and acquisition activity for Cadence Design Systems as well as executive management positions with several leading technology companies including Olivetti, Intel, Daisy Systems, and EDA Systems, where he was CEO. Mr. Lanza serves on the boards of ARM plc (LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMHY), Forte Design Systems, PDF Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PDFS), and Pharmix Inc. He holds a doctorate in electronic engineering from Politecnico of Milano.

Dan'l Lewin
Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business Development
Microsoft

Dan'l Lewin is corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, responsible for managing worldwide strategic business relationships with venture capitalists and emerging venture-capital-backed businesses, as well as managing the business relationship with leading global industry partners such as SUN, Adobe, Intuit and BEA to ensure their applications interoperate with and run well on the Microsoft platform - for the benefit of the companies' common customers. Lewin is based at Microsoft's Mountain View, Calif. campus.
A 25-year Silicon Valley veteran, Lewin was most recently CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc., an enterprise software company focused on intellectual property asset management. He also spent 18 years as an executive, leading sales and marketing divisions for companies including Apple Computer Corp., NeXT Inc. and GO Corporation. In addition, Lewin has served as a consultant for emerging companies, venture capital firms and corporate joint ventures.
Lewin holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University. Learn more »

Mark Lieberman, EdD, MBA
Assistant Professor - Clinical Entrepreneurship Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business

Mark Lieberman is the manager of Regional Economic Development for the Community Development Commission of Los Angeles County. Dr. Lieberman's responsibilities include the Business and Technology Incubator programs, loan programs and technology leadership in economic development. He is the founder and co-chair of Los Angeles County Technology Week, a series of events promoting technology in Los Angeles County.
Mark actively manages the world class Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County (BTC). Prior to joining the BTC, Mark founded and was CEO of Ibis Associates, a strategy and organization change consulting company (www.ibisgroup.com). During his long and varied career, he served as Vice President and Chief Operations Officer for New Alliance Corporation based in Stamford. Connecticut and served as an International Banker with the Israel Discount Bank of New York.
He is an active member of the both the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels, as well as Professionals Network Group (PNG). He serves on the Executive Committee of the Pasadena PNG group.
Mark completed his EdD in Organization Change in 2007 from Pepperdine University. He also received his MBA from the Presidents/Key Executive Program at Pepperdine University.
Dr. Lieberman is considered an expert in business incubation, consulting with government agencies worldwide in the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems and technology commerciallization. Mark recently published an article in Cytotechnology about commercializing medical technologies

Rebecca Lynn
Principal
Morgenthaler Ventures

Rebecca joined Morgenthaler's Menlo Park office in 2007, and she focuses on early-stage investments in mobile, internet services, digital media and financial services. Rebecca began her career at Procter and Gamble where she worked in international new product market entry. She then spent four years at NextCard where she led product development efforts and later served as the Vice President of Marketing where she managed one of the top five largest online marketing efforts. After NextCard, she ran her own consulting business focusing on online marketing for financial services and affiliate marketing.

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Brewster McCracken
Mayor Pro Tem
City of Austin

Brewster has focused his work on the Council on promoting emerging technologies, particularly film, wireless, clean energy and digital media, and on leading broad-based community reforms to establish mixed use density zones along Austin's major corridors.
Mayor Pro Tem McCracken led the successful effort to make Austin a founding partner with the University of Texas in the Austin Wireless Initiative, and his initiatives in film and digital media have led to the current proposal to upgrade Austin Studios into the nation's premier digital filmmaking studio for independent filmmakers. Learn more »

Marten Mickos
SVP Database Group
Sun Microsystems

Marten Mickos oversees the database group within Sun's Software division. He joined Sun in 2008 through its acquisition of MySQL AB. As CEO of MySQL for seven years, Mickos helped grow that company from a start-up to the second-largest independent vendor of open source software in the world. Prior to MySQL, Mickos held multi-national CEO and senior executive positions in his native Finland. He holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology.

Tommaso Minola
Coordinator, Acceleratore d'Impresa - Technology Incubator
Politecnico di Milano

Tommaso has been appointed as coordinator of Acceleratore d'Impresa - Technology Incubator in October 2007. Since then he has been developing professional experience in managing the technology incubator, and in particular developing high added value activities such as: technology scouting within the Research Departments of Politecnico di Milano, coaching and mentoring of nascent start ups, helping companies in the fund raising process; he also has performed research in the field of managment (and in particular of Entrepreneurial Finance); he holds a PhD from Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and in 2007 he has been visiting researcher at CTM - University of Cambridge. Tommaso joined the Centre for Technology Management in February 2007 as a visiting doctoral researcher under the supervision of Dr Tim Minshall.
Since 2004 he has been developing professional experience in managing technology transfer projects for Fondazione Politecnico di Milano. His interest area have been: new material for textile industries and ICT. Tommaso graduated with an MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from the Department of Electronics and Information at Politecnico di Milano.

Kenneth P. Morse
Senior Lecturer and Managing Director
MIT Entrepreneurship Center

Ken Morse is a serial entrepreneur, having played a key role in launching several high-tech start-ups, including 3Com Corporation, Aspen Technology, an expert systems company, and a biotech firm. Ken's batting average is 0.833: five of his start-ups went public or were successfully merged; one was a complete disaster. As head of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Ken is responsible for inspiring, training, and coaching new generations of entrepreneurs from all parts of MIT. Ken has been profiled and quoted in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, and Red Herring. Learn more »

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Brian Noguchi
former president of BASES (entrepreneurship organization run by students at Stanford)
now has his own startup Trendessence

Brian Noguchi is the co-founder and CEO of Trendessence, a provider of technology solutions for online video advertising and social media metrics. He has experience across a wide number of industries including consulting at McKinsey & Co, AI and solar cell research at Stanford, and nanotechnology R&D for the U.S. government. He graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. From 2006-2007, he served as President of BASES, Stanford's largest entrepreneurship-focused student group, which among many things organizes Stanford's business plan competition. In 2007, he also co-founded the Energy Crossroads group and conference at Stanford to promote conversation between policy, industry, and academia to explore solutions for energy independence and climate change.

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Mike Orsak
General Partner
Worldview Technology Partners

Mike co-founded Worldview in 1996, and has over 17 years of experience as a venture capitalist. He has successfully invested in communications, internet, software, and semiconductor start-ups. Mike has been named by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 100 Venture Capitalists on the 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Midas Lists.

Jose Pacheco
Program Manager
MIT Entrepreneurship Center

Jose Pacheco works closely with the Managing Director, Chairman and other members of the E-Center's team to build, develop and sustain the E-Center's research and educational programs, events, publications, alumni outreach, and networking activities. He promotes the MIT Entrepreneurship Center's courses, programs and activities throughout MIT, manages relations with MIT faculty, students and alumni, as well as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and private and corporate donors.

Hans van Rietschote
Senior Director
Technology Scouting Group
Symantec Corporation

Hans van Rietschote is a Senior Director, office of the Chief Technology Officer at Symantec, a company specializing in security software. He acts as a technical advisor on the boards of the following companies: Qlayer, Panta Systems Inc., Socialtext, and Transitive. He is responsible for development and execution of the Symantec Technology Scouting Process for technical due diligence and business evaluations, and was also involved in the acquisition of Jareva, Ejasent and Relicore. He is knowledgeable in open source initiatives and their relevance to the software industry. He is also knowledgeable in virtual machines, clustering, replication, single system image, scalable operating systems, workflow management, application, server, storage provisioning and discovery, high availability and fault tolerance, file systems, network attach storage. He is also knowledgeable in network management and performance, utility computing, grid technology, Linux, peer-to-peer, filer virtualization, security, and remote desktop access. Previously, he held management positions at AT&T.

Michael J. Roberts
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Executive Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship

Michael J. Roberts is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and also serves as the Executive Director, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Mike was formerly an Assistant Professor at the school in the General Management area and taught the second-year elective course "Entrepreneurial Management." He also developed and taught the second-year elective course "Managing the Growing Enterprise" and teaches in the executive education program. Learn more »

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Dan Rosensweig
Operating Principal
Quadrangle Group

Daniel Rosensweig joined Quadrangle Group LLC in 2007 and is an Operating Principal focused on the firm's media and communications private equity business. Prior to joining Quadrangle, Mr. Rosensweig was Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo! responsible for product development, marketing, international operations, and North American operations. Before Yahoo!, Mr. Rosensweig was president of CNET Networks, responsible for many of the operations globally, and played a critical role in overseeing the successful integration of CNET and ZDNet. During his tenure at CNET, Mr. Rosensweig was a key participant in company-wide efforts to develop and introduce innovative new Internet advertising formats, such as interactive messaging units. Before joining CNET, Mr. Rosensweig was an 18-year veteran of Ziff-Davis, where he served in many capacities, including President and Chief Executive Officer of ZDNet, Inc. from 1997 to 2000.

Todd Rumberger
Attorney
Greenberg Traurig

E. Thom ("Todd") Rumberger Jr. works with start up and emerging growth stage companies in the internet, software, communications, semiconductor, media and entertainment industries, and with the venture capital firms, other private equity investors and investment bankers involved in such companies. Formerly with a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm, his practice focuses on representing start-up and emerging growth companies in matters ranging from formation, capitalization, and key executive employment matters to early and later stage financings (convertible debt and preferred equity), strategic partner and customer agreements, and acquisitions. Todd also handles general corporate matters and transactions, with extensive experience in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, buy-outs, complex commercial joint ventures and strategic partnering (with a special emphasis on Russia and Eastern Europe), and commercial space ventures.

Jon Sandelin
Senior Associate Emeritus
Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing

Jon graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Chemistry in 1962, then served four years in the U. S. Naval submarine service. He then returned to school, obtaining an MBA from Stanford University in 1968. He returned to Stanford in 1970 as the Financial Officer and then later as the Associate Director of the Stanford Computer Center. Jon was recruited to join Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) in 1984, where he has been responsible for licensing all forms of intellectual property, including inventions, computer software, and university trademarks. Jon has served as a consultant on the licensing of research-related inventions to other universities, non-profit research organizations, and governments, and has provided services for clients in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, Arab League, and Latin America. He is the author of over 20 published articles on technology transfer through licensing and has given workshops, seminars, and presentations on this topic throughout the world. Jon served two terms as a Vice President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), where he was responsible for developing AUTMs overseas relationships, and is Past President of the Association of Collegiate Licensing Administrators (ACLA). Jon converted to Emeritus status on March 1, 2003. He retains an office at the OTL, where he works on selected projects for Stanford University. However, most of his time is now devoted to helping other regions of the world better understand the process of converting ideas and innovation into products and services to create jobs and strengthen economies.

Micah Siegel
Managing Director, C2C Ventures
Consulting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Micah Siegel is a Managing Director of Concept2Company Ventures, a seed venture capital firm located in Palo Alto, California, where he has been sourcing and financing seed-stage technology companies for nine years. Through C2C, Micah is a co-founder and founding investor in Affinity Circles (2002), Adapt Technologies (2004), Kuvera Investments (2005), and Kallout (2006). These companies have raised over $30M in seed-stage venture capital.

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Andrew C. Singer
Willet Faculty Scholar and Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Technology Entrepreneur Center
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Andrew C. Singer received the S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering and computer science, in 1990, 1992 and 1996, respectively.
From 1996 to 1998, he was a Research Scientist at Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company, in Manchester, NH. Since 1998, he has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he is currently a Willet Faculty Scholar and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a Research Professor, affiliated with the Signal Processing and Communications Groups in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He is also the Director of the Technology Entrepreneur Center in the College of Engineering. In 2000, he co-founded Intersymbol Communications, Inc (acquired by Finisar (FNSR) in 2007), a communications IC company specializing in integrated circuits for the optical communications industry. Learn more »

Ram Srinivasan
Venture Partner, Palo Alto business development office
Wellington Partners

Ram is Wellington's hands, eyes and ears in the largest technology ecosystem of the world as he runs the Palo Alto business development office. As an entrepreneur and manager, he has gained over 25 years of experience in engineering and marketing management in the Valley, which he loves to share with the Wellington technology portfolio companies. Learn more »

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Tony Stanco, Esq.
Director of the Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer
and Commercialization at The George Washington University

Tony Stanco, Esq. is a practitioner-professor at George Washington University, teaching courses on Government IT Policy, Open Source, and Entrepreneurialism ("From Lab to IPO: The Hi-Tech Start-Up"). Prior to joining The George Washington University, he was a senior attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the group that regulates the Internet and software industry, where he worked on hundreds of Internet and software IPOs, and Reg D private placements. He has an LL.M. in Securities Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center and is licensed as a lawyer in New York. Tony also is the founding director of the Washington-based Center of Open Source & Government, where he works on software policy, Open Source, cyber-security and eGovernment with universities and governments around the world. Tony has given presentations at the U.S. Congress, various U.S. defense and civilian agencies, World Bank, European Commission, United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank, Organization of American States, World Summit on Information Society, MITRE, LinuxWorld, Advanced Computer and Internet Law Institute, and International Computer Law Association. He has worked with various senior government officials from the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Mexico, India, Denmark, and Jordan, among others.

Dafina Toncheva
Vice President
Venrock

Dafina joined Venrock in 2008. Prior to Venrock, she held roles in development and product management at Microsoft and focused on authentication systems, digital signatures, and business workflow. Dafina worked on some of the world's most-used web services and applications, such as MSN Live ID and MS Office and co-authored several key patents. In addition to design, implementation and delivery experiences, Dafina brings strategic consulting knowledge gained at Bain & Company where she worked on projects within the high-tech sector.

Lou Tornatzky
Area Chair and Professor of Industrial Technology , CAL POLY

Lou Tornatzky, a Stanford PhD, is a nationally known thought leader in technology innovation and in integrating urban universities into developing regional economies. Having worked in this field since 1970, Tornatzky has first-hand knowledge about how regions around the country have developed innovation economy strategies, and has consulted for a number of university, state and national organizations. Lou also spent many years as a leader of the Innovation Processes Research Group at the National Science Foundation. He is the author or co-author of over 100 related books and publications, including: Innovation U: New University Roles in a Knowledge Economy; Industry-University Technology Transfer: Models of Alternative Practice, Policy and Program, and Incubating Technology Business - A National Benchmarking Study. Lou Tornatzky has been Director of the Southern Technology Council, a 15-state consortium of government, industry, and university technology interests dedicated to fostering technology-linked economic development. In the years prior, Dr. Tornatzky was a Center Director and Scientific Fellow at the Industrial Technology Institute. Learn more »

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Poh Kam Wong
Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and School of Business
Director, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
National University of Singapore

Dr. Wong currently holds joint Professorship appointments at National University of Singapore (NUS)'s Business School and LKY School of Public Policy, and serves as Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at NUS. He obtained two BSc.'s., an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT. Prior to joining NUS in 1988, he was a co-founder of two IT companies and the founding managing director of a consulting firm in Malaysia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (KTH). Learn more »