As an Advisory Board member for client companies, Tom takes a lead role in the positioning of companies during stages from seed funding through merger and acquisition. Tom often acts as the interim CFO for early-stage client companies.
Tom was previously a co-founder and CFO of a software development company from start-up to its acquisition. Tom worked in product management for a major Silicon Valley semiconductor manufacturer before entering public accounting. He has served as a board member of many nonprofit organizations and political committees. Prior to creating the Emerging Business Services Group, Tom worked extensively in success planning for closely-held businesses, stock option planning, interim-CFO services and estate and trust planning.

Himanshu Choksi is a successful business leader with over 22 years' experience in general management, product development, marketing, and venture investing in the IT, communications, and energy industries. Himanshu is the holder of four US patents. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he ranked first in his field of study; an MS from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Mr. Davidson is a partner in the Corporate Group and Chairman of Fenwick & West LLP. Mr. Davidson advises high technology companies, including networking, computer software and electronics companies, as well as clean technology and life sciences companies. Mr. Davidson's clients range from start-ups to Fortune 1000 companies. He has worked on over 30 public offerings and has represented boards of directors, audit committees and executives in numerous special investigations. His publicly traded clients have included:@Home CorporationCadence Design Systems, Inc.Cisco Systems, Inc.Cooper & Chyan Technology, Inc. Data Domain, Inc.DexCom Inc.Diamond Foods, Inc.Edify CorporationElantec Semiconductor, Inc.Electronic Arts Inc.Exodus Communications, Inc.FormFactor, Inc.Genelabs Technologies, Inc.HNC Software, Inc.Intuit Inc.InVision Technologies, Inc.KANA Software, Inc.Macromedia, Inc.Meru Networks, Inc.Nuance Communications Inc.ONI Systems Corp.Opsware Inc.Oracle CorporationShopping.com, Ltd.Shutterfly, Inc.Spansion, Inc.Sun Microsystems, Inc.Symantec CorporationSynopsys, Inc.Transmeta CorporationVeriSign, Inc.VERITAS Software Corporation

Mr. Davidson also advises investors and investment banks, including Barclays Global Investors, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Morgan Stanley and Sequoia Capital.

Netopia CEO & Founder.Today, NETOPIA System, located in Bucharest and with a branch in Silicon Valley, is Romania's premier mobile marketing and mobile payments provider. We are investing massively in research and development making us a true trend setter. In 2009 NETOPIA System's revenue was of $5.9M with a 65% increase from previous year.

NETOPIA System main services are:web2sms.ro - all purpose, self managed platform for mobile campaigns. With more than 4 Milion sms messages sent monthly our services are used by Top Romanian companies. mobilPay.ro - reinvented and redefined the mobile payment market. Now, with more than 75% market share we are driving the monetization revolution in Romania. Since 2009 we are actively involved in on-line payment industry. Our gateway is operated in partnership with the local bank Garantibank Romania.mobiPay.com - a new, unique approach to mobile payments makes mobilPay the true mobile wallet solution. In 2010 mobilPay.com was awarded as best in innovation at PlugandPlayTechcenter EXPO in Silicon Valley, CA.

Also I have started Angel Investments for Romanian based start-ups in Information Technology Solutions, alternative energy, hardware , commerce and services.

Brandon Farwell is an Analyst at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Prior to joining DFJ, Brandon worked in Credit Suisse's San Francisco office within the Alternative Asset Management Division. He focused on secondary investments mostly in leveraged buyout and venture capital funds across a variety of industries and geographies. Prior to working in San Francisco, Brandon completed an internship in investment banking in New York within Credit Suisse's Financial Institutions Group.

Corey Geiger has enjoyed nearly 25 years of leadership and executive-level success with high-tech companies in business start-up, turnaround, and development modes spanning from small private companies to large multi-national corporations. Having lived and worked across four continents, Corey has deep experience in formulating strategies and translating them into tactical plans, leading cross-functional teams to execute key corporate initiatives such as M&A integration, business re-engineering, portfolio management, and new product introduction.

18 years at McKinsey (13 as a partner) -- led the manufacturing and the service operations practices in North America and the overall operations practice in Asia-Pacific. Led McKinsey's lean centers of excellence in North America. Implemented lean transformation programs with leading companies in the consumer goods, aerospace, high-tech, banking, healthcare and telecommunication industries. Teaches a course on applying lean manufacturing concepts to improve business impact at the Continuing Studies Program of Stanford University. Former software developer at Intel and Mentor Graphics.

Gerd is Investment Partner, based in Palo Alto, CA. He specializes in investments in energy, communications and industrial solutions. He manages SVC's investments in BPL Global, G2 Microsystems, ISE Corporation, GenBand, Prenova, Reactive NanoTechnologies, SmartSynch and Zolo Technologies. Earlier investments include Broadlight, Dune Networks, IP-Unity Glenayre, Kagoor Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks), Myrio (acquired by Siemens) and Verimatrix.

Gautam focuses on investments in new and existing technology businesses. His areas of special interest include financial services, enterprise IT, consumer services, and new media. Gautam is also actively involved with GoodData. Before joining GC, Gautam analyzed brand strategy and consumer preferences in the Consumer Market Knowledge group of Procter & Gamble's North American Fabric Care business unit. Prior to that, he worked closely with the sales and marketing groups at SinglePoint (fka: Wireless Services Corporation), and CTV Live on Campus, during his studies at Babson College.

Michael Klein joined Canaan Partners' Menlo Park office in 2010 as an Investment Analyst on the technology team. He focuses on the firm's digital media, mobile and cloud investments. Prior to joining Canaan, Michael served as an Associate in technology investment banking at ThinkEquity. While at ThinkEquity, Michael advised on and executed over 20 strategic and financing transactions for leaders in the technology sector including OpenTable, SuccessFactors, Xoom, On2 Technologies, SigmaTel and DG FastChannel.

Lynn LeBlanc is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FastScale Technology, Inc. Ms. LeBlanc has 25 years of enterprise software and technology experience at both Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley start-ups. She has a proven track record of successfully bringing emerging technologies to market, a practical, hands-on style and strong operations experience. Her extensive career includes Senior Vice President and Vice President roles in general management, marketing and business development at industry leaders including Cadence Design Systems and Octel Communications as well as acquired start-ups iReady Corporation, ILEX Systems and Atherton Technology. She also served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Scyld Software and spent her early career at IBM Corporation. She serves as Director of FastScale Technology.

Philip is the CEO and co-founder of TapMap. TapMap is a company that helps retailers to publish all of their realtime local inventory on mobile devices. We partner with very successful iPhone and Android app companies to then help people to find the things they want to buy, right now. TapMap currently works with major retailers in the US and the EU, and has developed data analytics that maps demand for products and brands in real time. Previously, Philip was the CEO and Co-Founder of Inspire Nation. Inspire Nation is a leading provider of organized studies of world-class best practice

Sidney Minassian is the Founder & CEO of GrowthQ, a Startup & Venture Advisory firm that helps early stage tech companies Launch, Monetize and Grow; and advises tech companies in Europe, Asia and Australia on US market entry. Sidney has over 17 years industry experience having founded and led a number of startups, raised multiple rounds of private and venture capital, successfully launched products and sold to consumer and enterprise customers.

Teresa Pahl leads our Los Angeles immigration group. She represents national and international employers before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the U.S. Department of Labor in connection with immigration-related employment matters. Mahsa focuses her practice on business professionals across a number of industries, including health care, finance, trade, retail, manufacturing, technology and entertainment. Her practice consists of managing business immigration matters and providing immigration counsel to address the visa and work authorization needs of U.S. and global personnel including professionals, managers and executives, treaty investors/ traders, essential workers and persons of extraordinary ability. Mahsa has expertise in counseling foreign nationals and companies that are establishing new U.S. ventures requiring the temporary or permanent transfer of employees to the U.S. In addition, she provides counsel to EB-5 investors as well as EB-5 Regional Centers.

Since 1988, Charles A. Steinberg was President of the Broadcast and Professional Company of Sony Electronics Inc. He is an advisor to both the SunUp and MeSoft Corporations Board of Directors.
He served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sony Cinema Products Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary engaged in providing products to the motion picture industry. He also served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sony Trans Com Inc. Prior to joining Sony in 1988, Mr. Steinberg was with the Ampex Corporation for 25 years serving in various positions including president, and chief executive officer and chairman of the board. At Plug and Play Tech Center, Charles advises and mentors numerous startups in the tech sector.
Mr. Steinberg holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Prior to joining DCM, Peter worked at Goldman Sachs in their TMT Investment Banking Division in San Francisco. At Goldman Sachs, Peter worked on a variety of strategic advisory assignments, M&A transactions and equity and debt financings. His clients included leading public and private technology companies in the Internet, software, communications and semiconductor verticals. Prior to his time at Goldman Sachs, Peter held financial positions at BlackRock Asset Management and Wells Fargo Financial.

Matt Thompson is a General Manager of Developer & Platform Evangelism at Microsoft. Based in Silicon Valley, he and his team look after the "care and feeding" for the communities of developers, startups and IT Pros across the western US. Prior to joining Microsoft, Matt worked for several years on developer tools--debuggers, compilers etc--at Sun Microsystems. He then cut his teeth at a couple of startups before landing back at Sun just when Java was being released for the very first time. Matt led the group that drove Java adoption worldwide for 12 years. Even before the term "Cloud Computing" became popular, Matt was involved at Sun with grid computing, utility computing, and more recently lead part of a large cloud engineering group--which focused on several things including how to componentize large servers and how to build a Platform-as-a-Service--along with his other responsibilities in developer tools and Java evangelism.

Prior to DCM, Benjamin was a Senior Associate Consultant with management consulting firm Bain & Company in the Bay Area where he advised several technology clients on strategic and operational issues. He has experience evaluating new markets, strategies, and acquisitions, and covered verticals including semiconductors, mobile, eCommerce, and next-generation computing systems.

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