OPEN Silicon Valley

Dr. Khurram Afridi is the Project Director, the Werner-von-Siemens Chair for Power Electronics and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the LUMS School of Science and Engineering (SSE). He is currently also a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and the Chief Operating Officer of Techlogix. As Project Director of LUMS SSE, he helped raise $58 million for the school’s capital and endowment needs and guided SSE through it launch with a first batch of 160 students starting classes in October 2008. As Chief Operating Officer of Techlogix, he helped the company grow since inception in 1996 into a diversified technology services company with operations in US, UAE, Pakistan and China. Prior to joining Techlogix, he worked at Schlumberger, Philips Laboratories, Lutron, and JPL. At JPL he was part of the SURFSAT-1 design team – a NASA satellite that was launched into orbit in 1995. Khurram is a recipient of the BMW Scientific Award for 1999. He is a member of the Board of Management of the Engineering Development Board of Pakistan, a member of the Institutional Review Board of Shaukat Khanum Hospital and a member of the Board of Directors of Techlogix. Khurram received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. He was awarded Masters of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He is a contributing author of the Power Electronics Handbook and holds one US and international patent.

Tarek el Aguizy

Tarek is a seasoned global finance professional with a track record of originating and executing financial advisory mandates, representing an aggregate transaction volume over $20 Billion. Tarek currently focuses on providing independent corporate finance, restructuring and investment advisory services to investment funds and portfolio firms in the energy and industrials sectors globally.

Most recently, Tarek was an Executive Director with Goldman Sachs International, based in London. At Goldman, he focused on corporate finance advisory services for Natural Resources and Diversified Industrials clients. Prior to this, Tarek spent five years at J.P.Morgan in New York within the Mergers & Acquisitions advisory practice. Tarek has extensive experience across a range of transactions, including mergers, buy-outs and IPOs for leading corporate clients and private equity funds, and has advised on transactions ranging in size from $100 million to over $10 billion.

Tarek has joint B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Geoffrey Arone

Geoffrey is a serial entrepreneur who has raised over $33 million in total venture investment for his companies in the past five years, and has aided many other companies, at a board or advisory level, from incorporation, to funding, to acquisition, and in some cases shutdown. His passion is demonstrated in his ability to create business opportunities, build teams, and attract outside investment.
Prior to founding LargeCorp, Geoffrey was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners. In this role, Geoffrey participated in partner meetings and helped to identify and evaluate new and existing opportunities, while assisting portfolio companies with their product, marketing, and BD strategies. While at Bessemer, Geoffrey founded "A Large Corporation, Inc.", a social media company that runs DanceJam and cliKball.

Mr. Arone also founded Flock, a social web browser based on Firefox that helps people exchange photos and video as they browse the Web. To date, Flock has been downloaded and installed by nearly 7 million people worldwide.
Geoffrey has an MBA focused on New Product and Venture Development from MIT, where he was president of the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurs and was one of the winners of the business plan competition for MIT. Also while at MIT Geoffrey worked for Navigator Technology Ventures (a division of Draper Labs) where he helped to evaluate investments ranging from electronics to medical devices.
Mr. Arone also holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Neural Science from Brown University and has pursued Ph.D. studies in Neuroscience.

Josh Becker

Josh Becker
Managing Partner
New Cycle Capital

Josh Becker started his career in the Clean Energy area in 1991. From Williams College he went to work for ICF-Kaiser International, a DC-based environmental consulting and engineering firm. There he helped launch the first Clean Air Marketplace conference back in 1992 and consulted on energy strategy for companies like General Electric.

After working on Capitol Hill as a Press Secretary for a Congresswoman on the Energy and Commerce Committee, he started his first Internet company in 1994 when he co-founded IntraACTIVE a pioneering groupware company. He was also one of the first employees at EarthWeb Inc, which went public in 1998.

After joint degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, Becker joined Brentwood Venture Capital and then joined Brentwood's technology partners in 1999 in founding Redpoint Ventures (www.Redpoint.com). At Redpoint he brought in investments like BigBand Networks (NASDAQ:BBND) and served as a board observer for BigBand, Esurance, and ViaFone.

Becker is an Advisor to Energy Unlimited, a pioneering wind energy company. He is Co-Founder of the Freedom Prize Foundation (www.freedomprize.org), which will soon be giving out $5M in prizes with DOE to encourage deployment of clean energy technologies and Co-Founder of SmartTransportation.org. Becker is the Founder and Chair of The Full Circle Fund, www.fullcirclefund.org, an alliance of emerging business leaders who help solve public problems through engaged philanthropy and public policy advocacy. He serves on the National Board of Directors for One Economy (www.one-economy.com) and serves on the Board of Trustees for the newest campus in the University of California System, The University of California at Merced. Becker was recently named as one of the Top 40/under 40 people to watch in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal. He also was selected to be part of the SV100 A group of the 100 Most Influential People in Silicon Valley.

Adam Bergman

Adam Bergman
Adam E. Bergman
SVP, CleanTech Investment Banking
Jefferies & Co.

Adam Bergman is a Senior Vice President at Jefferies & Company, Inc. leading Jefferies west-coast CleanTech investment banking calling effort. He has been exclusively focused on the CleanTech sector since 2005 and has executed transactions for Amonix, Distributed Energy, Energy Conversion Devices, EPV Solar, EnerNOC, EnerSys, Penford, Pentadyne Power, Solar Integrated Technologies, SunPower, Verenium (formerly Diversa) and Westport Innovations.

Prior to joining Jefferies in 2004, Mr. Bergman worked in the Technology Group at JPMorgan and its predecessor firm Chase H&Q for over three years. Before that, he worked at UBS in the Global Healthcare Group and at Rothschild, where he focused on M&A and restructuring and spent nine months in South Korea during the Asian financial crisis. He has executed numerous public and private financing and M&A transactions domestically and internationally.

Mr. Bergman received an M.A. in International Development from the International University of Japan and a B.A. in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is married to Julia, whom he met while both were studying at the International University of Japan, and his first child, Aaron, was born in February 2009.

Wasiq Bokhari

Wasiq Bokhari
Managing Partner
Cleantech Circle

Wasiq has worked with technology startup and Fortune 500 companies on the adoption and commercialization of materials and nanotechnology with applications in energy, IT and medicine. Wasiq also works with entrepreneurs, early-stage startups and multiple venture funds in to help emerging nanotechnologies cross the “valley of death”. He brings extensive entrepreneurial, operational and (equity and debt) financing experience to his activities in cleantech. His interests include energy generation, water and emerging fuels technologies.

Recently, he was the CEO of Bioident Technologies, a provider of medical and environmental diagnostic solutions based on company’s proprietary printed semi-conductor technologies. The company products were recognized as the semiconductor technology innovation of 2007 by the Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and Managing Partner of Quantum Insight, a business consulting and investment firm. He was part of a small team that started and built a nanomaterials focused business unit of Chevron. He has worked with Hitachi as a strategy and venture consultant for identifying new companies and technologies for investment, partnerships and acquisitions. Previously, Wasiq was part of the founding team and Senior Vice President of Products of Clickmarks, an enterprise infrastructure software company, subsequently acquired by Semotus Solutions.

He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in the group headed by Nobel laureate Jerome Friedman. He was part of the team that discovered a fundamental particle called the top quark at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1995, one of the most prominent physics results of the decade. He is an author of more than 50 scientific and technical publications, and is cited as an inventor on 8 US patents, granted and applied.

He has co-authored a widely recognized report on the potential of nanotechnology for the California Commission for Science and Technology (CCST). He was a co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of the MIT Stanford UC Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum. Wasiq works with PCAST (Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) on issues related to energy.

Richard Boly

Richard C. Boly is a national security affairs fellow for 2008-2009 at the Hoover Institution. Mr. Boly represents the U.S. Department of State.
Richard is a career member of the United States Foreign Service. He was an Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy from 2004-2008 and worked in the office of European Union affairs at the State Department from 2002-2004. His other overseas tours include the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Paraguay. Richard is the most junior diplomat to win the Cobb Award for commercial diplomacy. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Richard was the first Presidential Management Fellow with the Inter-American Foundation, was a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank, and founded and ran a shrimp hatchery in coastal Ecuador. Richard is a native of Tacoma, Washington and a graduate of Stanford University and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He plans to use his fellowship year to focus on promoting entrepreneurship abroad as a U.S. policy objective.

Shashi Buluswar

Shashi Buluswar leads the San Francisco office of Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a firm that provides strategic advice to international institutions (like the UN), NGOs, foundations and corporations, on development issues such as education, health, economic development, energy/environment, institution-building, and entry into emerging markets. His projects include helping the UN restructure global peacekeeping operations, working with a large US-based foundation to launch a regional agricultural project in West Africa, and helping build NGOs dedicated to education in Pakistan and TB in India. He recently made a documentary film on the India-Pakistan conflict and the process of “cricket diplomacy”; in the process of making the film, he traveled extensively through Pakistan focusing on the country’s development issues. Earlier this year, Shashi wrote a policy brief for the Obama administration to help rethink America’s Pakistan policy.

Prior to joining Dalberg, Shashi was an Associate Partner at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he served financial services institutions and nonprofits on strategic and operational issues; before that, he was a Visiting Professor at Northwestern University. Shashi holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Massachusetts

Tom Campbell

Tom obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Chicago , both on the same day in 1973. He then entered Harvard Law School where he served on the Harvard Law Review Board of Editors. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law in 1976. After law school, Tom served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White. In 1980, Tom returned to the University of Chicago to earn a Ph.D. in economics. His faculty advisor was Milton Friedman and it was at this time that Tom developed his beliefs in the importance of fiscal responsibility in government and individual liberty.

In 1978, Tom married Susanne, his bride of now 30 years. From 1980-1981, Tom was a White House Fellow in the Office of the Chief of Staff. He then served in the Reagan Administration as Director of the Bureau of Competition, at the Federal Trade Commission from 1981 to 1983.

In 1983, Tom and Susanne moved west when Tom was offered a professorship at Stanford Law School . Tom received full tenure in 1987 at the age of 34. At Stanford, Tom’s classes included antitrust, international trade law, corporate law, and constitutional law, with a particular emphasis on the application of economics to legal problems. At Stanford, Susanne continued her life-long interest in Russia , becoming fluent in Russian, and managing tours to the then Soviet Union . In 1992, Berkeley ’s Center for Research in Management hired Susanne to help establish a business school in St. Petersburg , Russia . She was the Executive Director of that program for 16 years.

In 1988, Tom again entered public service. Tom served as a United States Congressman for five terms representing districts in the Silicon Valley . He was also a California State Senator, and the Director of Finance for the State of California . In Congress, Tom served on the Judiciary Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, the Banking and Housing Committee and the International Relations Committee. He has served since 2004 on the Council of Economic Advisors to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. During Tom’s tenure as State Finance Director, California ’s budget was balanced with no tax increases, no new borrowing, and no accounting gimmicks.

Tom has received many accolades for his public service. To name a few, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation named Tom the most frugal member of the 102nd Congress, based on net annualized spending reductions in legislation he proposed. The California Journal named Tom the #1 overall State Senator; the State Senate's Best Problem-Solver, and the Most Ethical State Senator.

In 2002, Tom was appointed Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California , Berkeley. As Dean of Haas, Tom stressed the importance of corporate social responsibility and business ethics amid an era of corporate scandals. Under Tom’s Deanship, the newly formed Center for Responsible Business took firm root, as well as the Center for Non Profit Management. The Haas School’s rankings shot up in every category and every survey during Tom’s tenure as Dean; most dramatically, reaching the rank of no. 2 in the nation according to the Wall Street Journal in Tom’s last year.

In 2009, Tom and Susanne took a leave of absence to move to Southern California where he joined the Chapman University School of Law in Orange County as the inaugural Presidential Fellow and Visiting Professor of Law. He also serves as an economic advisor to the international law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.

Carlos Cashman

Carlos has raised over $50 million in private equity capital, across various ventures. He has also been an investor and advisor in numerous IT businesses in the US and abroad. He is a the CEO of a Lahore based Constellation Inc. (formerly Sofizar). Before this, Carlos was President and co-founder of CourseAdvisors which was acquired by The Washington Post Company in 2007. Carlos was also co-founder and CTO of Opus360 Corporation, a publicly traded software company sold to Artemis International in 2001 (NASD: AMSI.OB). He served as President and as a Director until becoming the Chief Technology Officer in December 1999 immediately prior to Opus360’s IPO. From 1997 to 1998, Carlos served as co-CIO of venture-backed networking technology firm Gray Peak Technologies which was sold to USWeb/CKS Corporation in 1998 to form their Networks Practice. Before Gray Peak, Carlos was Chief Technology Officer of Frankfurt Balkind Partners (FBP), a New York agency dedicated to strategic branding, advertising, and design.
Carlos Cashman graduated in 1994 from MIT which he attended on full scholarship from AT&T. He has actually spent time producing film projects in New York City and as a professional blackjack player and card-counter with a team of MIT alumni (ala the Movie “21”!).

Tim Chang

Tim focuses on investments in wireless and digital media as well as business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Tim led NVP's investments in and joined the boards of directors of 3Jam, Brite Semiconductor, Lumos Labs and ngmoco. Tim also led NVP's investment in PCH International, a turnkey global supply chain services firm based in Shenzhen. Tim works with the boards of deCarta, Double Fusion and Veveo.

Prior to joining NVP in 2006, Tim was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners where he was actively involved in over a dozen wireless-related deals and led Gabriel's investments in Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm), Sequoia Communications, Sandbridge, and Kajeet. He also contributed to the boards of Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) and Arula Systems (acquired by Raritan), TestQuest, NextG Networks, and IPWireless. Tim built Gabriel's wireless sector practice and helped establish business development capabilities through strong, strategic relationships across the wireless value chain, particularly in Asia-Pacific.

Prior to joining Gabriel, Tim spent more than five years working in Japan. He was a product manager at Gateway Inc. where he successfully launched direct-marketed PC servers in the Japanese market and quickly grew an enterprise product line into a full offering of network desktops, workstations, servers and configurable turn-key solutions. Prior to Gateway, Tim was a development engineer for General Motors. As a tri-lingual engineer based in Tokyo, Tim led project teams in China, Korea and Japan in the development, testing and sales of advanced chassis control systems for clients such as Toyota and Daewoo.

Tim began his career in venture capital in 1999 during his time at Stanford Business School as part of the founding team of CTR Ventures K.K., a venture accelerator in Tokyo focused on seed and early-stage mobile consumer applications for the Japanese market.

Tim currently serves on the advisory boards of the Silicon Valley Telecom Council, Dealmaker Media, Digital Hollywood, TiE Wireless SIG, MIT/Stanford VLAB, VC Task Force, and Silicon Valley Chinese Wireless Association. He was also listed on the AlwaysON Hollywood IT List recognizing technology leaders in the entertainment industry, as well as by The Deal as one of five emerging VCs to watch.

Tim holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in electrical engineering/system engineering as well as a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Ro Choy

Rogelio (Ro) Choy is Chief Revenue Officer for RockYou. Ro leads the business efforts for RockYou. Before joining the RockYou executive team, Ro managed eBay's online parts business as a Director at eBay Motors and also was responsible for managing Market Development at eBay, including operation of eBay's U.S. wireless efforts. Prior to eBay, Ro co-founded Cima Systems, a leading VOIP software provider for auto dealers. Ro earned his MBA from Stanford University School of Business.

Michael Crandell

Michael Candrell

Michael has worked as CEO or EVP for 10 years in Internet-based, software-as-a-service companies, including eFax (Internet fax) and Celebros (e-commerce search). Earlier, he founded and ran two software companies in document creation and communications. Michael is equally comfortable with the business and technology sides of a company, and has experience taking a company from early stage to IPO.

Michael received his B.A. from Stanford University with graduate studies at Harvard University.

Ash Damle

Ash founded MEDgle (http://www.medgle.com/ ) in Sept 2006. MEDgle empowers participatory healthcare by providing transparency to a consumers' medical options (diagnoses, physicians, services and health products) through a personalized medical search. MEDgle has created a clinical decision support service accessible by APIs to further empower physcians, health groups and health application
developers.

Previously, Ash was the CEO and founder of 2028, a vertical search and expert system platform which is used by companies such as MIT Media Lab and CTB (a division of McGraw-Hill). In addition, Ash has
worked as a Sr. Consultant & Business Strategist in the retail/financial technology sector with companies such as Sax Fifth Ave, Oakley, Canadian Tire, Belk, U.S. Navy/MIT, California State Government, Skillnet Solutions and the R&D at Citicorp. Over the course of the last 15 years, Ash has consistently worked on enabling practical artificial intelligence in such areas as: Real-time ray tracers, automated path planning, supply chain optimization, business intelligence, and search.

John De Souza

John de Souza is the President and CEO of MedHelp (www.MedHelp.org), the largest online health community and health application site. Prior to MedHelp, he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, managing the Technology Practice of the Private Equity Group. Mr. de Souza was a co-founder and director of Smartleaf, a financial software company providing separate account management solutions. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at DESoFT, a company that developed online real-time brokerage systems for retail brokerage firms which was sold to Merrill Lynch. Mr. de Souza was a co-founder of Flash Communications, an Internet company (sold to Microsoft) that developed real-time two way messaging systems. Mr. de Souza also performed research on guidance systems for robotic surgery at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, virtual reality systems for
NASA's Neurolab Space Project, and tools for laparoscopic surgery at the University of Tokyo. He received a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs in France.

David Fleck

David Fleck is a 20 year technology industry veteran with 18 years in Silicon Valley managing marketing, product lines, business development and developer relations programs. His expertise includes consumer and enterprise sectors in both hardware and software and most recently he has been focused on Virtual Worlds and Social Networking.

Currently David is providing management and consulting services for various companies in the Social Networking and online consumer space.

Current or recent roles include working with various startups as well as GoPets.net - an online social gaming platform that provides a unique combination of social networking, gaming and 3D real time interaction. Duties included global expansion, distribution programs and launching with Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger.

Previously, David held the position of VP Marketing and contributed to Linden Lab's Second Life becoming the most recognized brand in Virtual Worlds and 3D online spaces. He helped growth by accelerating user acquisition as well as initiating branding, developer and distribution programs.

Before joining Linden Lab, David held positions at Openwave and Macromedia where he gained expertise in mobile technologies including launching Flash Lite for mobile handsets. David joined Novell as VP Global Partnering to oversee responsibilities in partnering and developer programs. Other positions included marketing roles at Chromatic (first to ship a single chip DVD and multimedia solution for PC's), Telebit and Creative Labs where he led efforts to establish Sound Blaster as an industry audio standard. David started his career in Silicon Valley at Computer Associates micro products group where he managed a developer relations program for financial software.

Donnie Fowler

Donnie Fowler
Principal
Fowler & Crumley, Inc

Donnie Fowler has achieved a leading role in both political and high technology circles through his work as vice president at TechNet in Silicon Valley, at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, in the Clinton White House, and with political campaigns in fifteen states (including five presidential cycles). He has advised dozens of companies, policymakers, public advocacy groups, and political campaigns on how to successfully manage their media, policy, business development, and technology agendas. Fowler has also made frequent appearances in local and national media on political and technology issues, including Fox News, “Dan Rather Reports” on HDNet, The Washington Post, LA Times, and as a blogger for the Huffington Post. He spent 2008 on the road with Dan Rather as the principal Democratic commentator on the presidential and congressional elections and was senior state advisor to the Obama campaign in Indiana, a state won for the first time by a Democrat in 44 years.

Fowler’s professional background includes work for Stanford University, the Pew Charitable Trust, Al Gore (“Inconvenient Truth” and The Alliance for Climate Protection), Facebook, CNET News, EnTrust Capital Management, and the Biotech Industry Organization. He is a lawyer by training but has spent most of his career as a political operative and private sector entrepreneur , starting and managing three enterprises – a political and public relations consulting practice, a mobile phone marketing company, and, most recently, a new energy economy firm.

Bernard Golden

Bernard serves as CEO of HyperStratus. He has held senior executive positions in corporate IT, enterprise software, global consultancies, and venture capital firms. He was most recently CEO of Navica, a well-known open source management consulting firm. Previously he served as Engineering Director and Vice President for a number of companies, including Deploy Solutions, Uniplex Software, and Informix Software. He also founded and ran the Internet and New Media Laboratory for Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. A highly-regarded author and speaker, he frequently presents at conferences on virtualization, cloud computing, and next generation applications and infrastructures. He is the Virtualization and Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine. In addition, he is the author of Virtualization for Dummies, the best-selling book on the subject ever published.

Sasha Grinshpun

Sasha Grinshpun
Executive Coach
Talent Mosaic

Sasha Grinshpun, is a career and executive coach based in the Bay Area. She works with individuals and within organizations on career pathing, career transition, executive performance, career visioning, communications, branding, networking, developing effective job search strategies and negotiation. Sasha regularly speaks on career development at leading business schools and workshops around the world. Sasha combines her gift for quickly gauging life passions of her clients with her experience in formulating effective job searches for them to sculpt their dream jobs. Her eclectic background spanning consulting, IDEO, and entrepreneurial ventures puts her in unique position to have the conversation around, "What do you really want?!" Sasha was most recently selected as a coach for the Harvard Business School executive education course, New Path, focused on executive women in career transition.

Prior to her twelve-year career in business, Sasha worked on projects that have included conducting genetics research as part of the Human Genome project and writing documentary scripts for National Geographic Television. She graduated from Harvard Business School (MBA, Focus on Innovation and Organizational Psychology) and from Yale University (BA in Economics & International Studies). Sasha is fluent in Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish, especially on Latin dance nights.

Mamoon Hamid

Mamoon Hamid
Principal
US Venture Partners

Mamoon joined USVP in 2005. At USVP, he focuses on cleantech, semiconductor and software investments. He led USVP's investment in Box.net, and serves on the company's Board. He is also involved with USVP portfolio companies: CFX Battery, Superprotonic, Optichron, Supplyframe and Zannel. He is also an advisor to Yelp.

Prior to joining USVP, Mamoon spent eight years at Xilinx in various engineering and marketing roles. Previously, Mamoon has also worked for Deutsche Bank.

Mamoon holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, an MS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.

A native of Pakistan, Mamoon grew up in Frankfurt, Germany. He is multi-lingual in German, Urdu and Hindi.

Corwin Hardham

Corwin Hardham
CTO
Makani Power

Corwin is the Chief Technical Officer at Makani Power. Corwin has co-founded several companies including Squid-Labs, Potenco, Instructables and WakeKite. His focus is in mechanical design and controls as applied to renewable energy systems, and he holds several patents within these areas.

Corwin completed his doctorate at Stanford University developing active hydraulic platforms to improve gravitational-wave detection. His appreciation for design stems from a history of evolving equipment for competition in windsurfing and kite-boarding. At Makani Power, he remains true to his passion for the wind.

Lorraine Hariton

Lorraine Hariton
Smart Grid Consultant
Echelon

Lorraine Hariton has spent more than 25 years in the technology sector as a senior executive at IBM and Network Computing Devices. Hariton was President and CEO of Apptera and Beatnik, Inc., where she remains as Chairman. She is also on the board of IODA. Currently she is doing consulting in the Smart Grid area. She is also on the board of the Demand Response Smart Grid Coalition representing Echelon Corporation.

Hariton is Chairman Emeritus and on the board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives, serves as Treasurer of the California Board of Accountancy, on the National Advisory Board of the Stanford Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Executive Committee of the National Center for Women and Information Technology. She is also a fellow of the American Leadership Forum. Lorraine played a leadership role in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, first as Co Chair of Hillary Clinton’s Finance Committee and then as a member of Obama’s National Finance Committee. She was a delegate to the Democratic National Conference. She has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in mathematical sciences from Stanford University. She is a triathlete and enjoys traveling. She is married and has two grown children.

Howard Hartenbaum

Howard Hartenbaum joined August Capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as a General Partner at Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype and a former member of the board of directors where his achievement resulted in his joining the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists.

Before entering the venture capital field, Howard was at Hughes Electronics, where he was responsible for supporting business development, marketing and sales of satellite, information security and automotive technologies developed by HRL Laboratories. He also worked in engineering positions in ergonomics and user experience at Honda Motor Company and manufacturing at Teledyne Relays.

Howard has worked overseas for a total of ten years in Luxembourg and Japan. He is a graduate of M.I.T.

Current Investments: Pixazza, Swoopo

Previous investments: Skype (acquired by eBay – EBAY), Photobucket (acquired by Fox Interactive Media – NWS), Bebo (acquired by AOL – TWX) and Netkraft (acquired by Adea Solutions)

Dr. Asher Hasan

Dr. Asher Hasan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Naya Jeevan a not-for-profit social enterprise dedicated to providing socio-economically disadvantaged families throughout the emerging world with affordable access to quality, catastrophic healthcare. Dr. Hasan was recently selected as a Draper Richards Social Entrepreneur Fellow for 2009-2011 which is accompanied with a $300,000 award. In addition, Naya Jeevan is also the recipient of a $75,000 1st prize in the 2008 NYU Social Entrepreneurship Business Plan competition.

Prior to launching Naya Jeevan, Dr. Hasan served in the capacity of Senior Director and Head of the US Medical Affairs Obesity team for Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to relocating to California, Dr. Hasan served as the US Medical Director for Rimonabant (Acomplia) for sanofi-aventis, based out of their US headquarters in Bridgewater, NJ. During his tenure in New York City, Dr. Hasan also completed a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

After migrating to the US, Dr, Hasan attended Oberlin College where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and biology with an additional concentration in international relations. Subsequently, Dr. Hasan moved to Harvard Medical School where he worked as a preclinical researcher along with a group of vascular surgeons at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. His research endeavors were focused on evaluating the incidence of restenosis in a rat carotid artery model following balloon angioplasty. Dr. Hasan pursued further pre-clinical and basic science research opportunities at Massachusetts General Hospital in collaboration with a group of neuro-anesthesiologists. His research there focused on the role of the NMDAR1 receptor in clinical analgesia.

Graduating summa cum laude, Dr. Hasan successfully completed his MD degree from the State University of New York. He then went on to train in General Surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. At this juncture, Dr. Hasan opted out of surgical practice to pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry with Sanofi-Synthelabo (now sanofi-aventis). In addition to his affiliation with the biotech/pharmaceutical industry in the US, Dr. Hasan is an active member of NAASO-The Obesity Society, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. He also recently (2005-2006) served as a board member of the US National Business Group on Health: Institute on Cost & Effects of Obesity.

Stefan Heuser

Stefan Heuser
President and CEO
Siemens Technology-To-Business Center

Stefan Heuser is president and chief executive officer of Siemens Technology-To-Business (TTB) Center in Berkeley, California, a subsidiary of Siemens Corporate Research that identifies and develops innovative technologies and converts them into new Siemens products or businesses or independent companies. Heuser was named to this position in 2004.Prior to this role, Stefan served as chief financial officer for TTB and was responsible for strategy, performance measurement, project controlling, budgeting and managerial accounting. He was also actively involved in developing processes for start-up investments and spin-in projects, coached start-ups and developed relationships with selected venture capital companies and business angel organizations.From 1997 to 2002, Stefan worked at Siemens Capital Corporation in New Jersey, Siemens’ in-house bank for North America. He held the positions of vice president, Cash Management and senior vice president, co-managing the company.Stefan began his career with Siemens in Corporate Finance in Munich, Germany holding several challenging positions of increasing responsibility. During this time, he was a consultant in the area of Cash Management and Treasury, and a member of the EURO Working Group at Siemens which was a vanguard of European companies in the implementation of the EURO. As Treasury consultant and Treasury System implementation manager, Stefan was part of the implementation team for Siemens’ first global treasury system. He was responsible for the setup of this system at the treasury subsidiaries in New York (Siemens Capital Corporation) and Hong Kong (Siemens Finance Asia).Stefan is a member of “The Angel Forum” (TAF) in Silicon Valley, California.Stefan graduated in 1991 with a Master’s Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich.

Kai Huang

Kai Huang is a co-founder of RedOctane and has been the President and CEO since 1999. Publishers of the popular Guitar Hero franchise, RedOctane was acquired by Activision in June 2006. Prior to RedOctane, Mr. Huang was co-founder and CEO of Adux Software, a software company developing solutions for the server appliance market. Adux Software was sold in 1999. From July 1994 to August 1998, Mr. Huang was a consultant with Accenture where he worked with Fortune 500 clients in the area of supply chain management. Mr. Huang holds a BA in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Charles Hudson

\ Charles Hudson

Charles Hudson is VP of Business Development for Serious Business. He was formerly the Sr. Director for Business Development at Gaia Interactive, the fastest growing online hangout for teens. Prior to Gaia, Charles worked in New Business Development at Google and focused on new partnership opportunities for early-stage products in the advertising, mobile, and e-commerce markets. Prior to joining Google, he was a Product Manager for IronPort Systems, a leading provider of anti-spam hardware appliances that was acquired by Cisco Systems for $830 million in 2007.

Charles spent several years working at In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital group for the Central Intelligence Agency. While at In-Q-Tel, he focused on identifying investment opportunities that could deliver significant value to the CIA and the commercial market in both the short and long term.Charles Hudson holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Stanford University.

Masood Jabbar

A 30-year veteran of the technology industry, Masood Jabbar spent more than 16 years at Sun Microsystems, most recently serving as executive vice president of global sales operations. Prior to heading Sun's sales organization, he was the president of Sun Microsystems' Computer Company, the multibillion dollar business unit that developed, manufactured and marketed desktop and server computing systems. Mr. Jabbar also served in a number of other capacities within the Sun organization and it's subsidiaries including chief financial officer, general manager, and vice president of finance and planning.

Before joining Sun Microsystems, Mr. Jabbar spent 10 years with Xerox Corporation, in various planning and controller positions. He worked at IBM Corporation for three years prior to joining Xerox.

Masood Jabbar is currently a private investor in start-up companies and sits on the board of directors of Openwave Systems, Inc., Silicon Image Inc., JDS Uniphase, and MSC Software Corp.

Mr. Jabbar received a master's degree international management from the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona, as well a master's degree in business administration from A&M University. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and statistics from the University of Panjab in Pakistan.

Anup Jacob

Anup Jacob
Partner
Virgin Green Fund

Anup Jacob is a founding Partner of Virgin Green Fund and a member of its Investment Committee. VGF is a private equity fund focused on growth capital investments in the renewable energy and resource efficiency sectors.

Prior to VGF, Anup was an investment professional with TPG and a partner in TPG’s Aqua Fund, which focused on growth capital investments in the water and renewable energy sectors. Anup currently serves on the board of Solyndra Inc., a California-based thin-film solar company.

Anup started his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York and India in the Global Power and Merchant Banking groups. Anup previously served on the board of Jain Irrigation Systems, Ltd.

Anup is involved in several children’s charities and environmental charities in India and the US. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

Dr. Munir Javed

Dr. Javed is an Internist in Solo Practice for 17 years in Mountain View. He is affiliated with El Camino Hospital. Currently the President of Northern CA/OR Chapter of APPNA (Pakistani-American Association of Physicians of North America). Vice Chair and Board of Director of Independent Physicians of El Camino comprising of about 120 Physicians. Dr. Javed is involved with implementation of practice management system for the Independent Physicians as well as the electronic health records and coordination of clinic care among the Physicians at El Camino Hospital.

Dr. Javed led the establishment of a pioneering Genomic Medicine Institute. El Camino Hospital stands poised to develop the nation's first community hospital based center of excellence focused on ushering the promise of personalized medicine from the research laboratory to patients, spurring genomic medicine to become the new standard of care. Dr. Javed serves on the advisory panel of Genomic Medical Institute at El Camino Hospital as well.

Zain Jeewanjee

Zain Jeewanjee is currently active in his position as Founder/CEO of Go One Global Corporation and Founder of the Zain Jeewanjee Insurance Agency, which he founded in 1986 and now features operational licenses in 47 states with collective revenues of over $29 million. His was the first company to offer complete end-to-end transactions for insurance packages to customers online, and he has continued to build on that with the same level of forethought and originality. Mr. Jeewanjee is a founder and member of several boards and organizations, such as PESA (Pakistan Engineers and Scientist Association), the Friends of LUMS Foundation (Lahore University of Management Sciences, USA), and the Pakistan Association. Along with Syed Babar Ali (of LUMS), Mr. Jeewanjee was instrumental in the formation of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) chapters in both Karachi and Lahore, and he remains affiliated with those chapters as well as TiE Silicon Valley. In his newest charitable endeavor, the Doctors4Help Foundation, Mr. Jeewanjee has single-handedly conceived, funded, and executed the doctors4help site, which facilitates sending US physicians to Pakistan via organizations such as HDF, Shifa Hospital, Australian Aid International, APPNA, the Imran Khan Foundation, and others. Mr. Jeewanjee is a Charter Member of TiE, TiE Global, and OPEN. Deeply mindful of his roots, Mr. Jeewanjee visits Pakistan very frequently, both for business and in regards to his charitable endeavors. He moved to the United States after completing his Masters from Karachi University. When not managing his portfolio of companies, Mr. Jeewanjee enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, watching ice hockey and cricket, and socializing at a variety of community events.

Riaz Karamali

Riaz is a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm. With 20 years of experience, Riaz enjoys an active practice in the areas of company formation and seed/venture capital financing, licensing and technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, and domestic and international joint ventures. Riaz represents a broad range of clients including emerging technology start-ups, investors and Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley. Riaz is also actively involved in venture capital and acquisition transactions related to the Middle East, India and Pakistan, and recently represented Naseeb Networks, Inc. in a venture capital financing led by ePlanet Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Riaz is a frequent speaker at national conferences, Bar programs, and in-house events. Riaz receiveived his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his B.A. from Rice University where he achieved a triple major in Economics, English Literature and Political Science.

Shuja Keen

Shuja Keen
Vice President
TRG Holdings

Shuja has extensive hands-on experience in investing in, developing, managing and operating technology companies. He is currently Vice President of Operations at TRG Holdings, (www.trgworld.com ) a $200M private equity partnership focused on the IT-enabled services sector. At TRG Shuja has led post-acquisition integration, turnarounds, and global expansion initiatives.

Prior to TRG, he co-founded HauteDecor, a New York based B2B solution for the high-end interior architecture and design industry. While at HauteDecor, Shuja raised over $15 million in venture capital financing and led the company from concept to a product design and development process, and negotiated strategic partnerships with several leading technology companies. Prior to that, he worked in the Strategic Capital Allocation Group at Morgan Stanley, where he advised on asset allocation of over $2.5 billion in the alternative investments sector - private equity and hedge funds.

Shuja is passionate about creating cascading impact in the energy sector by taking on systemic challenges, bridging the renewable energy divide, connecting people in tangible ways to their energy, and supporting positive behavior change through how people experience energy. He's a mentor for the Clean Tech Open business plan competition (www.cleantechopen.com). He is an active member of the Full Circle Fund (www.fullcirclefund.org) an alliance of emerging business leaders who help solve public problems through engaged philanthropy and public policy advocacy. Through the Full Circle Fund’s Energy and Environmental Circle, he advises Grid Alternatives, (www.gridalternatives.org), a solar electricity and energy efficiency provider to low-income homeowners in California, and leads an inquiry team in the Global Economic Opportunity circle to support low-income entrepreneurs in developing countries to scale affordable renewable energy technologies through the use of microfinance. Shuja is also an active member of Developments in Literacy (www.dil.org).

Shuja received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Brett Keintz

Brett K.

Brett Keintz spent the first eighteen years of his life in Madison, WI and most of the last seven years in Boston, MA. He began his career at Deloitte Consulting where he advised clients in Telecom, Medical Technologies, and Media. He later researched music piracy and digital media in Madrid as a Fulbright Scholar. His research was accepted for publication by the Society for Economic Research and Copyright Issues (SERCI) and he has also published articles on VoIP, podcasting, and p2p networks. Brett is the CEO and co-founder of Sharethrough, a startup providing viral media distribution solutions that gives content owners and advertisers a scalable way to create friend-to-friend branding. He holds a BS in Finance from Boston College and an MBA from Stanford.

We work mostly with media companies currently, providing a way to buy media in a traditional sense, but then wrapping the content in technology such that the viral passalong of that content is maximized and tracked through Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter, and other social networks.

Saad Khan

Saad joined CMEA Capital in 2007 as a Partner and is focusing on the firm's software and Internet investments. Currently, Saad serves on the board of directors for CMEA portfolio companies Pixazza and Jobvite, and co-led CMEA’s investment in Evolution Robotics. From prior affiliations, Saad also serves on the advisory board for Lending Club, and is a founding member of the FilmAngels. Prior to CMEA, Saad was a Venture Partner at Garage Technology Ventures (GTV), a seed and early stage venture capital firm. During his 5 years at Garage, Saad ran the advisory group and also led the software team, working on many emerging technology, software and digital media investments across the portfolio including TripleHop (acquired by ORCL), cFares, and Pandora (formerly Savage Beast).

Before GTV, Saad worked for IBM research’s alphaWorks team and in Strategic Planning and Business Development for the Buena Vista Internet Group at the Walt Disney Company. Saad received a B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems and an A.B in Economics with Honors in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University.

Salman Khan

Salman Khan is a Sr. Analyst at Connective Capital in Palo Alto, CA. Prior to Connective, Salman was the Senior Analyst at Wohl Capital Management, a $330 Million fund in Menlo Park, CA. He is also the founder of Khan Academy, a not-for-profit intended to promote free education through the internet. His past experience is in Engineering and Product Management at MVC Capital, Xerox Parc, and Oracle Corporation. He has made several recent appearances on CNN to explain the causes and consequences of the crisis and the bailout proposals.
Salman holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, a BS in Mathematics and M. Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from MIT. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Umair Khan

Umair co-founded Clickmarks Inc., a Silicon Valley based enterprise software company. As CEO , Umair grew the company through $27 million in venture funding from among others, DFJ-Eplanet, Mitsubishi, and Vodafone Ventures, and oversaw its acquisition in July 2005 by Semotus Inc., a publicly traded US company. Umair served as COO of Semotus through May 2006 before leaving to join The Entrepreneurs’ Fund III, a Silicon Valley based venture capital fund, as Venture Partner. Umair is also founder and chairman of Verisium (www.verisium.com), a Silicon Valley based software testing tools company founded in 2004. Umair is also the founder of Folio3, a Pakistan-based services company that provides offshore operations incubation to startups and other small companies. Prior to this, Umair was founder and chairman of Wordwalla Inc., a venture backed company providing multilingual software solutions. Wordwalla was acquired in 2001 by Morisawa Corporation, a public company in Japan. He is also co-founder of Chowk, a niche portal focusing on South Asia. Umair started his career as part of the Itanium microprocessor group at Intel Corporation. Umair founded OPEN (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs) Silicon Valley, an organization that promotes and fosters Entrepreneurship. He has spoken on entrepreneurship at some of the country's top business schools, including MIT, Harvard, and UC Berkeley. He has been profiled in publications such as USA Today, New York Times, and The Entrepreneur. Umair received a BS in Mathematics (1992) and an MS in Computer Engineering (1995), both from MIT, where in 1991 he was elected by the Department of Mathematics as an institutional nominee to the Mathematical Association of America.

Alex Kinnier

Alex Kinnier
Partner
Khosla Ventures

Alex is working to speed up the next industrial revolution, focusing on solar energy utilization, thermal efficiency, energy conversion devices, energy storage, and biofuels.

Over the past 10 years, Alex has successfully created, launched, and grown a variety of technology and household products. As a Group Product Manager at Google, Alex built the Agency display advertising team and created Google's next generation third party serving and targeting system. As part of this effort Alex was a leader of the $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick. On the consumer side of Google's business, Alex earned an Executive Management Group award for leading the product response to Microsoft's IE7 browser launch that significantly increased Google's search share. In Brand Management at Procter & Gamble, Alex leveraged a forgotten technology and led two award winning marketing campaigns to build his brand to $80 million in sales. And, in Product Development at Procter & Gamble, Alex led the development and launch of three new-to-the-world Febreze products that helped the brand achieve sales of over $400 million in 50 countries in 24 months.

Alex also knows the joy and pain associated with starting a venture from scratch. In 2002, Alex began in Cleantech, founding Ocular Technologies to commercialize enhanced efficiency evaporators utilizing a proprietary monolayer coating that improved air conditioning performance. The challenges of commercializing components of a larger system controlled by an entrenched industry provided Alex with a learning experience that informs his investing.

Growing up outside of Philadelphia, PA, Alex earned a BS in Chemical Engineering with honors from Lehigh University and later an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School.

Ping Li

Ping joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure (compute, networking, security and storage), as well as digital media solutions. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at BitTorrent, Mochi Media, Mu Dynamics, and YuMe, and he is actively involved in Consentry, Imperva, and Oak Pacific Interactive. Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco).

Prior to Accel, Ping was a Senior Product Line Manager and Director of Corporate Development at Juniper Networks. He managed Juniper’s M-series router product portfolio that generated revenues over $50 mm/quarter. In addition, Ping worked on Juniper’s acquisition of Netscreen Technologies ($3.5 billion transaction) and led all subsequent security and routing product and R&D integration activities. He also worked as a strategy consultant for Mckinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.

Ping has extensive international experience as well. At Singapore Telecom, he served directly for the executive management team in assessing and investing in Asian growth opportunities. Prior to SingTel, Ping worked at Goldman Sachs Asia, transacting large PTT privatizations and advising telecom clients on complex restructuring and asset divestitures. Ping continues to be active in China investing by working with IDG-Accel China Fund.

Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Dr. Tahir Mahmood

Khurram Afridi

Tahir Mahmood is Managing Director at Lake Sherwood Partners, a life sciences advisory firm with a focus on R&D and business strategy, investment planning and diligence. The firm’s clients include Genentech, early-stage biotechs and leading hedge fund/private equity groups. Tahir is also co-founder and President of Lake Sherwood Sorrento Partners, a technology development firm currently incubating start up ideas in areas such as protein therapeutics, molecular diagnostics, developing world medicine and ophthalmic pharmaceuticals. He is also Visiting Investigator/Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Worm Institute for Research & Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. He has authored ~20 scientific papers and book chapters, presented at over 30 international conferences (including as Chair of panels and sessions) and is inventor on 7 issued patents, with additional patents pending.

Previously, Tahir was Principal Business Analyst at Amgen where he headed the company’s global drug delivery practice. Prior to Amgen, Tahir worked in business development and research at Chienna BV and IsoTis SA, European life sciences and medical technology firms acquired by larger competitors.

Tahir received a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto, where he was McAllister Scholar, McAllister Fellow and Canada Scholar. He also holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from a joint program in regenerative medicine between the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology under the mentorship of Prof. Robert Langer, where he was also Student in Surgery at Children’s Hospital Boston. He has received numerous awards, including those from US Biomaterials and the European Society for Biomaterials.

Nadim Maluf

Nadim Maluf
EIR
US Venture Partners

Nadim joined USVP as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to leverage his operating experience in technology companies into emerging cross-disciplinary applications namely clean and efficient energy, information technology and medical devices. Nadim's technology experience spans over 20 years in semiconductors, MEMS, materials, optics and lasers as applied into diverse markets from healthcare to energy and telecom.

Most recently, he was EVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LumaSense Technologies where he successfully built the company as a roll-up of several sensor acquisitions into a leading global test & measurement business. Nadim's experience in integrating and growing technology acquisitions gave him a deep perspective on the fundamentals of building sound businesses. Prior to LumaSense, he held several executive positions at New Focus (acquired by Bookham) where he was involved in growing the company into a leading telecom player, then resizing it and focusing it onto new markets following the collapse of the dot com bubble. He also worked at NovaSensor, now part of General Electric.

"What attracted me to USVP are the high caliber of investment professionals as well as the breadth and depth of experience in building world-class technology companies," says Nadim. "USVP offers the right environment to explore new opportunities in emerging technologies and applications."

Nadim has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University where he has also served as Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering. He is fluent in English, French and Arabic. His favorite book is "Endurance," an inspiring narration of Sir Ernest Shackleton's voyage to the Antarctic.

Bill Maris

Bill Maris is a Managing Partner of Google Ventures. Bill brings more than a decade of diverse operational, entrepreneurial and leadership experience to Google Ventures. Bill's past successes include founding Web hosting pioneer Burlee.com, which he subsequently sold to Interland, Inc. (NASDAQ: WWWW), now known as Web.com. Prior to that, Bill was a portfolio manager for Stockholm, Sweden-based Investor AB, one of the world's largest industrial holding companies, where he co-managed the biotechnology and health care portfolios. Bill’s background also includes scientific research into cholinergic visual pathways, cell membrane patch clamping techniques and in-vivo neuronal cell injection at Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology. Bill is based in Mountain View, CA and received an A.B. with honors in Neuroscience from Middlebury College.

Alex Mehr

Alex Mehr is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Zoosk, the largest social dating site with over 20 million members. Before starting Zoosk, Alex worked as a scientist on several awesome NASA projects for both robotic and manned space missions. Alex received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology. Alex also attended the MBA program at the University of California, Berkeley, but decided to take a leave of absence to start Zoosk.

Alex is the author of more than 25 peer-reviewed published articles on a variety of subjects such as: Theory of Complex Systems, Risk Management, Design Optimization, Aerospace Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Decision Theory, and Numerical Modeling. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the Optimal Design of Complex Engineering Systems.

Dan Merritts

Dan Merritts is the VP of Marketing at Eduify, a social network integrated productivity suite that helps students write better and research faster. Dan is responsible for marketing, product design and management and public relations activities at Eduify.

Dan’s experience in the technology industry spans enterprise operations, product marketing, product management and strategic planning. Prior to joining Eduify, Dan was the Director of Product Management at Zenprise. While at Zenprise, Dan launched two award-winning products for the mobile troubleshooting and management start-up. Earlier in his career Dan led product management and technology strategy for EDS’ Virtual Control Center, a successful multi-million dollar program that integrated and automated global workflow and monitoring platforms for the IT services giant. Before that, Dan was a senior member of Loudcloud’s global operations team where he helped spearhead critical service delivery automation projects. Dan started his career at Affinia, a pioneer in contextual web advertising, which developed a predecessor to Google's AdSense.

Dan holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelors of Science in Economics and Bachelors of Science in Operations Management from Santa Clara University.

Misbah Naqvi

As Special Projects Manager on the Business Development team at Acumen Fund, Misbah’s primary responsibility is building an engaged community of partners around Acumen Fund’s work and fundraising to support Acumen Fund’s mission.Misbah joined Acumen Fund in Pakistan in 2006, initially focusing on building an investment pipeline and managing portfolio investments. She then led Acumen Fund’s community building initiatives in Pakistan, managing business development and knowledge and communications activities for the Pakistan office, before joining the New York team in 2008. Before joining Acumen Fund, Misbah spent over eight years in a variety of positions at Citigroup Pakistan, most recently as Public Affairs Officer, where her responsibilities included managing external and internal communications, community affairs and public relations activities. Misbah also worked in Citigroup’s Corporate Banking Group, where she managed the bank’s corporate relationships in Pakistan’s chemical and pharma industries. She also has experience working in the bank’s Transaction Management and e-Banking Group. Misbah holds an MBA and a BA (Honors) in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Karachi, Pakistan.

Steve Newcomb

Steve Newcomb
CEO
Virgance

Steve is a 39-year-old entrepreneur and political advisor who has been involved in building 9 companies, creating over $3 billion in market value.

In addition to being the CEO of Virgance, Mr. Newcomb is also currently the chairman of Serious Business, a Facebook application company that attracts over 250 million visitors a month, and the founder of SF Green, San Francisco’s premier event that brings together leaders in activism, business and government. Mr. Newcomb sits on the policy committee for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

He is also the well-known founder of Powerset (now MSFT) and Loudfire (now Nokia).

Mark Ostrau

Mark S. Ostrau
Partner
Fenwick & West

As a member of Fenwick & West's Technology Transactions Group and Co-Chair of the Cleantech Group, Mark's focus is helping cleantech companies grow into sustainable businesses. He does this by assisting them in acquiring, developing and commercializing their technologies and products. For over twenty years, Mark has helped many leading Silicon Valley startups and public companies navigate their licensing, distribution and technology transactions.

Mark is also co-chair of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Group, and advises clients on a wide variety of antitrust issues, including distribution, marketing, M&A and intellectual property.

Mark has authored or presented numerous articles and speeches on a variety of licensing and antitrust topics relevant to technology industries, and is often quoted in industry and general media. In addition, he regularly provides educational seminars for high technology companies regarding both licensing and antitrust issues.

Mark graduated magna cum laude with distinction with a B.A. in economics from Yale University and has a J.D. from Stanford University.

Warren Packard

Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of Anagran, CastTV, EoPlex, Media Lario, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, and SeaMicro. Warren also leads the firm's investments in BinOptics, CallGate, Imago Scientific Instruments, Jaxtr, ooma, YeePay, and Zon Networks. Prior to joining the firm, Warren co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Warren was a Senior Principal Engineer in the Advanced Product Development Group at Baxter International. Warren is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering: Smart Product Design. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Tamin Pechet

Tamin Pechet
Principal
Catamount Ventures
Chairman & ED
Imagine H2O

Tamin is a Principal at Catamount Ventures, where he invests in and helps build high-growth companies, with a particular focus on water, energy, and environment sectors. Tamin serves on the Board of Directors of Lux Research, and advises several startups and non-profits. He also currently serves as Chairman & Executive Director of Imagine H2O (www.imagineh2o.org), a not-for-profit company that catalyzes water entrepreneurship with a business plan prize and incubator program.

Before joining Catamount, Tamin was a principal investor at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he co-founded and managed Goldman Sachs E&P Capital to invest in private energy companies, and served on the founding team of the Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Tamin held a business development position with Launch Media through its acquisition by Yahoo! Tamin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB with honors from Harvard University.

Jack Porter

Jack is a serial entrepreneur who has been the CEO of 6 successful software companies including DecisionView, KnowledgeTrack (acquired by Enfish), FrontOffice Technologies (acquired by iManage), Paragon Software, TouchFax Corporation, and DynaComp. He has a strong interest in Web 2.0 technologies and have invested in several companies built on this business model. He has extensive knowledge and contacts in the pharmaceutical industry and often consult with companies on how to penetrate this market. Jack has published 3 books on technology innovation, often speak at conferences and trade events, and am a frequent writer for magazines such as Infoworld, CIO Magazine, and eWeek.

Besides being a Twitter fanatic, he is a real adrenaline junkie and enjoys extreme skiing, sky diving, scuba, and flying. He is also really into home theater, home automation and robots.

Rahul Prakash

Rahul

Rahul Prakash
Vice President
Virgance

Rahul has been building successful companies for the past decade. Rahul is Vice President of Business Development and a founding team member for Virgance, a company that utilizes the power of social media and social networks to cause social change in a way that works in partnership with business.

Prior to Virgance, Rahul was Vice President at Spock where he ran marketing. Spock was acquired by Intellius in 2009. Prior to Spock, Rahul founded his first company, Advantix, while he was a junior in college.

He is a founding member of the Full Circle Fund’s Environmental Impact Circle, serves on the Board of Directors at The Junior Statesmen Foundation & The Coro Foundation, and sits on Public Policy Committee for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. In 2009 Rahul was appointed to the Mission Bay Citizen’s Advisory Committee by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Rahul serve as an adviser to several prominent elected officials across the country on clean energy and technology policy. Rahul is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Rob Romero

Rob Romero
Portfolio Manager
Connective Capital Management

Rob Romero has 20 years of engineering, marketing and investment experience the technology business. Mr. Romero’s professional experience includes engineering & management roles at Baldur, TCSI, Bay Networks, Netsys, and Cisco. Mr. Romero also founded and served as VP of Marketing at eVoice, a leading voicemail provider, sold to AOL in 2001. In 2001, Mr. Romero founded Connective Capital Ventures, and made early-stage investments in companies such as Vonage, IronPort and LiveOps. In 2003, Mr. Romero founded Connective Capital Management, an equity hedge fund management company, focused in the technology and alternative energy sectors.

Mr. Romero holds a BS in EE, a BA in Economics, and an MS in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Dr. Rosina Samadani

Rosina Samadani

Dr. Rosina Samadani is the founder and President of Capella Advisors, a boutique strategic consulting firm to the healthcare industry that she founded in 2004. She has over eleven years consulting experience, including seven years with McKinsey & Company. This year her firm is nominated as one of the 50 fastest growing companies by the WPEO (Women's President's Educational Organization). Capella Advisors’ competitive edge is that it offers its clients deep healthcare expertise, an MD and/or a health sciences PhD on every team, and consultants each with 5 or more years of experience.

At McKinsey and Company, Dr. Samadani was a leader in the healthcare practice, serving pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, physician services, and payer companies. In addition she served as an evaluator and Development Group Leader for the 2002 business analyst class. While at McKinsey she also served on the NY Mayoral Commission on Women survey committee.

Dr. Samadani has her BS from MIT in Mechanical Engineering, her MS from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program in Mechanical Engineering, and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Biomedical Engineering. Her bachelor’s work resulted in a patent that she holds jointly with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While a student at MIT she served as the President of the MIT chapter of Pit Tau Sigma, the mechanical engineering honor society. Her masters and doctoral work was on the sensorimotor control of muscle and she was supported as a National Science Foundation Fellow, a National Institutes of Health Research Service Award, and a Helen Bernstein Health Sciences and Technology Fellow.

Marybeth Sharpe

Marybeth Sharpe is the Initiative Lead for the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative. Dr. Sharpe has recently reviewed the details of the Obama stimulus plan, i.e., the Recovery Act stimulus funds for
innovation and adoption of healthcare IT. She is knowledgeable about the funding mechanisms and deadlines and is providing guidance to the Moore Foundation regarding accessing these funds.

Before joining the Foundation, Dr. Sharpe was a Vice President with American Express where she led strategic analysis for their small business group. She has also taught economics at the University of
Chicago, worked for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and served as an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company in New York.

Dr. Sharpe graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary and received a Ph.D. in Economics with a focus on labor economics from the University of Chicago.

Riaz Siddiqi

Riaz Siddiqi
Managing Partner
Denham Capital

Riaz Siddiqi is a Managing Partner of Denham Capital, responsible for the firm's Power & Carbon Group. He brings 29 years of experience to the firm. In addition to his responsibilities as Managing Partner, he is a member of the Executive Committee, Management Committee, Investment Committee, and Valuation Committee. Riaz is fluent in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi, and speaks some French as well. Prior to joining Denham Capital in 2004, Riaz was President and CEO of Capstone Global Energy, and before that he held Managing Director and other executive roles at Cinergy Capital and Trading and other Cinergy companies. Previously, he served as Manager, Market Management Research, for the Electric Power Research Institute, a Project Manager for Georgia Power Company, Senior Financial Analyst for San Diego Gas & Electric, and Systems Analyst at Southern Company, after spending some time as a Project Engineer in Pakistan.

Riaz volunteers for Development in Literacy - www.dil.org , Angel Flight and Unity Productions Foundation and the Organization of Pakistani American Entrepreneurs. Riaz received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Pakistan University of Energy & Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Graduate School of Business at Mississippi State University.

Omar Siddiqui

Omar Siddiqi

Omar Siddiqui is the CEO of Trippert Labs, a game development company based in Menlo Park building cutting-edge social network, web, and iPhone games. Previously, Omar has worked as a design lead at IDEO, as a Senior Associate at Bain Capital, and in business development/strategy roles at start-ups and McKinsey and Company. Omar has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and an A.B. magna cum laude degree in Social Studies from Harvard College.

Rashmi Sinha

Rashmi Sinha is Co-Founder and CEO for SlideShare, the world's largest community for sharing presentations. SlideShare is growing rapidly (more than 11 million monthly uniques) letting everyone from teachers to marketers to conference speakers share presentations and connect with others. Rashmi has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Brown University and did research on search engines and recommender systems at UC Berkeley. She is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Webvisions and Future of Web Apps. She writes a blog at rashmisinha.com about running a startup.

Dilawar Syed

Dilawar Syed is CEO of Yonja Media Group, an emerging markets-focused internet media company. Prior to joining Yonja, Dilawar managed Platform Business Group at Yahoo! In this capacity, Dilawar was responsible for planning Yahoo!'s investments in next generation platforms, tools and infrastructure; running business operations to support platform adoption worldwide; and managing business development to extend Yahoo! services to external developers.

Prior to Yahoo!, Dilawar spent several years in enterprise software in product management roles. At SAP, Dilawar managed product marketing strategy for Customer Relationship Management. At Siebel, Dilawar took products to market for the Telco, Media and Energy business unit. Most notably, Dilawar was responsible for launching Siebel's middleware platform, and helped grow the business to more than $100M in revenue. Dilawar started his career as a manangement consultant with Deloitte & Touché and Ernst & Young in the firms' Financial Services, Communications and High-tech industry practices.

Dilawar is an OPEN Silicon Valley Charter Member and has served as its President since 2007. Outside professional interests, Dilawar is active in broad range of civic efforts. In 2008, Dilawar served as a National Finance Committee member for President Obama's campaign, and was appointed Co-Chair of South Asian American Leadership Council in the DNC. Dilawar serves on the board of Fred Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights & Education.

Dilawar holds MBA from The Wharton School, and BA in Economics and Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.

Matthew Trevithick

Matthew Trevithick
Partner
Venrock

Matt joined Venrock in 2004 after a 4-year investigation of energy-related applications of nanotechnology. Matt previously co-founded and sold two software companies - LiquidMarket, a product search and comparison shopping service, acquired by NBC Internet in 1999 and Flash Communications, a developer of instant messaging technology, acquired by Microsoft in 1998. In addition to his entrepreneurial efforts, Matt worked in project finance and currency trading in Tokyo, London, Singapore and New York. As a co-founder of two acquired companies, combined with his energy and finance background, Matt has an in-depth understanding of the entrepreneur and what it takes to get across the finish line. Matt has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.

Mark Trang

Mark Trung

Mark Trang is Director of ISV Marketing & Programs at salesforce.com. He is responsible for helping developers, entrepreneurs and ISVs build Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications using the Force.com platform and go-to-market as a salesforce.com partner.

Prior to joining salesforce.com, Mark co-founded CogentWare, a SaaS startup, serving as VP of Product Management. Previously, he was a founding employee and led product marketing at SupplyAccess, a venture-backed supply chain software company. He began his career at Deloitte Consulting where he implemented enterprise software technologies at Fortune 500 companies. Mark graduated as a Regents Scholar with a B.A. in political science from UCLA and a M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Matt Golden

Matt Golden
President, Founder & Chief Building Scientist
Sustainable Spaces

Matt Golden is the co-founder and president of Sustainable Spaces. Prior to founding the company in 2004, Matt worked as an Energy Consultant, helping homeowners and businesses develop solar power systems. He soon realized that he was offering only a point solution and was not truly addressing most homeowners' desires to make their homes and lives more sustainable. Matt developed the concept for Sustainable Spaces to meet this market demand by providing a single, full-service resource and a brand homeowners can trust to help them improve the comfort, health, and efficiency of their home.

Matt was recently recognized by the Building Performance Institute as the first ever recipient of the Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry. He speaks extensively on building science and integrated green design to groups such as the AIA (American Institute of Architects), West Coast Green, Build It Green, and others. He is author of a number of articles for Home Energy Magazine and has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Forbes, New York Times, and the Ellen Degeneres Show. Matt currently resides on the following boards: Department of Energy (DOE) Home Performance Council, Building Performance Institute (BPI), California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA), Build It Green, and Fine Home Building Magazine Green Building Advisory Board.

Matt holds a bachelors degree in foreign relations from Georgetown University.

Lew Tucker

Dr. Lew Tucker

Lew Tucker is Vice President and CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. His focus today is on the evolution of computing as it moves into the cloud, but his contributions span several waves of
technology innovation over the last twenty years. Prior to re-joining Sun Microsystems, he was a Vice President at Salesforce.com where he created the AppExchange, advancing the company's strategy to become the leading SaaS platform for business applications. He went on to be CTO at Radar Networks, an innovative semantic-web based Internet service for tracking interests. During his previous tenure at Sun Microsystems, Tucker was an early member of the JavaSoft executive team at Sun driving
developer adoption of the Java platform, and later became Vice President, Internet Services, with overall responsibility for Sun's Internet sites and services.

Tucker's interest in distributed computing started in the mid 80's as a research scientist and Director of advanced development at Thinking Machines, working on machine vision and system architecture to create the massively parallel Connection Machine. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has a background in Artificial Intelligence, Neurobiology, and large-scale parallel algorithms.

Rahul Parkash

Rahul

Rahul Prakash
Vice President
Virgance

Rahul has been building successful companies for the past decade.

Rahul is Vice President of Business Development and a founding team member for Virgance, a company that utilizes the power of social media and social networks to cause social change in a way that works in partnership with business.

Rahul serve as an adviser to several prominent elected officials across the country on clean energy and technology policy. Rahul is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Freddy Mangum

Freddy Mangum
Managing Partner
Cleantech Circle

Freddy is a passionate business leader with over 14 years experience driving rapid market adoption of disruptive products through aggressive product management, sales, and marketing strategy. With proven experience successfully targeting consumers, SMBs, enterprises and service providers, Freddy has a unique view on product monetization, pricing, life-cycle management, definition process, iterative development methodologies and distribution strategies.

Currently, Freddy advises a number of early stage companies looking to build sustainable businesses focused on shifting markets. He is particularly passionate about companies that are developing disruptive energy efficiency, green Information Technology and Web Service products targeting small business, enterprises, service providers and consumers.

Most recently, Freddy served as Worldwide Vice President of Product Marketing for Fortinet, the largest privately held network security vendor. At Fortinet, Freddy owned a product portfolio consisting of over 60 hardware, software and in the cloud subscription services and generated more than $150M in billings worldwide.

Prior to that, Freddy founded a marketing consultancy providing product strategy and marketing services to companies including IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco), Sarvega (acquired by Intel) and Permeo (acquired by Blue Coat) to name a few. He has also held numerous sales, senior technical marketing and consulting engineer roles with companies such as Cisco Systems, WheelGroup and UUNET Technologies.

Freddy holds a B.S. in economics with honors from George Mason University and has completed additional studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, American University, Georgetown, University of Colorado, Stanford and Princeton.

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