- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 1967) is an American financier, entrepreneur, and prominent donor to charities focusing on economic liberty and technology. With Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and is its former CEO. Thiel once proposed that PayPal could be a catalyst for change in world politics. From Foster City, California, Thiel is an avowed libertarian. He studied 20th-century philosophy at Stanford University before going on to Stanford Law School.
- Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Timothy C. Draper
Timothy C. Draper Founder, Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurveston Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses.
- Charles H. Ferguson
Charles H. Ferguson co-founded Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, the original creator of Microsoft FrontPage. Ferguson detailed his experiences from the company in his 1999 book, "High St@kes, No Prisoners", including raising venture capital, building the product, and finally selling it to Microsoft for $133 million in 1996. He currently is a documentary filmmaker.
- Frank J. Caufield
Frank Caufield has been active in the venture capital field since the early 1970s. He is a Co-Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mr. Caufield has served on the boards of Quantum Corporation, Caremark Inc., AOL Inc., Megabios, Verifone Inc., Wyse Technology, Quickturn Corporation and Time Warner as well as many other private and public companies.
- Daniel Alspach
Dr. Daniel Alspach is an American businessman who established Orincon Corporation in 1973. Dr. Alspach initially served as vice president and technical director in 1975, but later became Chief Executive Officer and President of the company. He was awarded a Ph.D. in "Engineering Sciences" in 1970. Dr. Alspach recently co-founded Homeland Venture Partners, a venture capital firm.
- Mary A Burkett
- Patrick Nouhailler
I provide consulting for Mutual funds and Private Equity; - I Analyze business processes; - Migrate portfolio information; - Automate creation of Report; - Do reconciliation; - Check data consistency; - Customize environment; - Conduct enhancement requests; - Perform product training; - help in the choice of IT solution and perform software evaluation. Also specialize on advanced enterprise and e-commerce systems test planning and engineering, - I manage benchmarks; - design UAT and load . . .
- Craig E. Dauchy
- Ron Bates
Ron Bates is a Managing Principal with the retained executive search firm Executive Advantage Group, Inc. His search practice focuses on mission critical retained searches for pre-IPO Venture Capital backed start-ups to Fortune500 clients. He has delivered personal executive coaching projects to former SAP, E&Y, Oracle, and WorldCom Exec's responsible for multi-billion dollar business units, and co-founded www.CV-Advantage.com a self guided job search oriented executive coaching process.
- Paul Koontz
The operational challenges that face start-up enterprises are nothing new to Paul, who helped get Netscape Communications off the ground as the company's first vice president of marketing. Paul joined the Foundation Capital team in 1996, and since then has focused on enterprise software and Internet technologies.
- Aneel Bhusri
Aneel is a General Partner at Greylock. Aneel joined Greylock in 1999 from PeopleSoft, where he was named vice chairman (1999-2001) after several years as the company's senior vice president in charge of product strategy, business development and marketing. At PeopleSoft, he was responsible for developing and guiding all product strategy, corporate and product marketing.
- Gus Tai
Gus Tai , General Partner, Trinity Ventures; Chairman, CSPA Gus Tai is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 1986 and focused on building leading-edge software, communications, and enterprise systems companies. Mr. Tai specializes in software investing and is currently an active Board member for a number of companies including Aventail, Blue Nile, Modulus Video, PlayFirst and Amalfi Semiconductor.
- Ajay Chopra
- Corey Reese
- Lee F. Benton
Lee F. Benton is senior counsel in the Public Securities group in the Firm’s Business department, and is resident in its Palo Alto office. Mr. Benton was a partner in the Firm from 1975 until 2006. He served as managing partner of the Firm from 1996 to 2001 and as chair of the Firm’s Business department from 1994 to 1996. He commenced his career at Cooley Godward Kronish in 1970 in its San Francisco office, and founded the Firm’s Palo Alto office in 1980.
- Jeff Clavier
Business Angel and Venture Advisor with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. Most recently General Partner in charge of US operations for RVC, the manager of the Reuters Greenhouse Fund, the Corporate VC arm of Reuters. Before that was involved both as an entrepreneur and senior executive in Product Management and Development, Sales and Marketing, Account Management, Business Development and Strategic Relationships with large financial services clients and partners. . . .
- Ted Schlein
Ted Schlein Member of the Board of Directors Ted Schlein has served as a director since March 2002. Ted Schlein has served as a director since March 2002. Mr. Schlein has served as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, since 1996. Mr. Schlein has served as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, since 1996.
- David Cowan
David joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 1992. He has since made 45 early-stage investments for Bessemer, including 19 that have gone public, and 18 that have been acquired by public companies. The first Forbes Midas List ranked David among the world's top 10 venture investors.
- Carey Lai
Carey Lai Carey Lai joined IVP in June of 2004. He focuses primarily on later-stage and selected public market investments in software, Internet, wireless, and technology-enabled services companies. Prior to joining IVP, Carey was a Financial Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Banc of America Securities.
- Tom Rosch
Tom Rosch focuses on wireless & mobility, digital media & internet, datacenter infrastructure and semiconductors. Representative investments include Sierra Logic (acquired by Emulex), Juniper Networks, Signio (acquired by VeriSign), Sentient Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), eStamp, and Accept.com (acquired by Amazon.com). Rosch is currently on the boards of Open-Silicon, SiliconOptix, Platform Solutions and Quantance. He also led InterWest's investment in Staccato Communications.
- Tom Dyal
Tom Dyal , Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures Tom is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. At Redpoint, Tom focuses on infrastructure investments, including software, systems, and components for the communications, computing, storage, and wireless sectors.
- Nisan Gabbay
My life is pretty simple right now - I am working a lot during the week, and try to have fun on the weekends. My career goal has always been to start a company, and I am doing that right now. With the help of three great engineers we are creating a kick ass Internet business - www.rondavu.com! I spend a lot of time doing tech entrepreneurship related things, hanging with friends, playing basketball, gambling on horseracing, and reading/writing blogs.
- Rob
I'm a pretty easy going person new to the LA area. Would be great to meet someone who likes the outdoors, art and music to hang out with.
- Kevin Compton
Kevin Compton joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1990. Since joining KPCB, Kevin's investments have focused on enterprise software and the telecommunications industry. Kevin currently serves on the Board of Directors of two public companies, Citrix Systems (NASDAQ:CTXS) and VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN).
- Dixon R. Doll Jr
Dixon Doll Managing General Partner DCM - Doll Capital Management For more than 30 years, Dixon Doll has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives. In recognition of his accomplishments in the communications and venture capital industries, Doll was named "one of the top 100 personalities involved in creating the information highway" by Upside Magazine and Micro Times. Since the early 1980s, Doll has been a telecom and Internet venture capital pioneer.
- Farouk
I love music of all kinds and going to hear live music, whether it's a couple of folks playing guitar or a full blown symphony. I enjoy the arts in general (plays, shows, etc). I Iove my job and also spending my non-work time on non-profit projects. I also like to travel to remote areas and love being outdoors.
- Ravi Chiruvolu
Ravi Chiruvolu Venture Partner
- Winston Fu
Winston serves on the boards of Brion Technologies, CiraNova, Clear Shape Technologies, Maskless Lithography Inc, Ponte Solutions, Princeton Lightwave, and Teknovus. From 1999 to 2004, he served on the board of New Focus (NASDAQ: NUFO), a photonics tools and telecommunications components company acquired by Bookham in 2004. He regularly speaks at conferences in China on the experiences of venture-backed companies in Silicon Valley.
- Larry Bock
Larry Bock President and CEO Nanosys Inc Mr.Bock is the President and CEO of Nanosys, Inc. He is a General Partner of CW Group, where he focuses on seed stage de novo startups in the life and physical sciences.
- Hiro Zusho
Senior strategist in corporate and business development, marketing and management consulting with over 10 years of domestic and international experience.
- Jake
Down to earth guy with lots of interests. Love traveling and trying new things.
- Tom Fountain
- Mareza Larizadeh
- Amit
- Earl
The other day I checked out the National Institute of Healths body mass index calculator which essentially takes your weight in kilograms divided by your height in meters squared. Mine is not even on the scale they have which makes me one tall lanky Jew.
- Jim Leung
I am an easygoing guy who likes a fair amount of fun and excitement. Running for 5 miles or rappelling off buildings are sometimes ideas of fun; I am quite spotaneous. For more info on what I do, you can visit www.everfunds.com. I am different from a financal analyst. I help; people get lump sums of cash and I help businesses save money without adding debt to their balance sheet. I also protect people from financial catastrophes.
- Patricia Nakache
Patricia Nakache General Partner Trinity Ventures Patricia Nakache is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 1986 and focused on building leading-edge information technology companies. Patricia Nakache is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 1986 and focused on building leading-edge information technology companies.
- Jorge A. del Calvo
Mr. del Calvo has also represented a number of venture funds (including Redwood Ventures IV and Raza Venture Fund A and B) and incubators (including New Path, LLC and Raza Foundries) in connection with their formation and has represented a number of venture capital funds and investors in private placements of equity and debt. Currently, Mr. del Calvo is on the board of directors of Berkeley Process Control.