- Larry Augustin
Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX), and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000.
- Stewart Alsop II
Stewart Alsop is partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital fund focused on helping technology entrepreneurs start companies and the lead investor in Cake Financial. He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates through 2004 and lead that firm's investments in companies such as TiVo, Portola Communications (sold to Netscape), Glu Mobile, and Xfire (sold to Viacom). During that time, he also wrote a column for Fortune.
- Hugh Panero
Hugh joined NEA in 2008 and is focused on consumer technology opportunities. He co-founded XM Satellite Radio in 1998 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from until August 2007. During his tenure at XM, the company became America's number-one satellite radio service with more than 9.3 million subscribers and grew from a concept into one of the fastest-growing new technologies ever, outpacing the growth of wireless phones and cable television.
- Bruce Pasternack
Bruce Pasternack is a Venture Partner at CMEA Ventures, specializing in cleantech energy investments. He served as President and CEO of Special Olympics from 2005-07, where he led the global organization that uses sports to improve the health and esteem of people with intellectual disabilities. He was Senior Vice President and San Francisco Managing Partner for almost 30 years with the international management consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton .
- David Stern
David Stern is a Venture Partner at Clearstone where he focuses on developing early stage investment opportunities at the intersection of consumer technology and media. ... David is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of San Diego School of Law. He sits as an advisor or board member of Clearstone portfolio companies SoonR, Rubicon Project and Spock Networks.
- Scot Sedlacek
Scot Sedlacek Venture Partner Prior to becoming a Venture Partner at JMI in 2007, Mr. Sedlacek was a Managing Director with Jefferies & Co.’s Technology Investment Banking Group, Jefferies Broadview, one of the largest banking teams dedicated to information technology, communications, and digital media businesses. An 18-year veteran of technology finance and investment banking, he formerly served as Co-Head of Broadview’s Software and Services Global Market Group.
- William McDonough
Bill is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004) and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a "Hero for the Planet" in 1999.
- David Ladd
David, a successful former entrepreneur, sits on the boards of Casabi, Inphi, LGC Wireless, LV Sensors, Pixim, Pure Networks, Sylantro Systems, T-RAM, TimeBridge and WaveSplitter. David's notable past investments include Orative (acquired by Cisco ). David was an early engineer at ROLM Corporation. After eight years at ROLM, he co-founded voice messaging company Opcom/VMX, which grew to a $100 million publicly held company.
- Jean Frechet
- Alex Osadzinski
- Eve M. Kurtin
Eve M. Kurtin Managing Director Pacific Venture Group Treasurer
- Gadi Tamari
- Peter Bell
- Paul Pappajohn
- Bob Kaufman
- Gary Hooper
- Judy Gibbons
Judy has been ranked among the top 20 most influential European business women by the Wall Street Journal Europe for two successive years, and as one of Time magazine’s five "People to Watch in International Business". She was awarded the Microsoft Women’s Leadership Award in January 2003. Judy served on the main board of O2, the European mobile network operator, until its purchase by Telefonica.
- John Brimacombe
John Brimacombe Partner, Property and Financial Services John Brimacombe joined Kelly & Co. as a partner in early 1997. He was first admitted to practice in Victoria in 1978 and was subsequently admitted to practice in New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia. John practices exclusively in the banking, finance and insolvency area.
- Robert B. Lamkin
Mr. Lamkin also held the position of Vice President of World Wide Sales at VideoServer, Inc. and Vice President of North American Sales for Compaq Computers' Network Access Communications Division.
- Margarita Quihuis
Margarita Quihuis is a Reuters Fellow at Stanford, focused on fostering capital markets and financial innovation in the area of microequity for small and medium size enterprises in the developing world. She is working on the creation of investment capital for SMEs through a Working Assets type of remittance service for Mexican immigrants. Ms. Quihuis maintains a venture advisory practice where she brings her deep private equity experience and network to turn pre-funded and early stage . . .
- Navin Chaddha
Navin Chaddha is a 3-time entrepreneur, executive and venture investor with a proven track record in growing startup companies to industry leadership and eventually successful exits. At Gabriel Venture Partners, Navin focuses on investments in the areas of Enterprise Software & Services, Infrastructure Software & Systems, and Business Process Outsourcing. Navin also spearheads Gabriel's international efforts with India.
- John Luongo
JOHN LUONGO | Venture Partner john@opuscapital.com John Luongo brings more than 30 years of chief executive and senior operating experience to Opus Capital. John was President, CEO and Chairman of Vantive Corporation, a Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners investment that went public prior to its acquisition by PeopleSoft (now Oracle Corporation). Previously, John was Senior Vice President of the International Division at Oracle, where he had worked since its early stages.
- Patrice Peyret
I like to initiate / make an impact on services and products that touch consumers in large numbers: I have worked in consumer electronics (digital TV, set-top-boxes, home PCs), developed smart cards, contributed to Java for cell phones, established an international SMS (text messages) network, and am now preparing a payment product for teenagers. Consumer electronics, wireless telecomunications, financial services and computer software are my technical specialties. Next stage, use the . . .
- Phil Schlein
Phil Schlein has more than forty years of experience in venture capital, retail and technology companies. As a partner in U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Phil has advised young companies on strategy, recruiting and finance since 1985. Previous to joining USVP, Phil had a successful 28-year career as an operating executive with R.H. Macy. He served as President and CEO of Macy's California from 1974 to 1985, during which time it became the dominant department store in California.
- Mark Lockareff
Mark Lockareff leads the application and infrastructure software and consumer Internet investment practices at Meritech.
- Georges van Hoegaerden
Georges leverages his extensive operational experience in sales, marketing, business development and finance to identify and evaluate business opportunities for enterprise software and media companies. Georges has more than 20 years of technical and business management experience in the software industry. At The Venture Company, he provides guidance to a variety of Silicon Valley CEO's enabling their companies to achieve early revenues and profitability. Georges plays a pivotal role . . .
- Rick Schell
Rick Schell joined Moteiv in 2006 and brings over 30 years of experience building revolutionary software products. Dr. Schell was most recently at NetIQ where he was Chief Technologist and Senior Vice President for product planning, strategy and process. Before NetIQ, he was founder and CEO of internet start-up, iSharp. Earlier at Netscape, Dr. Schell served as the founding Vice President of Engineering, taking the company from start-up to commercial success.
- Mark Mangiola
MARK MANGIOLA - Board Of Advisors Currently a Venture Partner with Canaan Partners, Mark joined Canaan in 2001 after spending over 20 years in the cable and broadband industry where he has a broad range of executive level contacts. Prior to Canaan, Mark served as CEO of @Home Solutions, a division of Excite@Home where he was heavily involved in working with leading cable and network operators.
- Paul Hoff
- Paul Kedrosky
- Phil Ressler
Phil joined Clearstone in 2003 to provide operating perspective on investment evaluations, decisions and guidance of portfolio companies. Phil has been engaged in building businesses in technology, consumer electronics and advertising sectors since 1979, including 16 years in executive and management positions in software and Internet companies.
- Magnus Melander
I've spent 24 years in IT and Communications. I have worked at IBM, Apple Computer, 3Com and most recently at the wireless centric VC BrainHeart Capital. I've had executive positions in general management, sales, marketing, service and support, developer relations and business development. I have quite a lot of board experience and have been speaking or chairing numerous industry conferences.
- Oren Etzioni
Oren Etzioni has helped the UW become a spawning ground for breakthrough ideas in Web search like MetaCrawler and Netbot , and now, predictive pricing with Hamlet . UW Professor Oren Etzioni, inventor of Metacrawler, NetBot, and now Hamlet, is a Virtual PhD of Webology
- Dror Pockard
Dror Pockard is a senior executive with extensive experience in telecommunications, CRM, Billing and other enterprise software companies. Over 23 years of international experience in building and leading companies, in consulting major enterprises and in major turnaround and M&A efforts. Recently was the President & CEO of Telrad Networks (www.telrad.com), a leading Israeli telecommunications manufacturer specialized in IP and Convergent network solutions. Dror is also a board . . .
- Vasudev Bhandarkar
Over a 12 year period (since 1993) founded three companies of which two where sold (Unimobile, Alma Enterprises) and one went public (Selectica), and was an early employee of another company which went public; Have raised or helped raise ~$75M for my companies; Have built successful sales, marketing and business development organizations for early stage businesses through IPO or sale: Selectica -- Nasdaq: (SLTC), Unimobile, Alma Enterprises; As Chairman . . .
- Michael D. O'Dell
Mike O'Dell Mike joined New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 2002 as a Venture Partner. He works with NEA's information technology team to find opportunities in early stage information technology companies. Mike came to NEA from UUNET Technologies where he was Chief Scientist, responsible for network and product architecture during the emergence of the commercial Internet.
- Rick Lefaivre
Over thirty years of accomplishment as a computer scientist, professor, R&D executive and venture investor working at leading universities, high technology companies and venture firms. Former VP of Advanced Technology at Apple Computer, founder of a venture incubator in San Diego, executive director of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism at UCSD. Currently venture partner at OVP Venture Partners in the Seattle and Portland areas.
- Greg Stuart
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- Henry Scott
Henry E. Scott is a principal in Gansevoort Media LLC, a media product development and strategy firm focused on new media, newspapers, and magazines. Scott also is a partner in Plum Capital, a media venture fund. He is former group publisher for Metro US and publisher of Metro New York Inc., which he launched in May 2004. As group publisher, Scott had responsibilities across Metro's newspapers in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. They included supervising editorial, marketing, . . .
- Anula K. Jayasuriya
Anula Jayasuriya , MD, PhD, MBA '93 Founding Partner, LifeScience-India Fund Anula Jayasuriya is a founding partner of Life-Science India, an affiliate fund of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invests in US companies that are leveraged by performing core strategic functions in India. She was previously a partner with Skyline Ventures, and prior to that with the German–US venture capital firm TVM.