 | Alexei Andreev, Ph.D.
Managing Director and Executive Vice President, Harris & Harris Group
Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, Mr. Andreev was an associate with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a venture capital firm, from 2002 to March 9, 2005. In 2001, he was a summer associate with TLcom Capital Partners, a London-based venture capital fund backed by Morgan Stanley. Before joining DFJ, Alexei spent three years with Sputnik Funds, the largest private equity group in Eastern Europe. At Sputnik, he evaluated investment opportunities, financially restructured portfolio companies, and served on the board of the regional cellular provider, Techinfo Communications. After the Russian financial crisis of 1998, Alexei became the CFO of Renaissance Insurance, undertaking crisis management on behalf of Sputnik Funds. Before starting his business career, Alexei was a researcher at the Center of Nanotechnology (ISAN) of the Russian Academy of Sciences where he focused on the electronic and optical properties of quantum dots and multi-layered nanostructures. Alexei graduated from Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics (cum laude), and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was a recipient of the Scholarship for Outstanding young scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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 | Daniel L. Appelman
Partner, Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe
Daniel Appelman joined Heller Ehrman in 1988. He is a member of the firm's IP Transactions Practice Group, as well as the Corporate Securities, M&A Practice Group; and he was the founding co-chair of the firm's technology practice.
Mr. Appelman's practice focuses on complex technology-related transactions and strategic alliances, particularly in the semiconductor, networking, software, telecommunications, electronic commerce, energy technology and Internet areas; and also in biotechnology, bioinformatics and medical devices. He has over twenty years of experience representing both early stage and established companies in licensing, joint ventures, technology transfers, outsourcing, system acquisitions and other commercial and strategic transactions in the United States and abroad and in establishing intellectual property rights related to their inventions. He also counsels clients on emerging legal and regulatory compliance issues, including privacy, export control, data security and digital content rights management.
Mr. Appelman has published articles on computer and telecommunications law and the law of electronic commerce, and he has frequently lectured on legal developments in those fields. He currently serves as chair of the California State Bar's Cyberspace Law Committee and as an Advisory Member of the Entrepreneurs Forum of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
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 | Serguei Beloussov
CEO, SWsoft
Serguei Beloussov is a twelve year serial entrepreneur and global executive with a proven track record in both building and managing high-performing multinational companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Beloussov is the chief executive officer of SWsoft, a leader in the growing markets of server automation and virtualization software. Under his leadership, SWsoft has quickly increased its profitability and maintains growth of more than 200% annually. Mr. Beloussov holds a B.Sc in Physics and an M.Sc in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
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 | Gary Benton
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Mr. Benton has advised U.S. and international technology companies for nearly twenty years. His practice focuses on corporate and commercial law issues, including corporate formation, venture capital financing, corporate governance, contracts, licensing, joint ventures, M&A, U.S. and offshore listings and other strategic U.S. and international business law matters. He has significant experience with respect to international investment, international commercial transactions involving cross-border sales, licensing, marketing and distribution, and international operating issues. He also advises U.S. and international companies on business transactions involving intellectual property and competition issues.
Mr. Benton provides strategic counseling to a broad array of companies ranging from Silicon Valley startups to U.S. and foreign-based Global 100 companies. He represents technology companies headquartered in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and advises numerous U.S. and foreign venture investors on U.S. and offshore investment opportunities and structuring.
He advises a number of multinational technology and telecommunications companies on their global legal requirements and has managed multi-jurisdictional teams servicing those clients. He has also advised several multi-national governmental and trade organizations on international technology issues.
Mr. Benton has represented companies in technology sectors including hardware (OEM, microprocessors, memory, storage and optics), software (operating systems, networking, business applications, game applications and open source), Internet (connectivity, security, data privacy and e-commerce), biotech (pharmaceuticals, medical delivery and genetic mining) and material sciences. Mr. Benton also advises companies in the entertainment and media sectors on digital copying and other technology convergence issues.
Prior to joining Pillsbury, Mr. Benton was a partner at Coudert Brothers LLP, where he was the co-founder and a managing partner of the firm's Palo Alto office, a managing partner of the firm's San Francisco office, the head of the firm's N.Cal. Technology Group, a member of the firm's Inter-Office Policy Committee, a chair of the firm's Global Client Relationship Program, and the chair of the firm's Equity Investment Committee.
Mr. Benton is qualified to practice law as both a U.S lawyer and an English solicitor. He is trained as both a corporate lawyer and a litigation/international arbitration lawyer, and often serves as an Arbitrator on international investment and technology law arbitrations.
He is a regular speaker on international corporate and technology law issues, and actively participates in the Silicon Valley investment community.
Mr. Benton's international practice was featured in an article published in California Lawyer titled "Attorneys Without Borders," September 2004.
Mr. Benton has been named a "Super Lawyer" (top 5% of Northern California attorneys), Law & Politics and San Francisco Magazine, August 2005.
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 | Vladimir Bilodid
CEO, United Software Corporation
Mr. Bilodid is involved in IT industry since 1980, and is working in private business for more than 10 years. He was a co-founder and Director General of Tessart Ukraine LLC., Ukrainian software house.
In 1996, Tessart has signed one of the first in Ukraine legacy application services outsourcing contracts. During Y2K software renovation effort (1997 - 2000) Tessart Y2K team has renovated over 25,000,000 lines of code for 12 operational platforms, located and fixed about 50,000 Y2K date representation defects. About 140 outsourcing projects for native, European, U.S., and Israeli customers have been successfully delivered. More than half of them were LAS projects.
Two lines of products were established. Tessart Ukraine Quality Management System is ISO9001:2000-certified. Company is moving ahead toward Level 3 within Capability Maturity Model scale.
Vladimir is certified Project Management Professional (Level C), and certified Assessment Team Member (CMM model for software organizations).
Alexandra Kulagina Chief Legal Advisor Alexandra Kulagina leads the legal department of the United Software Corporation. She is a professional in high-tech and IT legal field, supporting USC contracting under international legislation. Alexandra successfully manages liaisons with USC offices in the United States, UK and Germany. "Legal support in USC is kept by international standards, to ensure best security and quick response to our customers. I am happy that there have been no complaints from our clients concerning quality of USC legal documents" Alexandra Kulagina has unique experience in law, international economics and management. She studied law in Lugansk Institute of Internal Affairs and international economics in Eastern-Ukrainian State University. She holds certificates of the Manager of the state corporative rights and Manager in Arbitration process of Bankruptcy from International centre of privatisation, investments and management (Kiev).
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 | Charles Breed
Senior Director, Business Development M&A, Symantec
Charles has been in the information security industry for over 15 years, working on PKI, secure e-mail, VPN and network security in general. Charles has the unique blend of business savvy and technical background. He began his career at Hewlett-Packard's Network Division in California as Product Manager for a wide variety of networking products. Then Charles moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area, working as Senior Product Line Manager at Cisco Systems on CiscoSecure and owner of all cross-business unit security programs (L2F, L2TP, IPsec, IKE (ISA/KMP), PKIX, TACACS, Radius). After several years at Cisco, Charles became Director of Technical Marketing and one of the original employees at PGP Inc. Charles has been very active in various IETF working groups, such as IPsec, PKIX and the chairman of the Open PGP working group. Charles has also gained worldwide recognition for speaking on PGP, S/MIME, VPNs and PKIs at major security events. The June 1999 issue of Information Security Magazine featured his PKI article as the cover story. Charles is also the author and creator of the industry's de facto "Cryptographic Reference Chart" and "Security Threats Reference Chart", and "Network Security Reference Chart" with over 150,000 in print, translated into three languages and sold at the NSA Cryptologic museum in Fort Meade, Maryland. Mr. Breed is on the board of Directors for several prominent Security Companies, including SecureLogix. Charles holds a degree in Business Administration and Management Information Systems from the University of San Francisco, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from ISC 2 . Charles' CISSP # is 3860.
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 | Dr. Albert Cha
Managing Partner, Vivo Ventures
Dr. Cha is an accomplished scientist with expertise in neuroscience and medical devices. He received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and worked at Oracle Corporation in pharmaceutical consulting. He subsequently received an M.D. with honors (AOA) and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he won multiple awards including the Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Dr. Cha has published several research articles in the field of molecular biophysics in journals such as Nature and Neuron. He currently serves on the boards of several private biotechnology and medical device companies. He joined Vivo Ventures in 2000 and became Partner in 2003.
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 | Brad W. Crawford
Director Licensing, Amgen, Inc.
Brad has been with Amgen, a biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, Ca, since 1999. At Amgen, Brad works in the Licensing Department, which is a business development function responsible for identifying and partnering new therapeutic products and technologies to compliment Amgen’s internal research, development and commercial portfolio. Brad heads the teams responsible for identifying new therapeutic partnering opportunities, which are primarily focused on the areas of oncology, inflammation, neurodegenerative disorders, metabolic disorders and nephrology. Prior to joining Amgen, Brad spent 17 years with Atlantic Richfield Corporation where he worked in a number of strategic planning and business development roles that included mergers and acquisitions and the establishment of foreign joint ventures. Brad received his MBA from the University of California Los Angeles and his BA in from the University of Texas at Austin.
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 | Juha Christensen
ex-vice president of Microsoft, President of Sonopia Inc.
After 6 years at handheld computer pioneer Psion, Juha developed the idea for Symbian, the operating system company. He wrote the business plan and negotiated an investment of $130 million into the company. Juha served on the board and led the company's business activities and technical strategy. Symbian is a profitable company with over 1,000 employees and an annual revenue growth rate in excess of 100%.
Following Symbian Juha spent four years as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, responsible for a range of mobile software and server products, including Mobile Information Server, Server ActiveSync Smartphone and Pocket PC. The Mobile Division is the fastest growing of Microsoft's seven business units. Most recently, Juha was President at Macromedia with responsibility for company wide planning and two business areas; CE and mobile. His group established Flash as the upcoming de-factor standard in mobile multimedia. Juha also serves on the board of Teleca, the largest Systems Integrator in the mobile industry, and Unwire, a leading mobile services company.
Juha studied Business Administration at London Business School.
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 | Byron Deeter
Venture Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Byron Deeter is a Principal in BVP's Menlo Park office. He concentrates on the software, Internet, RFID, and gaming sectors.
Most recently, Byron was an executive at IBM, as a result of its 2004 acquisition of Trigo Technologies, the product information management company that he co-founded. At Trigo, Byron served as founding President & CEO, then became Vice President of Business Development as the company grew to profitability, 150 employees, and a $40+ million run-rate. BVP worked closely with Byron and the executive team after Trigo's founding in 1999, and invested in all institutional financing rounds.
Prior to Trigo, Byron worked in private equity with TA Associates where he focused on early-stage technology investing. He came to TA from McKinsey & Company.
Byron holds a degree with honors from UC Berkeley in political economy. He was named a California Emerging Leader Scholar and an Alumni Scholar, and was a varsity member of Cal's national championship rugby team.
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 | Kirk Dunn
CEO, PowerFile
Kirk Dunn brings a diversified range of technology engineering, marketing, sales and management experience to PowerFile from established companies and high-growth organizations. During his nearly 20-year career, Kirk worked extensively with Fortune 200 accounts, successfully built strategic sales and product divisions, and led international expansions. Prior to PowerFile, Kirk was CEO of Bang Networks where he devised and executed a market and product strategy that delivered the first real-time Web messaging appliance to Fortune 200 customers. He was also Vice President of North America Field Operations for Inktomi where he built and led a team from $3M to a $150M run rate, and was instrumental in new product planning as member of Inktomi's executive strategy council. Kirk came to Inktomi from Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET) where he held executive positions in sales, marketing, and professional services. Prior to NET, Kirk worked for IBM, in senior sales positions. Kirk received a B.A. in Mathematics and Applied Sciences from UCLA.
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 | Esther Dyson
Founder, EDventure Holdings
After graduating from Harvard in economics, Dyson began her serious career in 1974 as a fact-checker for Forbes and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977 she joined New Court Securities as "the research department", following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, and renamed it EDventure Holdings.
Dyson is currently the chairman of EDventure Holdings, which publishes the influential monthly technology-industry newsletter, Release 1.0 ("the first good look at technology that matters"), and sponsors the industry's premier annual conference, PC (Platforms for Communication) Forum in the US (March 24 to 26, 2004). In addition to writing several issues of Release 1.0 each year and overseeing the rest, Dyson also writes a fortnightly column for the New York Times syndicate (Release 3.0), which also appears in EDventure's online newsletter, The conversation continues. Finally, she has just started a blog, Release 4.0
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| | Chuck Erickson
Managing Director, San Jose Software Business Cluster
Mr. Erickson is currently the Managing Director of the San Jose Software Business Cluster, serving approximately 20 startup companies in the Internet market. Previously, he worked as a business consultant specializing in start-up or start-over operations and activities involving CEO coaching, interim CEO/COO positioning, and project management (CTO/COO).
He has recently held positions of corporate President/CEO, CTO, Managing Director, and Technical Director of entrepreneurial management teams in start-up and turn-around companies. Chuck is a seasoned executive with over thirty-five years of management experience focused in the areas of innovative software and hardware development, international business and corporate operations. He has extensive international experience in software and hardware development, marketing, and manufacturing. He has proven abilities as an effective team builder, strategist, and communicator.
Chuck holds a BSEE from Illinois Institute of Technology, has done post-graduate studies at The University of Chicago, and has taught at IIT, Penn State University and San Jose State University. He is an active volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America, holding positions of Council President, Executive VP, and Area President. He also recently served as Chairman of the Board for Eastfield Ming Quong, a child and family services non-profit agency.
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 | Sergey Filippov
Head of Press Service, AFK "Sistema"
Sergey was born in Moscow. Mr Filippov graduated Journalistic Departament of the Moscow State University in 1987 and worked in newspaper Moskovski Komsolets and weekly Ogoniok. He was deputy director in Ogoniok advertising service and then executive director in the R-Image advertising agency. From 1995 to 1999 Sergey worked in Vechernyaya Moskva Publishing House as the commercial director of the weekly Vechernii Club and the head of the business development department of Vechernyaya Moskva. From 2001 to 2005 he worked in Kompania business weekly as observer and editor of technology department. Mr Filippov has an MBA from the Institute of Business Studies, Academy of National Economy RF.
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 | Dave Girouard
General Manager, Google Enterprise
Dave is responsible for all aspects of Google's enterprise business including sales, marketing, product development and customer support. Prior to coming to Google, Dave was senior vice president of marketing and business development at Virage, a provider of multimedia search and content management software. In this role, Dave oversaw product management, product marketing, business partnerships, lead generation, sales force readiness, and press and analyst relations. Dave also founded, developed and managed Virage's application services business, which was launched in June 1999 and led to the company's initial public offering in June of 2000. He came to Virage from Apple Computer's Worldwide Product Marketing organization where he spent several years in product management. Prior to Apple, Dave was an Associate in Booz Allen & Hamilton's Information Technology practice in San Francisco. He started his career in enterprise systems development and integration with the Boston office of Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). Dave holds undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering from Dartmouth College and an MBA with highest distinction from the University of Michigan.
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 | Michael Herne
Director of Engineering, Cisco Systems
Michael Herne is a serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in building and managing technology companies. Michael is currently Director of Engineering at Cisco Systems in the Security Technology Group. This followed the acquisition by Cisco of his most recent company M.I Secure founded in 2004. Prior to this he was the Chief Security Officer for F5 Networks which followed the acquisition by F5 of uRoam, Inc. which he co-founded in 1998 as the CEO. uRoam pioneered the SSL VPN space. Prior to this Michael held senior management positions in the disk drive media business at StorMedia and Nashua Computer Products. He is a graduate of the New Hampshire Technical College, where he studied Computer Science.
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 | Charles A. Holloway
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Charles A. Holloway, an expert in entrepreneurship, manufacturing strategy and technology, was appointed to SRI International's board of directors in 2003.
Holloway has been a faculty member of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University since 1968 and has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In 1990, he founded the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing (formerly Stanford Integrated Manufacturing Association), a cooperative venture of the Graduate School of Business, School of Engineering, and industrial firms. Currently, he is a founding co-director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and his research has contributed to the Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum. Holloway serves on the board of directors of Escalate, Axicon and Save the Redwoods.
Prior to his career in education, Holloway was Assistant to the Technical Director of the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission and a senior engineer at Bechtel Corporation. He now serves on the boards of Save the Redwoods. He has also served on the boards of start-up companies, private companies, and public companies.
Holloway is a co-author of numerous business publications. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.S.E.E. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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 | Christopher Hummel
Vice President, Services Marketing and Business Development, Oracle Corporation
Chris Hummel is Vice President, Services Marketing & Business Development, reporting directly to the President Charles Phillips. Mr. Hummel is responsible for marketing Oracle's Consulting, Support, Education and On Demand services, supporting Oracle's transformation of the software industry by moving software delivery from the traditional offline model to an online software services model.
Mr. Hummel joined Oracle in 1994 where he has held several management positions in Europe, Asia and the United States, including Vice President, Global Marketing Campaigns and Customer Operations, Vice President for Marketing in Asia Pacific, Vice President for Public Sector sales in Asia Pacific, and Managing Director for Russia and the CIS.
Before joining Oracle, Mr. Hummel worked for technology companies such as Apple Computer, AT&T and Lotus Development Corporation in driving their marketing and sales efforts. Mr. Hummel has also held research positions at the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy (USA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Germany) and the office of Senator John F. Kerry (USA).
Mr. Hummel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University (USA) and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (USA).
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 | Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Mr. Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research (TEM atomic imaging of GaAs), and computer design at HP's PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software. As a Consultant with Bain & Company, Mr. Jurvetson developed executive marketing, sales, engineering and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the software, networking and semiconductor industries. At Stanford University, he finished his BSEE in 2.5 years and graduated #1 in his class, as the Henry Ford Scholar. Mr. Jurvetson also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He received his MBA from the Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Jurvetson also serves on the Merrill Lynch and STVP Advisory Boards and is Co-Chair of the NanoBusiness Alliance. He was honored as "The Valley's Sharpest VC" on the cover of Business 2.0 and chosen by the SF Chronicle and SF Examiner as one of "the ten people expected to have the greatest impact on the Bay Area in the early part of the 21st Century." He was profiled in the New York Times Magazine and featured on the cover of Worth and Fortune Magazines. Steve was chosen by Forbes as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors", by the VC Journal as one of the "Ten Most Influential VCs", and by Fortune as part of their "Brain Trust of Top Ten Minds." He was also honored with the "Advocate of the Year Award" by Small Times and chosen as one of "Nanotech's Power Elite" by the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report. In 2005, Steve was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and a Distinguished Alumnus by St. Mark's. Steve has written several columns on nanotech and other developing technologies.
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 | Igor Y. Khandros
CEO, FormFactor
Dr. Igor Y. Khandros founded FormFactor in April 1993 and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and Director since April 1993. He also served as President from April 1993 to November 2004. From 1990 to 1992, Dr. Khandros served as the Vice President of development of Tessera, Inc., a provider of chip scale packaging technology that he co-founded. From 1986 to 1990, he was employed at the Yorktown Research Center of IBM Corporation as a member of the technical staff and a manager. From 1979 to 1985, Dr. Khandros was employed at ABEX Corporation, a casting foundry and composite parts producer, as a research metallurgist and a manager, and he was an engineer from 1977 to 1978 at the institute of Casting Research in Kiev, Russia. Dr. Khandros holds a M.S. equivalent degree in a metallurgical engineering from Kiev Politechnic Institute in Kiev, Russia, and a Ph.D in metallurgy from Stevens Institute of Technology.
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 | Mark Kvamme
Partner, Sequoia Capital
Mark Kvamme focuses on services and software investments. He is currently a Director of AdBrite, Cast Iron Systems, EMN8, Mark Logic, MotoSport.com, LinkedIn, StrongMail Systems, and PodShow. Previously, he had been a Director of Corvigo (acquired by Tumbleweed Communications) and Allocity (acquired by EMC Corporation). Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was Chairman of USWeb/CKS and Chairman and CEO of CKS Group prior to the merger with USWeb. Earlier in his career Mark was a Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, the President and CEO of International Solutions, and was a founding member of Apple France. Mark has a B.A. in French Economics and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
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 | Roman Kyzyk
Managing Partner, DFJ Nexus
Roman Kyzyk has 15+ years of operating experience, general management leadership with financial & marketing experience within a Fortune 500 environment. Additionally as Principal & Co-Founder of Executive Partners Consulting, he acted as strategy advisor to CEOs and senior leadership in aerospace and defense, airlines, financial services, energy, diversified industrial, quick service restaurant, and hotel & tourism.
Roman Kyzyk is President and CEO of Meridien Partners Group, LLC., an investment banking and private equity advisory firm with focusing on Korea. Mr Kyzyk is also a founder and principal of DKK, LLC., an alternative investments advisory firm for the hedge fund, venture capital and private equity communities.
Mr. Kyzyk earned a BA from Fordham University and an MBA from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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 | Max Levchin
Founder and CEO, Slide; co-founder and former CTO, PayPal
Max Levchin cofounded PayPal in late 1998. It was acquired by eBay for $1.5B in 2002, only six months after going public in February.
At PayPal Max was a member of the board of directors and chief technology officer, responsible for the areas of technology development, network and information security, and the fight with transaction fraud and identity theft. Prior to PayPal, Max cofounded and ran NetMeridian Software and SponsorNet New Media, which built some of the early Internet marketing services and tools.
Since leaving PayPal late last year on the fourth anniversary of its founding, Max has founded Slide, a media-sharing startup, and is currently its CEO.
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. Max graduated from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1997 with a degree in Computer Science, specializing in computer security and music.
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 | Boris Lipkin
President and CEO, Therma-Wave, Inc.
Boris Lipkin joined Therma-Wave in February 2003 as its President and CEO. Prior to joining Therma-Wave, Mr. Lipkin served as Senior Vice President of ASML Holding NV. Prior to ASML's acquisition of Silicon Valley Group (SVG), Mr. Lipkin served in various capacities at SVG including President of the Track Division, and corporate Vice President of Human Resources, Procurement and Supply Chain Management. Before joining SVG in 1995, Mr. Lipkin was Vice President and General Manager of the Thin Films Division of Varian Associates from 1992 to 1995 and Senior Engineering Manager for the Equipment Technology Group of the Micro Electronics Division of IBM from 1978 to 1992. Mr. Lipkin has an electro-mechanical engineering degree from the Polytechnic Institute in Kharkov, Ukraine.
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 | Serhiy Loboyko
Managing Partner, DFJ NEXUS
Serhiy Loboyko is the leading expert of the Ukrainian IT-export industry and one of i's strongest advocates. Serhiy is regularly asked to advise the government on the development of the hi-tech industry, and he is a frequent speaker at international conferences.
Serhiy is a Co-founder and Managing Director of the pioneering Ukrainian venture capital firm 'TECHINVEST', which is supported by leading international technology corporations and venture capital funds.
He is a Managing Partner in DFJ NEXUS Fund, the first technology venture fund in Ukraine. DFJ NEXUS, an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will invest in seed/early stage Ukrainian technology companies targeting global markets.
"Ukraine is not just another outsourcing venue, like India or Russia, for companies looking to cut costs. Ukraine's strength lies in the R&D capacity of our scientists and engineers, 50 years of computer science heritage, solid mathematical background of new generations of IT specialists and country's European destination. Because of this, Ukraine is destined to get its share in the global market of knowledge intensive outsourcing and IT products."
In 2003, Serhiy Loboyko organized the first international research of Ukrainian IT-export industry with Market-Visio (Gartner Group) and Ukrainian Software Consortium- an ecosystem of about 30 local IT-export companies and R&D institutions.
In 2002, Serhiy worked as an advisor for Glushkov Cyber Center Institute in Kyiv, a division of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine (NASU). He, jointly with the former scientists of the NASU, started his venture entrepreneurship activities by setting up a successful technology firm specializing in export production of Silicon and Silicon-Carbide mono-crystals.
Also, Serhiy worked as an advisor to the local offices of UNDP and Soros' Foundation (2000-2001), Ministry of Economy of Ukraine (1999-2000), the World Bank (1998-1999), BARENTS Group (KPMG), (1997-1998), Credit Suisse Fist Boston (1997-1998), National Institute of Strategic Studies (1996-1998), Secretariat of the Parliament of Ukraine (1995-1996), as well as local governments and business organizations.
Serhiy graduated cum Laude with a Master's degree in Economics from Lviv State University, Ukraine. He also holds a certificate in technological entrepreneurship from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
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 | Peter Loukianoff
Partner, Alloy Ventures
Peter N. Loukianoff joined Alloy Ventures in January 2001 from Technology Funding, Inc. Prior to that, he was on the founding management teams of two venture-backed startups: Autonomy (NASDAQ: AUTN) and Ubiquinet, Inc. (now C-Cor, NASDAQ: CCBL). Peter also founded and operated the cable division of Alliance Systems (acquired by Mobile Data Solutions, NASDAQ: MDSI).
He began his career as a design engineer with Zurich-based ABB, Ltd. From the beginnings of Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika program in 1989 through 1994, Peter pioneered post-Cold War-era technology joint ventures between prominent Russian scientific institutions and leading U.S. and European companies.
He led Alloy's investments in and serves on the board-of-directors of Zforce, Apptera and Sapias. His prior investments include AudioBasket (acquired by eMotion, Inc.), K2 Optronics, Versata (NASDAQ: VATA) and ZipRealty. Peter holds an MBA and BS Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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 | Kira Makagon
President of Ventures and Alliances, Exigen
Ms. Makagon is a "serial entrepreneur" on her third successful fast-growth startup spanning a career of twenty years in Silicon Valley. In addition to being a director at Exigen, she is a director and advisor to several high technology startups. She is a well-respected speaker and analyst on the evolution and trends for software improving the customer sales, support and fulfillment processes within global enterprises.
As a director and investor at Exigen, Ms. Makagon is a critical executive in guiding strategy, alliances and joint ventures which establish Exigen as the key technology enabler for enterprises moving towards business process outsourcing and financially motivated process improvement. As part of her responsibilities, she leads marketing strategy, demand creation and awareness. Since joining Exigen, Ms. Makagon has successfully grown channel sales, established key alliances in the U.S., Europe and Australia, and helped to grow the company through a series of strategic relationships and acquisitions.
Before joining Exigen, Ms. Makagon was a co-founder, director and Senior Vice President of Products at Octane Software, a private company specializing in eCRM applications. In 1998, Octane pioneered a solution suite to support multi-channel customer sales, service and support through multiple touch points, including web, email, Internet chat and FAX. At Octane Ms Makagon had the overall responsibility for product development, marketing and strategy, and was instrumental in growing it to 300 people, with a $25 million run rate and multinational operations in the US, Europe, Asia-PAC and Japan. Octane was sold to E.piphany (NASDAQ:EPNY) in mid-2000 for $3.2 billion, to date the highest price ever paid for a privately held software company. Following the merger, Ms. Makagon became the CTO at E.piphany.
From 1993 until 1998, Ms. Makagon was Vice President of Product Development at Scopus Technology, where she guided three generations of CRM products to market en route to the company's successful IPO and subsequent purchase by Siebel Systems (NASDAQ:SEBL). Scopus' product was an enterprise application for customer service, and the company's success was a catalyst for the ERP and CRM application industries' growth that took place in the late 1990's.
Ms. Makagon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Haas Business School at the University of California at Berkeley.
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 | John Malloy
Partner, BlueRun Ventures
Co-founded the firm in 1998 and is based in Menlo Park. John has successfully invested in a broad spectrum of technologies and services. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bitfone, fusionOne, Kilopass, MicroDisplay, PAR3, and SunRocket. Previous board experience includes PayPal (EBAY), eVoice (AOL) and MongoMusic (MSFT). Prior to starting the firm, John spent more than 15 years in management and executive roles at Nokia, MCI, and a communications services start-up. He holds a Juris Doctor from George Mason School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College.
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 | Alec Miloslavsky
Chairman, Head of Product Development & Strategy, Exigen
As an inventor for dozens of patents and software sold for billions of dollars, Mr. Miloslavsky certainly knows the value of products for a high-tech business. Yet in his role in charge of software development and customer implementations at Exigen, Mr. Miloslavsky believes his teams are not making tools to sell, but rather making tools to assist with sales. In other words, his teams focus on technology for creating higher customer value faster.
Over a career of twenty years, Mr. Miloslavsky has worked on technologies as diverse as disk drives, call center technology, war game simulations, and computer operating systems. At firms like Pixar, Guzik Technical, SUN Microsystems and Genesys, he contributed his expertise in equally diverse roles as developer, consultant, engineering manager, CTO and company co-founder.
Mr. Miloslavsky co-founded a previous company with Greg Shenkman: Genesys Telecommunications. For over ten years, he steered the technology to establish the market leader in call center automation and computer telephony integration (CTI) software through expansion, growth, strategy and positioning. In 1997, Genesys became a publicly traded company. The company grew to $300 million in annual sales with Mr. Miloslavsky as CTO and Vice Chairman before being purchased by Alcatel for $2.3 billion in 1999.
As part of on-going expansion and margin creation, Genesys established engineering operations within Canada and Russia in the late 90's. Under Mr. Miloslavsky, Genesys established a culture of collaboration, process quality and customer attentiveness across the global R&D and delivery organizations.
Mr. Miloslavsky emigrated from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, to San Francisco in 1980. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
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 | Alexander Miroshnichenko
Vice President of Engineering, PowerFile
Alex Miroshnichenko joined PowerFile with a variety of engineering experience in companies throughout the U.S. and Soviet Union, and is responsible for product development and engineering at PowerFile. He recently spent 12 successful years at VERITAS Software Corporation where he held a number of research and development positions, including the Senior Director of the Advanced Technology Group. Prior to joining VERITAS, Alex worked on optical storage solutions at QSTAR Technologies, Inc. Alex graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a Masters of Applied Physics.
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 | Anurag Mendhekar
Founder and President, Blue Vector Systems
Anurag is a serial entrepreneur, and Blue Vector Systems is the second start-up that he has founded. The defining theme for Anurag's career has been building successful businesses around newly emerging technologies. The first startup he co-founded, Online Anywhere was the first company to create the whole new market category of content transformation tools for Mobile and non-PC devices. The success of the company was demonstrated through its acquisition by Yahoo!. Following that, as a key executive of Yahoo! Everywhere, Anurag developed a global business around Yahoo!'s Mobile Internet services, achieving distribution through almost 40 different wireless carriers to serve millions of people around the globe.
Anurag started his career at Xerox's prestigious Palo Alto Research center, where he was one of the inventors of Aspect Oriented Programming, a rapidly spreading paradigm of programming that forms the core of Blue Vector Systems' products. Along with several scientific publications to his credit, Anurag has six patents awarded with several more pending. Anurag holds Ph.D. and MS degrees in Computer Science from Indiana University, a M.Sc (Engg) from the Indian Institute of Science and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Bombay University.
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 | Rajeev Motwani
Founder, Dot Edu Ventures; Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Rajeev is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also serves as the director of graduate studies. He has been at Stanford since 1988, after obtaining a PhD in Computer Science from Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur in 1983. Motwani is well-known for his research in several areas of computer science, including databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. He has written two books used at universities all over the world -- Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001.
Motwani has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and currently serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is responsible for numerous software patents. He has supervised many PhD students who have gone on to become faculty members at universities such as MIT, Princeton, and University of Pennsylvania, or hold positions at research labs such as AT&T and Bell Labs.
Many startups in the Silicon Valley are founded or staffed by people who were Motwani's students at Stanford. He is an avid angel and seed investor, advisor to several venture funds, a charter member of TIE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs), and on the board of BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students). He serves as a board member or advisor to several companies, including: Agitar, Asempra, Centrata, Chutney, Coral8, Flarion, Flexlogics, Google, GreenBorder, Jumpstartup Ventures, Meru Networks, Mimosa, Neopath Networks, Revenue Science, Sinett, and Xambala.
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 | Chris Nadan
Associate General Counsel and Director for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Chris Nadan is an Associate General Counsel and Director for Sun Microsystems, Inc. He heads the legal group responsible for supporting all Sun software.
In addition, Mr. Nadan is an adjunct professor of law at the University of California Boalt Hall School of Law where he teaches a course on intellectual property transactions. Mr. Nadan is also a frequent speaker to industry groups, including the Open Source Development Labs (home to Linus Torvalds) and the Computer Law Association (simulcast to 21 cities in 7 countries), and has authored a number of published articles, including "Open Source Licensing, Virus or Virtue?" (10 Texas I.P. Law Journal 349 (2002)), and "Software Licensing in the 21st Century: Are Software "Licenses" Really Sales, and How Will the Industry Respond?" (32 Am. I.P. Law Assoc. Q. J. 555 (Fall 2004)).
Before joining Sun, Mr. Nadan was an intellectual property attorney at Farella, Braun & Martel in San Francisco where his practice included IP litigation and client counseling for high technology companies. Mr. Nadan received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law.
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| Jason Rao, Ph.D.
Director BioIndustry Initiative, Senior NWMDE Program Coordinator, Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction, U.S. Department of State
Dr. Jason Rao joined the State Department's Bureau of Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction, more than three years ago, where he was instrumental in establishing State's newest effort in strategic advancement and commercialization of Biotechnology in Russia; the BioIndustry Initiative. He is now the Director of that program, which focuses on redirection of former biological and chemical defense expertise and reconfiguration of large-scale biologic production facilities in the former Soviet Union toward commercial, transparent and peaceful research.
Jason Rao holds a bachelor's degree in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of California Santa Cruz, a master's degree in nucleic acid chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Jason's professional experience includes working as a synthetic chemist at Pharmacyclics, a start-up pharmaceutical company in Silicon Valley; as post-doctoral research fellow the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK) in the field of molecular immunology; and more recently in business development and intellectual property at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, MD.
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 | Nikolay Savchuk
President, ChemDiv Inc.
Nikolay Savchuk has been with ChemDiv since 1996. He has held positions of increasing responsibility including Director of Information Technologies, Director and Vice President of Business Development.
Prior to joining ChemDiv Nikolay Savchuk held various business and research management positions in the IT industry with companies in Singapore and Russia. He has a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is the author of over 60 scientific papers in chemoinformatics, data mining and expert systems design.
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 | Barry M. Sherman
Executive Vice President, Development, BiPar Sciences, Inc.
Dr. Sherman has over 30 years experience in academic and pharmaceutical biomedical research. He served as President and CEO of Anergen Inc., a founder of Pain Therapeutics, Inc., and as Genentech's first Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. He has also been a Board member and consultant to several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining Genentech in 1985, Dr. Sherman was Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology at the University of Iowa -College of Medicine where he served as Associate Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of the NIH sponsored Clinical Research Center. Dr. Sherman is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he received both his AB and MD degrees with honors. He completed his clinical and research training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and at the University of Michigan. He has contributed more than 125 publications to the scientific literature including articles, chapters and books resulting from his NIH funded laboratory and human investigation and results from the study of new pharmaceuticals.
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 | Ilya A. Strebulaev
Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Ilya Strebulaev is an assistant professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He graduated from the London Business School with a doctorate in Finance. He also holds degrees from Lomonosov Moscow State University (B.Sc. Math. Economics) and the New Economic School, Moscow (M.A. Economics). His research interests are in capital structure, credit risk, and financial auctions. His work includes papers published in the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of International Money and Finance and presented at the American Finance Association and European Finance Association meetings. Ilya has been awarded the Trefftzs Award for the best student paper by the Western Finance Association. He teaches corporate finance at the MBA program.
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| Krishna Subramanian
Sr. Director, Software, Corporate Strategy & Development, Sun Microsystems
Krishna Subramanian currently leads M&A activities for Sun Microsystems' software divisions as its Sr Director of Corporate Development. In this role, she manages acquisition activities from the early formulation of strategy all the way through deal execution. Krishna led the recent SeeBeyond acquisitiuon - a Java Web Services integration business that Sun acquired for $387M in August, 2005.
Before returning to Sun, Krishna was the CEO and co-founder of Kovair, a venture backed enterprise CRM company. She ran Kovair for 4 years, during which time she raised over $21M in VC funding from leading firms including NEA, Sutter Hill and Draper. Earlier in her career, Krishna had worked at Sun Microsystems for over 6 years in various roles managing software products. She had also worked briefly at Microsoft heading their strategic ISV alliance organization.
Krishna received YWCA's achievement award in 2001, served on the Board of the Forum for Women Enterpreneurs from 1999 to 2002, and received Women In Technology International's Outstanding Technical Achievement award in 1998. Krishna has been featured on the cover of U.S. News and World report, and has been interviewed by several magazines including Red Herring, Fast Company, Working Woman, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose Business Journal, the Industry Standard, and INC.
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 | William Vass
Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems
As Chief Information Officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc., Bill Vass is responsible for all aspects of Sun's global IT infrastructure and line-of-business application development, support and maintenance, including information service delivery and security. Under Vass's direction, the IT department is dedicated to working with business partners to accelerate Sun's business by aligning Sun's technology deployment strategy with its business strategy. The IT department takes a leadership role in the design of a world-class, integrated strategies, processes and architecture that ensures the integrity of Sun's computing platform and a more productive, efficient and valuable use of information within the enterprise.
In addition, the IT department incorporates Sun's leading edge products and innovative technologies into its internal business support infrastructure to test and showcase new enterprise computing models. Feedback to product groups enhances the quality of Sun's products before they are released to customers.
Recently, Vass was named by Computer World as a Premier 100 Leader (2004). This list honors those who mentor and motivate with challenges that lead to positive impacts within their IT organization. Premier 100 honorees are recognized as stand out leaders who envision innovative solutions to business challenges, and effectively manage and execute IT strategies.
At Sun, Vass has been key to Sun's success in driving the internal Mobility with Security solution and is frequently invited to participate as keynote at industry conferences and other speaking opportunities.
With over 25 years of technical and IT management experience, Vass has held a wide variety of Information Technology roles. Most recently, Vass was the Chief Security Officer for Sun IT and Vice President responsible for Strategic Planning, and the Architectures for Security, Business Systems, Hardware and Software Technology within Sun IT. Previously, he served as the Vice President of Corporate Software Services, responsible for all of Sun's internal corporate user, business, and ERP systems which are used to manage Sun's global business operations. As Vice President of IT Operations, Vass also worked to provide integrated IT support for the company.
Prior to joining Sun, Vass worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the CIO. In this capacity, Vass was director of three large sectors of the Department of Defense's (DoD) IT infrastructure:
- DoD Software Management- Responsible for all DoD-wide acquisition and development, research and development, and consolidated software development and COTS integration standards for over 6,000 IT systems.
- CIO Pentagon IT Infrastructure Oversight and Architecture- Responsible for the Pentagon's IT support organizations, managing networks, servers and applications that supply voice, video and data to over 45,000 users.
- Network Operations for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)- Responsible for all OSD daily automation support. Vass was technical lead for the entire DoD Y2K program, and represented DoD to Congress, the White House, and other nations. Prior to joining the Office of the CIO, Vass was CTO and Technical Lead for Army personnel systems worldwide.
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 | Maria Villani
Founder and CEO, Villani R&D, Villani-MD, and Villani-MD Skin Therapeutics
Maria C. Villani, M.D. is best known as a pioneer of marine biopharmaceuticals, the inventor of the Spongilla TechnologyT and as an accomplished corporate strategist, with inimitable vision, expertise and leadership experience in new drug discovery. Offering a rare blend of medical expertise and operational strengths, Dr. Villani has achieved exciting companies and products in Dermatology while guiding a global team of top-tier experts toward FDA approvals. Her strategic approach to building a business via leveraging a platform technology to build global companies and brands in different markets is reflected in her work as CEO of three companies which she founded: Villani Research & Development Corp., Villani-MD, LLC, and Villani-MD Skin Therapeutics, LLC. The concept creation and focus on product-line mix is based on her proprietary technology utilizing unique properties of bioactive compounds naturally produced by rare fresh water sponges. Dr. Villani has been studying sponges and conducting research of their unique cyclic properties and biological effect on human skin structure, function, and appearance for over 17 years. She developed the technologies to yield a scaleable, consistent and sustainable harvest of a specific species of sponge, which via preservation of desirable bioactivity and specific methods of formulation and application are useful for the treatment and prevention of skin diseases such as acne, rosacea, psoriasis, actinic keratosis, dermatitis, folliculitis, seborrhea, and aging. Her inventions are protected by patents worldwide.
Dr. Villani's exceptional track record of entrepreneurship has always combined academic achievements and social benefits. She is known for her ability to quickly identify and diagnose impediments to resolutions of medical problems in search of solution. In 1999 Dr. Villani invented and developed Breast Implant Compression Device, a device to prevent and treat a major medical problem in search of solution, Capsular Contracture, a postoperative complication following breast augmentation and breast reconstruction after mastectomy. Dr. Villani founded Villani Medical Devices, Inc to facilitate research and development of Breast Implant Compression Device. Dr. Villani applied, sponsored and received IRB approval for conducting human clinical study "In Vivo Effects of Moderate Lateral Breast Compression in Women with Recent Saline-Filled Breast Implants" in Johns Hopkins Medical Center. She was instrumental in preparing protocols for this study together with Department of Radiology of Johns Hopkins Institution. Associated with top plastic surgeons in the United States, she is confirming performance of developed 2nd generation prototype for the device. Her patents were filed and have been allowed in the US and other countries under PCT.
Dr. Villani received her Medical Doctor Degree from the Russian State Medical University in Moscow, one of the most prominent and respectful in the country and abroad in1991. She fulfilled her Internship and Residency in Pediatrics at Children's Municipal Clinical Hospital # 1 in Moscow. Dr. Villani is a member of The International Society of Dermatology, The Society for Investigative Dermatology, and the American Academy of Dermatology.
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 | Artiom Yukhin
Founder and Chief Technology Officer, A4Vision, Inc.
Prior to founding A4Vision Mr. Yukhin was a researcher in the Infra Red Devices Lab in the Electronic & Laser Technology Institute of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU). He headed the 3D Machine Vision Research team at Bauman University and also worked as Chief Expert at A&K Ltd. in the Mathematical Modeling Department.
With a seven-year specialization in algorithm and mathematical solutions for 3D applications, he has focused his interest in security since his degree dissertation on 3D methodology applied to forensic issues for facial scan recognition. Mr. Yukhin holds 13 patents.
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 | George Zachary
Partner, Charles River Ventures
George Zachary joined Charles River Ventures in 2004. He brings more than 17 years of operating and investing experience in computing and consumer technology. George’s focus is on building great services and software technology companies. George led CRV’s investments in cRight and GoTV, and is on the board of directors at both companies.
Previously, he was a general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV). His directorships included: Accrue Software (Nasdaq:ACRU), Andale, Critical Path (Nasdaq: CPTH), Ovation Entertainment, Sandcastle (acquired by Adobe, Nasdaq:ADBE), Securify (acquired by Kroll-O’Gara, Nasdaq: KROG), Shutterfly, Supertracks (acquired by Centerspan) and Telebot (acquired by Z-Tel, Nasdaq: ZTEL).
Prior to MDV, George led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketeer at CATS Software. He is a board advisor at the MIT Sloan School of Business and Stanford BASES. He is also an advisor to X PRIZE. George earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan School of Business.
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 | Dr. Evgeny Zaytsev
Principal, Asset Management Company
Evgeny Zaytsev joined Asset Management Company in 2001 and brings diverse professional experience in research and operations. He has been Chief Scientific Officer of the Medico-Ecological Institute in Barnaul, Siberia, Russia, which was responsible for studying the health and environmental effects of the former Soviet Union's nuclear testing program. The Institute developed into an internationally recognized research center during his seven-year tenure in that position. Evgeny is an author of 39 publications, including 8 books and a NATO Advanced Study Institutes (ASI) Series publication. For his biomedical research, he was awarded the European Commission's Young Scientist Award and the Reward for the Best Achievements in Science and Technology (Russia). Evgeny was also Founder and Executive Director of the first US-Russia Technology Symposium held at Stanford University in January 2004.
In 1991 Evgeny received an M.D. with honors and a Ph.D. from Altai Medical University, Russia, and in 2002 earned an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At Asset Management, Evgeny focuses on early stage investments in biotechnology and medical device companies. He is a Board Member of a number of private life sciences companies.
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