Generation Origin is a traditional early-stage IT venture capital fund that builds global companies in Silicon Valley by sourcing technologies from Chinese and Japanese entrepreneurs. Since starting in private equity in 1989, Kari has spearheaded innovative investment products and forged alliances between tech start-ups and Japanese corporations. As a Principal at Knightsbridge Advisors, she originated fund-raising for the sixth Knightsbridge early-stage U.S. venture capital fund of funds.

Prior to that, she gained early-stage operational experience overseeing a ten-fold increase in assets under management over five years as one of five members of an executive team at VenCap International, an Oxford-based private equity fund of fund and public technology manager. Kari began her career at Sumitomo Trust, Tokyo, where her passion for budding technology was kindled as she invested in U.S. venture funds and initiated a tech focus for the M&A team. She earned a B.A. from Kokusaikirisutokyo University in Japan and an MBA with honors from Solvay in Brussels. Raised in Asia, she speaks 5 languages, including Japanese.

David joined 3i in 1998 and was involved in a multitude of investments throughout 3i’s European operations before moving to the US in 2000. Prior to that he had over 20 years of experience at GM and C-level, including leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent), Applied Biosystems, Malvern Instruments and Richtec.

Since completing his MS in 1975, David has created and built new technology businesses in venture-backed and corporate funded situations. Several of these are now significant business units of major corporations or successful private companies.

David’s investment interests include communications software, equipment and components; innovative materials technologies applied in electronics, cleantech and other industries; and nanotechnology opportunities that disrupt the economics of existing markets. He led 3i investments in, and is an active board member of, AOptix, Bitfone, Discera, Kineto Wireless and Triage Wireless.

David holds a BS in Chemistry, an MS in Instrumentation from Imperial College, London and also studied electronics and communications to BS level He attended management education at INSEAD and London Business School and Executive MBA modules at Warwick Business School. He is recognised under Royal Charter as a Professional Chemist and is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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.

Ravi Belani
Associate, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Ravi Belani is an Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Ravi brings experiences with new ventures and established firms to his role. Prior to Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ravi worked in product management at software startup Zaplet (acquired by MetricStream). Ravi has also worked in product management at enterprise software company Extensity (IPO’d then acquired by GEAC) as a Mayfield Fellow . As a management consultant at McKinsey and Company’s San Francisco office, Ravi worked with Fortune 500 hi tech and biotech companies on a range of strategic issues, including market attractiveness assessments, pricing, channel strategy, and new product development processes. He has also completed internships in the Strategy and Emerging Technology group at Medtronic and in Equity Research at Bridgewater Associates.

Ravi is a Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi graduate of Stanford University, holding a BS with Distinction and MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Ravi also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. As a Board Fellow at Harvard, Ravi served the Global Board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). Email: ravi@dfj.com.

Joe Bowman, Partner, Russian Technologies Russian Technologies is a $50 million dollar early stage venture capital fund based in Moscow, Russia. He is an international investment professional with over six years of experience in the Russian venture capital industry.

In 2000 Mr. Bowman joined Vesta Eurasia, the technology investment arm of Sun Capital Partners, a $155 million private equity fund based in Moscow, Russia. At Vesta Eurasia he worked on investments in the IT, semiconductor, and optoelectronics industries.

In 2001 Mr. Bowman established WestLink Capital, a boutique financial advisory company. WestLink advised Optiva, a flat panel display company previously funded by Vesta Eurasia, on a $30 million venture capital round led by JP Morgan Capital Partners. This was one of the largest nanotechnology venture capital investments in the US in 2002. Mr. Bowman joined Optiva as financial director and vice president of business development in Moscow in 2002. He grew the Moscow R&D center from 15 to 80 scientists to support product development and worked with Optiva's Asian partners on joint display development projects.

Mr. Bowman joined Russian Technologies in August 2003. In 2004 he led the fund's first investment in Ultra Motor. He currently serves as Ultra Motor's interim CEO, working with the company to establish key strategic partnerships in China and India. At Russian Technologies Mr. Bowman has led three investments and serves on the Board of Directors of Ultra Motor, PBC Lasers and Wostec.

Shlomo Caine
Managing Director of Strategic Investments Intel Capital , Central and Eastern Europe, Russia & Israel

Shlomo Caine is Managing Director of Strategic Investments of Intel Capital, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia & Israel.

With a bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics, and an M.Sc in Materials science, Shlomo started his career at Tadiran Electronics in Israel, working on Hybrid microelectronic components and devices. In 1982 he joined the start-up team of the first Intel Fab outside of the US - Fab8 in Jerusalem, where he continued to work in a variety of engineering and manufacturing positions.

In 1994 Shlomo accepted the position of startup manager for Intel's Fab14 in Ireland, responsible for building, staffing and running Intel's first offshore quarter micron facility, a position he held until 1999 when he returned to start up the Intel Capital activities in Israel. In 2002 Shlomo started covering investments in Western Europe and finally in late 2004 he assumed responsibility for Intel Capital’s investments in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in addition to Israel.

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.

Daniel focuses on opportunities in the technology, alternative energy and medical device industries. Daniel has extensive experience in building businesses and new markets, Both in the United States and overseas. Prior to joining Starboard Ventures, he was CEO of a startup media company in Silicon Valley. He joined the company as a business consultant and was named CEO within four months. As CEO he raised $10 million in private equity and debt financing, successfully modified the company's business strategies and grew the company into the country's seventh largest regional magazine.

Previously Daniel established the European and Middle Eastern operations for a medical image archiving company. Upon joining the company he started to identify and sign distributors, and in less than nine months turned the company's investment in Europe into a profit-generating operation. Within two years after joining the company Daniel expanded distribution to include 15 distributors covering 20 countries and established the company's European technical support.

Daniel's foundation in international business was built out at Leo Burnett Advertising. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Daniel was instrumental in establishing joint ventures in Central European, Eastern European and Central Asian markets to facilitate servicing multinational clients. He transitioned these agencies' business practices to meet the expectations of American and Western European business practices. He also advised national governments on advertising law and industry self-regulatory bodies and ultimately set up self-regulatory bodies in three countries.

Daniel received his Master of International Business degree from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA and the European Business School (EBS) in Цstrich-Winkel, Germany. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

Mr. Bruce Crocker has more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry, including venture investing, general management and investment banking. Mr. Crocker joined the Pitango team as a Managing Director with the combination of the Eucalyptus and Pitango management groups in April 2000.

Prior to that, Mr. Crocker co-founded Eucalyptus Ventures in 1997, and since that time has served as Managing Director of the fund. Prior to founding Eucalyptus, he served as a managing director in technology investment banking at Hambrecht & Quist. Mr. Crocker led the development of H&Q's initial underwriting practice in Israel, and sponsored six H&Q venture investments. Mr. Crocker previously served as President and CEO of Exploration Systems, a start-up application software company targeting the oil and gas exploration markets, and of EG&G Geometrics, a manufacturer of geophysical instruments and a supplier of airborne geophysical survey services.

Mr. Crocker holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Crocker serves on the Board of Directors of Mercado Software, Silverback Systems, and VisonCare Ophthalmic Technologies among others, and is an observer at Cadent.

Dr. Graham Crooke
Managing partner, CEO

Graham, a physician, heads AMC's life sciences venture effort. In 1984, Graham graduated with a medical degree from the University of Western Australia and then worked at major teaching hospitals in his home town of Perth until 1986. He then attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he earned his MBA in 1988.

After business school, Graham was a Product Manager at Molecular Devices Corporation, a venture-backed, start-up, bio-analytical company, and then worked as a management consultant focused on health-care strategy and operations at the consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton. In 1992, Graham joined the venture capital group of Dillon Read & Co., a New York investment bank, where he focused on investments in biotechnology and medical device companies. After Dillon Read was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation in 1997, the venture capital group was spun out to form Ticonderoga Capital, Inc. Graham became a partner of Ticonderoga and led the firm's healthcare investment activity for the next three years.

In 2000, he joined Asset Management as a venture capital partner and is responsible for AMC's healthcare investment portfolio. He is a director of the public biotechnology company Insmed, Inc. (NASDAQ: INSM) as well as a number of private companies.

Somesh Dash joined IVP as a Senior Analyst in March of 2005. He focuses on expansion-stage investments in software and communications.

Prior to joining IVP, Mr. Dash was an Analyst in the Corporate Finance Division of CSFB's Technology Investment Banking Group. While at CSFB, Mr. Dash focused on strategic financing initiatives for a number of public and private technology companies. His responsibilities included analyzing and executing a variety of financings within the Semiconductor, Software, Internet, Communications, and IT Services verticals.

Prior to joining CSFB, Mr. Dash worked for Luxmi Capital, an early stage venture capital fund focused on digital media investments. He also worked for the Corporate Development Division of Sony Entertainment Television (SET) in Mumbai, India. His responsibilities included developing strategies for augmenting advertising revenues, and establishing partnerships with leading Indian technology and media companies.

Mr. Dash received a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Andrew is an early-stage investor in life sciences with 15 years of experience as a founder, executive, and researcher. He is currently Vice President of InCube Laboratories, Inc. and a Partner with InCube Ventures. His current board positions include SwitchGear Genomics and Ergodesigns.

Prior to joining InCube, Andrew was an active investor with The Angels’ Forum and a Partner in the Halo Funds, where he completed a Kauffman Fellowship.

Earlier in his career, Andrew served as Senior Vice President of sales and marketing for QIAGEN Operon, where he grew revenues of synthetic DNA products from $13 to $40M in two years, and played a key role in selling the business for nine figures. In his earlier career, Andrew held several roles in research operations at Genentech, Inc. and co-founded a gene design business in agricultural biotechnology. He has also developed strategies for healthcare firms as a consultant.

Andrew holds a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s with high honors from the University of California at Berkeley.

Skip Glass
Venture Partner, Canaan Partners

Skip Glass joined Canaan Partners' Menlo Park, CA office in 2003. He currently serves as a Venture Partner focusing on information technology investments. Skip's background includes twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur, early stage investor, and advisor to numerous successful companies. Operational roles have included CEO and President of uRoam (acquired by F5 Networks); COO of Kiva (acquired by Netscape); Vice President of Field Operations at Illustra (acquired by Informix) and Vice President of Marketing at Sybase (IPO). Early in his career he spent ten years with IBM in senior sales and marketing positions. Skip serves on the Board of Directors of Evident Software , GroundWork , Sygate , Vidient , Voyence and Vue Technology and holds numerous consultant positions with venture and privately backed startups.

He was Founder and CEO of four successful companies during the last decade, including ELVEES ( www.elvees.ru ), ELVIS+ ( www.elvis.ru ) and TrustWorks Systems (now Synartra Ltd. member of Hamsard Group, www.hamsard.com ) which were focused on innovative and groundbreaking computer, networking, enterprise software and security products and technologies. He pioneered with ELVIS+ and Sun Microsystems in wireless WiFi (802.11) hardware and networking software development back to 1992-94 and distributed FW/VPN development in 1994-1997, as well as with TrustWorks in Security Management platform for heterogeneous and distributed FW/VPN and end-to-end security solution in 1998 -2003.

He obtained the first overseas investment Sun Microsystems ever made for his Russian company ELVIS+. back in 1993 and later raised over USD 30 M investment capital from western VC in his Netherlands based TrustWorks during 1998-2002, which is still unique a company originating from Russia. Alexander was the Founder and strategic leader of one of the first and leading Russian ISP ELVIS Telekom, which was sold to Telenor/Nextra in 2000. He is the Founder and investor of the Dutch based Mobile services Cost management Company EzWIM ( www.ezwim.com ). In the past, as former President and General Manager of the Soviet Space Agency (NPO ELAS), he was one of the top technical executives responsible for the design and implementation of satellite and spacecraft software, as well as computer and data communication systems for the Soviet defense industry. He was the youngest national program leader for national programs like on-board computer systems and low-orbit data communication system of the Soviet "Star Wars" response.

Currently Alexander serves and has served as a board member, investor and/or as the advisor of several innovative companies like Magnifire (now F5), SWSoft, SJLabs, Start-Telecom, NavMaps and S-Terra. As Chairman of the companies, he is also actively involved in ELVIS+ and EzWIM. In his current activities he partners with several top tier VC and corporate investors and helps USA, Russian and European emerging technology companies to define the best strategy to go to market and to identify and match their technologies with their business opportunities.

Alexander has authored over a hundred international publications and over thirty inventions and patents; he has been a featured speaker at numerous international conferences, including Interop, World Economic Forum, Catalyst , High-Tech Forum, ETRE, Infosecurity, etc. and has been interviewed and profiled in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes ASAP, the New York Times, Financial Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and others. He was named by independent agencies as the most influential person in the Russian IT and Internet industry during 1994-98 and again in 2000-2001, 2003. He was named "Technology Pioneer" by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2000, while at the same time the technology achievements of his TrustWorks were recognized and received the award for 'Technology of New Millennium'.

He donates a lot of time for public activities through advisory board of Stockholm Challenge, membership in ISDEF ( www.isdef.org ), Counsel of Advisors and his leading role in Foresight Russia.

Through all his past and current activities, Alexander is aiming to bring and to place Russian originating technologies and entrepreneurs on the World High-Tech Map using his knowledge, experience, industry authority and connections. The great potential and unique platform of the European Tech Tour has convinced him to donate his time and to be the President of the Russian Tech Tour, which was held in September 2004. Dr. Galitsky divides his time as a Partner in Russian Technologies Venture Partners ( www.rt-tech.ru ) and as investor though his privately owned Dutch based investment company AV Galitsky Holding BV.

Irwin brings to Worldview more than a decade of experience working with high technology enterprises as an advisor, strategist, and investor. He focuses on investments in software, systems, and services companies.

Irwin currently serves on the Board of Directors of ActiveGrid, Podbridge, Stretch, and Ensim.

Irwin joined Worldview in June 2004 from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he co-founded the firm’s nationally recognized intellectual property counseling practice and served as a manager of the firm’s venture capital fund. As part of this practice, Irwin leveraged his extensive intellectual property expertise to assist companies in developing new market strategies, products, and revenue streams.

Companies for whom Irwin has worked include a host of successful venture-backed firms, such as Brocade, Avanex, VMware, RealNetworks, and Netscape, as well as large technology enterprises such as EMC, Broadcom, and Hewlett-Packard.

Irwin received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Mike Gurevich
Technology Advisor, FTVentures

Mike brings more than 20 years of experience in software development. He has a track record of developing innovative software products that either led to successful start-ups or were acquired by major companies. His patents were utilized by industry leaders including Motorola, Hitachi, Bank of America, 724 Solutions, Exigen, and uGuard. Mike is the founder and CEO of Inventigo, LLC, specializing in developing innovative software solutions. Before founding Inventigo, Mike was a Vice President of Product Development and Chief Architect of 724 Solutions managing the company's Advanced Technology Center and Back Office Integration Center.

Prior to 724 Solutions, Mike was a co-founder and CTO of Concorde Solutions Inc that was acquired by Bank of America. During his tenure at BofA as a Chief Architect and Vice President of Development, Mike served on the combined bank architecture board. Mike received an MS in EE and CS from Minsk Institute of Radio Technology.

Christopher (Chris) Hummel
Vice President, Services Global Sales Support Oracle Corporation

Chris Hummel is Vice President, Services Global Sales Support . Mr. Hummel's organization is responsible for the development of Oracle On Demand and Support Services marketing strategy.

Mr. Hummel joined Oracle in 1994 and has held several management positions in both Europe and Asia; including his most recent position as Vice President Marketing & Business Development, Oracle Corporation Asia Pacific Division. Additionally, Mr. Hummel has held the following Oracle management positions: Vice President for B2B Exchanges, Vice President/Director for Public Services (government, education & health), 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).

Vladimir joined NEA in 2005. He focuses on investments in information technology, including software, communications and technology-enabled services. Currently he is on the Board of Directors of Compiere and Pentaho and serves as an advisor to Sugar CRM. Since starting his venture career with Robertson Stephens Venture Capital in 1996, Vladimir was involved in investments in over 20 companies, including CenterRun (acquired by Sun), Equinix (NASDAQ EQIX), Metapath (acquired by Marconi), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Saba Software (NASDAQ SABA). Previous board memberships include, among others, AmberPoint, Cendura, IMLogic, NewScale. Before joining NEA, Vladimir was a Managing Director at Crosslink Capital, a fund established after a management buyout from Robertson Stephens. Previously, he was a Management Consultant with McKinsey and Company in San Francisco and Milan, Italy. Prior to that, Vladimir worked at Intel and Ingres. Vladimir received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco.

Ken Kelley
K2 Bioventures: Bio/Med Tech Startups

Ken Kelley is an individual venture investor and mentor to biotech and medical device company entrepreneurs. He has over 20 years of technical, operational and venture capital experiences in the life sciences. If you are an entrepreneur in the SF Bay Area and need help please write to make an introduction.

Ken currently serves on the Boards of several biotech and medical device companies (EndoNav, Halozyme Therapeutics/ AMEX:HTI, MPEX Pharmaceuticals, and Solus Biosystems. He provides strategic advice to EndoVx, ForteBio, and others. Previously, he was the founder/CEO and Chairman of the Board at IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. which he took public in 2000 (Nasdaq: IBPI).

Ken participated in the startup financing of over two dozen biotech and medical device companies while a General Partner at Latterell Venture Partners (LVP) and earlier as a Senior Associate at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). He was also a consultant for McKinsey & Company and a scientist at Integrated Genetics (acquired by Genzyme). He has an MBA from Stanford and a BA in biochemical sciences from Harvard.

Roman Kyzyk is Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson Nexus a venture capital fund focused on sourcing globally applicable technology within Ukraine, Russia, former Soviet Union and Emerging Europe. As Principal and Co-Founder at DKK,LLC and Executive Partners, Roman dedicated 15+ years as a global strategy advisor within the the private equity, venture capital and hedge fund communities and across aerospace & airlines, defense, IT & High Tech, financial services, energy and diversified industrial. 13+ years operating experience within Xerox Corporation cultivated financial, marketing, technology and general management experience. He has demonstrated ability for originating, structuring and executing capital formation, private placements, private equity and venture capital investments. Roman was President and CEO at Meridian Partners Group, LLC, an investment banking and private equity advisory group for South Korea. Mr. Kyzyk graduated from Fordham University and earned an MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Darrell is the Bay Area manager of DLA Piper’s Venture Pipeline Group. Venture Pipeline is a dedicated business unit established by the law firm in 2001 to facilitate the on-going growth of its emerging technology and fund formation practices. Venture Pipeline assists its early stage clients throughout the capital raising process by helping to develop business models and presentation materials and facilitating introductions to appropriate venture investors in the firm’s relationship network. The Venture Pipeline team also coordinates the firm’s relationships within the investor and entrepreneur communities.

Darrell has worked with emerging growth companies since 1998 as an entrepreneur, consultant and venture capital investor. Most recently he was an associate with Claremont Creek Ventures, a $130M early stage investment fund. Darrell came to Claremont Creek from Ex’tent VC, a private Dutch investment fund, and was involved with the restructuring activities of the fund’s US portfolio companies including Advanced Immuni-T and the Ex’pression Center for New Media. Darrell joined Ex’tent from Sylvan Ventures, a $400M investment partnership between Sylvan Learning Systems and Apollo Advisors. At Sylvan Ventures, Darrell worked on capital deployments totaling more than $40M in early stage investments. Prior to business school, he was an investment executive with PaineWebber. In addition to his principal investment experience Darrell developed and launched myBschool.com, an on-line affinity marketing company targeting professional school students, while completing his graduate studies.

Darrell graduated from UCLA with a BA in Economics and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Serhiy Loboyko is an often quoted expert of the Ukrainian high-tech industry and one of its 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.

Mr. Loboyko is a Co-founder and Managing Director of the pioneering Ukrainian venture capital firm TECHINVEST. TECHINVEST managed to multiply investments of its first investment partner 2.5 times during 2004-2005.

Together with Tim Draper, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Serhiy Loboyko is working on establishment the first in Ukraine $50 mln technology venture fund DFJ Techinvest. DFJ Techinvest, an affiliate of DFJ Network, will invest in seed/early stage global companies based on Ukrainian technologies.

Serhiy Loboyko is board's member of several successful technology companies originated from Ukraine. Among them are: IT company "United Software Corporation", which became an approved vendor of IBM; nano-technology company "APowerCap Technologies", which develops breakthrough ultra-capacitors technology.

In 2005, Serhiy Loboyko initiated the Ukrainian High-Tech Competition for selection of promising technology projects for venture investments.

In 2003, Serhiy Loboyko organized the first international research of Ukrainian IT-export industry with Market-Visio (Gartner Group) and Ukrainian Software Consortium of over 30 leading IT-export companies.

In 2000-2001, Serhiy Loboyko 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 Loboyko 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.

Mr. Leinwand focuses on technology investments and joined JPMP in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, he was President and Co-founder of Proficient Networks, Inc. From 2000 to 2001, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Telegis Networks, Inc., and held the same positions while at Digital Island, Inc. from 1997 to 2000. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Leinwand served as Manager of Consulting Engineering and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. He co-authored “Cisco Router Configuration” and “Network Management: A Practical Perspective” and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the subjects of computer networks, network management, and network design. Mr. Leinwand holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He presently serves on the board of directors of Affinity Internet, Inc. and Vyatta, Inc.

Richard Ling’s executive experience and passion for technology provides the Rembrandt investment team with their technical expertise. Richard’s prior hands-on technical management allows him to guide Rembrandt’s portfolio companies in their innovation and implementation of new technologies.

Prior to joining Rembrandt, Richard was the co-founder, President and CEO of AlterEgo Networks Inc., a wireless infrastructure company, acquired by Macromedia Inc. in March 2002.

Prior to AlterEgo, Richard led the i-Merchandising product organization at Inktomi, responsible for overseeing all areas of the group's engineering and operations, including site and network operations and product development. Prior to Inktomi, Richard was a co-founder, acting CTO and VP of Products and Engineering at Impulse Buy Networks Inc., leading the development, operations and product management groups. Impulse Buy Networks acquired by Inktomi in April 1999.

Prior to Impulse Buy, Richard founded and was CEO of Spero Inc., a company focused on creating supply-chain/distributor management systems for large-scale enterprises. Prior to Spero, Richard was a Director of International Product Marketing and Management at Novell Inc. Previously, Richard was a product line manager at Univel, acquired by Novell in 1992. Richard was a systems design engineer, strategic planning analyst and product manager for Convergent Technologies Inc.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (robotics and control/learning systems focus) from the University of California at Berkeley.

Boris Lipkin
President and CEO, Therma-Wave

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.

Peter N. Loukianoff joined Alloy Ventures in January 2001. Prior to Alloy, he was on the founding management teams of two venture capital-backed startups: Autonomy, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUTN) and Ubiquinet, Inc. (now C-Cor, NASDAQ: CCBL). Peter also started and ran 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 technology joint ventures between prominent scientific institutions in Russia and leading U.S. and European companies. He is a member of the board-of-directors of Attune Systems, Apptera, Ravenflow and Sapias. His prior investments include AudioBasket (acquired by eMotion, Inc.), K2 Optronics (acquired by Emcore, NASDAQ: EMKR), Versata (NASDAQ: VATA) and ZipRealty (NASDAQ: ZIPR). Peter is a co-inventor on four voice technology patents. He earned an MBA and BS Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Gopan Madathil
Strategic Advisor, Bering Group

Gopan Madathil is a Strategic Advisor to Bering Group and has more than 16 years of experience in bringing technology products from concept to success in the marketplace. Most recently, Madathil led the Telecom Business unit at Jamcracker and was responsible for championing new solutions that help leading carriers roll out new converged services rapidly and efficiently. He's also the Founder and President of TechCoire, the largest network of technology entrepreneurs from the greater Sacramento region.

Previously, Madathil was the Wireless Marketing Director in the communication solutions group at Agilent Technologies. Madathil has held senior product management roles with OSI, ESQ and Wipro Infotech and is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences and has authored over two-dozen papers on telecommunications and software.

Madathil was recognized for his contribution to the Sacramento technology industry with an award for outstanding achievement by the Sacramento Business Journal on December 2003. Madathil holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from Madras University in India and has studied telecommunications engineering courses at University of California, Berkeley.

Alexander K. Marquez
Director, Strategic Investments, Intel Capital

Alexander is responsible for Intel Capital’s strategic investment strategies and related investments in the areas of Digital Media & Entertainment, part of Intel Capital’s Digital Home fund. Currently, Alexander devotes much of his time to defining strategies in Premium Content Services & Distribution and next generation advertising models.

Previously, Alexander was responsible for Intel Capital’s investments and related strategies in Education/E-Learning. Some of his investments include Zinio provider of electronic magazines, Envivio a leading provider of H264 systems, Gametrust best known for the Gameframe platform for enabling tournament based gaming, Akella the leading gaming developer/publisher in Moscow and BlackArrow and early stage company developing interactive television advertising solutions. Prior to joining Intel Capital, Alexander served as technical advisor to the senior vice president of Intel’s Interactive Media Services division where he advised on strategy and media investments. Alexander also served as controller for Intel’s Content Services division where he oversaw financial aspects of the division, including numerous investments in Europe, Japan, Asia, and Latin America.

Alexander joined Intel Corporation in 1994 where he held various management roles prior to joining Intel Capital. Alexander holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he is also Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Visitors Board and serves as an advisor to the Entertainment Engineering program. He received his Masters of Business Administration from Purdue University.

Lydia Mazzie is responsible for researching and identifying new international locations for Google engineering offices, setting up new development sites and managing operations of existing ones. As one of her recent projects, Lydia lead the establishment of Google Moscow development center.

From 2003 to 2005, Lydia was a manager in Google's Corporate Development group responsible for international acquisitions and investments. From 2002 to 2003 Lydia worked in Google's finance team.

Prior to Google, Lydia spent three and a half years working at the investment bank of JPMorgan Securities, Inc., advising technology companies in their merger and acquisition strategy and execution.

During her tenure at JPMorgan Securities, Inc., Lydia advised on over 15 transactions. Lydia graduated with high honors from the University of California in Berkeley with a degree in Business Administration.

Prior to joining DFJ, Nate was an Associate at Summit Partners where he sourced and executed growth equity investments in the technology and financial services sectors. Previously, Nate was an Investment Banking Analyst and Associate with WR Hambrecht + Co where he focused on auction equity offerings and mergers & acquisitions for consumer internet and software clients.Nate has also worked as a Policy Research Analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where he performed extensive research on international terrorist organizations, information security issues, and narcotics-related current events in Central Asia, Colombia and Peru. Nate graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Government.

Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P. is a biotechnology discovery and development focused investment fund. Oleg is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities, in-depth scientific due diligence and working with company management on strategic and financial matters. Prior to joining BVF, Mr. Nodelman was a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting; a strategy firm. Mr. Nodelman worked with senior management from companies in a variety of industries to develop and implement long-term strategy and build shareholder value. He holds a B.S. degree from Georgetown University.

Alex has over 20 years' experience in computer systems and software sales, marketing, engineering and general management. He began his career in the UK at two software startups, was AT&T's European Sales Manager for its UNIX products and then started and managed Sun's marketing function in Europe. He held a number of management positions at Sun in the US, including VP Markets & Product Strategy.

After general management positions at Grass Valley Group (Tektronix) he was VP Sales & Marketing at Be. More recently, he was VP Marketing at Vitria Technology and CEO of Katmango.

Didier G. Perez
Managing Principal of CelerityFund

Mr. Perez is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Portfolio companies, and acts as CFO for all companies of the CelerityFund. During the last five years was the COO and CFO of Investigen Inc, a molecular diagnostics company. Prior to that, Mr. Perez was Managing Director at Plantagenet Capital Management, an investment banking firm which specialized in turnaround and M&A situations.

Prior to that, he was an international financial consultant with Merrill Lynch. Prior to that, he was Director of U.S. operations for Gimeor SA, a French computer assisted design software company. Mr. Perez has over 25 years experience working with small to medium size companies. Mr. Perez serves as Director on the Boards of the following companies: Investigen Molecular Diagnostics, AuthentiSure Inc, Apothos Inc, Orbeco, The French American Chamber of Commerce as Co-Chair of the Biotech Committee and The UCSF Mont Zion Hospital Healthcare Fund.

Serge Plotkin
Venture Partner, Opus Capital

In Opus Capital Serge sources and evaluates investment opportunities and contributes technical assistance to portfolio companies. Serge is also an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has served since 1989.

Together with Opus Capital General Partner Dan Avida, Serge co-founded Decru in 2001 where he served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. Serge has published more than a hundred technical papers and has been issued seven patents. He is currently the vice chair of the Security in Storage Workgroup P1619/P1619.1, IEEE standardization committee, which is tasked with creating a standard for storage encryption, and is the editor of the IEEE1619 standard.

Serge obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT and BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Before his studies at MIT, Serge served for five years as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.

Bo has been involved with high-tech and medical device product development for more than 15 years. He currently manages the life science portfolio at Technology Ventures Corporation and also runs Preising Medical LLC, which provides product development consulting to medical device companies. His past experience includes Director of Life Sciences for Datasweep; CTO & SVP of Engineering for the WorkCard Company; CTO and VP of Sales and Marketing for OUR Scientific International; VP of New Business Development (R&D) for LifeChart; and Vice President at Accuray.. Bo also managed the customer research program at Varian Oncology Systems. He received his Ph.D., and M.S. degrees in biomedical engineering at UC Davis and his B.S. in biomedical engineering from UC San Diego.

Cliff Robbins has over 20 years of experience in advising venture capital investors and technology companies in financing, development, commercial, licensing, distribution and M&A matters. He has been a partner at GCA Law Partners LLP in Mountain View, California, since May 1994. Previously, Mr. Robbins was an attorney in the international corporate and commercial practice of Coudert Brothers, resident variously in San Francisco, New York, Singapore and Jakarta, Indonesia.

He has also practiced in the corporate, securities and administrative law areas with firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Mr. Robbins serves on the Board of Directors of the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the San Mateo Park Neighborhood Association. Mr. Robbins received his B.A. and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas, Austin, and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Paul Santinelli recently became part of the team at North Bridge Venture Partners, focusing on investments in Open Source, software, security and communications areas. Previously, he served as director of Red Hat Network and was responsible for product definition, strategy, engineering, product management, marketing and lifecycle management for the company’s flagship software services offering. Paul also served as the director of global information systems and technology during his tenure at Red Hat.

Prior to Red Hat, Paul was founder and CEO of NOCpulse, Inc., a Silicon Valley software startup focused on delivering the next generation enterprise systems management platform. NOCpulse was acquired by Red Hat in October 2002. While at NOCpulse, Paul was nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002. Before founding NOCpulse, Paul was chief technology officer of Global Center and VP of technology for Global Crossing, a telecommunications company that built and operated the world’s first independent global fiber optic network. During the past twelve years, Paul has held various engineering, product management and marketing positions in companies including Red Hat, IBM, Lotus Development and Compuware.

Prior to North Bridge, Paul served on the advisory boards of Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco), Inflow, Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Mobility.net (acquired by Software.com) and One Secure (acquired by Netscreen). Paul received a B.S. from Emerson College in Boston.

SVB Financial Group (SVB) is a leading provider of diversified financial products and services (commercial, investment, and merchant banking) to technology, life science, and private equity firms globally. Mike Selfridge has been with SVB for 13 years and has held a variety of leadership positions in sales, credit, international, operations, and financing for technology and venture capital firms.

Mr. Selfridge is currently the Head of SVB’s Global Products Division and a member of the commercial bank’s senior management team. In his current role, Selfridge leads several groups of the commercial bank, including SVB Asset Management, Global Investments (SVB’s broker-dealer), International Credit Products, foreign currency trading, International Trade Services, and Global Cash Management. Combined, this group represents over $18 billion in assets under management, trades over $12 billion in annual foreign currency volume, and delivers and executes on SVB products and services that generate 25% of the commercial bank’s gross profit. Selfridge is a member of the senior team responsible for developing the commercial bank’s strategy, as well as identifying the product and sales opportunities to further revenue and asset growth as well as global expansion. His division is responsible for the continued development and implementation of the bank’s internet banking platform, SVBeConnect, which is SVB’s proprietary electronic banking portal that support clients’ global online banking and investments.

From 2003 to 2005, Selfridge was based in Boston, MA and served as SVB’s Northeast Division Manager. In this role, he was responsible for the management, sales origination, and leadership of SVB’s largest regional division, which represented approximately 25% of the commercial bank’s total gross profit. At the time, the Northeast Division served over 2,000 technology, life science, and private equity clients throughout nine Northeastern states.

From 1994 to 2003, Selfridge served in various leadership roles in sales and credit with SVB Financial, including SVP & Manager of the Northern Virginia (DC Metro) Technology Group, Southeast Division Senior Credit Officer, and SVP & Manager of Structured Trade Finance. Before joining Silicon Valley Bank in 1994, Selfridge held corporate and international banking positions with HSBC Group and Wells Fargo. While at HSBC, Selfridge managed corporate banking relationships for several well-known technology companies, including Cisco Systems in its earlier stages.

Selfridge holds a B.S. degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He is a member of several of SVB’s executive committees, including the Commercial Bank Steering Committee, SVB’s Asset Management Investment Committee, the IT Steering Committee, and the Credit Policy Committee. Selfridge currently serves on the board of directors for the Housing Trust of Santa Clara and he is a member the Advisory Board at the Santa Clara University School of Business. He is also an advisory board member of the IBOS Association, a London based banking alliance between 14 major financial institutions focused on providing corporate banking solutions in Europe.

Carl Showalter is a founding partner of Opus Capital focusing primarily on networking software, systems and semiconductor investments. Previously, Carl was a General Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Carl brings more than 12 years of operating experience to Opus. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Juniper Networks, where he built and led an organization that helped grow service provider market share against Cisco from 15% to 35% in under two years. Prior to Juniper, Carl was Vice President of Dial and Broadband Services for UUNET, overseeing the 300-person, $1B division.

He also held various management positions at ANS, an AOL company, where he helped pioneer hardware-based firewalls and VPNs. Carl began his career at Bellcore, focusing on network security and data service delivery. At Bellcore, Carl's job included performing logical and physical attacks on phone companies, then helping them fix their vulnerabilities.

Carl holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MS degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Richard Simoni
partner, Asset Management Company>

Rich combines a deep technical background with extensive operational business experience. Over the past 20 years he has been involved with numerous start-up companies, in both management and consulting roles. Most recently, he co-founded Talkway Communications, a provider of internet video services such as video email to major providers including AT&T and British Telecom. Talkway's products have received four- and five-star ratings from PC World, PC Magazine, and c|net.

Rich has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and master's and bachelor's degrees from Stanford and Rice University. Two of his academic publications were chosen for inclusion in the 25-year retrospective of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, the premier conference in the computer architecture field. He is an expert in distributed computing, performance measurement and optimization, scalable computing, internet protocols and architectures, digital audio and video, and wireless computing.

Oleg Svintsitski joined EDF Ventures in April, 2006 as a Senior Associate. He will work closely with General Partner, Beau Laskey to build-out EDF's Information Technology portfolio.

Oleg began his career in entrepreneurship and venture capital in 1996 co-founding a marketing and distribution company with operations in the United States, Germany and Russia to capitalize on the opportunities of the newly opened and rapidly emerging Russian/CIS market. Under Oleg’s leadership, the business expanded to over $10 million in annual revenues, becoming a market leader. Following this success, Oleg, acting as General Director, was instrumental in the launch of Russline.ru (http://www.artannlabs.com ), an ISP and e-commerce start-up venture in Moscow, Russia. Following these ventures and returning to the United States, Oleg worked with Artann Laboratories (www.artannlabs.com ) to commercialize medical device technologies. While at Artann, he coordinated the company’s research and development projects and helped raise more than $1.5 million in funding from the National Institute of Health, NASA, other agencies and private investors. Oleg's technical background also includes work in industrial control automation, parallel computing, computational modeling and computer imaging applications.

Oleg has been actively involved with the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity at the University of Michigan (www.bus.umich.edu/cvp ), performing research and consulting in private equity, and managing projects in university technology commercialization while assisting several university spin-outs.

Oleg earned an MS with High Honors in Aerospace Engineering/Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Aviation Institute in Russia, and an MS degree in Operations Research from the University of Michigan. He is currently completing his MBA at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Rob Theis brings 20 years of operating experience and brings business contacts, relationships and executive management expertise from his leadership positions at explosive growth companies like New Era of Networks, Sun Microsystems, and Silicon Graphics.

Prior to joining DCM, Rob was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for New Era of Networks (NEON). During his four-year tenure, he held a wide range of executive operational roles - from sales and marketing to corporate development. Rob was instrumental in leading NEON through a successful IPO, multi-rounds of corporate financing and grew the company to $200 million in revenues.

Prior to NEON, Rob spent ten years at Sun Microsystems, where he carried out successful growth strategies in a variety of senior management roles: as Managing Director of Sun's Worldwide Financial Services Group, Rob grew Sun's revenue in the Financial Services sector to over $1 billion; as Director of Sales and Marketing for the Asia Pacific region, Rob managed business operations and achieved a 100 percent annual growth rate; in his early years at Sun, Rob developed and managed Sun's Computer Systems business in the Design Automation, CAD/CAM and Manufacturing markets to $400 million in revenues.

Rob spent his early career at Silicon Graphics as a product marketing manager, where he developed product strategy, marketing programs and launched SGI's workstations, and at McDonnell Douglas Corporation (Boeing) in sales.

Rob was awarded the Honors Scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a BA degree in Economics.

Evgeny Zaytsev
Partner, Asset Management Company

Asset Management Company is one of the oldest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. He joined the fund 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.