SVOD2009 Jury

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.

Yan Breek
Angel investor

Serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Founded 4 start-up companies in the fields of software development, finance, and real estate services.

Invested in start-up companies in US, Russia, and South America. Invested in international real estate deals. International business development expert.

Graduated from Stanford Business School in 2004 MS degree in Physics from Moscow, Russia, 1988 Born in St Petersburg, Russia. Live in Silicon Valley since 1991.

Rudy Burger
Managing Partner, Woodside Capital Partners

Rudy is a leading expert in digital technologies and international business development. Over the past twenty-five years, he has founded companies in the US, run a European public company, and served as a senior executive for two global 500 companies - EVP and CTO for NEC Packard Bell and VP Software for Xerox. He is an effective, dynamic leader with a proven track record in strategic planning, change management, and business development.

Prior to Woodside Capital Partners, Rudy led the restructuring of Scipher plc which involved the sale of all of the company's operating businesses. Prior to Scipher, Rudy was the founding CEO of Media Lab Europe, a $40M joint venture between MIT and the Irish government.

Rudy has founded five companies, all in the digital media technologies sector. One of these companies, Visioneer, went public in 1995 on NASDAQ.

In addition to being a partner of Woodside Capital Partners, Dr. Burger serves on the boards of several US and overseas companies including Quester Capital Management and Motorola's Research Board. Rudy has a BSc and MSc from Yale University and a PhD from Cambridge University.

Albert Cha
Managing Partner, Vivo Ventures

Albert Cha, M.D., Ph.D. is a Managing Partner who invests in private and public biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. Albert draws on his scientific, medical, and operating experience when working with his portfolio companies.

He was an early investor in Aspreva Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ASPV), CoTherix (CTRX), Biodel (BIOD), and Bioform Medical (BFRM). Other investments include Acura Pharmaceuticals (ACUR), AMAG Pharmaceuticals (AMAG), APT Pharmaceuticals, Avanir Pharmaceuticals (AVNR), Discovery Labs (DSCO), Repros Therapeutics (RPRX), and Tria Beauty. He currently serves on the board of several private biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. Albert has also served as founding or interim CEO for several portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Vivo, Albert worked at Oracle Corporation in pharmaceutical consulting and at the Palo Alto VA Hospital as a biomedical engineer. Albert received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He subsequently completed the Medical Scientist Training Program at UCLA School of Medicine, where he received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience. During his studies, he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and won the prestigious Outstanding Graduate Student Award. His research in molecular biophysics has been published in highly respected journals such as Nature and Neuron.

Daniel Cohen
General Partner, Gemini Israel Funds

Daniel Cohen is a General Partner at Gemini Israel Funds, specializing in Consumer Internet, digital media and Software-as-a-Service investments. He joined the firm in August, 2001 and currently sits on the Board of Gemini companies SupportSpace, Adap.tv, Outbrain, Confidela, Verix, Massive Impact and Eyeview. Danny began his career as a SW developer and product manager in a few Israeli high-tech companies. In his last position he ran strategic marketing for Commtouch. Danny has a BA in computer science and psychology from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Jeff Crowe
General Partner Norwest Venture Partners

Jeff joined Norwest Venture Partners in 2004 and focuses on investments in software, Internet, and consumer arenas. He currently serves on the boards of deCarta, Evincii, Jigsaw, Lending Club, Nano-Tex, Tuvox, and Turn. Jeff is actively involved with Cast Iron Systems.

Prior to Norwest, Jeff served as President, COO and board member of DoveBid, Inc., a privately held business auction firm.   From 1990 to 1999, Jeff was co-founder, President, CEO and Board member of Edify Corporation, a venture backed enterprise software company focused on voice and internet e-commerce platforms and applications. Edify held its IPO in 1996 and was sold to S1 Corporation in 1999.  Previously, Jeff worked at ROLM Corporation, IBM and Siemens in marketing and general management.

For a complete biography of Jeff Crowe, please visit http://www.nvp.com 

Tim Danford
Managing Director, Storm Ventures

Tim joined Storm Ventures from Cisco Systems, where he was a technology leader in the Business Development organization. Tim worked with senior executives to develop strategies for entering new markets and was responsible for developing technology strategy, identifying opportunities and working with business development managers to execute investment, partnering and acquisition transactions.
 
During Tim's 6-year tenure at Cisco, he played a key role in developing Cisco's wireless strategy. The implementation of this wireless strategy resulted in the acquisition of JetCell, where Tim was the primary technology interface, as well as the acquisition of Exio, where Tim worked closely with the founders as they were exiting Hyundai and developing their product.

Tim also worked closely with senior executives to develop and build Cisco's Enterprise VoIP (Voice-over-IP) Business Unit, which resulted in the acquisition of Selsius and the implementation of the Cisco AVVID product lines. Tim was awarded the first prestigious Technology Pioneer award by Cisco's CTO for his contributions to the founding VoIP team.

Prior to Tim's contributions to Cisco's VoIP technology he managed a team responsible for competitive analysis of ATM networking equipment, and he worked closely with the Lightspeed team after their acquisition. Tim supported Cisco's early sales efforts and customers as a Systems Engineer designing and building large router networks.

Tim has over 18 years of extensive Internetworking and Telecommunications experience gained while working at Cisco Systems, Synoptics and Ameritech Information Systems. His technical education is in ship-board radio and telecommunications systems from the U.S. Coast Guard and studied at the Advanced Data Networking Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Tim studied Criminal Justice at Kent State University in Ohio. 

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.

Konstantin Demetriou
Managing Director, RUSNANO

Having graduated from Moscow State University and Cambirdge University, Mr. Demetriou worked as an investment advisor for the International Finance Corporation (division of the World Bank). Later he continued his studies in Cornell University in the US, graduating with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. After graduation, he worked for Lehman Brothers in London and New York in Investment Banking. From 2000 to 2006 Mr. Demetriou worked in London as a Principal Banker for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development managing projects with leading Russian and foreign companies, structuring and monitoring transactions in the real estate, petrochemical, oil and gas, telecommunications, infrastructure and mining industries. In 2006 Mr. Demetriou became Head of the Capital Markets and Investments for Russia and the CIS, and a board member of Jones Lang LaSalle Russia and CIS. Since 2008 he has been a Managing Director of Rusnano.

Educational background:
1994 - graduated prima cum laude majoring in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University.
1994 - completed Masters Program in International Relations in the University of Cambridge.
1998 - completed Master of Business Administration program of Cornell University.

David Feinleib
Partner, Mohr-Davidow Ventures
 

David Feinleib brings extensive entrepreneurial and operating experience to his role at MDV. He invests in Internet-enabled companies.

Prior to MDV, David ran a profitable online advertising business. He founded Likewise, a venture funded company providing interoperability software for mixed Windows and Linux environments. Before Likewise, David was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Partners, where he co-founded and was VP of Product Management at Consera Software (HPQ).
Prior to Consera, David co-founded and was CEO of onDevice (KEYN), a wireless software company.

Before onDevice, David led marketing and development teams at Microsoft.
He managed the Out of Box Experience team for Windows and worked on television and Internet access services. David's first entrepreneurial endeavor was in junior high school when he developed and sold ShareWare programs.

David maintains a blog at www.vcdave.com. He sourced MDV's investments in Fliqz, Genius, hi5, Infusion Software, Ironkey, and PBworks. He serves on the board of VirtuOz, and is a board observer at Visible Measures. He is also a director of Likewise .

David holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Matan Friedman
Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners

 Matan Friedman is a Senior Associate in the California office. He joined BVP in 2008 to focus on the Cleantech sector.

Most recently, Matan held a role in Strategy and Business Development for Ze-Gen Inc., an early-stage Boston-based developer of advanced waste-to-energy technology.  While in Boston, Matan also engaged in consulting projects for early stage startups in the recycling and water purification sectors.  Previously, he was a Business Analyst with McKinsey and Co.’s Tel Aviv office, where he consulted on productivity improvement, business development, strategy and corporate finance. Earlier in his career, Matan held a series of roles in the Intelligence branch of the Israeli Defense Force, attaining the rank of Lieutenant.  It was during this time, as he worked on R&D related projects that his interest in energy and efficiency began.

Matan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
 

Skip Glass
Operating Partner, Foundation Capital

Skip joined Foundation Capital in 2007, and works to assist the firm's portfolio companies and help in the assessment of potential new investments. He has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to dozens of successful software, networking, and security companies, including as CEO and President of URoam (acquired by F5), COO of Kiva (acquired by Netscape), VP of Field Operations at Illustra (acquired by Informix), VP of Marketing at Sybase, and trading area manager at IBM. He currently represents Foundation Capital on the board of SpringCM.

Prior to Foundation Capital, Skip worked with Canaan Partners, representing that firm on the boards of Voyence (acquired by EMC), Groundwork Open Solutions, and VUE Technology (acquired by Tyco). As an early stage investor, Skip has invested in several technology startups including Sygate (acquired by Symantec), SleepyCat Software (Acquired by Oracle), eHealth Insurance (IPO), and Retention Education (privately held).

Skip has also used his entrepreneurial expertise in the charitable world, having participated in the funding and management of a number of organizations. He is a recipient of the J. William Brownsfield award for outstanding civic contribution. Skip holds a BS from Sacramento State University and an MBA from University of Arizona. In his rare moments of downtime, he can be found cycling, hiking, and vacationing with his family.

 

Marcin Hejka
Director, Strategic Investments at Intel Capital

Sumeet Jain
Senior Associate, CMEA Ventures

Sumeet is an investment professional in CMEA's Technology group. Prior to CMEA, Sumeet was with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in its Technology, Media & Telecom investment banking group. At Goldman Sachs, he focused on mergers and acquisitions as well as equity and debt financing transactions across the software, internet, semiconductor, and communications equipment sectors. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Sumeet worked in business development and sales at iManage, a content management software company until its acquisition by Interwoven in 2003.

Previously, Sumeet was with Personify, an early web analytics software company, and where he helped grow the company with roles in product management, business development, sales and professional services. Sumeet began his career with Andersen Consulting (Accenture) where he worked on operations for companies in Andersen Technology Ventures portfolio. Sumeet holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Cornell University, and a MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Arif Janmohamed
Senior Associate, LightSpeed Venture Partners

Arif joined Lightspeed in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of infrastructure, communications, networking, and software.

Prior to joining Lightspeed, Arif worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco where he focused on opportunities in the unified communications and SaaS market. Before joining Cisco Systems, he was with Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm.

Earlier in his career, Arif worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV (acquired by MSFT), Andes Networks (acquired by SUNW), and Sun Microsystems.

Arif holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Oleg Kaganovich is a Partner with DFJ Aurora. Most recently, he was a Principal at DFJ Frontier, where he is now a Venture Partner. Previously, he was CEO of the Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA), where he helped startup entrepreneurs advance their businesses. Mr. Kaganovich was a Senior Associate at Sun Microsystems venture group, where he had responsibilities for deal sourcing, due diligence and deal negotiation. His investments included Entercept Security Technologies (sold to Network Associates), ProactiveNet (sold to BMC Software, NYSE: BMC), and Agea (sold to Avalon Digital Marketing Systems, NASDAQ: AVLN). In 1999 he became the first associate at Black Emerald Capital, a Wall Street merchant bank and M&A boutique. In 1992, while still in college he founded a total solution VAR, which he grew for five years and sold before returning to graduate school. Mr. Kaganovich has spent time performing as a professional jazz saxophonist. He serves on the board of SARTA, and as Observer for Tioga Energy and Intematix. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in International Business from Aquinas College.  

Tarun Kalra
Investment Professional, Battery Ventures

Tarun focuses on investments in enterprise applications, on demand services, security software and mobile. Prior to joining Battery, Tarun was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Technology Investment Banking Group where he worked on equity and debt financings and strategic advisory assignments for leading technology and software clients, including: Hewlett-Packard, Cadence Design Systems, Concur Technologies, Taleo Corporation and SuccessFactors. Before Deutsche Bank, Tarun worked at Citigroup Investment Research, initially focusing on Internet and new media and subsequently covering security and infrastructure software.

Tarun is a graduate of Middlebury College with a dual degree in political science and economics with a minor in mathematics.

Darrell Kong
Director of Venture Capital Services, Fenwick and West

Darrell focuses on strengthening Fenwick's relationships with both venture capital investors and the entrepreneur community. He has worked with emerging technology companies since 1998 in a variety of roles. Prior to joining Fenwick and West, he managed Gray Cary's Venture Pipeline group. His investment experience includes positions with Claremont Creek Ventures, Ex'tent (a private Dutch investment fund) and Sylvan Ventures where he worked on capital deployments totaling more than $40M into early stage companies. In addition to his investment experience Darrell 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.

Amir Lahat
Head of Business Ventures , Nokia Siemens Networks

Amir Lahat is Head of Business Ventures for Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). In this role Amir leads new business initiatives focusing beyond the current scope of NSN operations, as well as driving world-wide partnerships with the venture industry, VCs and startups. Amir joined NSN through the Atrica’s acquisition, the Carrier-Ethernet company he co-founded. Amir's operational background spans over telecom and datacom industries where he had business development, solution and strategy, product marketing, product management and engineering roles. Prior to Atrica he was with 3Com/NiceCom and Nortel/Telrad. Amir brings to NSN over 18 years of startup entrepreneurship, venture community network both in the silicon-valley Israel and Asia, and global communication corporations experience.

Amir holds 10 patents and another 4 pending approval patents in the areas of network & system architecture, applications, protocols, optical and data networking.

Amir owns MBA and engineering degrees from Tel-Aviv University, and continued studies from Stanford. Amir is based in the Silicon Valley, California.

Mr. Leinwand is a venture partner at Panorama Capital and focuses on technology investments. Prior to this role, he joined JPMorgan Partners as an operating partner 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. In 1997 Mr. Leinwand joined Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD) at inception and served as their Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer through the company's IPO and secondary offering. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Leinwand served as Manager of Consulting Engineering and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. helping to build and engineer service provider and enterprise networks worldwide. 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 Vyatta, Inc. He is also a board observer to Belair Networks, Cedar Point Communications and Sylantro Systems

Prior to co-founding Almaz Capital, Peter was a partner at Alloy Ventures from 2001-2008. Before his career in venture capital, Peter co-founded an enterprise software company and was an operating executive with two other successful Internet and mobility start-ups in Silicon Valley. From 1989 through 1994, he worked in Russia with prominent scientific institutions, including the Kurchatov Institute, Troitsk Triniti Research Center, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, to facilitate licensing arrangements with US companies, including Apple, Sun Microsystems, and General Atomics, among others. In 1991, Peter was the first to organize a Perestroika-era Russian-American symposium on technology transfer and commercialization. He is on the board of directors of Attune Systems, Apptera and Ravenflow, and is a co-inventor on five patent-pending voice advertising and mobile messaging technologies. Peter earned an MBA and BS Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Deborah Magid
Director, Software Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group

Deborah Magid represents IBM’s $22B software business in the company’s 9-year old Venture Capital Group.  Her expertise spans several industries.

Deborah is responsible for building ecosystems for IBM by sharing insights about emerging markets, technologies, and business models with venture firms and entrepreneurs around the world.   She also brings insight form the venture community to the development of IBM’s growth strategies.  She scouts for emerging business opportunities, and shares views on innovation and growth areas of the market.   Deborah’s relationships are global, and extend into emerging geographies.  Deborah is a frequent spokesperson on topics of relevance to entrepreneurs and investors, and is on the board of SDForum, the Silicon Valley emerging technology network.

Previously, Deborah held positions in product management, marketing, and user-centered design at Taligent, GE Information Services and AT&T.  Deborah holds degrees in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Connecticut.
 

Mark Mangiola
Venture Partner, Canaan Partners

Mark Mangiola joined Canaan in 2001 after over 20 years in operational leadership roles in the cable and broadband industry. Mark invests in communications companies that are transforming the delivery of digital media, as well as new consumer content companies that meld entertainment with interactivity. Mark has a visionary outlook about how consumers will watch and interact with content in the future, having participated first hand in the early emergence of both cable TV and the Internet. He also supports key clean tech opportunities. Mark actively participated in Canaan’s investment in Ellacoya, a rapidly-growing broadband service optimization company, and Zolo Technologies, a clean tech pioneer that is dramatically reducing emissions from power plants.

A super-connected industry veteran, Mark leverages his network to fill key executive positions at Canaan’s portfolio firms and helps them spearhead strategic relationships with industry-leading corporations. Prior to Canaan, Mark served as CEO of @Home Solutions, a division of Excite@Home. He was previously the President and CEO of Positive Communications and an Executive VP at KBLCOM/Time Warner. He sits on the board of Zolo Technologies.

When Mark is not thinking about how consumer-generated video will change the world, he is sprinting around a track. A passionate athlete, Mark coaches high-school and college track athletes and never misses a Meet of Champions track meet.

Tom Marchok
Director, Strategic Investments, Intel Capital

Tom Marchok is a Director of Strategic Investments in Intel Capital, which is Intel's corporate business development and venture capital arm. Tom is responsible for strategic investment and business development activity on behalf of Intel's Corporate Technology Group (i.e., central R&D labs). His activities focus on emerging technologies that will impact Intel's future microprocessor and communications platforms. His responsibilities include developing investment strategies, executing strategic investment and business/licensing deals, and company building. Tom has been with Intel for 14 years, and Intel Capital for eight years. He represents Intel as an observer to the Board of Directors for four companies. Tom is part of a team that recently received of an Intel Achievement Award – Intel’s highest honor - for developing ultra-wideband technology, the associated standards, favorable worldwide regulatory environment, and establishing an aligned external ecosystem of suppliers. Tom previously worked in microprocessor development teams, and holds 1 US patent. Tom holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering, all from Carnegie Mellon University, and has completed the Executive Program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Alexander Marquez
Director , Strategic Investments, Intel Capital

Alexander joined Intel Capital in 2000. Prior to 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 has managed successful investments around the globe including exits at Atom Entertainment (acquired by Viacom) and The Generations Network (acquired by Spectrum Equity). Alexander is a board observer for BlackArrow, Envivio, K2 Network, SixApart and Synacor. Alexander holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was also the past Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board and currently serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Board. He received his Masters in Business Administration from Purdue University.

Vivek Mehra
Partner August Capital

Vivek joined August Capital in 2003. He invests broadly in IT infrastructure and areas of interest include data center technologies, systems management, security, storage, and cloud computing systems and software.

Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek co-founded Cobalt Networks in 1996. As CTO & VP of Product Development, Vivek built the first successful server appliance and grew Cobalt into a worldwide leader in the category, culminating in a successful IPO and acquisition by Sun Microsystems for $2B. At Sun, Vivek served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Cobalt Business Unit and a member of Sun’s Technical Architecture Counsel.

Prior to founding Cobalt, Vivek held a number of technical and management positions at Apple, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corporation and successfully developed numerous products including Internet enabled set-top boxes, PDAs, RISC workstations, and high performance graphics subsystems.

Vivek received a BS in Electronics from Punjab University, India, and an MS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.

Current Investments and Board Affiliations: DotNetNuke, PacketTrap Networks, and Virsto Software.

Previous August Capital investments: Reconnex (acquired by McAfee), Encentuate (acquired by IBM), NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco), PulseCore Semiconductor (acquired by ON Semiconductor), and Iridigm (acquired by Qualcomm). Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek was an investor in NetFish (acquired by Iona) and Octane Software (acquired by Epiphany), was an advisor to Perfigo (acquired by Cisco) and served on the board of Net6 (acquired by Citrix). 

Tae Hea Nahm
Partner, Storm

SHORT BIO
Tae Hea Nahm is a founding general partner of Storm Ventures.  Previously, he was a founding partner of Venture Law Group and a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he advised and personally invested in numerous startups.  At Storm, he was the founding investor and CEO of AireSpace and hired the first 24 employees (the company was later acquired by Cisco for $450m).  He holds an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and a JD from University of Chicago Law School. Tae Hea was born in Seoul, Korea.

AREAS OF INTEREST
Tae Hea Nahm focuses on investments in wireless, SaaS/B2B software and Korea.  Having invested in the entire wireless stack from chips to games, he is interested primarily in enterprise mobility solutions and select consumer mobile services.  He is interested in SaaS solutions that are easy to use, easy to implement and easy to cost justify.  After living and working in Korea, he has invested in several startups with Korean founders. 

Gady Nemirovsky
General Partner , Inspiration Ventures

Gady Nemirovsky is Founder and General Partner at Inspiration Ventures, a seed stage venture fund. Prior to switching over to the “Dark Side” of venture capital, he founded and/or joined several early stage companies, including C*ATS Software, Sonnet Financial, AlterEgo Networks, and Adzaar.

Gady started his career in New York at JP Morgan Investment Management, and he holds a BS Economics degree from the Wharton School of Business and a BS Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as Director or Advisor to Feder8, Handipoints, Kinfo, TransAria Communications, and YouNoodle.

Oleg Nodelman
Portfolio Manager and Partner, Biotechnology Value Fund

Oleg Nodelman is a Portfolio Manager and Partner of the Biotechnology Value Fund, a biotech focused investment fund in San Francisco where he is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities, in-depth scientific due diligence and working with company management on formulating business and financial strategies. BVF was founded in 1993 and is focused on both public and private therapeutic discovery and development ventures. Mr. Nodelman has served on the Boards of several seed stage start-ups. Before joining BVF, Mr. Nodelman was a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting: a strategy firm. At Mercer, he worked with senior management from companies in a variety of industries to develop and implement long-term strategy and build shareholder value. Mr. Nodelman holds a Bachelor of Science with a focus on Science and Technology from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He was also the recipient of an honors certificate in International Business Diplomacy from the Landegger Program at Georgetown. Mr. Nodelman speaks fluent Russian, and conversational Spanish and French.

John Nogrady

John Nogrady is Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. His team is responsible for fostering global partnerships between Microsoft, the venture investing community and startup companies. They focus on identifying areas of synergy with startup companies and working with them to develop and market offerings that complement the Microsoft platform and ecosystem.

John has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector. John started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, as a software engineer working on VMS operating system.

Throughout his career, John has been involved in founding and building several startups. His positions have included Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at PrizePoint Entertainment, which was acquired by Uproar in 1999. John was Director of Engineering at PointCast, where he was responsible for building out the data center and distribution servers for the PointCast network including the management of the Development and Information System teams. Prior to that, he held the position of Senior Software Architect at BluePoint Technologies, which was acquired by Adobe Systems, where John held the position of Manager of Pacific Rim Display Products. Just before joining Microsoft in 2003, John was director of business technology at WebMethods, where his responsibilities included the technical relationship management of SAP AG.

John serves as an advisory to several early stage technology companies and is an active advisory board member for the University of California Davis Office of Research.

John is a graduate of Virginia Tech University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He currently lives in Granite Bay, California with his wife and two children. 

Inessa Obenhuber
Principal, Obenhuber Partner

Ms. Obenhuber has experience in international business and investing in emerging growth companies. A native of Russia, Ms. Obenhuber served as one of the founding members of the Russian language edition of PC Magazine.

While in Russia, Ms.Obenhuber held several other positions at companies focused on international business, including:

-  acting as a senior manager at multinational trade company LesInvest based in Moscow that specialized in transactions with Japan, Germany, and China;

- working as the senior sales manager for a German export company Murkury GmbH that specialized in selling heavy equipment to Russia; and

- Serving as an officer and member of the board of directors of Russian-German joint venture export and Import Company focused on trade between Russia and Germany and China.

In the United States, Ms.Obenhuber served as a manager for Nordstrom Inc., where she was responsible for supervising all aspects of the finances and operations of her department for the Northern California region and completing international transactions with major designer homes throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Obenhuber has served as an executive and board member of a privately held company in Silicon Valley. Ms. Obenhuber is an active board member for Droplet Technologies in Menlo Park, Ca.Ms. Inessa Obenhuber is the initial managing member of IVO Technology Partners, LLC, the General Partner.
The IVO Technology Fund is formed by IVO Technology Partners, LLC to invest in private technology-based companies with potential for high return on invested capital and select funds on a fund-to-fund basis.
Investments: Silicon Pipe, Tukaroo(acquired by Ask Jeeves), FrontBridge Technologies(acquired by Microsoft), IronKey, Droplet Technologies, Silver Tail Systems, PBWorks, Clean Filtration Technologies, Icon Aircraft, Adina World, HMicro, Garrison Enterprises, VitaminD, Charles Chocolate, iSpionage.

Industry Association: Inessa is a Member and Investor of Seraph Group, organization of angel investors whose primary aim is to establish early stage companies through capital investments.

Ms. Obenhuber is a listed inventor on four U.S. patent applications.
Ms.Obenhuber graduated with a B.A. degree from Moscow University of Printing Art. 

Didier Perez
Managing Partner , Innovation Ventures LLC

Didier Perez is the Managing Partner of Inovation Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm focusing on early stage investments in life science companies. During the last six years, Didier Perez has been the COO and CFO of Investigen Diagnostics. Other experience includes Managing Director of Plantagenet Capital Management, and financial consultant with Merrill Lynch International.

Sergey Petukhov
Chief analyst, Rusnano

Sergey joined RUSNANO Department of Expertise in 2008 as a chief biotech, pharma and medical devises expert. Subsequently, in 2009 he joined RUSNANO biomedical investment group as a Senior Analyst. Prior to RUSNANO, Dr. Petukhov was a scientific advisor at Kaye Shcoler LLP (New York, USA) litigation department, intellectual property group.
Dr. Petukhov's scientific background is in molecular biology, biochemistry and biotechnology; he worked and studied at The Rockefeller University, USA; The University of Edinburg (Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology) Scotland; The University of Cambridge (Department of Biochemistry), England and Moscow Medical Academy (Department of Biotechnology), Russia.  Sergei Petukhov has 9+ years of work experience and an extensive knowledge of biotech, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, consulting with US and Russian pharmaceutical and biotech companies. 

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.

Jason Pressman
Managing Director Shasta Ventures

Jason Pressman focuses on investment opportunities in the technology-enabled services and software sectors for Shasta Ventures. Prior to joining Shasta Ventures, he was the fourth employee at Walmart.com, a venture-backed start-up where he was vice president of strategy, business development and operations. In that role, Jason helped build the business into one of the leading commerce sites on the web.

Prior to Walmart.com, Jason served as an associate at Selby Venture Partners where he focused on services and software investments. Previously, he was an analyst and associate at Alex. Brown in investment banking where he advised venture-backed start-ups on financings and merger and acquisitions.

Education:
M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business
B.S., Finance, University of Maryland

Peter Redford
CEO, Chairman, TV Interactive Corp

Peter Redford, Managing Partner, Goddess Ventures LLC:  Mr. Redford has been a pioneer in the Silicon Valley technology industry for the last 30 years, starting as a researcher with the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Since 1981, he has served continuously as CEO of investor funded Silicon Valley technology companies.  He sold his first company to Yamaha in 1982.  

Redford is an expert company builder, negotiator, and marketing strategist and has broad experience in product development, OEM and mass-market consumer sales, international business development (Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand and Ireland), and intellectual property licensing and protection.
 
Redford was involved in the development and commercialization of the graphical user interface (GUI), the computer mouse, the computer sound card, the Macromedia Flash Player, the LeapPad (the best-selling electronic toy ever) and the AutoPlay feature of Microsoft Windows.  In 2005 Peter settled a major patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft for AutoPlay.  Redford holds over 40 video-on-demand related patents including one of the original software patents for the graphical user interface and a patent for including a “BuyNow” button on a TV remote.  

Redford is the founder and former Chairman of ZillionTV Corporation (funded by Visa, Sierra Ventures, Quest and all major TV and movie studios), Chairman and CEO of TVApps Corporation, Chairman and CEO of TV Interactive Corporation (TVI, funded by Intel Capital, NTT, Sega and Hasbro), former President of the Silicon Valley Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), member of the Band of Angels, Managing Partner of Goddess Ventures LLC, and member of the board of several Silicon Valley technology companies.

Redford holds an M.S. in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Harshul Sanghi,
Managing Director, Motorola Ventures

Harshul Sanghi manages the Silicon Valley office of Motorola Ventures, based in Sunnyvale, California.  Harshul’s role includes identifying, executing, and managing strategic investments in venture backed companies that will accelerate the realization of Motorola’s strategy. He is also responsible for managing the Venture group’s investment activities in India. Harshul has over 20 years of experience in digital media, wireless, consumer electronics, software, and semiconductor industries. Harshul, a serial intrapreneur and entrepreneur, enjoys working with entrepreneurs to drive the adoption of disruptive market technologies. Harshul serves on the boards of several portfolio companies.  Harshul is a Charter Member of the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Organization and a board member of the Strategic Venture Association in Silicon Valley.

Harshul holds an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Oregon. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Financial Management from the University of Mumbai, India.

Alex Scherbakovsky
VC/PE investor, SilverLake

Alex Scherbakovsky invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at Silver Lake. Alex has over a decade of experience working with SaaS, Internet, financial technology and technology-enabled services businesses.

Prior to Silver Lake, Alex was a Vice President at 3i and an Associate at FTVentures. Alex’s investments include Actimize (sold to NICE for $280 million), Coremetrics, Gain Capital and Trustwave. Alex was also a strategy consultant at Monitor Group, and held product management and business development positions at Microsoft and Trilogy.

Alex received his AB in Economics and MS in Engineering from Stanford University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and has an MBA with high distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School 

Maxim Shekhovtsov
Managing Partner, Allianz Rosno Asset Management

Maxim Shekhovtsov has a more than 10 years of professional experience of investments in high-tech companies. He is a co-founder of Venture Capital & Private Equity division at Allianz ROSNO Asset Management (part of Allianz SE) -  3 VC funds and 1 private equity fund with a focus on high-tech.  Mr. Shekhovtsov serves on the Board of Tvigle Media, Mobile Innovations, Delis Aliance, Softiform, Mediant, Biopipe, Mobile Doctor, Wilpul, Ankilon and others.

The field of professional  interests include TMT, including IT services, products & technologies, new media, “new telecom” (VoIP, Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX, 2.5G/3G etc), mobile tools & platforms, video & online games, e-commerce & e-services, new materials, pharma & biotech, oil production & exploration technologies and others

 Mr. Shekhovtsov started his career in investment banking in Centre Invest Securities, ING Barings and other investment firms. In a leading telecom and radio technology holding “Concern “RTI-Systems” (radars & aerospace) he was an advisor for innovation and venture projects. In Sistema-Venture (the captive VC fund of the largest high-tech holding in Russia – JSC “Sistema”) he was a senior vice-president responsible for VC funds and investments. Mr. Shekhovtsov was also a director of Centre for innovation development in JSC “Sistema”. Maxim Shekhovtsov was an initiator of establishing of Council of Innovation and Science at JSC “Sistema”.  He also established 2 corporate technoparks (in the cities of Sarov and Dubna) and Technology transfer center (Bauman Technical University) in the interests of JDC “Sistema” 

Bill Shetti
Senior Associate, Storm Ventures

Bill Shetti focuses on investments in the network and data center infrastructure, software, and Internet (media and content delivery technologies) sectors.

Prior to Storm, Bill worked in business development and product management at Cisco, where he was responsible for market insertion strategies into Asian service providers, and managing Cisco's high end routing platforms, including launching Cisco CRS-1, Cisco's flagship router.

Prior to Cisco, Bill worked as a product manager at N.E.T. Bill began his career at Telecordia, where he was responsible for leading the development of several telecommunication operation support systems, and advising service providers on networking operations.

Bill received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, and a M.S. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon.

Roman Simonov
Operating Partner, Exigen Capital

Roman Simonov, brings over 15 years of experience in information technology including investments in the USA and last 6 yrs in investments in Russia related IT companies.  He is currently an Operating Partner for Exigen Capital and is based in Moscow.

Prior to that Roman was Managing Director at Delta Private Equity Partners focusing on TMT sector. Prior to Delta Private Equity, Roman worked at Intel Capital, the world's largest corporate venture capital program, sponsored by Intel Corporation. During his ten-year career at Intel, Roman held several positions in finance/treasury and strategic business development. Roman joined the Operations and Finance department of Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA in 1996 as Senior Financial Analyst. Later, in 1999, he moved to Intel Capital, and in 2003 he brought Intel Capital to Russia and  helped it launch its office in Moscow.  Roman was involved in over 60 transactions, largest being $250M pre-IPO investment in Infineon (spin-out of Siemens), $80M in Nikon Corporation that received Intel Achievement Award - highest corporate Honor.  In Russia, Roman brought Intel into Engineering business in Moscow, St Petersburg and Novosibirsk by acquiring Elbrus/UniPro companies' 550+ engineers. Led Intel investment in 3 companies - Parallels, Akella and Infinet Wireless at which he represented Intel as Board Observer.

Recently, Roman served on the Board of Directors in Noviy Disc (leading game publisher in Russia) and Delta Leasing and is currently investor/advisor to Parallels and Acronis and several other prominent IT companies.

Roman graduated from the Moscow Civil Engineering University and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree cum laude in Finance from Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland, USA.

Marc Sokol
Partner JK&B Capital

Mr. Sokol has more than 30 years of experience in the information technology industry. He has been an active venture capital investor for 9 years with JK&B Capital. Prior to joining JK&B, Mr. Sokol held a number of senior management and technical positions at Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). These include Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Marketing, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology. Prior, Mr. Sokol was responsible for a number of engineering development projects at CA.

Prior to CA, Mr. Sokol was co-founder of Realia, Inc., where he co-authored the Realia COBOL compiler, runtime and various utilities. In 1991, he sold his company to Pansophic Systems, Inc., which in turn was acquired by CA. Early in his career, Mr. Sokol was a software developer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Mr. Sokol is widely recognized as an authority on Internet and infrastructure technologies, including enterprise management and information security as well as 3-D visualization. He testified before the U.S. Congress on the Year 2000 computer challenges, and addressed the United Nations on the challenges of managing global computing infrastructures. He also has spoken frequently at seminars for chief information officers on maximizing business value from information technology.

Mr. Sokol is on the Board of Directors of ClearPoint Metrics, Vormetric, Scalent Systems, Splunk and Chumby Industries. 

Patrick Suel
Venture Partner, Panasonic Venture Group

Patrick Suel joined the venture group in 2006. He brings 18 years of experience in software technologies, venture investment, international marketing and business development. He previously worked as a venture partner for SKG Ventures and was a software executive with various venture-backed Silicon Valley startups in artificial intelligence, financial services, enterprise software and software tools where his contributions resulted in two IPOs and two M&A exits. As an entrepreneur, he founded three startup companies in software and life sciences. Patrick holds a Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Marseilles III and a Masters of Science in Advanced Physics from the University of Marseilles II.

Oleg Svintsitski
Senior VP, Russia Partners Management, LLC

Oleg Svintsitski is a Senior Vice President at Russia Partners Management, LLC, a Russia-based growth capital fund of Siguler Guff & Company, and the first foreign investment fund formed in Russia in the early 1990s.

Oleg's investment expertise builds on more than 12 years of international entrepreneurial development and investment experience in Eastern Europe and the United States. Before joining Russia Partners, Oleg was part of the investment team at EDF Ventures, an early-stage technology and health care VC fund. Prior to that, he worked with Glencoe Capital, a middle-market buyout firm. Previously, Oleg was a co-founder and manager of several start-up companies in medical devices and biotechnology, internet services, and wholesale distribution in the United States and in Russia.

Oleg holds an M.S. degree with High Honors in Aerospace Engineering and Applied Math. from the Moscow Aviation Institute, an M.S. in Operations Research from the University of Michigan, and an M.B.A. from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Rob Theis
Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners

Rob Theis invests in technology infrastructure and applications companies at ScaleVP. Prior to joining ScaleVP in May 2008, Rob was with venture capital fund DCM - Doll Capital Management, where he was a General Partner for 8 years, and invested in leading companies, including JasperSoft, NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco), PGP Corporation, Roamware, VanceInfo (NYSE: VIT) and Wikinvest.

Rob's investing career builds on his global experience driving technology startups' sales, marketing and partnership success. As executive vice president for New Era of Networks (NEON), Rob grew the company to $200 million in revenues and was instrumental in leading NEON through a successful IPO. Prior to NEON, Rob spent 10 years in varied executive roles at Sun Microsystems, where he drove growth in a series of new strategic initiatives, including Sun's success in the Financial Services Industry sector. Rob's previous experience includes launching Silicon Graphics' initial workstations and selling timesharing services for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing).

Theis was awarded the Honors Scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a B.A. degree in economics.

Dmitry Vasyutinsky
Managing Director Private Equity&Venture Capital, Allianz ROSNO

Allianz ROSNO Asset Management is based in Moscow, Russia and is part of Allianz SE, one of the world's leading financial services groups.

Since joining Allianz ROSNO in 2004 Dmitry has played a key role in building the firm's venture capital business. He is the leader of the team that launched Russia's first public private venture capital funds in 2006, and since then has invested into 15 early stage technology companies. With over 150 million dollars of venture capital under management, Dmitry and his team are an active player in the Russian VC market.

Mr. Vasyutinsky has 17 years of investment management experience in private equity, venture capital and real estate.

Dmitry received a Master in Management degree and Sloan Fellowship from the London Business School. He serves on the boards of Razoom Inc., TViGle, Mobile Innovations, Legos. Dmitry is a frequent speaker at unternational conferences and is known as an active promoter of private equity/VC investments in Russia.

Tim Wilson
General Partner , Partech International

Tim joined Partech International in 2001 and focuses on communications and components investments.

Between 1997 and 2001, Tim was the Chief Marketing Officer for Digital Island, a Partech portfolio company. The company was acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001 for $350M. Prior to Digital Island, Tim was a General Manager at Lucent Technology where he led the international voice communications product management team (now Avaya) with P&L for product lines generating over $2B in annual sales and coauthored a VOIP related patent. Before Lucent, Tim held a variety of senior management positions within AT&T (North America and Australia) and AT&T Bell Labs from 1983-1995.

Tim's current portfolio companies include Acco, Discera, Five9, Invensense, LedEngin, Spudnik and Teknovus where he holds a board seat with each company.

He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College receiving his undergraduate degree in Physics. He received his MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business where he was named a Fuqua Scholar.

Don Wood
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Don Wood is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he leads the DFJ Global Network Funds and is an active member of DFJ's investment team, with a primary focus on Cleantech and IT investing.  The DFJ Global Network has grown to include 16 funds managing over $6B on four continents, with 140 professionals, and hundreds of active portfolio companies.  Don’s cleantech career began with his first post-college job at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. working in the policy planning department.  Later he was SVP of Sales and Marketing at International Power Technology which designed, financed, installed and operated gas-turbine co-generation power plants.  Don also assisted the founders of SunPower (SPWR) in writing their original business plans and raising capital.  Don served on the Board and was President of Metricom (MCOM), which provided wireless smart grid systems to utilities and pioneered the first wireless mesh-network Internet service known as Ricochet.  Don’s active cleantech investments include Oasys and Konarka.

Prior to joining, DFJ Don was a General Partner at Vanguard Ventures where he invested in IT, consumer internet, and cleantech.  Don’s past and present Boards include Vocera Communications, ZipRealty (ZIPR), Reflectivity (acq. by TI), Sylantro (acq. by BroadSoft), Cooking.com, Casabi, MySoftware (MYSW), and the Entrepreneurs Foundation, a non-profit community organization. Don was also with Octel Communications(OCTL), worldwide leader in voicemail systems. He co-founded Wood-Howard Products with his patent for a laminated publishing format which he later licensed to Simon and Schuster, FastMark, Rand McNally, and others; more than 100 million products have been sold under these licenses.  Don was also a consultant with McKinsey and Company in their SF and Sydney offices.

Don earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University, and a Master in Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Don recently won the "Nonprofit Board Leader Award" from The Volunteer Center of San Francisco.  Don is still trying to improve his sailboarding, golfing, and skiing; his basketball is now limited to watching Stanford play. 

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.

Leon Zilber
Associate, Valhalla Partners

Leon is an associate with Valhalla Partners, a Washington, DC-based venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology companies. Leon brings ten years of operational and technical experience to the firm. Prior to Valhalla Partners, Leon held senior operational roles at Alliance Bernstein Asset Management (NYC) and PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (NYC). Before joining PwC, Leon was a product manager with HP R&D Labs in Florham Park, NJ.

Leon has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University and resides in Washington, DC 

Evgeny Zaytsev
Founder and General Partner, Helix Ventures

Dr. Evgeny Zaytsev co-founded Helix Ventures, a Life Sciences venture capital firm in 2008, and brings nine years of venture capital and nine years of operations and research experience to the firm. Since 2001 Evgeny has managed the life sciences portfolio in two venture capital partnerships at Asset Management Company, one of the oldest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. 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 in Silicon Valley.

Evgeny is an active business community leader. He is a founder of the US-Russia Technology Symposium at Stanford University and the annual Silicon Valley Open Doors technology investment conference. Evgeny is a past president of the American Business Association of Russian Professionals (AmBAR).

He received his M.D. (cum laude) in 1991 and his Ph.D. in physiology in 1993, both from the Altai State Medical University. He earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2002.

Scott C. Johnston
Venture Partner, Alloy Ventures

Anna Dvornikova: Scott C. Johnston joined Alloy Ventures as an EIR in 2008. He brings with him 16 years of operating experience, during which his functional responsibilities have ranged from software engineering and IT operations to product management, business development, and sales. He spent his first 12 years in the enterprise infrastructure industry at Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Cisco, and Loudcloud. More recently, he's served in leadership roles in early stage consumer Internet advertising and marketing start-ups, including Connexus and Adchemy.

In a prior life he worked for Booz-Allen & Hamilton and as a researcher for MITI in Japan. He presently serves as a volunteer for the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), a non-profit organization which delivers entrepreneurship education programs to youth in low-income communities. Scott attended Stanford University and earned BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, and an MBA.

His areas of focus at Alloy include IT infrastructure and Internet applications and services for both consumers and enterprises.

Tim Connors
General Partner, US Venture Partners

Tim Connors joined USVP in June 2001. He focuses on business and consumer internet services companies. Prior to USVP, Tim was a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Tim's operating experience spans seven years in engineering, marketing, manufacturing and sales roles at successful high-growth start-ups like C-Cube Microsystems and large companies like Tandem Computers.

Tim is currently a Director of 4info.net, Blekko.com, Guidewire Software, Media6Degrees.com, M-Factor.com, and Right90.com. Tim conceived of and co-founded Spoke.com. Previously, Tim was a Director of Adify (acquired by Cox Enterprises), ClickShift.com (acquired by WebTrends), Redline Communications (LSE: REDL), StorePerform (acquired by Red Prairie), and SupplierMarket.com (acquired by Ariba). Tim serves on the Board of Advisors of the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at Notre Dame.

Tim received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

Stan Chudnovsky
Angel Investor, Co-Founder, Ooga Labs

Stan Chudnovsky is Co-Founder and CTO of Ooga Labs, a venture lab in San Francisco, developing multiple Internet businesses (WonderHill.com, MedPedia.com and others) simultaneously. Prior to Ooga, Stan spent 6-plus years building Tickle Inc., growing it to $40 million in revenues and selling to Monster for over $100 million. In charge of Engineering, Stan also gained responsibilities over Product and Operations and was named CEO after Tickle's founder and CEO, James Currier, departed in 2005. Prior to Tickle, Stan was VP of Engineering at SayIt Inc. Before that, he managed and developed a number of pioneering applications for Fortune 500 companies.

Jeffery D. Black Mr. Jeffery Black has over 29 years of experience spanning the High-Tech, Bio-Tech and Venture Capital worlds. During his career, he has been a well known pioneer in innovation  from speaking at industry conferences to testifying in front of Congress to launching entirely new industries. At present, Mr. Black is the President of EXT (symbol: EXTI) which is the holding company for companies like NewsWire, Cancer.IM, Overtize, and [N]ext (which takes companies from startup to a public entity in 18 months. In addition to EXT, Mr. Black is the Managing Partner at both PartnerVision Capital (.PV Capital.) and PartnerVision Ventures (.PV Ventures.). In these positions, he provides both leadership and vision to a talented group of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives that encompass the High-Tech, Bio-Tech and Financial Services worlds. In this role, Mr. Black’s vision of PartnerVision Capital is simple  to provide investors with short-term, high-return trading platforms that could potentially exceed the average return of the S&P 500.

Mr. Black is also a Founder and Managing Partner at PartnerVision Ventures  a technology incubator that is responsible for developing and funding innovative technologies from companies, including, Alter Energy (a green technology that increases fuel economy, while reducing gas emissions within diesel engines), TalkPlus (the first virtual SIM technology for mobile phones) and Biz Expense (the first 991626_1.DOC 2

Business Debit Card for expense management that allowed for balances to be loaded and unloaded within seconds). Prior to forming PV Ventures, Mr. Black was involved with another technology incubator called Internet Marketing Inc. (.IMI.) where he successfully launched (in 1994) iAtlas Corporation (the first internet-based Yellow Pages, Maps and Driving Directions company). In addition, Mr. Black pioneered and patented the world’s first .filtered. search engine that fundamentally changed the way search engines work today. Lastly, in 1995 Mr. Black founded and launched the world’s first internet-based ..hotel. reservation booking engine (Hotels.com) and the first geo-spatial search engine for marketing to the hospitality industry (Resorts.com). Eventually, iAtlas was purchased by AltaVista in 1999 (later purchased by Yahoo), Resorts.com was purchased by Sun International in 2000 and Hotels.com was purchased in 2001 by the Hotel Reservation Network (later renamed to Hotels.com). Prior to IMI’s, Mr. Black spent 14 years working for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) (1982-1996) where he was instrumental in launching many new technologies such as DEC’s MicroVax, RIP-less printers and firewall technologies. While at DEC, he was part of the AltaVista launch team (1995) that popularized the .enterprise search engine. which generated over $1 billion dollars in hardware, software and services revenues in less than 24 months. As a Vice President and General Manager at AltaVista, he grew his organization in 1999 from 5 people to over 160 people within the first year and attained profitability within his first two quarters of taking over. While working on classified project for various government agencies, Mr. Black held top-secret (TS/SCI) clearances. Mr. Black began his high-tech career in 1978 while working for Tandy Corporation where he was involved in launching the first retail computer store in the United States  the Radio Shack Computer Centers. Mr. Black holds numerous patents. He also serves on various company advisory boards. Mr. Black studied Computer Science and Business Management at Montgomery College. Mr. Black also has over 4,000 hours of specialty training at DEC’s Educational Services covering Management Consulting to Program Management to A.I. Programming.

Pavel Bogdanov
Ph.D., Partner, Almaz Capital Partners

Prior to joining Almaz Capital, Dr. Bogdanov was a partner at Russian Technologies (RT), an early-stage venture capital fund in Moscow. At RT, he managed ten of its portfolio companies and also led an investment into CIP, the leading Russian 3D cartography operator.

In 2005, he was recruited to Sistema Telecom. As Investment Director, Dr. Bogdanov arranged $2 billion of debt and equity financings for a number of Sistema's portfolio companies. He was a member of the IPO team for Comstar-UTS (LON: CMST) and participated in and led the acquisitions of several regional fixed-line operators. Dr. Bogdanov led Sistema's investment into Wavecrest, a wholesale telephony operator in the UK, and later negotiated the sale of Wavecrest to MTT. He participated in the investment committees of Comstar-UTS and MTS (NYSE: MBT), and also developed Sistema's WiMax strategy and its relationships with regulators outside of Russia, and participated in a telecommunications operator auction in Turkey.

In 2002, Dr. Bogdanov joined KLA-Tencor, the leading semiconductor yield management company, as a Systems Design Engineer in Silicon Valley. Prior to KLA, he worked as a graduate research associate and post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) at the University of California, Berkeley. His research was published in leading scientific journals, including Science, Nature, and Physical Review Letters. In 2003, he was part of the team that put together the first US-Russia Technology Symposium at Stanford, which brought together US and Russian venture capitalists and Russian technology companies.

Dr. Bogdanov earned a PhD from Stanford University, an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France; and a BS from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia.