Dr. Curtis Carlson
President & CEO - SRI International
After more than 20 years with Sarnoff Corporation, a wholly owned SRI subsidiary, Curtis R. Carlson was named president and chief executive officer of SRI International in December 1998. Carlson joined RCA Laboratories in 1973, which became part of SRI in 1987 as the Sarnoff Corporation. He started and helped lead the high-definition television (HDTV) program at Sarnoff that became the U.S. standard and in 1997, won an Emmy Award for outstanding technical achievement for Sarnoff. Carlson has served on many government task forces and on the Defense Science Board task force on bio-chemical defense. He is a member of the Highlands Group, which makes recommendations to senior government officials about technologies of importance to the U.S. government. Carlson has published or presented more than 50 technical publications and holds more than 12 U.S. patents in the fields of image quality, image coding and computer vision. Carlson is a Tau Beta Pi graduate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in physics, and his Ph.D. is from Rutgers University. He played the violin professionally at 15 and it remains Carlson's primary avocation.

Joseph Chamie
Director - United Nations Population Division
Joseph Chamie is Director of the Population Division, Department for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat in New York and was the Deputy Secretary-General for the 1994 International Conference for Population and Development. Mr. Chamie received his doctoral degree in population from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has worked in various regions of the world, specializing primarily in South Asia and Western Asia. He has worked in national programmes dealing with health and family planning issues. He has also conducted research and taught at universities in the United States and abroad. He has spent nearly 25 years with the United Nations, both overseas and at Headquarters in New York. In addition to completing many studies issued under the United Nations authorship, he has also published numerous studies in his own name in such areas as fertility, marriage, family planning, population estimates and projections, international migration and population policy.

Judy Estrin
Chairman - Packet Design
Judy Estrin previously co-founded three technology companies with her husband, Bill Carrico. Bridge Communications went public in 1985 and merged with 3Com Corp. in 1987; Estrin served as engineering vice president and executive vice president of Bridge, and later ran the Bridge Communications Division at 3Com. Network Computing Devices went public in 1992; Estrin started with NCD as executive vice president and became CEO in 1993. Estrin served as CEO of Precept Software from the company's 1995 founding. When Precept was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998, she became Cisco's chief technology officer until April 2000. Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 most powerful women in American business. In 2002, she was named to the WITI Hall of Fame which recognizes outstanding contribution of women to science and technology. She sits on the boards of directors of The Walt Disney Company, The Federal Express Corporation and Sun Microsystems. She holds a B.S. degree in math and computer science from UCLA, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Irwin Federman
General Partner - US Venture Partners
Irwin Federman who joined USVP as a General Partner in April 1990, was President and CEO of Monolithic Memories, Inc., from 1978-1987. Irwin was also two-term Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association, has served on the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association and served two terms on the Dean's Advisory Board of Santa Clara University. As CEO at Monolithic Memories, Irwin initiated MMI investments in such highly successful venture capital start-ups as Cypress Semiconductor, Xilinx and Altera. As a professional venture capitalist, Irwin was a founding lead investor in Crescendo Communications, Power Integrations, SanDisk, TelCom Semiconductor, Resumix, CheckPoint Software, MMC Networks, Centillium Communications, Netro, Nuance Communications and QuickLogic. He is presently Chairman of SanDisk and BeVocal, and serves on the Boards of Check Point, Centillium, Nuance Communications, Lightspeed Semiconductor, ON24, Astute Networks, and Mellanox. Irwin received a B.S. in Economics from Brooklyn College and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering Science from Santa Clara University.

John Freund
Managing Director - Skyline Ventures
First as an individual and then on behalf of Skyline, John has been a founder of a number of companies backed by venture capital firms including Zyomyx, Triad, and Intuitive Surgical. He was previously a senior executive of Acuson Corporation, which he had represented as an investment banker. He was also a General Partner in two different venture capital funds and the co-founder of the Healthcare Group in the Corporate Finance Department of Morgan Stanley in New York. He has considerable experience with most of the major sectors of the healthcare investment market including medical devices, information technology, small molecule chemistry and biochips, biotechnology, diagnostics and healthcare services. He received a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He also received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and won the Loeb Fellowship in Finance as well as the Entrepreneur of the Year Award for a business he founded while in business school. He serves on the board of a number of private companies.

Aaron Gershenberg
Managing Director - Silicon Valley Bank
Aaron Gershenberg is a Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank's Sand Hill Venture Capital Group. He is responsible for equity investments and venture fund management. Mr. Gershenberg joined Silicon Valley Bank in 1999, with more than 15 years experience in management, financial analysis, consulting, and sales. Prior to joining the bank, Mr. Gershenberg was the managing director of the Northern California region for FIRSTCORP, a venture leasing company. With FIRSTCORP, he successfully established the Northern California regional office and developed strong relationships with venture capital firms and service providers. He assembled a team of four professionals and financed more than 50 start-up technology companies during his tenure. Mr. Gershenberg has also served as a senior consultant for Deloitte & Touche and as vice president of investment banking for Union Bank of California. Mr. Gershenberg earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University, and a master's degree in public policy and finance from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Craig Johnson
Chairman and Co-Founder - Venture Law Group
Craig Johnson graduated from Yale in 1968, spent two years teaching in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, worked with Burroughs in Pasadena as a systems computer programmer and left to start law school at Stanford, from which he graduated in 1974. After law school he joined the Palo Alto law firm of Wilson, Mosher & Sonsini (now Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati) as its 14th attorney. In 1993 he left WSG&R with 13 other attorneys to start Venture Law Group, which today has approximately 70 attorneys with offices on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, at Carillon Point in Kirkland, Washington and in Reston, Virginia. In addition to co-founding VLG, Craig is the co-founder of several other companies, including Garage Technology Ventures, Financial Engines, Grassroots Enterprise and Concept2Company. These companies have raised more than $200 Million in venture capital. Craig was recognized in 1997 by Business Week as one of Silicon Valley's top 25 "movers and shakers," in 1999 by Red Herring Magazine as one of nine Silicon Valley "top power brokers", in 2000 by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America and in 2001 by Forbes as one of the country's top private company investors ("Midas List").

Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director - Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson was the founding VC investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana. He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Mr. Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research, and computer design at HP's PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software. As a Consultant with Bain & Company, Mr. Jurvetson developed executive marketing, sales, engineering and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the software, networking and semiconductor industries. At Stanford University, he finished his BSEE in 2.5 years and graduated #1 in his class, as the Henry Ford Scholar. Mr. Jurvetson also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He received his MBA from the Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Jurvetson also serves on the Merrill Lynch Technical Advisory Board and is Co-Chair of the NanoBusiness Alliance.

Rich Karlgaard
Publisher - Forbes Magazine
In every issue of Forbes, Rich writes a column called Digital Rules. It appears in the front pages of Forbes, directly after columns by Steve Forbes and Caspar Weinberger. Rich joined Forbes in 1992 to start Forbes ASAP, a technology magazine, along with Forbes CEO and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes, and the futurist and writer George Gilder. At Forbes ASAP Rich commissioned original works by Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, John Updike and other notable American writers. Rich is an accomplished entrepreneur. He has co-founded two companies (Garage Technology Ventures, in 1997; and Upside Magazine in 1988) and one civic organization (the 2500-member Churchill Club in 1985). For the latter Rich was a co-winner of an Ernst & Young Northern California "Entrepreneur of the Year" award. His current board-of-director affiliations include Forbes.com, Garage Technology Ventures, Extend America and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is a graduate of Stanford University and lives with his wife and two children in Northern California.

Guy Kawasaki
CEO - Garage Technology Ventures
Guy Kawasaki is the Chief Executive Officer of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capital investment bank that provides funding services for high tech startups. Prior to this position, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. A noted speaker and the founder of various personal computer companies, Mr. Kawasaki was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. He is also the author of seven books including Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Geoffrey Moore
Chairman, Founder & Managing Partner - TCG Advisors LLC
In addition to being a founder of TCG Advisors (TCG-A), Geoffrey Moore is also a Venture Partner with Mohr, Davidow Ventures. Mr. Moore's most recent book, Living on the Fault Line was published in a revised edition in the summer of 2002. Moore has written three other books. Perhaps most notably, he is the author of Crossing the Chasm, one of the most influential business books of the twentieth century. As a follow-up, Moore's second book, Inside the Tornado, provides readers with insight into how to capitalize on the potential for hypergrowth beyond the chasm. The Gorilla Game is Moore's third book, which he co-authored with The Chasm Group managing partner and high-tech marketing strategist Tom Kippola, and stock investment guru and BancAmerica Robertson Stephens analyst Paul Johnson. Prior to founding The Chasm Group in 1992 and TCG Advisors in 2003, Moore was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc. For the decade prior, he was a sales and marketing executive at three different software companies. Mr. Moore holds an undergraduate degree in literature from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

Michael Moritz
Partner - Sequoia Capital
Michael Moritz focuses on information technology investments. He is currently a Director of Flextronics , Google, Nightfire, RedEnvelope, Saba Software, AtomShockwave, Plaxo, Pure Digital Technologies, CenterRun, and Next Estate. He previously was a founding Director of Agile Software, Global Center, LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft), eGroups (acquired by Yahoo!), NeoMagic, Quote.Com (acquired by Lycos), Visigenic (acquired by Borland), and Yahoo!. Before joining Sequoia Capital in 1986, he worked in a variety of positions at Time Warner and was a founder of Technologic Partners.

Gerry Purdy, Ph.D.
Principal - MobileTrax
MobileTrax is a professional services firm in Cupertino that focuses on the mobile computing and wireless data market. Dr. Purdy has focused on mobile markets and products since 1986 and is recognized as an industry authority in the mobile computing industry. Prior to founding MobileTrax, Gerry was head of Mobile Insights, a conference and market research company. Gerry also joined Diamondhead Ventures in February 2001 as a partner, focusing on the wireless and mobile industries. Previously, Gerry was Vice President and Chief Analyst for Mobile Computing at Dataquest, and has held marketing positions with Connecting Point (now Intelligent Electronics), Compaq, Fujitsu (Poqet division), and Phoenix Technologies. Gerry is a founding member of the IBM Mobile Computing Industry Advisory Council. He is also co-author of the book ThinkPad: A Different Shade of Blue; Creation of a Successful IBM Brand. Gerry earned his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Tennessee (1965), an M.S. degree in Computer Science from UCLA (1968), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Exercise Physiology from Stanford University (1972). He is a member of The World Futurist Society.

Bill Reichert
President - Garage Technology Ventures
Prior to joining Garage Technology Ventures, Bill Reichert served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Academic Systems Corporation. He has also held positions at McKinsey & Company and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Bill Reichert has served as President and Director of Garage Technology Ventures since March 1998. Bill holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Janice Roberts
General Partner - Mayfield
Janice Roberts' unique blend of general management skills, marketing expertise, global perspective and people savvy renders her an entrepreneur's ideal partner. As a general partner at Mayfield, Janice brings her many talents to the firm's communications and networking companies, and currently serves on the boards of promising innovators including Aliph, Convedia, MobileWay, Peribit Networks and Ubicom. She also lends her expertise to the Enterpreneur's Foundation, a non-profit organization that encourages entrepreneurs to become more involved with their community. Prior to joining Mayfield in June 2000, Janice built a successful and synergistic early-stage investment portfolio for 3Com Corporation. She also led 3Com's Global Marketing Operations and a number of new business initiatives, including its highly successful Palm Computing subsidiary. An engaging speaker and acknowledged thought leader in the evolving mobile communications arena, Janice holds an honors degree in Commerce (Economics and Finance) from the University of Birmingham in the U.K. and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Sanford Robertson
Founding Partner - Francisco Partners
Prior to founding Francisco Partners, Mr. Robertson was the founder and Chairman of Robertson, Stephens & Company, a leading technology investment bank which was formed in 1978 and sold to BankAmerica in 1998. Since the sale, he has been an active technology investor and advisor to several technology companies. Mr. Robertson was also the founder of Robertson, Coleman, Siebel & Weisel, later renamed Montgomery Securities, another prominent technology investment bank. He received a B.A. and M.B.A. with Distinction from the University of Michigan.

Heidi Roizen
Managing Director - Mobius Venture Capital
Heidi Roizen joined Mobius in April 1999. Ms. Roizen serves as a director of AuctionDrop, Broad Daylight, MessageCast and Planitax. She is also a board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Her notable prior board service includes Great Plains Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2001. Prior to joining Mobius Venture Capital, Ms. Roizen was a consultant to numerous technology companies, including Microsoft, Intel and Compaq. From 1996 to 1997, she was vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations for Apple Computer. Before joining Apple Computer, Ms. Roizen served for 13 years as CEO of T/Maker Company, a successful software developer and publisher. She is a past president of the Software Publisher's Association and has served as a public governor of the Pacific Exchange. Ms. Roizen has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the microcomputer industry by MicroTimes, Personal Computing Magazine and Upside Magazine. Ms. Roizen has a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Ted Schlein
Partner - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Ted Schlein joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in November 1996. His focus has been in the area of enterprise security and applications, infrastructure and services. Ted also managed the KPCB Java Fund, formed to invest in Java technology-based companies and related Internet, Intranet, networking and communications companies. He serves on the board of ArcSight, Corio, eVolution, Evant, Fortify, IronPlanet, Ketera Technologies, Linuxcare. Ted came to KPCB with significant experience in enterprise software business management at Symantec Corporation. As Vice President of Networking and Client Server Technology, he was responsible for overseeing the marketing and development of enterprise products. Prior to that he served as VP of Symantec's European business development and as Vice President of the Data Management Group. Ted is credited with establishing Symantec in both the utilities and antivirus markets by starting and building these business units. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Eric Schmidt
Chairman & CEO - Google
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company's strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google, Schmidt has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Page and Brin, Schmidt shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations. Prior to his appointment at Novell, Schmidt was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy. Before joining Sun in 1983, Schmidt was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. Schmidt has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California-Berkeley.

John Sculley
Partner - Sculley Brothers, LLC
Sculley Brothers LLC, is a private investment firm founded by brothers Arthur, David and John Sculley in 1995. Sculley Brothers mission is to help build new companies for the new economy. Their primary focus is early stage ecommerce companies with exciting growth opportunities. Prior to forming Sculley Brothers, John Sculley was CEO of Apple Computer. Mr. Sculley joined Apple in 1983 when the Company was under $600 million in revenue, and by the time he left, Apple's revenue exceeded $8 billion. Sculley built his reputation in marketing while he was President and CEO of Pepsi for five years prior to joining Apple and held marketing and management positions in the soft drink giant for 16 years. In Silicon Valley, Sculley is best known for bringing big brand marketing to the personal computer industry in the early 1980's. During Sculley's tenure at Apple, several major marketing brands were created including Macintosh, Apple Desktop Publishing and the Apple Powerbook. Mr. Sculley resides in New York City.

John Toole
Executive Director & CEO - Computer History Museum
As the executive director and CEO of the Computer History Museum, John C. Toole oversees and drives the overall strategic vision of the Museum, and reports directly to the board of trustees. In this position, Toole leverages more than 28 years of research and development experience in advanced computing, networking, information technology and microelectronics. Formerly one of two deputy directors at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Toole oversaw the technical operation and coordination of the National Computational Science Alliance throughout the United States. Prior to the NCSA, Toole was the first fulltime director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for Computing, Information, and Communications. He also served as executive director for High Performance Computing and Communications for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and as acting director of DARPA's Computing Systems Technology Office (CSTO). Toole retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1994 after more than 22 years of service. Toole holds BS and MSEE degrees from Cornell University.

Leslie Vadasz
Director Emeritus - Intel
Leslie L. Vadasz was Executive Vice President of Intel Corporation and President, Intel Capital in addition to being a member Intel's board of directors. Vadasz joined Intel in 1968 as part of the founding team. His first responsibilities included the development of semiconductor memory and microprocessor products. He became Director of Engineering in 1972, responsible for all technology and component development, and was elected as a vice president of the company in 1975. In 1976, he became Assistant General Manager of the Microcomputer Division and a year later was named General Manager of the Microcomputer Component Division. He was elected Senior Vice President in 1979 and became Director of Corporate Strategic Staff. He was General Manager of the Systems Group from 1986 until 1990. From 1991 until his retirement in 2003, he was Executive Vice President responsible for Intel Capital and its predecessor programs, which focuses on making equity investments to grow the Internet economy worldwide, including Internet infrastructure, content and services. Intel Capital also oversees Intel's acquisition programs.

Ann Winblad
Co-Founding Partner - Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Ann Winblad is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications. Ann has over 25 years of experience in the software industry. She began her career as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank. In 1976 Ann co-founded Open Systems, Inc., a top selling accounting software company, with a $500 investment. She operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it for over $15 million. Prior to co-founding Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Ann served as a strategy consultant for prestigious clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Price Waterhouse, and numerous start-ups. In addition, Ann has co-authored the book Object-Oriented Software and has written articles for numerous publications. Ann received a BA in mathematics and in business administration, as well as an MA in education and international economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Magdalena Yesil
General Partner - US Venture Partners
Magdalena Yesil joined U.S. Venture Partners after a highly successful eighteen year career in the computer and information technology industries. Yesil started her career as a semiconductor design engineer at Advanced Micro Devices, and more recently founded two successful electronic commerce companies, CyberCash, a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems area, and now public, and MarketPay, a software company recently acquired by an international manufacturer of point of sale devices. She holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, both from Stanford University, and is the author of Creating the Virtual Store, published by John Wiley & Sons.