Ann Carney Nelsonassociate, Menlo Ventures

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Ann Carney NelsonAssociate, Menlo Ventures

Ann joined Menlo Ventures in 1999 and has been active in a wide range of investments in early stage infrastructure, software and Internet companies. This includes companies such as Bluesocket, DriveCam, Emptoris, Encirq, Evergrid, Intransa, Neterion, PowerReviews, Project Green Note, and Rivulet. In addition to her investment activities, Ann develops business development programs for the portfolio. These programs include, among others, a periodic seminar series as well as opportunities for portfolio companies to interact with key decision-makers at large public companies. Ann is married to Andrew Nelson, a faculty member in the Management Science and Engineering Department. Both are avid fans of the EngineeringSchool’s entrepreneurship programs. Ann is a graduate of StanfordUniversity (B.S. in Biological Sciences).

Armen BerjiklyFounder & CEO, Experience Project

Armen Berjikly graduated from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science, and a MS in Management Science, with a focus on Entrepreneurship. Armen was also a Mayfield fellow, and worked at his Mayfield company, Echelon Corporation, after graduation as a product manager responsible for launching an enterprise hardware and software product line in the green energy space from paper requirements to final delivery. After a close friend's diagnosis with a serious illness, Armen started work on Experience Project, Inc, an online venue for people to connect with others who share their life experiences and can provide each other with personalized support and information.

Aydin SenkutFounder and President, Felicis Ventures

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. He's been an angel investor in promising start-ups since the end of 2005.is current portfolio emcompasses over 30 companies including Buzzlogic, Cake Financial, Dogster, Meraki Networks, Mint, Saynow, Shopittome, Yapta, Yume Networks, Webs.com, Weebly and others.

Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, he was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Japan and Asia Pacific. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as a Product Manager to launch Google's first 10 international sites and then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, closing numerous strategic syndication partners on 4 continents. Before joining Google, Aydin was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet, and led the business development efforts for the financial services industry at SGI.

Aydin received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from BostonUniversity. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the WhartonSchool and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He speaks five languages: English, German, French, Portuguese and Turkish. He is a benefactor to the University of Pennsylvania and UCSF as well as a member of The Director's Circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Charles HudsonDirector of Business Development, Gaia Online

Charles is the Director for Business Development at Gaia Online, the fastest growing online hangout for teens. In his role, Charles focuses on distribution and content licensing opportunities for Gaia.

Prior to Gaia, Charles was a Manager for New Business Development at Google, focused on developing new partnership opportunities for the company's early-stage products in the advertising, mobile, and e-commerce markets. Prior to joining Google, Charles was a Product Manager for IronPort Systems, a leading provider of anti-spam hardware appliances. Earlier in his career, Charles was a Sr. Associate with In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital group for the Central Intelligence Agency. In his role as a Senior Associate, Charles covered the information security sector, with a focus on identifying investment opportunities with the potential to deliver significant value to the CIA and the commercial market in the short and long term.

Charles holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from StanfordUniversity. In addition to his work at Google, Charles is on the Advisory Board for BizWorld, a non-profit focused on educating students about business, and the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, a non-profit focused on connecting entrepreneurs, ideas, and capital.

Daniel DorosinPartner, Fenwick & West LLP

Mr. Dorosin has over 15 years of experience in counseling emerging growth companies in all aspects of their business, both as outside counsel and as a corporate executive. At Fenwick & West, he focuses on the representation of start-up companies and venture capital firms in their investments in portfolio companies. He has a particular expertise in guiding start-ups and investors through complex commercial negotiations and financing transactions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions.

Previously, Mr. Dorosin was Vice President, Corporate Development and General Counsel at Instill Corporation. Prior to Instill, Mr. Dorosin was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Cidco Incorporated (NASDAQ: CDCO) and was Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary of Crystal Dynamics. Mr. Dorosin began his career at the Palo Alto law firm of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, where he was elected partner in the corporate group in 1993.
Mr. Dorosin, who is a frequent lecturer at continuing education courses, graduated from StanfordUniversity in 1982 with a BA in Economics with Distinction and received his JD from UCLA in 1986. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife Fern and their son and daughter.

Education: University of California, Los Angeles, J.D., 1986

StanfordUniversity, B.A. with distinction in economics, 1982

Dave WhortonPartner, Tugboat Ventures

After earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford´s Graduate School of Business, Dave found his way to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Texas Pacific Group Ventures, where he developed and incubated numerous investments. Throughout, Dave was mentored by some of the best in the business, including Brook Byers, John Doerr, Bruce Dunlevie, Wally Hawley, Vinod Khosla and Dave Strohm.

Dave has been called a "serial entrepreneur." He has served as founding CEO of Good Technology (acquired by Motorola); co-founder of Drugstore.com (DSCM); co-founding board member of Newschools Venture Fund, and general manager and president of Optical Engineering, Inc. Dave also worked at Netscape, Hewlett Packard and Bain.

Dave currently serves on the board of directors of SuccessFactors and two stealth internet companies. Tugboat is also an investor in SayNow and UltraRPM.

Prior investments that Dave led include Blue Nile (NILE), Business Signatures (acquired by Entrust), Rojo Networks (acquired by SixApart) and Cranium. Prior to Tugboat, Dave was an angel investor in Bella Pictures, LimeLife and Wikia.

Erik StraserPartner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

With a decade of experience in venture capital, Erik has been a catalyst for Cleantech in Silicon Valley and abroad. He leads MDV's Cleantech investment team and applies his expertise in areas of solar, biofuels, energy storage, industrial biotech and clean coal.
Prior to MDV Erik worked at Interval Research Corp., a technology incubator funded by Paul Allen, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical staff member. He also consulted to several seed and early stage venture capital firms.
While pursuing a PhD in engineering at Stanford, Erik led an interdisciplinary project between the electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering departments to develop a next-generation monitoring system for critical facilities. He holds a U.S. patent from his research work.
Erik serves on the advisory council of the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, as well as on the advisory boards of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), Stanford's BASES, NVCA Cleantech Council, and Cleantech Venture Network. He is a winner of the 2006 World Technology Award for Finance, presented by the World Technology Network, in association with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Dow Chemical, Cisco, TIME magazine, Fortune magazine, Science magazine/AAAS, Red Herring, and CNN.
Erik earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from HarveyMuddCollege and both doctoral and master's degrees from the Stanford University School of Engineering.

Erin TurnerSr. Director Web Svcs & Publishing, Trion Games

Erin Turner is Senior Director of Publishing & Web Services for Trion World Network, the publisher and developer of games and original entertainment for a connected world. At Trion, Turner leads the online publishing division to deliver connected-client applications & services for the global market. This includes product strategy and development for web, mobile, e-commerce, and syndication.

Turner brings to Trion 10 years of product development and product marketing experience in consumer web applications & client software. Most recently, she was Director of Global E-Commerce for Electronic Arts (EA), where she launched the digital distribution of games and in-game content for the PC games market in North America, Europe, and Asia. Prior to her position as E-Commerce Director, Turner directed product development for EA's online SDK which included online game capabilities and community applications. Her game credits include Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, The Sims 2 University, James Bond 007: Everything of Nothing, and James Bond 007: Nightfire.

Turner launched her career in the web arena as founding CEO of Gigabeat, a music search & recommendation engine acquired by Napster in 2001. She holds a M.S. from Stanford's School of Engineering and a B.A. in Economics, also from Stanford.

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 Areae, Geni.com, GoTV, Millennial Media, Skyrider, SocialMedia Networks and Twitter and is a board member at all but Twitter.

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. Visit George's Blog.

Greg BadrosSr. Director of Engineering, Google

Greg Badros earned bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from DukeUniversity. After co-founding a successful startup, he continued to graduate school and earned his masters and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University ofWashington in Seattle. Starting at age 14, Greg has accumulated over a dozen research and trade publications and has spoken at numerous conferences internationally. His research interests include software
engineering, declarative representations and constraint satisfaction, distributed systems, and programming language design and implementation. Greg joined Google in early 2003 as a member of the systems lab, and is now Sr. Director of Engineering. He led the AdSense team to be a multi-billion-dollar product, and currently leads the Gmail, Calendar, Orkut, and Reader teams. In his free time,
he enjoys tennis, skiing, and rollerblading.

Jessica OwensPartner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers

Jessica Owens joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2006 to work on investments in pandemic preparedness and bio-defense. Jessica brings experience in global public health and infectious disease research from four years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she was a scientist in the Special Pathogens Branch. Her work resulted in the discovery and demonstration of genetic shift among Hantavirus strains. She also worked on the development of PCR-based diagnostic assays and conducted Hantavirus field surveillance.

Prior to KPCB, Jessica worked in equity research covering the diagnostics industry at Thomas Weisel Partners. She also worked in corporate finance as part of the life sciences investment banking team at Robertson Stephens. In addition, Jessica worked in Oncology R&D Project Finance at Genentech.

Jessica received an MBA from HarvardBusinessSchool, an MS from the Department of Cancer Biology at StanfordUniversity, and a BA in Biology from AgnesScottCollege.

Jim TyburPrincipal, Trinity Ventures

Jim joined Trinity in 2004 with seven years of operating experience in internet services and software. Prior to Trinity, Jim worked in the corporate strategy and business development group at VERITAS Software (acquired by Symantec, SYMC), the world leader in security and data protection solutions, and at PolyServe (acquired by HP, HPQ), a venture backed virtualization software company. Jim has also managed new products for About.com (acquired by The New York Times Company, NYT) and helped launch several early internet companies while working for the Boston Consulting Group in Atlanta and Singapore.
Focus: Jim focuses on internet services and software. Jim led Trinity’s investment in Bix.com in 2006 which resulted in a successful sale to Yahoo! in 2007. Jim is a board observer at Tippit and ScanR and plays an active role in the following Trinity portfolio companies: PhotoBucket (acquired by News Corp, NWS), mSpot, Hidden City Games, PlayFirst, Trion World Network, WetPaint.com, Exalt Communications, Vimo and Perfect Market

Katherine BarrPartner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Katherine Barr is a member of the investment team at MDV focused on Internet-enabled companies. Prior to joining MDV, she was a Senior Consultant at Vantage Partners (spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project) helping high tech clients such as IBM, Cisco and HP to better negotiate and manage their critical business relationships (including customer, supplier, outsourcing service provider or buyer, and alliance partners).
Before Vantage, she worked as a Product Development Manager at HSA, an education technology startup in Boston, leading a team that developed multi-media products and online learning systems.
Katherine teaches a yearly Professional Education Negotiation program for the School of Engineering at Stanford. During her graduate studies at Stanford, she was a research and teaching assistant for the US-AsiaTechnologyManagementCenter in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering. She was also involved in running the E-Challenge business plan competition for BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students).
Katherine received her B.A. from McGillUniversity, and completed an M.A. and the M.S. core curriculum in Management Science and Engineering at StanfordUniversity.

Laina Raveendran GreeneFounder, GetIT Multimedia

I have been very fortunate to have had a truly global experience. I started my career in 1986 when I joined the International Telecommunications Union in GenevaSwitzerland. Since then I have worked with INTELSAT in WashingtonDC, with Singapore Telecom in Singapore, and through my consulting practice in many countries in Asia working with governments, private sector and civil society groups. I have also served for a year as Director and member of the audit committee for Globetel Communications Corporation in the USA.

I launched a new trade organization (Asia Pacific Internet Association) in 1997, which continues to be a key player in Asia Pacific and founded two companies (GetIT Multimedia and GetIT, Inc). As a visionary entrepreneur, GetIT Multimedia was started as an eLearning company in 1997 in Singapore before eLearning was ever identified as a growth market. The company was also an early adopter and provider of streaming media services in Asia. The company has survived 2 major economic recessions, has 90% recurrent customers (including being an established vendor to Cisco Systems since 1997) and was recently sold to private investors.

Lilia ShirmanManaging Director, The Shirman Group

Lilia Shirman is the Managing Director of The Shirman Group, a consulting firm that helps technology innovators identify and pursue new revenue streams and growth opportunities. Shirman Group clients include BEA Systems, CA Wily, Intervoice, and Symantec. Previously, Ms. Shirman held leadership roles in marketing, alliances, and business development at BEA Systems. She also helped firms including HP, Cisco, and Compaq with corporate operations and planning as part of Accenture's strategy practice. Lilia is on the advisory boards of EyeStride and 2InSynch, and is currently the acting head of sales and marketing at WiMoto, a revolutionary in mobile advertising and social networking. She holds a B.S. in Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and an M.S. in Technology Management from StanfordUniversity.

Mark MooreCEO & Co-Founder, OneTrueMedia

Mark Moore is CEO and co-founder of One True Media, where he is responsible for the vision, business and product strategy as well as the teams and systems needed to execute on them. Throughout his career, Mark has worked as an innovator on the development of products that can be applied to One True Media's mission; scalable systems, media servers, online music, and information appliances.
Mark was a founding member of three start-ups, Listen.com, MilleCom, and Diba, Inc., where he built successful development and web operations teams. At Oracle Corporation, Mark began his career developing that company's Media Server and database kernel.
Before One True Media, Mark was EVP of products and services at Niku Corporation (acquired by Computer Associates in 2005), a producer of IT Management and Governance solutions.
Mark has a BS in computer science from NorthwesternUniversity. He holds a patent for a Media Server and has a patent pending for Information Appliance Architecture.

Mike MaplesManaging Partner, Maples Investments