FALL QUARTER E145 - Stanford University



Fall Quarter E145

Opportunity Analysis Project

Team Mentors

Ann Carney Nelson Associate, 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 Engineering School’s entrepreneurship programs. Ann is a graduate of Stanford University (B.S. in Biological Sciences).

Armen Berjikly Founder & 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 Senkut Founder 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, , 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 Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School 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 Hudson Director 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 Stanford University. 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 Dorosin Partner, 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.

[pic]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 Stanford University 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. [pic]

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

Stanford University, B.A. with distinction in economics, 1982

Dave Whorton Partner, 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 (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 Straser Partner, 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 Harvey Mudd College and both doctoral and master's degrees from the Stanford University School of Engineering.

Erin Turner Sr. 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, , 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 Badros Sr. Director of Engineering, Google

Greg Badros earned bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Duke University.  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 of Washington 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 Owens Partner, 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 Harvard Business School, an MS from the Department of Cancer Biology at Stanford University, and a BA in Biology from Agnes Scott College.

Jim Tybur Principal, 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 (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 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, , Exalt Communications, Vimo and Perfect Market

Katherine Barr Partner, 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-Asia Technology Management Center 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 McGill University, and completed an M.A. and the M.S. core curriculum in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.

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.

Laina Raveendran Greene Founder, 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 Geneva Switzerland. Since then I have worked with INTELSAT in Washington DC, 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 Shirman Managing 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 Stanford University.

Mark Moore CEO & 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, , 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 Northwestern University. He holds a patent for a Media Server and has a patent pending for Information Appliance Architecture.

Mike Maples Managing Partner, Maples Investments

Mike Maples, Jr. is the managing partner of Maples Investments, a micro-cap venture firm based in Silicon Valley. Before becoming a full-time investor, he worked in a variety of executive and management roles in high-growth companies. His background spans a variety of markets including consumer technology, small business, and the enterprise, and he has served in various executive roles in product development, marketing, and corporate strategy.

Most recently, Mike co-founded Motive, Inc., the world's leading broadband software company in 1997 and played key roles in its growth from raw start-up through sales of $100 million. Motive was one of the only successful technology IPOs in 2004, and the most successful infrastructure software IPO for the prior three years. At Motive, Mike was General Manager of Motive's Corporate Business Unit, as well as Chief Marketing and Strategy officer.

Prior to Motive, Mike was responsible for worldwide product marketing at Tivoli Systems, where he managed the company's product portfolio from its early-stage development through its 1995 IPO and growth to a $750M line of business within the IBM Software Group. Mike began his professional career at Silicon Graphics, where he served in business development and product marketing roles.

In his spare time Mike is an amateur artist, movie-maker, and calligrapher. He holds an Engineering degree from Stanford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a guest-lecturer on entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, Princeton University, and the University of Texas.

Othman Laraki Product Manager, Google

Othman has been a Product Manager at Google since 2004. While at Google, Othman managed the Google Toobar, various infrastructure efforts, and most recently Google Gears. Othman is also on the Board of Directors of ESI, a publicly-traded French software company that is a leader in high-end physics modeling and simulation software.

Professional

- Engineering Intern at Microsoft, and part of the team that launched Internet Explorer 5 (1998)

- Co-Founded Epitrope Corporation, a data mining software copany for the mobile space (1999)

- Engineering Lead at ACCESS System, a leading mobile browser manufacturer (2001)

- Intern at Motorola New Technologies Group to help transfer MIT research to industry (2003)

- Product Manager at Google (present)

- Board Member at ESI (present)

Entrepreneurial

- President of Stanford BASES (1998) and board member since 2000

- Co-founded a datamining software company (CTO)

- Finalist at the MIT 50K Entrepreneurship Competition

- Recipient of the MIT Patrick McGovern Entrepreneurship Award

Academic

- B.S. Computer Science, Stanford University in 1999

- M.S. Management Science (Operations Research), Stanford University in 2000

- M.S. Computer Science, Stanford University (on leave)

- M.B.A. MIT with focus on Financial Engineering in 2004

Raj Atluru Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Raj Atluru is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson where he serves on the boards of Great Point Energy, Konarka Technologies, mChek, Skoop, SeventyMM, Varolii, Ping Identity, and Solicore. In addition, he led the firm's investments in EnerNOC (ENOC), Bright Source Energy, CoalTek, Deeya Energy, Live Media, Miartech, Reva Electric Vehicle, SOA Software, and Tioga Energy. Mr. Atluru currently focuses on emerging clean technologies, business and consumer services, and wireless technologies. He has over 14 years of venture capital, private equity, and leveraged finance experience both domestically and in emerging markets with a specific focus on India.

As one of the leading venture capitalists focused on the CleanTech sector, Mr. Atluru is frequently cited in leading industry and national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sierra Club Monthly, SiliconIndia, Nanoinvestor News and the Venture Capital Journal. Mr. Atluru also spent three years with TL Ventures where he focused on early stage software, wireless communications and energy technologies. In addition, Mr. Atluru worked in the Leveraged Finance and Asian Corporate Finance groups at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Mr. Atluru received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Stanford University where he taught the solar and wind energy lab and was a full time research assistant on the Waste Isolation Pilot Project for Sandia National Labs (Department of Defense Nuclear Repository Study). In addition, he received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. E-mail: raj@.

Ravi Belani Associate, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Ravi Belani is an Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he focuses on technology-enabled services and personalized medicine investments. Ravi brings experiences with new ventures and established firms to his role. Prior to Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ravi worked in product management at software startup Zaplet (acquired by MetricStream). Ravi has also worked in product management at enterprise software company Extensity (IPO’d then acquired by GEAC) as a Mayfield Fellow. As a management consultant at McKinsey and Company’s San Francisco office, Ravi worked with Fortune 500 hi tech and biotech companies on a range of strategic issues, including market attractiveness assessments, pricing, channel strategy, and new product development processes. He has also worked at Medtronic on wireless communication technologies for remote patient monitoring and in equity research at Bridgewater Associates.

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

Sam Gabbita Principal, Element Partners

Sam Gabbita is a Principal of Element Partners. He joined as a Senior Associate in 2006. Sam has experience in private equity and investment banking, with a focus on industrial, energy, and telecommunications companies.

Prior to joining Element, Sam worked as an Associate at Lazard Freres focused on financial restructuring of companies in the energy, transportation, cable and automotive industries. He also spent three years as an Associate with Nautic Partners, a private equity firm, where he focused on growth, buyout and venture investments in the telecommunications and information technology sectors. Sam also worked as a Financial Analyst in Investment Banking for Salomon Brothers. Sam earned his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles, and an MBA, with a major in finance, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Samuel B. Angus Partner, Fenwick & West LLP

Samuel B. Angus is a partner in the Corporate Group of Fenwick &

West LLP, a law firm specializing in high technology matters. Mr. Angus is resident in the San Francisco office and his practice concentrates on the formation of start-up companies, venture capital and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property licensing, joint ventures and general corporate matters.

Mr. Angus represents a broad range of companies from privately held start-up companies to publicly traded corporations. His practice also includes advising entrepreneurs and investors.

Mr. Angus served as counsel for In-System Design, Inc. in connection ith its acquisition by Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. He also ounseled Naxon Corporation () on its acquisition of , Inc., Micro Focus Group on its $500 million merger with ntersolv, Inc., Junglee Corp. on its $300 million acquisition by , Inc., and Blue Lava Wireless on its $140 million acquisition by JAMDAT Mobile.

Mr. Angus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in law and society from he University of California at Santa Barbara. He received a J. D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1993. At astings, he was the Executive Articles Editor for the Hastings nternational and Comparative Law Review. Mr. Angus is a member of The Bar Association of San Francisco, the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association. Prior to joining Fenwick & West, Mr. Angus practiced commercial lending law at the law firm of Lillick & Charles. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Angus was a founder and the chief executive officer of Design Look Publications, Inc., an international publisher of fine art calendars and other published gift products. Mr. Angus sits on the advisory board of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a frequently lecturer at the Haas School of Business and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

Sergio Monsalve Principal, Norwest Ventures

Sergio is a venture capital investor at Norwest Venture Capital

() where he is focused on investments in the consumer internet and software sectors. Prior to NVP, Sergio was the first business executive and Vice President of Marketing at Photobucket, Inc., which was sold to News Corp for $300 Million. At Photobucket, Sergio drove viral marketing, public awareness, and user experience, which helped accelerate Photobucket's growth to more than 25 million unique visitors per month in just a few years from inception. Photobucket is now one of the top 50 most visited sites on the internet and the leading photo & video hosting and sharing service on the internet. Prior to Photobucket, Sergio was Director of New Ventures at eBay, Inc. where he developed and led eBay's digital goods marketplace and its consumer created content efforts. Sergio was responsible for launching several successful products and services including catalogs via a partnership with CNet. Prior to that, Sergio was General Manager of the consumer electronics marketplace at eBay, which he grew from $150 million to over $500 million in gross merchandise sales in 3 years. Prior to eBay, Sergio was the co-founder and led sales and marketing at Cymerc from inception to more than $15 million in sales. Sergio has also worked in a variety of roles at various business software and services companies such as Siebel Systems, Portal Software, and Morgan Stanley. Sergio serves on the board director of Adzilla and Fatdoor; he is also an advisor to several startups. Sergio is an officer of the Harvard Business School Tech Club, which he helped start and grow to one of the largest alumni networking organizations in the country.

Sergio holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Seth Sternberg Founder & CEO, meebo

After graduating from Yale in 2001 in Political Science, Seth looked to understand the black box of big-business decision making and spent three years in Corporate Development at IBM leading various M&A transactions. Seth then left for Stanford Business School. After a summer internship at Private Equity group Warburg Pincus, he co-founded a startup with two friends. meebo, a web site for instant messaging, grew rapidly and Seth chose to put Stanford on hold to pursue the venture. Seth, meebo’s CEO, led the initial capital raise of $3.5 million from Sequoia Capital. meebo continues to grow and serves 6 million people monthly, having raised an additional $9 million in funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Seth enjoys tennis and rollerblading and is an avid private pilot.

Areas of expertise: Consumer Internet, User Experience, Starting a company from scratch with $0 investment, Raising VC, Hiring, Building a team, Monetizing in a way users actually enjoy :), M&A (ok, I'm a bit rusty on this one! )

Soujanya Bhumkar CEO, Cooliris

Soujanya Bhumkar is the CEO of Cooliris, which is creating the world’s best client for rich content navigation and discovery. At Cooliris, Soujanya leads the business functions while staying especially focused on user acquisition.

Prior to Cooliris, Soujanya co-founded Vazu, which was in the business of connecting desktops to mobile phones. Vazu was unsuccessful - a fact that continues to enhance his

driving force.

Soujanya also co-founded Tamarind, a profitable company in the business of HR performance evaluation. Tamarinds' premise is that "your opinion about someone else's performance is proportional to your own performance - as determined by the network". Before Tamarind, Soujanya worked at Panopticon as the first business

employee, solving the challenge of intelligent recommendations for online merchandizing. Soujanya and his team grew the business and in assisted the company’s $100M acquisition by Kana in late 2000. Soujanya subsequently headed the integration

team.

In 1999, Soujanya completed his full-time MBA from the University of Chicago after working in the consumer food industry with Pioneer Foods and Nestle. Soujanya has a Masters in Chemical Engineering and stays extremely close to his family and

friends.

Tom Fountain Principal, Mayfield Fund

Tom Fountain is a Principal at Mayfield Fund focused on infrastructure software, networking, storage, and security. Tom’s investments include Akimbi (acquired by EMC/VMware) and Webroot. He also works with Cemaphore, Mendocino Software, Mimosa Systems, and WiChorus. He previously served on the board of directors for Scalix (acquired by Xandros) and worked with Deterimina (acquired by EMC/VMware). Prior to joining Mayfield in 2003, Tom was co-founder of Ingrian Networks, a leader in network and database security. Tom previously served on the faculty at Stanford University in both the electrical engineering and computer science departments. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Tom was founder and CEO of a software development and retail sales firm with operations in four states. He is the co-inventor of ten U.S. and four international patent-pending technologies in networking, security, and operating systems. Tom was a PhD student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, where he earned an MBA with distinction as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an MS in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Computer Science, and a BS in Computer Systems Engineering.

Trae Vassallo Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Trae Vassallo is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. Since joining the firm in 2002, Trae has put her technical and entrepreneurial background to work with companies in two main areas of focus: Greentech and Consumer Internet. Trae works closely with the management teams of Ausra, utility grade solar provider; Altarock Energy, geothermal development company; Terralliance, technology driven O&G exploration; GloriOil, enhanced oil extraction using biotechnology; Aggregate Knowledge, a platform for online discovery and helping incubate a new start-up focused on an immersive online experience with several recent Stanford grads.

Trae continues to work closely with companies in mobile and security including: PodShow, Digital Chocolate, LifeLock, 3VR Security and Fortify Software.

Prior to KPCB, Trae was a co-founder of Good Technology, a KPCB portfolio company (acquired by Motorola) that provides an end-to-end wireless corporate email solution. While at Good, Trae helped orchestrate the development of the G100 handheld device. Prior to Good Technology, Trae worked as a design engineer at Ideo Product Development where she developed a range of products including the PalmV, the Dell Latitude Docking station and many others. Trae holds 13 patents.

Trae earned a Bachelor's and Master's in Mechanical Engineering with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Trae is passionate about new technology, good design and spending time with her husband and two children.

Wen Hsieh Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Wen Hsieh joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in February 2006. His focus areas of investment include Greentech, applications and products enabled by novel materials, and semiconductor technologies.

Prior to KPCB, Wen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co San Francisco and a leader of McKinsey’s Asia Semiconductor Practice. During his 5 years at McKinsey, Wen’s primary focus was on serving leading companies across the global semiconductor value chain. His clients included EDA companies, design houses, wafer fab equipment vendors, automated test equipment vendors, test solution providers, wafer foundries, logic & memory IDMs, PC/server OEMs and component distributors.

At McKinsey, Wen’s secondary focus was on serving small companies in the North America biopharma sector. His clients included companies in the anti-viral, generics and specialty pharma segments.

Wen’s consulting experiences have been in the functional areas of alliance & JV strategies, new business building, growth strategy, low-cost region outsourcing, manufacturing strategy & operations, M&A due-diligence, pre- & post-merger management, pricing & sales programs and R&D strategies.

Before McKinsey, Wen founded OnChip Technologies, a startup developing MEMS microfluidic-based protein chips. The target market was high-sensitivity and high-throughput protein separation and identification applications.

Wen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. Minor in Biology from the California Institute of Technology. He also received a B.S. with Honors and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

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