Neal Bhadkamkar is co-founder and Managing Partner of Monitor Ventures. Before co-founding Monitor Ventures, Neal had a successful career in technology commercialization. As VP of Manufacturing and Engineering at Zowie Intertainment, Neal managed the design and development of analog and digital chips, PC software, as well as complex plastic components. At Interval Research, Paul Allen's research and commercialization company, Neal served as member of the research staff as well as heading the commercialization process. In that capacity he was responsible for transforming mature research projects into spin-off companies. Neal started his business career at the Boston Consulting Group where he worked closely with Teymour Boutros-Ghali (the two have had a long-standing professional and personal relationship since).

As a partner of Monitor Ventures, Neal focuses on transforming technologies for industrial and enterprise applications. He is on the Board of Directors of Nanostellar, an active Monitor Ventures investment. Neal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Sean Doyle, Sector Director, Intel Capital, leads the firm’s investment efforts in support of the Technology and Manufacturing Group (TMG) at Intel, the worldwide manufacturing arm of the company. Mr. Doyle's areas of responsibility include investment strategy development and execution in semiconductor capital equipment, strategic supplier relationships and emerging silicon device and process technologies.

Since January 1999, he has structured, negotiated and closed over 60 equity investments and debt placements totaling more than $700 million of invested capital for Intel Capital and the Intel 64 Fund. Mr. Doyle and his team make strategic investments in companies ranging from startups to industry leaders such as Micron Technology, Inc., Nikon Corporation, Elpida Memory, Inc. and FormFactor, Inc. Previously, Mr. Doyle worked within Intel Treasury as a manager in mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Intel in 1997, Mr. Doyle worked as an associate in corporate finance at the investment bank, Laidlaw Equities, Inc. and in marketing at Oracle Corporation. He earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA in Finance from UCLA.

Mat Fogarty is CEO of Crowdcast, the leader in providing prediction markets to crowdsource employee forecasts.  Founded in 2007, Crowdcast is used in multiple clients including Sony, EA, GM, J&J etc.  Mat has over 10 years experience forecasting in Fortune 500 corporations. Prior to founding Crowdcast, he was the Director of Corporate Financial Planning at Electronic Arts. Prior to EA, he managed forecasting in Unilever and also smaller high tech start-ups. Mat is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and holds a BS in Management Science from the London School of Economics and an MBA from UC Berkeley. 

Steven R. Gerbsman is an internationally recognized crisis/turnaround professional and private investment banker who has been involved in maximizing enterprise, stakeholder and shareholder value in a broad variety of industries. He has worked with a wide spectrum of senior and junior lenders, bondholder groups, venture capital and equity sources, private investors and institutional groups. He has acted in the capacity of Crisis/ Turnaround CEO, Crisis Consultant, Private Investment Banker, Examiner for the Office of the United States Trustee, a member of the Board of Directors of various companies and Advisor to stakeholder groups.

Mr. Gerbsman has over 37 years of senior management, marketing, sales and finance experience and has been involved in various business and investment ventures as an officer, director, consultant and investor, both in the US and internationally.

Since 1980, he has been in the business of maximizing enterprise value for highly leveraged, under-valued, under-performing and under-capitalized companies and their Intellectual Property, as well as assisting Mobile 2.0 companies with strategic alliances, M&A, distribution of content and licensing.  To date, Mr. Gerbsman has been involved in over $2.1 billion of restructuring, financing and M&A transactions. In 2000, he also began focusing on Israeli and European technology and life science companies, with the objective of providing access to the US capital markets and developing strategic alliances, M&A and licensing opportunities for them.

In 1999, Mr. Gerbsman expanded Gerbsman Partners' "Board of Intellectual Capital" as a resource to rapidly identify business and marketing strategies, strategic alliance candidates and financing for its client companies and their Intellectual Property. This distinguished group includes nationally and internationally recognized financial, communications, media,
advertising, public relations and technology operating executives.

Mr. Gerbsman has also assisted numerous Venture Capital/Equity Investors in terminating/restructuring their real estate and equipment lease executory contracts. To date, Gerbsman Partners has restructured/ terminated in excess of $725 million of real estate, sub-debt and equipment lease executory contracts and has maximized enterprise value for numerous technology and life science companies and their Intellectual Property.

Prior to forming Gerbsman Partners in 1980, he was president of four operating divisions of ITEL Corporation with responsibility in the leasing, business and technology sectors. Mr. Gerbsman began his business career at the IBM Corporation in 1967. Mr. Gerbsman received a BS degree in Accounting from Hunter College, New York and attended the Baruch Graduate School of Business.

Chris Groves, President & Chief Executive Officer, Centric Software, Inc., joined Centric Software, Inc., in 1997 as President and CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Before coming to Centric, Chris was VP and GM of Computervision's Workgroup Products business unit in Boston, where he drove rapid growth of the company's industry leading product data management software. The business unit served global customers in the aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing industries. Chris also held executive positions within Computervision's marketing, operations and indirect sales organizations. Previously, he held various executive roles at cellular pioneer Novatel Communications, including SVP of Product Development and VP of Manufacturing. Chris began his career as a research and development manager at Mitel Semiconductor. He received a BASc in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto, and is a graduate of the Executive PMD Program at Harvard Business School.

Tim Harris is a co-chair of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital group at Morrison & Foerster and represents public and private companies and venture capital firms in corporate and securities matters.

In his private company practice, Mr. Harris advises start-up and emerging growth technology enterprises from formation through acquisition or initial public offering in matters including venture capital financing, debt financing, equity incentive compensation, and technology development (including licensing, joint development, distribution, and other technology transfer matters). He also represents venture capital firms, strategic investors, and angel investors in their investments in start-up companies.

Mr. Harris specializes in modeling complex capital structures, financing scenarios and liquidity events. Mr. Harris represents companies and investors in a variety of technology sectors with an emphasis on Internet- and software-based businesses. Mr. Harris was an Associate Editor of the Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif at Northwestern University School of Law.

Mark Hartmann is a seasoned investment professional with experience in multiple geographies along the entire spectrum of corporate finance, from venture capital to leveraged buyouts to public equities. During his twenty year investing career, he has played a lead role in the execution of over $2 billion of venture capital, private equity, mezzanine and leveraged buyout transactions in the US, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. He is currently a Partner of Helios Investment Partners, an Africa-focused private equity firm with more than $1 billion under management, where he also serves on the firm’s Investment Committee.

Prior to joining Helios, he was involved in the management of highly concentrated portfolios of U.S. publicly traded equity securities, first as the founder and sole managing partner of SF Capital Partners; and subsequently, as a partner and shareholder of R. Eliot King & Associates, an institutional money management firm based in Menlo Park, California. Previously, Mark spent several years with Texas Pacific Group (“TPG”), where he served as a Principal with the firm’s San Francisco office, and as a Managing Director of TPG’s Latin American affiliate, Newbridge Latin America, where he ran the firm’s office in Brazil. Prior to joining TPG, Mark was a Vice President with IVP, a Brazilian venture capital firm specializing in the media/telecom industry. He began his career as an Investment Officer in the Telecommunications Division of the IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group.

Mark currently serves as the non-executive Chairman of the board of directors of Continental Outdoor Media Holdings (a Helios portfolio company), the largest outdoor advertising company in Africa. He is also a former director of Africatel Holdings B.V., a joint venture between Helios and Portugal Telecom that owns stakes in numerous telecommunications companies in Sub-Saharan Africa; and Bristol Group, a leading Argentine insurance company. Mark has a M.Sc. (International Finance and Accounting) from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.S. (Finance) from the American University, where he graduated, summa cum laude. He is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Brazil and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Paul Holland, General Partner, brings with him the veteran knowledge of working with and aiding technology start-ups in their earliest stages. His primary focus has been the development and acceleration of enterprise software companies. He has a compelling professional profile that is highlighted by his role in taking two venture-funded software start-ups, Kana Communications (KANA), and Pure Software (RATL), public.

Prior to becoming a general partner at Foundation Capital, Paul was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Kana Communications, joining them in 1997 as their 15th team member and increasing their sales over 5000% in just three years. At Kana, a leading supplier of Enterprise Relationship Management solutions to strategic e-businesses, Paul went on to build a team of over 350 people that secured more than 900 customers worldwide, and with Paul's help they were listed among the top ten IPOs of 1999. Before Kana, Paul helped grow revenues for another highly successful start-up, Pure Software, bringing them from a market value of $2 million to over $1 billion in his five year tenure there as vice president and general manager. They had the second most successful IPO of 1995 and were later acquired by Rational Software. He began his professional career at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute) Paul currently serves on the board of directors for Talking Blocks, Ketera and manageStar.

He received an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley; an MA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; and a BS from James Madison University.

John Hubinger is Vice President, Products, at Oracle Development. Oracle acquired AmberPoint in February 2010, where he was President, CEO, and Founder.

Mr. Hubinger is a serial Entrepreneur and co-founded AmberPoint with Mr. Paul Butterworth. AmberPoint raised over $50 million in Venture Capital and grew revenues from $3 million to $20 million in three years. Prior to founding AmberPoint Mr. Hubinger was the Worldwide General Manager for a Division of Java Software at SUN Microsystems reporting to the President of Software. SUN acquired Forte Software in 1999, where Mr. Hubinger was an Officer and WW VP of Sales and Operations. Forte, and Infrastructure tools company, went public in 1996 and grew from zero to $130 million in revenue in 8 years. Before joining Forte, Mr. Hubinger held Vice President and GM roles in Sales and Marketing in two successful software startups, Camenco (sold in a private-to-private transaction), and KnowledgeWare (which went public in 1989). Early in his career Mr. Hubinger worked at IBM as an Engineer and Marketing Manager. Prior to IBM he worked as an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Mr. Hubinger holds a BA Degree in Economics, cum laude, from UC Berkeley.

Chip Lion, Partner, Morrison & Foerster, represents both public and private companies in a broad range of industries and sectors, including biotechnology, medical device and information technology. He also represents several venture capitalists in private equity financings and fund formation and operations. He currently serves as Chair of the Venture Capital and Private Equity Committee of the Business Section of the ABA.  Mr. Lion has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and advising clients on a wide variety of acquisition transactions and related matters, including stock acquisitions, asset acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, auction transactions, tender offers, defensive strategies, leveraged buy-outs and cross border transactions. Mr. Lion is nationally recognized for his work with Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). He has written extensively on LLCs and partnerships and has participated on many panels on LLCs, including the American Law Institute-American Bar Association LLC satellite telecast for the past five years. As former Chair of the Partnerships Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar, he formed and participated in the Committee that helped draft the California LLC Act that became law on September 30, 1994.

Mr. Lion co-chairs the firm's Private Equity Group. He received a Bachelors Degree from The University of California, Davis and law degrees from Santa Clara University and New York University.

Gilman Louie is a partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital fund focused on helping entrepreneurs start companies. He is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a non-profit company created to help enhance national security by connecting the United States Intelligence Community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies and making venture capital style investments in promising new technologies.

Dominic Maldonado, CPA, is Tax Senior Manager with Deloitte Tax LLP. Dominic has over 12 years of tax experience in corporate and partnership taxation, providing tax services to both public and private companies, which range in size from closely held family businesses to multinational corporations. Dominic has experience in domestic and foreign tax consulting and compliance, but has spent the last 7 years focusing primarily on technical issues in the venture capital and private equity industries. His experience includes merger and acquisition analysis, domestic and offshore structuring, providing tax planning advice, and the implementation of various tax minimization strategies. Dominic also co-leads the venture capital and private equity tax practice in the San Francisco office.

Tom McKinley is the West Coast Representative for Cardinal Partners. Prior to joining Cardinal, Tom was Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Partech International. Tom has over 30 years of investment experience with a track record of helping entrepreneurs create significant and successful enterprises. His investments include Ascend Communications (ASND acquired by Lucent Technologies), Automated Healthcare (acquired by McKesson), Medicode (acquired by United Healthcare) and VISICU (EICU acquired by Philips). He is currently serving as a board of director of TelaDoc, a telehealth services providing doctor consults to consumer.

Tom has served on the boards of U.C. Berkeley's Entrepreneurs Forum and the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). He is an active member of the Health Management Academy (HMA), a founding member of Healthcare IT Advisory Group to State of California, and an active supporter of the University of San Francisco's Entrepreneurship Program. As an alumnus, Tom maintains close ties with Stanford's Business School, as well as Harvard University, where he serves as class secretary and started the I3 Harvard College Innovation Challenge (undergraduate business plan competition).

Tom received an undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Accounting from New York University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Michael Powell, Ph.D., joined Sofinnova Ventures as Managing Director in 1997. Since then he has raised almost $1B over four venture funds.  His Series A investments include:  Actelion, Anesiva, Intermune, Seattle Genetics, Threshold, Orexigen (all now public companies), as well as numerous private companies such as Ascenta, Alvine, Anza, and Intellikine.  His strategy is to invest in product-focused biotech companies headed up by management experienced in drug development. His own R&D expertise is in drug delivery, vaccines, immunology, chemistry, and drug development of small molecules and protein therapeutics.

Before joining Sofinnova Ventures, he was Group Leader at Genentech, where he headed up the delivery and development of several protein and peptide therapeutics. He was also involved in spinning out VaxGen, which carried out the first Phase III AIDS vaccine clinical trial. Prior to Genentech, he was Director of Product Development for Cytel, a company based on developing antagonists to the major histocompatibility complex to ameliorate autoimmune disease. Prior to Cytel, he was Senior Scientist and Project Team Leader at Syntex Research.

Mike is the author of nearly 100 publications and books, including an 1100 page treatise on vaccine design. He is past Adjunct Professor at the University of Kansas, has been on several pharmaceutical journal advisory boards, is currently the Board President of AVAC (Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition), and past Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, One World Health, Advisor to the IAVI Innovation Fund. He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Toronto in 1981, and carried out postdoctoral studies in bio-organic chemistry at the University of California, where he later was later a joint faculty member with UC and Lawrence Berkeley Labs. He was one of the first individuals in the biotech industry to be named a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. He also likes to fly. 

Nick Sturiale is a General Partner of Jafco Ventures, a technology focused venture capital firm with $450 million under management.  He currently serves on the board of Bill.com, RedSeal, ReputationDefender, Splunk, VuClip and YouSendIt.   

Before joining Jafco, he was a Managing Director for The Carlyle Group, where he co-managed their Silicon Valley office. Prior to that he was a General Partner at Sevin Rosen Funds for nearly ten years as an active early-stage investor in open source, software-as-a-service (SaaS), consumer web-based services, IT infrastructure and security companies. Nick led Sevin Rosen's early investments in XenSource (acquired by Citrix for $500 million). Prior to Sevin Rosen, he spent 12 years as an entrepreneur at three venture-backed start-ups, including Timbre Technology, which he co-founded and successfully sold for $138 million to Tokyo Electron.

Nick holds a B.S. degree from California State University, Chico and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Bryant Tong joined Nth Power in 2001 as a Managing Director. Bryant leads Nth Power’s investments in Accelergy, Arxx and Calstar and serves on the board of these companies. He also led Nth Power’s investment in NanoGram Devices (NYSE:GB). Previously, Bryant was founder, President and CEO of Pacific Venture Capital, LLC (PVC), the venture capital arm of the PG&E Corporation. At PVC, Bryant led investments in the energy and telecommunications sectors.

Prior to joining PVC, Bryant co-founded ReSourcePhoenix, Inc. (RPC) and successfully took the company public. RPC pioneered the use of the Internet to help businesses outsource their IT and accounting operations. As President and COO, he planned business strategy, sales and marketing and was responsible for all day-to-day operations.Previous to ReSourcePhoenix, Bryant also served as part of the senior management group at Phoenix American, Inc. While at Phoenix American, Bryant worked with Phoenix Growth Capital (PGC). PGC invested in over 200 venture capital-backed companies by providing venture lease financing. PGC was one of the most profitable divisions within Phoenix American.

A native of San Francisco, California, Bryant received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Bryant is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and also serves as a member of several industry advisory boards including the Energy Venture Fair and the Golden Capital Network. Bryant founded and chairs the China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance. Bryant also serves on the University of San Francisco Entrepreneurship Program Advisory Board.

Ken Wallace, Managing Director at Industry Ventures, LLC, focuses on originating, valuing and managing primary and early secondary venture capital fund investments. He is on the investment committee for the Industry Ventures Partnership Holdings funds. Ken brings experience making primary fund investments as well as purchasing secondary direct investments and limited partner interests. Previously, Ken worked as an Associate Vice President in Bessemer Trust's Private Equity Funds Group in New York. In this role, he led the firm's venture capital fund investment strategy and due diligence process. Earlier in his career, Ken worked in Business Development with Bessemer Trust in its San Francisco, Menlo Park, Los Angeles and New York offices. Ken earned his MBA from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Economics from Wake Forest University.

Tim Wilson, a partner at Partech International since 2001, 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 ARIO Data Networks, Discera, Invensense, 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.

Roger Wyse, Ph.D, Managing Director, Burrill & Company, has lead the development of the company’s agricultural, nutraceuticals, health and wellness and industrial biotechnology related activities in venture capital investing and merchant banking.  Dr. Wyse is an internationally recognized scientist and was a Dean at two major research universities, Rutgers and University of Wisconsin, at Madison. Throughout his administrative career, Dr. Wyse has been known for his vision and leadership in developing national policies and funding for life sciences research.