Venture Capital Executive Program
Past Panelists have included:
Farshid Arman - Proprietor, Arash Corporation, LLC
Farshid has an extensive background in commercializing new ideas and seed-stage companies.
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Bob Beaumont - General Partner, Beauchamp Investments
Bob has more than 40 years experience in investment banking, venture capital and asset finance and small-to-medium enterprise investment.
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Sean Doyle - Director, Intel Capital
Sean's career comprises over 60 equity investments and debt placements totaling more than $700 million of invested capital for Intel Capital and the Intel 64 Fund.
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Nicole Irvin - Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Nicole is a managing director in the Global Technology, Media and Telecom Group in the Investment Banking Division, where she leads equity execution for many of the firm's direct listings and IPOs.
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Timothy J Harris - Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Represents public and private companies and venture capital firms in corporate and securities matters with the firm Morrison & Foerster.
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Rob Hayes - Partner, First Round Capital
Rob has led investments in companies such as Mint.com, Uber, TaskRabbit, AppFrog and more.
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David Hehman - Co-Founder and Board Member, Knowingly
David is a lifetime entrepreneur and angel investor, having co-founded and sold 5 technology businesses.
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Kevin Kopczynski - Senior Director, First Solar
Kevin's experience spans the energy, consumer products, and medical device industries.
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Scott Kucirek - CEO, Five Star Organics
Scott has over 15 years of entrepreneurial experience in many leadership roles and has raised over $40 million in venture capital.
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Larry Lasky - Partner, The Column Group
Larry is an expert biochemist and a founder of Genetics Institute one of the first biotechnology companies.
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Chip Lion - Partner, Morrison and Foerster
Chip represents both public and private companies in a broad range of industries and sectors, including biotechnology, medical device and technology.
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Tim Recker - Chief Investment Officer, James Irvine Foundation
Tim was responsible for the University of California Regents' $8.5 billion private and real assets program.
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Nick Sturiale - Managing Partner, Ignition Partners
Nick has over 25 years of experience developing startups, both as venture capitalist and entrepreneur.
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Ted Tobiason - Chief Financial Officer, Neutron Holdings Inc.
Ted has a long career in finance, most recently serving positions at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley.
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Ken Wallace - Managing Director, Industry Ventures
Ken brings experience making primary funds investments as well as purchasing secondary direct investments.
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Bill Bottoms - Chairman, Third Millennium Test Solutions
Bill has diverse experience in serving as Chairman and CEO of many companies as well as a faculty member at Princeton University.
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Allan May - Founder and Chairman, Life Science Angels
Allan has over 20 years of experience in founding, investing, and serving as a Chairman or CEO.
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Michael Daugherty - Fundraising Strategy, AngelList
Michael is an active angel investor and has founded two organizations.
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Jeb Miller - General Partner, Icon Ventures
Jeb brings over fifteen years of experience working with early-stage technology companies as a venture capitalist.
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Shomit Ghose - General Partner, Onset Ventures
Shomit has experience as a software entrepreneur, working in startups, and venture capital.
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Douglas Hansen-Luke - Executive Chairman, Future Planet Capital
Douglas specializes in senior management, investment management, emerging markets, partnership and product development, and asset allocation.
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Chris Groves - President and CEO, Centric Software
Chris has led Centric Software through seven venture funding rounds including a complete re-capitalization and strategy pivot.
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Larry Marcus - Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital
Larry has backed companies including Netflix (IPO), BandPage, etc.
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Keval Desai - Partner, InterWest
Keval invests in early-stage tech companies.
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Mitchell Weinstock - Venture Partner, HP Tech Ventures
Mitchel is an expert in monetization of nascent technologies and operation experience in new product marketing.
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Mary Jane Bedegi - CFO, Nokia Growth Partners, Everest Financial Group
Mary Jane has been CFO and in other finance leadership positions with various Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
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Lisa Edgar - Managing Director, Top Tier Capital Partners
Lisa has 25 years of experience in investing and currently focuses on manager selection, due diligence, and investment monitoring.
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Chon Tang - Founding Partner, UC Berkeley SkyDeck Fund
Chon is an experienced Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor with personal investments in over 25 deals with multiple IPOs and exits.
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Andy Laszlo - Managing Partner, 137 Ventures
Andy has experience as a managing partner at multiple venture capital firms and in founding management.
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Errol Arkillic - Founder, M34 Capital
Errol invests in seed and early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs.
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Ron Star - Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Ron is a Partner in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. He focuses on securities law, financings, venture capital, technology transactions, and M&A.
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Chloe Alpert - CEO and Co-Founder, Medinas, Inc.
Chloe has won five international competitions in technology problem solving and imaging technologies.
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Noah Doyle - Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners
Noah has founded, launched and grown dozens of high technology products and companies in 20 years of entrepreneurship and management of innovation.
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David Wu - General Partner, Maveron
David is a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and angel investor that has invested in over 50 startups.
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David Hartwig - Co-Founder and Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures
David has been working in venture capital since 1997.
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Patrick Chung - Founding Partner, Xfund
Patrick is founding partner of Xfund and was previously a partner at NEA.
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Paul Yett - Managing Director, Hamilton Lane
Paul is a Managing Director at Hamilton Lane and handles the firm's investment activities and client relationships.
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John Beil Director of Private Equity, University of California Investment Office
John manages a portfolio of buyouts, co-investments, credit strategies, growth equity, special situations, and venture capital investments.
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Randy Hawks - Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures
Randy brings more than 25 years of technology industry experience as a senior general manager and venture investor.
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Tim Wilson - Partner, Artiman Investments
Tim works on early-stage technology investments and represents Artiman on several boards including Crossbar, Prysm, Kaybus, and Silniva, Inc..
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Stewart Alsop - Co-Founder and Partner, Alsop Louie Partners
Stewart Alsop is a co-founder and partner of Alsop Louie Partners, an early-stage technology venture capital firm founded in 2006 and located in San Francisco.
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Sean Byrne - Counsel, Morrister & Foerster's Private Fund Group
Sean Byrne works in all aspects of the formation and operation of venture capital, real estate, and other private investment funds, including issues involving partnerships, limited liability companies, tax, ERISA, the regulation of investment advisers, and public disclosure laws.
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Tanya Kemp - Director of Private Equity, SF Employees' Retirement System
Tanya oversees a $2.5 billion global venture capital and growth portfolio.
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Ron Cordes - Co-Founder, Cordes Foundation
Ron has enjoyed a 30+ year career in the investment industry.
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Amos Ben-Meir Amos - Angel & Venture Investor
Since 2012, Amo's startup investment portfolio has grown to more than 150 portfolio companies.
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Baback Elmieh - Entrepreneur
Baback has founded a number of companies including Human Engines and Nascent Objects, which he sold to Google (Motorola) and Facebook respectively.
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Hansmeet Sethi - Serial Entrepreneur
Hansmeet has over 20 years of experience with high growth venture-funded businesses.
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Joe Kennedy - Former CEO, Pandora
Joe served as CEO, president, and chairman of Pandora.
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Nina Labatt - COO and General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Nina has worked in the Venture Capital and Private Equity sector since 2001.
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Wes Selke - Co-Founder and Managing Director, Better Ventures
Wes has 20 years of venture capital and financial advisory experience.
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Sayre Stevick - Partner, Corporate Group of Fenwick & West
Sayre's practice concentrates on the representation of technology, green tech, and life science companies.
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Eric Ploeg - Managing Director, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners
Eric also serves as a Board Member/Observer at Anomali, Dynamic Signal, Global Savings Group, Innovid, CipherCloud, Inuitive, Pinger, and ShareThis.
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Angelo Del Priore - Founding Partner, HP Tech Ventures
Angelo leads investments and partnerships in AR, VR, Gaming/eSports, and Education startups.
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Thomas Jueng - Investment Director, Samsung Ventures America
Thomas joined Samsung Ventures in 2012 and focuses on investments in mobile platforms, AI, IoT, digital media & content, enterprise solutions, and recently expanding his coverage to FinTech and InsurTech.
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Luigi Bajetti - Co-Founder and Managing Partner, LombardStreet.io Ventures
Luigi Bajetti is the managing partner and founder of Lombardstreet Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.
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Justin Burden - Secondary Investment Committee
Justin Burden concentrates on originating, valuing, and managing investment opportunities in later-stage, venture-backed companies and venture capital funds.
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Steve Jang Founder and Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures
Steve has over two decades of experience in product development, entrepreneurship, and investing, including most recently founding Kindred Ventures and being an early advisor and investor at Uber.
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Cheryl Cheng - BlueRun Ventures
Cheryl Cheng is a General Partner at BlueRun Ventures, a Seed and Series A focused venture capital firm.
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Shawn Merani - Founder and Managing Partner, Parade Ventures
Shawn Merani is the Founder and Managing Partner of Parade Ventures, a pre-seed & seed stage focused venture capital firm.
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Michael Berolzheimer - Founder and Managing Partner, Bee Partners
Michael Berolzheimer, founder and Managing Partner of Bee Partners, is an active investor and entrepreneur.
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Matt Campbell - Terabase
Matt Campbell runs day-to-day operations at Terabase and drives the organization’s overall strategy.
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Jim Chambliss - Managing Director, Pathway
Jim Chambliss joined Pathway in 1994 and is a managing director in the California office.
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Larry Kubal - Founder and Managing Partner, Labrador Ventures
Larry Kubal has invested in seed and early-stage information technology companies for the last 32 years.
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Jordy Albert - General Partner, Walkabout Ventures
Jordy is a General Partner at Walkabout Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on leading pre-seed and seed investments in financial technology companies.
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Amee Parbhoo - Managing Partner, Accion Venture Lab
Amee has managed Venture Lab’s investment activities globally as well as led Venture Lab’s governance and investments in Africa.
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Jonathan Ebinger - General Partner, Transform Capital
Jonathan is a General Partner at Transform Capital, and brings 20+ years of investing experience to the role from his time as a General Partner at BlueRun Ventures.
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Fred Wang - Adams Street
Fred invests in venture and growth-oriented companies with a focus on the information technology space.
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Robert Labatt - CFO, Co-CEO, Inland Logistics
Robert is a career consumer internet business builder with over 25 years of experience leading strategy, business development, VC raises, M&A, product management, startups, and multinational corporations.
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Anthony Palma - Partner, Griffin Gaming Partners
Anthony Palma is a Partner at Griffin Gaming Partners, the world’s largest venture capital firm focused singularly on the gaming industry.
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Parasvil Patel - Partner, Radical Ventures
Parasvil Patel is a Partner with Radical Ventures. As a member of the investment team, he partners with visionary entrepreneurs using AI to transform traditional industries.
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Matt Caspari - Strawberry Creek Ventures
Matt is a two-time venture-backed founder/CEO with a decade of startup operating experience.
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Kasper Sage - Partner, BMW Ventures
Kasper has been named a Global Corporate Venturing Rising Star for back-to-back years in 2018 and 2019.
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