Think Tomorrow ~ Today 2009
A Private Company & Venture Capitalist Summit

Panelists

Brad Bender
Product Management Director, Google

Brad is responsible for the company's global product management efforts in display advertising on AdSense, as well as the company's platform Optimization solutions. Brad came to Google from DoubleClick, where he was Vice President of Product Management, responsible for the optimization suite of products including DART Adapt and Boomerang, used by leading publishers, agencies, and marketers worldwide. He joined DoubleClick in 1997, and held several leadership positions during his tenure in both the US and Europe. He is a co-inventor of a number of patents pending in the areas of data and privacy.

Brad graduated with a Bachelors of Science from Cornell University.

Sam Bhaumik
Senior Managing Director, Group Head of Technology, Hercules Technology Growth Capital

Samir Bhaumik joined the company in November 2004 as a Managing Director and was promoted to Senior Managing Director in September 2006. Mr. Bhaumik previously served as Vice President-Western Region of the New York Stock Exchange from March 2003 to October 2004. Prior to working for the New York Stock Exchange, Mr. Bhaumik was Senior Vice President of Comerica Bank, previously Imperial Bank, from April 1993 to February 2003. Mr. Bhaumik received a B.A. from San Jose State University and an M.B.A from Santa Clara University. He serves on the advisory boards of Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and the American Electronics Association-Bay Area council.

Brian Biles
Founder and Vice President of Product Management, Data Domain

Brian Biles co-founded Data Domain in October 2001 and has served as Vice President of Product Management since 2006. Prior to 2006, Mr. Biles held the position of Vice President of Marketing. Before co-founding Data Domain, Mr. Biles served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at VA Linux Systems, Inc..

Mr. Biles holds a B.A. in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Victor Boyajian
National Chair, Sonnenshein Venture Technology Group

Mr. Boyajian serves as National Chair of Sonnenschein's Venture Capital/Emerging Growth Company Group.  A recognized leader in his field nationally, Mr. Boyajian focuses on representing emerging growth technology companies and Fortune 500 companies in a broad array of venture capital, securities and strategic transactions from Silicon Valley to New York.  He counsels senior executives, Boards of Directors and venture firm principals on a wide range of issues including business strategy, finance, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, board governance, intellectual property and litigation strategy and has been recognized for his deep network among venture firms and investment banks.  His clientele reflects a cross-section of industries, including information technology, telecommunications, medical devices and life sciences.  He also devotes a significant amount of time advising universities, federal labs and corporations seeking to commercialize technology and protect their IP rights.

Mr. Boyajian has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of the leading practitioners in the sector.  Under his leadership, Sonnenschein has been ranked among the top 10 nationally in venture capital deals as reported in Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst.

Walter Buckley
Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board, Internet Capital Group

Walter is co-founder, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Internet Capital Group. Prior to ICG, Walter was vice president of acquisitions for Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., where he led many of Safeguard's investments through the mid-1990s, including Diamond Technology; XL Vision, Inc.; ChromoVision; and Video Server. He also was responsible for developing and executing Safeguard's multimedia and Internet investment strategies.

Before Safeguard, Walter was president and co-founder of Centralized Management Systems, Inc., a medical supply company, which he sold in 1987. Previously, he spent three years at CoreStates as a commercial loan officer in the bank's work-out area.

Walter was included in Business Week's 2000 "eBiz 25," an exclusive listing of the most influential people in electronic business, and the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group honored Walter with its "Entrepreneurial Excellence Award" in June 2000. In June 2008, Walter received the Sal Ruccieri Award from Early Stage East for his work as a visionary in the venture capital community.

Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., political science

Board Seats
Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq:ICGE)
ICG Commerce

Patrick Clawson
Chairman and CEO, Lumension

Patrick Clawson serves as Chairman and CEO of Lumension, where he is responsible for leading the company's overall strategic direction to drive revenue, growth and profitability as well as overseeing the day to day operations. Clawson brings more than 20 years of software industry experience and has a successful track record of running high tech companies. Clawson has extensive experience in both domestic and international sales, marketing, and operations with companies in the information security segment.

Prior to joining Lumension, Clawson served as Chairman and CEO of CyberGuard Corporation (NASDAQ: CGFW), a security software company he successfully grew and positioned for acquisition by Secure Computing (NASDAQ: SCUR) for $295 million.

During his tenure, Clawson developed and implemented a new global distribution strategy that catapulted CyberGuard to record breaking revenue growth and two consecutive years of profitability. He also spearheaded the launch of new technologies into the marketplace and oversaw the integration of more than four key acquisitions.

Prior to CyberGuard, Clawson served as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX), a provider of clinical software and information systems for doctors. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at MasterChart, a health information technology company. Immediately before joining MasterChart, Clawson was Senior Director for the Southeastern U.S. at Reynolds and Reynolds Healthcare Systems, where he was responsible for sales and marketing for the company's Unix-based appliances.

Before joining MasterChart, Clawson was with Lanier Healthcare where he served in a number of management positions in the U.S. and Australia that leveraged his strengths in international sales, marketing and operations. Clawson has a wealth of experience in turning around businesses to enhance performance and grow profitability.

Brian Cooke
Managing Director, Elevation Finance Group

Brian is a Managing Director of Elevation Finance Group, an advisory firm that assists micro-cap companies in raising capital and obtaining public company status. Brian has over 20 years experience in corporate finance, M&A and venture capital. He has been associated with Keating Investments since 2007 and has formed a strategic relationship with Keating Capital to provide comprehensive services to micro-cap companies interested in becoming public. He was previously a Managing Director for eight years at Newhouse Capital, a venture capital firm backed by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Prior to Newhouse, he was a senior telecom/media investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co. for four years. Prior to Goldman, he worked at Lehman Brothers for eight years, the majority of time providing corporate finance and M&A services to private equity firms. Brian is a 1991 graduate of Harvard Business School and a 1985 cum laude graduate of Harvard College.

Brenon Daly
Lead M&A Analyst, The 451 Group

Brenon leads the M&A analysis at The 451 Group's TechDealmaker and KnowledgeBase products, having covered more than a quarter-trillion dollars' worth of tech deal-flow for both national publications and research firms.

Brenon began his career in 1991 as one of the initial reporters at Prognosis, the first English-language newspaper in the former Eastern Bloc. After moving to Vienna, Brenon ran the bureau for United Press International before becoming an analyst with the Economist Group, where he researched and wrote reports for The Economist Intelligence Unit and the regional publication of The Economist.

Returning to the US in 1997, Brenon helped establish the editorial voice in the early days of CBS MarketWatch, the most popular online financial news site. Since 2000, Brenon has focused his reporting on M&A as a reporter for The Deal. During that time, he also sharpened his analytical skills, writing reports for TechDealmaker (since acquired by The 451 Group) and other the boutique research firms.

Henry Ellenbogen
Vice President, T. Rowe Price

Henry Ellenbogen is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. He is also a portfolio manager and research analyst in the U.S. Equity Division. Henry serves as president and chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Media & Telecommunications Fund. He is also a vice president and Investment Advisory Committee member of the Blue Chip Growth Fund, Growth Stock Fund, Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Mid-Cap Value Fund, Science and Technology Fund, Global Technology Fund, and T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc. (Global Stock Fund and International Stock Fund). As an analyst, he follows, internet sector under the media industry. Henry started with T. Rowe Price in 2001 and has five years of previous investment and regulatory experience. Prior to joining the firm, he served as chief of staff to U.S. Representative Peter Deutsch, a member of the Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over media and telecommunications. Henry also worked as a summer associate with Goldman Sachs as a member of the portfolio management team in the Risk Arbitrage Group and Investment Banking Division. He was a general partner of Crimson Investments, L.P. Henry graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in history and science from Harvard College. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar, and he was an Adjunct Professor at New York University Graduate School of Politics. Henry was awarded Best of the Buy Side by Institutional Investor for media for each of the past five years, 2003-2007, and for technology in 2004.

Jim Feuille
General Partner, Crosslink Capital

Prior to joining Crosslink in 2002, Jim brought 20 years of technology investment banking and management experience to the firm. Jim's prior positions included Global Head of Technology Investment Banking at UBS, where he built a powerful global technology investment banking practice from scratch, Chief Operating Officer at Volpe Brown Whelan & Company, where he ran all aspects of the firm's investment banking and brokerage operations, and led the firm to record growth in revenue and market share prior to its acquisition by Prudential, and Head of Technology Investment Banking at Robertson Stephens, where he built the technology investment banking team into a leadership position in the industry.

Jim Finch
Co-Founder & CEO, Amalfi Semiconductor

Jim has over 25 years of experience in several high growth segments of the communication semiconductor industry in a variety of executive business leadership roles.

Jim is today the co-founder and CEO of Amalfi Semiconductor, a leading technology company in the CMOS Cellular Power Amplifier arena. The first family of products will target the cellular handset space offering vastly superior performance solutions to today's known system problems. As a part of the founding process, Jim also spent just under a year as an Entrepreneur in Residence at both DCM — Doll Capital Management and Trinity Ventures, high profile Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Prior to Amalfi, Jim was responsible for Broadcom's entry into the Fast Ethernet switching market. Jim drove the overall vision and business strategy of the highly successful ROBOswitch product family, which today has greater than 65% market share and revenues have easily surpassed the $100M. Jim was also responsible for several of the M&A acquisitions positioning Broadcom to become the dominant silicon player in stackable workgroup switches. This product line has grown from zero in 1998 to greater than $3000M in revenue today. Prior to Broadcom Jim held positions including — President/GM of S3's Japan subsidiary and other senior management positions at Crystal Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices.

Norman A. Fogelsong
General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners

Norm Fogelsong joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in March 1989. With more than 28 years of high-technology venture capital experience, he currently emphasizes investments in private later-stage companies and in select public market opportunities. Norm has led investments in Artisan Components (ARMH), Aspect Communications, Compaq Computers (CPQ), Concur Technologies (CNQR), Convex Computers (CNVX), Cortina Systems, Danger (MSFT), Gaia Online, Integrated Circuit Works (CY), Lam Research (LRCX), Motion Computing, Platinum Software (EPIC), Polycom (PLCM), TelCom Semiconductor (TLCM) and Websense (WBSN).

Norm also actively participated in venture investments in Akamai (AKAM), Amgen (AMGN), At Road (ARDI), Applied Biosystems (ABI), Chordiant (CHRD), ComScore (SCOR), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Digital River (DRIV), Dust Networks, Genentech (DNA), Linear Technology (LLTC), LoopNet (LOOP), LSI Corporation (LSI), MIPS Computer Systems (MIPS), Mobile 365 (SY), Quantum (QTM), Silicon Graphics (SGI), SupportSoft (SPRT), Synchronoss (SNCR), 3COM (COMS), Verisity (VRST) and WebEx Communications (WEBX).

For Cortina Systems, Norm arranged a $132 million investment syndicate, the largest private venture financing done that year. The proceeds were used to buy a $100 million division that was being spun out of Intel. In addition, Norm recently led IVP's investments in Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teenagers on the web.

Norm began his career as a computer programmer and systems analyst at Hewlett-Packard. He then worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company where he specialized in product/market strategy. Prior to joining IVP, Norm was a General Partner with Mayfield Fund. He has served the local community as the Treasurer of the Children's Health Council, the Secretary of the Churchill Club and as a member of the Major Gifts Committees at Menlo School and Stanford University.

Norm earned a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a J.D. from the Harvard Law School.

Tom Furlong
Managing Director, Granite Ventures

Tom Furlong joined Granite Ventures in July 2000, after a successful career in Silicon Valley that most recently saw him as Vice President and General Counsel at Zhone Technologies, a communications equipment provider.

Prior to Zhone, Tom was a partner with the leading emerging growth company law firm of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, where he spent 13 years counseling technology companies, venture capitalists and investment banks. His clients included Adobe, Applied Signal, Ascend Communications, Datapath, Network General, Silicon Spice, SynOptics, Vantive, and Visigenic. While at Gray Cary, Tom was also a manager of their investment partnerships and sponsored several profitable investments. Tom began working with Granite Ventures in 1988 and worked closely with Adobe Ventures. His many years spent working with a wide variety of technology companies gives him a diverse industry network and makes him a strong and trusted advisor to his portfolio companies. He focuses his investments in software.

Tom currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Animotion, Biz360, Skytide and TuVox. Prior investments include Digital Fountain (acquired by QualComm), Five Across (acquired by Cisco) and Kinecta (acquired by Stellent).

Tom holds a B.A. in economics and an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Northwestern University.

James González Senior Director, Strategy and Corporate Development, Hewlett-Packard Company

James González is responsible for driving profitable growth through acquisitions and divestitures for Hewlett-Packard Company and has led recent acquisitions in storage, software and services. Throughout his career James has evaluated, structured, negotiated, and closed a variety of transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments, technology licensing agreements, public debt, stock repurchase, leveraged leases, private placements, and fixed income investments.

Emily Greer
Co-Founder and COO, Kongregate

Emily is co-founder and COO for Kongregate, a user-uploaded web games site launched in 2007. Prior to Kongregate, Emily worked in marketing/e-commerce at various catalogers & retailers. More numbers-oriented than the average marketer, she built statistical and financial models predicting customer behavior as well as doing product analysis, customer research, strategic planning and website development.

Emily has a B.A. in Russian & Eastern European Studies from Yale.

Sebastien de Halleux
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Playfish

Sebastien de Halleux (pronounced duh alloew) is chief operating officer and co-founder of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social games companies. Sebastien leads operations in Playfish's San Francisco office where he drives distribution, monetization and business development, as well as partnerships with Facebook, Google, Apple and MySpace.

Prior to Playfish, Sebastien was part of the team that incubated Nokia Ad Service, a business unit aimed at monetizing mobile traffic across Nokia's 850 million mobile devices worldwide.

Sebastien also was an early team member of Macrospace Ltd., a company which merged with Sorrent Inc. to become Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), where he was instrumental in building the sales and marketing functions of the organization. He later expanded Glu's distribution footprint in Europe, forged key partnerships with network operators Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange, and reorganized the company's financial planning and sales operations in preparation for its IPO on NASDAQ.

Sebastien holds a Master's in Civil Engineering with honors from Imperial College London. He has resided in Brussels, Bangkok and London, and presently lives in San Francisco.

Jeff Hirsch
President & CEO, AudienceScience

An online media pioneer, Jeff Hirsch has spent the last 12 years building successful media companies and growing his knowledge and reputation as an Internet guru. As president and CEO of AudienceScience, Hirsch is responsible for building the company's world class behavioral targeting marketplace by leveraging AudienceScience's superior technology to deliver audiences for digital advertisers and real value for online publishers globally.

Hirsch has held executive leadership positions at leading media, advertising and promotions companies. In 1988, he founded Xymox Systems, Inc. (now Xytech Systems), which he ultimately sold in 1995 after steering the company to a position on the 1994 Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies. In addition to his expertise in incubating companies for strategic growth, Hirsch has held sales and marketing management positions in various start-up and later-stage technology and media companies.

Prior to joining AudienceScience, Hirsch was SVP of Business Development for ValueClick, Inc. where he orchestrated building and strengthening the company's cross-divisional publisher relationships. Hirsch joined ValueClick from Fastclick, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer for over four years. While at Fastclick, Hirsch was instrumental in building and establishing the company as a premiere internet advertising network business that was purchased by ValueClick in 2005 for over $210M.

Hirsch holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he graduated with honors.

Francis Ho
Senior Director of Business Development, Inphi Corporation

Francis Ho is Inphi Corporation's Senior Director of Business Development. Prior to Inphi, he worked at McKinsey & Company, JP Morgan Partners, ONI Systems, Siliquent Technologies, and Schlumberger. Francis holds a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, and a M.S. in applied physics and a B.S. in physics from Caltech.

Jack Jia
Chief Executive Officer, Baynote, Inc.

Jack is a founder and CEO of Baynote, Inc. For eight years, he was SVP & CTO of Interwoven Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) with executive responsibilities in engineering, products, marketing, strategy and vision. Prior to Interwoven, he was a founder and CEO of V-max America. Jack led operating systems and applications development at SGI, Sun Microsystems, Stratus and NASA for over a decade. He is a frequent speaker at major conferences and has appeared on television programs in several countries. He is a contributing author in "XML Handbook, the 4th Edition", "Online! The Book", "Content Management Bible", and writes regularly about key technology issues and trends. He is a board advisor for Santa Clara University, and the president of HYSTA, a premier non-profit organization for promoting entrepreneurship.

Nagraj Kashyap
Vice President, Qualcomm Ventures

Nagraj Kashyap is a Vice President at Qualcomm and heads up worldwide activities for Qualcomm Ventures. Mr. Kashyap has over 14 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to his current role, Nagraj worked in various engineering and management capacities at Nortel, 3COM, Motorola, PRTM and Qualcomm. He currently actively manages and serves as a board member or observer for Qualcomm Ventures investments in Zeebo, Obopay, WaveMarket, Triage Wireless, and Novarra. Mr. Kashyap also led Qualcomm Ventures investments in Airvana (AIRV) and Bitfone (acquired by HP in 2007). Mr. Kashyap has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

John Keagy
CEO & Co-Founder, GoGrid / ServePath LLC

John Keagy is CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid, a cloud computing platform that is the world's first service to deliver standard datacenter concepts and complete infrastructure in the cloud. GoGrid is a service of ServePath, a Managed Hosting and Colocation provider based in San Francisco. Keagy is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, having built and sold several successful Internet service providers since 1991. ServePath, founded in 2001, serves the critical Internet infrastructure needs of thousands of businesses worldwide from its headquarters and data center facility in San Francisco. In 2006, Keagy saw the impending shift to the cloud as ServePath's second growth opportunity. Keagy's vision became a two year development investment, now GoGrid, the cloud server hosting service launched in March 2008 that enables customers to deploy, scale and manage load balanced servers in the cloud in just minutes through a web-based control panel.

Prior to ServePath, John founded InReach Internet in 1994 and grew it to become the largest profitable Internet Service Provider headquartered in California, with over 35,000 customers. In 1991, John used the Internet to manage the overseas development of software and electro-optical imaging devices for computer and Internet security for biometric security start-up Identicator Technology.

John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley. He lives with his wife, two children and dog in San Francisco and is an avid instrument-rated multi-engine pilot.

Alexander K. Marquez
Director, Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation

Alexander is currently responsible for Intel Capital's investments and strategies related to Digital Media.

Prior to joining Intel Capital, Alexander served as technical advisor to the senior vice president of Intel's Interactive Media Services division where he advised on strategy and media investments. Alexander also served as controller for Intel's Content Services division where he oversaw financial aspects of the division, including numerous investments in Europe, Japan, Asia, and Latin America. Alexander joined Intel Corporation in 1994 where he held various management roles prior to joining Intel Capital. Alexander holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was the past Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board and currently serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Board. He received his Masters in Business Administration from Purdue University.

Alexander has managed or co-managed investments around the globe including Atom Entertainment (acquired by Viacom), Akella, BlackArrow, ChannelM, Gametrust (acquired by Real Networks), Envivio, Exent Technologies, K2 Network, Trymedia (acquired by Macrovision), The Generations Network (acquired by Spectrum Equity), SixApart, and Synacor. Alexander currently serves on the board of directors of BlackArrow, Envivio, K2 Network, SixApart and Synacor.

James McElwee
General Partner, Weston Presidio

Jim McElwee joined Weston Presidio as a General Partner in 1992 and has been active in the venture capital industry since 1979. Prior to Weston Presidio, Jim was Senior Vice President of the Security Pacific Venture Capital Group and the founding Managing Director of its Menlo Park office. During his thirteen years with the Security Pacific Venture Capital Group, Jim was responsible for early private investments in Costco, Universal Health Services, Cypress Semiconductor, Aspect Communications, Xilinx, MIPS Computer Systems, Harmonic, Microchip, Vitesse and many others.

Prior to entering the venture capital industry, Jim was a Senior Consultant with Accenture, working with a wide range of clients in the retailing, healthcare, and technology industries. He earned his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College(where he serves on the Board of Trustees and is Chairman of the Financial Economics Institute) and his M.B.A from the Wharton Graduate School of Business (where he serves on the Wharton Entrepreneurial Advisory Board).

At Weston Presidio Jim has been responsible for investments in Digital Theater Systems (NASDAQ: DTSI), IC Works (Cypress Semiconductor), MediaQ (Nvidia), Micro Power, Purcell Systems, The Robb Report, Sassaby (Estee Lauder), Silego, Vitria Technology and Wild Oats Markets (Whole Foods).

Jim is currently on the Board of Trustees of SFJAZZ, a San Francisco based non-profit organization which produces the annual SFJAZZ concert and educational programs.

Andy Merkatz
Principal, Vision Capital

Andy Merkatz specializes in alternative energy, technology and alternative public offerings at Vision Capital. Prior to joining Vision Capital he was the founder and Managing Partner of CountryRoad Capital, a merchant banking firm specializing in alternative public offerings. Previously, Andy served as President and CEO of Predict It, Inc., a publicly traded internet software company and as Chief Operating Officer & co-Founder of SiteSpecific, one of the first internet advertising agencies. Andrew is also Chairman and Founder of Familybuilder, Inc., a leading NYC social media application developer. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Andy worked in middle market private equity at Interlaken Capital. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.A. in Economics, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Millard
Partner, DLA Piper

Richard Millard represents companies, boards, investors, investment banks and financial institutions in a variety of matters, emphasizing domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital transactions and private and public equity and debt financings. He also regularly counsels boards of directors and board committees on fiduciary duty and disclosure issues.

Mr. Millard has handled significant acquisitions and divestitures involving every major commercial jurisdiction throughout the world, including most European countries, Australia, Singapore, China and Japan.

Mr. Millard has extensive experience in acquisition related financing (including senior debt facilities and private and public high-yield offerings, representing issuers, investment banks and institutional lenders). He has handled numerous portfolio acquisitions and investments on behalf of venture capital and private equity investors, including several leading Silicon Valley venture funds.

He also has extensive experience in debt restructurings and the corporate aspects of bankruptcies and insolvencies, including acquisitions and dispositions in bankruptcy, as well as debt restructurings, including debt tender offers, consent solicitations and equity for debt exchanges.

Eric O'Brien
Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Eric invests in digital media, datacenter infrastructure and semiconductors. Additionally, he helps oversee Lightspeed's investment efforts in China. He has ten years of venture capital experience and two years of industry experience.

Previously, he worked in product management at Ciena (formerly Lightera Networks). Prior to Ciena, Eric served as an Associate at InterWest Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, where he focused on communications and software investments, and as an Analyst at Morgan Stanley in the telecom mergers and acquisitions group.

Eric holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of DT Capital, a Shanghai-based venture capital firm of which Lightspeed is a limited partner. He is also Vice Chairman of Partners in School Innovation, an educational nonprofit working to improve student learning in low-income Bay Area public schools.

Selected Investments:

• Aquantia
• Bling Nation
• Evolv On-Demand
• Exclara
• Gmedia
• LuckyPai
• PCH
• Pivot 3

Mark Pincus
Founder and CEO, Zynga

Mark is a leading Internet entrepreneur, having founded and established four successful companies. His latest venture Zynga, founded in January 2008, is the largest social gaming network, and marries his knowledge of social networks with his desire to create the next mass market video game phenomenon.

In 2003, Mark founded Tribe Networks, one of the first online communities and social networking sites. Cisco purchased the core tribe.net assets to provide an initial platform for its digital media services group.

Prior to Tribe, Mark co-founded SupportSoft, Inc., a provider of service and support automation software. Mark led the company through its successful IPO to become one of the world's leading publicly traded enterprise software companies.

Mark's first company was Freeloader, the first web-based consumer push information service. Freeloader was acquired seven months later by Individual, Inc. for $38 million.

Mark earned his B.A. from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Bob Pavey
Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures

Bob, based in Cleveland, OH and Menlo Park, CA, joined Morgenthaler in 1969 and has been a Partner since 1971. From 1990 to 1992, he served as President and then Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association.

His major focus is on semiconductors, materials, and devices. He sits on the Board of Directors of Arisdyne Systems, CLK Design Automation, Five Star Technologies, Intelleflex Corporation, Paratek Microwave, Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, Sezmi Corporation, and Xoomsys, Inc. During his tenure, Bob has been involved in many of the firm's successful investments — Apple Computer, Applied Intelligent Systems (acquired by Electro Scientific), Aptis Communications (acquired by Nortel Networks), Atria Software (acquired by Rational Software), Endwave, Gliatech, Illustra Information Technologies (acquired by Informix), Intrinsa (acquired by Microsoft), New Focus, Synernetics (acquired by 3Com), and Synopsys. From 1967 until 1969, Bob held several management positions with Foseco, Inc. He received a BS in physics from The College of William & Mary in 1964, an MS in metallurgical engineering from Columbia University in 1965 (awarded in 1966), and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1967.

Bill Ruckelshaus
Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer, AudienceScience

As COO/CFO, Bill Ruckelshaus manages all financial strategy and operations for AudienceScience.

Prior to joining AudienceScience, Ruckelshaus was senior vice president of strategy and planning at Expedia, Inc., where he directed corporate development efforts for the company. He also oversaw corporate development activity for Expedia when it was part of IAC/InterActiveCorp. In his roles at Expedia, Ruckelshaus directed Expedia's mergers and acquisitions and central strategy efforts, spearheaded relationship discussions with key partners, and evaluated opportunities to broaden and extend the scope of travel operations.

Ruckelshaus has served in a number of senior positions including director of mergers and acquisitions for Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Group, where he advised the firm's Internet, software, and services clients in a variety of strategic transactions. Before that, he worked in the planning department at PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, and was a consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton.

Bill Ruckelshaus currently serves on the Board of Directors for Infospace.

Mark Sherman
General Partner, Battery Ventures

Mark joined Battery in 2000 and focuses primarily on software, technology enabled services, and India investments. Mark is currently responsible for the following investments: Coupa Software, Donnerwood Media, High Mark Credit Information Services, Mformation Technologies, TechProcess, Tejas Networks and Travelguru. Previously, Mark was a Managing Director at Robertson Stephens and led the firm's Software and Internet banking practices. Examples of Mark's IPO, Follow-on and M&A transactions include:

• Software: Arbor Networks, Aspect Development, BEA, Brio, Broadvision, Forte, Genesys, HNC, i2 (Smart), Informatica, Intraware, JD Edwards, NetIQ, Portal, Quest Software, Retek, Siebel and software.com
• Mobile: Aether, Infospace (Prio) and phone.com
• Consumer Internet: DoubleClick (NetGravity), Individual, Lifeminders, MyPoints and NetPerceptions

Additionally, Mark believes that India will become one of the core venture capital investing hubs of the world. He is on the board of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the US-Indian Venture Capital Association (US-IVCA), to leverage entrepreneurial activities between India and America. In addition, Mark is an active Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and is on the board of its Software SIG. Visit Mark's blog on India at www.abcdvc.com.

Before joining Robertson Stephens, Mark was an Associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Lazard Freres & Co. and at the advisory boutique of McFarland Dewey & Co. Mark received a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Board Positions:

• Donnerwood Media: Online personalization and serialization
• Coupa: SaaS procurement solution targeting small & mid-size business
• Mformation Technologies: Wireless Infrastructure Management software
• TechProcess: Electronic payment processor
• Tejas Networks: Leading edge optical networking products
• Travelguru : Travel solutions for Indian domestic market

Previous Positions:

• DecisionPoint Software, Inc. (acquired by NCR): Financial performance management software
• Neoteris, Inc. (acquired by NetScreen): SSL VPN appliances
• TheLoanPage, Inc. (acquired by HouseValues): Online mortgage lead intermediary

Peter Smails
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Storwize Inc.

A 20+ year storage industry veteran, Peter Smails is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Storwize Inc. In his role, Smails is responsible for all corporate marketing, including branding, press and analyst relations, and demand generation, as well as product, solution, alliances, services marketing, and field readiness.

Prior to joining Storwize, he spent 5 years at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) with responsibility for product and solutions marketing strategy and execution for their $2.5B hardware, software, and services portfolio. Prior to HDS, Smails Peter was Vice President of Product Management for OTG Software, with worldwide responsibility for the company's complete line of storage, content, and email management solutions. Prior to OTG, he held senior technical, sales, and marketing management positions at Smart Storage and Lotus Development Corporation.

Mr. Smails received his bachelor's degree in computer science from New York University.

Dan Springer
Chief Executive Officer, Responsys

Dan Springer has been the CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Responsys since April 2004. Previously, Dan was the Managing Director of Modem Media and responsible for general management of the agency's western United States operations. Prior to Modem Media he served as the CEO of Telleo, Inc., and Chief Marketing Officer of NextCard. Previous experience was with McKinsey & Company, DRI/McGraw-Hill and Pacific Bell. He holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Occidental College. Dan now serves or has served as a board member of public and private companies, including E-LOAN (Banco Popular), ITI, and eGroups (Yahoo!), as well as not-for-profit organizations Shop.org, AdTech, The Randall Museum and The San Francisco Friends School. He has also served as an Advisory Board member to many early-stage companies.

Omar Tawakol
Chief Executive Officer, BlueKai

As Chief Executive Officer at BlueKai, Omar is responsible for the overall management, growth, and vision for the company's groundbreaking data exchange business. Prior to founding BlueKai, Omar was the Chief Advertising Officer of Medio Systems, the leading provider of mobile search and advertising solutions for carriers such as Verizon and T-Mobile. He joined Medio from Revenue Science, where as Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager he was instrumental in founding and growing the company's leading behavioral targeting businesses, which provide services for many of the largest Internet publishers. There he was actively involved with key industry leaders in defining standards for behavioral targeting.

Omar earned Master of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering degrees from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from MIT. While at Stanford, he was a computer science researcher in the Stanford Logic Group as well as at HP Software Labs. Omar's research on formalizing context was published in the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Omar is also an active speaker and commentator on topics such as behavioral targeting, mobile advertising, and consumer privacy. He was recently listed in Media Magazine's Media 100 for 2008.

Todd Teresi
Chief Revenue Officer, Quantcast

Todd Teresi joined Quantcast in September 2008 as Chief Revenue Officer. He is responsible for Quantcast's business development activities and will be integral in the company's next phase of growth, specifically, the introduction of solutions that enable all market participants to more effectively leverage data, enable truly addressable advertising, increase yields and improve consumer experiences.

Teresi joined Quantcast after nearly 10 years at Yahoo! as Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s Publisher Network. Teresi contributed to the development of many of the company's highly innovative advertising, publisher network, and targeting capabilities, and helped drive strategic acquisitions, global operations and new business models.

Murli Thirumale
CEO, Ocarina Networks

Prior to co-founding Ocarina, Thirumale was Group Vice President and GM of the Citrix Advanced Solutions Group, where he led the SSL-VPN division (acquired via Net6) to the number #1 unit market share and #2 revenue share position in eighteen months.

Under his leadership, Net6 attracted $17 million in venture capital funding, secured OEM relationships with Cisco, Avaya and Nortel, and was acquired by Citrix Systems.

Prior to Net6, Thirumale was executive vice president and general manager of Symmetricom where he established Symmetricom as the undisputed leader in telecom network timing. Thirumale also spent fifteen years at Hewlett-Packard where he served as general manager of Timing Solutions for Communications Operation.

Thirumale holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with distinction from the Institute of Technology-BHU in India and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he was an Austin Distinguished Scholar.

David Thompson
Co-Founder & CEO, Genius.com

For nearly two decades Genius.com®, Inc. CEO, David Thompson, has been at the forefront of major trends in the software industry. Thompson has delivered pioneering software applications, launched the leading on-demand software service (WebEx), and developed legendary marketing campaigns.

Thompson recently authored Sales 2.0 For Dummies, Executive Edition and co-hosted the sold-out Sales 2.0 Conference, where more than 400 attendees and speakers gathered to share strategic perspectives and practical insights about how sales and marketing organizations can take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to increase sales volume and velocity. Thompson started Genius.com, a leading on-demand provider B2B demand generations and marketing automation solutions, after his tenure at WebEx Communications (Now Cisco-WebEx), serving from 1998 through late 2004 as vice president of product marketing and then chief marketing officer.

While at WebEx, Thompson shipped award-winning web conferencing products that reinvigorated the category, named the company and directed legendary marketing campaigns that vaulted WebEx to #1 in on-demand software. Thompson has also held various senior management positions for such notable companies as Quarterdeck, Genentech, and StarNine Technologies.

Michael Turner
President & CEO, Alert Logic

Michael Turner joined Alert Logic to lead the company's further growth and penetration into new markets. Turner is an experienced start-up executive, with multiple successes growing early stage companies to market leadership positions and profitability. Most recently, he was Executive VP and Director for NetQoS, where he was responsible for Marketing, Sales, Product Development and Business Development. During his tenure the company grew rapidly, and was named to both Inc. Magazine and Deloitte & Touche's lists of fastest growing companies in multiple years. Turner continues to serve as a NetQoS board member. Earlier, he was VP of Marketing for NetSolve, an early leader in remote network management services which went public and was later acquired by Cisco Systems; and Director of Marketing for Logic Automation, acquired by Synopsys. He holds a BS in Macromolecular Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and an MS in Industrial Administration from Purdue University.

Sandeep Varma
Senior Director of Corporate Development, Symantec Corporation

Sandeep Varma is Senior Director of Corporate Development at Symantec Corporation where he is responsible for executing against Symantec's M&A, divestiture and venture investing activities. In addition to other transactions, Mr. Varma spearheaded Symantec's recent acquisitions of Altiris, Revivio, Vontu, PC Tools and SwapDrive.

Prior to joining Symantec through the acquisition of Veritas, Mr. Varma was an investment banker with Broadview International, a boutique focused on technology M&A and before Broadview, Mr. Varma spent 4 years as a management consultant with APM, Inc., the largest management consultancy solely dedicated to the healthcare industry. During his tenure, Mr. Varma consulted various healthcare systems and pharmacuetical companies on M&A, operational improvement and new strategic initiatives

Mr. Varma received his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

Greg Yardley
CEO and Co-Founder, Pinch Media

Greg Yardley, CEO and co-founder of Pinch Media, has years of experience designing analytics and ad serving products. Under Greg's direction, Pinch Media has become the first, biggest, and most innovative provider of analytics for native smartphone applications. Prior to Pinch Media, Greg led product management for the real-time auction portion of Yahoo's next-generation ad serving platform, Yahoo! AMP. He joined Yahoo through the acquisition of Right Media, where he was the lead product manager on Right Media's ad server, responsible for serving over five billion impressions a day. Earlier, Greg held product management positions at Root Markets and NexTag. He holds an M.A. from Stanford University.

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