SVOD2009 Speakers

Sergei Beloussov
CEO, Parallels

Mr. Beloussov is a successful self-made entrepreneur and business executive with an outstanding 15-year track record in building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Since 2003, he has been the Chairman and CEO of Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software for consumers, businesses and service providers. Under Mr. Beloussov’s leadership, Parallels has quickly grown to profitability and #1 market positions with its innovative desktop virtualization, OS containers and control panel product lines. He is also a Founder and major investor in Acronis, a global leader in storage management and disaster recovery software for consumers, SMBs and large enterprises. Previously, Mr. Beloussov co-founded and helped grow a PC manufacturing business to $150 million in revenue in less than 3 years, the S&W electronics company to over $500 million in only 8 years, and Solomon Software SEA — each of which has become profitable in the first year since inception. He holds a B.S. in Physics, an M.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering with High Honors, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Mr. Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over 28 years of experience in high technology companies and general management as a founder and executive. He has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups since 1978. His last company, E.piphany, started in his living room in 1996. His other startups include two semiconductor companies (Zilog and MIPS Computers), a workstation company (Convergent Technologies), a supercomputer firm (Ardent), a computer peripheral supplier (SuperMac), a military intelligence systems supplier (ESL) and a video game company (Rocket Science Games). His total score includes two large craters (Rocket Science and Ardent), one dot.com bubble home run (E.piphany) and several base hits. Concurrently, Mr. Blank teaches at the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley and at the Columbia Business School. There he created the "Customer Development in High Tech Enterprise" course. He is the author of the course text "The Four Steps to the Epiphany".. Steve is also on the board of Audubon National, is Chairman of California Audubon and was appointed by the governor to the California Coastal Commission. [Courtesy of Stanford Management Science and Engineering]

Charles Giancarlo
Managing Director, Silver Lake

Charles Giancarlo joined Silver Lake in 2007 as a Managing Director. Mr. Giancarlo has over 25 years of experience in the communications industry. A senior executive at Cisco Systems from 1993-2007, Mr. Giancarlo most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Cisco and President of Cisco-Linksys, leading the company’s overall product development and management activities. As Chief Development Officer, Mr. Giancarlo directed the activities of half of Cisco’s employees, and was directly responsible for Cisco’s expansion into a large number of new markets and technologies. His first position at Cisco was Vice President of Business Development, where he developed Cisco’s merger and acquisition strategy and practice. Mr. Giancarlo joined Cisco when the company acquired Kalpana, Inc., the pioneer in Ethernet switching, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Giancarlo founded four communications equipment companies and successfully sold two of them to larger companies. Mr. Giancarlo was interim CEO of Avaya in 2008 and is currently Chairman of the Board. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of Gerson Lehrman Group, Accenture, and Netflix, Inc. Mr. Giancarlo holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Guy Kawasaki
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures

Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Vinod Khosla
Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures

Vinod grew up dreaming of being an entrepreneur, despite growing up in an Indian Army household with no business or technology connections. Since age 16, when he first heard about Intel starting up, he dreamt of starting his own technology company.

Upon graduating with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, he failed, at age 20, to start a soy milk company to service the many people in India who did not have refrigerators. He came to the US and got his Masters in Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. His startup dreams attracted him to Silicon Valley where he got an MBA at Stanford University in 1980.

Upon graduation he was one of the three founders of Daisy Systems, which was the first significant computer aided design system for electrical engineers. The company went on to significant revenue, profits and an IPO, but Khosla, driven by the frustration of having to design the computer hardware on which the Daisy software needed to be built, started the standards based Sun Microsystems in 1982 to build workstations for software developers. At Sun he pioneered "open systems" and RISC processors. Sun was funded by long time friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

In 1986 he switched sides and joined Kleiner Perkins where he was and continues to be a general partner of KPCB funds through KP X. There, through the years, with other partners, he took on Intel's monopoly with Nexgen/AMD (the only microprocessor to have significant success against Intel, sold to AMD for 28% of AMD), incubated the idea and business plan for Juniper to take on Cisco's dominance of the router market, to formulate the very early advertising based search strategy for Excite, and to transform the moribund telecommunications business and its archaic SONET implementations with Cerent (sold to Cisco for $7B), and many other ventures. He helped in creating value, having fun, succeeding, failing (remember Dynabook?) and driving impact in partnership with entrepreneur, and the partners at KPCB.

In 2004, Khosla, driven by the need for flexibility to accommodate four teenage children and a desire to be more experimental, to fund sometimes imprudent "science experiments", and to take on both "for profit" and for "social impact" ventures, formed khoslaventures, funded entirely with family funds. His goals remain the same - work and learn from fun and knowledgeable entrepreneurs, build impactful companies through the leverage of innovation, and spend time as a partnership making a difference. He has a passion for nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society.

Eric Buatois
General Partner, Sofinnova Ventures

Eric Buatois joined Sofinnova Ventures as General Partner in 2001 to drive global technology investments based on his more than 20 years of international experience in the wireless industry. Prior to Sofinnova Ventures, Eric held several positions in general management and executive operations at Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson and Texas Instruments.

Eric's career began in 1983 at Texas Instruments, where he defined and guided the DSP product line's introduction into the European market. His efforts led to the successful Europe-wide deployment of TI's DSP line. Eric served as COO of Ericsson Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications, a global joint venture specializing in network management and billing systems for wireless service providers. Eric was the executive in charge of HP's Communications Industry Business Unit before joining Sofinnova Ventures.

At Sofinnova Ventures, Eric specializes in software and semiconductor investments in the wireless area. Eric currently serves as Chairman of the Board for Crocus Technologies and as a director for Cortina Systems, CrestaTech, Laszlo Systems, HelloSoft and VoluBill.

Eric received his M.S. in Computer Science and Communications Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in France. He is an active board member of the International School of the Peninsula.

Ron Conway
Founding General Partner, Angel Investors LP

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. He was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "deal-makers" in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors.  Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO (1979-1990) and took Altos public on Nasdaq in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) (1991-1995).  PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL).  Ron has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg.com, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content, Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).

Philanthropically, Ron is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.

Joshua Goldman
General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners

Josh joins Norwest Venture Partners with more than 20 years of operational experience having been a repeat entrepreneur, CEO, board member and investor in several high-growth technology companies. Josh has spent his career seeking to combine his passion for breakthrough technology with an ability to create innovative and sustainable business models for high-growth companies. At NVP, Josh focuses on investments in consumer-facing internet products and services including search, e-commerce, social networking and digital media. His current investments and board seats include NearbyNow, an Internet and mobile local shopping services company, and Sojern, an innovative advertising company servicing the travel industry. He is actively involved with the boards of directors at Evincii, Retrevo and Sonoa Systems.

Prior to NVP, Josh was CEO of Akimbo Systems, Inc., (a company backed by Cisco, AT&T and leading venture capital firms), which delivers video-on-demand content to large service operators and set-top makers including AT&T. Prior to Akimbo, Josh was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sprout Group in Menlo Park, California.

Prior to Sprout Group, Josh was President and CEO of mySimon, Inc., a pioneer in online comparison shopping services. Josh oversaw all aspects of the company's growth into one of the largest and best-known consumer ecommerce companies in the late 1990's, culminating in its acquisition by CNet Networks in early 2000 for $730 million. After the acquisition, Josh was named President of CNet's Consumer Division, reporting to the company's CEO.

Earlier in his career, Josh held management roles at USWeb/CKS (which went public, and was then acquired by Whitman-Hart, Inc.), Softbank Content Services (Acquired by Logistix, Inc.), Phoenix Technologies, Inc., and Apple Computer Inc., Josh has served on the Board of Directors at Synaptics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNA) through its Initial Public Offering as well as at Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: ASKJ) until its acquisition by IAC/Interactive Corp for $1.9 billion. Josh also served on the Board of Directors at PremierGuide, Inc. (acquired by Local.com) as well as at Akimbo Systems, Inc. He also has served on the Board of Advisors at Zedo, PremierGuide and Hyperpia.

Josh holds an MBA from Harvard Business school and a Bachelor of Science (honors) degree in Computer Science from Tufts University

Dmitry Dubograev
Founder and Managing Partner, Femida LLP

Dmitri I. Dubograev is a founder and managing partner of FEMIDA.US in Washington, D.C. He focuses on representation of US and international clients in the information technology, finance, energy, telecommunication, software and biotechnology industries in cross-border transactions, technology transfers and corporate structuring and financing.
Mr. Dubograev received his degree in law with excellence from Belarussian State University in 1991 and his J.D. from Washington and Lee University in 1994. He is admitted to the District of Columbia and Virginia Bars.

Esther Dyson
Director, 23andMe

Esther Dyson is a long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the US and other markets, including Russia. Since selling her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in 2004, she has taken on newer challenges in private aviation and space as well as in health care (as a director of 23andMe, a consumer genetics company). Her IT investments have included Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!), and Medstory (sold to Microsoft), as well as Meetup Inc., Eventful.com, Boxbe and Voxiva; She sits on the boards of the latter four companies. She is also an active investor in air and space, with holdings in Space Adventures and Zero-G Corporation, as well as XCOR Aerospace, Constellation Services International, Coastal Technologies Group, Dopplr.com, Airship Ventures and Icon Aircraft. She operates her business under the (reclaimed) name of EDventure Holdings.

Gary Little,
Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures

Gary was named to the 2008 and 2009 Forbes Midas 100 lists honoring the most successful and influential people in venture capital. He focuses on Internet services and software investments. His investments include NexTag, Netli (acq. by Akamai), TimesTen (acq. by Oracle) and KnowledgeNet (acq. by Thompson). Gary currently serves on the boards of Rhythm NewMedia, JasperSoft, Mule Source and Opinmind. He previously served on the board of imeem.

Gary joined Morgenthaler Ventures in 1997. Previously, he served in several roles at Apple Computer, including SVP of Apple's Power Macintosh Division, VP Sales Americas, and Sr. Dir of Marketing for Apple's Pacific division (China, Japan, Asia, Latin America, Canada).

Previously, Gary spent seven years at Sun Microsystems as Director of Product Marketing, Director of Asia Pacific Marketing (including a posting in Hong Kong), and as Group Manager of Industry Marketing. Before Sun, he held sales and marketing positions at IBM. Gary began his career as an IC design engineer for TRW's microelectronics research labs. Gary earned an MBA from Harvard University and a BSEE from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Education: Harvard (MBA), U.C.L.A. (BSEE).

Focus: Internet services and software

Leonid Gozman
Board Member, RUSNANO

Leonid is a Board Member and the Head of Humanitarian Projects at RUSNANO, a $5B Russian State Corporation of Nanotechnologies. Before RUSNANO, Leonid was a Member of the Executive Board and Authorized Representative for the Government and NGO Relations at RAO UES (Energy Sector) of Russia. He also served as an Advisor to Anatoly Chubais, then the Head of Presidential Administration and later First Deputy
Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. Leonid was a Member of the Democratic Choice of Russia Party and Secretary of the Federal Political Council of the Party and then a Co-Chair of the Federal Political Council, Right Cause Political Party in Russia.

In 1993 Leonid was a Researcher at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. and a Professor of Psychology and Russian Research at the Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1992 Leonid served as an Advisor to Egor Gaidar, then the Acting First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Leonid graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in Psychology and received his Ph.D. in 1983. Upon graduating from the university, he became a member of the Social Psychology Department at the Moscow State University, specializing in interpersonal relations and political psychology. Leonid is currently an Associate  Professor of Social Psychology Department, Moscow State University and is the author of eight books.

Franklin Pitch Johnson
Founding Partner, Asset Management Company

Pitch Johnson leads the Asset Management team. Known throughout the venture capital industry for his vision, insight and principles, he has been at the center of a number of Silicon Valley's biggest and longest-running success stories. He stands out as one of the inventors of the venture capital business.

A Palo Alto High School graduate, Pitch got into venture capital after graduating from Stanford University and Harvard Business School, doing a hitch in the Air Force and working the furnaces at a steel mill. In 1962, he and Bill Draper decided to put together an early investment fund.
Three years later, Pitch founded Asset Management Company. Over the ensuing decades, Pitch launched and managed a number of funds. Many Silicon Valley firms owe their success to the leadership that came from Asset Management.

Among Pitch's many accomplishments, he helped found Amgen and served on the board of directors for 27 years. Pitch also served on the board of directors of Applied Micro Circuits and, until its merger into BMC Software, served for 30 years as chairman of the board of Boole and Babbage. Pitch remains an active board member of a number of private companies.

In addition, Pitch devotes time to developing venture capital operations in other countries, particularly in Eastern Europe. He also created and for 12 years taught the course in venture capital at Stanford Business School.

Pitch and his family are intensely involved in philanthropic and community activities, primarily in the Bay Area. He also has been active in alumni affairs at both Stanford and Harvard Business School, and served for over a decade as a trustee of the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District. Pitch is a long-time trustee of the San Francisco Opera and is its current board chairman.

Kittu Kolluri
General Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Kittu joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner and focuses on information technology investments. Present NEA board memberships include OANDA, NEA-IndoUS Ventures, Novatium, Plusmo, RingCube Technologies, Teracent, Vuclip and WeatherBill. Prior NEA board memberships include PortAuthority (NASDAQ: WBSN) and SnapTell (acquired by Amazon.com). Formerly, Kittu was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks, a position he assumed following Juniper's acquisition of NetScreen Technologies. At NetScreen, he was General Manager of Secure Access Products, a position he assumed following NetScreen's acquisition of Neoteris, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Kittu brings more than 18 years of experience at the leading edge of the technology industry. He co-founded Healtheon/WebMD, introducing online healthcare to the market. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Provider Services, Kittu was responsible for product development, operations and business development. Before co-founding Healtheon/WebMD, Kittu worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) managing high profile Interactive TV projects. Kittu holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and a M.S. in Operations Research from the State University of New York, Buffalo.

Adam Lashinsky
Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine

Adam Lashinsky covers Silicon Valley and Wall Street for FORTUNE. He has been on the magazine’s staff since 2001, and for two years before that was a contributing columnist. In addition, he is a weekly panelist on the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto on Business” program on Saturday morning, and he appears frequently throughout the week on other Fox News and Fox Business Network programs. He also is a seasoned speaker and panel moderator.

Lashinsky’s articles focus on, but are not limited to, coverage of finance and technology. Feature articles have included in-depth examinations of Silicon Valley stalwarts Apple, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel, as well as coverage of venture capital, private equity and the post-Katrina economic recovery of New Orleans.

Prior to joining FORTUNE, Lashinsky was the Silicon Valley columnist for TheStreet.com. From 1997 to 1999, he was the San Jose Mercury News' first high-tech stocks columnist, and from 1992 to 1997, he covered a variety of beats as a reporter for Crain's Chicago Business, culminating in the position of assistant managing editor. He left Crain's for a year beginning in late 1994 to work as a Henry Luce Scholar in Tokyo as a reporter for the Nikkei Weekly, the English-language version of Japan's main economic daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun. From 1989 to 1992, he worked in the Washington DC bureau of Crain Communications Inc.

A native of Chicago, Lashinsky earned a degree in history and political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Ping Li
General Partner, Accel Partners

Ping joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on Information Technology Infrastructure and Digital Media platforms. His specific areas of interest also include cloud computing (see below), datacenter virtualization, distributed data management/storage, internet datacenter scalability and gaming. He currently is an investor/Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Ludic Labs, Mochi Media, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe; and he is actively involved in Imperva. Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco).
 
Prior to Accel, Ping worked at Juniper Networks as a Senior Product Line Manager for their flagship M-series router products, as well as Director of Corporate Development. Ping was actively involved in Juniper's multi-billion dollar acquisition of Netscreen Technologies and led all subsequent security and routing product and R&D integration activities. He also served as a strategy consultant for Mckinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.
 
Ping has extensive international experience as well. At Singapore Telecom, he served directly for the executive management team in operating and investing in Asian growth opportunities. Prior to SingTel, Ping worked at Goldman Sachs Asia, transacting technology IPOs and M&A. Ping continues to be active internationally by working closely with Oak Pacific Interactive (Xiaonei) and IDG-Accel China Fund.
 
Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Phil Libin
CEO, Evernote

Phil Libin is the CEO of Evernote. He is an entrepreneur and executive who has led two Internet companies from the very beginning to proven commercial success, and helped three others through rapid growth. Prior to joining Evernote, Phil founded and served as president of CoreStreet, currently one of the top companies providing smart credential and identity management technologies to governments and large corporations throughout the world. Previously, Phil was founder and CEO of Engine 5, a leading Boston-based Internet software development company acquired by Vignette Corporation in early 2000, where he went on to serve as principal architect and chief technologist for applications.

In addition to his operational expertise, Phil is a software engineer by training and started his career by building complex systems for ATG, Exchange Applications and EF. Phil is an active technology author and public speaker, having appeared in numerous industry events and publications. In 2004 Phil was named an "Innovator of the Year" by InfoWorld magazine.

Peter Loukianoff
Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners

Prior to co-founding Almaz Capital, Peter was a partner at Alloy Ventures from 2001-2008. Before his career in venture capital, Peter co-founded an enterprise software company and was an operating executive with two other successful Internet and mobility start-ups in Silicon Valley. From 1989 through 1994, he worked in Russia with prominent scientific institutions, including the Kurchatov Institute, Troitsk Triniti Research Center, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, to facilitate licensing arrangements with US companies, including Apple, Sun Microsystems, and General Atomics, among others. In 1991, Peter was the first to organize a Perestroika-era Russian-American symposium on technology transfer and commercialization. He is on the board of directors of Attune Systems, Apptera and Ravenflow, and is a co-inventor on five patent-pending voice advertising and mobile messaging technologies.

Peter earned an MBA and BS Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bo Parker, Managing Director, Center for Technology and Innovation, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Bo Parker leads a research team focused on the future of emerging and disruptive technologies and their business impact.  The primary vehicle for publishing our research is PricewaterhouseCooper's Technology Forecast, a quarterly journal covering technology since 1990.  The team Bo leads out of Silicon Valley is in the process of expanding as a new Center for Technology and Innovation in Russia will be formed in 2010.

Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Bo led a number of technology initiatives at Stanford University, and conducted research and published studies in behavioral medicine at SRI International.

Bo received both his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California.
 

Pavel Pogodin
Partner, Sughrue Mion LLP

Pavel Pogodin, Ph.D., is a partner in Sughrue’s Silicon Valley office, where he counsels clients on all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent procurement, due diligence, product clearance, licensing and litigation. Dr. Pogodin has developed advanced tools and methodologies for efficiently and effectively building and managing intellectual property strategies and portfolios for various types of enterprises ranging from startups to FORTUNE 500 companies. He has successfully handled and managed cases in a broad range of technologies and has a vast litigation experience before the patent office as well as state and federal courts. Dr. Pogodin has authored numerous publications on scientific and legal topics and he is a frequent invited speaker at legal and corporate events and conferences both in the US and abroad.

Dr. Pogodin came to Sughrue from Oracle Corporation, the world’s largest supplier of database management systems and other business software. While at Oracle, Dr. Pogodin was responsible for all aspects of managing intellectual property internationally, including developing and implementing intellectual property strategies for various business units, supervising patent prosecution work, evaluating intellectual property of acquisition targets, negotiating complex intellectual property agreements, performing product clearances, and handling patent litigations. In addition, Dr. Pogodin has extensive experience in obtaining patent protection for software inventions, as well as inventions in telecommunications and hardware, image analysis, electronic circuit design and manufacture, physics, optics and semiconductor chip design, manufacture and testing.

Jason Pressman
General Partner, Shasta Ventures

Jason Pressman focuses on investment opportunities in the technology-enabled services and software sectors for Shasta Ventures. Prior to joining Shasta Ventures, he was the fourth employee at Walmart.com, a venture-backed start-up where he was vice president of strategy, business development and operations. In that role, Jason helped build the business into one of the leading commerce sites on the web.
Prior to Walmart.com, Jason served as an associate at Selby Venture Partners where he focused on services and software investments. Previously, he was an analyst and associate at Alex Brown in investment banking where he advised venture-backed start-ups on financings and merger and acquisitions.
Jason earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Maryland.

Mike Selfridge
Northern CA Region Manager, Silicon Valley Bank

Mike Selfridge is the Northern California region manager for Silicon Valley Bank. He is responsible for the leadership, management and financial performance of all lending activities and client relationships for the company’s core constituency of venture-backed companies as well as the venture capital and private equity firms throughout the region. Selfridge has deep expertise in business development, finance, risk management, leadership and specializes in global diversified financial products and services for the technology, venture capital and private equity industries worldwide.

Selfridge joined SVB Financial Group in 1997 and has held a number of leadership positions in sales, credit, international expansion, product development and financing solutions. Prior to his current role, Selfridge was the Head of Europe and Israel regions for SVB in addition to managing the company’s Global Products Division which included SVB Asset Management, investments, international credit products, foreign exchange trading, trade finance, global treasury management and online banking.

During his tenure with Silicon Valley Bank, Selfridge has also served as the division manager for the commercial bank’s activities in the Northeast, was a senior credit officer for the entire Southeast region and senior vice president of Silicon Valley Bank’s International Group. Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank, Selfridge worked in corporate banking for HSBC and loan audit group for Wells Fargo Bank.

Selfridge currently serves on the advisory board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the official export credit agency of the U.S. government, which was responsible for authorizing $12.6 billion in financing to support an estimated $16 billion of U.S. exports in 2007. He also serves on the board of directors of the Housing Trust of Santa Clara and the advisory boards for both the Bay Area chapter of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Santa Clara University’s business school. Selfridge holds a bachelor of science degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, and a master’s of business administration from the University of San Francisco.

Vimal Solanki
Vice President, Corporate Strategy, McAfee

Vimal Solanki drives corporate strategy for world's largest dedicated security company, McAfee.  McAfee has outpaced the market and the peers through combination of innovation and re-invention.  Prior to his current role, he managed worldwide Product and Solution Marketing for McAfee and led through aggressive growth as McAfee reinvented itself from a sleepy anti-virus company to the dynamic company with the broadest security portfolio.

Vimal has a history of driving paradigm shift in the industry through out-of-the-box thinking and pragmatic approach to solving complex problems, both at small and large companies.  His earlier work surrounded industry's first commercial IP backbone as well as industry's first set of managed security services.  He conducted his undergraduate studies at MS University in India and graduate studies at Columbia University in New York.

Matthew Trevithick
General Partner, Venrock

Matt joined Venrock in 2004 after a 4-year investigation of energy-related applications of nanotechnology. Matt previously co-founded and sold two software companies - LiquidMarket, a product search and comparison shopping service, acquired by NBC Internet in 1999 and Flash Communications, a developer of instant messaging technology, acquired by Microsoft in 1998. In addition to his entrepreneurial efforts, Matt worked in project finance and currency trading in Tokyo, London, Singapore and New York. As a co-founder of two acquired companies, combined with his energy and finance background, Matt has an in-depth understanding of the entrepreneur and what it takes to get across the finish line.

Evgeni Utkin
CEO, Kvazar-Micro

Evgeni Utkin is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Ukraine. Over the last 19 years has made several successful innovative projects
in hi-tech area. In 1990 he founded "Kvazar-Micro" Corporation.

Today Evgeni Utkin chairs the board of directors of "Кvazar-Micro Securities". He is the President of "KMS Ukraine", chairman of the board of directors of "NIIME and Micron" plc (Science and Research
Institute of Molecular Electronics, Russia) and Chairman of the board of directors of the "Polyteda" Company (Canada).

In 2005 "Kvazar-Micro" was acquired by JSC "Sitronics". In 2006 Evgeni Utkin became President of JSC "Sitronics". Under his guidance the company launched its first IPO on the London Stock Exchange, raising market capital of 2 bln. 300 million USD, becoming the largest high
tech company in Eastern Europe.

In October 2007 Evgeni Utkin left the company.

In June 2009 "Kvazar-Micro Securities" was bought from the "Sitronics" the IT-distribution direction and brand "Kvazar-Micro".

Education:
1982 - graduated from Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, majoring in micro processors and their systems.

2001 - graduated from NSEAD Business school (France), Programme for top executives.

2008 - graduated from IMD Business school (Switzerland), Program of "Innovative business management"

Vivek Mehra, General Partner, August Capital (Internet)

Vivek joined August Capital in 2003. He invests broadly in IT infrastructure and areas of interest include data center technologies, systems management, security, storage, and cloud computing systems and software.

Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek co-founded Cobalt Networks in 1996. As CTO & VP of Product Development, Vivek built the first successful server appliance and grew Cobalt into a worldwide leader in the category, culminating in a successful IPO and acquisition by Sun Microsystems for $2B. At Sun, Vivek served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Cobalt Business Unit and a member of Sun’s Technical Architecture Counsel.

Prior to founding Cobalt, Vivek held a number of technical and management positions at Apple, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corporation and successfully developed numerous products including Internet enabled set-top boxes, PDAs, RISC workstations, and high performance graphics subsystems.

Vivek received a BS in Electronics from Punjab University, India, and an MS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.

Current Investments and Board Affiliations: DotNetNuke, PacketTrap Networks, and Virsto Software.

Previous August Capital investments: Reconnex (acquired by McAfee), Encentuate (acquired by IBM), NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco), PulseCore Semiconductor (acquired by ON Semiconductor), and Iridigm (acquired by Qualcomm). Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek was an investor in NetFish (acquired by Iona) and Octane Software (acquired by Epiphany), was an advisor to Perfigo (acquired by Cisco) and served on the board of Net6 (acquired by Citrix).

Dmitry Vasyutinsky
Managing Director Private Equity&Venture Capital, Allianz ROSNO

Allianz ROSNO Asset Management is based in Moscow, Russia and is part of Allianz SE, one of the world's leading financial services groups.

Since joining Allianz ROSNO in 2004 Dmitry has played a key role in building the firm's venture capital business. He is the leader of the team that launched Russia's first public private venture capital funds in 2006, and since then has invested into 15 early stage technology companies. With over 150 million dollars of venture capital under management, Dmitry and his team are an active player in the Russian VC market.

Mr. Vasyutinsky has 17 years of investment management experience in private equity, venture capital and real estate.

Dmitry received a Master in Management degree and Sloan Fellowship from the London Business School. He serves on the boards of Razoom Inc., TViGle, Mobile Innovations, Legos. Dmitry is a frequent speaker at unternational conferences and is known as an active promoter of private equity/VC investments in Russia.

David Feinleib
Partner, Mohr-Davidow Ventures

David Feinleib brings extensive entrepreneurial and operating experience to his role at MDV. He invests in Internet-enabled companies.

Prior to MDV, David ran a profitable online advertising business. He founded Likewise, a venture funded company providing interoperability software for mixed Windows and Linux environments. Before Likewise, David was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Partners, where he co-founded and was VP of Product Management at Consera Software (HPQ).
Prior to Consera, David co-founded and was CEO of onDevice (KEYN), a wireless software company.

Before onDevice, David led marketing and development teams at Microsoft.
He managed the Out of Box Experience team for Windows and worked on television and Internet access services. David's first entrepreneurial endeavor was in junior high school when he developed and sold ShareWare programs.

David maintains a blog at www.vcdave.com. He sourced MDV's investments in Fliqz, Genius, hi5, Infusion Software, Ironkey, and PBworks. He serves on the board of VirtuOz, and is a board observer at Visible Measures. He is also a director of Likewise .

David holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Alexander Egorov
CEO & Co-Founder, Reksoft

Alexander Egorov co-founded Reksoft (http://www.reksoft.com), one of Russia’s top 5 software development outsourcing companies, in 1991, and has served as CEO since then.
Alongside his duties at Reksoft, Mr. Egorov has co-founded a number of highly successful IT ventures, including Ozon.ru, Russia’s largest online retailer, in 1998, and Assist, Russia's leading Internet payments gateway, the following year. He also serves on the board of several innovation organisations including the St. Petersburg State Technopark.
In 2009 he was elected Chairman of the Russian Software Development Association (RUSSOFT).
Mr. Egorov holds an MBA degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Konstantin Demetriou
Managing Director, RUSNANO

Having graduated from Moscow State University and Cambirdge University, Mr. Demetriou worked as an investment advisor for the International Finance Corporation (division of the World Bank). Later he continued his studies in Cornell University in the US, graduating with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. After graduation, he worked for Lehman Brothers in London and New York in Investment Banking. From 2000 to 2006 Mr. Demetriou worked in London as a Principal Banker for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development managing projects with leading Russian and foreign companies, structuring and monitoring transactions in the real estate, petrochemical, oil and gas, telecommunications, infrastructure and mining industries. In 2006 Mr. Demetriou became Head of the Capital Markets and Investments for Russia and the CIS, and a board member of Jones Lang LaSalle Russia and CIS. Since 2008 he has been a Managing Director of Rusnano.

Educational background:
1994 - graduated prima cum laude majoring in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University.
1994 - completed Masters Program in International Relations in the University of Cambridge.
1998 - completed Master of Business Administration program of Cornell University.

Aydin Senkut
GP from Felicis Ventures

Felicis Ventures combines angel investing, active mentoring and advisory services to offer a more beneficial approach for the entrepreneur. Our focus is mainly on early stage, consumer internet start-ups based on the following fundamentals:

- Original ideas combined with world-class technology
- Founding teams with excellent track record or big vision
- Highly infectious, solid growth potential
- Significant addressable potential market
- Highly capital efficient

While majority of our investments are in Silicon Valley and the East Coast of the US, talented entrepreneurs from any country are welcome. We look forward to hearing from you.

Saeed Amidi
CEO, President &Founder Plug and Play Tech Center Founding General Partner, Amidzad

Saeed Amidi is the Founder, President and CEO of Plug and Play Tech Center. Plug and Play is the premier technology startup accelerator in the world with over 200 companies which collectively have raised an excess of $ 750 million.

Amidzad, has been investing in technology companies for over 15 years and it holds successful investments in over 70 technology companies like: PayPal, Powerset, Danger, Bix, etc.

Saeed is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned executive with over 28 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies. He has successfully started and grown businesses both nationally as well as internationally in countries like: Spain, Italy, France, Austria etc.

Saeed’s recent passion is inspiring and helping entrepreneurs and startups out of universities. In this respect, he is working closely with MIT, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Clara, Wharton, Dartmouth to identify great entrepreneurs with  a passion to execute on their ideas.

Saeed is an active member of the technology community and a frequent contributor to numerous charitable foundations. He is also an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a world-class network of Fortune 500 CEOs, accomplished serial entrepreneurs, and veteran financial executives.

Anna S. Dvornikova, President, AmBAR

Anna is a Founder and CEO of Entana Corp., a boutique entrepreneurship and venture advisory firm that focuses on business strategy, planning and fundraising for the early-stage technology start-ups. Anna also is an angel investor and serves on the Advisory Boards and the Board of Directors of several technology startup companies. She is the author of many articles on entrepreneurship, angel and venture financing.

Previously, Anna was a Co-Founder and the VP of Business Development at BKP Security, a government IT security company. Prior to that, she was a Foreign Advisor at the international law firm of Coudert Brothers. Anna has her J.D. from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and her Master of Laws degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.

Stas Khirman
Board Member, AmBAR
Founder & CTO, Khirman & Son

Stas Khirman is serial entrepreneur, telecommunication expert and technological leader. He has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry as an architect, manager, visionary and inventor. Prior to founding "Khirman&Son", Stas co-founded Skyrider - revolutionary company developing technologies to organize and monetize peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Prior to Skyrider, Stas co-founded Narus, a global leader in software and technology for the telecom industry and government agencies, where he designed the world’s most scalable network transaction analysis system. Stas had previously served as the networking group leader at VDOnet, a pioneer in internet video. Stas was behind the development of a number of standards organizations and participated in the early definition of the VoIP H.323 protocol.

Stas holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Kiev.

Andrey Kunov
Board Member, AmBAR
Founder & CEO Credentiality, Inc.

Andrey is an entrepreneur focusing on technology startups. His founded Amecra, Inc and now is working on Credentiality, Inc. He is a co-founder of the US-Russia Technology Symposium LLC (Global Technology Symposium), "A-Business" business magazine in Kazakhstan, and "3DMission" technology startup in California. Andrey is also interested in economic and political research on the issues related to Russia and Eastern Europe.

Previously, he served as an Associate Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University. Before that he worked as a senior economist at the Institute for Open Economy, Moscow, Russia. Prior to that he was a researcher and academic coordinator at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

Andrey received his PhD in political science from Stanford University, MA in international economics from the University of Newcastle (UK), MA in transition economics and politics from the Central European University (Hungary), and BA in philosophy from Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan). He has authored and co-authored various publications on politics, economy, and state of technology in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Isaac Fehrenbach
Principal, Greylock Partners

Anna Dvornikova: Isaac is leading Greylock’s efforts in Energy and CleanTech. He led Greylock’s investment in SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services company. He participates in the SunEdison board of directors.

Isaac has an 11 year background in semiconductors and communications. Most recently, Isaac was Director of Marketing at Tabula where he was responsible for all aspects of product and strategic marketing including the product definition of Tabula’s whole product.

Prior to Tabula, Isaac was an Associate at Greylock where he participated in many of the firm’s operations. He sourced Greylock’s investments in Data Robotics and ZeroG Wireless. He was also a board observer at Data Domain (DDUP),RightNow (RNOW), Tabula, and ZeroG Wireless. In addition, he has held a variety of marketing and sales positions at Altera and Cypress Semiconductor.

Isaac has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BSEE from the University of Michigan.

Ilya Ponomarev, Chairman
Hi-Tech Development Subcommittee, Russian State Duma

Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev (Russian: Илья Владимирович Пономарёв; born 6 August 1975) is a Russian left-wing politician, business manager and an author.

Ponomarev graduated from Moscow State University (Faculty of Physics)

Ponomarev started his career in 1989 in Institute of Nuclear Safety, USSR Academy of Sciences, as a system programmer and training group manager.

In 1991 he founded his own company RussProfi Ltd., specialized in IT and software development.

In 1995 it merged with Russian-American joint venture «International Network Connections», where Mr. Ponomarev became chief of operations. JV INC specialized in creation of nation-wide heterogeneous corporate networks, including biggest in Russia corporate network for Yukos oil company.

In 1996 Mr. Ponomarev joined Schlumberger Oilfield Services as CIS business development and marketing manager, responsible for search of new technologies in Russia which had global potential within oil and gas industry. Such technologies as ProMIS production management system was implemented in such companies as BP, PDVSA, Sonatrach as well as in Russian Yukos, LUKOIL and Surgutneftegas.

In 1998 under framework of Schlumberger-Yukos alliance Mr. Ponomarev became CIO of Yukos E&P. In 1999 founded Yukos subsidiary Siberian Internet Company, which later gave birth to a majority of Yukos social and education initiatives, including Federation of Internet Education and Open Russia Foundation. In 2000 Mr. Ponomarev became president of Yukos-owned ARRAVA venture capital fund, which fathered projects in interactive TV domain and analytical “mission control” systems.

Since 2001 Mr. Ponomarev worked in GR – firstly, in Yukos, overseeing Yakutiya; later, since 2002 – in Russian biggest IT company IBS as Vice-President, GR and Strategic business development.

In 2002 joined Communist Party of Russian Federation and became party’s CIO, creating most popular partisan Web site kprf.ru and votes counting system, parallel to official one – which helped to prove a major fraud in Russian legislative election, 2003, barring liberal parties from getting into State Duma. Since 2002 Mr. Ponomarev also became director of New Policy Research Center in Institute of Globalization Studies.

Since 2004 he is one of founders and most prominent leaders of Left Front of Russia coalition, uniting Russian alternative left groups and labor unions, communist and socialist youth. In 2006 was coordinator of G8 contrsummit in St.-Petersburg, which became most massive nation-wide protest action – and most massive police operation with hundreds of detained activists in different Russian regions.

Since 2004 Mr. Ponomarev is involved in several government projects and task force group aimed to support innovation and entrepreneurship. In 2004 he chaired expert team for the State Council of Russian Federation for creating special economic zones. This work resulted, after President Putin's visit to Bangalore in early 2005, in drafting a special law and initiating two government-sponsored initiatives: one for developing special economic zones, and another - for creating a network of hi-tech parks.

In 2005-2006 Mr. Ponomarev worked as first deputy director of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov's initiative "Civil Shift" (Grazhdanskaya Smena), responsible for entrepreneurship support.

In September 2006 Mr. Ponomarev was appointed as national coordinator for hi-tech parks development task force under Ministry of IT and Telecom of Russian Federation. He supervised construction of hi-tech park facilities in Moscow region, St.-Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Obninsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kemerovo and Saransk.

In 2007 Mr. Ponomarev claimed that Communist Party leadership fell under control of Kremlin administration and joined Spravedlivaya Rossiya (Fair Russia, social democrats led by Russian Senate speaker Sergey Mironov) party ranks.

In 2007 he was elected into State Duma (representing Novosibirsk – capital of Siberia and major Russian fundamental research and science center). In State Duma became chairman of Hi-Tech Development Subcommittee, responsible for legislation in hi-tech parks, special economical zones, tax breaks, venture capital funding, etc. Since 2008 – programs director of Institute of Strategic Development (Advisory Board is chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev).

he is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers/IT, Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (СВОП), Council for National Strategy (СНС). Fellow at «Open Russia» Foundation.

Doug Hamilton
Managing Director, SVB Capital

Doug Hamilton is a managing director in the Private Equity Group of SVB Capital, Hamilton is a managing director of the SVB Strategic Investors Fund, as well as an investment manager for Silicon Valley BancVentures.

In addition to sourcing and managing fund investments, Hamilton oversees venture capital relationships with many top-tier venture capital and private equity fi rms on Sand Hill Road, where Hamilton has been located since 1994. In his role, Hamilton leverages the entire SVB platform and its member divisions.

Hamilton is well known by more than 400 general partners of venture capital fi rms and often speaks at venture fi rms’ chief executive offi cer  events and moderates panels at venture capital industry conferences. Prior to this role, he served as senior lender for Silicon Valley Bank’s Palo Alto offi ce, focusing on lending to venture capital backed startup companies.

Before joining SVB, Hamilton was a commercial lender with Union Bank, where he was responsible for growing and maintaining the largest portfolio in their Mid-Peninsula Regional offi ce.

Hamilton earned a bachelor’s degree in fi nance from the University of Arizona and a master’s in business administration with a concentration in corporate fi nance from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, Calif.