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Jim Anderson

Jim Anderson has over two decades in venture capital, including founding partnership positions in Merrill Pickard Anderson & Eyre; and in Foundation Capital, with collectively well over $1 billion in capital commitments. Jim has watched, coached, and participated in the nurture of hundreds of early-stage companies, helping develop them into industry leaders. He came to venture capital with a comprehensive engineering and marketing background, ranging from semiconductors to computer systems built at Beckman Instruments and Hewlett-Packard, Jim was one of the early few to leverage true operational experience. This background provided Jim with a venture platform for some unique value- added industry management approaches to the venture industry including early seed investing, development of the entrepreneur-in-residence concept, and the continuing need and value of a deep seated focus on industry markets.

After stepping back from the venture capital industry for a period, he created Legacy Partners, a $100 million+ philanthropic venture vehicle designed to encourage high-impact philanthropy through venture style collaboration and entrepreneurship.

Jim has continued activities in the valley as an early stage investor with a particular focus in the environmental arena especially regarding global warming.

Jim holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as a BSEE and an MSEE from Purdue University.

David Bakker

David Bakker has a winning track record with over 20 years experience theSemiconductor Industry; Most recently Mr Bakker was the Executive Chairman of Inovys Corporation, acquired by Verigy in Dec 2007. Previously, he was Vice President and General Manager at KLA-Tencor, the leading semiconductor metrology company with revenues over  $2B. Mr Bakker is also on the board of Ribbecke Guitar Corp, and on the advisory boards of scanR Corp, Infinitesima, Finesse, Stratosphere,  Presto Engineering, Advanced Image Science, and Argos, and is an Affiliate Partner of Storm Ventures.

Joe Beninato

Joe Beninato is no stranger to the entrepreneurial world. Since graduating from M.I.T. with a degree in aerospace engineering, Joe has worked with more than fifteen startups, serving as founder, employee, investor or advisor.

He is currently the founder and board director for Presto, a venture-backed startup in partnership with Hewlett-Packard that allows people who don’t use computers to receive digital photos and emails from their family and friends. He is also a board member for the non-profit Churchill Club, Silicon Valley’s premier business and technology forum.

Before founding Presto, he was Vice President of Product Marketing & Business Development at Roku, a privately-held digital media startup company. Prior to Roku, Joe co-founded and served as Vice President of Marketing for When.com, a leading Internet calendar and event service that was acquired by America Online less than one year after incorporation. In addition, Joe has spearheaded marketing and product efforts for Books That Work, Integrated Systems, Inc. and S3 Inc., later known as SONICBlue.

Actively involved in the Silicon Valley startup community, Joe is a limited partner in several venture capital funds, and has served on the board of directors for When.com and eDaycare (acquired by Parentwatch). He has acted as an investor or advisor for Bigstep (acquired by Affinity Internet), Ofoto (acquired by Kodak), SuperSecret (private), Topica (private), and numerous other startup companies.

Heinz Blennemann

Heinz is an angel investor and an active member at both Band of Angels and the Keiretsu Angel Investing Forum, where he volunteers as the Director of Research. He successfully built and then managed Juniper's first signal-integrity/technology team for eight years. Concurrently, he taught in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University as consulting professor and lecturer for two years. Previously, he has led technology teams and designed high-speed interfaces and systems at Silicon Graphics and I.B.M. He received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Highest Honors) from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A from the Wharton School of Business.

Heinz's passion is mentoring student Entrepreneurship teams. He can be reached at heinz@blennemann.com .

Richard Bush

Richard Bush has an outstanding history of entrepreneurial achievement, assuming roles from engineer and worker-bee to top-executive, in a series of successful Silicon Valley companies which he began with venture or angel funding and transitioned into multi-million dollar publicly traded businesses.

In a career marked by entrepreneurial endeavors and by mentoring fledgling start-ups to success, Dick is recognized for his guidance and ability to build strategies and assemble teams that seize market opportunity and achieve business, financial and cultural goals.

He has over 30 years of combined high-tech experience in the computer, storage, security and communications. His roles have ranged from VP of Sales and Marketing and other top executive roles including CEO and Chairman. Companies he has been involved with include Bridge Communications, Auspex Systems, Blue Steel, ePeople and Caw Networks.

Shawn T. Carolan

Shawn joined Menlo Ventures in 2002 and has focused primarily on connected software and services. He represents Menlo Ventures on the boards of CinemaNow, IMVU, PlayPhone, Playspan and TeleNav, and is involved with the firm's investments in ePAC and MobiTV. Before joining Menlo, Shawn was a management consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, after spending most of his career in software development and engineering management positions. He was Manager of Software Architecture for Open Port Technology, a start-up that created Internet-based messaging software for data carriers where he authored a patent.  Prior to that, Shawn worked at Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group and Wireless Data Group, Sprint PCS, and the University of Illinois' Center for Computational Electromagnetics. Shawn is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.) and the University of Illinois, Champaign (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering).

Gordon Eubanks

From April 1999 to March 2005 Eubanks served as president and CEO of Oblix, Inc.  Oblix was a private company funded by leading venture firms such as Apax Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.  Gordon Eubanks managed the company’s rapid growth and established its position as the industry’s leading provider of enterprise identity management solutions.  In March 2005 Oblix was sold to Oracle Corporation.

From 1984 to 1999, Eubanks was president and chief executive officer of Symantec Corporation. Under his leadership, Symantec evolved into one of the world’s most prominent software companies. Previously, Eubanks founded C&E Software (which Symantec acquired in 1984) and served as a senior executive at Digital Research, Inc. responsible for commercial system software development and marketing.

Eubanks founded Compiler Systems, Inc. in 1975 and authored its products: CBASIC, one of the first successful languages on personal computers, and CB80, a compiled version of CBASIC. Compiler Systems was acquired by Digital Research in August 1981.

Eubanks received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University (1968) and his Master's degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School (1976) in Monterey, California. Eubanks was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, serving in the nuclear submarine force from 1970 to 1979.  He is an active member of industry trade associations, including a past tenure as chairman and president of the Software Publishers Association.  He is also on the board of the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation.  In 2005, Eubanks was elected to the Hall of Fame of the Oklahoma State University Engineering School.  Eubanks serves on the board of Concur Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNQR).  He served on the board and as Chairman of Preventsys, a private company,  until June 2006 when it was sold to McAfee.  Eubanks is on the board of GuardID and Oakley Networks, both private technology companies.

Greg Galanos

Greg is a Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital in California. Since 2000, he has led and/or managed early stage investments in semiconductors, communications equipment, wireless infrastructure software, internet-centric mobile platforms, DFM software and SOFC technologies. He currently serves as a board member and director in a number of private companies notably Bloom Energy, Fujin, HVVi, Impinj, SkyPilot Networks and Reactrix. He previously led and/or managed investments in Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), Danger (acquired by Microsoft), Phonespots (acquired by CellGenie), Dantz (acquired by EMC) and Transilica (acquired by Microtune).

Mr Galanos is a veteran of the software development industry as both a developer and an entrepreneur. In 1985, he founded and helped build Metrowerks, one of the world's leading software development tools providers, producers of the CodeWarrior line of programming tools (acquired by Freescale Semiconductor, formerly Motorola, in 1999). He also helped define Freescale's software strategy as part of the Office of the President in 1999.

Prior to 1985, he assisted in the development of geographic information systems for Hydro-Quebec and the James Bay Development Corporation in Montreal. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal.

Jon Gillespie-Brown

Jon has extensive leadership experience in the information technology, communications and new media arenas with executive roles spanning from VP Sales and Marketing to President and Chief Executive Officer. He has a great deal of expertise in the Software Development and Security markets and over 22 years in the IT business.

Prior to founding Nalpeiron has was the founder and CEO of three IT Companies in Software, Training and New Media. He successfully built and sold out of these Companies in 2000. Before his own ventures, Jon worked for Global players such as Ericcson, SmartLink and Pace as VP Sales/Marketing and General Manager. Jon is on the Board of Directors of Digital Ventures and TeachMe Interactive. He has been a Entrepreneur in residence/Mentor for the London Business School for 6 years and is the Author of a book on rookie entrepreneurs called "So you want to be an entrepreneur" published by Wiley & Co in 2008.

He is passionate about 'entrepreneurship' and believes in the individual's ability to shape their own destiny.
He is married with two children, lives in Portola Valley, CA.

Jessica Grossman M.D.

Dr. Jessica Grossman has over eight years of experience in silicon valley start-up medical device companies.  Most recently, Dr. Grossman was the founder and President of Gynesonics, an early stage medical device company focused on minimally invasive solutions for women’s health where she raised over $20 million in venture capital financing.  Before founding Gynesonics, Dr Grossman worked at Hansen Medical, Inc as the Director of Clinical Marketing.  During her time at Hansen, she oversaw all aspects of the company’s marketing, clinical planning and development activities.  Prior to Hansen Medical, she was a Product Manager at Accuray, Inc where she was responsible for the development, implementation and launch of their new profit sharing model.  Additionally, Dr. Grossman was a clinical marketing consultant in Gynecology at Intuitive Surgical.  Currently Dr. Grossman serves on the board of Advocates for the United Nations Population Fund and is planning a trip to Southeast Asia as well as a Bay Area fundraiser in the near future.

Dr. Grossman graduated with honors from Brandeis University with a dual degree in Biology and English and American Literature. She was the top third of her class at Thomas Jefferson University, jefferson Medical College, where she obtained her Doctor of Medicine degree.

Brian Hamel

Brian Hamel has 18 years experience in both the Semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation industry in a variety of roles including sales, business development and venture capital.  Brian currently is the co-founder and CEO
of Nanochronous Logic, an early stage EDA software company.  Prior to his current role, he created and launched the Cadence Corporate Venture Capital practice.

Brian has analyzed and advised well over 100 startups on business formation, raising institutional as well as corporate capital and taking products to market.  He built a multinational investment portfolio of over 20 leading edge semiconductor, system and software startups and currently holds multiple board and board observer seats.  Brian holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Worchester Polytechnic Institute, and did his MBA studies at the University of San Francisco, specializing in International Business.

Bill Levin 

Bill has over three decades of experience building businesses, from startups to large corporations.   Most recently, Bill was a Vice President for Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM), a worldwide leader in the design, development, and manufacture of analog, mixed signal, digital, and high-frequency circuits.  During his 9 years at Maxim, Bill initially had responsibility for Engineering ,then U.S. Sales,Marketing and Product Line Management as he helped grow the company from $50MM in annual revenue to  $600MM in annual revenue.  Before Maxim, Bill was an Vice President at Shugart Corporation—where he led a turnaround that took one of the companies businesses from an unprofitable $24MM in annual revenue to over $70MM in highly profitable annual revenue.  Bill has a B.S. in Engineering, an M.S. in Engineering, and an M.S.in Business, all from UCLA.

Mike Maples

Mike Maples, Jr. is the managing partner of Maples Investments, and is an entrepreneur in his own right. Before becoming a full-time investor, he worked in a variety of executive and management roles in high-growth companies. His background spans a variety of markets including consumer technology, small business, and the enterprise, and he has served in various executive roles in product development, marketing, and corporate strategy.

Mike began his technology career in high school, when he started a software company that developed games and educational products for the original IBM PC. He has been passionate about the technology industry ever since.

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

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

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

David Miller

David Miller received his BSE degree in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1997 and obtained an MS in Civil Engineering from Stanford in 1998 and an MS in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford in 2001. David was also on the design and engineering team for the tallest roller coaster in the world -- the Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan. After completing the Stanford Biodesign fellowship he consulted at several medical device start-ups before co-founding InnoSpine, Inc. which was acquired by Kyhpon in 2006. He has been named as an inventor on over 20 medical device patent applications.

Christopher Shen, MD

Dr. Chris Shen joins EWHV from New Enterprise Associates, a diversified venture capital fund, where he invested in biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. Prior to joining EWHV, Dr. Shen held the position of Senior Design Engineer at Guidant Corporation's Neurovascular Venture, an internal start-up, where he invented and commercialized a minimally-invasive therapy for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Dr. Shen also worked in Japan as a Design Engineer for Pfizer, Inc.’s Strategic Innovation Group, an internal medical technology incubator. 

Dr. Shen continues to hold a Lecturer position at the Stanford School of Medicine, teaching a course on medical technology innovation. He has nine patents issued and several pending in the fields of interventional neuroradiology and interventional cardiology. 

Dr. Shen received his MD from the Stanford School of Medicine, his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MSE in Biomechanical Engineering from the Stanford School of Engineering. He received his BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. Dr. Shen currently sits on the board of Denali Medical.

Alan Shluzas

Alan Shluzas is currently the Director of Research and Product Design for the spinal products division of Zimmer Orthopedics, and has over 11 years of medical product development experience.  Mr. Shluzas joined Zimmer when his previous company, Endius Incorporated, was acquired by Zimmer in February 2007.  Working at Endius since 1999, Mr. Shluzas was responsible for pioneering innovative minimally invasive spinal implant and instrumentation products.  Mr. Shluzas is the holder of fourteen US patents related to the fields of endoscopy, orthopedics, and spine with several patents pending.  Prior to joining Endius, Mr. Shluzas held engineering positions at Acufex Microsurgical, which was acquired by Smith & Nephew in 1995.  He was key contributor to Smith & Nephew’s line of bioresorbable sports medicine fixation devices.  Mr. Shluzas holds a B.S. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University.

Mark Sochan

Mark Sochan is President of Nuvonix, a consulting firm that specializes in OEM partnering and technology licensing strategies.  Prior to Nuvonix, Mr. Sochan held the position of Vice President of Business Development at SAP, where he was responsible for the NetWeaver partner program, the launch and growth of the SAP Developer Network, as well as leading the negotiation teams for several software company acquisitions.  Prior to SAP, Mr. Sochan was Vice President of TopTier Software, a company that was acquired by SAP in 2001, and was responsible for successful strategic OEM partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, and SAP.  Earlier in his career, he  served as Director of Business Development for Crystal Decisions (now Business Objects), where he managed the OEM and channel sales teams responsible for successfully licensing Crystal Reports to more than 150 software companies. Mr. Sochan holds a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Spencer C. Tall

• Managing Director, Allegis Capital
• General Partner & Co-Founder, APV Technology Partners
• Co-Founder Asia Pacific Ventures
• 10 Years Venture Capital Experience
• Former Operating Executive (Asia and US)

Steve Weinstein

With a background that spans technology, intellectual property and entertainment, Steve Weinstein now leads the film industry’s united effort to explore and invest in emerging technologies to advance the consumer experience in the new media environment.  Prior to joining MovieLabs, Steve served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Macrovision Corporation, where he led the post-reorganization effort to define that company’s strategic and technological direction. Steve previously served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Macrovision’s Entertainment Technologies Group, where he guided the transition from physical security technologies to secure online distribution, commerce and subscription services. Previous to Macrovision, Steve held the role of Chief Technology Officer at Vicinity, a mapping company acquired by Microsoft in 2002. Steve was a founding executive and Chief Strategist and Technologist at Liberate Technologies, an interactive television software company. Over his career, Steve has held executive-level positions at Microprose/Spectrum HoloByte, Electronics for Imaging, and Media Cybernetics.

Phil Wickham

Phil Wickham is a twelve-year veteran of the venture capital industry, with a particular focus on globalization of young companies. He has worked with Flagship (Boston), JAFCO (Tokyo/Palo Alto) and Copan (Munich/Palo Alto). Prior to his years in venture capital, Phil co-founded Reference Media in Tokyo in 1989 and later sold the company to the Princeton Review.

He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona, an MBA from Rensselaer and is a Charter Class Member of The Kauffman Fellows Program and vice chairman of the Program's board. He is also a board member of S2 Technologies and SVASE.

Glenn Winokur

Glenn Winokur is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry.   He is Managing Director of Emerson Street Partners, an advisory services and seed stage investment firm that helps entrepreneurs and VCs incubate new technology companies, as well as accelerate growth of existing ones.  Prior to launching Emerson Street Partners, Glenn spent 3 years as CEO of Scalix, a leading linux email and collaboration software vendor, taking it from a handful of customers to 600+ customers upon it’s sale to Xandros Corp.  Prior to that, he was Chief Operating Officer of NetIQ, a leading supplier of security and system management and web analytics software, where he was responsible for all revenue, customer and partner related activities. As part of the co-founding team at NetIQ, he played an instrumental role in leading the company through an extended period of rapid growth from initial product launch in 1996 to IPO in 1999 (NTIQ) and ultimately $300 million in annual revenues in 2003.   Prior to NetIQ, Winokur has held executive positions in sales and business development at several enterprise software companies, including Compuware, Frame Technology (now Adobe), Documentum (now EMC) and Ingres. Winokur received a BS in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and is a frequent guest lecturer, mentor and advisor at both the University of Illinois and Stanford University.