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With over forty years of experience, William H. Draper III is one of the West Coast’s first venture capitalists. He is General Partner of Draper Richards L.P., a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology companies in the U.S., and Draper International, a venture capital fund investing in private companies with operations in the U.S. and India. Mr. Draper was founder of Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo Alto, California. During his twenty years as the senior partner of Sutter Hill, he helped to organize and finance several hundred high technology manufacturing companies. Mr. Draper served from 1981 to 1986 as President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. In 1986, he became the head of the world's largest source of multilateral development grant assistance, the United Nations Development Program. In addition to serving on many corporate boards of directors, Mr. Draper has served on the boards of the Atlantic Council, Draper Richards Foundation, Hoover Institution, Institute of International Studies at Stanford University, World Affairs Council of Northern California and the United Nations Association-USA. Mr. Draper formerly served as the Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Chairman of the Institute of International Education, as a Trustee of Yale University and as Chairman of the Board of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco; he was a former Board member of Population Action International, George Bush Library Foundation, the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the World Rehabilitation Fund in New York. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University. In 2005, he received the Vision Award from SD Forum and was inducted into the Dow Jones Venture Capital Hall of Fame. In 2006, he received the Silicon Valley Fast 50 Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Institute of International Education. Mr. Draper has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, and a Master of Business degree, with distinction, from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. |
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Ben Dubin joined Asset Management as a partner in 1998 and heads the Information Technology venture capital team at Asset Management Company.
Ben has over 20 years working in technology, primarily as an engineer and technologist. He started as a hardware and software engineer at Lockheed Martin in 1985 designing EDA tools for chip- and board-level systems. In 1987 he joined Sun Microsystems and helped design and release a state of the art parallel software development environment. He then co-founded two start-up Silicon Valley companies: Full Source Software, an open source application software firm, and Los Altos Technologies, an open systems software security business. At Los Altos, he also served as Chief Technology Officer and a board member until the sale of the company. Ben also worked as an engineer or consultant at Netscape, Sybase, Sandisk, Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM), Broadware and Vicinity. Ben was the senior manager for Enterprise Java at JavaSoft. His responsibilities included the introduction, management, and marketing of the EJB component technology as well as some other essential Java interfaces such as JNDI, JMS, RMI and JDBC technologies. He holds a patent on a technique for minimal information database restoration.
Ben holds two Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Michigan, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Ben is actively involved in the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, the Churchill Club, the Software Entrepreneurs' Forum, and the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab. Ben also heads the finance committee and is a board member of the Foothill-De Anza College Foundation and a member of the Computer History Museum Finance committee. |
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Mike Gardner has more than 30 years of general management experience, and has a strong track record for leadership during the rapid growth phase of a company’s development. He has successfully raised venture capital for early stage companies, built successful products and teams, and brought to market industry leading solutions to demanding enterprise customers worldwide.
His career started with IBM in a variety of Sales and marketing leadership positions. He led the single largest region in the Americas located in Los Angeles, California. His clients were the largest and most demanding financial, aerospace, retail, and petrochemical customers. Mike was recruited by Hewlett Packard as the business development general manager for industry and software marketing programs. After successful campaigns with large companies Mike took on his first of many small Silicon Valley start ups at INI, a networking start up where he was vice president of sales and marketing. The company grew quickly and was acquired by Ungermann Bass where he rose to the position of EVP of sales and marketing and managed the company’s growth from $50M to $450M in 6 years. The company was then acquired by Tandem in 1990. Mike continued in the Telecommunications field at Advanced Computer Communication, an early stage wide area networking start up focused on branch office and small office communications problems. The company grew from $3M to $35M and was acquired by Ericsson for $285M. Mike led operations at both Sybase and Blue Pumpkin, an exciting CRM software company whose rapid growth led to its acquisition by Witness Systems. As the CEO of Noosh, Mike led its transition to an on demand delivery model and its subsequent merger with Newline Management.
Mike graduated from Villanova University and lives in Los Altos California. |
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Randy is a Managing Director at Claremont Creek Ventures, bringing more than 25 years of technology industry experience as a senior general manager and venture investor to the group. Randy invests in Information Technology and has a special interest in Security and Sensor Networks. In the years prior to co-founding Claremont Creek Ventures, Randy was a General Partner at Novus Ventures and a Venture Partner at Horizon Ventures. Before his venture capital career, Randy had startup experience as CEO at Captiva Software and as COO at Identix (from its founding through IPO and life on NASDAQ). He served as Sr. VP at AT&T Paradyne and as a VP of Marketing & Division GM at ITT Information Systems (Qume). Early in his career, Randy served in a variety of roles in the minicomputer business at Texas Instruments and began work as a computer research engineer at Cornell Aeronautical Lab.
Representative investments for Randy at CCV include: Shotspotter, Billeo, Wired Benefits, Blue Vector and Sentilla. Prior investments include Inapac, Invivodata, Flytecomm, View Central and Be Here.
Randy holds a BSEE from University of Arkansas and has completed the Stanford University Executive Management Program. He serves as a Committee Chair for Keiretsu Forum and is a member of the US Secret Service Electronics Crime Taskforce.
Randy and his wife Bev live in Oakland, California. Their three children are grown. |
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Anurag is a serial entrepreneur, and Blue Vector Systems is the second start-up that he has founded. The defining theme for Anurag’s career has been building successful businesses around newly emerging technologies. The first startup he co-founded, Online Anywhere was the first company to create the whole new market category of content transformation tools for Mobile and non-PC devices. The success of the company was demonstrated through its acquisition by Yahoo!. Following that, as a key executive of Yahoo! Everywhere, Anurag developed a global business around Yahoo!’s Mobile Internet services, achieving distribution through almost 40 different wireless carriers to serve millions of people around the globe.
Anurag started his career at Xerox’s prestigious Palo Alto Research center, where he was one of the inventors of Aspect Oriented Programming, a rapidly spreading paradigm of programming that forms the core of Blue Vector Systems’ products. Along with several scientific publications to his credit, Anurag has six patents awarded with several more pending. Anurag holds Ph.D. and MS degrees in Computer Science from Indiana University, a M.Sc (Engg) from the Indian Institute of Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Bombay University. |
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Terry Opdendyk founded ONSET Ventures in 1984 and has specialized in working with information and medical technology start-ups for more than 30 years. Prior to launching the firm, Terry was President of VisiCorp, guiding the software publishing company from inception into an industry leader. Early in his career, Terry worked as a technical manager for Hewlett-Packard and later headed Intel Corporation's microcomputer systems business and microprocessor development activities.
At ONSET Ventures, Terry maintains a broad spectrum of investment interests. He serves on the boards of both public and private companies and has helped guide start-ups from initial concepts to world-class companies, including Adaptive Planning, Arcot Systems, Callidus Software, Nektar Therapeutics (formerly Inhale Therapeutics), Penederm and Truviso.
Terry received a B.S. from the Michigan State University Honors College and an M.S. from Stanford University. Terry also is a Fellow at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California. |
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Walgreens Deploys RFID in Next Generation Distribution Centers
In one of the industry’s most impressive large-scale deployments, Walgreens is using RFID technology in day to day production toward its goal of 100% shipping accuracy from distribution center to store. To read more about this ground-breaking approach to supply chain automation, click here. |
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