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Team : Advisors : Investment
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Bob BozemanBob Bozeman is an advisor to private equity firms and individual entrepreneurs. For six years he was a General Partner in Angel Investors, LP, Funds I and II. While at Angel, his successes included Ask Jeeves, AvantGo!, BrightMail, Google, OpsWare, PayPal, and RedEnvelope. Prior to that, Bozeman was an operating executive in high technology companies, including stints as chief executive at Altos Computer Systems, Bricsnet, SCI/Fortune, and Vetronix Sales Corporation. Currently, Bozeman is an advisor or member of the Board of Directors at Become.com, Industrial Origami, MCC:02, Moore Clayton & Co., Memeo, Newroo, and Treehouse Acquisition Corp. Steve CoanSteve Coan is an advisor to several companies in the metropolitan NYC area. He began his career at Bear Stearns, where, at the age of 32, he was the youngest General Partner in the history of Bear Stearns. Coan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton). Gary GladsteinGary Gladstein is an independent investor and consultant. He was the COO of Soros Fund Management from 1985 until his retirement in 2000. From 1983-1985, he was the CFO at Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts (KKR). Prior to joining KKR, Gladstein was a CPA at Arthur Young & Co. He currently serves on the boards of several public companies (Joseph A. Bank Clothiers, Mueller Industries, and Immergent, Inc.). Gladstein is a director of the University of Connecticut Foundation, Hebrew Free Loan Association, The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation and The Abraham Fund. He has a degree from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Michael G. LyonsMichael Lyons is a Director of ePlanet II, a global venture capital firm. He also serves as Senior Advisory Director of Investcorp, a large NY-based late stage venture capital firm. Lyons was a co-founder and General Partner of Zilkha Venture Partners (Fund closed out in 2003). Lyons has founded a half-dozen companies, most recently SafeView, Inc., which was merged with L3 Communications in March, 2006. He currently serves on the boards of Real-Time Innovations and Future Point Systems, Inc. John MascarenasJohn Mascarenas' career has covered a broad expanse of the high tech industry. Currently, he is a Director and Senior Investment Manager at Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment group. Mascarenas currently directs Intel's investments within the Enterprise and Consumer sector. Mascarenas has been directly involved in 35+ private equity and M&A transactions with a total value of $1B+. Prior to joining Intel Capital, he held senior level positions in operations at Intel in strategic business alliances, sales, marketing, product service and engineering. Mascarenas currently serves on the Boards of five privately held companies, is on the Advisory Board to Arizona State University's Entrepreneur Programs Ofc, Board member on Phoenix's Enterprise Network Organization and committee member on the Southwest Investment Angel Conference Board. John MatthesenJohn Matthesen is a Venture Partner at WI Harper in San Francisco, and a member of the Keiretsu Angel Forum, where he chairs the consumer products committee. Matthesen has over 25 years of global operations and sales experience in Europe and Asia. Matthesen served as CEO at ByteBlaze, an anti-piracy software company and was a member of the startup teams at Sybase and Commerce One. He held numerous positions at both companies, including Vice President/CIO, Vice President of Sales, Asia Pacific region and other executive management roles in professional services, marketing, and engineering. He has also served as an adjunct professor of e-commerce at Carnegie-Mellon University West Coast campus. Prior to high tech, Matthesen spent many years in the hospitality industry managing hotels, restaurants and conference centers. Matthesen holds a BS in biopsychology and linguistics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and has a certification in telecommunications engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Bill PasemanBill Paseman has been a member of Paseman and Associates, a private venture investment and advisory firm since 2000. Prior to Paseman & Associates, Paseman was with Calico Commerce. Paseman incorporated Calico in 1994 with his wife, booked $1M from three companies in Calico's first nine months, closed a first round of financing with Mayfield Fund and Kleiner Perkins in April of 1995, and served as Calico's President and CEO through January 1996, personally selling products to Cisco, Dell, and TechData, among others. As Chairman, he guided Calico to its successful 1999 IPO (Nasdaq CLIC). Peoplesoft acquired Calico in 2002. As a 25 year Silicon Valley veteran, Paseman helps his clients start companies from scratch and pioneer new markets for software products and services. Gilad ShavitGilad Shavit served as the Deputy CEO of The Israel Corporation Ltd. (ILCO) until May 2006 in connection with which he also served as a member of the board of directors of several of the affiliates of The Israel Corporation, including, Israel Chemicals Ltd., ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. and the Oil Refineries Ltd. Prior to his position with The Israel Corporation Ltd., Shavit was the CEO of Kol 1 Investments In Communications (H.L) Ltd., the telecom arm of Israel Corporation Ltd, through which he served as chairman of the board of directors of two foreign telecom companies PSINet Europe Ltd. and RSL.com Finland. Before joining Israel Corp Ltd., Shavit was VP of Economics and member of the senior management of Bezeq. Shavit holds a BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University and MBA from Tel Aviv University. He recently started his own investment firm, KCS Israel Private Equity Partners. Dr. Andrea TobiasDr. Andrea Tobias is a life sciences partner/consultant at CMEA Ventures and a principal at Aquila Consulting Group, consulting on projects in biotech, bioinformatics, health and online companies to strengthen management, create strategic plans and business plans, and raise financings; both companies are in San Francisco. Prior to this, Dr. Tobias served as Assistant Director in venture capital companies in Paris (Apax Partners & Cie Ventures) and London (Abingworth Management) focusing on life sciences investments. Dr. Tobias has 10 years experience working with biotech firms, as Director of Strategic Development (Chiron Corp.), Manager of New Research Identification (Genentech, Inc.) and scientific project leader (Triton Biosciences, Inc). Dr. Tobias has a BA in Physiology from UC Berkeley, a PhD in Endocrinology from UC San Francisco, and has completed Post-Doctoral Research at McGill University (Montreal), Sanofi-Aventis (Romaineville, France), College de France (Paris). Qui VuongQui Vuong is founder and CIO of MAI Capital Management Partners, LLC, and has 21 years of experience in the areas of portfolio management, investment strategy, manager evaluation, and performance monitoring. He has worked in various capacities in the investment management industry (on both buy and sell sides of the business), as a portfolio manager, private investor, financial advisor, small business entrepreneur, institutional investment fiduciary, community volunteer/activist, and industry advocate. Vuong earned practical experience from extensive cross training in commercial hedging, portfolio risk management, derivatives trading, and portfolio construction while working at Procter & Gamble, Thomson McKinnon Securities, and Legg Mason. He served on the founding advisory board of the CAIA association, the sponsoring body for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation. Since 2000, Vuong has served as the Chairman of the National Association of Investment Fiduciaries (NAIF), a private, not-for-profit peer association and advocacy group focusing on advanced investment fiduciary education and promoting best practices in institutional investment management. He regularly appears as a speaker, moderator, and panelist at leading institutional investment conferences held in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. Vuong graduated from the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) program at Princeton in 1984 and currently serves as a Governor on the Board of The Asian-American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P). |
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