George
Abe, lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management
His
teaching responsibilities include classes in entrepreneurship, business
plan development and field study program advisories.
Previously he was a venture partner with Palomar Ventures, a VC firm
in Santa Monica, California. Before Palomar, he was with Cisco Systems
in the office of the chief technical officer, supporting M&A transactions
and strategic partnerships. Prior to that he was with Infonet Services
Corporation (NYSE:IN, now BT) where he established Infonet's IP data
service and helped spin out the company from its parent, Computer Sciences
Corp (NYSE: CSC). From 1998 until 2006, he was a member of the board
of directors of Switchcore AB, a publicly traded fabless semiconductor
designer in Sweden. He has also held board positions with several startup
companies and not-for-profit organizations. He is the author of Residential
Broadband, which presents an analysis of high-speed residential
networking, published by Cisco Press. Education - B.A., mathematics; M.S.,
business (quantitative methods), UCLA
Paulo de Rezende, Partner, Zone Ventures
Paulo de Rezende has over fifteen years experience working with management
consulting, software, and semiconductor companies. Prior to joining Zone
Ventures, Mr. de Rezende was a consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton's
Sao Paulo office, where he advised large consumer goods corporations
on sales strategy, post merger integration, and logistics & distribution.
Prior to management consulting, Mr. de Rezende worked in software development
and product marketing at software startups, working with projects in
both object-oriented and relational database environments. Before that,
he worked on the semiconductor industry, where he acquired experience
on ASIC design, DRAM manufacturing, and development of applications for
micro-controllers and analog components. His experience was acquired
while he was working in Europe and South America. Currently he is member
of the board of directors of Lumexis and OnMeta (BiggerBoat.com) and
manages the firm investments in Copper Key and Neven Vision (acquired
by Google). Mr. de Rezende holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil and an MBA from the MIT
Sloan School of Management.
Dave Jones began his venture capital career at Union Venture Corporation
and was President and CEO of First Interstate Capital, Inc. He was the
founding general partner of InterVen Partners, LP. Dave is a director
of CNS Response, Inc. and Earthanol, Inc. He holds a degree in History
from Dartmouth College, and M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University
of Southern California.
Yaniv Tepper,
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Angeleno Group
Mr. Tepper is co-founder and a Managing Partner of Angeleno Group ("AG").
Mr. Tepper oversees AG's investment activities in generation oriented
technologies, advanced materials & components and power storage.
Prior to the formation of AG in 2001, Mr. Tepper managed $2 billion in
private and public equities and structured securities on behalf of institutional
and mutual fund clients while at Aetna (now ING Group), a financial services
company that managed over $60 billion in assets for 350 institutional
clients worldwide, including corporate and public pension funds, endowments
and foundations. Under Mr. Tepper's management, his funds grew from $150
million to $2 billion, consistently outperformed the funds' benchmarks,
and ranked in the top tier of their competitive universe. As Fund Manager,
Mr. Tepper had responsibility for all investment decision-making from
origination and due diligence to risk-return management and exits. Mr.
Tepper was also responsible for product development and fund marketing.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Tepper held various engineering R&D positions
at Bechtel in San Francisco and at MIT's Advanced Materials Lab in Boston
under the Department of Energy. He has been a speaker and lecturer on
topics including asset allocation, sector diversification, and alternatives
investing, an author in various finance journals including the Journal
of Financial Planning, and has been quoted in Bloomberg, Business Week,
and The Wall Street Journal. In the past five years, Mr. Tepper has also
served on the Boards of several high growth technology companies. Mr.
Tepper holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, an
M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from MIT and an M.S. in
management from MIT.
Wen Hsieh, Partner, KPCB
Wen Hsieh is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (www.kpcb.com)
and joined the firm in early 2006. His investment areas of
focus are Green technologies, applications enabled by novel materials
and semiconductor-related products.
Prior to KPCB, Wen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company San Francisco
and a leader of McKinsey’s Asia Semiconductor Practice. During his 5 years
at McKinsey, Wen’s primary focus was on serving leading companies across
the global semiconductor value chain. His clients included EDA companies, design
houses, wafer fab equipment vendors, automated test equipment vendors, test solution
providers, wafer foundries, logic & memory IDMs, PC/server OEMs and component
distributors.
At McKinsey, Wen’s secondary focus was on serving small companies in the
North America biopharma sector. His clients included companies in the anti-viral,
generics and specialty pharma product segments.
Wen’s consulting experiences have been in the functional areas of alliances & JV
strategies, new business building, core growth strategy, low-cost region outsourcing,
manufacturing strategy, manufacturing operations, M&A due-diligence, pre- & post-merger
management, pricing & sales programs and R&D strategies.
Before McKinsey, Wen founded OnChip Technologies, a startup developing MEMS microfluidic-based
protein chips. The target market was high-sensitivity and high-throughput protein
separation and identification applications.
Wen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. minor in Molecular
Cell Biology from the California Institute of Technology. He also
received a B.S. with Honors and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the
California Institute of Technology.
His
teaching responsibilities include classes in entrepreneurship, business
plan development and field study program advisories.
Previously he was a venture partner with Palomar Ventures, a VC firm
in Santa Monica, California. Before Palomar, he was with Cisco Systems
in the office of the chief technical officer, supporting M&A transactions
and strategic partnerships. Prior to that he was with Infonet Services
Corporation (NYSE:IN, now BT) where he established Infonet's IP data
service and helped spin out the company from its parent, Computer Sciences
Corp (NYSE: CSC). From 1998 until 2006, he was a member of the board
of directors of Switchcore AB, a publicly traded fabless semiconductor
designer in Sweden. He has also held board positions with several startup
companies and not-for-profit organizations. He is the author of Residential
Broadband, which presents an analysis of high-speed residential
networking, published by Cisco Press. Education - B.A., mathematics; M.S.,
business (quantitative methods), UCLA
Paulo de Rezende has over fifteen years experience working with management
consulting, software, and semiconductor companies. Prior to joining Zone
Ventures, Mr. de Rezende was a consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton's
Sao Paulo office, where he advised large consumer goods corporations
on sales strategy, post merger integration, and logistics & distribution.
Prior to management consulting, Mr. de Rezende worked in software development
and product marketing at software startups, working with projects in
both object-oriented and relational database environments. Before that,
he worked on the semiconductor industry, where he acquired experience
on ASIC design, DRAM manufacturing, and development of applications for
micro-controllers and analog components. His experience was acquired
while he was working in Europe and South America. Currently he is member
of the board of directors of Lumexis and OnMeta (BiggerBoat.com) and
manages the firm investments in Copper Key and Neven Vision (acquired
by Google). Mr. de Rezende holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil and an MBA from the MIT
Sloan School of Management.
Dave Jones began his venture capital career at Union Venture Corporation
and was President and CEO of First Interstate Capital, Inc. He was the
founding general partner of InterVen Partners, LP. Dave is a director
of CNS Response, Inc. and Earthanol, Inc. He holds a degree in History
from Dartmouth College, and M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University
of Southern California.
Mr. Tepper is co-founder and a Managing Partner of Angeleno Group ("AG").
Mr. Tepper oversees AG's investment activities in generation oriented
technologies, advanced materials & components and power storage.
Prior to the formation of AG in 2001, Mr. Tepper managed $2 billion in
private and public equities and structured securities on behalf of institutional
and mutual fund clients while at Aetna (now ING Group), a financial services
company that managed over $60 billion in assets for 350 institutional
clients worldwide, including corporate and public pension funds, endowments
and foundations. Under Mr. Tepper's management, his funds grew from $150
million to $2 billion, consistently outperformed the funds' benchmarks,
and ranked in the top tier of their competitive universe. As Fund Manager,
Mr. Tepper had responsibility for all investment decision-making from
origination and due diligence to risk-return management and exits. Mr.
Tepper was also responsible for product development and fund marketing.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Tepper held various engineering R&D positions
at Bechtel in San Francisco and at MIT's Advanced Materials Lab in Boston
under the Department of Energy. He has been a speaker and lecturer on
topics including asset allocation, sector diversification, and alternatives
investing, an author in various finance journals including the Journal
of Financial Planning, and has been quoted in Bloomberg, Business Week,
and The Wall Street Journal. In the past five years, Mr. Tepper has also
served on the Boards of several high growth technology companies. Mr.
Tepper holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, an
M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from MIT and an M.S. in
management from MIT.
Wen Hsieh is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (