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Mike Sullivan
 Mike Sullivan is a partner in the emerging companies group at Pillsbury, a leading San Francisco law firm. He has counseled entrepreneurs/startups and their investors for over 20 years. Mike has handled hundreds of angel and venture capital financings and over 50 public offerings, including an IPO for PlanetOut (owner of gay.com; Nasdaq symbol: LGBT) in 2004, eBay’s $1.3 billion stock offering in 1999, and the first-ever Internet IPO in 1994, for NetCom. His clients have included eBay, Digital River, PlanetOut, Grouper Networks, Urchin Software (now Google Analytics), H5 Technologies, Pie Digital, Inc., Real Girls Media Network, PBwiki, Cardstore.com and WebMynd. He has deep experience with Internet/digital media/software business models, but also works with consumer (St. George Spirits, maker of Hangar One vodka) and cleantech (BPL Global, a leading smart grid company) companies. He also represents a number of venture capital and angel investors, including Blumberg Capital, IDG Ventures, WaldenVC, Felicis Ventures, Levensohn Ventures, Blueprint Ventures and The Roda Group. Mike is a graduate of Williams College and Michigan Law School. His outside interests skew green – his book, the Trees of San Francisco, was published in 2004, and he was appointed by Mayor Newsom to the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission in 2007.
Terry Allen-Rouman
 Terry is the Founder and CEO of IncuBay, an entrepreneurial and management consulting firm serving Fortune 500 clients for over 12 years. IncuBay focuses on building new payment and financial services products, services, and business lines; identifying and developing new partnerships and acquisitions; leading change efforts; and developing high performance executive teams. Terry was the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Achex, a consumer internet payments company funded by leading venture capital firms and angel investors and later acquired by First Data Corporation. Terry also co-founded HotZoo and Zazz.
Previously, Terry was with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in the Strategic Services practice; he led high-profile teams to develop a wide array of products and strategies. Prior to Accenture, he was a regional product manager for Westvaco. Terry co-founded the National Endowment for AIDS Research and currently serves on the Honorary Board of Directors of Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco.
Terry holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Harvard College. He is a named inventor on two issued U.S. patents.
David Blumberg
 David Blumberg is the Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in innovative and disruptive Digital and Social Media, SaaS/Technology Enabled Services, Mobile Technology and Internet companies.. David has been investing in early stage technology companies for more than 24 years. Prior to founding Blumberg Capital in 1991, David managed technology investments with Claridge Investments, Adler & Co., Apax, and T. Rowe Price Associates. David launched the business development efforts for Check Point Software Technologies. David earned his AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard College and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and INSEAD. David serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of CaseStack, DoubleVerify, Siperian, isocket and Correlix. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Tom Burke
 Tom Burke is a serial entrepreneur and financial executive with more than 20 years of success building technology companies. He currently serves as CEO of Trilibis Mobile (www.trilibis.com), a venture-backed startup providing an industry-leading platform for developing and managing mobile web applications. Tom is also the founder and managing director of Burke Venture Group, a consulting firm focused on serving the financial and strategic needs of emerging companies.
Previously, Tom was the co-founder and chairman of Calimetrics, Inc., an intellectual property company in the consumer entertainment industry, which was acquired by LSI Logic Corp (NYSE: LSI). Over a decade at Calimetrics, Tom served as its first CEO and then CFO and VP of strategic business development. Prior to Calimetrics, Tom was an engagement manager in the high-technology practice of McKinsey & Company, and previously he worked as a product-marketing manager at Apple. Tom holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA (with honors) from Yale University. He lives in San Francisco with his partner Axel Brunger, a scientist on the faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Patrick Chung
 Patrick is a Partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Patrick joined NEA in 2004 and is co-lead of NEA’s Consumer practice, focusing on Internet and mobile investments across stage. He is a director of 23andMe, Loopt, GoodGuide, MyFit and Realtime Worlds, and is actively involved with Nurien and the firm’s venture growth activities. Prior to joining NEA, Patrick helped to grow ZEFER, an Internet services firm (acquired by NEC) to more than $100 million in annual revenues and more than 700 people across six global offices. Prior to ZEFER, Patrick was with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in hardware, software, and services companies. Patrick received a joint JD-MBA degree from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Patrick was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned a Master of Science degree. Patrick earned his A.B. degree at Harvard University in Environmental Science. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars, and a member of the Committee to Visit Harvard College.
Chip Conley
 Chip Conley is the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, California’s largest boutique hotel company which was founded in 1987. At the age of 26 with no industry experience, Chip created The Phoenix, taking a 1950’s seedy motel and turning it into a world-renowned “rock ‘n roll hotel” that catered to celebrities from David Bowie to Linda Ronstadt. Building on transformational leadership practices, and an innovative design formula that enables customers to experience an “identity refreshment,” the company now consists of over 40 unique and award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas across the state with over 3,000 employees and revenues approaching $250 million. In his most recent book, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow, Jossey-Bass, 2007, Chip shares his unique prescription for success based on the iconic Hierarchy of Needs. Chip’s other books include The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business, Simon & Schuster, 2001 and Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices That Can Profit Your Business and Change the World, co-authored with Eric Friedenwald-Fishman, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006. He is a member of the Young President’s Organization and received his BA and MBA from Stanford University. In 2007, Chip was named the Bay Area’s Most Innovative CEO by the SF Business Times, among business leaders across all industries in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco and East Bay business communities.
Andrew Cramer
 Andy Cramer is a longtime San Francisco entrepreneur with more than 35 years of experience in founding and building diverse businesses.
From 1973 until selling his company stake in 1993, Andy owned and operated a successful chain of apparel, home furnishing and lifestyle stores in California, New Mexico and Washington State. In 1993, recognizing the potential of the Internet, he founded Online Partners, an affinity-group marketing company that developed large, e-commerce friendly communities. While running Online Partners, he merged gay.net, gay.com and OnQ at AOL, bringing together millions of members per month worldwide. Andy operated the company as Chairman and CEO until leaving his active role in 1999.
Currently, Andy serves as the CEO and President of Alternative Spaces Inc., which specializes in developing new business channels by combining leading edge marketing concepts and technology in unique and forward-thinking ways. Additionally, he also serves as President of TransMart, an International mass transit services company focused simplifying the daily tasks of busy transit riders through high traffic solutions for retail and Internet sales. Other companies in which Andy is actively involved include Nüleadz, Square Feet Marketing, and College Snack Attack. He is also an active investor in several start up companies.
Andy received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His husband, Al Farmer, has partnered with him in their various business endeavors for the past 14 years.
Amy Errett
 Amy Errett is a Partner at the venture capital firm Maveron. Errett brings to Maveron more than 25 years of business and operating expertise as a leading entrepreneur, senior executive and social mission visionary. Her focal point is in emerging consumer trends, e-commerce social shopping, the environment and reaching niche audiences. Errett currently serves on the Altius Education, Livemocha and KidZui Board of Directors. Errett’s multi-faceted career has ranged from the online Web 2.0 media industry, to the off-line consumer marketplace, and even to volunteer, non-profit leadership. Most recently, she was Chief Executive Officer and partial owner of Olivia, repositioning the travel company as a lifestyle company both online and offline for lesbians while multiplying revenues from $6 million to an expected $25 million in 2007. In 2006, Errett was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. Prior to her work at Olivia in 2002, she founded and served as chair and Chief Executive Officer of The Spectrem Group, a worldwide strategic consulting, information and M&A advisory firm. Errett sold Spectrem to an IPG subsidiary, NFO Worldwide (NYSE: NFLOW) in 1996. After the sale, she joined the senior management team at E*Trade where she diversified the company’s business beyond brokerage and ran a $200 million business that encompassed the management of E*Trade’s growth areas including their business to business stock option division and launched a successful asset-based products and investment management services division. Early in her career, Errett was a banker at Banker’s Trust. Among Errett’s citations is the Israel Fellows Award by the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation. A passionate humanitarian, Errett is the Chair of the Board of Glide Foundation, San Francisco’s largest non-governmental, direct social services organization. She also spends time horseback riding and fly fishing, and is an avid skier and snowboarder. A New York native, Errett earned an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School and a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Connecticut. She and her partner live in San Francisco with their daughter.
Al Farmer
 Al Farmer is an entrepreneur and technologist with a keen understanding of data architecture, engineering, development and testing.
He began his career at a supercomputing facility of the Department of Energy, after which he worked for IBM France in Boston, where he developed a worldwide network service business for Lotus Notes, as well as creating data management systems for several Fortune 500 companies. In 1994, Al joined Softbridge Inc./Teradyne, an automated systems testing firm, where he worked world wide to deploy testing systems for Fortune 500 companies in the Banking, Insurance, and Transit industries. In 1998 he relocated to San Francisco and became the Chief Technology Officer at Hear Music, a retail music company with ambitions to create innovative interactive music experiences online and offline that was purchased by Starbucks Coffee Company in 1999.
Since 1999, Al has been a private investor and has worked with various partner companies including, a large retail cosmetic company, a children’s cellular network company and an interactive community shopping network company, which he founded and funded after applying for a transaction and interaction-based patent under his name. In 2001, Al and his husband Andy founded Azure Wellness, a vitamin and supplement company to provide high quality nutrients to individuals with HIV, whose bodies were being depleted by the early stage AIDS drugs. Azure Wellness provided over $250,000 of free vitamins and supplements to low income individuals with HIV in California. Currently, Al serves as Chief Technology Officer of Alternative Spaces, Inc, overseeing the creation and implementation of proprietary software that makes best use of data mining. He is also a co-founder, CIO and CTO of Transmart, architecting high traffic solutions for retail and Internet sales for mass transit companies.
Al received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire.
Conor Madigan
 Conor Madigan is co-founder and CEO of Kateeva, a developer of high performance manufacturing equipment for the emerging organic light emitting diode (OLED) flat panel display industry. Conor led the effort to spin Kateeva out of MIT in 2008, leveraging core technologies he invented with two colleagues as part of his Ph.D studies. Before Kateeva he was a post-doctoral research scientist at MIT and has worked on organic electronic device technology for more than a decade. Kateeva has completed three rounds of financing from leading venture capital and strategic investors, including Sigma Partners, Spark Capital, Madrone Capital, Varian Semiconductor Equipment, and Veeco Instruments. In 2010, Conor was honored as one of the TR35, the list of top young innovators in technology named annually by Technology Review magazine. Conor is also a member of the Princeton University Department of Electrical Engineering Advisory Board and serves on the Board of Directors of edventureMore, a non-profit developing and running science and technology education enrichment programs in the Bay area. Conor earned a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton and a Ph.D. from MIT. Both degrees are in electrical engineering.
Charles Myers
 Charles Myers is the founder of Evercore’s Institutional Equities Business. Mr. Myers was most recently a Managing Director and Global Head of Equities at Fox-Pitt, Kelton. Mr. Myers joined Fox-Pitt Kelton in 2004 and held a number of senior positions during his tenure. As Global Head of Equities, he was responsible for research, sales and trading of all equities products across the United States, Europe and Asia. He was also a Board member. Mr. Myers has 20 years experience in the global equities markets having worked previously at UBS and ING Barings.
Mr. Myers has a B. A. from Amherst College in Massachusetts and a post-graduate M. Phil degree from Cambridge University in England. Mr. Myers grew up in Libya, Peru and Indonesia, is fluent in Spanish and has worked in London, Mexico City and New York over the course of his career.
Scott Prevost
 Scott Prevost is Vice President of Product Management at eBay, where he is responsible for both customer facing and internal products, ranging from the search experience on ebay.com to the data, analytics and A/B testing platforms. Prior to eBay, Scott served as General Manager for the Powerset team at Microsoft, where he managed engineers and program managers responsible for core product features on Bing.com. Powerset was a startup founded in 2006 that specialized in semantic search, allowing users to search by concepts rather than keywords, and was acquired by Microsoft and integrated into Bing in 2008. Scott initially served as VP of Product for Powerset, but later assumed the role of General Manager leading up to the launch of powerset.com and the acquisition. Prior to Powerset, Scott founded a company called Headpedal that developed autonomous conversational agents for clients such as Sprint and FMC. Headpedal was a spin-out of the Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Lab, where Scott previously led a research team.
Scott’s educational background includes a BS in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon, MSE and PhD degrees in Computational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the MIT Media Lab. In his spare time, Scott plays classical piano, and enjoys spending time with his partner Bruce, and their two month old puppy, MacDuff.
Suzanne Sheuerman
 Sue is a Vice President with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in San Jose, Ca. She and her team serve high net worth families as well as assist business owners with both asset and liability management.
Sue’s entrepreneurial background includes her role as the founder and CEO of ExTerra Credit Recovery, Inc, a credit collection company which she grew to $500mm in managed assets.
Immediately prior to MSSB, Sue was a Managing Director at Household International. In this capacity, Suzanne acted as Chief Operating Officer for North America, responsible for over $16 billion in assets and managing 1,850 employees. While at Household, Suzanne was twice awarded the prestigious honor of “Mentor of the Year” for her work in developing talent within the organization.
Ms. Sheuerman received her Masters Degree in Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She went on to obtain portfolio management certification from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science. She currently sits on the board of The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County. In her spare time, she enjoys kayaking and photography. Suzanne lives with her spouse and two dogs, Rupert and Mr. Truman.
Andres Wydler
 Andres is a clean tech entrepreneur and lecturer on entrepreneurship at Stanford University with a passion for capitalizing on high-impact opportunities with disruptive technologies. He currently advises start-ups in resource efficiency (energy efficiency, renewable energy, water) on financing, go-to-market, and growth strategies.
Andres served as CEO of waste water treatment and renewable power company RealGreen Power and co-founded the smart grid company BPL Global that is widely recognized as an early clean tech leader.He grew the company through organic growth and M&A, managing all commercial aspects worldwide.Prior, he established the US operations of a European consulting firm focused on international expansion and initiated a successful angel group that invested in technology firms with cross-border strategies.He was instrumental in the success of various start-ups as well as intrapreneurial ventures at Macromedia and sgi.
Andres earned an MBA from Stanford and a law degree from the University of Zurich. He developed and teaches a course on Clean Tech Entrepreneurship at Stanford to encourage professionals in Silicon Valley to pursue their own clean tech ventures.
Andrew HIndman
 Andrew Hindman is a biopharmaceutical entrepreneur, and is President & CEO of Tobira Therapeutics, a company developing novel treatments for HIV infection. Throughout his career, he has served in a variety of strategic and operational roles within the biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to Tobira, he was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Nodality Inc., a biotechnology company developing molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine approaches to drug development. Prior to Nodality, he was Vice President, Corporate Development at Onyx Pharmaceuticals where he led the acquisition of Proteolix, Inc. in 2009. During his 10-year tenure with Gilead Sciences, Andrew held a series of positions increasing in responsibility within corporate development, commercial operations and government affairs. Prior to Gilead, he helped establish the biotechnology investment banking franchise at J.P. Morgan. Andrew holds a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia Business School and a B.A. (Biochemistry and Economics, with High Honors) from Wesleyan University.
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