Mr. Amui joined AIGCP in 1999 and has been responsible for sourcing, due diligence, execution, and monitoring of investments for several AIG-sponsored private equity funds, focused primarily in Latin America. Mr. Amui has fourteen years of experience in private equity. Prior to joining AIGCP, Mr. Amui was a Senior Investment Officer at BBVA Banco Frances, where he co-managed a US $400 million portfolio that included fixed income, listed equities, and a private equity fund established in partnership with TCW and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Amui served on the Board of Directors of nine portfolio companies with aggregate revenues in excess of US $2 billion. Mr. Amui received an executive degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in Finance from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, and a BA in Economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina.

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Susan Boedy’s background has involved management projects in Europe, Asia, and North America, including a three-year posting in Mongolia with the Peace Corps, the Soros Foundation and the United Nations. Susan was most recently a partner of San Francisco-based Venture Archetypes, a business planning, corporate development, and strategic advisory firm that has worked with 70+ emerging technology and life science companies. Susan built, managed and sustained relationships between the entrepreneurial and investment communities.

Her background also includes professional assignments with Intel, the German Ministry of Economics and Labor, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and the United Nations. Susan has most recently been actively involved with the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), is former chair and VC Moderator of the Entrepreneurs’ Gathering, is former chair of the Thunderbird Bay Area Private Equity & Venture Capital Forum and was co-chair of the Second Annual Thunderbird Globalization of Private Equity Investing Conference. She is a frequent featured speaker at various events in Silicon Valley. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drake University in 1995 and from Thunderbird in 2002 where, among other achievements, she founded the Graduate Women in Business Organization, founded the Thunderbird Leadership Seminar and received the highest annual award given to any graduating student: the Barton Kyle Yount Award. She is proficient in Mongolian, German and Italian languages.

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As president of Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, Dr. Ángel Cabrera guides a truly global learning network, with operations in the United States, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Mexico, Central and South America and China. The 60-year-old school is regarded as the world's leading institution in the education of global managers.

Dr. Cabrera earned his Ph.D. and M.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, and a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Madrid Polytechnical University, Spain’s premier Engineering school. Throughout his career, he has taught organizational behavior, human resources, knowledge management and leadership in several graduate and executive programs and has consulted with a number of organizations. His research has been presented in forums such as the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, and the Cognitive Science Society and has been published in the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Organization Studies, the Journal of Management Development, the International Journal of Information Management, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Human Resource Planning.

In 2002, Dr. Cabrera was named by the World Economic Forum a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” and in 2004 he was appointed to the World Economic Forum of Young Global Leaders. In 2004, he was showcased by Business Week as one of 25 "Stars of Europe." Dr. Cabrera is an active member, a current or past board member of several international organizations including AACSB International, EFMD-EQUIS, the UN Global Compact, the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, the Georgia Institute of Technology, ESSEC, the Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Future Trends Forum in Madrid.

Dr. Cabrera is an outspoken advocate of corporate social responsibility and managerial professionalism and he is a frequent speaker at prestigious international forums. His viewpoints have been featured by the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week Online, CNN International and a number of regional and international media.

Prior to joining Thunderbird, Dr. Cabrera was the youngest dean in the history of the Instituto de Empresa, one of Europe's leading business schools, where he began as a professor of Organizational Behavior.

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Patricia M. Cloherty is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Delta Private Equity Partners, LLC, manager of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund and Delta Russia Fund, L.P., two venture capital funds. She is former Co-Chairman, President and General Partner of Apax Partners, Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, inc.), a $10 billion private equity company that she joined in 1970, and from which she withdrew in 2000. She is a past President and Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association of the United States. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush appointed her to chairman of an Investment Advisory Council to revamp the Small Business Investment Company program of the U.S. Small Business Administration. From 1977 to 1978, Ms. Cloherty was Deputy Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration, appointed by President Carter. In 1981, Ms. Cloherty also was the founding President of the Committee of 200, a prestigious organization of the country’s leading women entrepreneurs and corporate executives. In 2004, she was named Businessperson of the Year by the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia.

Ms. Cloherty holds various directorships, among them Columbia University, Independent Network Television Holdings (Russia), Vesch! (Russia) and DeltaLeasing (Russia). She is a Trustee of Columbia University, a Trustee for Life of International House, and a Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University’s Teachers College. She is a member of the Rockefeller University Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was appointed to the Board of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund in 1995 by President Clinton, became Chairman in 1998, and Chief Executive Officer from 2003 to 2006.

She holds a B.A. from the San Francisco College for Women, and an M.A. and M.I.A. from Columbia University. She served in the Peace Corps in Brazil from 1963 through 1965.

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Jon has 36 years of experience with venture capital, leveraged acquisitions, and emerging technology companies, particularly in optical and wireless networks, software, biotech and life sciences and information technology. He is a frequent lecturer at national and international conferences on entrepreneurial venture finance, the venture capital industry and the life sciences capital markets and related transaction structures, strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions.

Jon has recently represented a start-up company, financed by an experienced early stage biotech investor, which has outlicensed some intellectual property from The Scripps Research Institute, through its new campus in Palm Beach County, Florida.

Jon often counsels early-stage and start-up enterprises and management teams on organization, structure, equity incentive planning and financing strategies as well as capitalization structures in fields as varied as new drug development, wireless broadband access; pharmaceutical therapeutics and diagnostics; machine-to-machine (M2M) database information collection, communication and analysis; electronic transmission, tracking and filing of legal process documentation; environmental monitoring services; electronic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for vision impairment.

Jon is regularly involved in the representation of both Angel investors and professional venture capital funds in investment transactions as well as single purpose and institutional fund formation matters.

Jon and an EAPD team recently represented an executive group in the $250 Million-plus equity capitalization of a start-up company that has concluded a high 9-figure acquisition transaction of an existing portfolio of proprietary therapeutic products.

Jon was hired to represent a small publicly-traded multi-faceted optics company through turn-around strategy in connection with an equity infusion from a private equity group. Over a period of 15 months, he supervised a team handling the sale and restructuring of multiple operating units, a refinancing of debt and the ultimate 10-figure sale to a global optical network company.

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John Cook graduated summa cum laude from Purdue University in 1974 with a B.S. in Industrial Management. From 1974 to 1977 he pursued a pre-medical curriculum at the University of Washington (Seattle); and in 1979 obtained an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management with a specialization in Europe and the Middle East.

In 1979 he joined International Harvestor Company (Brussels) as Assistant Marketing Director of the Truck Group for the Middle East. In 1981 he joined Univestors S.A. as Assistant to the President, responsible for marketing the firm's investment products to private and institutional clients across Europe. In 1982 he joined Merrill Lynch as an Account Executive in the Brussels office, and simultaneously began organizing Thunderbird European Alumni Reunions, which evolved into the Thunderbird Global Reunions and Global Business Forums. He was also elected to the Board of Governors of the American Club of Brussels and head of the Corporations Division of the United Fund.

In 1989 Mr. Cook joined Security Pacific Merchant Bank in Frankfurt as a Director of Business Development for the Benelux and Scandinavia with a focus on leveraged lending and acquisition finance. At the Chairman's request he initiated a global equity origination practice to source private and institutional equity on behalf of the bank's European clients. In 1992 Mr. Cook became an independent financial advisor based in Frankfurt, focused on private placements in real estate, venture capital, private equity and hedge funds. In 1995 he relocated to Zurich, Switzerland and became a director and principal of WJ Hopper & Co Limited, a London-based investment banking boutique focused on international fund raising for private equity fund managers. He sits on the Investment Committee of ACS Venture Capital Partners (Vienna); is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Club of Zurich; is a member of the Thunderbird Global Council and recipient of the 2003 Jonas Mayer Award from Thunderbird.

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Mr. Deakin is a Partner of CRP, the oldest private equity/venture capital firm in Brazil, and one of CRP´s Investment Officer. As part of CRP´s team since 2001, he has recently moved to Miami, Florida to set up CRP America’s office and is spearheading fund raising activities for the CRP VII, a Brazilian private equity middle market growth fund, as well as international divestment of existing portfolio companies. Prior to his current role, Mr. Deakin also has substantial international experience in other sectors of alternative assets, real estate, where he was a CFO and partner for 11 years for a Brazilian real estate developer, as well as in capital markets with Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in London. A dual British and American citizen, he has a degree in economics and history with honors from Tufts and Oxford University and a MBA in International Marketing and Finances from the Anderson Graduate School, UCLA.

Finally, Mr. Deakin is a frequent guest speaker on private equity in seminar throughout Europe and the United States.


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Nishith Desai is the founder of the multi-skilled, research-based law firm, Nishith Desai Associates (“NDA”), which has offices in Mumbai, Silicon Valley, Bangalore and Singapore.

Nishith Desai’s practice encompasses an extensive range of tax, corporate and technology matters, with a strong emphasis on private equity and venture capital funds. His other areas of practice include corporate globalization, international listings, M&A transactions, international IPOs, international successions management, corporate governance, e-commerce taxation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, employment and human resource laws, intellectual property rights, media and entertainment laws, complex information technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) transactions and social sector laws.

Nishith Desai has substantial experience in the Fund sector, advising perhaps the largest number of offshore investment funds, including the India Fund, the Bombay Fund and the South India Access Fund. He played a seminal role in structuring several private equity funds including TCW/ICICI India Private Equity Fund, The Indocean Funds, HSBC Pvt. Equity India Fund, Chrysalis, India Advantage Fund I – VI, UTI Funds, Kotak, Westbridge Capital, DSP Merrill Lynch, Indiareit, Helios Fund in addition to structuring several domestic venture capital funds. He has advised the Small Industries Development Board of India and the Department of Electronics, Government of India, on their Rs. 1 billion domestic venture capital fund.

Nishith Desai was also on the Securities and Exchange Board of India Committees, set up by the Indian Government to evolve venture capital and Employee Stock Option (ESOP) guidelines for India.

NDA received the “Indian Law Firm of the Year 2000” and “Asian Law Firm of the Year 2001 (Pro Bono)” awards presented by IFLR (a Euromoney publication). NDA has also been ranked by International Tax Review (Legal Media Group) as a Leading Tax Advisory Firm in India for professional practice for the year 2005 and 2006.

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As a pioneer in the technology industry, Vinod (Vin) Dham is the acknowledged "Father of the Pentium" microprocessor. He successfully executed on his previous fund, NewPath Ventures, and is building NEA-IndoUS Ventures on similar principles. Prior to NewPath Ventures, Vinod was the Chairman,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Spice Inc., which was acquired by Broadcom Corporation.

Vin spent 16 years of his career at Intel Corporation where he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of the Microprocessor Products group.

After Intel, Vin joined microprocessor start up "NexGen", as its Chief Operating Officer. At NexGen Vin was instrumental in redefining Nexgen's processor direction, and engineering the merger with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). At AMD Vin became the Group Vice President, and oversaw the launch of K6 the world's fastest windows processor at that time.

In 1993, Vin was named as one of the top 25 executives in the computer industry in America. In 1999, he was named as one of the top 100 most influential Asian Americans of the decade. In 2000, Vin was appointed to serve on the US President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Currently he serves on the Boards of Satyam, Sasken, Hellosoft, InSilica, Minekey, Nevis, Telsima and Montalvo. Vin has co-authored numerous technical papers and patents.

Vin has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

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Stephane joined the NVCA in May 2006. His primary responsibilities include senior representation and member services on the West Coast, coordination of regional outreach initiatives, industry focus initiatives, international and LP liaison.

Prior to the NVCA, Stephane was Managing Director with the Private Equity Group at Silicon Valley Bank. At SVB, Stephane created and ran the Venture Exchange program, which helped early stage VC source deals from the Bank’s portfolio of client companies. Over a two year period, Stephane sourced and helped close 24 early stage transactions totaling more than $100M.

Prior to joining SVB, Stephane was director of the Venture Capital Advisory Group for Ernst & Young in Palo Alto, California. During his five years with E&Y, Stephane coordinated the calling activities of Ernst & Young on Sand Hill Road. As such, he led a number of sales and business initiatives that increased E&Y’s portfolio market share of the most promising and best-funded venture-backed companies.

Stephane began his career in Canada where, for a period of eight years after graduating from college, he held a variety of relationship and credit positions for Banque Nationale de Paris and Scotia Bank. During this period, Stephane structured and negotiated scores of financial transactions involving debt, equity and derivative products. His clients consisted of Canadian blue chip companies from a cross section of industries.

Stephane earned a bachelor’s degree in administration from the HEC - University of Montreal in 1990 and an MBA from the University of British Colombia in 1991. Stephane is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Stephane is a former board member of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC) and a current board member of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE).

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Christopher Efird has been active in growth stage investing since 1988 and in emerging market investing since 1995. Over the course of his career, Chris has led or co-led the US public listing of nine growth stage companies of which six were based in the emerging markets. These nine companies represented the investment of over $75 MM of capital and resulted in the creation of over $3 billion in new market capitalization. In 1996, Chris led one of the first EMerALD transactions when he created Telscape International through the reverse merger of Polish Telephone and Microwave and Vextro de Mexico. Telscape (NASDAQ:TSCP) went on to grow by over 200X (to $400 MM) in value and became one of the leading Latin American value added telecom companies of the late 1990's. More recently, Chris co-founded and currently manages the Chinamerica Fund, LP, a private equity fund managing EMerALD investments in China. Over the past three years Chris has built Chinamerica's Asia network, sourced, structured and negotiated the investment of $38 MM into five Chinese operating companies listing in the US by way of reverse merger, and delivered to the fund's investors a cash on cash IRR in excess of 60% and an unrealized internal rate of return greater than 150%. Chris holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of Arts degree from Sam Houston State University where his master's thesis developed quantitative and qualitative tools for the assessment of international political risk. Chris currently serves on the Board of the Rice University Alliance for Entrepreneurship and New Ventures and holds multiple registrations with the NASD including Securities Principal.

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Dr. René Eichenberger began his career as an attorney in Switzerland and relocated to Florida in 1991 while serving as vice president and general counsel to the Jet Aviation Group of Companies. In 1998 René Eichenberger co-founded Crossbow Ventures, positioned as a leading private equity firm with offices in West Palm Beach, Florida and in Zurich, Switzerland. Crossbow manages three funds and completed over 100 private equity transactions to date. As Managing Partner of Crossbow Ventures, he focuses on the overall management of the firm. René is a former director of the Florida Venture Forum and currently serves on the board of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. René Eichenberger holds a JD from the University of Zurich and completed his post-graduate studies with a Ph.D. in law. He is a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute and of the executive program at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. René Eichenberger is a passionate entrepreneur who values the opportunity to assist others achieve their goals.

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John is the Managing Director of Private Markets for Dow Jones & Company. In this position he is responsible for the research, sales, marketing, and product development of a suite of venture capital and private equity information products including Venture Source, Venture Wire, and the Private Equity Analyst – among others. Prior to this role, he was the Vice President of Worldwide Research at VentureOne, where he led the company’s research and analysis efforts and was responsible for the body of venture capital knowledge that is the foundation of the company's products and services.

Throughout nearly nine years with the organization, he has played a key role on both sides of six acquisitions/mergers the company experienced (three as the acquired target and three as part of the acquiring/merged organization). He also held other positions within VentureOne, including Senior Director of Research, Director of Operations, Research Operations Manager, and Research Associate. In these capacities he led operational and strategic aspects related to the domestic and international growth of VentureOne, and was responsible for ensuring the integrity of VentureOne's database as well as leading the research processes. Prior to joining VentureOne in 1998, he held positions at AT&T as an Account Executive and John Hancock Securities as a series 7 licensed Associate. He received a BA in business administration with concentrations in finance and marketing from the University of Washington.

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Mr. Geiger has 30 years of international experience in Banking and an extensive track record in equity investments gained during a career in major international banking groups (Chase, Midland Montagu, HSBC, EBRD) with work experience in Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, New York and Eastern Europe.

From 1993 onwards he worked with the EBRD, an IFI established to promote transition from centrally planned economies to market economies. He is Head of the Financial Institutions Group with a portfolio of ?5 billion, and a main driver in building an effective and functioning financial services industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Under his leadership the EBRD invested in over 120 banks, insurance companies and pension funds in 27 countries and also was instrumental in building a private equity industry in the region where the Bank is a core investor in 90 equity funds. Mr. Geiger has been actively involved in many of these transactions and has an excellent reputation as a successful deal maker. He has overseen over 300 equity investments in the region over the past 12 years.

Previously he served as Managing Director with Midland Montagu/HSBC in London from 1989-1990, where he had regional management responsibilities for Europe and later MD International at Midland PLC. Before that, he spent 15 years with Chase Manhattan with postings in Europe, the USA and Asia. He covered many aspects of international finance in different markets with responsibility for large corporate relationships, project finance, corporate restructuring, turnaround, M & A and investment banking.

He served on many Boards such as Trinkaus and Burkhardt Germany, Pekao Poland, Budapest Bank, Hungary (Vice-Chairman of Board of Directors), all listed companies and equity funds such as Advent International and First NIS Russia (listed). Mr. Geiger has a Ph.D. in Law from Innsbruck University in Austria and a Post-Graduate Degree in International Finance from the College of Europe in Belgium. He is bi-lingual in English, German and speaks also Spanish and French. He is married with two daughters.

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Uli Grabenwarter is Head of Division for Equity Fund Investments at the European Investment Fund (EIF), and responsible for a portfolio of nearly 100 private equity funds and over ?1 billion under management. EIF is one of the largest pan-European investors in Venture Capital and Private Equity funds. Prior to EIF, he worked for several years at the European Investment Bank in the Directorate for Financing Operations executing structured finance operations in the corporate and financial sector and private equity fund investments. He was the personal adviser of the Austrian Management Board Member at EIB.

Mr. Grabenwarter started his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Audit and later Finance Consulting Department, specializing in derivatives for investment and risk management purposes including their use in hedge funds. He is author of “Exposed to the J-Curve: Understanding and Managing Private Equity Fund Investments”, published by Euromoney in February 2005 was the first book ever focused on private equity fund investments. Mr. Grabenwarter holds a Masters degree in Business and Economics from the University of Graz.

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Mr. Greer is Managing Director of Enterprise Capital Corporation, a merchant bank serving the private equity community in Asia, which he founded in 1994.

He began his financial career in 1973 with J. P. Morgan Bank and later worked in Citicorp Asia for twelve years in senior positions in Indonesia, South Korea and Hong Kong. He joined Royal Trust Asia where he initiated and built an investment banking and private banking business that was sold to the Royal Bank of Canada. Mr. Greer then joined Bank of America to head the private client and investment management business for Asia. He also served on the Investment Committee of bank of America's Asian Direct Equity Fund.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the University of Colorado and a Master of International Management from the Garvin Graduate School of International Management. He served as an infantry and special forces officer in the United States Army in Vietnam and Europe He has been or is a member of a number of professional organizations to included the Young Presidents' Organization , World Presidents' Organization, trustee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and a member of the Thunderbird Global Council.

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Chuck is an Executive Director of Arcapita and overseas the performance of the portfolio companies. Previously, Chuck has held senior positions with several Fortune 500 firms including as Executive Vice President and the second ranked executive at the 150,000 employee EDS Corporation (software and IT outsourcing), CEO of Ingersoll-Dresser (industrial equipment), and President of Allied Signal’s Fram/Autolite automotive business. Earlier, Chuck was a consultant with McKinsey and Company and a leader in that firm’s strategy practice. Chuck enjoys working with senior executives to develop customer-centric organizations, and to drive transformational improvement in investor and employee satisfaction. Chuck serves on a number of public and private boards and is a Trustee of the Kent Denver School. He also serves as a visiting executive at the Darden, Wharton, Kellogg and Stanford Graduate Business Schools. He graduated from the University of Colorado and received a Masters in Business from Stanford University.

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Cynthia L. Hostetler was appointed as OPIC Vice President for Investment Funds in August 2001. Prior to joining OPIC, Ms. Hostetler served as President & member of the Board of Directors of First Manhattan Bancorporation (FMB), Manhattan, Kansas - a bank holding company. Ms. Hostetler concurrently served as Vice Chairman of the Board (1999-Present), President (1996-1999) & Vice President/General Counsel (1991-1996) of FMB's primary subsidiary, the First Savings Bank, F.S.B. (FSB). Ms. Hostetler was responsible for operations, regulatory activities and business development & strategy. During her tenure, Ms. Hostetler worked with the Office of Thrift Supervision to successfully reorganize FSB. Previously, Ms. Hostetler was an attorney in the corporate/banking department of the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (STB). While at STB, she represented major commercial banks in lending activities, negotiation and preparation of acquisition documentation and syndicated credit facilities, and representation of corporations in acquisition activities and general corporate matters.

Ms. Hostetler received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988; and graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

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Pitch Johnson leads the Asset Management team. Known throughout the venture capital industry for his vision, insight and principles, he has been at the center of a number of Silicon Valley's biggest and longest-running success stories. He stands out as one of the inventors of the venture capital business. In 1965 Pitch founded Asset Management Company. Over the ensuing decades, Pitch launched and managed a number of funds. Many Silicon Valley firms owe their success to the leadership that came from Asset Management. Among Pitch's many accomplishments, he helped found Amgen and served on the board of directors for 27 years. Pitch also served on the board of directors of Applied Micro Circuits and, until its merger into BMC Software, served for 30 years as chairman of the board of Boole and Babbage. Pitch remains an active board member of a number of private companies. In addition, Pitch devotes time to developing venture capital operations in other countries, particularly in Eastern Europe. He also created and for 12 years taught the course in venture capital at Stanford Business School.

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Aamir Khan has fifteen years of experience in private equity and risk management, as well as in the financing of construction and operation of plants in the oil, gas and chemical industries.

Mr. Khan previously served as Vice President of Structured Finance and Chief Financial Officer for ABN AMRO’s Private Equity arm in Chicago, where he was part of a team managing US$500m in assets. Mr. Khan managed all aspects of the group’s equity and debt funds, and was actively involved in funding decisions as part of the Senior Management Investment Committee. He also assisted the Funds’ investment team in reviewing business plans, partnership agreements, valuations and deal structures on prospective portfolio companies. Before joining ABN AMRO, Mr. Khan was Finance Manager for Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group, Siemens’ principal agent in Dubai.

A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Khan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Accounting from the University of Houston.

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The PIA is responsible for the direct corporate private equity and mezzanine investing businesses at Goldman Sachs, managing the GS Capital Partners and GS Mezzanine Partners family of funds, representing over $36 billion of capital raised since 1992. Michael is a member of the PIA Investment Committee and PIA Operating Committee, and serves as the Chief Financial Officer of the PIA. Michael serves as an observer or director on the boards of directors of Comprehensive Development, Inc., Unifrax Corporation, and Windsor Frozen Foods Ltd. Michael has previously served as an observer or director on the boards of directors of Cincinnati Bell, Inc., Dollar Financial Group, Inc., Intercontinental Art, Inc., Kranson Holding Company, Language Line Holdings, Inc., Playcore, Inc., Progressive Moulded Products Limited and Paint Sundry Brands Corporation among others. Michael received a B.A. from Colby College in 1994 and an M.B.A. from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1999.

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Mr. Michael C. Kwee, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is a founding partner of PAMA Group Inc., which was established in 1986 as Prudential Asset Management Asia Limited, the Asian private equity arm of Prudential Asia, a unit of The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Mr. Kwee led a management buy-out of Prudential Asset Management Asia Limited which was renamed PAMA Group Inc. in 2000. Operating from Hong Kong, PAMA is recognized as a leader in private equity investing in the Asia Pacific Region with funds raised through U.S., European & Asian institutions. In 2006 Mr. Kwee merged PAMA with EMP-Global, a Washington D.C. based emerging market private equity specialist, and heads the combined Asian operation.

Prior to co-founding Prudential Asia, Mr. Kwee served with the American International Group, Inc. (AIG) for 15 years. He was a Board Director and Senior Vice President - Finance of American International Assurance Co. Ltd. (AIA), a major Asian subsidiary of AIG. As Chief Investment Officer, Mr. Kwee had overall responsibility for the Group's treasury functions, real estate holdings and investment portfolios in the region.

After graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, Mr. Kwee obtained a Masters Degree in Science at the American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona and received a Diploma from the Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development. He was a member of the Hong Kong Advisory Committee on Legal Education from 1998 to 2004 and also served as a member of the Hong Kong Financial Secretary’s Economic Advisory Committee from 1995 to 2004.

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Dr. Michel Léonard is Chief Economist and Head of Consulting, Emerging Markets, for Alliant Insurance. Dr. Léonard oversees the firm’s credit and political risk rating, modeling and project finance services. His expertise focuses on increasing a firm’s returns in high risk environments through custom risk transfer solutions bridging insurance and capital markets. Dr. Léonard came to Alliant after a decade of involvement in risk management, credit modeling and cross border risk analysis. He was Chief Economist and Head of Political Risk Consulting at Jardine Lloyd Thompson LLC and occupied similar positions at Aon. Prior to Aon, he was with Medley Global Advisors, a risk analysis firm founded by George Soros’ former chief political strategist. Dr. Léonard started his career as an academic at the University of Virginia. He is a frequent commentator in the financial and news media on political risk assessment, financial risk modeling and terrorism. His work has been featured in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and Business Insurance amongst others. A graduate of McGill University, he holds an M.T.S. in Islamic Studies from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Virginia.

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Eliezer Manor is based in Israel and the founder and past Executive Director of the Israel Venture Association. He has participated in the foundation and management of numerous private equity funds including: serving as Co-founder, General Partner and Chairman of MOFET a $100 million highly successful Israeli venture capital fund now listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE); Managing Partner & Co-Founder - Global Catalyst Partners (GCP) – a $50M international VC fund active in the United States (Silicon Valley), Israel, the Far East & Europe; Managing Partner & Co-Founder – Global Catalyst Partners II VC Fund, $110 million.; Board Member – Trans Balkan Fund. Mr. Manor is also a successful Angel Investor in hi-tech companies including the publicly listed RADVISION Ltd. (Nasdaq: RVSN) and On Track Innovations Ltd. (Nasdaq:OTIV), a global leader in contact-less microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security which was recently awarded a contract to provide Electronic Passports to the US Government. Mr. Manor has represented large multinational companies for identification of technologies in Israel including CMEA Ventures, a US private equity group with over $770 million under management, Electricité de France, and The Dow Chemical Company. He is also a highly successful entrepreneur and founder of numerous high-tech companies. Mr. Manor has served on the Board of Directors of public and private companies as well as philanthropic organizations. Prior to beginning his business carrier, Mr. Manor was a Major in Israeli Defense Forces' R&D Department of Ministry of Defense – Electro Optics Branch.B.Sc. Physics Tel Aviv University; M. Sc. Applied Physics – Weizmann Institute of Science.

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Mr. Mascarenas’ career has covered a broad expanse of the high tech industry. Currently Mr. Mascarenas is a Senior Investment Manager at Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment group. Intel Capital is one of the largest corporate venture programs (private equity and M&A) worldwide investing in the Information Technology industry. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested ~$6B U.S. in ~1,000 companies worldwide representing ~155 IPOs, ~180 M&A exits amongst its portfolio companies. In 2006, Intel Capital invested in 163 deals worldwide for a total of $1.07B. Mr. Mascarenas directs investments in digital Enterprise, home storage, networking communications and infrastructure, interconnect devices and related software areas. Previous sectors Mr. Mascarenas has directed investments in have included wireless/mobile, display technologies, microelectronics, semiconductors, digital imaging, security, embedded communications/software/hardware and software applications for both consumer and Enterprise. Mr. Mascarenas joined Intel Corporation in 1980 and Intel Capital in 1998 where he has been involved in 30+ private equity and M&A transactions with a total value of $1B+. Prior to joining Intel Capital, Mr. Mascarenas held senior level positions in operations at Intel in strategic business development, sales, marketing, product service and engineering. He was also involved in several new Intel technology startup ventures in digital imaging, cable and security and has also started and sold one privately owned company. Mr. Mascarenas holds industrial design patents in digital imaging.

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Mr. Mellinger is a financial advisor and consultant to private sector investors and bankers doing business in the United States and emerging markets. His career as a senior financial services executive has encompassed broad-based experience in private equity, commercial banking and financial advisory work, across markets in developed and developing countries.

Prior to his current financial advisory work, Mr. Mellinger had served for five years as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of AIG's Alternative Investments area.

In this capacity he was in charge of AIG's private equity and hedge fund activities in the U.S., Europe, Japan and emerging markets world-wide. His responsibilities included AIG's sponsored funds, which today total 36 funds with over $10 billion in capital commitments, with five additional funds currently in the advanced stages of fund-raising, in addition to an additional approximately $10 billion of AIG's proprietary capital invested in various categories of alternative assets.

Before joining AIG in September 2000, he was a founding partner of Integra Partners, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based financial advisory and infrastructure project development firm specializing in emerging markets. Mr. Mellinger has over 30 years of experience in emerging markets banking and finance, including the seven years he served as the U.S. Executive Director for Presidents Reagan and Bush on the board of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, from 1986 to 1993.

Prior to the IADB, he was Chief Financial Officer of Mexico's Gruma Corporation, one of the largest food manufacturing groups in Latin America. He began his professional career with the Union Bank in Los Angeles, where he became the regional head of both the Latin America and Asia Pacific groups, before becoming its Senior Vice President and General Manager for International Banking.

He holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Kansas and an M.S. in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.

He was raised in Latin America and Australia before attending school in Kansas and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

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Mr. Robinson is Vice President, Global Private Equity Strategies for AIG Global Investment Group. He is responsible for assisting in the strategic planning, product development, and asset allocation of AIGGIG's worldwide private equity efforts. Prior to his current role, Mr. Robinson served as the Assistant to AIG’s Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer as well as Regional Investment Officer for AIG’s international insurance companies. Before joining AIG, Mr. Robinson held various corporate finance and investment positions with the CIGNA Corporation and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Mr. Robinson received a BA in International Relations from the Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from Georgetown University. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Canadian-American Business Council.

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Mr. Rostov concentrates on international trade, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, transfers of technology, privatizations, and joint ventures. Mr. Rostov’s experience has involved representing clients in international trade, export and import transactions, transfers of technology, aviation, transportation, telecommunications, and financing in both the public and private sectors. His clients are located in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Mr. Rostov’s educational background includes a B.A. degree from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1961, and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in New York in 1964. After graduating law school, Mr. Rostov worked as a law clerk for United States District Judge John W. Oliver. In 1966, he completed an M.B.A. from the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) in Fontainbleau, France. In 1973 Mr. Rostov received an LL.B. degree from the Law School of MacKenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil. He also earned an LL.M. degree in Taxation from the University of Miami in 1985.

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Christopher Sacca, is Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, he is one of the primary strategists for alternative access, communications, and related product development. His most visible projects include Google's technology facility in The Dalles, OR and Google's efforts to provide San Francisco and Mountain View, CA with free citywide WiFi. In addition, Mr. Sacca is a frequent public speaker on the subjects of innovation, disruption, and free public access to the Internet. Currently, Mr. Sacca is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University, and serves on the boards of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network and the Churchill Club.

Before joining Google, Mr. Sacca held a number of executive roles at one of the world's largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies), and was ultimately responsible for their legal and corporate development efforts. Prior to Speedera, Mr. Sacca was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West where he handled venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients such as Macromedia, VeriSign, Excite@Home, and Kleiner Perkins. Before arriving in Silicon Valley, Mr. Sacca lived and worked in Europe and Latin America.

Mr. Sacca graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school's Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. Mr. Sacca also attended university at each of Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, and the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

Mr. Sacca was born May 12, 1975 in Buffalo, New York to Gerald Sacca and Dr. KC Sacca and grew up in Lockport, NY attending Lockport public schools until college. His brother, Brian Sacca, is one half of the successful comedy duo Pete and Brian. Mr. Sacca lives in San Francisco and is an avid Pacifica surfer, San Mateo kitesurfer, and Lake Tahoe skier.

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As Executive Managing Director of Globespan, Barry sources new investment opportunities, evaluates and negotiates investments, and serves on the boards of portfolio companies, with an individual focus on the Communications, and Systems and Peripherals sectors. Barry, a Globespan co-founder based in Palo Alto, brings a wealth of investment experience, technical expertise, and broad operating experience to help the firm's portfolio companies thrive.

Barry serves on the boards of Analogix, Arkivio, Clearwire, and Luidia. He has also led the team to successful investments in AirGate PCS (NASDQ:PCSA), Aptis Communications (acquired by Nortel Networks), Avanex Corporation (NASDAQ:AVNX), Brocade Systems (NASDAQ:BRCD), Digital Island (NASDAQ:ISLD), Monterey Networks (acquired by Cisco), Net Perceptions (NASDAQ:NETP), Philsar Electronis, Inc. (acquired by Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDQA:CNXT), Silknet (NASDAQ:SILK; acquired by KANA Communications, NASDAQ:KANA), among many others.

Barry was the Senior Executive Managing Director of JAFCO Ventures, where he opened the Palo Alto office in 1996. He built JAFCO's presence on the west coast and, along with Andy Goldfarb, led the seamless transition and spinout of Globespan Capital from JAFCO Ventures in 2003.

Barry has extensive industry experience investing in high-growth IT companies. Prior to JAFCO, he was at Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners (WPGVP), where he focused on early-stage opportunities and led investments in companies such as Vermeer (acquired by Microsoft) and Unwired Planet (later named Phone.com, NASDAQ:OPWV).

With operating experience in both small entrepreneurial ventures and large publicly traded corporations, Barry offers a unique perspective that spans the full spectrum of technology companies. At Apple Computer, Inc., he held several senior-level positions and architected deals with key partners, including IBM. As the founding partner in Apple's corporate venture capital fund, he led successful investments in companies such as Sybase (NASDAQ:SYBS), ON Technology (NASDAQ:ONTC), NetFrame (acquired by Micron), and Forethought (acquired by Microsoft).

Prior to Apple, Barry served as President of Micro Air Systems, a semiconductor equipment company, which was selected as one of Texas Instrument's top-ten vendors. He was also President and CEO of Heuristics, where he helped to pioneer microprocessor-based speech recognition technology. Barry also co-founded Diacon Systems, a health information systems company.

Today at Globespan, Barry enjoys working with bright, creative and energetic individuals to help build the next world-class technology companies. As a fellow entrepreneur himself, Barry prides himself on being able to communicate with the CEOs of the firm's portfolio companies "in their language."

Barry earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Georgia Tech Regional Development Board and past president of the M.I.T. Parents Fund. He enjoys ocean sailing, power boating and photography.

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Jean-Bernard Schmidt is managing partner and chairman of Sofinnova Partners. He started with Sofinnova in Paris in 1973 as an investment manager. In 1981, he became chairman of Sofinnova Inc. in San Francisco, where he participated in Sofinnova's US funds as part of a partnership with Burr, Egan & Deléage, including many investments in information technologies and life sciences investments. In 1987, he returned to Paris to head the Sofinnova group. Building on his experience in the US, he began focusing Sofinnova's investments on technology and early stage opportunities, in the information technologies and life sciences fields. In 1989, he launched the first Sofinnova Capital fund. He is a graduate of the Essec business school in Paris and holds an MBA from Columbia University. He began his career with Sema, a French computer services group.

He is a past and current board member of technology companies in the United States and France. He is a past board member of Afic, the French Venture Capital Association and was Chairman of Evca, the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association from June 2003 from June 2004.

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Mike is an audit partner with more than 22 years experience in the accounting and auditing practice, specializing in client service, SEC matters, and VC relationships. Mike serves as the Pacific Southwest Area Venture Capital Advisory Group Leader. In that role he leads and manages the firm’s Venture Capital Preferred Provider relationships with priority VCs and conducts quarterly roundtables.

Mike has experience serving large, multinational companies as well as emerging growth and venture backed companies, and he has lead several well known company IPOs and secondary offerings. Mike also regularly assists clients with purchase business combination accounting and structuring issues.

In his client serving role Mike represents clients before the SEC on financial accounting and disclosure matters as well as the interpretation and application of SEC rules and regulations. Mike has experience in the technology, communications, and media and entertainment industries. Before coming to Los Angeles, Mike was with Ernst & Young’s National Accounting SEC Practice Group, in Washington, D.C. His career also includes a tenure with the SEC, where he served in a number of capacities, including Assistant to the Chief Accountant for the Division of Corporate Finance.

Mike is also a frequent speaker and panelist with members of the SEC staff on current accounting matters and other issues effecting SEC registrants, for the SEC Institute, Inc., Executive Enterprises Inc., and the IMA.

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Jeremy R. Schwer represents clients in the electric power sector in major domestic and international transactions. Mr. Schwer advises a variety of U.S. and European companies, private equity funds and foreign governments in connection with equity and asset acquisitions and sales, project finance and infrastructure development transactions. Mr. Schwer has substantial experience in multiple asset, multiple jurisdiction auctions and dispositions and has over seven years of practice experience with electric power, pipeline and other energy facilities. Mr. Schwer holds a J.D. from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, magna cum laude, 1998 and a B.A. from Wake Forest University, cum laude, 1995.

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Mr. Septién is representative in Mexico of Latin America Enterprise Fund Managers, LLC, the management company of The Latin America Enterprise Funds where he has worked on investments in Mexico and Colombia. Before joining LAEF he had senior positions at Citibank, where he was in charge of Citibank Mexico’s private equity portfolio and in Valores Mexicanos, a Mexican investment bank, where he was in charge of the Research Department. Previously, he worked for Cifra, the biggest Mexican retailer that was later acquired by Wal-Mart and started his career at Price Waterhouse Coopers. Mr. Septién was educated at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a Mexican citizen and is fluent in English and Spanish.

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Michael Short has lived and worked in Asia for over thirty years. After graduating from Sophia University in Tokyo (BS), and Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management (MBA), he worked at Citibank for twenty-four years.

Responsibilities included Division Executive level activities covering global Japanese corporate businesses, Asian regional marketing, risk management, and product development and approval. Assignments included Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and the U.K. In 1998, he was seconded to lead strategic investment projects for Brunei's Ministry of Finance in their Investment Agency. He joined AXA in 1999 as CEO and country head of their Japan insurance businesses. There he oversaw the acquisition and integration of Nippon Dantai Insurance Co., and became CEO of a combined operation with four hundred-fifty nationwide offices, ten thousand employees, and over five million customers.

In 2005, Michael joined the WJ Hopper team to develop private equity business in Asia-Pacific. He is a member of the Thunderbird Global Council. He and his wife have two grown children.

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Voytek Siewierski is an investment partner at Mitsui Venture Partners, Silicon Valley office, in charge of mobile and wireless. Before joining MCVP team Voytek was a Senior Executive Director at NTT DoCoMo including 6 years in Japan and 3 years in the UK. After participating in the carrier’s IPO at Tokyo Stock Exchange he coordinated DoCoMo’s international technology partnerships including the partnership with Sun Microsystems that brought Java to mobile phones. Developed a number of successful value added mobile services with partners such as Walt Disney Corporation, Warner Brothers, CNN and others. Voytek executed a number of international equity investments in cellular carriers in Europe and Asia and initiated a number of technology licensing projects between DoCoMo and mobile operators such as KPN Mobile in Holland, Telefonica in Spain, Boygues Telecom in France and KG Telecom in Taiwan. Between 2004 and 2006 he was in charge of all new business in Europe. His previous experience includes consulting and technology research in the United States and Europe. A visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford, teaching telecommunications and judge in several technology awards programs, including Tech Pioneers of the World Economic Forum in Davos and Mobile Innovation Awards of the GSM Association. Holds M.A.L.D from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University/Harvard). Graduate courses in IT and International Marketing at the Harvard Business School.

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Tom L. Smith is managing director of SVB Capital’s Private Equity Group where he oversees the firm’s extensive network of relationships with venture capital, private equity and buy-out firms.

Prior to joining SVB Financial Group Smith spent 27 years with IBM and held a variety of technical, management and leadership positions in the software and services arenas. Most recently, Smith was the global executive of IBM Venture Development, and a founding member of the IBM Venture Capital Group. In this role, he managed IBM’s network of strategically invested and non-invested venture capital relationships throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions. He was also the service office executive of IBM’s Integrated Technology Services division.

Smith was a member of the World Economic Forum’s working committee on nurturing early stage investment in China which advised the Chinese government on cultivating a venture capital-funded ecosystem within the country. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s working committee on alternative investments.

Smith holds a degree in electronic technology from the Lincoln Technical Institute in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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Mr. Theleen has been a pioneer in China's venture capital industry. Formerly, he was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a founder of ChinaVest, the oldest American venture capital firm in Greater China. Founded in 1983, ChinaVest raised over US$300 million from leading American and European institutions, and invested in industries including light manufacturing, branded services, telecommunications and information technology. Mr. Theleen is currently a trustee of the Asia Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of one of China's leading state-owned enterprises.

He was educated at Duquesne University, Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management, and Johns Hopkins University.

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