| J Ekstrom | Back to Top |
J Ekstrom is an Associate Professor in the School of Technology at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research interests include information assurance, security and privacy, text and information retrieval, network management, data center management, and information technology curriculum. J was a member of the writing committee for the IT 2005 curriculum document.
Prior to entering academia in 2001, J was Chief Scientist at Internap Network Services Corporation. He has also held CTO, VP of Engineering and Director level positions at SwitchSoft Systems, Novell, and Intel. Over a nearly 40 year career in software development and management J has lead teams and developed products for embedded control to banking and from inventory management to network management.
| Michael Goldberg | Back to Top |
As a general partner at MDV, Michael leverages valuable entrepreneur and investor experience from his more than 25 years of work in the Life Science industry including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, health services and healthcare information technology. In addition to pursuing Life Science investments for MDV he works to extend the firm's reach into major universities and research centers.
Prior to joining MDV, Michael was Managing Director of Jasper Capital and Co-chair of the California Research and Cures Coalition ($3 billion Prop 71 stem cell campaign). He has also held senior management and operations roles including serving as Chairman of OnCare, an oncology practice management company he founded in 1995. Until 1999 he also served as OnCare's Chief Executive Officer, where he guided revenue growth to $100 million in three years.
Previously, Michael was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Axion Inc., a cancer-focused healthcare service company he started in 1987 and sold to Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1996. Axion ranked number four on Inc. Magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America for the five years ending 1994. Michael was also a recipient of Inc. Magazine's 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Prior to his tenure with Axion, Michael was a partner in the venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds, where he was responsible for the firm's investments in the biomedical industry.
Michael is a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the National Childhood Cancer Foundation, serves as a Board Member of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is on the Harvard Center for Genetics and Genomics Advisory Council, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and the Advisory Council of the Stanford Neuroscience Institute.
Michael is involved as a board member with a number of privately held companies, including Genomic Health, BidShift and eHealth.
Michael received a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
| Mike Levinthal | Back to Top |
Mike Levinthal is an independent venture capitalist. He was a General Partner at Mayfield Fund for 20 years and was active as a member of the software team where he led investments in the areas of software development tools, infrastructure, vertical applications and consumer facing applications. He is currently on the board of Altiris (ATRS), Concur Technologies (CNQR), Senforce, Directpointe, 3point5, and Metricstream. Mike was previously involved in the startup of and on the board of Citrix, Pure Software (acquired by Rational), Freshwater (acquired by Mercury Interactive), Webmethods, Military Advantage (acquired by Monster.com) and several medical device companies including Hearstream, InControl, and Focal Therapeutics.
| Jeb Miller | Back to Top |
Jeb Miller is currently a Board observer for Ambric, Azul Systems, Caymas Systems, Exavio, MonoSphere, NetD and ONStor. Jeb joined ComVentures from Worldview Technology Partners where he invested in enterprise software and data center infrastructure companies. Jeb previously served on the Board of Directors for FineGround (acquired by Cisco), LogLogic and Rhapsody Networks (acquired by Brocade), and was a Board observer for BitPass, Cemaphore, Collation, IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), Mirapoint, nSite, Purisma and 3PARdata. Jeb has extensive experience helping build enterprise infrastructure companies and focuses his investments on innovative opportunities across the communications, security, software, systems and storage sectors.
Prior to Worldview, Jeb cofounded Morgan Stanley Technology Ventures where he focused on investments in the data center infrastructure and storage sectors. Jeb was previously Director of Business Development for Scient, an Internet consulting firm where he launched and managed the firm's corporate venture arm. Prior to Scient, Jeb was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley's global technology group in Menlo Park, Boston, and New York.
Jeb graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with a BA in Economics.
| Bill Unger | Back to Top |
Bill has been in the venture capital industry for over 20 years. His focus has been on enterprise software and companies related to the semiconductor industry. Bill is on the boards of PIXIM, Ubicom Semiconductor, Lightspeed Semiconductor, Verplex Design Systems, iKnowmed and is on the advisory boards of several other privately held companies. Past investments include Sandisk, Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys), Newport Communications (acquired by Broadcom), Simplex Solutions (acquired by Cadence) and Excess Bandwidth Corporation (acquired by Virata).
Bill is also involved in many philanthropic activities including The Entrepreneurs Foundation, CARE, YouthNoise, The Institute for Women and Technology, and is on the advisory boards of the Dean of Engineering of The University of California at Berkeley and the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Prior to joining Mayfield in 1983, Bill was in the executive search business. He founded Positek, which successfully completed over 300 searches for the high technology industry.
| Doug Warren | Back to Top |
Doug Warren formulates the Habeas company's product strategy and develops Habeas's next generation of email services focused on authentication, certification, classification, compliance monitoring and tracking of business-critical email.
Doug brings both knowledge of email security and experience in designing highly successful product strategies for technology companies. As vice president of engineering for Postini, a provider of email security and management services for enterprises, Doug led the development of the company's leading anti-spam and email security product lines. At Cempahore Systems Inc., Doug led product design and development and helped secure the company's initial round of VC financing. Doug has also held senior engineering management positions at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of Sun's Internet Mail product line and pioneered e-mail scalability and the use of IMAP and LDAP standards in the e-mail server market.
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