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| Modertor:
Professor Juan G. Santiago, Mechanical Engineering
Department, Stanford University |
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Juan
G. Santiago
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Prof.
Juan G. Santiago has Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC). At UIUC, he received four fellowships as
a doctoral candidate (including fellowships from
NSF and Exxon Corp.), and a UIUC Teaching Fellow
Award. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff
at the Aerospace Corporation ('95 - '97), where
his work included the development of flow diagnostics
for micronozzles. Prof. Santiago received a Ford
Foundation Postodoctoral Fellowship ('97), and worked
as a Research Scientist at UIUC's Beckman Institute
('97 - '98). Santiago is an Associate Professor
in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford.
He specializes in micro-scale fluid mechanics, micro-scale
optical flow diagnostics, and microfluidic system
design. As a faculty member, he has received a Frederick
Emmons Terman Fellowship ('98-'01), won the National
Inventor's Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition
('01), and was awarded a National Science Foundation
PECASE Award ('03-'08). He is the director of the
Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory. |
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| Panelist:
Chris Rust, General
Partner, USVP |
Chris
Rust
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Chris
brings over 20 years of electrical engineering, product
management, sales/sales support, and early stage venture
capital experience to USVP. Chris currently serves on the
Board of Directors for Akros Silicon, Dilithium Networks,
LVL7 Systems, Stratalight, and Veriwave. Chris previously
was on the Board of Commerce5. He joined USVP from Mahi
Networks, where he held the position of President and CEO
since November 2001. Prior to Mahi, Chris spent over four
years at Sequoia Capital, where he was instrumental in funding
19 early-stage startups focused on components, software
and systems for enterprise and carrier networking applications.
Chris held founding director or active board observer seats
at Abrizio, Avanex, Mellanox, SwitchOn, Telera and VxTel.
He earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Lowell, and an M.S. in Telecommunications
Engineering, as well as an M.S. in Engineering Management
from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds issued
patents for a multi-service home gateway he invented as
a design engineer at US West, and has multiple patents in
progress for his inventions at Mahi Networks.
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| Panelist:
Gregory C. Gretsch, Managing Director, Sigma
Partners |
Gregory
C. Gretsch
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As
a former founder and executive of four start-up
technology companies, Greg uses his expertise to
assist entrepreneurs in building strong businesses.
Greg has been in the high-technology industry for
more than 17 years. He joined Sigma in 2000, and
brings to the firm expertise in new venture creation
and marketing. Greg tracks markets that have an
impact on both the enterprise and the consumer,
including business applications, enterprise infrastructure,
storage, Internet services, consumer services, and
alternative energy. In 1997, Greg co-founded Connectify,
an enterprise software company that sold software
for Electronic Direct Marketing. After selling Connectify
to Kana Communications in 1999, he stayed on board
as the Vice President of Electronic Direct Marketing.
Prior to Kana, Greg started GiftONE, which he later
sold to SkyMall. In 1993, Greg launched his first
start up, Vicarious, an education and reference
CD-ROM publisher. |
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| Panelist:
Josh
Stein, Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
Josh
Stein
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Josh
Stein focuses on investments in wireless communications,
software infrastructure/applications and consumer services.
His current board responsibilities include EVDB, Pictureal,
Polaris Wireless, SugarCRM and ViVOTech. Prior to joining
DFJ, Josh was a Vice President at Telephia, where he managed
a group providing strategic analysis and information to
the nation’s largest wireless carrier. Previously,
Josh was a co-founder, Director and the Chief Strategy Officer
for ViaFone (XTND), a leading provider of wireless applications
to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Josh has previously held positions
in product management at Microsoft and NetObjects and was
a management consultant in the San Francisco office of The
Boston Consulting Group. Josh has been engaged as a strategic
consultant and advisor by Tripath Technologies (TRPH), Mikohn
Inc (MIKN), E-Quill (MSFT) and FutureDial. Josh holds a
BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
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