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Guest Authors
Dominique Trempont
Dominique Trempont has been CEO and Board Member at a series of companies. In 1993, he was recruited by Steve Jobs to turnaround NeXT as CFO. He sold NeXT to Apple in 1997 for $462M. In 1997, Dominique became the CEO of Gemplus Corp., the software application and mobile telephony company of Gemplus, world leader in smart cards. In 1999, he became CEO of Kanisa, a knowledge management software company, which has since merged with Knova. Dominique has been on the boards of Verity (NASDAQ: VRTY), leader in enterprise search, & Signio, a mobile payment platform, as a founding investor. Signio was sold to Verisign for $700M. He is currently on the board of Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR), 3COM (NASDAQ: COMS), Energy Recovery (NASDAQ: ERII) the advisory board of the INSEAD Business School (France), and works with several early-stage entrepreneurial ventures including ZillionTV. Dominique has an MBA from INSEAD, a BA from the University of Louvain, Belgium, and spent the first fourteen years of his career at Raychem, world leader in Material Sciences.
Lance Glasser
Lance Glasser is presently an industry consultant and a part-time senior advisor to KLA-Tencor. Previous positions at KLA-Tencor include Chief Technical Officer, Group Vice President of the Wafer Inspection Group, and Vice President and General Manager of RAPID, the Reticle and Photomask Inspection Division. Before joining KLA in 1996, Lance was Director of the Electronics Technology Office at the Advanced Research Projects Agency. His responsibilities included all electronics technology at ARPA. Lance is also co-founder of the iNEMI, the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative. Before coming to ARPA as a Program Manager in 1989, he spent one year as a Visiting Senior Researcher at Hitachi Central Research Laboratories in Tokyo. Lance was a member of the faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1980 until 1988. In addition to numerous articles and patents, he has written, with Dan Dobberpuhl, The Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits. He is the 1986 recipient of the ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award. Lance’s website is www.lanceglasser.com.
Frank H. Levinson
Frank H. Levinson, Ph.D., is the founder and managing director of Small World Group, PTE LTD. From 1988 through 2005, he was founder, CTO and chairman of Finisar Corporation, a technology leader in fiber optic subsystems and network performance test systems, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Frank lead a dynamic team of talented technology and business professionals who helped build Finisar from a startup to ~$300 million in annual sales by 2005. He also worked extensively with manufacturing teams in Asia to help make Finisar a leader in high volume manufacturing of fiber optics components. Before Finisar, Frank developed fiber optic technologies at Raychem/Raynet in Menlo Park, California and at Bell Labs and Bellcore in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 1984, he founded Netek Corporation in Lincoln Park, New Jersey in partnership with AMP. He served as Netek’s CEO and lead the development of fiber optics transceivers.
Shomit Ghose
Shomit Ghose joined ONSET Ventures in 2001 after 19 years of working at high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley. During his career he participated in several successful IPOs, including those of Sun Microsystems and Broadvision. Prior to joining ONSET, he was Sr. VP of Operations at Tumbleweed Communications, where he managed the marketing, professional services, applications engineering and corporate development departments. He helped the company through a successful IPO in 1999. Previously, he was VP of the Worldwide Professional Services Organization at BroadVision and helped that company through a successful IPO in 1996.
Calvin McElroy
Cal is an accomplished Canadian executive with 25 years of experience with major technology companies. He has honed his skills with executive mandates at Intergraph Canada (Director and President) and Wang Center for Imaging Technology (General Manager). His career also spans technical, marketing and management roles at Data General (EMC), SHL Systemhouse (EDS) and Oracle. He has served 11 years as a CE0 and board member of startup companies, first with The TPI Group, a strategic consulting company with global clients in telecom, government and the energy industries and later, with Cquay.
Gerard Langeler
For more than 26 years, Gerry has started and grown technology-based companies. He was co-founder of Mentor Graphics Corporation where he served as President, and helped lead Mentor through its IPO to over $400M in worldwide sales and over $1B in market capitalization. Gerry has also served as a board member for companies ranging from enterprise software to wireless communications, retailing to medical devices. He is the author of The Vision Trap (Harvard Business Review, 3/92). He also authored a chapter in Venture Capital Best Practices, Aspatore Books, 2005. Gerry has an AB, Chemistry, from Cornell University, and a MBA, Harvard University. His venture investments include: 800.com, Captivate Network, djangos.com, Elekom, Foundstone, Max-Viz, Now Software, Portland Software, Preview Systems, Surplus Software, TView, Unify, Vascular Solutions, Viral Logic Systems, Webridge. His current board seats include: Max-Viz, Viral Logic Systems.
Dr. Jörg Überla
Dr. Jörg Überla joined Wellington Partners in February 1999 and focuses on investments in Services, Software and Electronics. He currently manages the firm’s investments in 1-2-3.tv, EnOcean, Giga TV, Ingent Technologies, Questico, Truphone and VoiceObjects. Jörg has supported three of these companies in the crucial transition to the U.S. market. Prior investments include net mobile, the mobile company that had a successful IPO in the summer of 2005. Jörg holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Universities of Munich and Grenoble, a doctorate in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and an MBA from INSEAD.
Dharma Kuthanur
Dharma is currently Vice President, Strategic Accounts, at July Systems, a provider of integrated solutions for mobile content retailing. Dharma has over 16 years of experience in high technology, having held senior positions in marketing, business development, software development and management consulting with both large corporations as well as start-ups. Through his successful career in pioneering companies such as Lucent Technologies, July Systems and Veraz Networks, Dharma has gained extensive operational experience in all aspects of marketing & business development. Dharma’s recent experience also includes 2.5 years in Bangalore with July Systems as well as an independent Product Marketing consultant for technology start-ups. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani, India, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. His interests include India, technologies that the layman can touch & feel (such as Telecom, Mobile VAS), and the intersection of history, culture & politics that make societies and individuals what they are today. The views expressed in Dharma’s columns are his own, not that of July Systems.
Daniel Cohen
Daniel Cohen is a Partner at Gemini, specializing in Internet and enterprise software investments. He sits on the Board of Gemini companies eSnips, SupportSpace and Verix (formerly Business Events). In addition Danny manages the Fund’s operation in Silicon Valley and provides portfolio companies with a direct link to the technology and VC activity in California. In addition, Danny led the creation of Gemini’s Internet Lab, which co-invests funds in Internet companies together with Lightspeed VP. Danny has a BA in computer science and psychology from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA from INSEAD. He blogs on Internet and Israeli Venture Capital at https://coheda.typepad.com.
Lyla Kuriyan
Lyla Kuriyan is a Director of Product Marketing in the Research & Breakthrough Innovation group at SAP. She works in a team that is developing the strategy to define SAP’s next generation mid-market products. The thoughts that Lyla expresses are her own — not SAP’s.
