Bill McGinnis

Bill McGinnis, CFA is a securities expert witness involved in testimony and case analysis worldwide. He is retained by either plaintiffs or defendants in cases cover issues including: investment suitability issues, securities fraud, insider trading, fiduciary issues, investment research, excessive trading, investment manager standards of practice, accounting fraud, and more. He founded W. McGinnis Advisors, LLC in 2002. His clients have included individuals, investment managers, insurance companies, executives, corporations, and partnerships. Bill’s background includes over 20 years in investment banking, investment analysis, and portfolio management. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1989 and has held the series 7, 63, and 65 securities licenses. He was a Presidential Scholar and Honors College graduate with a BBA from Western Michigan University with majors in finance and management information systems. At 11 years old, Bill had his own stock broker, but his parents didn’t.

Vish Mishra

Vish Mishra is Venture Director at Clearstone Venture Parnters, where he focuses on deal flow, syndicate networking, portfolio company support and executive coaching. He has over 30 years of experience in the high tech industry including software, Internet, networking and telecommunications. He is a founder and served as a board member of Telera, a voice web infrastructure company which was sold to Alcatel for $140 million in 2002. Vish was also co-founder of Excelan (1983), which went public in 1987 and sold for $225 million in 1989. Vish sits or has sat on boards of venture-backed companies such as Abeama, Cofix, Onjibe, PostMedia Group, Quantros, Ramp Networks (sold to Nokia), SloMedia, Verano, and Xalted IP Networks. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology at Benares Hindu University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University and an MBA from the University of Minnesota. He is an active Director and Charter Member of TiE.

James T. Healy

James T. Healy is President and CEO of LogicVision, Inc. LogicVision provides proprietary embedded test technology that enhances time to yield in the manufacturing of complex semiconductors. Prior to joining LogicVision Jim was the president of Spirox, USA. He also held senior management positions at ASAT USA, FormFactor, Inc., Genus Corporation and Credence Systems, and he was co-founder and president of the Trillium Corporation, which later merged with the LTX Corporation. Mr. Healy was Director of Operations for GenRad Semiconductor Test Inc. and held various positions in marketing and engineering during his 15 years with the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, Test Systems Division.

Mr. Healy has a bachelor’s degree and an MS from California State University at Hayward. He has published two books, “Automatic Testing and Evaluation of Digital Integrated Circuits”, 1981 and “Winning the High Tech Sales Game”, 1984. He has taught a Marketing MBA course at Golden Gate University. His “Strategies for Selling” DVD was a recent best seller at Stanford University.

Clara Shih

Clara Shih joined salesforce.com in 2006 and is responsible for Enterprise Social Networking Alliances and Product Strategy. Previously, she was the product line director of AppExchange, salesforce.com’s online business applications marketplace, for which she led the development of the Checkout payment services for partner applications. Independently, Clara developed Faceconnector (formerly Faceforce) in 2007, the first business application on Facebook. She is the author of a new book, ‘The Facebook Era’, about how online social networks are transforming customer relationships and what sales and marketers must do to adapt and succeed.

Prior to this, Clara worked in strategy and business operations at Google and as a software developer at Microsoft. Clara holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and economics from Stanford University, as well as a Master’s in internet studies from Oxford.

Linda Allen

Dr. Linda Allen is the Presidential Professor of Finance at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She has been a member of the Standard & Poor’s Academic Council since its formation in 2004. Professor Allen has published extensively in top academic journals in finance and economics.

Tony Scott

From the time he “reverse engineered” a radio at age six and rebuilt it so he could listen to shortwave broadcasts from around the world, Tony has been fascinated with technology and global cultures. He has lived and worked around the world serving technology companies throughout his career. He is perhaps the only search consultant in the tech industry who has conducted CEO-level searches in the US, Japan, China and Europe. Tony is currently president and a founding partner of ChampionScott Partners, the world’s leading retained executive search firm focused on the technology industry and related sectors. Before ChampionScott, Tony was the global technology practice leader at A.T. Kearny Executive Search, and a founding partner in the EDS/A.T. Kearney Corporate Venture group. Tony has also personally been a first or second round venture investor in a number of companies that have had successful exits, including PDF Solutions (NASD: PDFS ); Rightworks (acquired by I2); Trigo (acquired by IBM); Centrality Communications (acquired by SiRF); Netli (acquired by Akamai); and Trovix (acquired by Monster). Tony has a BA in economics from the University of Mississippi and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

Anneke Seley

Anneke Seley, coauthor of ‘Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology’, was the twelfth employee at Oracle and the designer of OracleDirect, the company’s revolutionary inside sales operation. She is currently the CEO and founder of Phone Works (www.phoneworks.com), a sales strategy and implementation consultancy that helps large and small businesses build and restructure sales teams to achieve predictable, measurable, and sustainable sales growth, using Sales 2.0 principles.

David Godber

David became Deputy Chief Executive of the UK Design Council in June 2008. His remit is to lead the delivery of Design Council programs and strengthen their impact across the UK. He works across all the organization’s main programs, including Designing Demand, the Design Council’s business transformation service for SMEs. Before he joined the Design Council, David was director of Nissan Design Europe, where he set up one of the industry’s most innovative product, brand and service design operations, resulting in a complete replacement of the Nissan product range. An economist by training, David has also worked for Audi and Lotus, and prior to this, he specialized in senior planning roles in the petrochemical industry working for Texaco and Mobil.