Rob Chandra is a partner with Bessemer Venture Partners, a global investment firm with $3 billion under management. Since entering the venture capital industry in 1996, Rob has been involved with 24 early-stage investments that have gone public or been acquired by public companies. Between 2007 and 2010, seven of Rob's portfolio companies successfully completed an initial public offering. He currently serves on several public and private board of directors. Prior to entering the venture capital industry, Rob worked with McKinsey & Company. Rob holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from University of California at Berkeley. He was recognized by Forbes Magazine on its Midas List as a top investor in both 2007 and 2008.
John Doerr joined Intel in 1974 just as they invented the famous "8080" 8-bit microprocessor. At Intel, he held various engineering, marketing and management assignments, and was one of their top-ranked sales executives. In 1980, he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec. John was the founding CEO of Silicon Compilers and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Google, Intuit, Amazon.com, Homestore.com, and Sun Microsystems. His privately held company board seats include Good Technology, and Segway. He holds patents for computer memory devices he invented as a design engineer at Monsanto. Recent interests include education, the Internet and biotechnology genomics. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Stephan has spent 23 years in Silicon Valley working exclusively with technology-driven companies. He joined VantagePoint in 1999. He served as head or co-head of the Firm’s Software and Life Sciences Groups prior to crafting the Firm’s CleanTech platform in 2002, actively heading the CleanTech Group since its inception. Prior to joining VantagePoint, Stephan was a senior partner with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison acting as Managing Partner of that Firm’s Palo Alto Office, Head of the Business and Technology Group and Chairman of the Life Sciences Group. He is a graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia (BCP) and the University of Virginia School of Law (JD).
Brian M. Krzanich is senior vice president and general manager of Manufacturing and Supply Chain for Intel Corporation. Krzanich is responsible for all aspects of Intel's factories and operations worldwide.
Previously, Krzanich was responsible for Assembly Test from 2003 – 2007. From 2001-2003, he was responsible for the implementation of the 0.13-micron logic process technology across Intel's global factory network. From 1997 to 2001, Krzanich served as the Fab 17 plant manager, where he oversaw integrating Digital Equipment Corporation's semiconductor manufacturing operations into Intel's manufacturing network. The assignment included building updated facilities as well as initiating and ramping 0.18-micron and 0.13-micron process technologies. From 1996 to 1997, Krzanich was the Fab 6 plant manager in Arizona. From 1994 to 1996, he was a manufacturing manager for Fab 12 in Arizona. He also served as a process engineer at various Intel locations. Krzanich joined Intel in 1982.
Krzanich received a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from San Jose State University in 1982.
Mr. Lagod is a Managing Director and co-founder of Firelake Capital Management. Previously, Mr. Lagod was the co-founder and CEO of Solo Energy Corporation, an energy technology company based in Alameda California. Solo Energy developed microturbine and clean combustion reciprocating engines for the distributed power market.
For the previous 19 years, Mr. Lagod was an intellectual property attorney based in Silicon Valley. He was a partner in the Palo Alto office of Phoenix based Brown and Bain until 1995 and at Cooley Godward in Palo Alto from 1995 to 2001.
Mr. Lagod holds a B.A. in Economics (with Honors) from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Lagod serves on the boards of MiaSolé, ZeaChem, Plextronics, Simbol Mining, EOS Climate, EnerG2 and HydroPoint Data Systems.
Walther is a Portfolio Manager with Passport Capital. He manages investment management process for Passport’s Energy/Renewable Energy strategies. In 1998, Walther was an Equity Analyst for ValueVest Management, a $150 million long/short global value fund. In 1997, Walther was a summer associate at Goldman Sachs & Co. Between 1991 & 1996 he was a Research Analyst/Institutional Sales at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York and London.
Walther received an MBA from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business in 1998, and a BA in International Monetary Policy from Bocconi University (Milan) in 1991.
