Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman and founder of Walden International

Lip-Bu Tan focuses on communications, semiconductors and software & IT services.

Lip-Bu Tan is Chairman and founder of Walden International and has been active in the venture capital industry for the past two decades. Additionally, he introduced and pioneered the U.S. venture capital concept in Asia and contributed towards the promotion of early-stage technology investing in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to WI, he was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy.

Lip-Bu is a board member of Cadence Design (NYSE: CDN), Centillium Communications (NASDAQ:CTLM), Creative Technology (NASDAQ:CREAF), Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), ISSI (NASDAQ: ISSI), Leadis Technology (NASDAQ: LDIS), Sina (NASDAQ: SINA), SMIC (NYSE:SMI / HKSE:981), the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Committee of 100. He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of San Francisco for 9 years.

Lip-Bu holds a B.S. in Physics from Nanyang University in Singapore, an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

Aynur Unal, Chairman, Wireless Presence
Dr. Unal is responsible for strategic partnerships at Wireless Presence. Her long track-record and experience include, teaching at Stanford University in the 1980's in conjunction with NASA-AMES research fellowships where she received the Most Innovative Research Award and served as an Advisor to EECS, UC Berkeley, Fuzzy Logic, Soft-Computation Group with Professior Lotfi Zadeh for the last 15 years. She has both Fortune 500 (Siemens, LSI Logic, Flextronics) and start-up experience. She was the Chief Technical Architect at E2open (B2B collaborative design software tools for manufacturing supply chains; disclosing 33 patents jointly with Mr. Greg Clark), was EVP of Supply Chains at Triada (business intelligence tools for web services), VP at Saqqara Systems (Catalogue and content management in supply chains). Dr. Unal is on the board of several manufacturing-related software companies including Afermex, Terraspan, Altavion, Eplus, Viptone and Pointredtech. Her main interest has been in manufacturing and commercializing new hardware and software tools and technologies.

Dr. Unal is working on a secure storage software management tool for very large data at www.datareliability.com and a self authenticating document management tool at www.altavion.net and a secure micropayment and m-commerce, m-financials at Wireless Presence where she advocates the secure mobile commerce, m-commerce.

Dr. Jaleh Daie, Executive Partner, Aurora Equity and Former Professor (Rutgers and UW-Madison)
Dr. Daie has extensive executive experience in private and public institutions. She is Executive Partner at Aurora Equity, a Palo Alto-based company financing technology start-ups. She is also Treasurer of the US Space Foundation and a member of the Band of Angels. Most recently, she was director of science and senior advisor to the president at the Packard Foundation where she provided executive and technical direction for a $120 million annual budget and managed a diversified portfolio of science and technology.

She was a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Senior Science Advisor for the 26-campus UW System. While at the U W-Madison, she took a sabbatical in Washington DC and served as science liaison to the President's National Science & Technology Council as well as special assistant to the Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Dept. of Commerce. Prior to joining UW-Madison she was at Rutgers University where she achieved rank of full Professor in six years and served as Chairman of her department, the first woman to be elected to the post in her filed. There, she also founded and served as Chief Executive of a major interdisciplinary center, and as director of a university-wide graduate program. Her research resulted in numerous publications in molecular/cellular physiology of carbohydrate metabolism in plants as well as numerous invited seminars in the U.S. and abroad.

She has lead national organizations; as Chairman of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (a consortium of heads of science and engineering societies representing 1.4 million members) and President of the Association for Women in Science and treasurer of the Legacy Foundation,

She is on the Advisory Boards of Innovent/Nokia, Investigen and Linkore, LLC, UC-Davis Dean’s Council and Rutgers Collaborative Council and serves on the selection panel for White House Fellows program.

Dr. Daie is an inductee of WITI's Hall of Fame, Teksia's Lifetime Achievement Award, and recipient of an Honorary from Dominican University and was named: "25 Smartest Who Make a Difference" and "Leaders of Science" among other honors.

Farzad Naimi, Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO, LiteScape Corp.
Farzad Naimi is a co-founder of LiteScape and brings 19 years of successful Silicon Valley startup leadership to the position. Farzad is responsible for leading the LiteScape team and managing its strategic direction.

Farzad started his high-tech career at a start up, Centex Telemanagement, as the head of Engineering and Technology, and led Centex Telemanagement to its IPO, which preceded its subsequent acquisition by WorldCom. Farzad continued his career as Executive Vice President and COO at Prestige International, Japan's largest Customer Relationship Management organization that later had a successful IPO in Japan. Farzad also participated in a successful start up, VisaNet do Brazil, funded by Visa International and four major banks in Brazil. VisaNet do Brazil became the largest e-Commerce and retail banking group in Latin America and seventh most profitable company in Brazil in 2001.

Farzad has been the Co-founder and Chairman of several other companies including Genesys Labs, a leader in delivering real-time customer interaction solutions to medium- and large-sized businesses. Genesys who went public in 1997 and was acquired 3 years later by Alcatel for $1.5 billion. Partial list of other companies include IQLabs, an enterprise software company specializing in real time IT infrastructure provisioning and management, and Sentek, a profitable global system integrator dealing with major clients such as American Express, Master Card, Visa and major financial institutions.

Farzad is a member of the adjunct faculty at Golden Gate University where he taught MBA courses in School of Industry and Technology for 15 years.

Atefeh Riazi, Sr Partner, CIO, Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide
Atefeh (Atti) Riazi is the Senior Partner and Chief Information Officer for Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide. Ogilvy and Mather is the eithth largest marketing communications agency in the world with 447 offices in 106 countries supporting more than 2,600 clients with billings totally some $1.3 billion. With over 11,000 employees worldwide working in over fifty languages, Ogilvy and Mather's client list includes a roster of blue chip brands that include IBM, Ford, Kimberly-Clark, American Express, Motorola, BP, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Eastman Kodak, Nestle, SAP, Unilever, Telefonica and Johnson and Johnson.

In her role as CIO, Atti overseas the global systems and infrastructure network supporting an integrated, cross-discipline organization providing marketing communications across all media. She oversees a systems function that, in addition to the basic toolkit of mail, financial and human resource solutions, has pioneered new technologies to enhance real-time collaboration between Ogilvy and its clients. Web-enabled solutions like BrandPlace, an extranet currently being rolled out to global clients, allows for both the real-time development of new creative work as well as providing a gateway to a Portico, a digital asset management repository of all creative work globally, past and present. Under Atti's leadership Ogilvy and Mather has earned a place on InformationWeek's 500 list of innovative IT organizations and is viewed in the advertising sector as a leader in new and innovative technologies.

Atti is a graduate electrical engineer with over 18 years experience managing large organizations, private and public, in the manufacturing, engineering, and transportation sectors. Most recently, she was Vice President and CIO of Technology for MTA New York City Transit responsible for implementing MetroCard in NYC. This $1 billion system, New York City Transit's biggest success story ever, involved the design, development, testing, training and installation of automated fare collection equipment and software at 468 subway stations and on 4,000 buses where it has boosted ridership by 1 million daily yielding over $350 millions in added revenues annually. Delivered on time and within budget, the Metrocard program represented one of the largest public works projects in recent mass transit history. Her work with Metrocard won her the top national award by industry group for best marketing in 1998.

Atti has published many articles and studies. She speaks frequently on issues involving technology, organizations and work.

Faraj Aalaei, CEO & Co-founder, Centillium Communications, Inc.
Mr. Aalaei is Chief Executive Officer and one of the Co-founders of Centillium Communications, Inc with more than 19 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to co-founding Centillium, Mr. Aalaei was the Director of Access Products at Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of fiber-optic transmission and broadband switching platforms from October 1993 to March 1997. Mr. Aalaei also designed advanced telecommunications products at AT&T Bell Laboratories, a telecommunications company, from May 1985 to October 1993.

Mr. Aalaei earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and his M.B.A. from the University of New Hampshire.

 

JORGE DEL CALVO, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP
Mr. Jorge Del Calvo, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP Mr. del Calvo joined Pillsbury Winthrop in 1982 and in 1990 he was made Partner. He focuses on technology companies with venture capital and securities transactions including public offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and serves as co-chair of the firm's Silicon Valley Business Group.

During his career, Mr. del Calvo has represented the issuer in hundreds of public and private offerings of equity securities including WebEx Inc. He represented Network Solutions in its $2.2 billion follow-on public offering, which was the largest internet follow-on public equity is offering in history. He has been involved in numerous merger and acquisition transactions, representing both sellers and purchasers. Representative transactions include; Applied Semantics in its merger with Google and Jareva in its merger with Veritas. His representation of investment bankers includes work with clients including Goldman Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc. and on a number of public offerings, private placements, spin-offs and other transactions. He has represented a number of venture funds including Redwood Ventures IV and Raza Venture Fund A and B, and incubators including New Path, LLC and Raza Foundries. He has represented these funds with their formation and has represented numerous venture capital funds and investors in private placements of equity and debt.

He is on the board of directors of Riverstone Networks (RSTN), Berkeley Process Control and Deepa Textiles. He has served on a number of other boards in the past, including those of Procket Networks, Xambala, Linkore, LLC and New Path, LLC.

Mr. del Calvo is a Coordinating Editor of the Venture Capital and Public Offering Negotiation, a two-volume treatise for lawyers. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford Law School where he taught several corporate law courses and Continuing Education for the Bar (CEB) courses. He is a charter member of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Asian American Multicultural Association (AAMA), and HispanicNet. He has been a speaker at conferences sponsored by TiE, AAMA, HispanicNet, ITF and other industry organizations.

He earned his J.D. and M.A. in Public Policy at Harvard University, his M.A. in Latin American History at the University of California at Los Angeles, his B.A. at Stanford University and his N.D. from the University of the Philippines. He is admitted practice in the State of California and is a member of the American Bar Association.