Ms. Mason was co-founder and CEO of Acuity, a Silicon Valley technology marketing and communications consultancy. Prior to joining Acuity she co-led technology marketing consulting firm Regis McKenna's entry into venture technology marketing services. Ms. Mason also co-founded the successful publishing arm of Digital Equipment Corporation, where her collaboration with computer pioneer Gordon Bell began.

Ms. Mason is co-author with Tim Rohner of The Venture Imperative: A New Model for Corporate Innovation (May 2002, Harvard Business School Press). She holds a B. A., Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Burke previously held executive positions with Silicon Valley software and networking companies for more than fifteen years, leading product marketing, sales/channel and business development, corporate positioning and branding. As the first VP Marketing at start-up Ramp Networks in 1996, she was responsible for marketing and sales, contributing to Ramp's successful 1999 IPO (acquired by Nokia in 2001). Previously, Burke was VP Marketing for Madge Networks, a UK-based network equipment company, repositioning the company for its '93 IPO and managing a marketing team of 50 worldwide. Prior to that Ms. Burke was VP Marketing at security software leader Symantec, managing all aspects of corporate, product, channel and promotional marketing. With Symantec, her first position was Director of Product Marketing for the Peter Norton Product Group, responsible for the PC and Mac utilities, driving 5X growth in anti-virus product revenue through a campaign of broad-based awareness, public service and marketing programs that are credited with establishing anti-virus as a consumer software product category.

Ms. Burke was previously Partner-in-Charge of the Networking and Telecommunications Practice at the technology marketing consulting firm, Regis McKenna Inc. (RMI) leading engagements for such companies as PacBell, 3Com, Novell, AT&T and Apple. In her early career, Ms. Burke held positions in consumer and sports marketing working with organizations such as Chrysler, Miller Brewing and Texas Rangers Baseball. She served as a Marketing Mentor for the CalTech Entrepreneurship program and is a leader and guest blogger for the Technology Marketing Center. Ms. Burke is a Technology Partner with the leading early stage venture capital firm El Dorado Ventures, and serves on advisory boards for several privately- held companies. She holds a B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Earlier in her career Ms. Arrington spent eight years in Asia where she headed the strategy and professional services arm of e-business consultancy Media Arts, and co-founded the Asia-Pacific practice of international routes-to-market management consultancy VIA International. For Media Arts, she established an e-business strategy arm with particular focus on Internet-enabled new venture development across Asia. Ms. Arrington also spearheaded the successful introduction of the Bell Mason Group into the Asia-Pacific Region including ASEAN, North Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

She has advised multinational clients including Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Corporation, Philips, Citigroup and CNBC Asia Business News as well as with entrepreneurial ventures such as Asiacontent.com (C|Net in Asia, MTV Asia Online). Ms. Arrington also served as business development manager and corporate venture investor for Mitsubishi International Corporation's Silicon Valley operation. She holds an MBA in marketing and finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an honors undergraduate degree from Harvard College.

Mr. Downes is the author of three best-selling books, including 'Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance' (1998), named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five most important books ever written on the Internet and business,. His most recent book, "The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age," (2009) explores nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life.

Mr. Downes was Adjunct Professor of Law and Business Strategy at the University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business and School of Information, and previously held academic appointments at Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Mr. Downes holds a BA from Northwestern University and a JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Chicago.

As VP Marketing at WebSentric AG, a Munich-based internet software developer of online collaboration tools, he conducted Voice of the Ecosystem research to evaluate and build a successful strategic partnering program. As divisional general manager at Madge Networks, a UK-based network equipment company, he was a member of the strategic acquisition and partnering team from 1995 to 1997 and served as point person for several strategic relationships, managing a worldwide team of 120. Prior to that Mr. Woods held sales and marketing management positions with Compaq Computer Corporation where he established their powerful workstations as the market leader in Computer Aided Design, accomplished in part through developing relationships with other ecosystem partners and creating whole product offers. In his earlier career, Mr. Woods sold information technology to corporations, developing early his ability to identify customer needs and market segmentation opportunities. Mr. Woods holds an MBA in marketing and finance from the University of Houston and a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of Virginia.

 

He is a former board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and served as chairman and a member of the executive committee for the Corporate Venture Group. Formerly Managing Director of Eastman Ventures, Eastman Chemical Company's corporate venture capital arm, Mr. Klopp started and led the company's efforts to invest in and partner with private companies, providing early access to emerging technology and growth options for Eastman. He and his team forged relationships and co-investments with premier venture capitalists and corporations. Eastman invested with a top-quartile IRR track record in twenty-five ventures and five venture funds in areas spanning information technology, life sciences, advanced materials and clean technology. Mr. Klopp has corporate operating experience in international business management, business development, sales and marketing.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA in Management from Roosevelt University.

In his previous role as founder and CTO of Sagent Technology, Zicker brought to life a highly complex business intelligence concept, built a team of 200+ worldwide employees, and broadened the company's offerings and differentiation through two highly successful, strategic acquisitions. His leadership contributed to an extremely successful initial public offering, and a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion.

At ReportSmith, a company he co-founded in 1991, Zicker pioneered the world's first 'live' database reporting concept, acquiring enough customers and revenues to sell the company to Borland for six times its revenues. Zicker has also held research positions at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, NASA Ames and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories. Zicker holds an MSEE degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a BSEE degree from the University of California, Davis.

 

Mr. Bell holds bachelor and master of science degrees from MIT (1956-57), is a University of New South Wales Fulbright Scholar (1957-58), has an honorary doctorate in engineering from Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) (1993), and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD), ACM, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the National Academies of Engineering (NAE) and Science (NAS).

Mr. Bell has been involved in, or responsible for, the design of many products at Digital Equipment and a score of other companies. As the author of High Tech Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success (1991) Mr. Bell describes the Bell-Mason model and diagnostic for analyzing new ventures. Bell's Law describes how information processing technologies evolve to create new computer classes and industries.