Back to Directory Home

Kathy Lane

Ms. Lane has over 30 years in high technology, acting as a founder or key member of the management team in eleven startups.  During her career, Ms. Lane has been a speaker at many computer industry events around the world and a guest on radio and television shows.  She continues to be an angel investor and advisor to startups.  Ms. Lane served as Vice President of Dataquest, a market research firm, providing expertise and advice regarding the personal computer software industry to personal computer software companies, venture capatalists and Wall Street analysts.  Kathy was also the CEO of Softview, the makers of MacInTax.  As CEO, she led the acquisition of Softview to ChipSoft.  At ChipSoft, Ms. Lane service as President, TurboTax Professional Tax Division and was a member of the management team involved in the ChipSoft initial public offering.  She was a co-founder of WorkCard Inc., helping to raise $10 million of venture capital.  WorkCard created electronic collaborative workspaces, connecting Forture 1000 companies with staff companies and temporary workers.  Ms. Lane’s latest business is diesmart.com.  Using her background in information workflow, market research and taxes, diesmart.com provides products and resources to help individuals deal with the last stages of life.  Ms. Lane is the author of a new book “DieSmart”.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Gary Lauder

Gary Lauder is the Managing Director of Lauder Partners LLC, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing in various realms of the technology field. He has been a venture capitalist since 1985, investing in over 150 private companies, and is an observer or member of about 7 of their boards. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program and the Board of Governors of Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. In the 1980's, he worked at the venture firms of Aetna, Jacobs & Ramo Technology Ventures, as well as Wolfensohn Associates. He holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania; a BS in Economics from the Wharton School; and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the co-creator of the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society with Laura, his wife, and is a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program. From time to time, he publicly advocates on subjects that are important, but misunderstood, primarily: 1) preserving and improving our patent system for the benefit of tech entrepreneurs who innovate in fields where patent protection matters, and 2) improving decision-making on transportation to alleviate traffic congestion. He is co-inventor of 17 patents, has spoken at over 150 industry forums, and, since 1992, has published several articles about the future of telecommunications and computing...that he still stands by.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Chris Lee

Chris Lee is a partner at FAA Investments, a private investment group focusing in real estate and early stage companies. Mr. Lee is also co-founder and managing partner at Star Magnolia Capital (Hong Kong) Limited, an alternative investment firm conducting in-depth research on hedge funds and private equity managers. With home bases in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, Chris and his partners allocate capital globally. Previously, Chris Lee was Managing Director and divisional and regional head at Deutsche Bank AG, UBS Investment Bank AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. He has over 20 years of global financial markets experience: managing derivative product development and providing equity sales & trading functions to institutional investors. Additionally, he is a board director with expertise in financial markets, risk management, governance and leadership development. Currently, he serves on two boards: he is an Independent Board Member with Matthews Asia Funds in San Francisco, the largest US Investment Company (’40 Act) with a dedicated focus on Asia Pacific markets and The Asian Masters Fund Limited, a publicly traded company (ASX: AUF) listed in Sydney, Australia. Outside of business, his community board leadership includes: Hong Kong Securities & Investment Institute; Salzburg Global Seminar, African Wildlife Foundation, Washington DC; and Dean’s Advisory Council, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is an advocate of sustainable enterprises and environmentally conscious projects, serving on boards with a passion for promoting education, conservation, energy efficiency and sustainability. He completed the AMP at Harvard University and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is fluent in English and Chinese. Chris is married to his wife Clare for 22 years and they have three children, Christopher Jr. (19), Elianne (16), and Nathan (13). The family lives in Redwood City.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

John Lilly

John Lilly is President of John Lilly Strategic Insights LLC (JLSI), a consulting practice he began in 2002. His firm provides advisory services to Private Equity funds, venture investors and investment banks. His primary focus is on consumer-driven industries, including both branded and non-branded products and services; across all distribution channels in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Lilly is an active investor in Early-Stage companies through his company, Lateral Capital LLC. Lateral has invested in more than 30 companies including air pressure management for truck tires, fund raising software for colleges, debit cards for transit systems and LED lighting for agriculture. Investments are sourced directly and through five Angel groups including Golden Seeds (New York), Tamiami Angels (Naples), Band of Angels (Palo Alto), Twin Cities Angels (Minneapolis) and Seraph Group (Atlanta). Mr. Lilly has an extensive background in consumer products management, having built more than 50 branded businesses in 25 countries over 27 years as an executive at Procter & Gamble and then as CEO of The Pillsbury Company. He began his career at P&G in 1976 and was responsible at one time or another for almost all of that company’s laundry, paper, food and beverage brands. This culminated in a six year assignment in Frankfurt, Germany, where John had managerial scope for the paper and beverage businesses in P&G’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Division. His experience base includes responsibility for Pampers, Pringles, Punica, Cheer, Always, Folgers, Gain, Duncan Hines, Sunny Delight, Ivory Liquid, Olestra, Attends and Dawn. In 1997, Mr. Lilly left P&G to join The Pillsbury Company in Minneapolis, first as President of Pillsbury North America and then as CEO for The Pillsbury Company worldwide. At that time, Pillsbury was a $6.8B manufacturer and marketer of such brands as Pillsbury, Green Giant, Haagen-Dazs, Totino’s, Old El Paso and Progresso. Pillsbury had leading retail and foodservice businesses in 25 countries including China, India and Argentina. The company was sold to General Mills in 2002 for $10.5B (12.2X EBITDA) in what is broadly seen as a highly successful industry consolidation transaction. After Pillsbury became part of General Mills, Mr. Lilly “changed careers” to work full time as an investor/advisor. Through his consultancy, he has provided investment sourcing, due diligence and operating counsel to Calera Capital, TPG Capital, TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs PIA, Centerbridge Partners and Equity Group Investments. As a FINRA registered representative, he has worked with Compass Advisers, Lehman Brothers and Duff & Phelps. He is currently an Executive Advisor to Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, LLC. JLSI also provides strategic planning counsel using the Five Questions│One Page® process and CEO coaching through the Korn Ferry Chief Executive Institute®. Mr. Lilly has significant public and private Board experience. He was on the Board of NASDAQ-listed Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, a manufacturer of OTC/Rx respiratory therapies; sold in 2008 to Reckitt Benckiser. He was a nominee of InBev NV/SA as an independent director of Anheuser-Busch; in conjunction with InBev’s successful acquisition of AB in 2009. He was a Director of NYSE-listed Terra Industries, a producer of nitrogen-based fertilizer; sold to CF Industries in 2010. He is a Director of CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries, owners of Rock Bottom Breweries, Gordon Biersch and Old Chicago Pizza. He is a Trustee of Sarah Lawrence College. John is married to Katherine Moore-Lilly, a Chemical Engineer with a 20 year career in product development at P&G. They split their residence between Longboat Key, Vail and Minneapolis.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Li Lin

Li Lin received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 and 2000, respectively. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on integrated frequency synthesizer for multi-standard CMOS RF transceiver. She worked at Broadcom Corporation from 1999 to 2002 as a staff scientist, developing RF integrated circuits including LNA, Mixer, PA, PA driver, and RF VGA for WLAN applications. From 2002 to 2005, she worked at Berkana Wireless Inc. (later acquired by Qualcomm Inc.) as a design manager and led a team to develop multi-mode radio transceivers for cellular applications, including GSM, Edge, CDMA and WCDMA. From 2005 to 2016, Dr. Lin was with Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Her last post was the Vice President of Engineering, Wireless Technologies Department of ~900 employees across 11 countries, responsible for the revenue of ~$500 million. The wireless group develops the wireless systems for high performance/high data rate/long range applications such as cellular/LTE, WLAN, BT, GPS; and for lower power/low data rate/short range applications such as Zigbee /subG in smart energy and home automation. Since 2012, Dr. Lin serves as steering committee member at IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium, in charge of publicity, work shop, publication. She is elected as the General Chair for the RFIC 2021. She is a member of IEEE RFIC Symposium Technical Program Committee since 2011 and a member of IEEE International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) Technical Program Committee since 2013. Dr. Lin has over 17 publications in ISSCC, RFIC, VLSI, and JSSC and holds more than 50 patents in integrated circuit and system.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

John Litz

John Litz is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with a strong passion in food, technology, and music. John co-founded Lazy Bear in San Francisco, an innovative fine dining communal dinner party concept. Nominated for a James Beard Award within 6 months of opening, Lazy Bear is greatly honored to have now received its second Michelin star and sells out 80 seats a night, 5 nights per week at an average of $300 per seat. Tickets sell out 30 days in advance. As the Founder and sole proprietor of the Chicago Restaurant Group, John created a three-component retail model at a luxury $100M Mexico resort, acquired by the Developer along with the hotel and liquor license one year after opening. Other entrepreneurial business models include three Chicago restaurants, two live music venues, an artist management and music promotions agency, a residential and retail real estate development company, as well as a music merchandising company (acquired). Additionally, John managed and turned around two multifaceted corporate food & music concepts - House of Blues San Diego and Yoshi's SF, overseeing 18 Managers and Directors, 150-180 staff members, and $12M in annual gross revenue at each venue respectively. John is Founder & CEO of Thumbkandi, a global instant messaging platform with a unique monetization and fan engagement model. Organically installed by users in 133 countries within 30 days of launch, Thumbkandi is first to market with animated audio haptic emojis, and was recently chosen to be the official instant messaging partner for COPA AMERICA, the largest Futbol tournament to be hosted in North America in the past 12 years with 3.2B viewership. Thumbkandi has studied the messaging space closely and is excited to change the behavior of fan engagement beta testing its pivot in the food space through a high-profile food partner. John is a Chicago native loving life in San Francisco with his wife Yongjia at their home in Pacific Heights. When not working, John enjoys studying start up culture, researching, enjoying, testing food concepts, biking, hiking in Marin, yoga, cooking, design, chess, live music, photography, travel, and investment opportunities. John holds B.A in Computer Animation, Comprehensive Design with minor in Interior Design from Northern Illinois University.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Craig London

Craig London is currently President and CEO of eCullet Inc. which is a glass recycling and technology company. eCullet has developed a technology that optically sorts glass by color and removes foreign matter from a high volume stream. This sorted glass is then sold to large multinational glass manufacturing companies for containers. Prior to eCullet he was executive vice president and officer of Solectron Corporation (NYSE:SLR) and president and CEO of Solectron Global Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company. He was responsible for all sales, strategy, and operations for repair services, logistics, parts management and fulfillment for major global OEM’s products worldwide. This business generated over $1B annually with 15,000 people in 21 sites worldwide. Flextronics (NASDAQ:FLEX) acquired Solectron in October 2007. Prior to that position, London was president and CEO of Solectron’s Technology Business Unit which encompassed three separate companies: Smart Modular Corporation, a $1.4B annual memory company; Force Computer Corporation, a $300M compute platform company and Dy4 Systems, a $140M high stress board company for defense aircraft. Craig was responsible for selling each of these companies and others when a new CEO was named for Solectron. London came to Solectron from Safeguard Scientifics Inc, (NYSE:SFE) a diversified public venture capital company that identified, developed and operated emerging technology companies where he served as an executive officer and managing director, Technology Products. Mr. London came to Safeguard from Diva Communications, Inc. a wireless communications equipment manufacturer of wireless loop products where is served as president and CEO. London also held executive management positions in sales, service and operations in the United States and Asia during his eight years with Nortel Networks. He also held various management positions at Rockwell International Telecommunications, and AT&T. He serves on the board of directors for Boy Scouts of America-Pacific Skyline Council and a member of the Santa Cruz Mountains Vineyards association. London holds a master’s degree in business administration from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Larry Lowry

Larry Lowry has over forty years of company leadership, general management, Board, advisory, investment, and early-stage venture experience. Mr. Lowry has served as the Chairman of DemandTec, Inc., the leading provider of consumer demand management SAAS software (NASDAQ:DMAN, acquired by IBM in 2011), the Executive Operating Chairman of Vertical Networks, Inc., the leading provider of communications platforms integrating voice, data and applications (Funded by Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners, merged with Artisoft), and the President of Pay By Touch, Inc., the global leader of biometric authentication, personalized rewards, and payment solutions, and has invested in and served on the Boards of numerous companies. Mr. Lowry previously served in senior leadership roles with three pre- eminent professional services firms. Mr. Lowry served as a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company. Mr. Lowry served as a Senior Global Managing Partner and a member of the Executive Committee and the Operating Council of Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. (Now Booz & Co.). At Booz & Co, Mr. Lowry was the Global Managing Partner for the Firm’s Consumer Industries Practices and was responsible for all of the personnel and work serving consumer product and services, retailing and wholesaling, agribusiness, media and entertainment, and travel and leisure businesses worldwide. Earlier in his career at Booz & Co., Mr. Lowry led the Firm’s West-Coast Strategy, High Tech, Financial Services, and Consumer Practices, and served as the Managing Partner for the Firm’s San Francisco office. Mr. Lowry began his career at the Boston Consulting Group where he led major strategy engagements for clients in basic industrial, technology, financial services, medical equipment, forest products and consumer businesses and was a founding member of the Firm’s West Coast office complex. Mr. Lowry received his MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School. He received Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering and Operations Research with honors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Lowry and his wife Jeannie live in Atherton, CA. Mr. Lowry’s personal interests include family, flying (licensed pilot), sailing, travel, golf, and history.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Rick Lu

Entrepreneur and business executive in the Aerospace & Defense Industry since 1996. Mr. Lu founded two successful military electronics start-up companies building military wireless and computing technologies for U.S. Department of Defense customers and the defense industry. He has an extensive background in RF engineering, systems engineering, technical management, government contracting, and Congressional relations.  The first company was NetworkFab Corporation, founded 2000, which was acquired by Agilent in 2007. The second company was Spectranetix, Inc., founded in 2011, which was acquired by Pacific Defense in 2020 where he still remains as one of the Board of Directors. He holds 3 Advanced Engineering Degrees, a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, a Masters of Science in Aero/Astro Engineering from Stanford University, and a second Masters of Science in Engineering Management also from Stanford University.  

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Wade Luders

Wade has over 20 years of experience with startups and high-tech businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area as a technology consultant, developer, executive, founder, and law enforcement officer.  Currently a licensed REALTOR®, Wade is an active real estate investor working with local contractors and service providers to rehabilitate dilapidated homes. Prior to that, Wade ran a franchised senior care agency in San Jose, growing the business from inception to profitability, ultimately expanding to multiple offices within the Bay Area.  With a staff of over 90 certified caregivers and three full-time care coordinators, Wade was able to provide best-in-class non-medical homecare services to elderly clients across the Bay Area. Before starting a home care company, Wade was a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation working on cyber crime and crimes-against-children matters in San Jose.  Ultimately promoted to the lead investigator for the San Francisco Division's Innocent Images National Initiative (IINI) at which time Wade was responsible for all aspects of the Division's IINI casework, from budgeting and reporting, case management and investigation, to indictment and prosecution in conjunction with the United States Attorneys' Office.  In addition, Wade was a member of the FBI Evidence Response Team that provides specialized crime scene services for sophisticated federal and state investigations. After graduating from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, Wade worked at the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche assisting with onsite audits of Fortune 1000 companies in the Bay Area.  He later joined Red Pepper Software, a startup that was quickly purchased by PeopleSoft, where he worked for a number of years as a technology consultant and later, the Director of Professional Development. Using skills learned along the way, Wade attended the Founder Institute, an idea-stage startup accelerator and later founded KinderIQ, a learning program for children getting ready for school and their parents that incorporates hundreds of online skills questions, assessments, puzzles, and resources for kindergarten-aged children. Passionate about startups and new business creation, Wade now invests time and resources to help entrepreneurs succeed.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Katherine Luna

Katherine Luna manages analytics for the Apple Knowledge Platform, which is a large-scale, high-quality knowledge graph constructed by utilizing state-of-the-art data integration and machine learning technologies. The knowledge graph powers enhanced and unified user experiences across Apple products, including Siri, Spotlight, Safari, and Maps.Prior to this role, she was a senior machine learning engineer at Apple in the Trust and Safety team in Search and Knowledge. In that role, she founded Apple’s machine learning fairness and bias efforts in search and led initiatives to determine policy for content and hate speech detection. Prior to that, she led machine learning research for Apple Spotlight suggestions. Katherine advises teams throughout the company on incorporating diversity and inclusion into their products and contributes to cross-company initiatives to promote a more diverse and inclusive organization.Katherine is a Fulbright scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Physics, M.S. in Financial Mathematics, B.S. in Physics, and B.S. in Mathematics all from Stanford University. In her free time, she enjoys painting, cooking, golf, and soccer.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Mike Maszy

Mike Maszy is a serial startup entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in medical devices. Currently he is the VP of Operations at Shockwave Medical (IPO) a fast-growing company pioneering the novel use of vascular lithotripsy. Prior to Shockwave, Mike was an executive at Endologix and Trivascular (IPO, Acquisition), two companies that specialized in innovative abdominal aortic stent grafts like Ovation, Alto and Nellix. Mike also worked at Medtronic for ten years in various divisions such as PS Medical, AVE and Xomed and has extensive experience in Class III medical devices, as well as combination devices, quality systems, IPO’s, mergers & acquisitions. He has been responsible for leading Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, New Product Development and has a BS & MS in Industrial & Systems Engineering and an MBA from the Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania. Mike grew up in a family business in Florida where his father started an imported auto parts and remanufacturing company. He enjoys advising startups and has been a Milestone Maker Mentor for the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and an Executive Advisor for UCSF Rosenman Institute. He lives in Saratoga, CA with his wife Angel and they have 5 children and a German shorthaired pointer.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Christopher Meyer

Chris Meyer is the Chairman of the Strategic Alignment Group, Inc., internationally recognized as an expert in creating competitive advantage through fast cycle time and innovation in strategy and new product and service development. Advisor and Board member for several start-up companies. For thirty years, he has served as an executive, consultant and academic. He has served on the faculty of the University of Southern California, University of Minnesota, and as Academic Director of Fast Cycle Time Strategy at Stanford University. He is currently an instructor at the California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center and faculty on the Innovation Management program, Stanford University. Chris has a Ph.D. and MS from the University of Southern California, and a BS from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Manthi Nguyen

Manthi Nguyen has over twenty five years of diverse experience in all functions of managing and growing businesses with capital efficiency and operational effectiveness in a wide range of industries: real-time control systems, telecommunications and networking, Internet services, publishing, health and fitness, and manufacturing. In the early part of her career, Manthi joined General Motors’ Advanced Manufacturing Research in developing technologies for office and factory automation. She participated in developing international standards for Open System Interconnect with National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). Manthi was involved in a series of early startups that were later acquired by NEC, Cabletron, Tut Systems, Visual Networks, and Cisco. In the last 10 years, Manthi has brought her executive experience to focus on small businesses. Manthi Nguyen received her BSEE from the University of Washington, and her MBA from the University of Michigan.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Liliana Nordbakk

Liliana Nordbakk is a serial entrepreneur, scientist, and investor in high-tech and biotech companies, with a demonstrated history of co-founding and growing several companies with successful exits.

She co-founded NorCom Information Technologies AG in 1989 and took the company public at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 1999.  After the IPO Liliana severed as NorCom’s CFO and was also responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions and business development in the US.  Later she engineered the successful turnaround of the company and oversaw its entry into the AI-software for autonomous vehicles business.  Liliana serves as NorCom’s Chairman of the Board.  She has been an Angel Investor since 2005, investing in companies in Germany and in the US.  She is a member of Band of Angels and ASTIA Angels in San Francisco. She recently founded TreBiome Inc, an incubator of microbiome biotech companies.

Liliana holds a Master of Biotechnology (MBT) degree from San Jose State University and a BA Psychology degree from John F. Kennedy University. 

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Ken Nurisso

Ken Nurisso is President, Board member, and half owner of Broadway Mechanical Contractors, Inc. Since joining Broadway full-time in early 2011, Ken has been involved with all aspects of the business including opportunity identification, business development, project management, business process optimization, and management of corporate finances.

Ken was born and raised in the Bay Area. He grew up in Redwood City and is the youngest of four children and represents the fourth generation of Nurisso’s in the plumbing industry. He attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in 1998 and graduated magna cum laude while earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting.

Ken previously worked as a senior manager for Ernst & Young LLP, one of the world’s largest public accounting firms, where he was employed for over 11 years. Ken managed many corporate client accounts, with some of his teams having as many as 50 individuals working in various business units in multiple countries throughout the world. More specifically, Ken managed many of Ernst & Young’s key technology clients, including Google and Sun Microsystems. Ken is a California Certified Public Accountant. Over the years, Ken has volunteered with a number of charitable organizations including Habitat for Humanity, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area, and in 2010, Ken co-founded a youth summer program with the former Chief of Police for the Oakland Unified School District wherein he provided valuable time, materials, and financial resources to initiate the program. Ken is married and has three children active in school and sports. Ken enjoys volunteering his time as a coach in basketball and baseball.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

Salvador Ordorica

Salvador Ordorica is the founder and CEO of The Spanish Group LLC, a certified translation service based out of Irvine, California that serves a wide range of international clients.He is a first-generation Mexican American and attributes his achievements to his passion for education and affinity for international commerce.Under Salvador’s leadership, The Spanish Group has become indispensable to multiple Fortune 500 corporations, as well as thousands of families and individuals across the globe by offering its certified translation service into over 90 languages. The Spanish Group operates in over 30 countries.Salvador graduated cum laude with dual bachelor degrees in Political Science and International Affairs from the University of California Irvine, and he studied at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain and later Institut d'études politiques de Paris, commonly referred to as Sciences Po. Salvador is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and he is learning Mandarin Chinese.When not working, Salvador is an avid traveler and explorer. He has lived in numerous countries and can bring an incredible depth of understanding and value to his angel investments through his knowledge of cultures, languages, technology, global issues, and market trends. He is also an active member of the prestigious honor society Phi Beta Kappa.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z

Back to Directory Home

David Overhauser

David Overhauser received his BS in Math and Computer Science from Purdue University in 1983 and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1985 and 1989 respectively. From 1989- 95 he was Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University where he founded the Design Automation Technology Center. He taught classes in VLSI design, chip testing and CAD tool design. He performed research ranging from underwater acoustic visualization to timing simulation of the CMOS computer chips. In 1995 David founded Simplex Solutions and developed the VoltageStorm and Fire&Ice products as Vice President of Engineering. Other duties included overseeing the patent program, product marketing, and assessing potential acquisitions. After two acquisitions and an IPO in 2001, Simplex was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. He held the role of Senior Architect in the Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Division at Cadence. Duties at Cadence included business, marketing, and technical support for parasitic extraction, power grid analysis, and physical verification. David also worked on various partner programs with several other Cadence business units as well as external companies. These projects resulted in contributions in statistical static timing analysis and test chip design as well as strategies for future products. He was deeply involved in relationships with several partners, including TSMC, Samsung, and Applied Materials. He also served on the Cadence patent committee. As of July 2005 David has been semi-retired, working as a strategic and technical consultant. He has helped several EDA startups in the design- for-manufacturing area and has made several investments. He has given technical and entrepreneurial presentations to a variety of audiences. He has 6 patents, has published 2 books and over 30 technical papers.

Members A-C | Members D-G  |  Members H-K  |  Members L-O  |  Members P-S  |  Members T-Z