PROFILES of SPEAKERS Dado BANATAO Managing Partner, Tallwood Venture Capital Dado Banatao Is the Managing Partner of Tallwood V
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PROFILES OF SPEAKERS Dado BANATAO Managing Partner, TallWood Venture Capital Dado Banatao is the managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. With his experiences as an entrepreneur, Dado provides Tallwood with a unique perspective in technology investments. Tallwood invests in unique and hard-to-do semiconductor technology solutions for computing, communication, and consumer platforms. Prior to forming Tallwood, Dado was a venture partner at the Mayfield Fund. He co- founded three technology startups: S3 (SBLU), Chips & Technologies (INTC) and Mostron. He held positions in engineering and general management at National Semiconductor, Seeq Technologies, Intersil and Commodore International. Dado pioneered the PC chip set and graphics acceleration architecture that continue to be two of the foundation technologies in every PC today. As an engineer, he is credited with developing several key semiconductor technologies and is regarded as a Silicon Valley visionary. Dado serves as Chairman of Ikanos (IKAN), Inphi Corporation (IPHI) and is on the board of directors of Wave Semiconductor and Wilocity. He also served as Chairman and led investments in SiRF Technology, acquired by CSR; Marvell Technology Group (MRVL); Acclaim Communications, acquired by Level One (INTC); Newport Communications, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM); Cyras Systems, acquired by Ciena (CIEN); and Stream Machine, acquired by Cirrus Logic (CRUS). Dado holds a B.S.E.E., cum laude, from the Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Steve CHEN Co-founder, YouTube Steve Chen is the co-founder of YouTube. Steve arrived in Silicon Valley in 1999 to join PayPal. On his first day at PayPal, Steve met Chad Hurley, who would become his YouTube co-founder, together with Jawed Karim. Steve was instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon. He helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion, less than a year after launching the site. As the key technologist, Steve developed the company’s massive data centres and helped build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination, and one of the most popular websites on the Internet today. Steve has received several prestigious honours and acknowledgments from the business and entertainment communities including: Business 2.0′s “50 Most Influential People,” GQ’s “Men of the Year,” Time magazine’s “Best Invention of the Year”, and Fortune’s “Most Powerful People in Business.” Steve joins Google Ventures from AVOS, the incubator he founded with Chad Hurley in 2011. Roelof BOTHA Partner, Sequoia Capital Roelof Botha focuses on internet services and software investments. He is currently a Director of Eventbrite, Evernote, Inside.com, Jawbone, MongoDB, Natera, QuizUp, Square, Unity Technologies, Weebly, Whisper, and Xoom (XOOM). Roelof is also involved with Sequoia Capital portfolio companies including AssureRx. Previously, he was a Director of YouTube.com (GOOG), Insider Pages (IACI), Meebo (GOOG), TokBox (Telefonica Digital), Nimbula (ORCL), Tumblr (YHOO), and Cue (AAPL), and led Sequoia's investment in Instagram (FB). Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY), an online payments company. Earlier, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries) and holds a B.S. in Actuarial Science, Economics and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. John JEANS Former Chairman, GE Healthcare Ltd John is Chairman of the Council of Cardiff University and Imanova (an imaging research partnership between three London Universities and the MRC). In addition he chairs the Trustee Board of MRC Technology, is a non-executive Director of Renishaw plc and a Board member of the University and College Employers Association. An advisor to public sector organizations, he was appointed by the Prime Minister (UK) in 2014 as a Life Science Champion for the medical technology sector. John also leads the Technology Strategy Board’s Stratified Medicine advisory Board and is Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board to the Singapore Government’s Diagnostics Hub. He has served on several UK Government and Clinical bodies including the Co-Chairmanship of a Ministerial Committee on Medical Technologies, was an inaugural member of the Science Advisory Council for Wales and a founder Trustee of the Francis Crick Institute. Until July 2011 John was the Deputy Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council and continues to sit on the MRC’s audit and risk committee. In an industrial career spanning 35 years he held senior international leadership positions in global companies including Smith & Nephew, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and Amersham plc (now GE Healthcare). John headed the commercial function of GE’s Life Science business and was the Chairman of its UK Healthcare Company. His domain experience ranges from medical devices and therapeutic pharmaceuticals to in-vivo and in- vitro diagnostics; encompassing research, product development, manufacturing and commercialization. John is engaged with local and national charities including the Abbeyfield Beaconsfield Society, Thames Valley Enterprise, Young Enterprise, and the Clare Foundation. He was awarded the CBE for services to Life Sciences, Healthcare and Science in 2012. 12 Phil LIBIN CEO, Evernote Phil Libin is the CEO of Evernote, the company that's helping millions of people worldwide remember everything, work effectively and achieve personal and professional success. He is an entrepreneur and executive who has led two Internet companies from the very beginning to proven commercial success, and helped three others through rapid growth. Prior to joining Evernote, Phil founded and served as president of CoreStreet, a company that provided smart credential and identity management technologies to governments and large corporations throughout the world. CoreStreet was acquired by ActivIdentity, now owned by HID Global, in 2009. Previously, Phil was founder and CEO of Engine 5, a leading Boston-based Internet software development company acquired by Vignette Corporation (VIGN) in 2000, where he went on to serve as principal architect and chief technologist for applications. Howard HARTENBAUM Partner, August Capital Howard Hartenbaum joined August Capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as a General Partner at Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype. Before entering the venture capital field, Howard was at Hughes Electronics, Honda Motor Company and Teledyne Relays. Howard has worked overseas for a total of ten years in Luxembourg and Japan. He is a graduate of M.I.T. Current Investments: Beckon, Bubbli, DITTO, Eat Club, Gigwalk, Luminate (formerly Pixazza), Reputation.com, and RelayRides. Previous investments: Skype (acquired by eBay – EBAY), Photobucket (acquired by Fox Interactive Media – NWS), Bebo (acquired by AOL – TWX), Netkraft (acquired by Adea Solutions), PowerReviews (acquired by Bazaarvoice - BV) and DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com – CRM). PROFILES OF PANELLISTS Huifen CHAN Independent Consumer Services Professional Huifen Chan was the CEO of online bridal party apparel business Perfect Bridal. Before that, she was the director of products at Mark Logic, a provider of information infrastructure software, serving the media, government, software, financial services, healthcare and other industries. She has also served as the senior product manager of the new ventures department at eBay. Born in Singapore, Chan holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science from the Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds a MBA in Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. James FINLEY Ex-Vice-President, Rolls-Royce PLC James Finley is a retired senior executive with extensive global business experience with a major UK FTSE 100 Company. Mr Finley is an executive committee member directly involved in running the business day to day, which has a turnover of approximately 1.0 billion UK pounds. His specific skills and experience is in leading the front-end global sales and service organisations including having responsibility for customer relationship and satisfaction, developing and executing strategies to enter new markets and geographies on a global basis and developing/mentoring young and mid-career talent. Currently active as a business consultant, Mr Finley advises and mentors small and medium sized companies on commercialising start- ups and on accessing international markets. He is also an angel investor and serves as non-executive director of Histoindex Pte Limited, IPTEC Pte Limited and Zicom Equipment. FONG Saik Hay Chief Technology Officer, ST Engineering Limited Mr. Fong Saik Hay is the Chief Technology Officer of ST Engineering Limited. ST Engineering is one of the largest engineering corporation in Singapore with over 23,000 employees; revenue of US$5 billion, presence in 23 countries with products covering land, air, sea and electronics. Mr. Fong graduated from National University of Singapore with First Class Honors in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Information and Control Engineering from University of Michigan. He had also attended a management course in Harvard. Parag KHANNA Adjunct Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the