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Bruce McWilliams is President and Chief Executive Officer of SuVolta. Bruce brings more than 25 years of executive leadership and technology development experience to the company.
Prior to joining SuVolta, Bruce was President and CEO of Tessera Technologies, which he took public through a highly successful initial public offering. Bruce led Tessera's turnaround and established its growth strategy. During his tenure, Tessera experienced compounded revenue and operating profit growth exceeding 50% annually which led to Tessera being cited by Business Week as the Second Hottest Growing Company in America in 2006.
Bruce also served as president and CEO of S-Vision, a liquid crystal-on-silicon based display technology company, senior vice president of Flextronics International, and president and CEO of nCHIP, a multichip module packaging company that was acquired by Flextronics.
In addition to serving on SuVolta's board of directors, Bruce is a director of several private technology companies and a member of the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. In 2005, he received Ernst & Young’s Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year award. Bruce holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Forest Baskett joined NEA in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. Forest focuses on information and energy technology investments. He is the NEA representative on the boards of AstroWatt, Audience, Chelsio Communications, Serious Energy and SuVolta. He also assists Alta Devices, Azuray Technologies, Bandgap Engineering, Conviva, Firefly Green Technologies, Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), Illumitex, Luxtera, NovaTorque, Solar Junction, Svaya Nanotechnologies, Tableau Software, Terrajoule and Tintri as either a board member, observer or advisor, usually in conjunction with another member of the NEA investing staff. In the past he has worked with, among others, Aeluros, Arch Rock, Atheros Communications, Data Domain, E2O, Fulcrum Microsystems, Nanochip, Newisys, RingCube Technologies, SiBEAM, Telegent Systems, and T-RAM Semiconductor. Forest also previously held advisory positions with FineGround, PolyServe, ReShape and SMIC. Prior to NEA, Forest was Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
Dr. Baskett received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Bill Joy joined KPCB in 2005 as a partner in KPCB's Greentech Practice. He helped develop KPCB's strategy of funding game-changing technologies broadly addressing the twin problems of climate change and sustainability. He is working broadly on ventures in areas such as wind, solar and thermoelectric power generation; low-cost electrical energy storage; renewable fuels and green chemicals from non-fuel sources; low-embodied-energy materials; energy-efficient electronics; and other areas.
Bill was previously a founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, a KPCB III/IV portfolio company. While at Sun, Bill was a key designer involved with a number of Sun technologies, including the Solaris operating system, SPARC microprocessor architecture and several of its implementations, and the Java programming language. In 1995 he installed the first city-wide WiFi network at his satellite research laboratory in Colorado. As an inventor, Bill is named on more than 40 patents.
Before co-founding Sun, Bill designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX, the first open source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet. Bill's many contributions were recognized in a Fortune cover story which called him the "Edison of the Internet."
Bill has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Engineering, honoris causa, from the University of Michigan. Bill is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a trustee of the Aspen Institute.
David E. Orton is the Chief Executive Officer of Aptina. Prior to his work at Aptina, he served as CEO at venture-backed start up, DSM Solutions from 2007-2009. David also served in 2006-2007 as Executive Vice President of Visual and Media Businesses for AMD overseeing strategy and operations following the company's acquisition of ATI Technologies. At ATI Technologies he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the global fabless semiconductor company where he grew the company's revenue from $1B in 2000 to $2.4B in 2005. David held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer at ArtX, Inc., and has held a number of senior management roles at Silicon Graphics, Inc, including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Visual Computing and Scalable Systems. His experience also includes graphics and semiconductor work for General Electric and Bell Laboratories.
David holds several patents in graphics and computer architecture. David earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and economics at Wake Forest University, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Duke University.
A partner at August Capital since 1996, Andy brings technology and market experience into such areas as semiconductors, broadband communications, computer systems, and software. He has more than 20 years' experience as a founder, investor, and/or director of venture-backed start-ups, and has served on the boards of more than 40 public and private-companies.
Prior to joining August Capital, Andy was involved in the formation and success of more than a dozen venture capital-backed start-ups, including Actel (ACTL), MMC Networks (Acquired by AMCC -- AMCC), Sequence Design Automation, Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys --SNPS), Transmeta (TMTA), and Viewlogic (Acquired by Synopsys -- SNPS).
In addition, Andy was president of The Technology Research Group, a Boston-based strategy consulting firm he founded in 1984. Through this firm, he provided business-strategy counsel to senior executives at many of the largest electronics companies around the world, including Alcatel, AT&T, EDS, IBM, and Intel.
Before starting TRG, Andy was Senior Editor of EDN Magazine; a research physicist with Panametrics, Inc.; and founder and president of his own consumer-electronics company. He was also a founder of the Massachusetts Center for Technology Growth, a private economic-development organization; and a director of the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center.
Andy is an often-cited authority on changing technologies and markets and has written and lectured extensively on the evolving structures of semiconductor, computer, and telecommunications industries. He wrote "The Computerless Computer Company," which won the 1991 McKinsey award for Article of the Year in the Harvard Business Review. Andy attended Princeton University. He also serves on the Deans Council of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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