Members

Flint Brenton ,Vice President of Cisco’s Intelligent Automation business

He leads the organization in delivering automation solutions that make it easier for IT to manage and administer diverse technologies. In 2008, Flint directed the Cisco acquisition of Tidal Software, where he was president and chief executive officer. He then guided the integration of the Tidal business into Cisco and the creation of the Intelligent Automation business unit. Cisco Tidal product revenue has continued to be strong through the integration process, and the business unit has launched several new offerings since the acquisition. Prior to the acquisition by Cisco, under his leadership, Tidal Software increased profitability and revenue growth by expanding its product and services portfolio and investing in sales and marketing technologies and programs.
Shannon Fraser Senior International Trade Specialist, U.S. Commercial Service-Silicon Valley,U.S. Department of Commerce

Shannon Fraser serves as a Senior International Trade Specialist

specializing in the sectors of clean energy, environmental technologies,digital media, electronic commerce, and computer services. In partnership with colleagues at the U.S. Commercial Service office in Silicon Valley and Foreign Commercial Service officers at the Embassies and Consulates worldwide, Shannon works with Silicon Valley-based companies to expand their exports to overseas markets, thereby spurring economic growth, job creation, and innovation for local small-and-medium enterprises based in the Silicon Valley region.

Bill Reichert Managing Director Garage Technology Ventures

Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding board member and a Chairman of the Churchill Club, and a Charter Member of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs.

Anders B. Axelsson – Echelon Corporation, Senior Vice President Global Commercial Markets

Anders joined Echelon in 2003 as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Prior to Echelon he was CEO of PowerFile Inc., an optical storage company. He started his career with ABB in Sweden as an engineer in the automation controls division where he served for 11 years in many engineering, marketing and management positions. In 1992 he joined Honeywell-Measurex as vice president of marketing. During his 7 years at Honeywell, he also served as president/managing director for Europe and later as vice president of engineering, marketing and business development. Following Honeywell, Anders worked for Quantum Corporation as president and general manager for the network attached storage business unit. He now lives in Los Altos, CA with his wife and two children.

Eric Wesoff is a Senior Analyst at Greentech Media and Author of the Greentech Innovations Report. Prior to joining Greentech Media, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Eric Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields. He also was the publisher of the Venture Power newsletter, a subscription-only newsletter covering venture-capital investment in renewable energy.

Sara Rauchwerger - CCICE Founder & Director
Ms. Sara Rauchwerger is the Founder and Director of CCICE and Founder and Managing Director of BG Strategy; a leading global market entry services company, specializing in helping clients enter global markets including industry specific investment opportunities. She brings over 20 years of Business Development and Business Strategy Experience from both private enterprises and government contracts from various companies in the fields of Telecommunication, Aerospace, and Information Technology.

Jay H. Eum,TransLink Capital Co-Founder and Managing Director

Jay is responsible for TransLink’s investments in Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB), ChartBoost, Enterprise DB, Livescribe, SoundHound, and YuMe as well as supporting TransLink’s portfolio companies with their customers and partners primarily in Korea.Most recently, Jay was the head of Samsung Ventures America. He was responsible for starting up the U.S. operations for Samsung Venture Investment Corp., the venture investment arm of Samsung, and leading their U.S.-based investments and portfolio management.Under Jay’s leadership, Samsung Ventures America grew to a team of five investment professionals and invested over US$80M in 27 U.S.-based start-up companies.
Richard Sevcik Former CEO of Xilinx
Rich was employed for ten years at AT&T, Bell Laboratories. He worked as a digital circuit designer and software engineer. He participated in the first telephone cell phone trial in Oak Park, Illinois. Rich then moved to California and joined Bell Northern Research, Northern Telecom. As a vice president he led the development of the Meridian Office Communication System, which achieved number one market share during the 1980’s. After eight years Rich joined Hewlett Packard’s computer organization. Again as vice president, group general manager he led a team of two thousand engineers in the development of HP’s computer servers, workstations, and networking systems. HP’s compute servers still enjoy a number one market share worldwide. Finally after ten years Rich joined Xilinx in the programmable logic industry.
E. John Park is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and FinancePractice. Mr. Park's practice focuses on corporate and securities laws, including private placements (including both debt and equity offerings), public securities offerings, recapitalizations and mergers and acquisitions. He works with companies in varying industries on a wide range of matters including initial formation, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, the periodic reporting requirements of publicly held companies and general corporate counseling. He has represented both acquirers and targets in a variety of public-private and private-private business combination transactions, as well as issuers and venture capital firms in private securities offerings.
David Koh, a General Manager , KITECH USA
His responsibilities include planning and administering various technology cooperation programs between Korea and USA. He has over 21 years of work experiences in both Korea & USA including Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (Business Development Manager), Conversay Inc. (VP of Asia Pacific), Ventree Inc. (Acting CEO & GM), Samsung America Inc.(Manager, 1990~2000). Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) is a Korean government sponsored R&D institute focused on applied industrial R&D and technology support services to Small to Medium sized Enterprises. Located in Silicon Valley, KITECH USA is in charge of planning and operation of technology cooperation programs between USA and Korea