Bio
Gordon Davidson
Gordon Davidson is a Partner in the Corporate Group and Chairman of Fenwick & West LLP. He advises high technology companies, including networking, computer software and electronics companies, as well as clean technology and life sciences companies.
He is one of three leading lawyers in Silicon Valley, named on Forbes Magazine's Midas List as one of the top 100 venture capital deal makers in every year the list has been published.
Stephen Hoover
Stephen Hoover is CEO at PARC, a Xerox company.
Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo is a forecaster and strategist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. He was initiated into the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus in 2000 and is chairman of the Most Important Committee.
Saffo is Chairman of the Samsung Science Board, and serves on a variety of other boards and advisory panels, including the Stanford Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Society, and the Long Now Foundation, as well as the boards of several public and pre-public companies located the United States and abroad. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum, which in the late 1990s named Saffo one of its "100 Global Leaders For Tomorrow."
Ann Winblad
Ann Winblad is a Partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She began her career as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank. In 1976 Winblad co-founded Open Systems, Inc., a top selling accounting software company, with a $500 investment.
Winblad operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it for over $15 million. Prior to co-founding Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Winblad served as a strategy consultant for prestigious clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Price Waterhouse, and numerous start-ups.
Winblad received a BA in mathematics and in business administration from the College of St. Catherine, as well as an MA in education and international economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Encyclopædia Britannica Article
- Silicon Valley
Industrial region, west-central California. Roughly bounded by San Francisco Bay on the north, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Diablo Range on the east, it takes its (unofficial) name from the extensive use of silicon in the region's electronics industries. The U.S. government invested heavily in the region's industry following World War II. A second economic surge occurred with the proliferation of personal computers in the 1980s, and a third surge followed the growth of the Internet in the 1990s.
- Silicon Valley on britannica.com
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