Mr. Ben-Artzi is a well-known pioneer in the networking industry with more than 25 years of successful engineering and management experience. He co-founded NetManage, serving in various executive roles as Chief Architect, VP of Engineering and VP of Business Development. As VP of Technology for Synoptics, Amatzia was in charge of software development. As the director of network architecture at 3Com, Amatzia architected the Network Management initiative. He also participated in revolutionary networking industry initiatives including the definition of NetBios, NetBios over TCP (RFC 1001) and SNMP. Amatzia holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Tel-Aviv University, and a master's degree in computer science from California State University San Jose.

Prior to founding BridgeWave Communications, Amir served as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D and engineering at Netro Corporation, a technology and market leader in broadband wireless systems. Under his leadership, Netro's highly successful broadband wireless point-to-multipoint product called AirStar was developed and launched. Prior to Netro, Amir served as general manager and vice president of engineering for the Access Division of Telco Systems. While at Telco Systems, Amir managed the conception and development of the Access60 platform. Before joining Telco, Amir held senior engineering, operations, and marketing management positions at Nortel, Telestream, and Amdahl Communications. Amir received BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Technion in Israel.

Until recently, Dr. Barzilay was the interim CEO of CollaBrx, a biotechnology company whose goal is to help oncologists develop customized therapies for cancer patients who are unresponsive to standard treatments.  Dr. Barzilay is a Venture Consultant and was a General Partner with Walden International, a global Venture Capital firm with over $2 billion under management. At Walden Dr. Barzilay led several investments in innovative software companies and served on their boards. Prior to joining Walden Dr. Barzilay was Vice President & General Manager, Content and Supplier Solutions in Commerce One. Dr. Barzilay joined Commerce One as part of Commerce One's acquisition of Mergent Systems in January 2000. Dr. Barzilay was a co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Mergent Systems, a business-to-business e-commerce infrastructure start-up. Prior to Mergent, Dr. Barzilay held a variety of senior management positions including General Manager of C*ATS,  senior marketing executive at Informix and CEO at Syntelligence Systems. Prior to Syntelligence, Dr. Barzilay was an AI researcher at Xerox Parc. Dr. Barzilay has an engineering degree from the Technion in Israel and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Amos Wilnai founded MMC Networks, Inc. in September 1992 and was President of the company until October of 1994. He then served as Acting CEO of the company from October 1998 to April 1999. Amos Wilnai was the Chairman of the Board of MMC Networks, Inc. from its inception and until its merger with AMCC. Prior to founding MMC, Mr. Wilnai was the founder, President and CEO of Clarity Ltd. of Israel, an IC design automation company. Before founding Clarity, Mr. Wilnai was Deputy General Manager at National Semiconductor Israel and at Intel Israel. He also taught IC design at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Amos currently serves on the Board of Verisity Design Inc., . Mr. Wilnai has a BSEE degree from the Technion Institute of Technology and an MSEE from the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn.

Mr. Raza was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) prior to RMI. Mr. Raza was responsible for laying the foundation of AMD's processor roadmap and brought the AMD-K6 and Athlon family of processors to the market. Mr. Raza also served on the Board of Directors of AMD. He became part of AMD's management team after the merger with NexGen, Inc. in January 1996. At NexGen, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer prior to the merger. Mr. Raza also serves on the board of directors of MetaRam, AMI Semiconductor, Mellanox Technologies, Inc., eASIC and TRG.

CJ Cornell is Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship. CJ brings over 20 years experience as a veteran media industry executive and entrepreneur in cable television, broadband, and other consumer media platforms. From 2001-2004 Dr. Cornell was CEO at Chaos Media Networks, a Cable Television network focused on Video on Demand. CJ was recently SVP Programming and Product Management at Ruckus Networks, and head of Business Development at the technology arm of media giant Canal+/Universal Television. He has worked with companies such as Disney, Comcast, Time Warner, Sony, Microsoft and Sun, and founded four pioneering ventures in interactive television and video-on-demand. CJ Cornell holds degrees in engineering, management and a Ph.D. in marketing and strategy. CJ is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, serves as a board member or advisor to six digital media ventures, is a university lecturer on media, venture capital and entrepreneurship and is the author of numerous published academic and business articles on business, technology and media.

Dan Kikinis is a member of Silicom Ventures advisory board. Dan Kikinis is the Chief Intellectual Property Officer of iSurfTV. Mr. Kikinis has more than 20 years of experience in the development of high-technology products and intellectual property, with more than 250 registered patents worldwide in technology areas such as PCs, Net/Web, networks, and systems. Before joining iSurfTV, Mr. Kikinis was founder and President of Lextron Systems, where he helped develop intellectual property strategy as a basis for strategic technology claims for several enterprises, most notably Genesys Telecommunications Labs, Inc., in 2000 acquired by Alcatel. Prior to founding Lextron Systems, Mr. Kikinis was President of Elonex Technologies, with a mission to deliver best-in-class systems and raw patent technology in the general field of PC computing. In addition to designing award-winning PCs, as well as Enterprise Software, he filed and participated in filing for more than 500 patents, some of which are now widely licensed. He received a BS in Electronic Engineering and an MS in Computer Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Dan Maydan is President Emeritus of Applied Materials and a member of the Board of Directors, an appointment he has held since 1992. He has been President of the company from 1994 to, 2003. At Applied, Dr. Maydan spearheaded the innovation and commercialization of critical processing technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. His work has been inducted into the Smithsonian Institution as part of its collection of breakthrough technologies, which have helped shape society and the modern world. Dan Maydan received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Technion and his Ph.D. in physics from Edinburgh University in Scotland. He is also a recipient of Honorary Doctor degrees from both the Technion and Edinburgh University.

Dr. Naveh recently retired from Bayer after 15 years as VP and CTO of Bayer Biological Products, Worldwide. Prior to Bayer, Dr. Naveh was Director of Biotech Operations at Centocor from 1988 to 1992., and previous to that held production and process development positions at Schering Plough . David Naveh participated in the development and commercialization of a number of FDA approved drugs including: Intron, Reopro, Remicaid, Myoscint, Centoxin, Kogenate, and Kogenate-FS. He currently holds seven patents including first authorship of key GM-CSF and IL-4 patents. He is a graduate of Technion in Haifa, Israel in Food Engineering(1980). He received a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.He has authored over 30 peer reviewed papers and is on the editorial board of "Bioseparations." Dr. Naveh has been on BOD's of public (DSCO, BNVI) and private companies since 1995. 

Simon Says Partnership is an enabling consulting entity, focused on early stage companies, who seek help and complementary skills at corporate strategies, developing go to market plans, business development and funding. We enable early stage companies to navigate their way from concept to market. Our clients are typically technical entrepreneurs who recognize the need to stay market focused while developing their innovative technologies. Prior to starting Simon Says Mr. Simon spend a long career as semiconductor executive in start ups, mid-size and established companies. Most recently President and COO of Corcim Technology Inc, a start up company in the embedded controls domain, prior to that he served as Corporate VP Marketing for Tower Semiconductors (NASDAQ: TSEM) and President of Tower USA and early career steps in National Semiconductors. Mr. Simon holds an MBA from Herriot-Watt Business School, Edinburgh, UK and B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Technion, Israel

Doug Engelbart has an unparalleled 30-year track record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing. From his early vision of turning organizations into augmented knowledge workshops, he went on to pioneer what is now known as collaborative hypermedia, knowledge management, community networking, and organizational transformation.
Well-known technological firsts include the mouse, display editing, windows, cross-file editing, outline processing, hypermedia, and groupware. Integrated prototypes were in full operation under the NLS system, as early as 1968. In the last decade of its continued evolution, thousands of users have benefited from its unique team support capabilities.

Mr. Pasternak is the co-founder,Senior VP and CTO of BridgeWave Communications, wireless point to multi-point systems. Previously, Mr. Pasternak served as chief technical officer, chief scientist, and co-founder of Netro Corporation, broadband wireless systems. While at Netro, Mr. Pasternak was responsible for the IP-related functionality of both the AirMAN and AirStar products. He also authored five core-technology patents in the area of wireless ATM and its associated MAC layer. Prior to joining Netro, Mr. Pasternak was co-founder of Telestream, a telecommunications networking company, and a technology consultant for a range of disciplines including medical electronics, wireless, microwave products, communications products, system architecture, and food processing. He received BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Technion in Israel.

Eli Sternheim has more than 25 years of experience in engineering, management, entrepreneurship, business and investment. He received his B.Sc. in EE from the Technion, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in EE from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Sternheim has worked for a few startups, such as Trilogy, Zoran and Nexgen (later went public and was acquired by AMD). In 1991 Dr. Sternheim co-founded interHDL, an EDA company where he was the president and CEO. He wrote the book "Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL" and served as the chairman of the Architectural Committee for Open Verilog International (OVI). InterHDL was sold to Avant! corporation. Since 1995 Dr. Sternheim has been investing in high-tech startups and currently holds a portfolio of a few dozen companies. In 1999, he joined Redwood VP as a Venture Partner.

Dr. Beinglass has over 25 years of diversified experience in the semiconductor manufacturing and semiconductor equipment industry in a variety of executive roles. He is currently an independent consultant working with several semiconductor equipment companies in the areas of strategy, industry road map, marketing and new applications. Dr. Beinglass involved in numerous M&A activities. He is an angel investor and is serving on the BOD of several start ups. Dr. Beinglass joined Applied Materials and served in a variety of executive roles in the company. Dr. Beinglass was involved in numerous successful M&A transactions and was a member of Applied Materials Strategy and Marketing councils. Before joining Applied Materials, Dr. Beinglass worked at Intel and IMP in various positions. While working at Intel he was the co-inventor of the selective tungsten deposition. Dr. Beinglass holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Materials Science and is the holder of 28 US patents with several pending.

In Late 1998, Israel co-founded and became the Chairman of Optonics which he sold to credence Systems in 2002. In 1999, Israel co-founded BeyondWork, an on-line provider of employee benefits. BeyondWork raised $15M during the Internet high days and served over 4000 companies. In 1986, Dr. Niv co-founded Opal Inc., a semiconductor equipment metrology company. Israel served as the VP of R,D&E, later as the GM & Executive VP of Sales and Marketing. From 1994 he served on Opal's Board of Directors, and took Opal public in May 1995.. Israel received his B.Sc. in Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude), and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Ben-Gurion University. From 1982 to 1985 he worked as a Weitzmann Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California. In 1992, Israel completed the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute. Dr. Niv is a board member of Jordan valley - a semiconductor Metrology company, serves on a board of PGSP - an academic institution and is an advisor to several start-ups.

Joseph Bach is a member of Silicom Ventures advisory board. Mr. Bach is a partner at Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP's Silicon Valley office. He has more than a decade of legal experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent prosecution and litigation. Joseph has developed methodologies for, and counsels clients on, efficiently building and managing effective patent portfolios. Joseph has successfully handled and managed cases in a broad range of technologies and has litigation experience before the International Trade Commission and federal courts. Joseph was formerly Senior Director of Intellectual Property at Applied Materials, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's intellectual property internationally. He hold a law degree from the Duke University School of Law and a B.S. Engineering and Applied Science from California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Kenneth Joseph Arrow earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Science from the City College of New York. At Columbia, he received a Master's degree in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Economics. He was a Professor of Economics, Statistics, and Operations Research. Following that he moved to Harvard to be the Professor of Economics. Arrow was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association. He was elected president of the American Economic Association in 1972. Arrow has also been a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Statistical Association. Arrow is considered, along with Paul Samuelson, one of the founders of modern neo-classical economics. His most significant works are his contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem," and his work on general equilibrium analysis. He has also provided foundational work in many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and information economics. In 1972, Kenneth Arrow received the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Kumar is a veteran technology entrepreneur and has held many senior roles. He is actively involved in many early stage companies as a business and technology consultant. He is a principal and co-founder of Outdu.com. Most recently he was a Vice President for Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Righttag Inc, Santa Clara, CA. Prior to that he was the Founder, CEO and VP of Marketing & Business Development of Bluewave Networks. He has 18 years of experience in the high technology sector such as software, systems, internet and e-commerce. Mr. Sripadam was a member of the founding team at Redback Networks, a successful Networking company where he made key contributions to Systems and Hardware. Mr. Sripadam is on the Advisory Board of Paravirtual (Accenia), Zafesoft, Heavy Medical Systems (MedSimple), SkyVenture (iFly) Hollywood, Infinity Systems International etc. He is a Charter Member of TIE-SV. He is also active in many other Silicon Valley professional organizations. He holds an MSEE from Southern Illinois University. He is a member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Prior to joining Progen in early 2008, Dr. Marton was the CTO of Cellgate and before that Chief Scientific and Medical Officer of SLIL Biomedical. Both of these companies focused on the discovery and development of novel polyamine analogs and other compounds for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. Dr Marton co-founded SLIL and served as a director. Prior to SLIL, Dr Marton was Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and before that Chaired the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a leading expert with extensive experience in the fields of cell growth and drug development. . His research has resulted in more than 180 original publications, 60 scientific reviews and chapters, four books, numerous patents, and his work has been acknowledged internationally. Dr Marton serves as a consultant for industry and for governmental and academic institutions. He serves on the Board of the Foundation for the California Heart Center and was previously appointed by the Governor of Wisconsin to the Wisconsin Technology Council. Dr Marton received his BA from Yeshiva University and his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Linda S. Law's nationally recognized company is one of the only women-owned real estate development firms developing institutional-quality projects in the United States. Law & Associates recently completed University Circle, a large Class A mixed-use office/hotel project in East Palo Alto which includes a Four Seasons Hotel. Prior to forming Law & Associates, Ms. Law worked as a corporate real estate consultant to many high tech companies advising on their real estate requirements and undertaking site selection, land acquisition, leasing and campus development. Among others, her clients included Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Chiron/Novartis and Abbott Laboratories. Ms. Law is an alumnus of University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a member of the UC Berkeley's Real Estate Advisory Board as well as a board member of the Harvard Design Magazine. She is also the founding member of the Harvard Real Estate Center and Vice Chairman of the Harvard Real Estate International Advisory Board. Ms. Law lectures at UC Berkeley and Harvard University.

Mark S. Blumenkranz MD is Professor and Chairman of the Stanford Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Blumenkranz is an acknowledged international authority in the field of vitreoretinal surgery and macular diseases. He is the author of numerous publications and patents in the area of drugs, micro-surgical technology, and lasers. A number of his inventions and research projects have been licensed and approved by the FDA and used commonly for the treatment of patients throughout the world. He is a Founder and Director of Optimedica Corporation and PEAK Surgical, both arising from research performed at Stanford and additionally a Founder and Director of Macusight. He has also served in the past as a Director and also as Chairman of the SAB of Oculex Pharmaceuticals, Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, and MidLabs. Dr. Blumenkranz is currently the President of the Retina Society, a Fellow of the Corporation of Brown University where he chairs the Medical School Committee, and is immediate past President of the American University Professors of Ophthalmology. He has been cited for his numerous medical and scientific accomplishments.

Mark G.P. Saifer has been the Scientific Director and a Vice President of Mountain View Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MVP) since 1996. He received an A.B. in Natural Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. Following postdoctoral research in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at Berkeley, he did research in the Department of Viral Oncology at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, NY. About 30 years ago, Dr. Saifer began to develop improved technology for coupling polymers such as poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) to drugs, together with Dr. L. David Williams. Their discovery of the negative impact of conventional PEGylation on the activity of one enzyme, superoxide dismutase, led to their recognition of the advantages of using higher molecular weight polymers for enhancing the pharmaceutical properties of a wide variety of therapeutic proteins. Prior to founding MVP, together with Dr. Williams and Dr. Merry Sherman, Dr. Saifer was the Scientific Director and a Vice President of DDI Pharmaceuticals in Mountain View, CA. He is an inventor on 16 issued and six pending U.S. patents, with foreign counterparts, relating to enzymes, cytokines and other therapeutic proteins, viruses, polymers and polymer conjugates.

Merry R. Sherman is the CEO and President of Mountain View Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of which she was a co-founder with Dr. Mark Saifer and Dr. L. David Williams. She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College in Chemistry and received an M.A. in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. Following post-doctoral fellowships in Polymer Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science (mentored by the late Aharon Katzir) and in Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, she directed research in Endocrine Biochemistry at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She also served as a Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University in New Jersey before entering the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Sherman’s publications are in the fields of biophysics, molecular endocrinology, cancer research and neuroscience. She is an inventor on two issued and six pending U.S. patents and foreign counterparts. She is a member of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Endocrine Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the Association for Women in Science.

Raffy Chatav is the Founder and former CEO and President of Interro Systems, Inc. a developer, manufacturer and marketer of automotive diagnostic equipment. From 1989 to 1992 Mr. Chatav founded and served as Executive VP, Director of Edge Diagnostic Systems, a company involved in the automotive diagnostic equipment market. The company was eventually sold to Snap-On / Sun Electric. In 1980 Mr. Chatav co-founded DAISY Systems in the EDA industry and served as Sr. VP Corporate Officer. Mr. Chatav holds an MBA from California State Univ. Northridge and a BSEE from the TECHNION Israel Institute of Technology.

Ram serves as EIR at Global Catalyst Partners, an early stage venture capital fund. In the early 1970s he was involved in the development and deployment of the Arpanet, which is regarded as the "Granddaddy” of today’s Internet. In 1980 he co-founded Daisy Systems Corp., which heralded the new industry of Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Ram served as Daisy’s Senior Vice president of Corporate Engineering and General Manager of the Systems Division. In 1986 he co-founded Atherton Technology, serving as its CEO. From 1989 until 1992 he operated Banin Associates, providing management and technology consulting to high-tech companies and venture capital firms. In 1992 Ram joined TCSI as General Manager of its Telecom Division, eventually becoming its CEO in 1997. Banin holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as M.Sc. in Nuclear Physics and B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University.

Shlomo Waser is a veteran executive with more than 30 years experience in the high tech industry. His background includes engineering, marketing and general management as well as strategic acquisitions and equity investments. One of his equity investments led to over 20X return to the corporate investor. He managed global business units as large as $220M annual revenues as well as managing groups up to 170 people located around the globe. Currently he is an independent consultant to startup companies. His other experience includes Oak technology where he was the SVP & GM of the company largest business unit. He had a similar position at Zilog. Previously he was the VP and general manager of a business unit at Philips, which he grew from $24M to $220M annual revenues. Prior to Philips he held marketing positions at AMD and MMI. In addition to BSEE and MSEE he also received a graduate degree in computer engineering from Stanford University. He co-authored a book on computer arithmetic and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Spencer Greene joined Juniper Networks in 1999 through the acquisition of Layer Five Inc., an intellectual property development and licensing company he co-founded, and serves as Vice President of Corporate Development. In this role, he is responsible for Juniper Networks' mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, and creation of new strategic partnerships. Prior to this, Greene was Vice President of Product Management for Juniper Networks' IP core and edge router product lines. During his seven years with the company, Greene has also led a number of engineering development teams. Prior to Layer Five, Greene was in the semiconductor and personal computer industries, holding marketing and engineering positions. Greene also worked in Yokogawa Electric's research laboratories in Tokyo, Japan. Greene holds bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and French from Rice University, as well as a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He also holds numerous patents in the networking and graphics acceleration fields.

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America’s leading innovators. In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for “single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.” Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak “adopted” the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment.Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, Danger, Inc., developer of an end-to-end wireless Internet platform, Ripcord Networks and many more.

Dr. Hoff received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958, an MS degree in 1959 and a PhD degree in 1962, both from Stanford University. In 1968 he joined the startup Intel Corporation, Although Intel was founded to develop semiconductor memory, in early 1969 it contracted to develop chips for a family of calculators to be sold under the name "Busicom." Hoff proposed a simpler design that included a simple general-purpose processor, programmed to perform various calculator functions. This alternate approach was accepted by the calculator company, and led to the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. In 1975, Hoff started a group to develop LSI for the telephone industry. That group produced the first commercially available monolithic CODEC, a device which converts voice signals between analog and digital representations. In 1983, Hoff left Intel to become Vice President, Corporate Technology at Atari. Atari, owned by Warner Communications was sold in 1984. Hoff is listed as inventor or co-inventor on 17 U.S. Patents. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his role in the development of the microprocessor.

Mr. Galil, a graduate of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Purdue University in the USA was the founder of Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., and served as Chief Executive Officer of the company from 1962-1999. In 1999, Uzia Galil founded Uzia Initiatives and Management Ltd. and is presently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company, with the mission of helping regional innovations to become a global success by leveraging the experience and the global network of its management team and its partners worldwide. Uzia Galil has been awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees from Technion, The Weizman Institute of Science, Polytechnic University New York, Ben Gurion University, Solomon Bublick Prize Laureate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award by the Purdue University, USA and the Israel Innovation Award). In 1997 he was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his contribution to the development of the Israel hi-tech industry.

Mr. Brandman is the Founder and President of Phonetact Inc. Previously, Mr. Brandman performed consulting in the DSP and communications areas. In prior positions, Mr. Brandman served as Vice President of Engineering at DSP Group, Manager of DSP and System Architect at Octel Communications(now Lucent),Director of Product Planning and Product Development at Zoran Corporation and Principal Engineer and Manager of Product Development for Motorola Inc-Israel. Dr. Brandman received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel. He received his MS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Arizona State University, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Brandman holds more then 17 US and international patents.

Dr. Yossi Vardi is one of Israel’s high-tech veterans, with 35 years experience of founding and participating in building over 30 high-tech companies, in the fields of Internet, software, telecommunications, electro-optics, energy, and the environment. Several companies Yossi Vardi founded eventually went public, among them Advanced Technologies (Tekem - which became at the time the largest software company in Israel), International Technologies (Lasers), Granite Hacarmel and others. He is the principal of International Technologies, which engages in private high-tech investments for its own account. Yossi is the founding investor and the former Chairman of Mirabilis Ltd, the creator of the highly popular instant messaging program ICQ, which pioneered the internet-wide instant messaging phenomena, making it one of the most successful and popular Internet products of all times, with currently close to 400 million downloads. The company was acquired by AOL, to which he still serves as an advisor. He also serves as a strategic advisor to Amazon.

Alex Cushner began his career as a wealth advisor in 1992 at Shearson Lehman Brothers. He joined Credit Suisse in 2005. Alex is the senior partner in a three person team that manages about $250 million for family offices and individual investors. Client accounts are conservatively allocated to cash, tax-free bonds, public equities, and private equity. Alex has beautiful, five year old twins and is an avid golfer.

Dan Maydan is President Emeritus of Applied Materials and a member of the Board of Directors, an appointment he has held since 1992. He has been President of the company from 1994 to, 2003. At Applied, Dr. Maydan spearheaded the innovation and commercialization of critical processing technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. His work has been inducted into the Smithsonian Institution as part of its collection of breakthrough technologies, which have helped shape society and the modern world. Dan Maydan received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Technion and his Ph.D. in physics from Edinburgh University in Scotland. He is also a recipient of Honorary Doctor degrees from both the Technion and Edinburgh University.

Mr. Vilenski is responsible for the successful integration in Israel of three independent subsidiaries for leading American high tech companies: Kulicke and Soffa, KLA Instruments and Applied Materials. All three firms operate in the field of semiconductor capital equipment and employ a combined total of 1500 employees in Israel. Mr. Vilenski served for four years as Executive Director of the Israel - US joint Bi-national Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, spearheading innovative industrial cooperation between Israeli and US high tech companies.Mr. Vilenski received his B.Sc.and his Mechanical Engineering M.Sc. from the Technion. From 1967 to 1969 he was a staff member at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and subsequently began as a design engineer at Kulicke and Soffa in Philadelphia. He eventually served as a Vice President at K&S. From 1985 to 1992, he served as the Vice President and General Manager of KLA Instruments in Israel.

Eli Sternheim has more than 25 years of experience in engineering, management, entrepreneurship, business and investment. He received his B.Sc. in EE from the Technion, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in EE from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Sternheim has worked for a few startups, such as Trilogy, Zoran and Nexgen (later went public and was acquired by AMD). In 1991 Dr. Sternheim co-founded interHDL, an EDA company where he was the president and CEO. He wrote the book "Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL" and served as the chairman of the Architectural Committee for Open Verilog International (OVI). InterHDL was sold to Avant! corporation. Since 1995 Dr. Sternheim has been investing in high-tech startups and currently holds a portfolio of a few dozen companies. In 1999, he joined Redwood VP as a Venture Partner.

As Founder and Managing Director, Gadi Behar brings 30 years of business and management experience. During the last ten years Gadi has been engaged in business planning, development, financial and fundraising work for a variety of Silicon Valley and Israel-based startups. Under his leadership, Silicom Ventures has grown to be the largest global business forum in the United States. Gadi has relationships with most VCs and major news media and has been interviewed by NPR, The San Jose Mercury News, Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. Gadi's vast network includes business leaders and investors in Silicon Valley, Israel and Europe, as well as relationships with the governments of Israel, Spain, Mexico and The Netherlands. Gadi has been instrumental in obtaining funding for over 50 companies to the tune of $36M, accompanied by $70M investment by institutional Venture Capital firms. Under Gadi's leadership Silicom Ventures has had 7 successful exits.

Linda S. Law's nationally recognized company is one of the only women-owned real estate development firms developing institutional-quality projects in the United States. Law & Associates recently completed University Circle, a large Class A mixed-use office/hotel project in East Palo Alto which includes a Four Seasons Hotel. Prior to forming Law & Associates, Ms. Law worked as a corporate real estate consultant to many high tech companies advising on their real estate requirements and undertaking site selection, land acquisition, leasing and campus development. Among others, her clients included Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Chiron/Novartis and Abbott Laboratories. Ms. Law is an alumnus of University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a member of the UC Berkeley's Real Estate Advisory Board as well as a board member of the Harvard Design Magazine. She is also the founding member of the Harvard Real Estate Center and Vice Chairman of the Harvard Real Estate International Advisory Board. Ms. Law lectures at UC Berkeley and Harvard University.

Tad Taube is chairman and founder of the Woodmont Companies, a diversified real estate investment and management organization. He was chairman and CEO of Koracorp Industries (successor to Koret of California) from 1973 until its merger with Levi Strauss in 1979. He has served as trustee of the University of Notre Dame de Namur, the University of San Francisco, and as governor of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.