Amos Barzilay has been a Venture Capitalist with Walden International a top VC firm in the Silicon Valley since 2001. He has evaluated hundreds of start-ups and has been a board member in a dozen companies. He also has been an angel investor and an entrepreneur. Some of his exits include Kiva (sold to Netscape for $180m), Rightworks (sold to ICG for $1.3B), Mergent (sold to CommerceOne for $200M) and Business Signatures (sold to Entrust). Dr. Barzilay has an engineering degree from the Technion in Israel and a M.B.A. and Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Joe Morgan is Chief Investment Officer and Head of Portfolio Management for SVB Asset Management. He has 15 years of experience managing fixed income portfolios for the purpose of total return, current income, and liability diffusion. Prior to joining SVB Asset Management, Morgan was a senior portfolio manager with City National Asset Management in Beverly Hills, and was responsible for the firm's taxable fixed income total return oriented clients. He also spent seven years with Seneca Capital Management in San Francisco. At Seneca, he was responsible for managing institutional fixed income assets totaling over $5 billion with various return objectives and benchmarks. Morgan received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in finance from Texas A&M University, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Panelist:

Greg McAdoo
Venture Capitalist, Sequoia Capital