Funding Strategies Panel Members

Bob Bozeman - General Partner - Angel Investors LP - Until their sale last year to Credit Suisse First Boston. Investment success included Ask Jeeves, AvantGo!, BrightMail, Google, PayPal, and RedEnvelope. Bob was previously in the operating side of business - including CEO roles at Altos Computer Systems, Bricsnet, Fortune Systems, and Natural Language Incorporated. He currently is a private investor and Advisor. He serves on the Boards of Industrial Origami, Inc., and Treehouse Acquisition Corp. and is an Advisor to Become.com, Moore, Clayton & Co., Newroo, and O2.

Steve Zoppi - VP IT and CIO, TiVo (TiVo.com) - Steve manages TiVo's information technology including security, operations, web and enterprise systems development. Steve brings more than 20 years of technology leadership experience both as an executive-level technology practitioner and a recognized industry analyst. He is also principal advisor and founder of Collabri Group, LLC, a research and advisory services firm and serves on numerous advisory boards for emerging technology companies. Steve holds as BS in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco. Additionally, Steve recently added "published author" to his list of achievements. His co-authored book, CIO Wisdom: Best Practices from Silicon Valley's Leading IT Experts, hit bookstores in August 2003.

Andrew McCraith - CEO of Silicon Clocks(SiliconClocks.com) - Andrew is co-founder and interim CEO of Silicon Clocks, a fabless semiconductor company spun-off from UC Berkeley delivering integrated timing solutions for wireless, high speed serial data, and consumer electronics applications. He helped the technical founders create a business plan and define both a long-term and short-term strategy. He negotiated the company's exclusive licensing agreement with the UC Regents and established relationships with handset OEMs, chipset vendors and foundries in the US, Asia and Europe. Silicon Clocks completed five LOIs/MOUs and received customer deposits prior to financing. Silicon Clocks recently raised $11M in venture capital and closed its first acquisition. Prior to Silicon Clocks, Andrew spent 4 years at the strategy consulting firm R.B. Webber working with early-stage technology companies to address strategic marketing and corporate development issues. He also spent a year the The Timken Company as a research engineer deploying new steel manufacturing technologies at production facilities in Ohio, North Carolina and Australia. He earned his BS and MS from MIT in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing and his MBA from UC Berkeley.

Panel Moderator - John Montgomery - Montgomery Law Group (MontgomeryLawGroup.com) - John has practiced corporate law in Silicon Valley since 1984. John's experience includes extensive corporate counseling to public and private companies and venture capital firms. He has represented clients in connection with numerous venture capital financings, initial public offerings, public and private mergers and acquisitions, going private transactions and a variety of other general corporate matters. John is passionately committed to accelerating the growth and success of our clients' businesses. He is a frequent speaker and panelist on venture capital topics at such forums as the Churchill Club, the Deloitte & Touche Accelerator Program and Intel's CFO Forum. Prior to co-founding Montgomery Law Group with Dan Hansen, John was the co-chairman of the venture capital practice at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, an early founding partner of GCA Law Partners, LLP and an associate corporate attorney at Baker & McKenzie and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. John was also an in-house attorney at The Cooper Companies.

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