Mr. Blum is the Vice President of Engineering of Mobio Networks, a startup building a next generation XML-based platform for rapidly building mobile applications.  Previously, he was Vice President of Engineering and CTO of several successful software startups.  Adam has authored several books on software development including Neural Networks in C++, ActiveX Web Programming, and Building Business Web Sites, and he teaches courses on XML and web services at U.C. Berkeley and elsewhere. 

Mr. Blum is on the advisory boards of several companies and organizations including AboveAll Software, Bettor Software, and the U.C. Berkeley Center for Document Engineering.

Adam earned his BS in computer science from the University of Maryland and his MS in computer science from George Mason University.

Bill Burnham is the Managing Member and Founder of Inductive Capital.   Bill's investment experience spans both public and private technology investing.  On the public side, Bill was a Senior Research Analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, and Piper Jaffray.  On the private side, Bill was a Partner at both SOFTBANK Capital Partners, a $1.5BN late stage investment fund and Mobius Venture Capital, a $1.25BN early stage fund where he focused on software investments in such companies as Cyanea, Datapower, and Stratify.  He is also the author of How to Invest in Electronic Commerce Stock, published by McGraw-Hill and of "Burnham's Beat," a blog that he regularly updates with thoughts on technology and investing.

Prior to his investing career, Bill was a Senior Associate at the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton.   Bill attended Washington University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Tom Campbell is the thirteenth dean of the Haas School of Business, a position he has held since August 2002. He formerly held positions of US Congressman, California State Senator, Stanford University law professor, and, recently, California’s Director of Finance.

At UC Berkeley, Dean Campbell has focused his efforts on moving the Haas School forward to be among the very top business schools in the world by achieving financial self sufficiency and by building on its excellence in teaching, research, and public service. He is leading efforts to expand the school’s faculty from 60 to 90 full time, tenure track positions to achieve parity with other top schools. Haas is about one-third of the way toward this hiring goal. The school now pays market rate salaries to attract and retain the best professors.

Dean Campbell has also promoted constant innovation in the school’s academic programs, and has increased school services for students, including sophisticated career-related and technology services. He has also made fund-raising a priority, with a goal of increasing the school’s endowment and raising money to build a new, second building, to be shared with the UC Berkeley Law School.

He is also leading planning efforts for a new executive education building that will provide teaching and on-site accommodations for executives attending Haas School programs, thanks to a $25 million donation from an anonymous Haas School alumnus in 2005. The gift was the largest single donation in the school’s history.

Dean Campbell describes the study and pursuit of business as being “noble and ennobling, since it leads to people becoming employed, from which so much other good flows.” Under Dean Campbell’s leadership, the Haas School is dedicated to teaching young men and women about business and the creation of opportunity, and is equally committed to offering lessons in the importance of sharing the opportunities and wealth that come from the successful pursuit of business.

In December 2004, Dean Campbell took a one-year leave of absence from the school after being appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be director of the California Department of Finance. He returned as dean of the Haas School in November 2005.

Prior to joining the Haas School in 2002, Dean Campbell was a law professor at Stanford University Law School for 19 years, beginning in 1983. He was elected five times to represent the Silicon Valley area of California in the United States Congress. Among his legislative achievements were authorship of the 1998 Food Bank Relief Act and the 2000 Peace Corps Reauthorization Act.

Campbell also was elected as a California state senator in 1993. During a two-year term, he earned ratings by the Sacramento-based "California Journal" as the most ethical state senator, the best overall senator and the state Senate's best problem solver.

A native of Chicago, Campbell earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics at the University of Chicago, and a law degree from Harvard in 1976. He returned to the University of Chicago, earning a Ph.D. in economics there in 1980. His dissertation was the first quantitative measurement of discrimination against women in federal civil service employment.

He served as a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White from 1977 to 1978 and, the year before that, for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge George E. MacKinnon. He practiced law at Winston & Strawn in Chicago until 1980, when he became a White House fellow in the Office of the Chief of Staff. He then served as executive assistant to the U.S. Deputy Attorney General and became the youngest person ever to be appointed director of the Bureau of Competition in the Federal Trade Commission, where he served from 1981 to 1983, when he joined the faculty of Stanford Law School.

His book, Separation of Powers in Practice, published by Stanford University Press in 2004, examines the constitutionally defined roles and powers of the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government and then suggests which branch might best be address some of America's most contentious policy issues. He covers a broad range of case studies largely drawn from his time serving in public office. These include abortion, free speech, gun control, civil rights, affirmative action, criminal procedure, and the power to declare war.

He is married to Susanne Campbell, who works at the UC Berkeley-based Institute of Management, Innovation, & Organization. As executive director of the UC Berkeley-St. Petersburg University School of Management Program, she has served as the liaison between the management institute and St. Petersburg University since 1993. UC Berkeley was instrumental in helping to launch St. Petersburg’s School of Management in 1993.

As dean of the Haas School, Tom Campbell leads a school that annually enrolls more than 1,600 students in its undergraduate and graduate academic programs, as well as hundreds of senior managers in a series of non-degree executive development programs.

The school has more than 30,000 alumni worldwide.

Timothy Chou has over twenty-five years of experience in the technology business specializing in computing and software. Recently, Chou has become an industry visionary on the evolution of the software industry from the traditional model to Software as a Service (SaaS). His book, The End of Software, predicts a radical shift in software economics that is playing out from Salesforce to Google Office. The book is based on his experiences as the President of Oracle On Demand. Oracle On Demand delivers complex business applications as a service to over a quarter million users worldwide and included leading global companies such as Cigna, Bank of Montreal, Unocal, Grupo Posadas, Thermos, and Qantas Airlines. Under his leadership, Oracle On Demand became the fastest growing business at Oracle.

Not only did Chou create and lead a major new business, but he also was a visible pioneer in evangelizing this major shift in the software business. He was featured in Forbes magazine and quoted in leading publications such as Business Week, the Economist, and the New York Times. In addition, he has been interviewed on CNBC and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. A frequent speaker at investor conferences such as CSFB, Bank of America, and Merrill Lynch, Timothy has become known as a thought leader for the next generation of software.

Prior to his five years at Oracle, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Reasoning Corporation, where he developed the business model and market positioning and brought the company to over thirty million dollars in revenues in fewer than three years. He began his professional career at Tandem Computers where he held numerous positions in product management, product marketing and R&D.

In addition to his commercial career, Chou has maintained a connection to the academic community. For over fifteen years he taught the introductory computer architecture course at Stanford University. He recently launched the first class in Software as a Service also at Stanford. In addition, he has lectured at the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business and delivered the keynote addresses for the International Symposium on High- Performance Computer Architecture as well as the International Symposium on Software Engineering.

Dr. Chou holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science in computer engineering from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Embarcadero Technologies. As a member of the Embarcadero Board, he is on the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee. Timothy is also an advisory board member for Emergence Capital and Webex Corporation.

Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. He specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in the software business. He received a B.A. degree from Princeton in 1976 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1984 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in production and operations management at the Harvard Business School during 1984-86. He is fluent in Japanese and has lived and worked in Japan for seven years.

Dr. Cusumano has been a director of several public and private software companies, currently including Patni Computer Systems (NYSE: PTNI), the sixth largest Indian software firm, and e-Frontier, Japan ’s largest producer of 3-D graphics and animation software tools. He also has consulted for dozens of major organizations around the world, including Alcatel, Amadeus, AOL, AT&T, Business Objects, Cisco, Ericsson, Fiat, Telecom Italia, Ford, Fujitsu, General Electric, Fidelity, Hitachi, Huawei, i2 Technologies, IBM, Intel, the IRS, Lucent, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, NASA, NEC, Nokia, NTT Data, Nortel, Philips, Robert Bosch, Schlumberger, Siemens, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.

Professor Cusumano is the author or co-author of eight books. The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know in Good Times and Bad, was named one of the top business books of 2004 by Steve Lohr of the New York Times. The international best-seller Microsoft Secrets (1995, with Richard Selby) has been translated into 14 languages. Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and its Battle with Microsoft (1998, with David Yoffie) was named a top-10 Business Week book. He has also published Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation (2002, with Annabelle Gawer); Thinking Beyond Lean: Multi-Project Management at Toyota and Other Companies (1998, with Kentaro Nobeoka); Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy (2001, with Costas Markides); Japan's Software Factories (1991); and The Japanese Automobile Industry (1985).

Shelley Evenson is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University teaching in the area of interaction design in the School of Design. Shelley has worked for more than 25 years in multidisciplinary consulting practices. Her work focuses on tapping into the needs of constituents, defining the best opportunities to respond to those needs, quickly prototyping the response and iteratively reshaping it based on people’s feedback. In the last three years, Shelley has focused on developing an approach to designing for service.

Prior to joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, Shelley was cofounder of seeSpace an experience strategy firm, and Chief Experience Strategist for Scient. She is a frequent speaker at design conferences, conducts design strategy workshops with large and small corporations, and will be co-chairing the 2007 Art and Science of Service conference to be held in May at Carnegie Mellon University. Shelley has worked with clients such as Apple Computer, Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Kodak, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Williamsburg Institute, and Xerox on a wide variety of design and development projects. Her current interests include design languages and strategy, experiences that skill, organizational interfaces, design for service and what lies beyond user-centered design.

Dr. Robert J. Glushko is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information, the Director of the Center for Document Engineering, and one of the founding faculty members of the Services: Science, Management and Engineering program.

Dr. Glushko has nearly thirty years of R&D, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience in information management, electronic publishing, Internet commerce, and human factors in computing systems. He founded or co-founded three companies, the last of which was Veo Systems in 1997, which pioneered the use of XML for electronic commerce before its 1999 acquisition by Commerce One. Veo's innovations included the Common Business Library (CBL), the first native XML vocabulary for business-to-business transactions, and the Schema for Object-Oriented XML (SOX), the first object-oriented XML schema language. From 1999-2002 he headed Commerce One's XML architecture and technical standards activities and was named an "Engineering Fellow" in 2000.

He is on the Board of Directors for OASIS, an international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards and is also on the Board of Directors for the Open Data Foundation, dedicated to the adoption of global metadata standards for statistical data. He is the President of the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation, which sponsors the annual Rumelhart Prize in Cognitive Science.

Dr. Glushko has a BA from Stanford, an MS in software engineering from the Wang Institute, and a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Martin Griss is Associate Dean for Education, Director of the Software Engineering program, and a Professor of the Practice at Carnegie Mellon West. He teaches a software metrics course and leads the SmartSpaces research project, applying context-aware software agents to develop assisted living systems. He is also an adjunct professor at UC Santa Cruz.

With over 35 years of experience in software development, education, and research, Dr. Griss spent two decades as Principal Laboratory Scientist at Hewlett-Packard and as Director of HP's 70-person Software Technology Laboratory. He also served as an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Utah. Dr. Griss is a leading authority on software reuse and component-based development, widely known as HP’s "Reuse Rabbi," where he led HP’s corporate reuse program. At HP Labs, he led work on software agents, software tools and process, UML standards, and component-based software engineering.

Dr. Griss has served on the ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee, on a joint ACM/IEEE “Software Engineering as Profession” taskforce, and numerous program, workshop and tutorial committees. He has lectured widely and has published over 60 articles, book chapters and tutorials on software engineering, component-based development, software reuse and software agents. He is working on a new book on agent-based “Active Software.”

Dr. Griss earned his B.Sc in mathematics and physics from the Technion in 1967 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois in 1971. He is co-author of the popular book Software Reuse: Architecture, Process and Organization for Business Success.

James D. Herbsleb is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Software Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Herbsleb has published pioneering research in globally-distributed and open source software engineering.  Prior to joining the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Herbsleb initiated the Bell Labs Collaboratory project, leading a research team which designed, implemented, and deployed solutions for global development, including tools, practices, and organizational models.  Dr. Herbsleb is also a recognized leader in research on how open source software development actually works, its limitations, and how open source practices can be applied in industrial settings.  Dr. Herbsleb is a frequent speaker at industry labs such as Microsoft Research and IBM’s T.J. Watson lab and has given invited talks at major international conferences such as the International Conference on Software Engineering.

Ray Lane is General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling, and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm aimed at improving enterprise productivity. He sits on the boards of Elance, Metamatrix, Visible Path, Xsigo Systems, SpikeSource and PodShow. He also serves on one public board, Quest Software.

Before joining KPCB, Ray was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, the second-largest software company in the world and the leading enterprise software and services company. During his eight-year tenure, Oracle exhibited phenomenal sales growth, from approximately $1 billion in 1992 to its current annual revenue of $10 billion. Ray led Oracle's business expansion beyond its core database technology into enterprise applications and professional services.

Before joining Oracle, Ray was a senior partner with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he pioneered and led the Information Systems Group, a worldwide consulting practice targeted at helping senior management achieve better results from information technology. He also served on Booz-Allen's board of directors and executive management committee. Prior to Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Ray served as division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corp (EDS). In addition, he spent ten years with IBM in various product-management, sales and marketing positions.

Ray received a Bachelor's degree in mathematics and an honorary Ph.D. in Science from West Virginia University (WVU). He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU and serves as a director of the Foundation Board for the University. Recently, WVU honored Ray by naming the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Ray also serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. He has been an active campaigner and planner for Carnegie Mellon's establishment of a Silicon Valley campus, and the co-creator of a High Dependability Computing Consortium with Carnegie Mellon and NASA. Ray also serves as Vice Chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the International Board of Special Olympics for several years. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from Golden Gate University.

Paul Maglio is senior manager of Service Systems Research at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. His group encompasses social, cognitive, computer and business sciences and aims at creating a foundation for basic and applied research in how people work and create value – both mechanisms of individual and group behavior as well as processes, practices and technologies developed to support specific business goals, particularly as it relates to people- and information-intensive businesses, such as IBM Global Services.  

Since joining IBM Research in 1995, Maglio has worked on programmable Web intermediaries, attentive user interfaces, multimodal human-computer interaction and human aspects of autonomic computing. He holds thirteen patents and has published more than 70 scientific papers in various areas of computer science and cognitive science.

Dr. Maglio holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego.

Jason Maynard is a Software Analyst for Credit Suisse with coverage responsibility for the applications, infrastructure, and On Demand computing. In addition to direct coverage responsibility, he serves as group head for the global software research team.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2005, Maynard was the global software coordinator and senior software analyst for Merrill Lynch. In February 2004, Maynard launched the On Demand Index to track and measure the rise of On Demand business models and the trend of Software as a Service. InformationWeek magazine named Maynard to its 2005 Innovators and Influencers list based on his work in the field.

Before moving into investment research, Jason’s professional experience included product marketing and business development for two software start-ups in the Customer Relationship Management and Java development space. Maynard was a co-founder of Verix Software and played a key role in selling the company to Inference Corporation in 1998. Maynard earned a Master of Business Administration in information technology from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in 1998 while working full-time, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from California State University at Sacramento in 1993.

David G. Messerschmitt is the Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California at Berkeley and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology. He has served as the Acting Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems as well as the Chair of EECS. Prior to 1977, Dr. Messerschmitt was with AT&T Bell Laboratories. His current research focuses on the business and economics of computing and communications technology. In Helsinki, he is performing research into the foundations of software business as a member of the Software Business Laboratory. He is the co-author of Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (MIT Press, 2003). A member of the NSF Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, he co-chaired a National Research Council (NRC) study on the future of information technology research, and he served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of NRC. He received a Ph.D. in computer, information, and control engineering from the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal recognizing “exceptional contributions to the advancement of communication sciences and engineering.”

Dr. James H. Morris is a Professor of computer science and Dean of the West Coast Campus of Carnegie Mellon University. From 1992 to 2004, he served as department head and then Dean of the School of Computer Science. He held the Herbert A. Simon Chaired Professorship of Human Computer Interaction from 1997 to 2000.

For ten years, Dr. Morris worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he was part of the team that developed the Alto System, a precursor to today’s personal computer. From 1983 to 1988, he directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon, a joint project with IBM, which developed the prototype university computing system, Andrew. He has been the principal investigator of several NSF and DARPA projects aimed at computer-mediated communication, and he is a founder of the MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive product design. He consults for Google and Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Dean Morris earned his Bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, his M.S. in management from MIT, and his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: Inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching algorithm.

Craig Mundie was named to the new position of chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft in June 2006. He is working closely with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to assume responsibility for the company’s research and incubation efforts – in anticipation of Gates’ departure from a day-to-day role in Microsoft in July 2008. Mundie also partners with General Counsel Brad Smith to guide Microsoft’s intellectual property and technology policy efforts.

Mundie previously held the position of Microsoft chief technical officer of advanced strategies and policy, in which he worked with Gates to develop comprehensive technical, business and policy strategies for Microsoft on a global scale. In addition, he worked with government and business leaders in Washington, D.C., and across the globe to address the technology and policy issues of security, privacy, telecommunications regulation, intellectual property and software procurement standards.

Mundie joined Microsoft in 1992 to create and run the Consumer Platforms Division, which was responsible for developing non-PC platform and service offerings such as the Windows CE operating system, software for the handheld, Pocket and Auto PCs, and early telephony products. Mundie also started Microsoft's digital TV efforts and acquired and managed the WebTV Networks Inc. subsidiary. Mundie is also the original champion of the Trustworthy Computing Initiative at Microsoft that profoundly impacted Microsoft's software development strategy.

In August 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton named Mundie to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which advises White House staff on issues affecting the security of the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure. In April 2002, Mundie joined the Task Force on National Security in the Information Age to help develop a strategy for using new technologies and information to address new security challenges. Since February 2002, Mundie has served on the Council on Foreign Relations Inc., a nonpartisan membership organization, research center and publisher dedicated to increasing Americas understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy.

Mundie is also a trustee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and is on the advisory board of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Mundie started his career at Systems Equipment Corporation (SEC), where he developed SECOS, the first commercially available operating system for the Data General NOVA. Mundie then started work on a data-management system for the NOVA, which he continued after SEC was acquired by Data General. This led to the release of Data General’s INFOS database. Mundie next worked at Data General’s new advanced development facility in Research Triangle Park, N.C., subsequently succeeding Ronald Gruner as director of the facility. In 1982, Mundie, Gruner and Rich McAndrew co-founded Alliant Computer Systems, a company that developed massively parallel supercomputers. Mundie held a variety of positions at Alliant before taking over from Gruner as CEO. Alliant shut down in 1992, and Mundie joined Microsoft. Mundie holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in information theory and computer science from Georgia Tech.

Kim Polese is the CEO of SpikeSource, Inc., a software company based in Silicon Valley. The company is backed by venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and has developed an advanced automated testing technology for certifying interoperability of open source software – creating in effect a continual “UL”-style certification for Global 2000 companies who are depending on open source software applications to run their core business operations. The automation enables the delivery of low-cost, high-quality software to a mass market, resulting in more affordable and dependable software applications for business of all sizes worldwide.

Prior to joining SpikeSource in August 2004, Ms. Polese co-founded Marimba, Inc., a leading provider of systems management solutions, in 1996. Marimba was acquired by BMC Software in June 2004. Ms. Polese served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of Marimba, leading the company through a successful public offering and to profitability in 2000.

Before co-founding Marimba, Ms. Polese worked in software management at Sun Microsystems and was the original product manager for Java, leading its launch in 1995. Prior to joining Sun, Ms. Polese was with IntelliCorp Inc., consulting with Fortune 500 companies in the development of expert systems.

Ms. Polese earned a Bachelors degree in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and studied computer science at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Ms. Polese serves on several boards, including the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the University of California President’s Board on Science and Innovation, UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, and the Global Security Institute.

Scott Russell’s twenty-four year career has been in information technology – first, as a senior manager of technology for some of the world’s largest financial institutions and later, as an investor in technology startups. For the last ten years Scott has been a general partner with the venture capital firms Diamondhead Ventures and Mobius Venture Capital. As a venture capitalist, Scott has managed funds totaling over 2 billion dollars and has invested in over forty technology companies.

In 1996, Scott help co-founded Mobius Venture Capital (formerly known as SOFTBANK Technology Ventures). As General Partner and Managing Director at Mobius Venture Capital, Scott invested in enterprise software, financial service and Internet companies.

Scott has invested in and helped build many well-known, successful startups including Supportsoft (NASDAQ: SPRT), E*Loan (EELN), Prio (acquired by Infospace, INSP), Invesmart, Personalogic (sold to AOL) and Buy.com (BUYX). Scott’s other portfolio involvement included E*Trade (ET), Verisign (VRSN), Intertrust (acquired by Sony), Multex (IPO, acquired by Reuters), and Zip2 (acquired by Compaq).

Prior to his career in venture capital, Scott spent 14 years managing corporate technology for several multi-national firms, including Swiss Bank, S.G. Warburg, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. Scott has been both a major purchaser of technology for these financial institutions as well as the manager of numerous large software development teams. At S.G. Warburg, Scott was the Managing Director of Information Technology for the firm.

Scott is an active member of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science Advisory Board. In 2002, he helped found Carnegie Mellon West, a Carnegie Mellon satellite campus in Silicon Valley. Scott lectures on entrepreneurship and is a frequent panelist at Tepper Business School events.

In the past, Scott has created and chaired a number of CIO advisory committees to help his portfolio investments. Members of these include senior technology executives from Lehman Brothers, Citibank, Seibel, Delta Airlines, Longs Drug, Bankers Trust, and Schlumbeger.

Throughout his career Scott has been very active in industry events and widely interviewed by the press. Scott has been interviewed by PBS, Nikkei Television, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, Upside Magazine, Business 2.0, Red Herring, Optimize and several major daily newspapers.

Scott holds a BS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and completed the S.G. Warburg sponsored Advance Development Program at the London Business School. He has worked and lived in London, New York, Silicon Valley, Tokyo and Toronto.

In his spare time, Scott enjoys cycling, tennis, skiing and traveling.

Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is a Professor of Software Engineering Practice at Carnegie Mellon West and Executive Director of the Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI). Previously, Tony was Vice President of Bluestone Software, responsible for its West Coast Labs, then Director, Mobile Middleware Labs, for H-P's Middleware Division.

Before that, Dr. Wasserman was Founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE). There, he contributed to the architecture of IDE's innovative Software through Pictures (StP) software modeling environment.

Prior to starting IDE, Tony was a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and a Lecturer in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley. At UCSF, he and his research team produced the open source User Software Engineering (USE) distribution, an environment to support rapid prototyping of interactive information systems.

Dr. Wasserman earned a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a BA in mathematics and physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE.

Ann Winblad is the co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.  Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (www.humwin.com) is a leading venture capital firm focused on software investing and manages over $1 billion in cumulative capital.  Since Hummer Winblad Venture Partners’ inception in 1989 the firm has launched over 90 new software companies.

Ann has over 25 years of experience in the software industry as a successful software entrepreneur, strategy advisor, technical author and venture capitalist. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications. 

Ann has a BA in mathematics and in business administration.  She has an MA in education with a focus in international economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.  Ann also has an honorary Doctorate of Law degree from the University of St. Thomas.

Ann served and serves as a Director of numerous start-up and public companies. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of St. Thomas and serves as an advisor to many entrepreneurial organizations.

John Zysman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. Professor John Zysman has been a member of the University of California, Berkeley faculty since 1974, and is Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), established in 1982. Professor Zysman received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Over the years his research has spanned an array of topics on the political economy, from French post-industrialist policy to the influence of the internet on industrial competition (Tracking the Transformation). His most recent work assesses the impact of the digital transformation. How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology in the Digital Era, (Stanford University Press) is the product of a joint multi year project between BRIE and the Institute on the Finnish Economy (ETLA), and in part the University of Helsinki Institute on European Studies.

Professor Zysman’s recent research has two foci. One concerns Re-priming the American Technology Pump. The second foci is The Service Transformation, which looks at the transformation of the service sector and the reality that service reorganization in a digital era should be able to generate productivity increases. In 2006, Professor Zysman won the IBM Faculty Award, which will help launch a project called Tracking the Services Transformation: The Algorithmic Revolution.

Professor Zysman’s publications include Tracking a Transformation: E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries, BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project Task Force (Ed.). (Washington, DC: Brookings Press, June 2001).; Tools for Thought: What is New and Important about the “E-conomy”, S. Cohen, B. DeLong and J. Zysman 2001. (Berkeley: Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy); Enlarging Europe: The Industrial Foundations of a New Political Reality, J. Zysman and A. Schwart (Ed.). 1998. (Berkeley: International and Area Studies Press); The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System (Oxford University Press, 1992), Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy (Basic Books, 1987), and Governments, Markets, and Growth: Finance and the Politics of Industrial Change (Cornell University Press, 1983).