Fahri Diner, Partner, Sigma Partners
Fahri joined Sigma Partners in 2006 after a 15-year entrepreneurial career in the high-tech industry with a career spanning responsibilities in engineering, product management, marketing, and executive management. Fahri was the founder, president, and CEO of Qtera Corporation where he led Qtera to its acquisition by Nortel Networks acquired the company for $3.25 billion.  He continued to lead Qtera as president of the wholly-owned subsidiary until 2001. Before Qtera, Fahri was a member of the executive team at Siemens where he managed the optical networks business unit in North America, later spun-off as Optisphere Networks.  Prior to Siemens, Fahri led Pirelli's pioneering activities in the optical amplifier and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) markets which was later acquired by Cisco Systems for $2.15 billion.  Fahri founded Concept Ventures in 2005 by acquiring a portion of the assets of Applied Materials Ventures in which he served as Managing Director. Fahri holds a BSEE degree from Florida Institute of Technology.

Julien Nguyen, Managing Director, Concept Ventures
Julien has 25 years of operational, entrepreneur and early stage information technology investment experience. He founded Applied Materials Ventures in 2001 and Concept Ventures in 2005, and has focused his investments on early stage startups in digital media, communications, semiconductors, software and services. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), and Radius (IPO). Julien also serves on the board of Grandis, Takumi, and Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM). Julien holds an MS degree from Ecole Polytechnique in France and a Post Graduate degree from Telecom Paris.

Steven D. White, CEO, Svaya Nanotechnologies
Svaya is developing a breakthrough self-assembly technology for highly uniform, molecular scale films on large area substrates. The technology is able to deposit multi-layer, multi-function and conformal coatings using broad range of materials on a variety of surfaces. In 1996, Steve founded 0-In Design Automation (pronounced “zero-in”) served as the company’s President and CEO and as a member of the Board of Directors. 0-In pioneered assertion-based and formal verification technology and created a new niche within the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) market. 0-In was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2004. In 1987 Steve founded Logic Modeling and served as the company’s Vice President of Operations. Logic Modeling consolidated the hardware modeling niche, grew revenues and became profitable eventually merging with Logic Automation (LAI) to form Logic Modeling Corporation (LMC). The company grew rapidly and was purchased out of IPO registration by Synopsys in 1993. Steve joined Valid Logic Systems in 1982 and served as Vice President of Manufacturing. Valid developed workstations based on the Stanford University Network (Sun) architecture and Berkeley Unix, as well as schematic capture, simulation and timing verification tools. The company had a successful IPO in 1984.

Sharon Zohar, Founder, Envis
Sharon Zohar is a successful entrepreneur with more than 20 years of executive management and design experience in semiconductors and electronic industry. He founded Envis (then named Envision Technology) and served as the CEO and President until November 2007.  Previously, Sharon was the Vice President of intellectual property at eSilicon Corporation. Zohar joined eSilicon through its acquisition of Sycon Design, where he was a co-founder and served as CEO. Sharon was previously in the IBM’s PowerPC group, which developed innovative design technology eventually used in the IBM PowerPC’s.  Prior to IBM, Sharon was a member of the original Pentium design team at Intel, where he also held management and design responsibilities for many other processor and communication devices.  Sharon holds a bachelor degree from the Technion Institute of Technology and holds numerous patents in semiconductor design, power reduction, as well as navigation system in electronics.