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.

Jim Hogan, Independent Investor
Jim is a private investor serving on several boards as a director.  He has worked in the semiconductor industry for over three decades. His experience includes time as a senior executive in electronic design automation, semiconductor intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, and fabrication companies.  Most recently, Jim was a Managing Partner at Telos Venture Partners in 2004.  He has held a variety of executive positions at several public companies; Senior VP of business development at Artisan Components, Senior VP of business development and the senior member of the Office of Chief Technologist at Cadence.  Jim was a Cadence Executive Fellow and held several positions at Cadence including President of Cadence Japan, Corporate VP of marketing, and Corporate VP of field operations. He was also CTO of Smart Machines, Inc., a semiconductor equipment automation company.  Jim worked for National Semiconductor for 10 years and for Philips. At both companies, he established device physics laboratories globally. Jim holds a BA degree in mathematics, a BS degree in computer science and an MBA all from San Jose State University.

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 White, President & CEO, SV Solar
Steve has founded two successful software compaies.  In 1987, he co-founded Logic Modeling Systems and served as its VP and GM up to 1992 when it was acquired by Synopsys where he served as VP of design verification.  In 1996, Steve fouded 0-In Design Automation and was President and CEO until 2004 when it was acquired by Mentor Graphics, where he served as GM of advanced functional verification until 2007.  Steve holds a BA degree from Michigan State University.

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.