• Finding startup opportunities

• Developing business plans that would lead to long term commercial success, due to satisfied customers that enjoy the benefits of a broad product line or set of services based on a growing base of sustainable intellectual property

• Developing and executing viable marketing, sales, financial, product development, and human resources strategies

• Finding partners that offer complementary capabilities, such as distribution channels, customer support, and product manufacturing

• Coaching management on the transition from development stage (trying to build products and get customers) to operating businesses (building sales through direct and indirect channels, managing working capital, developing marketing programs for product management and for public relations and positioning and for competitive analysis, recruiting for the appropriate culture),

• Providing a big picture and small picture view of events as appropriate

Jim Bass
Keren Bergman
Theresa Carbonneau
Jacek Chrostowski
Patrick Courtin
Bill Edwards
Jeffrey Feldman
Bruce Kasanoff
Ashok Krishnamoorthy
Fred Leonberger
Yanming Liu
Avery Lyford
Robert L Martin
David Messerschmitt
Andrew Odlyzko
Carl Pavarini
Andreas Pirklbauer
Doug Reudink
Chetan Sharma
Donald Stanford
Binay Sugla
David Thomson
Elie Track
Frank Vargas
John Waclawsky
Bill Willson
Hal Yaeger

Jim Bass

Managing Director, Ivy Hill Ventures Formerly Siemens Databit, Siemens Venture Capital, 3i MidAtlantic Venture Association, Inner Circle of Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at University of Maryland, Advisor to Wharton-Recanati Program at University of Pennsylvania

Keren Bergman

Electrical Engineering Faculty, Columbia University Tellium MEMS optical cross connect IEEE/LEOS Board of Governors, OSA Board of Directors Associate Editor OSA Journal of Optical Networking, Associate Editor IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Theresa Carbonneau

Co-Founder and CEO, fSONA, 1997-2004 Formerly Telus, Corporate Strategy; variety of positions at British Telecom PLC Director, British Columbia Network

Jacek Chrostowski

30 years of experience in optoelectronics and IP+optical networks V-P, technology strategy, EMCORE; Office of CTO, Cisco Systems (1998-2003) 100+ publications, 6 US patents, Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine Advisory Boards: EXFO, Syntune AB, IN3Partners, COBRA Inter-University Institute

Patrick Courtin

Veteran Hi-Tech CEO: startups and turnarounds in networking, software and storage Strong international background from manufacturing distribution to joint ventures

Bill Edwards

Verizon Business Federal Chief Scientist (DoD, MilDeps) Wireless Communications, security and authentication IP architectures Former Professor at University of Kansas, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Colorado-Boulder Founder of iLambda Networks specializing in optical communications with the C/L/S bands IETF, ITU, 802.16/WiMAX and 3GPP, ATM Forum, OIF and ITU standards bodies

Jeffrey Feldman

President and Founder, Everest Broadband Networks, a VoIP and broadband Internet CLEC Venture Capital Partner with Pequot Capital General Partner with Digital Media Capital

Bruce Kasanoff

Named one of the "50 leading marketing thinkers alive today" by the world's largest marketing association Author of two books, long history working with aggressive growth companies One of the original partners at Pepper & Rogers Group; an expert in 1to1 marketing and personalization

Ashok Krishnamoorthy

Distinguished Engineer, SUN Microsystems Former President and Founder, Aralight Former Bell Labs Research, IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer 150+ technical publications, 29 US patents granted

Fred Leonberger

Retired Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, JDSUniphase, 1995-2003 Cofounder, United Technologies Photonics, acquired by Uniphase in 1995 Member, National Academy of Engineering; Fellow, IEEE and OSA; Sr Advisor, Research Laboratories for Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Member, Board of Directors, RFMicroDevices

Yanming Liu

President, CEO, Salira Systems; VP, OptoVia; former VP, Walsin; Director, Electronics & Electro-Optics Business, Corning Invented, developed, led worldwide technical marketing of Corning's LEAF optical fiber which has enjoyed $3B+ in sales to date 50+ technical papers, 16 patents

Avery Lyford

President and CEO, Digisense; past President and CEO, Levanta/LinuxCare (Kleiner Perkins/Apax portfolio) McKinsey Consulting/San Francisco (Business Building, Software, Corporate Finance) 1983-1997, Variety of management positions IBM PC/Server Business Unit

Robert L Martin

Retired Chief Technology Officer, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies Formerly Corporate Officer, Software Business Unit, Bell Communications Research Past Member, National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board; FCC's Technological Advisory Board; Fellow, IEEE; Warburg Pincus Advisory Board

David Messerschmitt

Roger Strauch Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley Co-Founder, TCSI, acquired by Rocket Software IEEE Fellow, Member of National Academy of Engineering, Alexander Graham Bell Medal

Andrew Odlyzko

Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, now Director, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota Leading telecom industry writer and analyst 150+ technical papers

Carl Pavarini

Retired Vice President and corporate officer of Lucent Technologies, responsible for numerous global products and services Products: Voice, data, video networking; network management; enterprise software; associated professional services Functions: General Manager/P&L, product management, marketing, sales and channel development, R&D (Bell Labs), strategic planning Adjunct professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Visiting Executive, Stevens Institute of Technology

Andreas Pirklbauer

Founder and Managing Director, Operational Venture Capital, LLC Angel investor in a variety of US and European startup companies Formerly at DFJ ePlanet, McKinsey, UBS and Thinking Machines Has a strange Austrian accent (but no political ambitions...)

Doug Reudink

Bell Laboratories wireless research, VLSI design, robotics Coauthor two books, 50+ technical papers, 40+ patents Boeing Laboratories, co-founder Metawave, Chief Scientist Adaptix

Chetan Sharma

Recognized expert in strategy and implementation of wireless data solutions. Worked with major wireless carriers and product companies around the globe. Three books, numerous articles, two patents on wireless and voice communications. Advisor to several CEOs and CTOs on product strategy and IP development.

Donald Stanford

Retired SVP, GTECH, lottery system integrator, over twenty years, 60+ online lottery systems: from under $1M in sales to over $1B in sales; GTECH Fellow Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science Department, Brown University Black Engineer of the Year Award for Professional Achievement 1999 NAACP’s The Honorable Justice Thurgood Marshall Award for Community Service 1999

Binay Sugla

Executive Director, Wireless Internet Center, WICAT with Columbia University and Polytechnic University Cofounder and Chairman, Mobile Matrix; past CEO, ISPSoft; CEO, DSET Director, Bell Labs Research; Bell Labs President Award; 60+ publications; 2 journal editorial boards; 12+ patents granted or pending

David Thomson

Author "Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth", John Wiley, NY , 2005 Twenty years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks, McKinsey and Hewlett-Packard. Electrical Engineering Degree, University of Waterloo; MBA, University of Western Ontario

Elie Track

Executive Vice President, Yale Science and Engineering Assocation (YSEA) Former CEO, Hypres; Sr. Partner, Hypres, Inc.; Business and Technology Consultant Former Professor, Fairfield University

Frank Vargas

Principal, Renaissance Law Group; Remergenz Management Inc; Pelegrin Services incubator Formerly with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Palo Alto CA; Athlon Capital; Daugherty Securities Co-founder fifteen different companies; AB Harvard, JD/MBA University of California Berkeley

John Waclawsky

Motorola Chief Software Architect, Cisco Systems Mobile Wireless Group, IBM network services Active in standards and industry forums: IETF, OMA, TISPAN and 3GPP 37 US patents issued, six books and documents on network performance analysis, tuning, and design

Bill Willson

20+ years in fiber optic components and modules Early member of three new fiber optic businesses (Gould, Corning and Little Optics (CEO)) Optics experience in communications, defense and sensor applications

Hal Yaeger

Managing Director, CXO Advisory Group Formerly with AT&T, Claremont Technology Group, Digicom, and International Telecom Group Led Four Privately Held (Two in Telecom) Companies and One Publicly Traded Company to Profitable Exit