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Kevin Dillon
Kevin Dillon is a founding partner of Atlantic Bridge Ventures. His expertise includes over 20 years operating experience in the technology sector, including a total of 18 years operational experience in Paris, London and Dublin and 5 years in Silicon Valley. He served as Vice President, Microsoft EMEA and helped grow the regional business from $500 million to $9.5 billion over a 13 year period. He established the European Operations Centre in Dublin, hiring up to 700 people and serving all of Microsoft's customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East while becoming one of Ireland's top revenue generating companies. Additionally, established and led Microsoft's EMEA customer care, customer satisfaction, loyalty and related programs and was responsible for building the operational infrastructure for the successful launch of Xbox within Europe.
Dillon was an international tax advisor at Price Waterhouse in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. He helped structure international growth, acquisitions and income repatriation planning for many leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. Dillon is on the board of GeoVector Corporation, Polarlake Limited and Panda SRL.
Steve Goldman
Steve Goldman is a veteran technology executive, with a history of building emerging companies into market leaders. As the President, CEO and Director of Isilon Systems since 2003, Goldman helped establish the company as the leader in clustered storage for digital content. In December, 2006, Isilon executed one of the most successful Technology IPOs raising $108 million with a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion. He led the organization through rapid revenue growth, from $1M in 2003 to $95M in 2007, and grew the company from 45 Seattle-based employees to a global organization of 350 people, with operations throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining Isilon, Goldman spent six years as a senior executive at F5 Networks, a leader in application traffic management. At F5, he built and led the global sales, marketing and services organizations through many years of rapid growth. In 1999, he also helped F5 execute one of the industry's strongest IPOs and a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion.
Ed Lazowska
Ed Lazowska holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research and teaching concern the design, implementation, and analysis of high performance computing and communication systems. Lazowska is a member of the Microsoft Research Technical Advisory Board, and serves as a board member or technical advisor to a number of high-tech companies and venture firms. He co-chaired the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee from 2003-05, and recently became the inaugural chair of the Computing Community Consortium, an effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to engage the computing research community in envisioning more audacious research challenges. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
John O'Neil
John O'Neil is currently the President of the Center for Leadership Renewal. He serves on several boards and is an author, speaker, and advisor on leadership issues, providing leadership advisement and development services to senior leaders serving across a wide range of organizations from start-ups to mature enterprises.
O'Neil's book The Paradox of Success (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993) has been a best seller in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia and was reissued by the publisher in 2004 as one of the best business books of the decade. His book Leadership Aikido (Crown/Harmony, 1997) focuses on the practices of enduring and creative leaders. Seasons of Grace (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003) co-authored with Alan Jones, Dean of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, won the Nautilus Prize for Best in Spirituality category in 2004. O'Neil is at work on a new book on learning and renewal for organizations and individuals.
O'Neil currently serves on the boards of The Noyce Foundation, Qube Learning, Tides Foundation, and Threshold Group.
Charles Porter
Charles Porter is a seasoned technologist, currently serving as CIO-in-Residence with Insight Ventures. Over a 30-year career with Accenture, Porter held several global roles and led some of the company's largest and most technically complex projects. As Managing Partner-CTO of Accenture Technology Infrastructure Services, Porter was responsible for the architecture, technology direction and product definition for Accenture's infrastructure outsourcing practice. As Managing Partner-CIO of Accenture Technology Services, he was instrumental to Accenture's embracing low-cost regional and global IT delivery strategies and was instrumental in reducing Accenture's internal IT costs by 40% over 3 years – while maintaining employee satisfaction and improving reliability. Porter also founded Accenture's network of telecommunication solution centers (Teleworks®) that provide application development delivery and support to Accenture's communications & High Tech clients.
Porter currently serves on the Board of Directors at Azaleos Corporation and on the Board of Directors of Seattle University's Entrepreneurship Center and the Advisory Board of Gonzaga University's Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. He also serves as a Board/Management Advisor to half a dozen technology start-ups.
Katherine Stovel
Katherine Stovel is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She studies the dynamics of social networks, and has a particular interest in how two-sided matching processes structure information flow through networks. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and private foundations. Stovel has published widely on a variety of topics; some of her recent work examines the structure of adolescent sexual networks. Stovel's article, "Chains of Affection," (co-authored with Peter Bearman and Jim Moody) was awarded the Gould Prize in 2004. She is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively titled, The Broker's Dilemma.
Stovel, who hails from New England, has an A.B. in Political Science from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2008-09, she will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Skip Walter
A software industry veteran, Skip Walter has more than 40 years of technology product development and executive management experience — across Fortune 1000 companies and start-up businesses. Walter is currently the Managing Director of Factor, providing strategic planning and product roadmap design for startup technology companies pursuing social networking and visual analytics, as well as eDiscovery strategic planning for Global 100 corporations. Previously he was the Founding CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Attenex Corporation, which increases productivity by at least ten times in the legal electronic discovery process for litigation through visual analytics. Prior to Attenex, Walter was the Vice President of Engineering for Aldus (now Adobe) Corporation known for the PageMaker desktop publishing software. He was the father of Digital Equipment Corporation's ALL-IN-1, a $1 billion per year integrated enterprise office automation and email system. Walter is an advisory council member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model consortium.
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