Advisory Board Members:
Co-chair Forest Baskett
Forest Baskett is a venture partner in New Enterprise
Associates, a Bay Area venture capital (VC) firm that
just raised the largest VC fund in history. Baskett
was a distinguished computer scientist at Stanford University
when Sun Microsystems, MIPS, and SGI spun off, and he
served for more than 10 years as CTO for SGI.
Co-chair Phil Smith
Phil Smith is one of the most senior science and technology
policy experts in the nation, having been Executive
Director of the National Research Council for 13 years
and having served in every presidential administration
since Eisenhower's.
Donald R. Beall, Rockwell International Corporation
Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Robert W. Conn, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital; UCSD Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Deborah Estrin, UCLA Professor of Computer Science; Director of the Laboratory for Embedded Collaborative Systems
Dennis Lettenmaier, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle
William J. Link, PhD, Versant Ventures
Anne Peterson, former senior vice president, Kellogg Foundation
Duane J. Roth, Chairman and CEO, Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp.
John Seely Brown, former director, Xerox PARC
Joseph M. Sussman, Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Viterbi , President, The Viterbi Group; Professor Emeritus, UCSD
Advisory Board