Craig Kaufman | IP Partner | Orrick
Craig Kaufman, a Silicon Valley intellectual property partner, is a member of the Intellectual Property group. His practice focuses on patent infringement litigation, with an emphasis on chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology patents. Mr. Kaufman’s notable representations include the following cases:

• Acer, Inc. Mr. Kaufman is a member of the team representing Acer in a number of patent infringement disputes with Hewlett Packard before the U.S. International Trade Commission and in various district courts.
• Compal Electronics, Inc. Mr. Kaufman was a member of the Orrick team representing Compal in patent infringement litigation brought by Samsung Electronics, Inc. involving Compal's notebook computer products.
• Affymetrix. Mr. Kaufman represented Affymetrix in its litigation with Incyte Genomics, Inc. involving key patents underlying Affymetrix’s GeneChip® technology.

Prior to joining Orrick, Mr. Kaufman was an Associate Solicitor at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), where he represented the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks in District Court and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. During his two years at the PTO, Mr. Kaufman prepared more than ten appellate briefs and personally argued five cases before the Federal Circuit. Mr. Kaufman was part of the trial team in Markman v. Lehman, a district court action pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 145. He also assisted in the preparation of the Brief for the United States as amicus curiae before the U.S. Supreme Court in Warner-Jenkinson Co. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co.

David Lee | Partner | Orrick
David Lee, a partner in the Silicon Valley office, is a member of Orrick's Emerging Companies Group, which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. Mr. Lee practices in the areas of corporate formation, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, public company securities, and technology licensing transactions.

Mr. Lee has an active practice representing China-focused emerging companies, both in the United States and in China, and heads Orrick's China Emerging Companies Group. Mr. Lee has represented one of China's leading Internet companies, Sina Corporation, since its initial public offering. In addition, Mr. Lee's practice involves a broad network of entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists that are active in developing China-focused companies.

Mr. Lee's company clients have been backed by, among others, AsiaVest, Accel, China Venture Mgmt., Doll Capital, Gobi Partners, Granite Global, GSR Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Lightspeed, Mayfield, NEA, Northern Light, Oak Investment, Redpoint, Sequoia, Sequoia China, Sierra, Softbank, Steamboat, Walden, and Venrock. Before joining Orrick, Mr. Lee was a founding member of Venture Law Group.

Anthony Chang | Managing Director | TL Ventures
Anthony joined TL in 2002 as the firm’s first Kauffman Fellow. Anthony’s venture experience began in 1998, when he co-founded and built Magictel.com, Inc., one of the first voice-over-IP service providers in Greater China and Southeast Asia. The Company conducted a reverse takeover of a publicly listed company in Hong Kong and raised over US $100 million in secondary offerings. Anthony subsequently joined GE Equity in Hong Kong where he focused on early-stage venture opportunities in Asia. He was also part of the private equity team at Peregrine Investment Holdings (one of Asia’s largest investment banks during the 1990s) where he handled technology and communications-related investments.

Anthony’s investment focus includes consumer-focused opportunities as well as wireless and semiconductor-related companies. Anthony was directly responsible for TL’s investments in SkyCross, Inc., Kleer Corporation and Pivotal Systems Corporation. He also currently sits on the boards of Atrenta Inc., Optichron, Inc., VeriWave, Inc., Maskless Lithography, Inc. and Octavian Scientific, Inc. In addition, he was also actively involved with the firm’s successful investment in Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN).

Since joining TL, Anthony has worked closely with Mark DeNino in developing TL’s capabilities in Asia to support TL portfolio companies with supplier, distributor and customer relationships. Anthony leverages his strong ties in both Silicon Valley and Asia in sourcing and evaluating new opportunities, as well as assisting various TL portfolio companies in garnering Asian customers. Anthony holds a BA with Honors from Stanford University and an MBA degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese.

Keng Lim | CEO | Nextlabs
Keng Lim is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of NextLabs. As CEO he is responsible for the vision, leadership, strategic direction and successful growth of the company and its employees.

Mr. Lim is a proven entrepreneur and has built a distinguished executive management career in Silicon Valley. Over the last 15 years, he has built reputable internet and software companies including Approach Software, Kiva Software, Netscape, Escalate, and Sygate Technologies. He has been recognized by several key organizations as one of the industry's "most influential people on the Internet". ZDNet selected him as one of the "50 Smartest People" in 2000. Mr. Lim is known for his abilities to identify new markets and emerging technologies and to create new category-defining products. He holds directorships on multiple corporate boards.

Prior to NextLabs, Mr. Lim played a central role in launching Sygate Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise endpoint security enforcement software, with its founder Chris Guo in 1998. Mr. Lim served as Chairman until its acquisition by Symantec Corp. in 2005. Mr. Lim also founded Escalate in 1999, and grew it into a leading multi-channel order management software company. Escalate merged with GERS in August 2004. Prior to Escalate, Mr. Lim joined Netscape in 1997 as Vice President and General Manager of the Internet Application Platform & Web Hosting Products Division. He drove a large part of the Netscape's core infrastructure software business -- application server, web server, business process & content management, and Java script & Java development tools – and played a key role in transforming Netscape from a browser company into an infrastructure software company. Mr. Lim joined Netscape through its acquisition of application server pioneer, Kiva Software which Mr. Lim founded in 1995 and served as Chairman and CEO. At Kiva, he was credited as one of the inventors of the Java application server. Mr. Lim pursued his first startup, Approach Software, a desktop database software provider, which Lotus acquired in 1993, and began his career with Oracle Corporation.

Mr. Lim holds bachelor degrees with high distinction in Computer Science and Civil Engineering from the Ohio Northern University, and a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a member of the Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi.

Ken Rudin | CEO | LucidEra
Ken has held key roles with leading software as a service and business analytics companies, including Siebel, Salesforce.com, NetSuite, and Oracle.

Ken was the VP and General Manager of Siebel CRM On-Demand at Siebel Systems. He created and successfully launched Siebel's top rated hosted CRM solution, leading it to become one of the top hosted solutions in the market. Ken was previously VP of Marketing for Siebel Analytics. In that role, he helped Siebel become the industry's largest provider of analytics applications. Before Siebel, Ken served as SVP of Products for Salesforce.com, spearheading all development and product marketing functions for the company's hosted CRM solution. Before Salesforce.com, Ken was co-founder and CEO of Emergent Corp., a consulting company focused on building large-scale data warehousing solutions for Fortune 500 companies. The company was acquired by Keane, Inc. in 1999. He also served as a founding advisory board member of NetSuite. Ken started his career at the Scalable Systems Division at Oracle, where he helped pioneer the use of highly parallel hardware and software technology for large scale data warehouses.

Ken holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Harvard University and a master's degree in business from Stanford University.

Treb Ryan | CEO | OpSource
Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce.

Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution. Under his leadership, MFN customers included BP Amoco, JP Morgan Chase, Sony, Microsoft, and Mercedes-Benz. Mr. Ryan joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN the following year in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. Prior to co-founding SiteSmith, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Professional Services for GlobalCenter, a pioneer in the hosting and Internet services marketplace.

Mr. Ryan credits his success in creating IT services that meet customers' ever-changing business challenges to his background in operations, which includes ten years in operations and management positions at Great America, a division of Viacom, one of the world's largest consumer entertainment companies.

Mr. Ryan has been a guest speaker at numerous industry events, including CIO, venture capital, Internet, hosting, and software conferences. He attended UCLA and is an advisor to the UCLA CLAS fund.

Prashant Shah | Managing Director | Hummer Winblad
Prashant Shah, Managing Director, joined Hummer Winblad in December 2000. He has been instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. He also observes a number of these boards. In addition, Prashant is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley (www.tiesv.org), where he is Chair of the Software SIG; and a member of the Board of Trustees for Astia (www.astia.org).

Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.