Mohsen Moazami
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Vice President
Retail / CPG Manufacturing/ Transportation

Mohsen Moazami is a proven leader with extensive experience in business leadership and management consulting in information technology. Mr. Moazami is the Vice President of Internet Business Solutions Group at Cisco responsible for $500 million of revenue stream in Consumer Products Manufacturing, Retail and Transportation industries, as well as the Public Sector vertical. In his work at Cisco, Mr. Moazami works with senior management of global 500 companies like Sony, Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Procter & Gamble to help accelerate their e-business strategies and success. Mr. Moazami sits on the Advisory Board for Coca Cola Corporation, and he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as The Economist E-Business Summit, GMA's Executive Conference, COMDEX, Fairchild CEO Summit and National Retail Federation. Mr. Moazami has been quoted in Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC News, InformationWeek, Computerworld and other leading publications.

Prior to Cisco Mr. Moazami was a Vice President/Senior Partner at Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA) in charge of the global e-business practice. Prior to KSA Mr. Moazami founded, and oversaw the growth of Stanford Business Systems, an IT consulting firm. Stanford Business Systems was acquired by KSA in 1995.

Mr. Moazami holds a Masters degree from Stanford University, is married and has 3 children.

Farhad Mohit
Founder/Chairman
Bizrate.com

BS in math and computer science and BA in economics, UCLA, 1991; MBA in entrepreneurial management, Wharton School, 1996

While at Wharton, he dreamed up BizRate, a Web site that rates e-tailers and tracks down merchandise. He wrote the business plan as his master's thesis, then started the company in June, 1996, in his parents' home with the help of former classmate Henri Asseily, now BizRate's chief technology officer. Today Mohit is the chairman.

Why he would just as soon not be the CEO
''My ego is attached to the business model and the vision, not to building a resume. Having a partner who understands how to get departments to work in sync frees me up to focus fully on the strategic side. That's what I do best.''

Defining childhood experience
Fled the revolution in Iran with his family in 1978. Lived in France, England, and Northern California before settling in L.A. in 1984. ''I met a lot of different kinds of people, and the ones I liked most were not afraid to be themselves. I learned that individuality is a cool thing to have.''

First Web job
Spent the summer of his MBA program designing a Web site for the Wharton Journal, for which he was a columnist. ''While everyone else was getting big internships at places like Goldman Sachs, I went to the Journal. They couldn't pay me, but I did it anyway so I could learn how to work the Web,'' he says.

Business idol
John Hagel, author of Net Worth, a book that sings the praises of Web ''infomediaries'' that help consumers sort out online surfing and spending opportunities. The book is required reading for BizRate employees and investors.

Fred F. Nazem
Nazem and Company and the Transatlantic Venture Fund
Founder & general partner

Mr. Nazem has been an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and corporate turnaround specialist for more than 25 years. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Nazem & Company, an early venture capital firm established in 1976. He also founded two investment management firms, GeoCapital Corporation in the early Eighties and the Explorer Fund that is currently managed by the Nazem Group. Mr. Nazem has started, financed and guided more than 100 companies, including six that have become multibillion-dollar enterprises. As a founder and entrepreneur, he created enterprises such as Cirrus Logic, Inc. (CRUS), Genetix Corporation, iQ NetSolutions, Inc., Aliaswire Incorporated and Munshee, Inc. As venture capitalist he helped to establish companies such as Universal Health Systems (UHS), Republic Health, Inc. (now Tenet Healthcare; TNET) and Apollo Computers (now Hewlett Packard's computer division). As a corporate architect and turnaround specialist, he reorganized a number of enterprises over the years. As Chairman of Oxford Health Plans, Inc., a $6 billion company he originally financed as the lead venture capitalist, he recently led a highly successful turnaround when the company ran into strategic and operational difficulties. His work experience prior to founding Nazem & Company, includes heading the pharmaceutical chemistry laboratories for Matheson, Coleman and Bell, Vice President in Charge of Venture Capital for Irving Trust Company and turning around the fortunes of one of America's leading families. Mr. Nazem has a BS in Biochemistry, a MS in Physical Chemistry, an MBA in finance and has done doctoral work in nuclear physics. Mr. Nazem serves on the Boards of Directors of several public and private companies. Through the Nazem Family Foundation, Mr. Nazem supports the Friends of the Family Academy, a school in Harlem, and the Encyclopaedia Iranica of Columbia University, where he is Vice Chairman. Mr. Nazem's passions are fine arts, sports, music, the stock market and building trend-setting technology companies.

Arman Pahlavan
co-chairman
Manatt's Venture Capital

Arman Pahlavan advises emerging growth companies, both public and private, and venture funds in various aspects of their business transactions. His areas of specialty include corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property transactions in various industry sectors including telecommunications, Internet and life sciences. Since 2000, he has represented companies and venture funds in transactions valued at approximately $600 million. These venture funds have included New Enterprise Associates, Draper Associates, Versant Ventures, ABS Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and others.

Mr. Pahlavan is the co-chairman of Manatt's Venture Capital and Emerging Companies Practice Group.

Hassan Parsa
Founder/ General Partner
Lucent Venture Partners LLC,

Hassan Parsa has more than 15 years of business and technical experience in the field of communications and networking. As a system engineer at Bell Laboratories, Mr. Parsa designed and developed digital cross-connect systems and performed transport network design, planning and analysis.

In Lucent Technologies, he held various business development and product management positions.

Prior to joining LVP, Mr. Parsa was Business Development Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions group and was responsible for making strategic minority investments.

Krish Prabhu
Former CEO of Alcatel USA- Morgenthaler Venture Partner

Krish Prabhu joined Morgenthaler as a Venture Partner in November 2001 following his departure as Chief Operating Officer of Alcatel. During
his tenure at Alcatel, Prabhu managed the launch of its worldwide DSL products and its growth in the US as a key supplier to ILEC accounts such as Verizon, BellSouth and SBC. As CEO of Alcatel USA, he drove the launch of its cross-connect products in key accounts such as AT&T and Worldcom, and was also responsible for the acquisition and integration of several companies including DSC and Newbridge. Today, Alcatel remains one of the leading global DSL solutions providers with over 40 percent marketshare.

Before joining Alcatel, Prabhu was head of research and development at Rockwell International's Network Systems Transmission Division in Richardson, Texas. While at Rockwell, Prabhu was responsible for the design and development of SONET transport products. Prior to Rockwell, Prabhu served as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories where he worked on digital encoding techniques.

Since joining Morgenthaler, Prabhu has focused primarily on the firm's extensive telecommunications investments and sits on several boards.

As a recognized expert and a 20+ year veteran of the telecommunications
industry, Prabhu has spoken at dozens of leading industry conferences including Globecom, Supercomm, Infocom, Futurecom, etc. He has been a chief spokesperson for Alcatel at analyst technology events organized by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and CSFB.

Prabhu's degrees include a Masters in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay, India) and a Masters and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Prabhu resides in Dallas with his wife and three children.

Behrooz Rezvani
Ikanos
Founder and CTO

Dr. Rezvani is an expert in spectral compatibility and high-speed system architecture. Prior to founding Ikanos, Rezvani established the AFC-Fremont Design Center, where he managed the development of VDSL and ADSL Lite line cards, which won the best product award at SuperComm 1999. Previously, Rezvani held development and management positions at Ericsson/Raynet, MicroUnity, Siemens, Rockwell, and GE. Rezvani also was the editor of the governing document for xDSL coexistence, the Spectral Compatibility and Management standards of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)(T1.417) used by the FCC when it addressed the issue of unbundling the local loop. Rezvani received an M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of North Dakota and a Ph.D. from Marquette University in Wisconsin. He holds three patents and has 15 more pending.

Mostafa Ronaghi
Pyrosequencing and ParAllele Bioscience
Co-founder

Mostafa Ronaghi is internationally known for his work in DNA-based technologies and has given lecture at more than 20 international conferences. He has published more than 30 scientific articles, and holds several international patents. He is an active member of the Human Genome Organization and American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1997, Mostafa Ronaghi co-found Pyrosequencing AB, a company located in Uppsala, Sweden, based on his international patents to build and market a new machine for determination of genetic codes (http://www.pyrosequencing.com). Pyrosequencing AB had a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Sweden in June 2000. Mostafa Ronaghi co-found recently ParAllele BioSciences (www.p-gene.com), an advanced drug target discovery company in the Northern California. He serves as a board of director and scientific advisory board of several companies. Mostafa Ronaghi is the founder of Ronaghi Foundation and currently acts as the chairman of the Jury team.

Mostafa Ronaghi was born in Tehran in December 1968. After finishing high school, he moved to Sweden in 1988 for academic education. He received B.Sc. in biomedical chemistry from the University of Kalmar, and was awarded Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1998 describing the invention of Pyrosequencing technology. After a short postdoctoral period at the Royal Institute of Technology, he joined Stanford University as research scientist.

Ali Sarabi
Oresis Communications
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO

Ali Sarabi brings Oresis extensive corporate management experience, combined with expertise in new product and business development. Before Oresis,Sarabi was General Manager and Director of Intel Corporation's Broadband and IP Telephony Lab. Prior to that,he was the General Manager of the Emerging Products Division within Intel's Internet and Communications group. A 20-year Intel veteran,Sarabi's business expertise includes broadband technologies, IP telephony, and real-time personal communications applications and systems. He served as Intel's observer on the boards of many leading telecommunications startups, including Copper Mountain Networks, Coppercom™, Flashcom and ITEX. Sarabi holds both a BSEE and an MSEE in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Oresis Communications was founded by a group of telecommunications technologists and innovators. They have assembled a dynamic management team with extensive experience in advanced technology and new business development.

Ramin Shahidi
Cbyon, Inc.
Founder\CTO - VP of Product Design

Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of Product Design, Founder of Cbyon, Inc. Prof. Shahidi is currently on leave from Stanford University where he continues to hold positions as Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery, Surgery, and Electrical Engineering, and as Director of the Image Guidance Laboratories. He received both his Ph.D. and M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering (Bio-Instrumentation and Biomedical Imaging) from Rutgers University, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. He is an active member of the International Society of Computer Assisted Surgery, and has served as an ad hoc peer reviewer for the National Institutes of Health.

Tony Shakib
AOptix Technologies
President & CEO

Mr. Shakib is president and COO of Zyoptics. Prior to this position he was Vice President and General Manager for Nortels Broadband Access Business Unit, a premier provider of Next Generation, Multi-Service portfolio of Access Solutions for Carriers and Service Providers. In the past 16 years, Mr. Shakib has held several executive roles with Nortel Networks, ranging from General Management, Strategic Business Development, Advanced Technology Development, Product Line Management, Network Planning and Systems Architecture roles, Switching, Optical and Wireline Access Networks. Mr. Shakib holds a BS in Computer Engineering with Honors in Mathematics from McMaster and Brock Universities in Ontario, Canada.

Samuel F. Straface, Ph.D.
Triton Systems, Inc.
CEO
Triton BioSystems

Samuel F. Straface, Ph.D. is the CEO of Triton BioSystems, Inc., a development-stage company developing non-invasive targeted therapeutics for cancer that do not further impair the patients quality of life. Previously, Dr. Straface was the Director of the New Ventures Group at Boston Scientific Corporation, responsible for leading the corporation's investments in discontinuous, and disruptive technologies, and businesses. Dr. Straface began his career at Boston Scientific in 1997 and was responsible for directing the upstream and downstream marketing activities for several worldwide businesses. Before joining Boston Scientific, Dr. Straface was General Manager of the Professional Divisions for Johnson & Johnson in Australasia, where he led the sales, marketing and operations for three separate divisions. Prior to that, he held a number of positions of increasing responsibility at Ethicon Endo-Surgery, having started his commercial career as a sales representative.

Dr. Straface began his career as a Scientific Officer, researching the neurophysiology of the retina, and methods for early diagnosis of neuronal disease. He holds a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Western Australia and has published articles in his chosen field of research. He was born in New York City and raised both in the US and Australia. Dr. Straface now resides in the city of Boston with his Australian wife Shirley.

David Tahmassebi
Resonext
President & CEO

David Tahmassebi brings over a decade of experience in Marketing and Sales of semiconductor products to Resonext in his role as President, CEO and co-founder. Prior to founding Resonext, David managed the Consumer Business Unit of VLSI Technology, a leading technology provider purchased by Philips Semiconductor. At VLSI, David led efforts to expand the sales of the company's source and channel decoding products. Prior to joining VLSI, David served as the Director of Business Development of the commercial divisions of Stanford Telecom, a leading telecommunications technology company. David was instrumental in forming the company's first commercial division and his leadership continued as the commercial operations grew to become four divisions, and ultimately Stanford Telecom's most valuable group. The businesses consisted of ASIC, Satcom, CATV and Wireless divisions, that focused on wireless LAN and Cable Modem channel decoding Integrated Circuits (ICs).David received his Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1987.

Lip-Bu Tan
Walden International
Chairman and founder

Lip-Bu Tan is Chairman and founder of Walden International. Prior to WI, he was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy.
He leads the management team of Walden International. Active in the venture capital industry in the United States since 1982, Tan pioneered the U.S. venture capital investment concept in Asia in 1986 and continues to promote the venture capital industry in the Asia-Pacific region. He currently serves on the board of directors at Centillium Communications, Creative Technology Ltd., Premisys Communications and Integrated Silicon Solutions, Inc., among others. Tan earned a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's degree in business administration from the University of San Francisco, where he serves on the board of trustees. Tan received his bachelor's degree from Nanyang University in Singapore.

Mehrdad Nikoonahad, Ph.D.
VP of Technology
KLA Tencor Corporation

MEHRDAD NIKOONAHAD is Vice President of technology at KLA-Tencor Corporation, the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries. Nikoonahad joined KLA-Tencor (Tencor Instruments pre-merger) in 1992 as a Senior Staff Research Scientist. He proposed and developed a platform for a high-speed laser-based wafer inspection system, which, for the first time, addressed the production inspection needs for 0.25-micron process technology in silicon processing. This platform was the basis for one of the KLA-Tencor's flagship products -- the AIT automated patterned wafer inspection system. He has led a number of R&D teams on various inspection and thin film metrology technologies, including interconnect metrology, single wavelength ellipsometry for gate dielectric characterization, implant measurement, and CMP end-point detection. Nikoonahad's first formal employment was with Philips Laboratories, New York, where he served as Senior Member Technical Staff and worked on acoustic imaging and medical ultrasound. Nikoonahad received his Ph.D. and B. Sc. in Electronic Engineering from University of London, England where he also completed two years of post-doctoral work in scanning microscopy.

Dr. Nikoonahad has been Principal Investigator on a number of R&D projects for NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has authored over sixty scientific articles, including a book chapter and he is the named inventor on over 40 patents, fifteen of which have been issued.

Goli Ameri
Founder & president
eTinium

Goli Ameri is the founder and president of eTinium, a telecom consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications market. eTinium's client list ranges from established international telecom vendors, service providers, securities firms, and independent leasing companies to startup suppliers and emerging carriers. Ms. Ameri is the author of over 30 market studies, the latest of which is the upcoming study titled "Wireless LANs: The Greatest Challenge to 3G." She is quoted regularly in such publications as RCR Wireless News, Wireless Week, Internet Week, EE Times, national Business Journals, city newspapers such as the San Jose Mercury News, Seattle Times, Oregonian among others as well as Multex Investor, Internet Telephony, and the X-Change magazine. Ms. Ameri is invited regularly as a speaker to industry conferences worldwide including CTIA, SuperNet, Metro Optical Conference, National Wireless Engineering Conference, 802.11b and SMI Conferences in Europe. In August of 2001, she was invited to the first Telecommunications Conference to be held in Iran in the past twenty-three years and subsequently to the Ministry of Telecommunications to discuss the topic of deregulation in the Asian telecom market.
Ms. Ameri also writes a bi-monthly analysis column for Telephony magazine, and is a member of the Council of Communications Advisors, an association of leading telecommunications engineers, information scientists, and IT professionals whose purpose is to promote business innovation and continuing education by facilitating the flow of relevant scientific and technical knowledge to institutional investors.
Prior to founding eTinium, Ms. Ameri spent 10 years leading market evaluation and planning for US Leasing (A Ford Motor Company unit), a capital equipment leasing firm focused on communications and IT equipment. Her role included directing the overall strategic planning and product planning and diversification for both the domestic and international operations.
Ms. Ameri has a Master and Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Stanford University, and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Ms. Ameri is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Spanish.

Manoo Missaghi
Founder and CEO
WEBVIEWS, Inc.

A serial entrepreneur and developer of new technologies, Manoo has led start-ups and innovative projects in several countries over the past 25 years. As a technology architect, he has developed leading edge solutions for such organizations as IBM Europe, Nortel Networks, ABB and many blue chip firms in North America.

Manoo invented has led the design and development of Inter-Language Paradigm (ILP™) Technology Platform and the Language Transparent Operating Environment and Services in the past number
of years.

Reza Kasnavi
Venture partner,
Tallwood Venture Capital

Reza Kasnavi is a venture partner at Tallwood Venture Capital where he focuses on semiconductor and optical technologies for telecommunications.
Prior to joining Tallwood, Reza co-founded Concur Communications, which aimed at developing IC's for wireless communications. He has held short-term appointments at Agilent Technologies and IBM Microelectronics where he worked on bipolar and MOS technologies for wireless communications and microprocessor applications. Reza has also worked as a collaborative researcher at the Stanford Genome Center, developing high throughput chip technologies for DNA sequencing. Reza has authored 10 journal and symposia articles and 1 U.S. patent (pending).
Reza holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and a Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He won a Bronze Medal in the 22nd International Physics Olympiad and ranked first in the Iranian National Physics Olympiad in the same year.

Dr. M. A. Ketabchi,
CEO, President and Chairman
Savvion

Savvion was founding in 1994 by Dr. M.A. Ketabchi who put together a seasoned management team to build the business, develop the leading Business Process Management technology and grow a large and respected base of customers. Fostering an environment with a balance of academic strengths, technology leadership and business acumen the Savvion management team continues to propel Savvion into the e Business revolution.

Dr. M. A. Ketabchi, CEO, President and Chairman
Dr. Ketabchi was a Full Professor at Computer Engineering Department of Santa Clara University, and the director of the Object and Multimedia Technologies Research Laboratory when he founded Savvion in 1994. He is well known for his pioneering research in object-oriented database management systems and object-oriented application development technologies. He has published extensively in the various areas of object technology and its applications and has consulted with many companies including Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Fujitsu. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Jeannette Symons
chief technical officer
Zhone Technologies, Inc.

Jeannette Symons is chief technical officer and vice president of engineering for Zhone Technologies, Inc., the first company dedicated to building total-delivery solutions for voice, data, and content services. Before joining Zhone, Ms. Symons was chief technical officer and executive vice president of Ascend Communications, Inc., the leader in wide area network (WAN) solutions for providers and users of the Public Network. One of three founding members of Ascend Communications (acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999), Ms. Symons was responsible for the company's technology direction and advanced development.

Before founding Ascend, Ms. Symons was a software engineer at Hayes Microcomputer, a leading modem manufacturer, where she developed and managed its ISDN program. Ms. Symons received her BS in systems engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Mehdi Hosseini
Analyst, Semiconductor Manufacturing
SOUNDVIEW TECHNOLOGY GROUP

Mehdi joined the Semiconductor Manufacturing research team at SoundView in June of 2000. Prior to joining SoundView, Mehdi was with Thomas Weisel Partners and CIBC World Markets. Mehdi has bachelor and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, and an MBA from the Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to attending Carnegie Mellon, Mehdi spent five years at National Semiconductor as a senior design engineer where he had a number responsibilities including characterization and modeling of process technologies and facilitating the introduction of new products. In addition, Mehdi published and presented close to ten papers in various conferences while at National Semiconductor.

Arun Veerappan
Managing Director and Senior Technology Analyst

Arun, a managing director and senior technology analyst, joined Robertson Stephens in 1995 and focuses on communications and semiconductor device companies. His views on the industry have been and continue to be featured in major news publications, business periodicals and trade journals. Arun was educated at the Madras Christian College in India and has earned degrees in engineering and economics from Tulane University.