Technical Advisory Board
Owen Brown
Mr. Brown began his career as a sales representative at Digital Equipment Corporation, and moved quickly through various sales management positions before being promoted to product group manager at headquarters. He managed the reorganization of all product line and field management functions in the US – a $5B operation. Later, Mr. Brown joined Sun Microsystems as president and COO during its start-up phase and was credited with the building of the very strong sales organization as well as the senior management team that launched the company. He went on to senior management roles at Xerox Corporation and other Silicon Valley computer hardware and software companies.
Mr. Brown has had extensive experience in the funding and development of successful high technology companies over the last 14 years. He was one of the earliest members of the Band of Angels, a Silicon Valley investment group consisting of experienced entrepreneurs from various management disciplines. For the past six years, he has been a managing partner at Technology Strategies and Alliances, an investment-banking firm in Menlo Park specializing in structuring strategic alliances between companies. In addition, he has served on the board of a variety of high technology startup companies and remains a limited partner in seven venture capital firms.
Mr. Brown graduated from Auburn University with a BSME degree in June 1964 and immediately entered the US Navy's Nuclear Power Training Program and Submarine Service for a total of five years active duty. He then served in the Naval Reserve for an additional 20 years, retiring with the rank of captain in 1989. Mr. Brown graduated from the executive program of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in July 1981.
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Roger Craig
Roger Craig is a successful marketing and business development professional, former all-pro football running back, and motivational speaker. For more 10 years, Mr. Craig has been a regular speaker at meetings of Fortune 500 companies and charitable organizations. He has delivered talks to executive, sales, and marketing organizations at the world's leading companies, including companies as diverse as FedEx, Nike, Cisco Systems, Reuters, Mercury Interactive, Toyota, Coors, Burger King, John Deere, Longs Drugs, and Yahoo.
Mr. Craig spent 11 years as a professional football player in the National Football League. Throughout his career, he was an all-pro running back and broke numerous records. Some of his accomplishments include tying the record for the most points scored in a Super Bowl, being selected for the Pro-Bowl five times and NFL MVP and Sports Illustrated Player of the Year in 1988.
After leaving football, Mr. Craig appeared as a commentator for several national television shows and co-founded CLS Sports Inc., a sports marketing company. Later, he joined TIBCO Software Inc. as director of business development.
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Jorge del Calvo
Mr. del Calvo is a partner at Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, & Pittman where he focuses on the representation of technology companies in venture capital and securities transactions, including public offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures.
During the period from 2000 to present, Mr. del Calvo has led the nation in representing issuers in completed technology IPOs. During his career, he has represented U.S. and foreign issuers in hundreds of public and private offerings of equity, debt and convertible securities, including initial public offerings for SunPower Corporation, PortalPlayer, Inc., PeopleSupport, Inc., Atheros, Inc., SiRF, Inc., SYNNEX Corporation, Magma Design Automation, Inc., WebEx, Inc., SupportSoft, Inc., Tvia, Inc., Alliance Fiber Optics Products, Inc., Critical Path, Inc., Network Solutions, Inc., Netcom On-Line Communication Services, Inc., SONICblue Incorporated, Paradigm Technology, Inc., and NexGen, Inc. In 2000, he represented Network Solutions in its $2,200,000,000 follow-on public offering, which was the largest internet follow-on public equity offering in history.
Mr. del Calvo is on the board of directors of Berkeley Process Control. He is on the advisory board of Linkore, LLC and SVASE and has served on a number of other boards in the past, including those of Innogenex, Riverstone Networks (RSTN), Procket Networks, Deepa Textiles, Xambala and New Path, LLC.
Mr. del Calvo is listed in The Best Lawyers in AmericaChambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as top in his field for Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Practices. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 he was named a Northern California Super Lawyer as the result of a joint research project conducted by Law & Politics and San Francisco Magazine. 2005-2007 edition in the areas of Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities Law and Venture Capital Law.
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1981 cum laude
M.A., Public Policy, Harvard University, 1981
M.A., Latin American History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
B.A., Stanford University, 1977 with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa
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Dr. Lyle Dennis
Dr. Lyle Dennis is a neurologist and a national voice for electrification of the automobile. He has life-long interest in protecting the environment and moving the world away from the use of petroleum as a energy source.
After graduating Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he completed a residency in neurology and fellowship in critical care neurology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical center in New York. His scientific training and background have enabled him a strong grasp of the scientific underpinnings of advanced battery technology.
When General Motors first announced the Chevrolet Volt concept electric car, Dr. Dennis sprung into action. He launched the grassroots website GM-Volt.com in an effort to build public demand, spread the message, and encourage GM to move the car into production. More recently he launched AllCarsElectric.com to continue to build the community and advance the awareness of electric cars.
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Martin Eberhard
Martin Eberhard brings more than 20 years of experience in electrical engineering to Coulomb. In 1983 he joined Wyse Technology, then went on to found Network Computing Devices, where he served as chief engineer. After NCD's successful IPO, Mr. Eberhard entered the publishing industry and co-founded NuvoMedia. There he invented the Rocket eBook, a handheld electronic book and secure web-based distribution systems. He then sold NuvoMedia to Gemstar/TV guide in 2000, where he became senior vice President. After leaving TV Guide, Eberhard was vice president of engineering at PacketDesign.
Eberhard's career took a sharp turn when he teamed with Marc Tarpenning to improve electric cars and create a high-performance electric vehicle (EV) without worrying about its price tag. The Tesla Roadster was created, which achieved the longest driving range of any production electric car by a factor of two. Eberhard grew Tesla Motors from two people to a team of 280 people in 4 countries, with expertise across the disciplines needed to create a car company. Along the way, he raised over $100M from both venture capitalists and angel investors. He led the development of the Roadster from inception through design and testing including the stringent safety testing required by the US Department of Transportation, and also including performance and range tests that validate his original claims of 0-60 mph in less than 4 seconds, and nearly 250 miles range per charge.
Eberhard's impact on the electric car industry is unmatched. Recently Bob Lutz, Vice-Chairman of General Motors, publicly commented that he restarted GM's electric car program, creating the upcoming Chevy Volt as a direct response to the Tesla Roadster.
Eberhard received his Master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
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Carl Guardino
Carl Guardino, one of Silicon Valley's most distinguished business and community leaders, is the President and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a public policy trade association that represents more than 200 of Silicon Valley's most respected companies. In February 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Guardino to a four-year term on the California Transportation Commission. He also serves on numerous other boards and is actively involved in a wide range of community organizations and projects. In 2000, the San Jose Mercury News named Guardino one of the "Five Most Powerful" people in Silicon Valley in a once-per-decade study.
Guardino has been the chief executive of the Leadership Group since 1997. He previously served as a vice president with the organization between 1991 and 1995. In between, he held an executive position in governmental affairs with Hewlett Packard. Earlier, he spent six years on the staff of Central Valley Assemblyman Rusty Areias, the last three as his chief assistant.
Known throughout the region as a consensus builder, Guardino has championed a number of important issues, especially in the areas of transportation and housing. His transportation leadership includes successful management of ballot Measures A & B in 1996 that funded 19 key road and rail improvements with $1.4 billion; and co-management of a 2000 traffic relief initiative that will generate some $5.5 billion in local funds to bring BART to Santa Clara County, improve CalTrain and other transit improvements. As a housing advocate, he co-created the Housing Trust Fund, which has helped 6,200 families afford homes in high-cost Silicon Valley by raising more than $32 million in voluntary contributions. He also co-managed Prop. 46, the statewide Housing Bond, in 2002 and co-chaired Prop. 1-C, the November 2006 statewide Housing Bond.
Guardino is the chair of City Year San Jose Silicon Valley and the founder and race director of the annual Thanksgiving Day "Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot." In addition, he serves on the boards for the Second Harvest Food Bank, the Housing Trust of Santa Clara County and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Guardino also hosts "The CEO Show," a radio talk featuring top Silicon Valley CEOs and other executives that airs every Tuesday at 7 p.m. on KLIV AM 1590, and writes "Corporate Culture," a monthly column in San Jose Magazine.
Guardino was born and raised in San Jose and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from San Jose State University, where he is a Distinguished Alumnus. He is a member of Junior Achievement's "Silicon Valley Business Hall of Fame" and a recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from City Year.
Carl is married to Leslee Guardino. In their spare time, they compete in marathons and Ironman distance triathlons. They have a daughter, Jessica, and reside in Los Gatos, Calif.
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Felix Kramer
Felix Kramer is an entrepreneur and lifelong environmentalist. He began his career as a legislative aide and journalist, and once directed a three-day citywide solar energy event in NYC. He also ran a nonprofit energy conservation services company and created a trade association for conservation businesses.
A computer consultant and early desktop publisher in the 1980s, he co-authored Desktop Publishing Success (Dow Jones-Irwin, 1990, seven printings), the first book on the electronic publishing business. After selling his DTP business, Kramer founded eConstructors.com, the marketplace for web development services, raised $1 million from angel investors, assembled an international staff and built the world's largest searchable directory of web builders. In 2002, working with entrepreneurs, environmentalists, engineers, and drivers, Kramer founded the non-profit California Cars Initiative (CalCars.org) to put plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) on the map through technology demonstrations, advocacy and buyer demand. CalCars was first to convert the popular Toyota Prius into a prototype PHEV. In April 2006, Kramer became the world's first non-technical consumer owner of a PHEV.
A graduate of Cornell University, Kramer lives with his wife and son in Silicon Valley.
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Joe DiNucci
Joe DiNucci is a sales and marketing veteran of nearly thirty years in Silicon Valley and forty years in high technology, in some legendary companies. Bubble and post-bubble: Joe worked in executive positions at Immersion, DTAKT Systems, Sextant Technologies, Sensei Partners LLC, and Asymetrix; Pre-bubble: Joe recruited the initial sales force and the first customers for E.piphany and in the early 90s was VP Marketing for Silicon Graphics and MIPS. Joe spent 17 years at Digital Equipment Corporation and left when the stock was $175. Joe has served on the boards of two public technology companies.
He holds a BSME from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. In 2006 Joe was certified as an Integral Coach, and launched his professional coaching practice "Surviving Success" in 2007. While he has yet to write The Book, he has been written about in four, including Michael Malone's business bestseller "Going Public" in 1990, and Malcolm Kushner's "The Light Touch", and "Presentation Skills for Dummies" in 1996. He is said to be no more than two degrees of separation from anyone in the Valley.
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Oscar Rodriguez
Oscar Rodriguez brings more than 20 years of experience in communications to Coloumb, including specific expertise in voice, video, data and related telecommunications technologies. His corporate experience includes positions at multi-national companies such as Motorola, DuPont, Nortel Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, where he gained experience in enterprise and carrier wireline and wireless applications and systems design. He also participated in the startup and scaling of three communications companies, and an initial public offering in which he brought leading-edge technologies and applications to the global marketplace.
Mr. Rodriguez served as the CEO of Movius Interactive, a high-growth technology company and established leader in carrier-grade messaging and VAS solutions. Prior to this role, he was CMO for Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise Business Group. Before Alcatel-Lucent, Mr. Rodriguez was President and CEO of Riverstone Networks, where he restructured the company to focus on its core competencies, reconstituted the board of directors, and executed a turn-around strategy to become the recognized technology leader in the carrier metro ethernet marketplace. At Nortel, Mr. Rodriguez was responsible for two of the company's multi-national divisions: president of Intelligent Internet data products and president of Enterprise Solutions. Prior to Nortel, he was president and COO of Arris Interactive.
Oscar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from UCF, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has completed post-graduate studies at The Harvard Business School, and the corporate director's education program at the Director's College at Stanford University's School of Law.
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