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Board of Directors
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Jennifer Fonstad is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Her current Board responsibilities include NanoCoolers (chip cooling devices), Nantero (carbon nanotube-based DRAM), Groxis (visual search software), Intematix (high-throughput synthesis and screening of technology-enabling materials), Ipedo (software-based data cache solution), and Troika Networks (storage area networking). Jennifer also led the firm’s investment in Athenahealth (eHealth services), Ember (wireless mesh network), Luminus Devices (solid state lighting), and Molecular Imprints (nano-imprint lithography). Previous investments include United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), Achex (acquired by First Data Corp - FDC), and iShip (acquired by Stamps - STMP). She speaks frequently at industry conferences and writes often for industry publications (click here for her columns). Jennifer began her career with Bain and Company after spending a year teaching in sub-Sahara Africa. She graduated Cum Laude from Georgetown University, holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School, and is a former Kauffman Fellow. |
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Alain has spent more than 25 years in the semiconductor industry as a technologist and an investor in high-growth early-stage companies. He began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories' advanced materials development group where he developed thermal and plasma processes for thin film dielectrics deposition for semiconductor device manufacturing. From there, Alain joined Novellus Systems, leaving briefly to join Lam Research as director of deposition technology in the chemical vapor deposition business unit. Throughout his tenure at Novellus, his roles ranged from director of technology for dielectrics to director of strategic marketing, where he championed the company's pursuit of a total copper metallization solution for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.In February 1996, he became Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Novellus, chartered with evaluating new technologies and opportunities designed to fuel Novellus' growth in target markets. Before joining Crosslink, Alain was a General Partner at Compass Technology Partners investing in technology-intensive, early stage companies. BS in Mathematics and MS in Physics, from the University of Paris XI at Orsay, France. Ph.D. in Experimental Solid State Physics, from Temple University in Philadelphia. |
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Mr. Choi is a founding partner and managing director of East Gate Capital Management. East Gate has offices in Silicon Valley and Seoul, Korea and focuses its investments on early stage IT companies. Mr. Choi has more than 20 years of venture capital and public equity investment experience in information technology, manufacturing, clean-tech research and development, and IP development and licensing companies. He currently serves in board of director roles at Intematix, Big Spoon (on-line game publisher), 3Cim (social media content provider), Time Voyager (social web game developer) and Blackstone Korea Advisors. |
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Mark brings over 27 years of experience in the LED, solid state and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Intematix, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Bridgelux, Inc, where his vision transitioned the company from an R&D and chip design business into a vertically integrated solid state lighting product company. Prior to Bridgelux, Mark served as Executive Vice President of Philips Lumileds, where he led sales, marketing, applications and custom product development teams that pioneered the power LED product class and developed high-growth markets in applications including automotive forward lighting, mobile phone camera flash, LED backlighting and general lighting. Additionally, Swoboda spent 17 years with the Hewlett-Packard Semiconductor Products Group in various sales, marketing, and channel management positions. Mark earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Marquette University. |
