Susan Hockfield
MIT President, Welcoming Remarks

Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.

A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the Institute's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Dr. Hockfield encourages collaborative work among MIT's schools, departments, and interdisciplinary laboratories and centers to keep the Institute at the forefront of innovation. She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges.

Under her leadership, MIT has launched a major Institute-wide initiative in energy research.

John Doerr
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Together with KPCB's partners, John has backed many of America's best entrepreneurial leaders, including:
Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt: Google [GOOG]
Jeff Bezos: Amazon [AMZN]
Scott Cook, Bill Campbell: Intuit [INTU]
Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla: Sun [SUNW]
And the founders of Compaq, Cypress, Macromedia and Symantec
These ventures have created more than 150,000 new jobs.

In 1974 John joined a small chipmaker, Intel, just as they invented the legendary 8080 microprocessor. (He feels he was very lucky, in the right place at the right time). He worked in engineering, marketing and became a top-ranked sales executive.

John joined KPCB in 1980 and soon started Silicon Compilers, a VLSI CAD software company, and @Home, the first broadband cable Internet service.

Eric Schmidt calls John "one of Google's best board members." And Jeff Bezos says, "Doerr (and Kleiner) is the center of gravity in the Internet." John has also been part of several big failures, most famously GO Corporation, chronicled by Jerry Kaplan in the book "Startup".

John is passionate about:

• Green technology innovation and policy entrepreneurs to help fight global warming
• Internet/web ventures with strong network effects
• Building a new open nationwide wireless network
• Breakthroughs to prevent pandemic avian flu and global infectious disease
• Your vision for TNBT (The Next Big Thing)

He also cares a lot about public education, global poverty/health, medical research and women as leaders. John is backing exceptional social and policy entrepreneurs including:

Ted Mitchell and Kim Smith, as co-founder of NewSchools.org
Lezlee Westine, John Chambers and Jim Barksdale, as cofounder of TechNet.org
Al Gore, The Alliance for Climate Protection, Climateprotect.org
Reed Hastings, EdVoice.org
Muhammed Yunnus, Grameen Foundation USA, Grameenfoundation.org
Bono's DATA.org
Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute
Susie Mathieu and Dean Kamen FIRST Robotics, usfirst.org

Recent talks include:
TED 2007 - "Not Enough"
Rice University 2007 Commencement Address
KPCB Greentech Innovation Network 2007– “Conversation with Al Gore and John Doerr”

John is a techie and inventor, holding patents for computer memory devices. He earned a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard.

James Rogers
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy

Jim Rogers is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy. He was named chairman in January 2007, following the separation of Duke Energy’s natural gas businesses into a new publicly traded company, Spectra Energy.

Rogers has more than 18 years of experience as a chief executive officer in the electric utility industry. He was named president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy following the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006. Before the merger, Rogers served as Cinergy’s chairman and chief executive officer for more than 11 years. Prior to the formation of Cinergy, he joined PSI Energy in 1988 as the company’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. He served as executive vice president of interstate pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group before joining PSI. Before joining the Enron Corp., Rogers was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.

Before joining that firm, Rogers was deputy general counsel for litigation and enforcement for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Previously, Rogers served as assistant to the chief trial counsel at FERC, as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and as assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he acted as intervener on behalf of state consumers in gas, electric and telephone rate cases. He was a reporter for the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader from 1967 to 1970.

In the course of his career, Rogers has served more than 40 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a director of Fifth Third Bancorp and Cigna Corporation. He has served as a director of Duke Realty Corporation, Cinergy Corporation, PSI Energy, Bankers Life Holding Corporation, Irkutskenergo AO (a Russian utility) and Indiana National Bank.

He is immediate past chairman and ex officio member of the Executive Committee of the Edison Electric Institute. He serves as a member of the board of directors and the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute, and is a board member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. Rogers also serves on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Business Roundtable, National Coal Council, American Gas Association, National Petroleum Council, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

Rogers is chairman of the Edison Foundation and serves as co-chair of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and the Alliance to Save Energy. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Energy and Climate Change Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative. He has testified 16 times on energy and environmental policies before congressional committees.

Rogers also serves on numerous civic boards and has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues. He currently co-chairs an Arts & Science Council (ASC) initiative to enrich cultural resources in the Charlotte area.

Rogers attended Emory University and earned a bachelor of business administration and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of the Kentucky Law Journal and Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society. He was named to the Hall of Fame at the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics and the Hall of Fame of the College of Law, both of the University of Kentucky.  

Rogers has been honored with various awards and recognition:  the 1996 Energy Daily Corporate Leadership Award; the 1998 Hebrew Union College Cincinnati Associates Tribute Honoree; the 2004 National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) Distinguished Service Citation; the 2005 Keystone Center Leadership in Industry Award; the 2005 Ronald McDonald House Lifetime Achievement Award; and the 2006 Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, Cincinnati Chapter. He also received an honorary doctor of law degree from Indiana State University and an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Queens University of Charlotte.

In 2007, Rogers was a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a prestigious honor given annually by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO). The medals recognize American citizens of diverse ethnic backgrounds for their outstanding contributions to their communities, their nation and the world. Each year, the names of the award recipients are listed in the Congressional Record.

The Birmingham, Ala., native was born in 1947. Rogers and his wife, Mary Anne, have two daughters, a son and seven grandchildren.

Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. The company has nearly 37,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. In addition, Duke Energy has more than 4,000 megawatts of electric generation in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company.

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available on the Internet at: http://www.duke-energy.com/

Jeffrey Immelt
CEO of General Electric

Jeffrey R. Immelt, 50, is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GE. Mr. Immelt, the 9th Chairman in GE's 128-year history, was appointed to this post on September 7, 2001. Previously, Mr. Immelt served as President and Chairman-elect of GE starting in November 2000.

He began his GE career in 1982. Over the last 24 years, Mr. Immelt has held a series of global leadership roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. He became an Officer of GE in 1989, and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997.

In 2005 and 2006, Barron’s named Mr. Immelt one of the World’s Best CEO’s. Under his leadership, GE has been named “America’s Most Admired Company” in a poll conducted by FORTUNE magazine and the world's most respected company in polls conducted by Barron's and the Financial Times.

He serves as Chairman of The Business Council and is on the board of three non-profit organizations: Catalyst, devoted to advancing women in business; and Robin Hood, focused on addressing poverty in New York City; and the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

Mr. Immelt holds a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College (1978) and an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1982). He and his wife, Andrea, have one daughter.

Daniel Yergin
Chairman & Co-founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA)

Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on international politics and economics and on energy.  Dr. Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.” He is both a world-recognized author and a business leader, as chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), one of the world’s leading consulting and research firms in its field.  He is also executive vice president of IHS, the parent company of CERA.
Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a number one best seller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series seen by 20 million people in the United States.  The book has been translated into 12 languages.

Dr. Yergin plays a leadership role in the global energy industry. He chaired the US Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a member of the Board of the United States Energy Association, and a member of the National Petroleum Council and this year became the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas.  He is also one of the “Wise Men” of the International Gas Union.

He is CNBC’s Global Energy Expert.
In November 2005 Dr. Yergin was awarded  the Medal of the President of the Republic of Italy for combining “an understanding of the dynamics of the market with a broad view of the forces of geopolitics as he seeks to point the way to the positive outcomes for the world community.”

Of Dr. Yergin’s most recent book, Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy , the Wall Street Journal said, “No one could ask for a better account of the world’s political and economic destiny since World War II.”  It has been translated into 13 languages. Dr. Yergin led the team that turned it into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary -- the major PBS television series on globalization.  The series received three Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle award and the New York Festivals Gold WorldMedal for best documentary.

Dr. Yergin has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America.   He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, and on the Board of the New America Foundation, a Director of the US-Russia Business Council and on the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Economics.  
Dr. Yergin received his BA from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.   

Dr. Yergin co-founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates, now an IHS company. Its offices are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Beijing, Calgary, Dubai, Mexico City, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.

Vinod Khosla
Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems. Starting in 1980 when he worked on changing the state of the art of Electrical Computer Aided Design at Daisy Systems, to 1982 when he founded Sun Microsystems, Vinod played a role in the commercialization of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processors, the "open systems" philosophy, TCP/IP public networks. As a General Partner of Kleiner Perkins for many years he helped build the firm’s foray’s in many areas of technology innovation. In 2005 he formed Khosla Ventures in order to operate with more flexibility. He continues to maintain a close relationship with Kleiner Perkins (www.kpcb.com ) and remains a General Partner of the existing funds (KPCB IV-X).

He joined the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1986 to work with innovative technologies and entrepreneurs, helping them and guiding them in the process of building durable companies. As a self-termed "venture assistant", he has since helped develop many entrepreneurial ventures including the Intel compatible product line sold by AMD, the IP Routing product line of Juniper that forms the backbone of the internet, and many other ventures in communications, computing, consumer and internet technologies. He has a passion for nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society. Vinod serves on the boards of a number of the companies which he has assisted, including EASIC (programmable ASIC platform www.easic.com ), Infinera (optical communications www.infinera.com ), Kovio (printed electronics www.kovio.com ), Skyblue (internet PC) Spatial Photonics (Micromirror displays), Xsigo (datacenter switch www.xsigo.com ), among others. Vinod’s greatest passion is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, helping them build technology based businesses.

Vinod is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992 that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries. He is also a Founding Board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is Social Entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on Microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. Vinod is also passionate about alternative energy, independence from petroleum, and the environment.

Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Correspondent, Economist

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist.
He joined the magazine’s staff as the London-based Latin America Correspondent in 1992. He opened its first office in that region in Mexico City, and served as bureau chief until 1997. As the newspaper’s Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business and technology involved in those topics from 1998 to 2006. His portfolio now includes global health, pharmaceuticals and innovation.

Vijay is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the selection committee for CFR’s annual Arthur Ross Book Award. He teaches at NYU’s Stern Business School, and is a regular commentator on Marketplace radio, in the Wall Street Journal and at other media outlets.
He is also the author of a book on the future of energy, “POWER TO THE PEOPLE” (www.vijaytothepeople.com). Harvard’s John Holdren, reviewing the book in Scientific American, called it “by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available.” Vijay’s next book, “ZOOM: The Race to Fuel the Car of the Future”, co-authored with Economist colleague Iain Carson, will be published in autumn 2007.

Vijay’s book and magazine articles have received various prizes in America and abroad. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Madras, India, and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He now lives in New York.

Ernest Moniz
Former US Under-Secretary of Energy

Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems and co-Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from October 1997 until January 2001. In that role, he had programmatic oversight responsibility for the offices of Science; Fossil Energy; Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology; Environmental Management; and Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. He served as DOE chair of the Laboratory Operations Board and of the Research and Development Council, through which he initiated a portfolio approach to managing and advancing the Department’s R&D programs. He also led a comprehensive review of the nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship program and served as the Secretary’s special negotiator for Russia initiatives, with a particular focus on the disposition of Russian nuclear weapons materials. Dr. Moniz also served from 1995 to 1997 as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, where his responsibilities spanned the physical, life, and social and behavioral sciences, science education, and university-government partnerships. At MIT, Dr. Moniz served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center, a DOE user facility. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics, particularly in advancing nuclear reaction theory at high energy. His current research centers on energy technology and policy studies. He is co-chair of the MIT Energy Research Council, an interdisciplinary faculty group that is advancing the MIT President’s energy initiative.

Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens, the University of Erlangen-Nurenburg, and Michigan State University. Dr. Moniz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation. He serves on the Boards of the Gas Technology Institute, Nexant, and American Science & Engineering, on the Keystone Energy Board, and on the advisory councils of EPRI, Cummins, BP, and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.

Joseph Romm
Former Acting Assistant Secretary of DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
Author, "The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate"

Joseph Romm is a leading expert on clean energy technologies. He is author of the report The Car and Fuel of the Future: A Technology and Policy Overview, for the National Commission on Energy Policy (July 2004), and of The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate. Romm was principal investigator for the National Science Foundation project, "Future Directions for Hydrogen Energy Research and Education." From 1995 through 1998, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where he helped manage a $1 billion program for working with businesses to develop and use advanced transportation and clean energy technologies. Romm is executive director and founder of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, which helps businesses and states adopt high-leverage strategies for saving energy and cutting pollution. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.

W. Bob Lockwood
Chief Operating Officer, CERA

W. Bob Lockwood is CERA's Chief Operating Officer. He is also a member of the IHS Energy Executive Committee. Prior to his appointment at CERA, Dr. Lockwood was Managing Director of Worldwide Consulting for IHS Energy, where he led consultancy practices offering decision support across the full spectrum of upstream oil and gas issues. A specialist in business transformation with more than 25 years' experience, Dr.Lockwood joined IHS Energy in 2003. He was previously a partner with PA Consulting, where he led the UK Energy Business Transformation Practice, delivering consulting services in the upstream and downstream oil and gas markets for clients worldwide. In 1999 he cofounded 2020ME Holdings Limited, a software development company focused on the development of artificial intelligence software designed to enable Internet transactions. Previously, Dr. Lockwood was director of the Oil and Gas Practice, in the Management and Consultancy Division at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Before he entered the consulting arena, Dr.Lockwood was Manager of the 777 Program and Program Management group leader for the 737-700 aircrafts with Boeing Aerospace Company. He is a member of the Institute of Directors. Dr. Lockwood holds a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Washington.

Don Paul
Vice President and CTO, Chevron

Donald L. (Don) Paul is vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron Corp. He is the corporate officer responsible for Chevron's three technology companies: Chevron Energy Technology Co., Chevron Information Technology Co. and Chevron Technology Ventures LLC. In this role, he coordinates their work to accelerate the development and integrated application of technology throughout the company's worldwide business activities. Paul is a member of the Strategy and Planning Committee, Global Issues Committee, Human Resources Committee and Management Committee.

Previously, Paul served as vice president of technology and environmental affairs for Chevron Corp., a position he assumed in 1996. In this role, Paul also was the corporate officer for Chevron's worldwide health, safety and environmental compliance function. This included oversight of Chevron Environmental Management Co., which is responsible for managing Chevron's environmental remediation efforts at sites throughout the United States.

A native of Los Angeles, California, he is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, a master's degree in geology and geophysics, and a Ph.D. in geophysics.

Paul joined the company in 1975 as a research geophysicist with Chevron Oil Field Research Co. in La Habra, California. In his career, Paul has held a variety of management positions of increasing responsibility in both the upstream business and technology. These include president of Chevron Petroleum Technology Co. and president of Chevron Canada Resources, Chevron's Canadian oil and gas exploration and production subsidiary.

Paul is extensively involved in external research and technology management roles with business partners, universities, government agencies and professional technical societies. He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He also is a member of the external advisory board for the Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is past chairman of the advisory board for the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Paul is a member of the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Science and served on the 1997 Presidential Panel on Federal Energy Research and Development. On June 6, 2002, Paul testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee on the future of advanced energy technologies, such as fuel cell technology. Paul is an advisory board member of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership program of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Vinod Khosla
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Founder Khosla Ventures & Sun Microsystems

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems. Starting in 1980 when he worked on changing the state of the art of Electrical Computer Aided Design at Daisy Systems, to 1982 when he founded Sun Microsystems, Vinod played a role in the commercialization of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processors, the "open systems" philosophy, TCP/IP public networks. As a General Partner of Kleiner Perkins for many years he helped build the firm’s foray’s in many areas of technology innovation. In 2005 he formed Khosla Ventures in order to operate with more flexibility. He continues to maintain a close relationship with Kleiner Perkins (www.kpcb.com ) and remains a General Partner of the existing funds (KPCB IV-X).

He joined the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1986 to work with innovative technologies and entrepreneurs, helping them and guiding them in the process of building durable companies. As a self-termed "venture assistant", he has since helped develop many entrepreneurial ventures including the Intel compatible product line sold by AMD, the IP Routing product line of Juniper that forms the backbone of the internet, and many other ventures in communications, computing, consumer and internet technologies. He has a passion for nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society. Vinod serves on the boards of a number of the companies which he has assisted, including EASIC (programmable ASIC platform www.easic.com ), Infinera (optical communications www.infinera.com ), Kovio (printed electronics www.kovio.com ), Skyblue (internet PC) Spatial Photonics (Micromirror displays), Xsigo (datacenter switch www.xsigo.com ), among others. Vinod’s greatest passion is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, helping them build technology based businesses.

Vinod is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992 that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries. He is also a Founding Board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is Social Entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on Microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. Vinod is also passionate about alternative energy, independence from petroleum, and the environment.

Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Stephan Dolezalek
Managing Director Co-Head, CleanTech Practice, Vantage Point Venture Partners

Mr. Dolezalek has spent 20 years in Silicon Valley working exclusively with technology driven companies. As a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and corporate and securities counsel, he has directed entrepreneurial companies in developing business plans, structuring private and public equity funding, undertaking corporate partnering arrangements, and completing significant acquisitions and mergers transactions. Prior to joining VantagePoint in 1999, Mr. Dolezalek was a senior partner with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison acting as Managing Partner of the Firm’s Palo Alto Office, Head of the Business and Technology Group and Chairman of the Life Sciences Group. In his work with life science companies, Mr. Dolezalek structured a number of significant collaborative partnering and investment agreements between major multinational pharmaceutical companies and venture-backed biotechnology and medical device companies. He is a graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia (Bachelor of City Planning) and the University of Virginia School of Law (JD).