Mac Agan, Director of Marketing Corporate Affairs Group, Intel Corporation
Mac Agan is a Director of Marketing for Intel Corporation within the Corporate Affairs Group. The Corporate Affairs organization is responsible for Intel public policy, Intel® Education Initiative, corporate social responsibility, employee programs and community relations. He and his team lead strategic planning, program development and marketing communications for the organization towards the objective of effecting positive change around the globe through Intel business and practices. Mac has been with Intel for 12 years in a wide variety of Marketing and Business Development.

Mr. Agan holds a BA from the University of Puget Sound.

Shawn Carolan, Managing Partner, Menlo Ventures
Shawn joined Menlo Ventures in 2002 and has focused primarily on connected software and services. He represents Menlo Ventures on the boards of CinemaNow, GalleryPlayer, IMVU, PlayPhone, TalkPlus and TeleNav, and is closely involved with the firm's investments in ePAC and MobiTV. Before joining Menlo, Shawn was a management consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, after spending most of his career in software development and engineering management positions. He was Manager of Software Architecture for Open Port Technology, a start-up that created Internet-based messaging software for data carriers. Prior to that, Shawn worked at Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group and Wireless Data Group, Sprint PCS, and the University of Illinois' Center for Computational Electromagnetics.

Shawn received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign and is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, with an M.B.A. degree.

Michael Cohen, Product Manager, Google
Producer for Promise of iPhone Panel
A recent graduate from Business School, Michael previously worked at McKinsey and Company, and VMWare, where he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff. This is Michael’s second year assisting in the production of a Cyberposium event.

Michael holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

Prior to PayPal, Menekse worked with Wells Fargo in the Internet Services Group leading the effort to define their mobile banking strategy. Menekse was also a senior director at Gateway responsible for building the company’s enterprise business prior to the eMachines merger.

Menekse holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from The Wharton School of Business and a BA in Economics from Harvard University.

John Giddings, ChipX
Producer and Moderator for Clean Tech Panel
John Giddings comes to HBSTech from ChipX where he has coordinated global marketing for two years. Prior to ChipX, John was the CEO of SmartPenny.com, developing one of the first detached microcommerce communities. He has 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, launching the first family of 10Gb Ethernet PHY devices with Mindspeed Technologies in 2001 and with ChipX, the first family of embedded PHY Structured ASICs in 2005. Mr. Giddings has also held positions with TSMC, Amkor Technology, VLSI Technologies, and National Semiconductor.

John earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and his MSEE in Semiconductor Physics and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil, born February 12, 1948, is an inventor and futurist. He has been a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity, and futurism. The inventor attributes his success in marketing technology products to being able to predict the arrival date of competitively priced components and match it to rollout of his designs.

Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the United States' largest award in invention and innovation, and the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology.

He has received scores of other awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University's top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT in 1998, the Association of American Publishers' award for the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery and he received the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in 2000.

He has received thirteen honorary doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents.
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Arvind Purushotham, Menlo Ventures
Producer for Mini-Keynote
Arvind joined Menlo Ventures in 2001. He started his career as a chip designer working on low power versions of the Pentium Processor® in the Mobile Group at Intel Corporation. Later he became the Program Manager of the Mobile Pentium II® Processor effort and contributed to several successful product launches. His professional career includes brief stints as an investment banking intern at Robertson Stephens and as an associate at the Summit Accelerator Fund. Arvind represents Menlo Ventures on the boards of Kazeon, Mobius Microsystems and Vhayu Technologies. He is also involved in Menlo's investments in Cavium Networks, Jobfox, Matisse Networks, Nexxo and Solidcore.

Arvind holds an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. He also earned a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Rich Redelfs, Foundation Capital
Rich joined Foundation Capital after 20+ years in networking and communications, a combination of start-up entrepreneurial as well as large company intrapreneurial experience. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Atheros Communications (NASDAQ: ATHR) which he joined as a start-up with 21 engineers and an office manager. He built the company into the leading provider of Wi-Fi wireless semiconductors and "Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Private Company" as determined by the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal and PricewaterhouseCoopers for the 2001 to 2003 period. In 2003 Rich received Frost & Sullivan's prestigious "Wireless LAN CEO of the Year" award.

Prior to Atheros, Rich was vice president and general manager of 3Com's Wireless and Home Connectivity Division, where he was a pioneer in home networking. He spent more than ten years at 3Com in various sales, marketing, and general management positions including vice president of Marketing and later acting general manager for the Mobile Communications Division, which he helped grow from $35-million to over $700-million in revenue. Other positions at 3Com included director of Americas Hub Marketing, National Reseller sales manager, and National OEM sales manager. Prior to 3Com, Rich was chief operating officer of Polygon, a communications software start-up. Rich began his professional career with TeleVideo Systems, an early leader in personal computers and networking, where he held various marketing and sales management positions.

Rich currently serves on the boards of Mobius Microsystems, Prematics and Dust Networks, and was previously on the boards of Azimuth Systems and Atheros Communications. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSIE from Purdue.

Chuck Reed, 64th Mayor of San José
Chuck was born on August 15, 1948 and was raised in the small farming town of Garden City, Kansas. His family lived in a public housing project, teaching him from an early age the importance of government aide for working families. A strong work ethic was evident during childhood as he took jobs sweeping floors while still in elementary school. Chuck dug ditches, shoveled gravel, and worked in the fields before becoming a teenager. While in high school, Chuck worked part time operating a bull dozer and driving an 18 wheeler semi truck.

Chuck left Kansas to attend the United States Air Force Academy and went on to serve in Thailand during the Vietnam War. After attending Law School, and passing the bar, Chuck began working as an attorney in San José handling environmental, employment, land use and real estate law, and commercial litigation.

As Mayor of San José, Chuck is committed to improving the quality of life in the city, boosting the public’s trust in local government, and fixing the City’s structural budget deficit. The Reed Reforms, a comprehensive strategy to return honesty, fiscal responsibility, and open government to City Hall, are part of Chuck’s vision to make the political process more accessible to the general public. The reforms require further disclosure from elected officials, add restrictions on lobbyists, and increase the role of citizens in San José government. Click here for the Mayor's Green Vision article

Mayor Reed received a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University and graduated from Stanford Law School.