Board of Directors

CONNECT’s Board of Directors is a virtual who’s who of San Diego. This list presents successful entrepreneurs multiple times over, internationally respected and regarded innovators, and highly sought after executives. The Board of Directors represents the best San Diego has to offer both professionally as well as philanthropically. They now through CONNECT give back to San Diego. CONNECT thanks our Board of Directors for their time and support.

 

RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

RESEARCH

  1. David Brenner, Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences, UCSD School of Medicine
  2. Art Ellis, Vice Chancellor, Research, UC San Diego
  3. David Hayhurst, Dean, School of Engineering, SDSU
  4. John Reed, President & CEO, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research
  5. Frieder Seible, Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
  6. Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2

EDUCATION

  1. Sandy Ehrlich, QUALCOMM Executive Director of Entrepreneurship, SDSU Entrepreneurial Management Center
  2. Dennis Guseman, Dean of the College of Business Administration, CSU San Marcos
  3. Bob Sullivan, Dean, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
  4. David Pyke, Dean of the College of Business Administration, USD

PROFESSIONAL AND STRATEGIC PARTNERS

  1. Jeff Baglio, Partner, DLA Piper
  2. Jeff Barnett, VP, Union Bank of California
  3. Mark Davis, VP, San Diego Union Tribune
  4. Jay deGroot, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
  5. David Down, Partner, KPMG
  6. Mike Hird, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop
  7. Anthony Insogna, Partner, Jones Day
  8. Stath Karras, President & CEO, Burnham Real Estate
  9. Michael J. Kinkelaar, Partner, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
  10. Ken Polin, Partner, Foley & Lardner
  11. Trindl Reeves, Principal, Barney & Barney
  12. Jim Sahagian, Vice President, Development, Sempra Energy
  13. Katherine White, Special Counsel, Townsend and Townsend and Crew
  14. Marty Waters, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  15. Don Williams, Managing Partner, Grant Thornton
  16. Steve Williams, Principal, SENTRE Partners
  17. Scott Wolfe, Partner, Latham & Watkins

INDUSTRY/CAPITAL PROVIDERS

INDUSTRY

  1. Julia Brown, Executive Officer, Amylin Pharmaceuticals
  2. Peter Farrell, Chairman & CEO, ResMed
  3. Dan Goldin, President, The Intellisis Corporation
  4. David Hale, Chairman, Hale BioPharma Ventures LLC
  5. Catherine Mackey, Senior Vice President, Worldwide R&D, Pfizer
  6. Kip Miller, Senior Vice President, Invitrogen
  7. Tina Nova-Bennett, CEO, Genoptix
  8. Stephen Rockwood, Executive Vice President, SAIC
  9. Jim Schaeffer, Executive Director, Licensing and External Research, Merck
  10. Susan Snow, CFO, MAXIM Systems
  11. Bill Strauss, President & CEO, Provide Commerce
  12. David Webb, VP Research, Site Director, Celgene

CAPITAL PROVIDERS

  1. John Dunn, Executive Vice President, New Ventures, Biogen Idec
  2. Carl Eibl, Managing Director, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
  3. Stan Fleming, Managing Member, Forward Ventures
  4. Ted Roth, Managing Director, Roth Capital Partners San Diego
  5. Marco Thompson, Managing Director, Express Ventures
  6. David Titus, General Partner, Windward Ventures

AFFILIATES/AT LARGE

  1. Ruben Barrales, President & CEO, San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce
  2. Lisa Bicker, CEO, Clean TECH San Diego
  3. Bill Carpenter, Board, Chairman’s Roundtable
  4. Kevin Carroll, Executive Director, AeA
  5. Mike Elconin, Chairman, Tech Coast Angels
  6. Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation
  7. Lou Kelly, Chairman, CCAT
  8. Robert McCray, Wireless Life Sciences Alliance
  9. Julie Meier Wright, President & CEO, San Diego Regional EDC
  10. Rory Moore, CEO, CommNexus
  11. Joe Panetta, President & CEO, BIOCOM
  12. Duane Roth, CEO, CONNECT
  13. Peter Shaw, San Diego Venture Group, 2009 Board President
  14. Bob Slapin, Executive Director, San Diego Software Industry Council

HONORARY LIFETIME MEMBERS

  1. Dick Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of CA
  2. Barbara Bry, COO, Blackbird Ventures
  3. Malin Burnham, Chairman, Burnham Companies
  4. Jerry Caulder, Executive Chairman, Finistere
  5. Ray Dittamore, Retired (Ernst & Young)
  6. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman, QUALCOMM
  7. Tyler Orion, Retired (CONNECT)
  8. Cub Parker, Retired Investment Banker
  9. Dan Pegg, Retired (LEAP)
  10. Peter Preuss, The Preuss Foundation
  11. Abby Silverman, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
  12. Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor, Public Programs, UC San Diego Extension
  13. Buzz Woolley, President, Girard Capital

CONNECT Foundation Board of Directors

  1. Tyler Orion, Retired (CONNECT)
  2. Greg Horowitt, Co-Founder and Director, Global CONNECT
  3. Phil Jelsma, Partner, Luce Forward
  4. Mike Krupp, CONNECT EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)
  5. Glenn Mosier,SVP - Investments, UBS Financial Services Inc.
  6. Eric Otterson, CFO, VP of Business Development, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
  7. Gwen Rosenberg, Sec, VP - Investor Relations & Corp Communications, Senomyx
  8. Duane Roth, Pres/CEO, CEO, CONNECT
  9. Jim Waring, Chairman, CleanTECH San Diego