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.

CONNECT FOUNDATION C3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Paul Laikind : Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute(Chair)
Greg Horowitt : Global CONNECT (Chair of Nominating Committee)
Glenn Mosier : UBS Financial Services (Chair of Compensation Committee)
Eric Otterson : Cooley LLP (Treasurer/Chair of Audit Committee)
Gwen Rosenberg : Senomyx (Secretary)
Bruce Breslau : Union Bank
Karen Dow : Sughrue Mion, PLLC
David Hale : Hale BioPharma Ventures LLC
David Hall : Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Kim Kamdar : Domain Associates
Mike Krupp : CONNECT, EIR
Tyler Orion : Retired, CONNECT; RTA
Duane Roth : CONNECT
Camille Saltman : CONNECT
Peter Shaw : Shaw Management Advisors LLC

CONNECT ASSOCIATION C6 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Catherine Mackey : MindPiece Partners (Chair)
Carl Eibl : Enterprise Partners Venture Capital (Chair-elect)
Trindl Reeves : Barney & Barney LLC (Vice chair)
Marco Thompson : Express Ventures (Vice chair)
Mike Hird : Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Chair of Nominating Committee)
David Down : KPMG LLP (Chair of Audit Committee)
Dick Atkinson : University of California
Jeff Baglio : DLA Piper
Chris Baker : SDG&E
Ruben Barrales : San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce
Jordan Becker : BAE Systems
Dave Bialis : Cox Communications
Phil Blair : Manpower Inc.
David Brenner : UC San Diego School of Medicine
Julia Brown: UC San Diego Board of Trustees
Barbara Bry : Blackbird Ventures
Malin Burnham : Burnham Foundation
Bill Carpenter : DriveCam, Inc.
Kevin Carroll : TechAmerica
Jerry Caulder : Finistere Ventures, LLC
Amanda Clardy : Life Technologies
Luiz Cruz : Verizon Wireless
Bill Davidson : Qualcomm Incorporated
Ray Dittamore : Retired, Ernst & Young LLP
John Dunn : Biogen Idec
Sandy Ehrlich : Global CONNECT
Peter Farrell : ResMed
Steve Flaim : Tech Coast Angels
Stan Fleming : Forward Ventures
Dan Goldin : The Intellisis Corporation
David Hale : Hale BioPharma Ventures LLC
David Hayhurst : San Diego State University
Tim Holl : Ernst & Young LLP
Anthony Insogna : Jones Day
Irwin Jacobs : Qualcomm Incorporated
Phil Jelsma : Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP
Stath Karras : Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
Lou Kelly : Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT)
Michael Kinkelaar : Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
Carl Kukkonen : Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
Nicholas Leibham : K&L Gates LLP
Rob McCray : Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance
Jason Minter : NDIA San Diego Chapter
Diego Miralles : Johnson & Johnson
Bill Molloie : PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Rory Moore : CommNexus San Diego
Tina Nova : Genoptix, Inc.
Tyler Orion : Retired, CONNECT; RTA
Joe Panetta : BIOCOM
Cub Parker : Retired, Imperial Bank; Tech Coast Angels
Dan Pegg : Retired, San Diego Regional EDC; Qualcomm Incorporated
Ken Polin : Foley & Lardner LLP
Peter Preuss : The Preuss Foundation
David Pyke : University of San Diego
John Reed : Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Duane Roth : CONNECT
Ted Roth : ROTH Capital Partners, LLC
Jim Schaeffer : Merck Research Laboratories
Frieder Seible : Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
Bhasker Shetty : Pfizer Inc.
Abby Silverman Weiss : Dispute Resolutions
Bob Slapin : San Diego Software Industry Council
Larry Smarr : Calit2, UC San Diego
Andrew Spector : SAIC
Taylor Stevens : Morrison & Foerster LLP
Bill Strauss : Provide Commerce
Bob Sullivan : Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
David Titus : San Diego Venture Group
D. James Umpleby : Solar Turbines Incorporated
Mary Walshok : UC San Diego Extension
Bill Walton : SD Sport Innovators
Jim Waring : CleanTECH San Diego
Marty Waters : Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
David Webb : The Scripps Research Institute
Steve Williams : SENTRE Partners
Scott Wolfe : Latham & Watkins LLP
Buzz Woolley : Girard Capital Inc./Girard Foundation