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 he following entrepreneurs provide their expertise via videotape on many of the topics discussed in the Leading At The Speed Of Growth program.
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Steve Jurvetson (Palo Alto, CA)
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
http://www.drapervc.com/
Steve was the founding venture capital investor in Kana Software, Hotmail, Interwoven, and Lightwave Microsystems, and led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras. He is also leading activities in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software. Steve holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Guy Kawasaki (Palo Alto, CA)
CEO, Garage Technology Ventures
http://www.garage.com/
Garage Technology Ventures is a venture capital investment bank that provides funding services for high tech startups. Prior to this position, Guy was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. A noted speaker and the founder of various personal computer companies, Guy was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. He is also the author of seven books including Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
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Magdalena Yesil (Palo Alto, CA)
General Partner, US Venture Partners
http://www.usvp.com
Magdalena joined USVP after a successful 18 year career in the computer and information technology industries. She started her career as a semiconductor design engineer at Advanced Micro Devices, and more recently founded two successful electronic commerce companies, CyberCash, a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems area and MarketPay, a software company recently acquired by an international manufacturer of point of sale devices. She holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, both from Stanford University. She is the author of Creating the Virtual Store, published by John Wiley & Sons.
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Ed Nwokedi (San Francisco, CA)
Owner, City Garage
http://www.citygarage.com
Ed Nwokedi owns and operates City Garage, a collision repair service with of six San Francisco Bay Area locations. In 1998, he co-founded Carstation.com, a business-to-business automotive web site that sells automotive crash parts to the collision repair industry. In 1999 Ed co-founded UrbanEvents.com a web site that uses new ticket reservation technology, delivered via the web and wireless devices, to significantly increase admission revenue and reduce event-marketing costs by delivering a suite of box-office services to event planners. Ed is a graduate from the University of Michigan with a major in business, and received his MBA from Saint Mary's College. On August 2000, he was selected to represent the San Francisco Chapter of Young Entrepreneurs Organization to serve on the National Advisory Board of The Kauffman Entrepreneurial Center that manages a $200 million fund to support entrepreneurial growth.
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Catherine Muther (San Francisco, CA)
Founder and president, Three Guineas Fund
http://www.3gf.org/
Three Guineas Fund is a public grant making foundation incorporated in 1994. This California foundation's mission is to create access to opportunity for women and girls in education and the economy. Recently the fund launched the Women's Technology Cluster (WTC), a San Francisco industry focused incubator for women-led start up businesses in information technology. Catherine has held vice president and officer positions in leading Silicon Valley companies in the computer networking industry. Between 1989 and 1994, during Catherine's tenure as senior marketing officer at Cisco Systems Inc., the company grew from $25 million in sales to more than $1 billion, and joined the Fortune 500. Prior to her time at Cisco, she was the vice president of Corporate Marketing at 3Com and at Bridge Communications, Inc. She began her business career as a consultant in San Francisco at Arthur D. Little, Inc. Catherine graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business with an MBA. She earned an MA degree from Cambridge University, England, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.
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Katherine Catlin (Hingham, MA)
Founder, The Catlin Group
http://www.ceoexchange.com/
Katherine has helped CEOs and th
eir executive teams grow great companies for more than 15 years. The Catlin Group is a consulting firm that works with high-growth companies nationwide. Katherine leads High-Growth CEO Forums, where CEOs regularly meet to exchange ideas, challenges and best practices for growth. She also created Building the Profit Spiral™, a proven growth-planning process, and established The CEO Exchange, a Web site for CEOs that provides articles, ideas and information on growth issues. Katherine is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Sweet Briar College and received a Masters degree from Lesley College. She is a member of the Strategic Leadership Forum and the Association for Corporate Growth. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Cambridge (MA) Business Progress Center. She has co-authored two books with Jana Matthews including Leading At The Speed Of Growth.
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Jana Matthews (Boulder, CO)
President and CEO of Boulder Quantum Ventures
http://www.boulderquantumventures.com/
Jana has founded three companies including Boulder Quantum Ventures, a firm that helps CEOs and their top teams unlock their companies' growth potential. Jana's career includes being a member of the senior staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., and Assistant Provost of the Massachusetts State College System. She has a doctorate from Harvard University. As a member of the original senior staff of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Jana was the architect of the Center's programs that teach entrepreneurs how to manage growth. She still serves as the Kauffman Center's high-growth expert and is the author or co-author of six books, including Leading At The Speed of Growth with Katherine Catlin.
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