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Fall Quarter E145Opportunity Analysis ProjectTeam MentorsFALL QUARTER E145OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS PROJECTTEAM MENTORSAnn Carney Nelson Associate, Menlo VenturesAnn joined Menlo Ventures in 1999 and has been active in a wide range of investments in early stage infrastructure, software and Internet companies. This includes companies such as Bluesocket, DriveCam, Emptoris, Encirq, Evergrid, Intransa, Neterion, PowerReviews, Project Green Note, and Rivulet. In addition to her investment activities, Ann develops business development programs for the portfolio.These programs include, among others, a periodic seminar series as well as opportunities for portfolio companies to interact with key decision-makers at large public companies. Ann is married to Andrew Nelson, a faculty member in the Management Science and Engineering Department. Both are avid fans of the Engineering School’s entrepreneurship programs. Ann is a graduate of Stanford University (B.S. in Biological Sciences).Armen Berjikly Founder & CEO, Experience ProjectArmen Berjikly graduated from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science, and a MS in Management Science, with a focus on Entrepreneurship. Armen was also a Mayfield fellow, and worked at his Mayfield company, Echelon Corporation, after graduation asa product manager responsible for launching an enterprise hardware and software product line in the green energy space from paper requirements to final delivery. After a close friend's diagnosis with a serious illness, Armen started work on Experience Project, Inc, an online venue for people to connect with others who share their life experiences and can provide each other with personalized support and information.Aydin Senkut Founder and President, Felicis VenturesAydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. He's been an angel investor in promising start-ups since the end of 2005. is current portfolio emcompasses over 30 companies including Buzzlogic, Cake Financial, Dogster, Meraki Networks, Mint, Saynow, Shopittome, Yapta, Yume Networks, Webs.com, Weebly and others.Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, he was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Japan and Asia Pacific. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as a Product Manager to launch Google's first 10 international sites and then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, closing numerous strategic syndication partners on 4 continents. Before joining Google, Aydin was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet, and led the business development efforts for the financial services industry at SGI.Aydin received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He speaks five languages: English, German, French, Portuguese and Turkish. He is abenefactor to the University of Pennsylvania and UCSF as well as a member of The Director's Circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Charles Hudson Director of Business Development, Gaia OnlineCharles is the Director for Business Development at Gaia Online, the fastest growing online hangout for teens. In his role, Charles focuses on distribution and content licensing opportunities for Gaia. Prior to Gaia, Charles was a Manager for New Business Development at Google, focused on developing new partnership opportunities for the company's early-stage products in the advertising, mobile, and e-commerce markets. Prior to joining Google,Charles was a Product Manager for IronPort Systems, a leading provider of anti-spam hardware appliances. Earlier in his career, Charles was a Sr. Associate with In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital group for the Central Intelligence Agency. In his role as aSenior Associate, Charles covered the information security sector, with a focus on identifying investment opportunities with the potential to deliver significant value to the CIA and the commercial market in the short and long term.Charles holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Stanford University. In addition to his work at Google, Charles is on the Advisory Board for BizWorld, a non-profit focused on educating students about business, and the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, a non-profit focused on connecting entrepreneurs, ideas, and capital. Daniel Dorosin Partner, Fenwick & West LLP Mr. Dorosin has over 15 years of experience in counseling emerging growth companies in all aspects of their business, both as outside counsel and as a corporateexecutive. At Fenwick & West, he focuses on the representation of start-up companiesand venture capital firms in their investments in portfolio companies. He has a particular expertise in guiding start-ups and investors through complex commercial negotiations and financing transactions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. Previously, Mr. Dorosin was Vice President, Corporate Development and General Counsel at Instill Corporation. Prior to Instill, Mr. Dorosin was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Cidco Incorporated (NASDAQ: CDCO) and was Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary of Crystal Dynamics. Mr. Dorosin began his career at the Palo Alto law firm of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, where he was elected partner in the corporate group in 1993. Mr. Dorosin, who is a frequent lecturer at continuing education courses, graduated from Stanford University in 1982 with a BA in Economics with Distinction and received his JD from UCLA in 1986. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife Fern and their son and daughter. Education: University of California, Los Angeles, J.D., 1986 Stanford University, B.A. with distinction in economics, 1982Dave Whorton Partner, Tugboat VenturesAfter earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford´s Graduate School of Business, Dave found his way to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Texas Pacific Group Ventures, where he developed and incubated numerous investments. Throughout, Dave was mentored bysome of the best in the business, including Brook Byers, John Doerr, Bruce Dunlevie, Wally Hawley, Vinod Khosla and Dave Strohm. Dave has been called a "serial entrepreneur." He has served as founding


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