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Tom Blaisdell, General Partner
DCM (Profile)
With a focus on software, technology-enabled services, media and cleantech, Tom Blaisdell helps DCM portfolio companies create high-growth marketing strategies, structure successful strategic partnerships and build strong management teams.
Prior to joining DCM, Tom spent three years at two Internet start-ups, Encanto Networks and Fatbrain.com (formerly computerliteracy.com). At Encanto, Tom served as Vice President of Marketing. At computerliteracy.com, Tom was an advisor to the company from its birth in the proverbial Silicon Valley garage through completion of its first venture-backed financing, joining the online professional bookstore as Vice President of Marketing and Editorial in 1997.
Before computerliteracy.com, Tom spent six years at Intuit. Joining the company in the month prior to the launch of Quicken for Windows 1.0, Tom held a variety of marketing, business development and general management roles in the Personal Finance Group, Financial Supplies Group and Business Products Group. Tom’s last role at Intuit was as General Manager of the Business Products Group where QuickBooks revenue grew 30% year-to-year, leading the company to a new retail market share high of more than 80%.
Prior to Intuit, Tom worked for Bain & Co. in San Francisco and Boston. He put his mechanical engineering degree to work as an environmental engineer at Acurex in Mountain View, CA, where he worked on programs evaluating alternative-fueled vehicle trials, including ethanol, methanol and compressed natural gas (CNG) cars and buses. |
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Kim Sanchez Rael, General Partner
Flywheel Ventures (Profile)
Kim Sanchez Rael joined Flywheel as a General Partner in 2003 and leads Flywheel investments in TruTouch Technologies, MIOX and Tred Displays.
Prior to Flywheel, she was a co-founder and investor in Qynergy Corporation (and advance materials/energy startup backed by In-Q-Tel) where she served as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer from 2001-2003. Prior to Qynergy, she spent seven years in executive management at Intel Corporation where she oversaw finance, manufacturing, engineering, and operations and planning. Her duties included, managing a capital budget of over $200 million and a $1B factory planning project. Kim also previously served as a legislative aid in the U.S. Senate, where she focused on science and technology policy and foreign affairs.
A New Mexico native and active public and non-profit servant, Kim serves on the New Mexico State Board of Finance and co-chairs the Governor’s statewide Infrastructure Finance Team. In addition, she serves on the Governor’s Water Infrastructure Investment Team and was founding president of an elementary charter school. A Kauffman Fellow and Leadership Albuquerque graduate, Kim is a co-founder of Social Venture Partners New Mexico, has been repeatedly featured as a New Mexico top business “Power Broker” and was recognized as one of New Mexico’s “Top 10 Women of Influence” in 2006 by the New Mexico Business Weekly. She has served on numerous health and education non-profit boards.
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Mike Reardon, Independent Director
With over 26 years of experience as an operating executive, Mike Reardon has served on numerous boards of directors and is an active investor and adviser in a number of private equity and entrepreneurial ventures. He has broad-based experience working with consumer, commercial, municipal and industrial customers, and multiple channels of distribution, manufacturing and worldwide sourcing. He also has led aggressive acquisition and integration strategies while sustaining organic growth and productivity.
Previously, Mike served as President and COO of Culligan International, and was a co-founding finance and operations executive and a member of the board of USFilter (NYSE), which grew during his tenure to over $5 billion in revenues. USFilter led the consolidation of the global water and wastewater industry by acquiring and integrating over 200 companies in nine years, before it was acquired by Vivendi.
Mike is a CPA and received his business degree from California State Polytechnic University and is a graduate of the Kellogg Management Institute at Northwestern University.
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Douglas Brown, Dean
Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico
Doug Brown was elected to the position of Dean, Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico in June 2009 and is a principal in Brown and Brown Ventures, LLC, a holding company for various real estate holdings, an internet company and several new product activities. A former UNM Regent, he was chosen by Governor Bill Richardson to take over as New Mexico State Treasurer in November 2005 and fix a scandal-ridden agency. Doug was president and CEO of Talbot Financial Services and also served as president and CEO of Tuition Plan Consortium, an association of 275 private colleges and universities subscribing to a prepaid tuition plan named by Business Week as the “Best Product of the Year.”
Doug has served as director for fourteen for-profit companies in commercial and mortgage banking, land development, insurance brokerage, utility and internet companies. He is currently lead director of California Water Service. He has served on numerous New Mexico state boards and has been very active in community service, including serving on 50 different boards and holding 18 board presidencies. He is the recipient of many awards, and was named, together with wife, Sarah, New Mexico’s Outstanding Philanthropists, 1996 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Doug is a graduate of Stanford University, where he earned his A.B. and M.B.A.
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Carlos Perea, CEO
MIOX Corporation
Carlos Perea has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of MIOX since September 2005. Prior to joining MIOX, Carlos has held several roles including President of Qynergy, a technology firm focused on alternative energy, and Chief Financial Officer for Novalux, a semi conductor laser company. Carlos also has extensive experience with Intel Corporation in a variety of operations management and marketing roles. In addition to his role at MIOX, Carlos is active in his community and volunteers his time to several non-profit and economic development focused initiatives.
Carlos holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of New Mexico and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. |