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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 has over 19 years of entrepreneurial start-up, executive management, policy and venture investing experience. She focuses on investments in optics, energy, and water. She has particular strengths in growing product-based companies; improving management, operations, and financing; and building public-private partnerships. Kim is a member of the prestigious society of Kauffman Fellows.
Kim currently serves on the board for MIOX Corp, Lingotek, and Tred Displays for Flywheel. Prior to Flywheel, Kim was a co-founder and investor in Qynergy Corporation (an advanced materials/energy startup backed by In-Q-Tel) where she served as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. 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 overseeing a $1B factory planning project. Kim also previously served as a legislative aid in the US Senate, where she focused on science and technology policy and foreign affairs.
Kim formerly served on the New Mexico State Board of Finance and the Governor’s Water Infrastructure Investment Team. She was a co-founder of Social Venture Partners New Mexico, a philanthropy group.
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Ben Yu, Managing Director
Sierra Ventures
Ben Yu joined Sierra Ventures in 2000 from 3Com where he served as a Senior Systems Architect and Project Manager. Ben leads Sierra Ventures’ hardware practice and China strategies. Prior to joining 3Com, while completing his Ph.D. at Princeton University, Ben worked as a Research Assistant at Princeton’s Lightwave Communication Research Lab. Prior to beginning his studies at Princeton, Ben held a variety of engineering consulting roles at Mertz in Australia. Ben holds both a Ph.D. and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Princeton and a Bachelor of Engineering with 1st class honors from the University of Western Australia.
Ben’s investment focus has been in semiconductors and components, mobile communications, cloud computing and clean technologies. Ben also leads Sierra’s investment practice in China. His portfolio includes SyChip, Inc. (sold to Murata Electronics North America, Inc.), ParAcer, Inc. (sold to Stratos Lightwave, Inc. (STLW)), AuthenTec, Inc. (AUTH, NASDAQ), SemEquip (sold to Ceradyne), 800App, Applied Microstructures, Inc., MicroPower, sold to Weston Presidio, Digital Media Group Co. Ltd., Valere Power, Inc. which merged with Eltek, VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd, Gobi Partners, Miox, InvenSense, MultiGig, and Novariant. |
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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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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.
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