ABOUT THE PRESENTER AND PANELIST:
Randy Churchill, Director of Marketing, PricewaterhouseCoopers
For nearly five years, Randy Churchill has served as Director
of Business Development of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Southern
California technology practice. In that capacity, Randy provides
assistance to promising emerging technology companies, as well
as manages the Firm's relationships with the Southern California
venture capital community, and university technology transfer
and entrepreneurial faculty. Randy also oversees PwC's quarterly
Southern California MoneyTree Survey that tracks venture capital
investment activity, both nationally and in the local regions.
For over
20 years, Randy has served entrepreneurs in various capacities,
including: sales positions with financialprinter.com, RR Donnelley,
and Bowne; corporate securities attorney at Latham & Watkins
and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison; and Vice President of Commercial
Lending at Comerica Bank.
Randy currently
sits on the Advisory Board of USC's Center for Technology Commercialization,
the Executive Committee of the Caltech MIT Enterprise Forum,
and the Board of Directors of the Central Coast MIT Enterprise
Forum.
Randy received
his bachelors degree in business administration from Western
Michigan University and his J.D. from Indiana University School
of Law, magna cum laude.
Bob Holmen
- Partner
Bob is a co-founder of Miramar Venture Partners. Bob's career
experience encompasses hardware and software engineering to
senior management in three public companies. Most recently,
Bob served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
of First Consulting Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: FCGI), which provides
information technology consulting, integration and management
services to health care, pharmaceutical and other life science
organizations throughout North America and Europe. He also served
an integral role in the creation and operations of First Ventures,
FCG's in-house venture capital investment fund.
From 1997 until its sale to Purdue Pharma in 1999, Bob served
as General Counsel and Secretary, and later Vice President and
Acting Chief Financial Officer, of CoCensys, Inc., a biopharmaceutical
company that discovered and developed new drugs for the treatment
of neurological and psychiatric disorders. From 1994 until its
sale to Harcourt General in 1997, Bob served as corporate counsel
to National Education Corporation, a global provider of interactive
multi-media products and services for the education and training
marketplace. Bob spent five years as an associate attorney at
Latham & Watkins and Morrison & Foerster, specializing
principally in finance and mergers and acquisition transactions
for technology and life science companies. Prior to attending
law school, Bob worked for Hughes Aircraft Company, designing
and programming application software and integrating hardware
and software for defense-related projects.
Bob received
his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University
in 1985, serving as an officer of the national engineering honor
society at Stanford. He received his J.D. from UC Berkeley in
1989. Bob resides in Newport Beach, California. He currently
serves on the Board of SiliconSystems, a Miramar portfolio company.
Robert
Kibble, Managing Partner of Mission Ventures
Robert Kibble has been a founding Mission Ventures Managing
Partner since 1996. He has over 20 years of venture capital
experience focusing on early-stage information technology companies.
Prior to joining Mission Ventures, Robert served for thirteen
years as a founding General Partner of Paragon Venture Partners,
a San Francisco Bay area venture capital firm focused on investing
in information technology companies. Prior to Paragon Venture
Partners, Robert was a Vice President in the San Francisco office
of Citicorp Venture Capital from 1980 to 1983. Robert also worked
as a Vice President of Citicorp in its Merchant Banking Group
in both Malaysia and Brazil. Before joining Citicorp, Robert
was an investment banker on Wall Street.
Robert has a Bachelor's degree, with honors, in Natural Sciences
from Oxford University, and a MBA from the Darden School, University
of Virginia. He currently serves as Director of Alignent, Andigilog,
Bullrun Financial, DispenseSource, Eveo and Shopzilla, Inc.
Matthew S. Lawson, Tech Coast Angels
Currently a private investor, Lawson is Chair and immediate
past president of the Orange Coast Venture Group (OCVG), co-chair
of the Capital Network Committee of the Tech Coast Angels/OC
and serves on the Steering Committee for the Orange County Technology
Action Network (OCTANe). He also chairs the Design Review Task
Force for the City of Laguna Beach and, with his wife, co-chairs
the Advisory Board of the Laguna Art Museum. Lawson was most
recently Senior Vice President of London-based NatWest Markets,
the global investment banking arm of National Westminster Bank
P.L.C., at that time one of the world's largest financial institutions.
During more than ten years at NatWest, Lawson played a key role
in the successful distribution and placement of approximately
150 Initial Public Offering (IPO) and secondary market transactions
for U.S. and foreign-based corporations across a broad spectrum
of industries, including technology, health care, real estate,
retailing, industrial manufacturing, pollution control and financial
services.
Prior to joining NatWest, Lawson managed a number of corporate
functions, including strategic planning, investor relations,
market research and public affairs, for El Segundo-based Computer
Sciences Corporation (CSC-NYSE), then the world's largest independent
IT systems integration company, and subsequently, Gould Inc.,
at that time a multi-billion dollar NYSE-listed electronics
company headquartered in suburban Chicago. Previously, Lawson
had been an executive with Mazda Motors of America, where he
helped launch the sale of rotary-engine vehicles throughout
the U.S. He began his career as an account executive at Foote,
Cone & Belding, at that time, Mazda's U.S. advertising agency.
Lawson also served as Deputy Press Secretary to Ronald Reagan
during the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns as well as Communications
Director to California Lt. Governor John Harmer. Lawson received
his M.B.A., with honors, from the University of Chicago and
an A.B. from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.
