Chairman, Board of Overseers
Mr. Mitchell I. Quain (EE'73, Harvard Business School, MBA)
Senior Director, ACI Capital Corp.

Mr. Quain is a partner with the leveraged buyout firm ACI Capital Corp. He was with AMN AMRO, an investment banking, securities and asset management business, from 1997-2001, most recently as vice chairman. Previously, Mr. Quain spent 22 years at Schroder Wertheim, beginning in 1975 immediately following graduation with distinction from Harvard Business School. His career at Wertheim was interrupted only once for a brief tour at Prudential where he invested in and/or served on the Boards of privately-held Cognex, Perceptron and PDA Engineering, all of which subsequently went public. During his return to Wertheim, Mr. Quain founded Wall Street's first Industrial Manufacturing Group, an outgrowth of his research coverage of multiple niches of machinery companies. He is the former President of the MANY and appeared annually on "Institutional Investors" All Star Research Team for 15 years. He was ranked "Institutional Investor's" number one machinery analyst before he "retired" from research. Mr. Quain is also Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the School and serves on Penn's Board of Trustees, vice chairing its audit committee, as well as serving the executive committee of Penn Medicine. In addition to his various commitments at the University, he serves on the Board of Directors of Hardinge, Inc., MagneTek, Inc., Strategic Distribution, and Titan International. He was previously a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Luke's Academy, a prep school in New Canaan, CT.

The Honorable Harold Berger (EE'48, L'51)
Managing Partner, Berger and Montague, P.C.

Judge Berger formerly served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia and is past Chairman of the Federal Bar Association's National Committee on the Federal and State Judiciary. He is the author of numerous law review articles, has lectured extensively before bar associations and at universities and has served as Chair of the International Conferences of Global Interdependence held at Princeton University. Judge Berger has served as Chair of the Aerospace Law Committees of the American, Federal and Inter-American Bar Associations and was elected to the International Academy of Astronautics in Paris in recognition of the importance and impact of his scholarly work. As his biographies in Who's Who In America and Who's Who In American Law outline, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Special Service Award of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges and a Special American Bar Association Presidential Program Award and Medal. Judge Berger is a permanent member of the Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Long active in engineering and law alumni affairs at Penn, he also serves as Chair of the Friends of Biddle Law Library.

Mr. Melvyn Bergstein (W'63)
Chairman and CEO, DiamondCluster International

Mel Bergstein is chairman and CEO of DiamondCluster International (Nasdaq:DTPI), a global management consulting firm.

Mel is also a member of the advisory board of the Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, a venture capital fund focused in Europe. He serves on the Board of Directors of Simon Property Group. He is also very active in the Chicago community. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago; a Trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and a Trustee of the Ravinia Festival. In addition, Mel is a member of the Board of Directors of the Executives Club of Chicago and an active member of the Commercial Club, the Economic Club, the Standard Club, and the Chicago Club.

Mel holds a bachelor of science degree in economics from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania and is a certified public accountant.

Mr. David J. Berkman ( W'83)
Managing Partner, Liberty Associated Partners

David J. Berkman is the Managing Partner of Liberty Associated Partners, LP, a venture capital firm primarily engaged in media, telecommunications, and internet industries. Currently, Mr. Berkman
serves on the Board of Directors of Cibernet Corporation; Current Technologies, LLC; Entercom, Inc.; Internet Capital Group, Inc.; XOS  Technologies, Inc.; and Jingle Networks, Inc.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Franklin Institute and The Kimmel Center for  the Performing Arts. Mr. Berkman  resides in Haverford, Pennsylvania, with his wife Pamela and their  three children.

Dr. Katherine Crothall (EE'71, PhD, Southern California)
Principal, Liberty Venture Partners

Dr. Katherine Crothall is a Principal at Liberty Venture Partners, a venture fund focused primarily on health care. Prior to joining Liberty, Dr. Crothall was founder, President, and CEO of Animas Corporation (NASDAQ: PUMP), a leading manufacturer of insulin infusion pumps located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. In February 2006, Animas was sold to Johnson and Johnson. Prior to founding Animas, Dr. Crothall was founder and CEO of two other successful medical technology companies.

Dr. Crothall holds over 20 patents and is the recipient of several awards including the Greater Philadelphia Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2003 and the Raymond Rafferty Entrepreneurial Excellence Award in 2004. Dr. Crothall is a director of several private companies.

Mr. Richard D. Forman (EE'87, WH '87)
Managing Member, Health Venture Group, LLC

Mr. Forman is the Managing Member of Health Venture Group, LLC, an investment and advisory firm focused on enhancing information technology applications in the health care industry. Prior to HVG, Mr. Forman was the founder, Chairman, President and CEO of Register.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:RCOM). Richard built the Company to over $100 million in annual revenues and 500 employees. Along the way, he deregulated the international market for domain name registration services and took the company public. In 2002, Mr. Forman was awarded the prestigious Entreprenue of the Year Award by Ernst & Young. Prior to Register.com, Inc., Mr. Forman was an entrepreneur and managed 12 commercial properties in New York City where he built a ground-up retail building in Brooklyn, NY.

Mr. Forman worked at Booz, Allen & Hamilton in their New York and Sydney, Australia offices where he consulted to large multi-national companies in the areas of Systems, Strategy and Operations. Richard also worked as an engineer for Motorola, Inc. in Tel-Aviv, Israel, General Motors in Rochester, NY and U of P's School of Medicine. He is a member of the board of directors of the New York Angels, an investment group of successful businesspeople that collaboratively screen, analyze and invest in a variety or entrepreneurial ventures. Richard lives and works in New York where he has a wife and three children.

Mr. Douglas Glanville (SE'93)
President of G.K. Alliance, LLC.

While a student at Penn, Mr. Glanville was named to the GTE Academic All-America First Team, was a Baseball America second-team preseason All-American, and served as a Pennlincs Science Mentor. He is an example of the many non-traditional career paths chosen by Penn Engineering graduates. Mr. Glanville joined the Phillies in 1996 after leaving the Chicago Cubs. In 1999, he lead the major leagues with his 94% success rate on stolen base attempts when he also reached career highs in hits, batting average, home runs, doubles and RBI's. He was the first Phillies player to reach 200 hits since 1979. In 2003 he joined the Chicago Cubs and in 2004 returned to the Phillies. In 2005, he retired from baseball, having accumulated 1100 hits, a 293-game errorless streak, and was ranked in the top 15 all-time stolen base success rate.

Currently, Mr. Glanville is President of Glanville-Koshul Homes, a company formed by himself and Assad Koshul, and a lead designer for Metropolitan Development Group, a housing construction group building single family homes in the Chicago area. Their work can be seen at www.gk-homes.com. Mr. Glanville is also active with Philadelphia Futures charity, a mentoring and financial support program serving Philadelphia area students, and is a guest writer for various baseball related websites.

Mr. C. Michael Gooden (GEE'78)
Chairman & CEO, Integrated Systems Analysts, Inc.

Mr. Gooden is Chairman and CEO of Integrated Systems Analysts, Inc. (ISA), a high technology services firm that provides engineering, management, technical and computer systems support to a wide range of government and commercial customers. The company initially provided expertise in the design, acquisition and implementation of defense systems for components of the Department of Defense, but expanded into commercial and state/local government markets, with major customers in the automotive and financial services industries. Prior to founding ISA, Mr. Gooden served as a Surface Warfare Officer and an Engineering Duty Officer in the U.S. Navy, retiring from the Naval Reserves in 1988. He serves on the boards of the Professional Services Counsel, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation Business & Operations Advisory Board. Mr. Gooden is a member of the American Society of Naval Engineers and the U.S.Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Paul S. Greenberg (WG'87, EE'83)
Founder and Head of Research, Trilogy Capital

Mr. Greenberg is a founder, co-portfolio manager, and head of research for Trilogy Capital, a Greenwich CT-based financial services firm. Formerly, he was the Director of High Yield and International Research at Bear, Stearns & Company, Inc. and was a Senior Managing Director of the firm. As Director, he coordinated the worldwide below-investment grade corporate and sovereign bond research efforts for the firm, along with European investment grade bond research. In that role, he was often quoted on high yield bonds by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Forbes. Mr. Greenberg was a multi-year member of the Institutional Investor All American Fixed-Income Research Team in the Paper and Forest Products category and in the Chemicals category. Previous to Bear, Stearns, Mr. Greenberg worked for GE Capital and Cambridge Management Group. Following graduation from Penn Engineering, Mr. Greenberg was an engineer for General Electric before returning to Penn to receive his MBA from Wharton..

Dr. George Heilmeier (EE'58, PhD, Princeton)
Chairman Emeritus, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (formerly Bellcore)

Dr. George H. Heilmeier is Chairman Emeritus of Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bellcore, a leading provider of communications software and professional services. Prior to his retirement in November 1997, he was Chairman and Chief Execurtive Officer. He also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Texas Instruments, Inc., Director of DARPA (the Defense Advanced Projects Agency) and Head of Solid State Device Research at RCA. Dr. Heilmeier received international recognition for his discovery of several new electro-optic effects in liquid crystals leading to the development of the first liquid crystal displays for watches, calculators, and instrumentation. For this achievement, he received the 2005 Kyoto Prize, the Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize. He holds 15 patents and has published over 60 papers .Dr. Heilmeier received his B.S. In Electrical Engineering from Penn in 1958 and M.A., M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees in solid-state electronics from Princeton. He is known for his operational, technical and strategic leadership in transforming new technologies into market driven successes.

Dr. Heilmeier has received numerous awards, including the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Medal of Honor and Founders Medal, the National Academy of Engineering's highest honor-the Founders Award, the Japan Prize in Computers and Communications, the Industrial Research Institute Medal, and the National Medal of Science, among others. In 2002, he received the Pioneer of Stealth Award for Visionary Leadership and Trailblazing Contributions of Enduring National Significance in the Development of Low Observable Aircraft. In 2006, he received the Edwin Land Medal from the Optical Society of America and was elected to The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. He served as a White House Fellow, and is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Defense Science Board, and the National Security Agency Advisory Board. He serves on the Boards of Fidelity Funds, Hughes Research Laboratories, and the MITRE Corporation. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the GM Science and Technology Advisory Board. Dr. Heilmeier's leadership in telecommunications and technology management was also recognized through honorary doctorate degrees from Stevens Institute and the Israeli Institute of Technology.

Dr. Heilmeier is a loyal supporter and alumnus of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, serving on its Board of Overseers.

Dr. John Lehman, Jr. (GR'74)
Chairman, J. F. Lehman & Company

Dr. Lehman served as Secretary of the U.S. Navy from 1981 - 1987. He is currently Chairman of J. F. Lehman & Company, an investment firm. He received his Navy commission at Penn and began his career in defense and foreign affairs as a staff member of the Foreign Policy Research Institute at Penn. Dr. Lehman served as a member of the White House National Security Council and Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was President of Abington Corporation between 1977 and 1981, and he served in the Naval Reserve for twenty-five years. Dr. Lehman also was an investment banker with Paine Webber. He is a director of Ball Corporation and ISO, Inc and serves as Chairman of the Board of Hawaii Superferry and Atlantic Marine, Inc. He also serves on the board of Enersys, Inc, and as Chairman of the Princess Grace Foundation. Dr. Lehman has written several books including Command of the Seas, Making War, and On the Seas of Glory.

Dr. David M. Magerman (ENG '90, C'90, Ph.D., Stanford University)
Principal, Renaissance Technologies Corporation

Dr. Magerman is a research scientist and former head of production for Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund management firm which manages the Medallion Fund, the Meritage Fund, and the Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund. He has been with Renaissance since 1995, helping to design their equities trading system. Before coming to Renaissance, Dr. Magerman was an artificial intelligence researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and later at Bolt Beranek and Newman, developing statistical methods for understanding speech and language.

Mr. Sean McDonald (ChE'82)
President and CEO, Precision Therapeutics, Inc.

Sean McDonald is President and CEO of Precision Therapeutics, Inc., a personalized cancer management services company focused on the development and commercialization of patented genomic and cellular assays that assist physicians in determining the effectiveness of available anticancer therapies for individual patients. Previously, Mr. McDonald founded Automated Healthcare in 1992, developing the first robotics-based solution to hospital pharmacy management. Mr. McDonald grew that company to over $150 million in revenues. Automated Healthcare was successfully acquired by McKesson Corporation in 1996. While at McKesson, he ascended to the position of Group President over several operating companies with annualized revenues in excess of $250 million. Mr. McDonald serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, serves on the Board of Directors for Respironics (NASDAQnm:RESP) the market leader in obstructive sleep apnea therapy devices and is also Chairman of the Board of Aethon, a venture capital backed company developing autonomous robotics for the healthcare market. He serves as Board Director of several successful private technology companies and public interest organizations.

Mr. Hital R. Meswani (ENG'90, W'90)
Executive Director and member of the Board, Reliance Industries, Ltd.

Mr. Meswani joined Reliance in 1990 and is responsible for all manufacturing and projects-related activities of the entire group and business operations of Reliance Petroleum. He is also responsible for rolling out the Reliance Infocomm activities comprised of a nationwide next generation, broadband network, a mobile network spanning 1100 cities/towns of India and a nationwide retail chain of Webworld outlets. Reliance Group represents the largest company in the Indian private sector and is one of the fastest growing industrial enterprises. The Group's activities include textiles, synthetic fibres, fibre intermediates, petrochemicals, refining, oil and gas, infrastructure, power, port terminal, telecom services, etc.

Mr. Meswani is a recipient of Indo American Society's Young Achiever Award in 2003 and is an active member of two international organizations-the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO). He serves on the Secondary School Admission Committee for the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Rajeev Misra (ME'85, GEN'86, MBA, Sloan School of Management, MIT)
Managing Director, Global Head of Credit Trading, Securitisation & Commodities, Deutsche Bank

Mr. Misra is the Managing Director and Global Head of Credit Trading, Securitisation and Commodities for Deutsche Bank. He runs a four billion dollar revenue business comprising of credit trading, lending, derivatives, convertible bonds, securitization, tax, commodities trading and structured credit globally. He is a member of the Global Markets Executive Committee.

Mr. Misra joined Deutsche Bank in May 1997 from Merrill Lynch where he worked for seven years in New York and London in derivative marketing and trading.

He holds a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management in MIT. He is 44 years old and married with three children, living in London, England.

Mr. Ofer Nemirovsky (EE'79, W'79, Harvard Business School, MBA)
Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners, LLC

Ofer Nemirovsky is a managing director of HarbourVest Partners, LLC, a global private equity firm in Boston. He manages the firm's investor relations efforts, including marketing, client service, and business development, and is also involved in sourcing, evaluating, and monitoring direct investments. Ofer has been responsible for a number of HarbourVest's direct investments, including Artisoft, AVID, AXENT, Centra, Clarus, Creo, Dendrite International, Digital Insight, Frame, Gilead, Insignia Solutions, Manugistics, Marcam, m-Qube, NETCOM On-Line, Progress Software, Radware, Retix, Shopzilla, SpectraLink, Ultimate Software, and UUNET.

Ofer's previous experience includes four years in technical computer sales and marketing with Hewlett-Packard. He received BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Finance (EE'79, W'79) from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986. Ofer serves or has served on the Boards of the National Venture Capital Association, the African Wildlife Foundation, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. 

Mr. David Pakman (ENG '91)
President and CEO, eMusic
Managing Director, Dimensional Associates

David Pakman, a pioneer in the digital music industry, is a partner at Dimensional Associates, whose portfolio also includes Dimensional Music Publishing and The Orchard.

David was a co-creator of Apple Computer’s Music Group, co-producing the then-largest industry webcast, the 1997 Grammy Awards.  He later became VP at N2K Entertainment, the first provider of commercial digital downloads and in 1999 founded MyPlay, the first digital “locker” service, sold to Bertelsmann’s eCommerce Group in 2001.  David became a Senior VP for their BeMusic division.

David is a much sought-after expert in digital entertainment and has testified to Congress about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.  He is a Member of the Board of Directors of Knitting Factory Entertainment, the most prolific presenter of emerging and alternative music in the U.S.  He was a drummer in a band while at Penn and remains an avid musician and song writer.

Mr. Andrew Rachleff (W'80, MBA, Stanford)
General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Mr. Rachleff co-founded Benchmark Capital in 1995 and served as a general partner until 2004. Since the raising of Benchmark s latest US fund, he has reduced his role to solely focusing on his existing portfolio companies. With his free time, Mr. Rachleff serves as a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and as an overseer for its School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Prior to his ten years as a general partner at Benchmark Capital, Mr. Rachleff spent ten years as a general partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre (MPAE). Before joining MPAE, he held a variety of positions in the investment industry, working as an associate at Harvest Ventures; as a portfolio manager at Lamoreaux, Glynn & Associates; and as a financial analyst at Blyth Eastman Paine Webber.

Mr. William Rackoff (MTE'71, C'71)
President, ASKO, Inc.

Mr. Rackoff is CEO of ASKO. Inc., which designs, engineers, and manufactures a complete line of specialty tooling for the metalworking industry with plants in the U.S. and Europe. The company’s products serve the rolling mill, metal service center, and metal recycling industries. He serves on the board of the L.B. Foster company, a NASDAQ company with distribution and manufacturing activities in the transportation and infrastructure sectors. He and his father, wife, and two children all attended Penn.

Mr. Allie Rogers (M&T'87, W'87)
CTO and Co-founder, Triple Point Technology, Inc.

Allie P. Rogers, Jr. was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Triple Point Technology, Inc., a Westport, Connecticut-based financial software company. Founded in 1993 with fellow Penn alum Peter Armstrong, Triple Point Technology is the leader in trading, risk management, scheduling and logistics solutions for commodities including power, oil, gas, coal, metals, agricultural products and freight. At Triple Point Allie designed and created the industry leading Tempest XL and Commodity XL solutions as well as presiding over the company's growth from 2 to 250 employees in offices worldwide.

Before founding Triple Point, Allie worked at Phibro Energy, then a division of Salomon Brothers, desiging and developing their commodities trading system. Prior to Phibro, Allie work as a Software Project Leader at Strategic Management Group (SMG), developing and delivering their business simulations and executive training solutions.

Allie graduated from the Management and Technology (M&T) program at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 with a BAS in Computer Science and a BS in Management from Wharton. Allie is currently retired, focusing his attention on personal and philanthrophic pursuits.

Ms. Suzanne Rowland (ChE'83, MBA, London Business School)
Vice President, J.M. Huber Corporation

Suzanne Rowland was recently Vice President of Strategy and New Business Development for J.M. Huber Corporation, a $ 2.3 billion privately owned company with diversified holdings in specialty chemicals, engineered wood, natural gas, timber, and technology based services. Ms. Rowland supported the Chairman and CEO in setting and executing strategy and was responsible for new business development, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Prior to J.M. Huber, Ms. Rowland spent 20 years with Rohm and Haas Company, an $8 billion leading specialty materials technology company. In her most recent position as Vice-President and Global Business Director and member of the Executive Leadership Council, she had full profit and loss responsibility for the $ 730 million Adhesives and Sealants business with 60% of sales outside the United States, ten manufacturing facilities in 7 countries, and a Japanese joint venture. She turned around this business from 3.1% pre-tax operating profit in 2003 to 10.1% operating profit in 2005. Suzanne’s career was unique with significant line positions in sales, marketing, plant management, and finance as well as full profit and loss responsibility for four different businesses including a new venture and the industry leading Rohm and Haas Coatings franchise.

Ms. Rowland received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She won a University of Pennsylvania Thouron award and completed her M.Sc. in Business Studies at the London Business School in London, England. She lives with her husband and two children in Jenkintown, PA.

Mr. Ted Schlein (C'86)
Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Ted Schlein joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in November 1996. His focus has been in the area of enterprise security and applications, infrastructure and services. Mr. Schlein managed the KPCB Java Fund, formed to invest in Java technology-based companies and related Internet, Intranet, networking and communications companies. He serves on the board of 3VR, 41st Parameter, ArcSight, ENDFORCE, Fortify Software, IronPlanet, Ketera Technologies, Oakley Networks, and oversees the company's interests in Bit 9 and New Vine Logistics. He also serves on the board and executive committee of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Ted came to KPCB with significant experience in enterprise software business management at Symantec Corporation. As Vice President of Networking and Client Server Technology, he was responsible for overseeing the marketing and development of enterprise products. Prior to that he served as VP of Symantec's European business development and as VP Data Management Group. Mr. Schlein is credited with establishing Symantec in both the utilities and antivirus markets by starting and building these business units. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Roger Shiffman (BS '75, Illinois)
President and CEO of Zizzle, LLC.

Roger Shiffman was the cofounder & President of Tiger Electronics Company, the company that gave the world some of the most popular toys of all time- Furby, Hitclips, Gigapets, Talkboy and Poo-Chi, among many others. Tiger was sold to Hasbro in 1998. In 2001 Shiffman was appointed President of Worldwide Marketing & Brand Development. Zizzle, LLC (Zizzle.com), Shiffman's newest venture also in the toy and entertainment space has won acclaim for their numerous toy products including IZ, Lucky the Wonder Pup, Zizzlingers and more. Most importantly, Zizzle was awarded the Worldwide master Toy rights by Disney for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise. Shiffman has over twenty-five years of experience in marketing, licensing, manufacturing and sales of toy and toy-related products. He developed relationships with highly regarded individuals throughout the entertainment industry including movie studios, producers, directors and actors, as well as those within the toy business from retailers to licensors to inventors. Shiffman's abilities have been well recognized by those who evaluate all industries, including Advertising Age, which named him one of the top 100 marketers in the United States. Committed to education, Shiffman is a Wharton School Entrepreneur in Residence. He also serves as a judge for the annual Wharton Business Plan Competition and is an advisor to Chicago's Interdisciplinary Product Development Class for the University of Illinois. Shiffman is an initial inductee of the University of Illinois-Chicago Alumni Leadership Academy and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.

Shiffman is dedicated to service, and is a proud member of the International Board of Directors of Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, a charity he has been involved with for almost eighteen years. During his tenure, he has been honored in both Chicago and Los Angeles for his dedication to this wonderful organization.

Dr. Krishna P. Singh (MS ’69; Ph.D. ’72)
President and CEO, Holtec International

Dr. Singh is President, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Holtec International, an energy technology company headquartered in Marlton, New Jersey. Dr. Singh has shepherded the growth of Holtec International over the past two decades through development of cutting-edge technologies to help generate eco-friendly energy from both nuclear and fossil fuels. In the nuclear power sector, Holtec is globally recognized as the pre-eminent developer and provider of technologies to store and transport used nuclear fuel and of heat exchange equipment that lie at the heart of operating nuclear power plants. Holtec-supplied heat exchange equipment designed to coax maximum energy from fossil fuel helps power scores of electric plants on four continents around the world. Dr. Singh is the author or co-author of over sixty technical papers, a widely used reference book on heat exchanger design, numerous technical monographs, and hundreds of industry reports. His array of patents on innovative heat exchange and nuclear fuel storage device designs form a keystone of Holtec's product lines.

In the coming years, Dr. Singh hopes to lead the cadré of exceptionally talented Holtec engineers to position the company as a key technology provider to the re-emergent nuclear power industry. Dr. Singh serves on the Board of the Nuclear Energy Institute and of a number of private companies.

Dr. Rajendra Singh (Ph.D., Southern Methodist University)
Chairman, CEO of Telcom Ventures LLC

Dr. Singh, together with his family, is the principal owner of Telcom Ventures, L.L.C., a private investment firm specializing in telecommunications and related information technologies. Dr. Singh is also a member of the Board of Directors of LCC International, Inc., a publicly-traded subsidiary of Telcom Ventures, and one of the largest wireless telecommunications engineering consulting firms in the world. Dr. Singh and his wife, Neera Singh, co-founded LCC International in 1983. Under Dr. Singh's direction, Telcom Ventures, LCC and their affiliates have launched numerous wireless and other telephony telecommunication systems throughout the world. Dr. Singh continues to play a leading role in the development and deployment of emerging wireless technologies.

Dr. Singh received his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University in 1980. He has a distinguished record of academic achievements beginning with his doctoral dissertation, Spectrum Efficient Schemes for Mobile Radio Communications, which was published in 1980. He has organized scientific panels investigating new cellular technologies, including TMDA and FDMA. Dr. Singh is a former member of the faculty of Kansas State University and City College of New York, and is a member of various electrical engineering societies.

Mr. Peter Skirkanich (W'65)
Founder and President of Fox Asset Management, Inc.

Mr. Skirkanich is Founder and President of Fox Asset Management, Inc. and Investment Committee Chairman for both equity and fixed income. He is the former Managing Director of Dreman Value Management, Inc., an investment counseling firm, which manages pension, profit sharing, endowment and other tax-exempt funds and individual taxable assets. Mr. Skirkanich also served as Vice President of Investments at Kidder, Peabody and at Shearson/American Express. Prior to embarking on an investment career, Mr. Skirkanich served three years with the U.S. State Department. By gubernatorial appointment, he serves as a member of the State Investment Council of New Jersey.

Mr. Robert Stavis (EAS'84, W'84)
Partner, Bessemer

Rob Stavis is a general partner in Bessemer. He focuses on investments in the financial services sector as well as in software technologies. Since joining BVP, Mr. Stavis has led the firm's investments and sits on the boards of independent research companies Gerson Lehrman Group and Soleil Securities, CRM software developer Portrait Software (formerly AIT Group, LSE-AIM: PST), financial marketplace Zopa, independently produced video distributor Revver, home network management software provider Pure Networks, and the stock loan focused Broker/Dealer financial services company Quadriserv. He was closely involved in BVP's investment in Motilal Oswal Financial Services, an India-based financial services and brokerage company. His exited investments include website security rating firm SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee), pre-paid debit card provider PRE Solutions (acquired by Incomm), the financial services analytics company LifeHarbor (acquired by Vestmark) and Skype Technologies (purchased by E-bay in 2005), where Stavis led the A round. He also sits on the board of PXRE Group (NYSE: PXT), a Bermuda-based property and casualty reinsurance company. Prior to joining Bessemer in 2000, Mr. Stavis was an independent private equity investor. In this capacity, he led the A round and served on the board of Arbinet (NASDAQ:ARBX), the world's leading electronic market for trading, routing, and settling communications capacity. He also managed a portfolio of interests in a number of industries, including telecommunications, software, technology, and restaurants. His restaurant partnerships have backed such operations as Union Pacific, Calle Ocho, Django, Rain and BLT Prime. Mr. Stavis entered private equity after a 15-year career at Salomon Smith Barney, where he became co-head of global arbitrage trading. He was a member of Salomon's operating and risk management committees, and chaired the recruiting committee, in addition to managing a $100 billion balance sheet. He has published articles on derivatives pricing and risk management for financial services companies. His charitable work includes serving as president of the board of WJCS, and formerly as a director of The Kingswood-Oxford School and the Larchmont Temple.

Mr. Frederick Warren (ME'60, WG'61)
General Partner and Co-founder, Brentwood Associates

In May 1972, Mr. Warren co-founded Brentwood Associates which became a leading venture capital investment firm on the West Coast. In 1984, he initiated and led Brentwood's formal entry into the leveraged buyout business and its evolution as a private equity investment firm. He remains a general partner of earlier funds and is a Special Limited Partner of the most recently funded partnership. With the start of the new millennium, Mr. Warren has returned to his venture capital roots as the "Sage" of Sage Venture Partners, LLC, a "friends and family" venture capital partnership. From 1963 to 1972 Mr. Warren was President and CEO of Westland Capital Corporation (a venture capital investment company) and General Television, Inc. (a leveraged build-up in the cable television industry). He serves as a director of FleetPride Corporation, Cricket Communications and Allrecipes.com. He was a founding board member of the National Venture Capital Association and has served on the University's Board of Trustees.

Ms. Sarah Keil Wolf (EE’86, W’86)
Retired Investment Banker

Sarah Wolf is a retired investment banker from Bear, Stearns and Company where she spent her entire career in the Financial Analytics and Structured Transaction group.  She was involved in the early days of the mortgage securitization including the first Agency Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA).  Ms. Wolf has been published in several books including The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities.  She is a third generation Penn graduate, which includes her father, Jack Keil Wolf (EE’56), and her grandfather, Joseph Wolf (DMD’16).  Ms. Wolf lives in Scarsdale, New York with her husband, Charles Hallac, and their three children.

Dr. Michael Zisman (GEE'73, Gr'77)
Managing Director, Internet Capital Group

Dr. Zisman functions as a managing director at Internet Capital Group and is a member of the Company's Board of Directors. Before retiring from IBM in 2004, Zisman was vice president of corporate strategy and focused on IBM's On Demand strategy. Previous to this position, he was General Manager of Storage Software for the IBM Storage Systems Group. This position followed his post as Vice President of Emerging Business Development, reporting to the IBM Vice Chairman. Zisman was also in the IBM Software Group and led IBM's entry into the knowledge management market and distributed learning market. Prior to that, Zisman served as CEO of Lotus Development Corporation, shortly after Lotus was acquired by IBM. During his tenure at IBM, Zisman served on the IBM Worldwide Management Council and the IBM Corporate Technology Council.

Before joining IBM, Zisman was Senior Vice President of the Lotus Communications Products Group. He joined Lotus in 1994 after the Company's acquisition of Soft-Switch, Inc., a software firm that he founded in 1979 and headed until that acquisition. Prior to founding Soft-Switch, he was a member of the faculty at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He is a trustee of Lehigh University, a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra Board of Directors, a member of the Main Line Health Board of Governors, and a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Lehigh. He also serves on the Boards of a number of ICG portfolio companies.