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Bob Cohn is a former partner at Sequoia Capital. He was CEO of Octel Communications, a voice mail systems company which he co-founded in 1982 and... which was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1997. He served as an EVP of Lucent Technologies until 1999. Earlier, he held positions at Banque Rothschild in France, and McKinsey & Company in the US and Canada. Bob has been a director of several companies including Electronic Arts and Trimble Navigation. He served on the Board of Governors of NASDAQ, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business advisory board, and was on a CEO advisory board to the Secretary of Defense of the United States relating to issues of management reform in the military. He holds a BS in mathematics and computer science from the University of Florida and an MBA from Stanford. He currently serves on the boards of several companies including Adomo , Blue Lithium , Market Live , and Tilera .
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Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been... called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking." After graduating with a B.A. from Fordham University, he began his technology career in the 1950s and was a founder of National Semiconductor, as well as being a senior sales and marketing executive for Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1972, he founded venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, and in that role was one of the original investors of Apple Computer, Atari, LSI Logic, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Google, YouTube and many other companies. Valentine is a former Chairman of NetApp and Traiana. He has, over decades, served on the boards of many other technology companies. Valentine was featured in the documentary film Something Ventured which premiered in 2011. Don Valentine has three children and seven grandchildren, all of whom live in the Bay Area.
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A former CFO of Microsoft Corp., Greg Maffei was recently named CEO of cable-television broadcasting's Liberty Media Corp. Prior to that, Greg was... CFO of Oracle Corp., and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of 360networks Corp. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and holds a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
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