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Lip-Bu Tan is Chairman and founder of Walden International and has been active in the venture capital industry for the past two decades.... Additionally, he introduced and pioneered the U.S. venture capital concept in Asia and contributed towards the promotion of early-stage technology investing in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to WI, he was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. Lip-Bu is a board member of Cadence Design , Creative Technology , Flextronics , ISSI , MindTree Consulting , Sina , SMIC , the National Venture Capital Association , A member of the VC Advisory Board of Fabless Semiconductor Association , a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a trustee of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and a member of the Committee of 100. He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of San Francisco for 9 years. Lip-Bu holds a B.S. in Physics from Nanyang University in Singapore, an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.
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Ambassador Schnabel is currently an Advisory Director of Trident Capital and Chairman of The Sage Group. He was a Managing Director of Trident... Capital from its inception in 1993 until 2001, when he was appointed by the U.S. Department of State to become Ambassador to the European Union. Ambassador Schnabel's first government assignment was in 1986, when President Reagan named him U.S. Ambassador to Finland. After leaving Helsinki, Finland in 1989, Ambassador Schnabel served in Washington D.C. as the Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary. He then became Acting Secretary of Commerce during the administration of President George Bush, Sr. Prior to his governmental service, Ambassador Schnabel spent over 25 years at the financial services firm Bateman, Eichler, Hill, Richards, Inc., a member of the NYSE , most recently as President of the firm's holding company. Ambassador Schnabel is also active in numerous civic and philanthropic organizations, including service as President of the Board of Commissioners of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Board. He is currently a member of the Board of Flextronics International . His past and present directorships and affiliations include: CSG Systems, Inc. ; Cyrus Minerals, Inc. ; International Game Technology, Inc. ; Board of Visitors, UCLA Anderson School of Business; Chairman, City of Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau; Council of American Ambassadors; National Venture Capital Association; Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee; and Attaché from the Netherlands to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He is the 2006 recipient of the Anti-Defamation League Humanitarian Award.
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Under Richard Sharp, Circuit City grew from a company with 50 stores and $500 million in sales to become one of the nation’s largest... electronics retailers. Sharp joined Circuit City as executive vice president in 1982. In less than two years, he was named president and became CEO in 1986. The company focused on “category killer” superstores providing shoppers with a wide selection of consumer electronics products. Circuit City’s sales now top $11 billion. In 1993, Sharp re-invented the used-car business by starting CarMax, a no-hassle chain of used-car superstores. Today, Richmond-based CarMax has grown into the country’s largest retailer for used cars, operating 67 superstores in 31 markets generating revenues of more than $6 billion. Sharp tried to revolutionize another industry in the late 1990s with the introduction of the Divx, video disk system. The product, however, failed to catch on and was dropped in 1999. He has had better luck recently with Crocs, a new footwear company that raised millions in its February initial public offering. Sharp retired as Circuit City’s CEO in 2000 and stepped down as chairman in 2002. He remains chairman of CarMax. Sharp is a member of the Greater Richmond Business Hall of Fame.
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