Board of Directors

Steven Goldby

Venrock http://www.venrock.com
Chairman of the Board of Directors

about_goldbyMr. Goldby has served as the chairman of the Board of Directors since April 2008. He is currently a partner at Venrock. From 1998 until 2007, Mr. Goldby was chief executive officer of Symyx Technologies, where he is currently executive chairman. Prior to Symyx, he was the chief executive officer of MDL Information Systems. Before MDL, he held various management positions at Alza Corporation, including President of Alza Pharmaceuticals. He was also president of Dynapol, and is a registered patent attorney. He currently serves on the board of Intermolecular, Inc. Mr. Goldby holds an A.B. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Nelson Chan

Member of the Board of Directors

about_chanMr. Chan served as chief executive officer of Magellan, a leader in the consumer, survey, GIS, and OEM GPS navigation and positioning markets, from 2006 to 2008. From 1992 through 2006, Mr. Chan served in various senior management positions with SanDisk Corporation, including most recently executive vice president and general manager, consumer business. From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Chan held marketing and engineering positions at Chips and Technologies, Signetics, and Delco Electronics. Mr. Chan is a member of the Board of Directors of Silicon Laboratories Inc., a public company which is a fabless, analog-intensive mixed-signal semiconductor company; and Synaptics Inc., a public company that is a leading worldwide developer and supplier of custom-designed human interface solutions that enable people to interact more easily and intuitively with a wide variety of mobile computing, communications, entertainment, and other electronic devices. Mr. Chan is also a director of several privately held companies. Mr. Chan holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.

Keith Crandell

Arch Partners http://www.archventure.com/
Member of the Board of Directors

about_crandallMr. Crandell has served as a member of the board of directors since December 2007. He is a co-founder and a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. He focuses on chemical and specialty materials companies, electronics and instrumentation, optics and photonics, telecommunications, and enterprise infrastructure businesses. He previously served as senior manager at ARCH Development Corporation, where he was responsible for ARCH Venture Fund I activities at Argonne National Laboratory. He is a director of Digital Genomics, AlfaLight, Adesto, CelebrateExpress, and Crystal IS. Mr. Crandell also serves as a director of the Illinois Venture Capital Association and the National Venture Capital Association. Prior to the founding of ARCH, Mr. Crandell served the specialty chemical and polymer company, Hercules, Inc. He holds an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago, an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from St. Lawrence University.

Jason Hartlove

Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors

about_hartlove_headshotMr. Hartlove is President and CEO. He has a track record of building and leading innovative companies and business units by driving emerging technologies from R&D to market application. Prior to joining Nanosys he was president of MagnaChip Semiconductor and was responsible for managing all business activities for the Imaging Solutions Division headquartered in Seoul, South Korea . Prior to MagnaChip, Mr. Hartlove served as vice president and general manager for the Sensor Solutions Division of Agilent Technologies and its parent company Hewlett-Packard. Working in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories from 1996, he developed the first commercial implementations of optical position sensing used in optical mice and CMOS image sensor technologies for the company. Mr. Hartlove is the author of more than 20 patents, including the winner of the Hewlett Award in 2004 for best patent in Agilent Technologies. He has also worked in a variety of manufacturing, R&D and marketing roles in semiconductor technologies including MEMS, III -V, bipolar, CMOS and BCD process technologies. Mr. Hartlove holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from UCLA and has completed graduate work at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Regis McKenna

Regis McKenna Inc http://www.regis.com/
Member of the Board of Directors

about_mckennaMr. McKenna has served as a member of the board of directors since April 2002. Mr. McKenna has served as a marketing consultant to technology companies since 1970. He is chairman of Regis McKenna, Inc., a private firm specializing in the development of marketing information and network-based business strategies. Mr. McKenna has served as a general partner of McKenna Ventures, L.P., an investment partnership specialized in investments in early stage companies, since November 1998. Mr. McKenna holds a B.A. in liberal arts from Duquesne University.

Stephen Oesterle, M.D.

Medtronic http://www.medtronic.com/
Member of the Board of Directors

about_oesterleDr. Oesterle has served as a member of the board of directors since December 2005. Since 2002, Dr. Oesterle has been the senior vice president for medicine and technology at Medtronic, Inc. From 1998 to 2002, he served as associate professor of medicine at Harvard University Medical School and director of invasive cardiology services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to that, he developed and directed interventional cardiology programs at Good Samaritan Hospital from 1986 to 1991; Georgetown University from 1991 to 1992; and Stanford University from 1992 to 1998. Dr. Oesterle holds a B.S. from Harvard College and M.D. from Yale University.

John Young

Member of the Board of Directors

about_youngMr. Young has served as a member of the board of directors since March 2004. He served as president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company from 1978 to 1992 and served in other capacities at Hewlett-Packard from 1958 to 1978. Mr. Young currently serves as the chairman of Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. He also serves on the boards of directors of Affymetrix Inc., Perlegen Sciences, Inc., Fluidigm Corporation and Lucent Technologies, Inc. Mr. Young holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Greg Yurek, Ph.D.

Member of the Board of Directors

about_yurekDr. Yurek has served as a member of the board of directors since February 2004. Since 1988, Dr. Yurek has served in various capacities at American Superconductor Corporation, an electricity solutions company that he founded in 1987, and currently serves as its chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors. From 1976 to 1988, Dr. Yurek was professor of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Yurek holds a B.S. and an M.S. in metallurgy from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from Ohio State University.