David
C.
Bohnett - Founder
David Bohnett is a
philanthropist and technology entrepreneur. He is currently serving as
Chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation,
Chairman of the Board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association,
Board Member of the California Community Foundation and Trustee of
amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) and the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA).
In 1994,
he founded GeoCities, a media company that was
once ranked one of the four most trafficked sites on the Web. GeoCities
became publicly traded on NASDAQ and was acquired by Yahoo!
David has been an active partner in Xdrive.com,
Wireimage.com, Stamps.com and LowerMyBills.com, and held various
positions in the software industry for Legent and Goal Systems. He
started his career as a staff consultant with Accenture in Los Angeles.
His earned an M.B.A
in Finance from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Business
Administration from the University of Southern California.
David's many awards and distinctions include Los
Angeles Business Journal's Technology Leader of the Year, Time
Digital's Top 50 Cyber Elite, and Entrepreneur of the Year for Southern
California.
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Peter
Lee - Partner
Peter Lee is a
Partner at Baroda Ventures and was previously an investor at
Clearstone Ventures and Prism Ventures.
Prior to entering venture capital, he was the Vice President of
Operations and Product Management at Goldpocket
(acquired by Ericsson), a startup developing a platform for creating,
distributing and managing interactive TV digital media systems.
Earlier, Peter was a manager with McKinsey, where he
focused on the digital media, consumer electronics, and internet
industries. He also worked as a product manager at Microsoft
in their wireless device group as well as at Virtual Ink (acquired by
Dymo Corp), a
venture-backed startup in the consumer electronics and collaborative
online meeting space.
Peter earned his B.S. and M.S. in engineering product development from
MIT where he was elected
into the Tau Beta Pi Honor
Society and was awarded a full-tuition graduate fellowship. He also
holds an M.B.A., with Honors, from Harvard Business School.
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