Board of Directors

Paul Klingenstein
Board Member, Founder and General Partner of Aberdare Ventures
Paul Klingenstein has been a venture capital investor for more than 20 years. He began his career at Warburg Pincus in the early 1980s, where he became a general partner. He joined Accel Partners as a general partner in 1986 and spent the next decade helping to build a leading venture capital firm. After a brief period as an advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation, he formed Aberdare Ventures in 1999. He has invested in more than 50 companies, the majority of which are now public or have been merged into public companies. His current and former boards include Alibris, Ample Medical, Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Aviron, CapitalThinking, Circline, Glycomed, Idun Pharmaceuticals, Isis Pharmaceuticals, Pharmion, U.S. Behavioral Health, and Xomed Surgical Products.

Joanna Rees Gallanter
Board Member, Founder and Managing General Partner of VSP Capital
Joanna Gallanter has held senior positions with global consumer products companies and investment banks. Joanna Gallanter is a participant in the World Economic Forum, where she was designated a Global Leader for Tomorrow. She was named the 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year Rising Star by the National Association of Women Business Owners. She is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Most recently, she was elected to the Board of the National Venture Capital Association. She also serves on the Boards of Mirra, Sabrix, and Candera, and leads her firm's investments in Quin Street and Danger.

Horace Deets
Board Member, Former Executive Director, AARP
Horace Deets served as Executive Director of AARP from 1988 to 2001. He currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Help Age International and is on the Boards of the National Council of La Raza and Sunrise Senior Living at Home. Horace Deets also works as a consultant to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Age Lab and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University's Institute of Ageing. Prior boards have included the Andrus Gerontology Center of the University of Southern California, the U.N. Institute on Ageing in Malta and the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights. Horace Deets was a member of the Policy Committee of the 1996 White House Conference on Aging and was the recipient of The American Society on Aging Chair's Award, the Andrus Gerontology Center's Dean's Medallion, a Champion of Diversity Award from Working Mother Magazine, the Foreign Policy Association's Award for his public education efforts, and the International Platform Association's Claude Pepper Humanitarian Award.

Steve Jurvetson
Board Participant, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson's investments have included Hotmail, Interwoven, Kana, Tradex, and Cyras. Steve Jurvetson was an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard, worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT, and was a consultant with Bain & Company. He earned his BSEE at Stanford in 2.5 years, graduating first in his class. He also holds an MBA and an MSEE from Stanford. Steve Jurvetson is Co-Chair of the NanoBusiness Alliance. He was recently honored as “The Valley's Sharpest VC” on the cover of Business 2.0. He has been profiled in the New York Times Magazine, featured on the covers of Worth and Fortune, named by Forbes as one of “Tech's Best Venture Investors”, called one of the “Ten Most Influential VCs” by Venture Capital Journal, and given member status in Fortune's “Brain Trust of Top Ten Minds.”