Mr. Jack Crawford is a Sacramento native whose 13-year career in local “company building” has evolved from CPA to entrepreneur to venture capitalist. As a CPA with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Mr. Crawford saw a wide range of businesses and was inspired to start his own – including one of the first Internet Service Providers in Sacramento. Through the 1990’s, Jack secured his reputation as a serial entrepreneur in founding three more software companies. Mr. Crawford launched Velocity Venture Capital in 2005 to provide venture capital to the Greater Sacramento area. He currently serves as a Board member with emTRAiN, Freepath, JobSight Solutions, Marquiss Wind Power, Razor Audio, Riavo Systems, and Start-up TV Network. Jack is an alumnus of Harvard Business School's "Private Equity & Venture Capital" executive program and a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute. Jack earned a B.S. degree in Accounting from Arizona State University and is a Certified Public Accountant in California.

Dr. Jacob Jorgensen is a physician and seasoned entrepreneur, with over 25 years of corporate operating experience creating and managing high-tech start-ups in the biomedical, biophysics, networking, and wireless communications industries. As CEO, CTO or VP Engineering, he has created and managed several VC-backed companies, including a successful IPO. As a technologist and engineer, he has been awarded 11 patents, with 14 more pending, in the areas of wireless quality of service system design, enterprise software design, computer-telephony integration, client-server architecture, and real-time operating system design. After his medical training, Dr. Jorgensen went on to establish a series of high-tech startups, focusing primarily on medical devices, and data, voice wireless communications system technologies. As CTO, he participated in a successful IPO (NASDAQ: EISI), and then established several other start-ups in the area of broadband wireless communications technology. Dr. Jorgensen earned a B.S. in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has done graduate-level work at M.I.T in theoretical physics, has an M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is a licensed physician.

Mr. Gary Simon, President & CEO, Acumentrics Corporation
Mr. Simon has a broad-ranging 33-year career that includes Fortune 500 companies, small start-up businesses, and consulting to major energy companies. Prior to Acumentrics, Mr. Simon was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Northeast Utilities, where he had responsibility for corporate R&D as well as for business planning and strategic M&A transactions. In that position, Mr. Simon had a major role in over $2.5 billion of transactions, was the head of corporate venture investing, and was a member of the senior management committee. He was responsible for analysis of markets, competitors, new business ventures, acquisition targets and business unit performance. Previously, Mr. Simon was Senior Director and head of the Global Power Practice for Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) for nine years, where he provided advice on the future directions of the industry and the sources of strategic advantage, including the emergence of new technologies. Earlier, Mr. Simon was Vice President of sales and marketing for El Paso Natural Gas Company. Mr. Simon also served four years as the head of forecasting and planning for the California Energy Commission and five years as senior consultant to the energy committees of the California State Assembly. Mr. Simon has a master’s degree from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.

Mr. Patrick C. Lee, (Board Observer) Partner, Pinnacle Ventures
Before joining Pinnacle Ventures, Mr. Lee was at JPMorgan Partners where he started and led the software practice. Patrick was a lead investor in a number of early-stage technology companies including VMWare (sold to EMC; NYSE: VMW), PentaSafe (sold to NetIQ), Content Technologies (sold to Baltimore Technology) and Tidal Software. Prior to JPMorgan Partners, Patrick helped start Access Technology Partners, a venture fund closely affiliated with Hambrecht & Quist, where he managed the software sector and made several investments, including Crossworlds (CWLD, Sold to IBM), Cygnus (Sold to Red Hat/RHAT), Liberate (LBRT), Motive (MOTV), Niku (NIKU) and SupportSoft (SPRT). Before Access Technology Partners, Patrick oversaw the software M&A Group for Hambrecht & Quist as a Vice President. Earlier n his career he worked in the Restructuring Group at Merrill Lynch in both New York and London. Mr. Lee received an undergraduate degree with Honors from Queen’s University, Canada and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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