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Honorary Chairs & Ambassadors
Honorary Chairs
2003 Honorary Chairwoman, Venture Capitalist
Brenda Gavin, Managing Partner, Quaker BioVentures
2003 Honorary Chairman, Entrepreneur
Donald Franceschini, retired Vice Chairman and Director of Sara Lee Corporation
Chairmen Emeritus
2002
E. Rogers Novak, Jr., Novak Biddle
Jamie Hamilton, AnswerLogic, Inc.
2001
Frank Bonsal, Co-Founder & General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Josh Kopelman, President & Founder, Half.com
2000
P. Kevin Kilroy, CEO, Bluestone Software (sold to Hewlett Packard)
John Martinson, Managing Partner, Edison Venture Funds
President, National Venture Capital Association
1999
Warren V. "Pete" Musser, Founder, Former Chairman, CEO,
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.
Steve Walker, Founder, Trusted Information Systems / Steve Walker Associates
1998
Frederick J. Beste III, Founder, CEO MidAtlantic Venture Funds
Richard W. Vague, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Juniper Bank
Committee Chairs
Event
David Lyons, President, Lyons Insurance
Wayne Kimmel, Managing Director, Eastern Technology Fund
Education
Kimberle Levin, President and CEO, KL Partners, Inc.
Alan Zeiger, Esq., Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley LLP
Golf
Mark McCarthy, Assistant Director of Business Development, Ernst & Young
Mark Cannon, Vice President, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown
Selection
Terry Hicks, Vice President, Ben Franklin Tech Center of SE PA
Andrea Kaufman, Partner, Novak Biddle Venture Partners
Supporting Organizations
Ann Lansinger, Director, Baltimore Development Corporation
Karen Meidlinger, Director of the Life Sciences Incubator, Port of Technology
Coaching
R. Christopher Klemm, Ph.D., President, Optimus Consulting
Victor Boyajian, Chairman, Sills Cummis Capital Markets Group
Sponsorship
David Freschman, President, Delaware Innovation Fund
Christine Warren, President, U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia
Roger Braunfeld, Esq., Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley LLP
Marketing
Miranda Tan, President and Founder, Excite PR
Chris Starr, Managing Director, Innovation Philadelphia
Karen Carr, Director of Programming, Eastern Technology Council
Founding Chairman
David Freschman, President, Delaware Innovation Fund
Ambassadors
| Region |
Ambassador |
| Delaware |
Jeff Davison, Inflection Point Ventures |
| Delaware Valley/Philadelphia |
Gerry Schaafsma, Anthem Capital |
| New Jersey |
Joseph Falkenstein, NJTC Venture Fund |
| New York |
Conor Mullett, Updata Venture Partners |
| North Carolina |
M. Scott Albert, The Aurora Funds, Inc. |
| Pittsburgh |
Sean D.S. Sebastian, Birchmere Investments, Inc. |
| Baltimore |
William M. Gust, Anthem Capital |
| Washington/No. VA |
Andrea Kaufman, Partner, Novak Biddle Venture Capital |
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